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86983feba47896e4eccc566f2e01d49dc98163f2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to route my iPhone calls through my MacBook Pro sound system? I have external speakers and microphone hooked up to my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard and an iPhone 3Gs connected to it with a USB cord. Is it possible to route calls from the iPhone through the external speakers and mic (with or without bluetooth)? Put another way, is it possible to use my MacBook Pro, external speakers and microphone as a speakerphone for the iPhone?
A: There are several bluetooth solutions, that should be useful:
*
*Phone Amego ($29) - This should do the trick. Works and has interesting features. I recommend it.
*BluePhoneElite 2 - No longer developed and supported. I see almost everything vanished, but I think you should be able to locate a working copy somehow.
Edit: As of OS X 10.10 Yosemite and iOS8 this will be included in the OS itself. It's called Continuity.
ps. I'm not in any way connected to the authors of the software, mentioned in my answer.
| Q: Is it possible to route my iPhone calls through my MacBook Pro sound system? I have external speakers and microphone hooked up to my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard and an iPhone 3Gs connected to it with a USB cord. Is it possible to route calls from the iPhone through the external speakers and mic (with or without bluetooth)? Put another way, is it possible to use my MacBook Pro, external speakers and microphone as a speakerphone for the iPhone?
A: There are several bluetooth solutions, that should be useful:
*
*Phone Amego ($29) - This should do the trick. Works and has interesting features. I recommend it.
*BluePhoneElite 2 - No longer developed and supported. I see almost everything vanished, but I think you should be able to locate a working copy somehow.
Edit: As of OS X 10.10 Yosemite and iOS8 this will be included in the OS itself. It's called Continuity.
ps. I'm not in any way connected to the authors of the software, mentioned in my answer.
A: Yep this is a new feature included in OS X Yosemite which will be public in Fall 2014.
A: I dont think you can use your laptop as a speaker phone. If you want to make calls from your computer maybe look at VOIP solutions or skype.
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d1f920da630706b70fd525cb35a8c793e6af0bf9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: FaceTime: Connect Mac to iPhone I just bought my first Mac, and I want to use FaceTime with someone who has an iPhone.
How can I do this?
A: FaceTime is a US $1 app on the App Store. You will need to enter an AppleID into the app to send or receive calls, but the software holds your hand through this process, making a new AppleID if needed for you.
Once you have that installed and running, make sure your contact's iPhone is in the address book and dial them up.
You can call out to AppleID that are used on the Mac and iPod/iPad and you call to a "phone number" to iPhones that are in WiFi.
The nice easy support page for FaceTime on the mac is http://www.apple.com/support/mac/facetime/
A short list of hardware requirements is here.
| Q: FaceTime: Connect Mac to iPhone I just bought my first Mac, and I want to use FaceTime with someone who has an iPhone.
How can I do this?
A: FaceTime is a US $1 app on the App Store. You will need to enter an AppleID into the app to send or receive calls, but the software holds your hand through this process, making a new AppleID if needed for you.
Once you have that installed and running, make sure your contact's iPhone is in the address book and dial them up.
You can call out to AppleID that are used on the Mac and iPod/iPad and you call to a "phone number" to iPhones that are in WiFi.
The nice easy support page for FaceTime on the mac is http://www.apple.com/support/mac/facetime/
A short list of hardware requirements is here.
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7f527ae7e8f993172bf168de0f4cefb28965a386 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to show a list of processes that are launched upon a login? There are some processes that are launched upon a login, how to get a list of these processes?
I want to prevent some processes from being launched automatically.
A: launchd and the Login Items pane of Accounts preferences are the two places that normally start a process when you log in.
If you don't see the item in System Preferences -> Accounts -> specific account -> Login Items then you will have to look into launchd.
Basically the LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons folders in ~/Library
Lastly, if they are not there, then it's a system level launchd task that you might want to use launchctl to show or look in /Library instead of the user level library.
Most people just have to manage the preference pane. Here is a snap of mine showing the Activity Monitor selected and ready to be deleted if I press the – button.
| Q: How to show a list of processes that are launched upon a login? There are some processes that are launched upon a login, how to get a list of these processes?
I want to prevent some processes from being launched automatically.
A: launchd and the Login Items pane of Accounts preferences are the two places that normally start a process when you log in.
If you don't see the item in System Preferences -> Accounts -> specific account -> Login Items then you will have to look into launchd.
Basically the LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons folders in ~/Library
Lastly, if they are not there, then it's a system level launchd task that you might want to use launchctl to show or look in /Library instead of the user level library.
Most people just have to manage the preference pane. Here is a snap of mine showing the Activity Monitor selected and ready to be deleted if I press the – button.
A: You need to investigate launchctl(1) because there are a couple of contexts you will need to account for .
The easiest way is to look at the plist files in:
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons # System Context. Faceless. root lives here.
/System/Library/LaunchAgents # Loginwindow, or Aqua, where you live, context
/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchAgents
~/Library/LaunchDaemons
~/Library/LaunchAgents
In the file you will see the default state of that daemon or agent. That is a sure way to tell if it is running at boot.
I mention the above degrading, foolish and time consuming method, because it is good to see all the stuff running. They claim the resources used are low for a loaded yet dormant daemon, but since 95%+ of them are set to RunOnDemand... to me that's running.
Don't actually do that for real though. There is a much easier way.
Remember
When you log in and open Terminal/iTerm, you are in Aqua context.
Loginwindow context is when you see the login window, unsurprisingly, and a ton of things run off that.
If you
sudo zsh # why not be comfortable?
or some other method to get a root shell, the root user will be in System context, which is the context that all the daemons in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons run in.
I mention all this because the tool provided:
man 1 launchctl
has a verb,
launchctl list
which you might think from the man page, lists all the running services. You might feel it plausible, to switch to root, to get a higher level view of what runs when you login.
Sadly, each user sees his own context.
launchctl managername
will tell you what it is.
For root, its System.
From my nifty hidden admin user, it's Background, which is the same thing you get by typing
>console
into the username box for login
You can use the verb
launchctl bslist
Which tells you what services are active, for you. It's different for _spotlight, for the hidden admin, for root, for macports etc.
Answer
The command to see the whole tree, is
sudo launchctl bstree [-j]
whatever you see when you run that after booting is what is running system wide. For your identity:
launchctl bslist
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3be30815ad084d0cb1b5ef50079e84d138584758 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can the iPhone play Quicktime VR files? Couldn't find anything anywhere. Does the iPhone support Quicktime VR files?
A: The iPhone does not have any support for Quicktime VR files.
| Q: Can the iPhone play Quicktime VR files? Couldn't find anything anywhere. Does the iPhone support Quicktime VR files?
A: The iPhone does not have any support for Quicktime VR files.
A: iPano
on the App store
NEW - QuicktimeVR object support! Spin an object around and see it from any side.
Views any image or QuicktimeVR including QTVR objects!
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a51f939ed9357c0b7ee463d8a925f3f5bffbf2b8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a black&white option for color printer when using air print? airprint is pretty cool. On my Mac and PC I could setup a separate profile to use my color printer in black&white mode. Is it possible to do the same when using air print from iphone/ipad?
A: The built-in AirPrint doesn't allow this sort of functionality as of iOS 4, but if you get the HP ePrint app, you should be able to do B&W printing and manage other settings. This of course only works if you have an AirPrint/ePrint HP printer, it won't work with any other printer that you've hacked to set up with AirPrint.
| Q: Is there a black&white option for color printer when using air print? airprint is pretty cool. On my Mac and PC I could setup a separate profile to use my color printer in black&white mode. Is it possible to do the same when using air print from iphone/ipad?
A: The built-in AirPrint doesn't allow this sort of functionality as of iOS 4, but if you get the HP ePrint app, you should be able to do B&W printing and manage other settings. This of course only works if you have an AirPrint/ePrint HP printer, it won't work with any other printer that you've hacked to set up with AirPrint.
A: Printopia for Mac will let you configure what settings the printer will use when you AirPrint. For example, you can select to use B&W only.
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6ef9cf0dbe9229c68ee9b3e592229b8a7eeae44e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Which Trans Music Manager equivalents exist for OS X? I have a Denon DP-200USB turntable that converts analogue records (LPs) into MP3s (one MP3 per side) and stores them onto a USB memory stick.
This lovely piece of kit comes with some software called Trans Music Manager (PDF) that will automatically split tracks (based on silence between tracks) followed by naming and tagging them using Gracenote.
Sadly this software runs under Microsoft Windows, for which I don't have a licence.
Are there any solutions out there that can do this easily under Snow Leopard? Free and open-source software is preferred, but paid-for alternatives would be considered.
A: I haven't personally tried it, but AudioSlicer may be a good candidate
AudioSlicer is a Cocoa GUI application
for Mac OS X that finds all silences
in an audio file and allows you to
split it into several smaller audio
files and to name/tag them properly.
Doesn't seem to do the Gracenote tag fetching, but you could use Jaikoz (tag from MusicBrainz db) or SimpleTagger (tag from Amazon db) for that.
| Q: Which Trans Music Manager equivalents exist for OS X? I have a Denon DP-200USB turntable that converts analogue records (LPs) into MP3s (one MP3 per side) and stores them onto a USB memory stick.
This lovely piece of kit comes with some software called Trans Music Manager (PDF) that will automatically split tracks (based on silence between tracks) followed by naming and tagging them using Gracenote.
Sadly this software runs under Microsoft Windows, for which I don't have a licence.
Are there any solutions out there that can do this easily under Snow Leopard? Free and open-source software is preferred, but paid-for alternatives would be considered.
A: I haven't personally tried it, but AudioSlicer may be a good candidate
AudioSlicer is a Cocoa GUI application
for Mac OS X that finds all silences
in an audio file and allows you to
split it into several smaller audio
files and to name/tag them properly.
Doesn't seem to do the Gracenote tag fetching, but you could use Jaikoz (tag from MusicBrainz db) or SimpleTagger (tag from Amazon db) for that.
A: Open in QuickTime Player and save as iPhone.
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945824fc789c9c2009f8f91645e18bceca36ff7f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Lost everything after iPhone sync--How can I get it back? I plugged my iPhone into my computer last night and opened up iTunes. It said I needed to sync and download the latest version. I clicked ok. After all was done my iPhone has been set back to Decemeber.
Therefore all my photos since December are gone. All my contacts - gone! All my conversations on Messages and WhatsApp - gone!! This is a major issue as my iPhone is part of my work scheduling.
What has happened? Can anyone tell me what I can do to get it back?
Also why did it do this?
A: If you've backed up recently, you might want to do a full restore, which will wipe your iPhone clean and reinstall iOS. After it's done that, it will offer to restore from a backup, reinstalling all apps, calendars, email accounts, etc.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414
| Q: Lost everything after iPhone sync--How can I get it back? I plugged my iPhone into my computer last night and opened up iTunes. It said I needed to sync and download the latest version. I clicked ok. After all was done my iPhone has been set back to Decemeber.
Therefore all my photos since December are gone. All my contacts - gone! All my conversations on Messages and WhatsApp - gone!! This is a major issue as my iPhone is part of my work scheduling.
What has happened? Can anyone tell me what I can do to get it back?
Also why did it do this?
A: If you've backed up recently, you might want to do a full restore, which will wipe your iPhone clean and reinstall iOS. After it's done that, it will offer to restore from a backup, reinstalling all apps, calendars, email accounts, etc.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414
A: I lost my photos during syncing, and the only way I got them back was using iSpirit. It's a nifty piece of Windows-only software for accessing iPad/iPhone as if was a data storage. I am quite sure it wouldn't have been deleted, just browse through and you'll find it. Good luck.
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83e725f2d3c24fc651de7bef59b8ebd7ce953aee | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a button in iTunes to say "Stop after playing this song"? Because I might just want to go to bed after this one song (but don't want to stop it midway – It's a classic).
A: There's no command as such, but you can stop iTunes from playing after completing the current song by using the column browser to switch to any album other than the one of the current song. When the current song is done, iTunes will stop playing.
| Q: Is there a button in iTunes to say "Stop after playing this song"? Because I might just want to go to bed after this one song (but don't want to stop it midway – It's a classic).
A: There's no command as such, but you can stop iTunes from playing after completing the current song by using the column browser to switch to any album other than the one of the current song. When the current song is done, iTunes will stop playing.
A: No there is no command in iTunes but with Applescript you can add fuctionality. For iTunes and Applescript see Doug's Applescripts for iTunes and they have one to stop after the current track.
A: There is no built-in option to do this, but there are several third party apps that are made for your situation.
Berceuse ($2)
This one that does exactly what you asked (and more).
Basically, it lets you set a number of tracks to play, amount of time, or entire playlist to play before performing a set action (shut down, sleep, pause, etc.).
If you're looking for a free version, there are two options that are timers only (set them to the length of your song to play just one more).
iTunes Sleep Timer (free)
This is an AppleScript that lets you very simply launch it and enter a number of second to continue playing for.
iTunes Timer (free)
This is a dashboard widget that lets you drag a slider to set the time to continue playing for.
A: iTunes 11
Click on the Up Next button and press clear. It will stop after the current song regardless where you start the song from.
iTunes 12
"Clear" is at the end of the Up Next list, rather than the top, so you'll have to take the extra step of scrolling to the bottom.
A: Put the song in a playlist and click the check box off. All the songs in the playlist will have to be clicked off as well.
Or easier still have the track as the only song in the play list.
A: If you use the search term in iTunes to search such that only that song is found, it will stop playing after it's finished (unless you've set it to loop). Or you can create a playlist with just that song and it will do the same thing.
A: I couldn't make this work with podcast episodes. So I do this:
Right click on the episode and select 'Show in Finder'.
Then in Finder right click again and select 'Open in Quicktime Player'
I admit it is a clumsy workaround but it does the trick.
A: Just make a playlist with the one song and that's all it will play.
A: Just download the VOX player (it's free and great). There is an option in settings "autoplay", you can turn it off if You want to.
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55cebc96f9ec780bd662592213029d046000b34c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Xcode problem with directory permissions I'm trying XCode4. I created a new project, told XCode to put in my ~/develop/ directory, but then I immediately get asked:
“Test project” is locked for editing and you may not be able to save your
changes. Do you want to unlock it?
“Test project” is currently locked
because you do not own the parent
folder and have no write permissions
for it.
[Don't Unlock] [Unlock]
...which isn't true: my ~/develop/ folder is owned by me (staff group) and has drwxr-xr-x permissions. I write to it every day. XCode is running as my account.
Is XCode right? What can I do to fix this? If I press “Don't Unlock” it seems to work fine.
A: If you navigate to that folder from Finder, you can click Get Info and manage the permissions from the bottom of the window. You can navigate there by using the Go To Folder menu item in Finder or directly navigating their.
| Q: Xcode problem with directory permissions I'm trying XCode4. I created a new project, told XCode to put in my ~/develop/ directory, but then I immediately get asked:
“Test project” is locked for editing and you may not be able to save your
changes. Do you want to unlock it?
“Test project” is currently locked
because you do not own the parent
folder and have no write permissions
for it.
[Don't Unlock] [Unlock]
...which isn't true: my ~/develop/ folder is owned by me (staff group) and has drwxr-xr-x permissions. I write to it every day. XCode is running as my account.
Is XCode right? What can I do to fix this? If I press “Don't Unlock” it seems to work fine.
A: If you navigate to that folder from Finder, you can click Get Info and manage the permissions from the bottom of the window. You can navigate there by using the Go To Folder menu item in Finder or directly navigating their.
A: Launch Finder and right click on your folder and go to Get Info. After this process you can change the permission.
If you like Terminal for this job, this topic on StackOverflow will help you.
A: After changing my home directory name Xcode gave the same warning on a project I was working on. The work around I used was to create a duplicate of the project.
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c3f01dbf708968f6ffa87a136efe6c88518e0da6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Set Bitcoin.app to mount image before opening itself I have all the BitCoin data encrypted on an image on Dropbox. Is it possible to have a script that mounts the data right before I open the BitCoin.app ?
A: No script needed. Store the app in the DMG. Keep the app (alias) in the Dock. Launching the app via the Dock will mount the DMG.
| Q: Set Bitcoin.app to mount image before opening itself I have all the BitCoin data encrypted on an image on Dropbox. Is it possible to have a script that mounts the data right before I open the BitCoin.app ?
A: No script needed. Store the app in the DMG. Keep the app (alias) in the Dock. Launching the app via the Dock will mount the DMG.
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0b36255e3f928d715dcc53f69fee9b124cd7a574 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Sync photo without syncing apps Is there a way to sync photos in PC to iPad, without syncing the apps? I want to manage the apps only in iPad. The problem is that when I turn off apps syncing, iTunes asks me "are you sure you want to remove 60 apps?". I don't want to remove all my apps.
A: iTunes will sync photos only if you turn on photo syncing in the "tab" for photos.
If iTunes is complaining about apps, it's likely that you once started to sync apps (or it got confused) - but it has nothing to do with app syncing. Sadly, if you want to use this iTunes library, you have to deal with the app issue or keep facing that alert.
Think of it this way. Your photos are in a room that happens to have some rotten food. You can either move your photos to a new room or deal with the rotten food by holding your nose or cleaning it up. One didn't cause the other, but they just ended up in the same room as you.
| Q: Sync photo without syncing apps Is there a way to sync photos in PC to iPad, without syncing the apps? I want to manage the apps only in iPad. The problem is that when I turn off apps syncing, iTunes asks me "are you sure you want to remove 60 apps?". I don't want to remove all my apps.
A: iTunes will sync photos only if you turn on photo syncing in the "tab" for photos.
If iTunes is complaining about apps, it's likely that you once started to sync apps (or it got confused) - but it has nothing to do with app syncing. Sadly, if you want to use this iTunes library, you have to deal with the app issue or keep facing that alert.
Think of it this way. Your photos are in a room that happens to have some rotten food. You can either move your photos to a new room or deal with the rotten food by holding your nose or cleaning it up. One didn't cause the other, but they just ended up in the same room as you.
A: If you check "manually manage music and videos", the error doesn't appear (at least in my experience; YMMV).
A: As Paul said, one way is to check the option for manually managing music and videos/photos etc, this makes sure that an iTunes sync will only sync apps, but requires you to drag/drop music onto the iPad and leaves your photos in place without any option to drag and drop them.
You do not say what OS you are using, but in XP & Vista at least you could try the Camera and Scanner Wizard to treat the iPad like a digital camera and give you export capability to take your photos off the iPad and onto the PC. Depending on your setup you may have something like the Windows Live Scanner/Camera app instead. If iTunes is setup to sync on connection, then these options never open automatically. You can either hunt them down, or turn off automatic sync on connection to allow the OS to present options instead.
This doesn't allow you to upload though, so depending on your requirements (you say sync, but I'm not 100% sure if you really mean sync, or download) this may or may not be a suitable workaround.
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8a00b32105b5191ef4cb1826b31e73078566429c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I combine multiple font files into one family? I have several font families that have different naming styles. The results is that instead of all those fonts showing up as one family, there's a separate family for each font variation (bold, black, thin, italic, etc).
This makes my font list messy. Is there a way to combine multiple font files into one family?
A: If you're not afraid about command lines, I suggest you ttf2ttc. *.ttc files are TrueType fonts Collection
| Q: How can I combine multiple font files into one family? I have several font families that have different naming styles. The results is that instead of all those fonts showing up as one family, there's a separate family for each font variation (bold, black, thin, italic, etc).
This makes my font list messy. Is there a way to combine multiple font files into one family?
A: If you're not afraid about command lines, I suggest you ttf2ttc. *.ttc files are TrueType fonts Collection
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3acc3fcce12a9ed22517b3d57031324763606e24 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where can you find out to whom a given Mac is registered? Is there a place in the OS that we can see to which person the OS is registered to?
A: The registration information that you enter when you setup OS X is stored in a hidden plist file in the system.
That data is stored the file /var/db/.AppleSetupDone if you run the following command in terminal you should be able to see that information:
sudo cat /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
This will show you the information entered. You will need to modify this information with a plist editor. For warranty claims Apple will know who registered the machine for AppleCare.
| Q: Where can you find out to whom a given Mac is registered? Is there a place in the OS that we can see to which person the OS is registered to?
A: The registration information that you enter when you setup OS X is stored in a hidden plist file in the system.
That data is stored the file /var/db/.AppleSetupDone if you run the following command in terminal you should be able to see that information:
sudo cat /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
This will show you the information entered. You will need to modify this information with a plist editor. For warranty claims Apple will know who registered the machine for AppleCare.
A: I don't know whether the registration information is stored locally. If you call Apple, they can certainly tell you under which person the Mac is registered.
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8c44078903af3b00175edfd15e0d588e0946bada | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Window management app on mac os x? I currently use "Stay," and have tried other tools (haven't really loved any of them), but I am looking for a window management tool that does the following:
*
*Store my window locations
*Have a separate profile for different monitor setups
*Allow me to quickly modify the location with hotkeys
*Automatically load my default settings when I attach/detach a display
Any help would be great!
A: Moom
Divvy
| Q: Window management app on mac os x? I currently use "Stay," and have tried other tools (haven't really loved any of them), but I am looking for a window management tool that does the following:
*
*Store my window locations
*Have a separate profile for different monitor setups
*Allow me to quickly modify the location with hotkeys
*Automatically load my default settings when I attach/detach a display
Any help would be great!
A: Moom
Divvy
A: I never used stay but I am using Moom (Apple store) and pretty happy with it. It stores windows positions and has configurable hotkeys. There is no automatic settings for different displays but since you can assign hotkeys to configuration is not a big issue.
It is very stable.
A: I like Spectacle. It's super simple, just a few options, but they do the trick for me. I mostly just use left/right/upper/lower half and fullscreen (calling halves multiple times flips through several options).
If you use Homebrew-Cask, install by simply running:
brew cask install spectacle
A: I prefer DoublePane. It's $2.99 on Mac App Store.
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07693c7d054065faeb8cc60149e26b4528356c3c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What software is available (preferably free) to edit PDF files on Mac OS X? What free software/app is there to edit pdf files on Mac OS X?
Specifically I am looking to edit an existing PDF file and re-save it in PDF format.
A: Have you had a look at Inkscape? It's a free, open source drawing tool. It allows importing of .PDF files and can save to .PDF as well.
| Q: What software is available (preferably free) to edit PDF files on Mac OS X? What free software/app is there to edit pdf files on Mac OS X?
Specifically I am looking to edit an existing PDF file and re-save it in PDF format.
A: Have you had a look at Inkscape? It's a free, open source drawing tool. It allows importing of .PDF files and can save to .PDF as well.
A: Apple's built-in Preview application (free) alone sufficient to make small changes in PDF documents. When you double click on any PDF file, it opens, by default, in Preview. You can use Preview app to merge, split, mark up, annotate, and sign PDF files. Preview is the easiest solution to view, create and edit PDF documents on Mac.
With long documents or for complex editing tasks, third-party PDF editors like PDFPen or this one (cheap alternative to PDFPen) are the best bet.
A: For simple tasks like fixing typos, OpenOffice (free, ~161MB) or LibreOffice (also free, ~272 MB) do the job.
Note: there is a paid version of LibreOffice (called LibreOffice Vanilla), which is available from App Store:
LibreOffice Vanilla is based directly on the LibreOffice source code from The Document Foundation. It is recommended for users who want the convenience of installing from the App Store and getting automatic updates, compared to manually downloading and installing from The Document Foundation.
A: PDF creation is built into Mac OS X.
Open the app you want to create a PDF from and choose "File > Print" or "Cmd+P" and choose "PDF > Save as PDF..." from the dropdown in the bottom left of the panel.
You can then use the Preview app to rotate, crop, combine files, and more.
A: I can't recommend any free solution since I don't use them, but want to second PDFPen as the best in class at any price. It looks like SamucoPDF is the least expensive app in the app store currently, but it has mixed reviews on the text editing.
If you really have more time than money, you might check out Stanza Desktop or Calibre both of which offer to accept PDF as input into file formats that are easier to edit with TextEdit or another editor you may have accessible. Once you've edited, you can print to pdf since the OS provides that to any app that can print.
A: PDF Studio does allow to edit text content and will work for minor text edits such as changing a few words or lines, changing font, size, color... The PDF format was not designed for Word processing and content editing is very tricky. It is usually recommended to go back to the original file (Word, Excel, etc..), to work with it and save it back to PDF. If you don't have access to the original file and need to do a lot of editing, including text reflow, wrapping, etc... you should probably bite the bullet and pay for Adobe Acrobat.
A: There's also PDF Buddy, an online PDF editor that's really easy to use. It's a great alternative if you're not happy with Preview- especially on Snow Leopard where the Preview app is very limited.
(Disclosure: I'm a co-founder of PDF Buddy)
A: The best solution is indeed, Preview... It's built into Mac OSX and is the easiest to use if you want to create/edit/view PDF files.
Thanks Apple for thinking this through! :)
A: You can just use Apple's Preview application, built-in in Mac OS X.
If you need more advanced features, I recommend Skim.
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0de13a96d8d71eb475aea17f1829f06a64d14847 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to sleep your mac through iPhone/iPad? In the remote that comes with Apple TV, if you pair it with a mac, you'd be able to press and hold the play/pause button and your mac will go to sleep. Is there a way to do the same with iPhone/iPad Remote app?
A: If you just need the sleep/wake function, you may want to take a look at iNet WOL, which does a great job. It's the little brother of iNet Pro, a much more extensive network tool for the iPhone.
| Q: Is there a way to sleep your mac through iPhone/iPad? In the remote that comes with Apple TV, if you pair it with a mac, you'd be able to press and hold the play/pause button and your mac will go to sleep. Is there a way to do the same with iPhone/iPad Remote app?
A: If you just need the sleep/wake function, you may want to take a look at iNet WOL, which does a great job. It's the little brother of iNet Pro, a much more extensive network tool for the iPhone.
A: I use Screens and Prompt to manage my macs remotely (whether it's the couch or from afar).
The little command osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to sleep' can be mapped to a function key or alias in your shell and will sleep the mac no matter how it gets called.
Screens: Using the mouse itself requires no setup or you could customize a gesture to activate a Function key that calls the script to automate things a bit.
A: Yes, you can search different alternatives on the iTunes Store. I've used jfcontrol in the past with great success. Not the prettiest application, but it deliver. You need a small (very small) server installed on the machine (it's just a little app that runs on the Menu Bar). Pretty much all these apps need a small server.
A: Not out of the box, but there might be an app for that. What I would recommend is simply installing a VNC app on both devices - something like TeamViewer or LogMeIn. Then, you can use your iPhone to navigate the system menu like you normally would.
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d6d3ed5572a971279a7ced3834068769d7c5dd7b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Get Instapaper to save blog comments with article I recently bought the highly respected Instapaper app for my iPhone.
One thing I have noticed is that if I save an article from (most) blogs such as Coding Horror, the comments to the article are not saved in the Instapaper version.
While in many cases the comments are mindless noise, and I can understand why Instapaper would strip them, there are some blogs where the comments are very much part of the conversation and I'd love to see them, formatted nicely, in the Instapaper output.
Does anyone know an easy way to achieve this?
A: Instapaper uses various filters to figure out what to strip from the page and which content to keep (Coding Horror configuration is here).
My only suggestion would to be to write a script which takes the content + comments, puts them into a new page wrapped in a div which has the class instapaper_body and saves that to Instapaper.
| Q: Get Instapaper to save blog comments with article I recently bought the highly respected Instapaper app for my iPhone.
One thing I have noticed is that if I save an article from (most) blogs such as Coding Horror, the comments to the article are not saved in the Instapaper version.
While in many cases the comments are mindless noise, and I can understand why Instapaper would strip them, there are some blogs where the comments are very much part of the conversation and I'd love to see them, formatted nicely, in the Instapaper output.
Does anyone know an easy way to achieve this?
A: Instapaper uses various filters to figure out what to strip from the page and which content to keep (Coding Horror configuration is here).
My only suggestion would to be to write a script which takes the content + comments, puts them into a new page wrapped in a div which has the class instapaper_body and saves that to Instapaper.
A: As mentioned in the previous answer, Instapaper deliberately doesn't copy comments. One solution would be to copy all the text, and email it to your Instapaper email address (which can be found by logging in, then looking here http://www.instapaper.com/extras - 3rd item down.
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ea31ed44424eafb6f28149d2c9774f9a4bd47b9b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mounting an ext3/4 Linux external hard drive to OS X I just bought two 500 GB hard drives for my Mac for the purposes of backing up ten older hard drives to it. One hard drive (200 GB, pretty much full) is from my Linux machine.
I tried installing Linux via VirtualBox, but I can't seem to mount the external to my vbox installation. In either case, I get an error that it can't read the media, where I either must eject or initialize.
In Disk Utility, I can see all the hard drive partitions but I can't mount it or do anything with it.
The machine that this hard drive came from is dead now, and I don't have access to other Linux machines.
A: You can mount ext2/3/4-Volumes using MacFUSE with the fuse-ext2 Driver.
| Q: Mounting an ext3/4 Linux external hard drive to OS X I just bought two 500 GB hard drives for my Mac for the purposes of backing up ten older hard drives to it. One hard drive (200 GB, pretty much full) is from my Linux machine.
I tried installing Linux via VirtualBox, but I can't seem to mount the external to my vbox installation. In either case, I get an error that it can't read the media, where I either must eject or initialize.
In Disk Utility, I can see all the hard drive partitions but I can't mount it or do anything with it.
The machine that this hard drive came from is dead now, and I don't have access to other Linux machines.
A: You can mount ext2/3/4-Volumes using MacFUSE with the fuse-ext2 Driver.
A: There's a commercial product from Paragon called ExtFS for Mac.
I did test is for a few days a while back and it wasn't very fast but got the job (of reading my external ext3 drive) done.
You can try-before-buy, so you'll know if that's what you are looking for.
Btw: I do have Linux in a VM on my Mac to access these files and I'll copy the files I need from the Linux VM via SSH to my mac. Or the other option I use enabling a Windows share on the Mac and copy the files from the Linux VM to the Mac using that share.
These files are on an external USB drive, so if your drives are internal you may consider buying a USB docking stating for SATA drive, e.g Sharkoon Quickport Combo. USB drives shouldn't be a problem to connect to a VM - unless as previously mentioned the discs where used in a RAID or with a volume manager like LVM.
A: Have you tried booting your Mac from a Linux LiveCD and copying the data from the ext3/4 drive to an HFS+ drive, possibly one of your 500 GB drives?
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83d2bdb275e7d2e6159da01edacec57ed8d89812 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Vimperator Style Extension for Safari 5? Do we have a Vimperator style extension for Safari 5?
A: Not really. I've been hoping for a good one, but I keep coming back to Firefox and Pentadactyl, a Vimperator fork.
Safari does have Vimlike and Vim Keybindings, but Vimperator and Pentadactyl are miles ahead in terms of features. If all you're looking for is Vim-style movement and the ability to follow links from the keyboard, those should do the trick, but I miss a lot of the deeper features that Pentadactyl offers: javascript evaluation, quicklinks, ability to yank links from the keyboard, and much, much more.
| Q: Vimperator Style Extension for Safari 5? Do we have a Vimperator style extension for Safari 5?
A: Not really. I've been hoping for a good one, but I keep coming back to Firefox and Pentadactyl, a Vimperator fork.
Safari does have Vimlike and Vim Keybindings, but Vimperator and Pentadactyl are miles ahead in terms of features. If all you're looking for is Vim-style movement and the ability to follow links from the keyboard, those should do the trick, but I miss a lot of the deeper features that Pentadactyl offers: javascript evaluation, quicklinks, ability to yank links from the keyboard, and much, much more.
A: Vimari also offers some of the keyboard shortcuts from Pentadactyl.
A: An old question, but it seems that the plugin sVim does a decent job now.
A: I found the extensions by Daniel Bergey useful: http://dbergey.github.com/
A: Have a Look at: https://github.com/flipxfx/sVim
It's similar to cVim for Chrome.
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163ad20d07d43a0e072e4ae35c1fcec3e078e6c6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Wake on LAN for MBP late 2009 Is it possible to wake my MBP via Magic Packets from power down? I read Is there a way to power up a Mac Mini remotely?, but that does not seem to work from power down. "Wake for network access" in "Energy Saver" prefpane is ticked.
A: No - the only (recent) hardware that had Lights out Management (LOM) is the now discontinued Xserve. You will need separate hardware to control the power in response to WOL packets (or other signals) to start the current line up of macs from a powered down state.
Apple's current implementation is focused on sleep. The macs need to - first boot up as they leave the network interfaces listening to wake from only from sleep. Powering down the mac turns off all power to the network interfaces.
| Q: Wake on LAN for MBP late 2009 Is it possible to wake my MBP via Magic Packets from power down? I read Is there a way to power up a Mac Mini remotely?, but that does not seem to work from power down. "Wake for network access" in "Energy Saver" prefpane is ticked.
A: No - the only (recent) hardware that had Lights out Management (LOM) is the now discontinued Xserve. You will need separate hardware to control the power in response to WOL packets (or other signals) to start the current line up of macs from a powered down state.
Apple's current implementation is focused on sleep. The macs need to - first boot up as they leave the network interfaces listening to wake from only from sleep. Powering down the mac turns off all power to the network interfaces.
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9487b365e8766a00653df3fc1f5c2ebdb2811598 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Reset license key for MS Mac Office 2011 I need to enter a new MS Office for Mac license key.
How can I reset my old one?
A: From this forum post:
Ditch /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.licensing.plist. Start any Office application. Reregister/reactivate.
Hope it helps.
| Q: Reset license key for MS Mac Office 2011 I need to enter a new MS Office for Mac license key.
How can I reset my old one?
A: From this forum post:
Ditch /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.licensing.plist. Start any Office application. Reregister/reactivate.
Hope it helps.
A: To add to this, once you delete /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.licensing.plist you then need to reboot. The activate office screen will then come up when you open any Office app.
A: This does not work if you switch computers, Office will complain that product has been used the maximum number of times.
One has to call them to reset activations.
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fc1f00b5c97cb35932182f995dadcbb05edd5ac1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I read a pdf with Firefox 5? I'd like to upgrade Firefox to the new version but I don't know if I'll still be able to read pdf on it with this this plugin. Is there another way ?
A: The PDF Browser Plugin from Schubert|it recently added support for Firefox.
It's free for personal, non-commercial use. I've found it to be a very capable in-browser PDF viewer.
| Q: How can I read a pdf with Firefox 5? I'd like to upgrade Firefox to the new version but I don't know if I'll still be able to read pdf on it with this this plugin. Is there another way ?
A: The PDF Browser Plugin from Schubert|it recently added support for Firefox.
It's free for personal, non-commercial use. I've found it to be a very capable in-browser PDF viewer.
A: I've looked for a long time, and couldn't really find anything. I use the Open IT Online addon now instead—I like that it is integrated into the Download file dialog and gives an option to Open IT Online in addition to saving and opening in Preview. It supports opening in Google Docs, Zoho, and a few other services.
A: You can use Adobe Acrobat, in the preferences you can set to open in web or open in Acrobat.
If you choose web, it will open in FireFox
If you choose Acrobat, it will download the .pf and open in Acrobat
This is currently the way I will do it as Firefox has gone from Firefox 4 to FireFox 10 beta. The reason is to catch up with IE in releases. (apparently)
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1e50e0945d6993e304a9427d43091991b5862843 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: If I buy an app in the App Store, will it work on future major releases or will I need to repurchase it? I usually buy Apps in the Mac App Store and iOS App Store but I've always had the doubt, when I buy it, will the app be available in the future for the next releases or not?
I never brought an App two times because of a major release, but is it possible?
A: Yes it is definitively possible. As of now, Apple does not enable the developers to publish paid updates for their software. Due to that, developers sometimes release different versions to buy from the App Store.
E.g. have a look at http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/photoforge/id314173066 and http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/photoforge2/id435789422
| Q: If I buy an app in the App Store, will it work on future major releases or will I need to repurchase it? I usually buy Apps in the Mac App Store and iOS App Store but I've always had the doubt, when I buy it, will the app be available in the future for the next releases or not?
I never brought an App two times because of a major release, but is it possible?
A: Yes it is definitively possible. As of now, Apple does not enable the developers to publish paid updates for their software. Due to that, developers sometimes release different versions to buy from the App Store.
E.g. have a look at http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/photoforge/id314173066 and http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/photoforge2/id435789422
A: There have been a few apps that had been pushed out as totally separate apps when a new major version came out: Tweetie 2 for iOS (then iPhone OS) comes to mind, for example. This lead to a huge controversy, but given the price range of most apps (below $5) it's understandable that developers sometimes push out a new app instead of a free update. If you use an app a lot for a year or two, asking for another two bucks or so shouldn't be an issue, right?
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5348ea1c143a60e5f84d0df9839dbc6985e00003 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Eudora email migration When Lion comes out, PPC Rosetta support for the Eudora email app is reported not to be available.
Which contemporary Mac OS X email clients might support the most painless and reliable importing and use of 10 years worth of of Eudora messages, contacts, filters, and settings? Which current and supported email clients have the largest subset of Eudora's capabilities?
What problems might I encounter during a complete Eudora export, and how might I avoid them?
A: I've used Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to varied success for a few recent-ish switchers, with the added bonus (for me, at least) that it can import messages from Thunderbird. It is, however, a PowerPC app in itself, so you'd need to run it before upgrading to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
| Q: Eudora email migration When Lion comes out, PPC Rosetta support for the Eudora email app is reported not to be available.
Which contemporary Mac OS X email clients might support the most painless and reliable importing and use of 10 years worth of of Eudora messages, contacts, filters, and settings? Which current and supported email clients have the largest subset of Eudora's capabilities?
What problems might I encounter during a complete Eudora export, and how might I avoid them?
A: I've used Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to varied success for a few recent-ish switchers, with the added bonus (for me, at least) that it can import messages from Thunderbird. It is, however, a PowerPC app in itself, so you'd need to run it before upgrading to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
A: I left behind eudora some time back, but loved the four part article on migrating 16 years of email from eudora to gmail by Adam Engst.
Even if you don't want it there permanently, you can still use Eudora and test things. Gmail uses IMAP so everything will sync well to Apple Mail or Outlook (which is really quite good in it's 2011 version). Mailplane is nice, too.
As for clients - the Lion apple mail looks great - so you can get things tidy and then evaluate that once it ships.
Best of luck!
Also - TidBits has some wonderful Take Control books and has two about preparing for and using Lion. The first on preparing is out, and the other is waiting for the general release of Lion / Devloper NDA to be lifted before shipping.
A: Here's a Tidbits article on Switching from Eudora to Apple Mail from 13-Apr-2008.
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0c2ed2f7cbdb2c76c2b3c714f593755e8b70f35b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I change the UI language in Snow Leapoard? I'd like to change my MacBook's languages of the UI. How would I do that in Snow Leopard?
A: Open System Preferences, and then Language & Text. Drag the language you want on top and then log-off (or restart) your computer.
| Q: How do I change the UI language in Snow Leapoard? I'd like to change my MacBook's languages of the UI. How would I do that in Snow Leopard?
A: Open System Preferences, and then Language & Text. Drag the language you want on top and then log-off (or restart) your computer.
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2f3006774ac7d7864a756db918d91dc115cf49ba | Apple Stackexchange
Q: install .ipa via iTunes on friends Mac I don't want to erase all my existing apps. I just want to install the .ipa file and KEEP all my existing apps. However iTunes says
Are you sure you want to sync apps?
All existing apps and their data on
the iPhone "Simon Strandgaard's
iPhone" will be replaced with apps
from this iTunes library.
I really don't want to click the "Sync Apps" button.
I could go home and open iTunes on my own computer, but I'm at my friends place. How to do get the .ipa on my iPhone?
A: You can use the iPhone Configuration Utility to side-load apps onto an iOS device without 'syncing' and erasing your current content.
Config Utility for Mac
Config Utility for Windows
Keep in mind, though, that this will only work if the app is correctly codesigned and the device is correctly provisioned.
| Q: install .ipa via iTunes on friends Mac I don't want to erase all my existing apps. I just want to install the .ipa file and KEEP all my existing apps. However iTunes says
Are you sure you want to sync apps?
All existing apps and their data on
the iPhone "Simon Strandgaard's
iPhone" will be replaced with apps
from this iTunes library.
I really don't want to click the "Sync Apps" button.
I could go home and open iTunes on my own computer, but I'm at my friends place. How to do get the .ipa on my iPhone?
A: You can use the iPhone Configuration Utility to side-load apps onto an iOS device without 'syncing' and erasing your current content.
Config Utility for Mac
Config Utility for Windows
Keep in mind, though, that this will only work if the app is correctly codesigned and the device is correctly provisioned.
A: You don't. Apple doesn't enable you to install ipas separately. If its downloaded from the appstore you can re download it directly on the device. Also, you cannot install ipas that are connected to your friends account, as they containcryptographic keys unavailable to you if you never downloaded the app.
A: If you have bought the app with your own iTunes account, you can simply open the App Store-App on your device, go to "Updates", choose "Purchased articles" and choose "Not On This iPhone". You can then pick the app from the list presented to you and touch the cloud icon to download.
It's not possible to sync an app that has been bought with a different iTunes account.
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70dcd00c5acef6a64a079ac1d15c1cf6e2bb21d0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Make iTunes handle albums with different artists I'm a big fan of ocremix.org and I have quite a few tracks from that community. However, when looking at my music in Album view, it seems to be fairly arbitrary as to how it combines artist and album name when creating its groupings.
Is there a way to force iTunes to combine all songs with the same album name into the same album in album view, regardless of the artist? Ideally I'd like to have a single ocremix.org album which I could open up and sort by artist.
Also, ocremix.org has a convention when multiple artists are participating in a single track to list them all out, separated by commas. Can iTunes handle this in some way?
A: Select all the files you want to combine, make a right click and select "Information", go to tab "Options" and set "part of a compilation" to yes...
| Q: Make iTunes handle albums with different artists I'm a big fan of ocremix.org and I have quite a few tracks from that community. However, when looking at my music in Album view, it seems to be fairly arbitrary as to how it combines artist and album name when creating its groupings.
Is there a way to force iTunes to combine all songs with the same album name into the same album in album view, regardless of the artist? Ideally I'd like to have a single ocremix.org album which I could open up and sort by artist.
Also, ocremix.org has a convention when multiple artists are participating in a single track to list them all out, separated by commas. Can iTunes handle this in some way?
A: Select all the files you want to combine, make a right click and select "Information", go to tab "Options" and set "part of a compilation" to yes...
A: This blog article deals exhaustively of this specific topic : http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2011/03/26/five-ways-organize-various-artist-compilations/
To sum up :
- as stated by strauberry, declare all files part of a compilation
- decide of a string that define your various artists albums (something such as 'Various') and set it as 'album artist' tag value
- keep compilation, album name, year and album artist tags identical
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7b9f3a4e3a829373b2209699b9e6172a3698d968 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: In Safari, is there any keyboard shortcut to *hide* the Web Inspector? In Safari, when the Develop menu is enabled, I can make the Web Inspector appear by hitting ⌘⌥I. However, when I hit that again, the Web Inspector stays where it is.
Is there any way I can hide it with another (or somehow the same) keyboard shortcut?
A: According to the apple website, there is no hide shortcut. Sorry.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42951
Sorry.
| Q: In Safari, is there any keyboard shortcut to *hide* the Web Inspector? In Safari, when the Develop menu is enabled, I can make the Web Inspector appear by hitting ⌘⌥I. However, when I hit that again, the Web Inspector stays where it is.
Is there any way I can hide it with another (or somehow the same) keyboard shortcut?
A: According to the apple website, there is no hide shortcut. Sorry.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42951
Sorry.
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e628d09c115ff7f0f977659cf9d7312a95de7040 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a keyboard shortcut to fully hide all windows, showing only desktop? Is there a keyboard shortcut to fully hide all windows, showing only desktop?
(I know that the trackpad gesture four-fingers-up will sweep them all out of the way, i think it's an expose function. I was hoping for a full "hide" of them all instead.)
thanks!
A: ⌘+H Hides the windows of the currently running application.
⌥+⌘+H Hides the windows of all other running applications.
| Q: Is there a keyboard shortcut to fully hide all windows, showing only desktop? Is there a keyboard shortcut to fully hide all windows, showing only desktop?
(I know that the trackpad gesture four-fingers-up will sweep them all out of the way, i think it's an expose function. I was hoping for a full "hide" of them all instead.)
thanks!
A: ⌘+H Hides the windows of the currently running application.
⌥+⌘+H Hides the windows of all other running applications.
A: This not simply a keyboard shortcut but it does (I believe) give you the desired result.
*
*As many know, holding down the Option key while clicking anywhere outside the current active window will hide the active window. I've been using this for many years.
*Hold down Command and Option and click on the desktop and all active windows will hide.
I suppose the limitation is that if you can't see a little piece of the desktop somewhere you're sunk (maybe).
A: What I do is map this to a mouse button. I have a Logitech Performance Mouse MX.
As you can see from the picture below, I've mapped the (otherwise useless) 'Zoom Button' to 'Desktop'.
Before:
After:
Really handy for seeing if the file you're looking for is on the Desktop. You can even manipulate files if you keep the assigned mouse button held in (i.e. you could grab some files and put them in the Trash; or you could attach a document to a Gmail email; etc.)
NB: I just noticed that you were already aware of this technique via a touchpad swipe. Nonetheless, I'll leave it up here as an answer as mapping it to a mouse button is something I can't live without.
The other way to do this in a more 'permanent' fashion would be to use the ⌥⌘H combo. This, too, can be mapped to a mouse button as you can see below:
Before:
After:
A: No, there is no such functionality, but if you want to interact with desktop (as opposed to just taking a quick peek which can be done with Exposé's Show Desktop function) you actually want to have Finder active with no windows showing, here's how to get there:
*
*Switch to Finder: ⌘+⇥ necessary number of times
*Hide all the other apps: ⌘+⌥+H
*Close all Finder windows: ⌘+⌥+W
1.&2. can be done by ⌘+⌥-clicking on Finder icon in dock.
I usually have Spaces turned on, so whenever I want to reach the desktop without closing everything I just switch to a fresh space.
A: ⌘+F3
This should work great.
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27a8a5cd33c1279752b52e5d0d1d02c3424f4e2c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the best scrobbler for Last.fm for my iOS device? I would like to scrobble played tracks to Last.fm from my iPod touch. I currently use the official iTunes scrobbler, but it seems to drop data.
What are the best iOS scrobblers for a jailbroken and a non-jailbroken device? I can't download the official Last.fm app because of stupid geographical restrictions.
A: Get CloudScrob.
Finally there is an app that ACTUALLY WORKS AND SCROBBLES CORRECTLY.
This app is the best scrobbler there is for iPhone, and I've tried a bunch of them. It scrobbles in batch mode after you've listened to a bunch of songs, and lets you preview and edit the list of songs before it submits them.
And you use the iPod app to play the songs. Unlike iScrob where you had to use that app to play the songs.
| Q: What is the best scrobbler for Last.fm for my iOS device? I would like to scrobble played tracks to Last.fm from my iPod touch. I currently use the official iTunes scrobbler, but it seems to drop data.
What are the best iOS scrobblers for a jailbroken and a non-jailbroken device? I can't download the official Last.fm app because of stupid geographical restrictions.
A: Get CloudScrob.
Finally there is an app that ACTUALLY WORKS AND SCROBBLES CORRECTLY.
This app is the best scrobbler there is for iPhone, and I've tried a bunch of them. It scrobbles in batch mode after you've listened to a bunch of songs, and lets you preview and edit the list of songs before it submits them.
And you use the iPod app to play the songs. Unlike iScrob where you had to use that app to play the songs.
A: I am using the new ex.fm app, which does scrobble to last.fm for me. The ex.fm app is brand new, so the twitter integration is off and on, but last.fm scrobbling of the ex.fm streaming songs is working very reliably. It doesn't scrobble my iPod songs that are on the device yet - so I don't know if that's intended, a temporary service issue, or a bug needing a new build of the app.
A: Your local songs on your device should scrobble to last.fm if you're playing them through the exfm app and have the newest version of the app.
A: Track 8
..is nice. It's a player based on the Metro UI of the Windows 8 and it supports last.fm s scrobbling.
The following is from the app description:
♪ Scrobble your tracks to Last.FM, and share "Now Playing" tweets right from Track 8.
♪ View background images of artists from Last.fm
A: You can try my app QuietScrob, it's only for iOS 7 but scrobbles in background.
A: I've been working on a way to Scrobble from the official Google Play Music app. It's still a work in progress and it requires a Jailbroken iPhone, but it works!
https://github.com/octalmage/LastGoogle
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1fc8f4a5d18d33de981ed95582438d5229fc3164 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: The 'Personal hotspot' option is gone from my iPhone 4. Why? The 'Personal hotspot' option is gone from my iPhone 4. Why? Is there any way to get it back?
A: Make sure you have an APN + Username & password set under Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data Network. The bottom option "Internet Tethering" has to be filled in to enable Personal Hotspot.
Apple KB article - iOS: About cellular data network settings (viewing or editing the APN)
| Q: The 'Personal hotspot' option is gone from my iPhone 4. Why? The 'Personal hotspot' option is gone from my iPhone 4. Why? Is there any way to get it back?
A: Make sure you have an APN + Username & password set under Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data Network. The bottom option "Internet Tethering" has to be filled in to enable Personal Hotspot.
Apple KB article - iOS: About cellular data network settings (viewing or editing the APN)
A: Today I get the option back. After 6 month I found Onavo app was the reason to disable "personal Hotspot". I just uninstalled it.
http://getsatisfaction.com/onavo/topics/my_personal_hotspot_configuration_has_gone
I wrote an email to Onavo support about it and got this reply
Dave NOV 09, 2011 | 06:44PM IST Hi Jitendra,
Thanks for replying.
We're sorry to hear that, still trying to find a solution for this.
Our team is working on several solutions, will update soon. Regards,
Onavo Support http://onavo.com
A: Check Settings > General > Network, or restart the phone.
A: Does your carrier require that you pay for this feature? I don't know how it's handled in India but in the US, the carriers charge extra for this. Of course, here in Canada, the carriers provide it for free provided your data plan isn't one of the minimal ones.
So perhaps the problem is that you are not entitled to use it by virtue of not having paid for it?
A: The same had happened to me (Germany, O2).
Last year, after I had used the Personal Hotspot (WiFi)once, it disappeared from the menu.
Recently (new iOS, O2 officially supporting the iPhone by now), Personal Hotspot (the bluetooth thing, actually) worked for 2 minutes or so, then went dead. Technically it is still there but I woun't get anything through to the net.
I think it's something like this (not sure though):
The first time you use the personal hotspot, your phone checks with your provider wether it allows to share you mobile internet connection to other devices. If not, it then disables it.
If this is correct, the option should reappear when you purchase a 'shareable' data plan.
May need some kind of reset though, aswell.
A: Ensure that your Data Roaming (located in Cellular under general settings) is turned on. Once you have done this, you will show your personal hotspot appear.
A: under cellualr data network, scroll down to internet tethering and write "www" in the APN section. Your personal hotspot will definitly work.
A: Settings, general, cellular, scroll down, personal hotspot, personal hotspot on. It will re-appear on the first screen. (Settings)
A: Go to settings > mobile data > mobile data options > mobile data network > here on MOBILE DATA and on PERSONAL HOTSPOT type your network APN ( you can find it on google) then simply go back to the setting menu and restart your phone. It works for me
A: Go to Cellular -> Cellular Data Options -> Cellular Data Network you will see at the bottom "Personal Hotspot" fields "APN, Username, Password" just put anything and your "Personal Hotspot" will be available in its place.
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74231bc9a506133ad9695850869e3fef2623ad42 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I prevent document preview over slow connections? Once in a while I have to work over a 3G network, which is reasonable, until I mount a file system on the other side of the world.
When that happens OSX tries to show me "previews" of every single document in the finder, an operation which takes forever because it usually tries to download the entire document in order to generate the preview. After spending hours downloading a 5 MB file, it often decides, "oh gosh, I don't know how to show thumbnails of Word files. I'll just show you a Word icon." In the meantime Finder is in bouncing-ball-hell for hours.
Is there a way to prevent this specifically for network shares when I'm connected over a slow connection? Or, failing that, just prevent document preview for all network documents?
A: The nuclear option: quit the Finder (use Activity Monitor, save an AppleScript containing the code tell application "Finder" to quit, or kill it from a shell prompt) and then use Terminal to do your file manipulation. (Type open myfile.txt to open a file in the default app, like the Finder would if you double-clicked it.)
| Q: How do I prevent document preview over slow connections? Once in a while I have to work over a 3G network, which is reasonable, until I mount a file system on the other side of the world.
When that happens OSX tries to show me "previews" of every single document in the finder, an operation which takes forever because it usually tries to download the entire document in order to generate the preview. After spending hours downloading a 5 MB file, it often decides, "oh gosh, I don't know how to show thumbnails of Word files. I'll just show you a Word icon." In the meantime Finder is in bouncing-ball-hell for hours.
Is there a way to prevent this specifically for network shares when I'm connected over a slow connection? Or, failing that, just prevent document preview for all network documents?
A: The nuclear option: quit the Finder (use Activity Monitor, save an AppleScript containing the code tell application "Finder" to quit, or kill it from a shell prompt) and then use Terminal to do your file manipulation. (Type open myfile.txt to open a file in the default app, like the Finder would if you double-clicked it.)
A: Unless someone can find a hidden setting, you may want to look into PathFinder which has a preference to disable previews on network volumes. Also, for slow shares that can be accessed through ssh/sftp Transmit by Panic is more responsive than Finder.
I use Transmit more often than PathFinder, but find having responsive network performance when on dial up or slow 3G more than worth the cognitive load of a slightly different interface.
+1 to Siracusa for killall Finder and terminal workarounds.
A: Actually, killing the finder is not enough in really slow networks or when folders contain thousands upon thousands of files (something common in work networks with a "public" folder).
In those cases killing the finder will result in the finder closing but never reopening properly. It's as if a background process that tries to parse it all gets disconnected but doesn't disappear, preventing the Finder from moving further.
In that sense it's similar to this:
Finder becomes unresponsive when viewing network folders with large amounts of files (OSX 10.6.8)
A: You can disable Icon preview in the view settings.
For example: right click the desktop and select "Show view option" and then uncheck the last box.
A: As a follow-up to John Siracusa's answer, the shell equivalent to the AppleScript would be osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to quit'.
A: I haven't seen a way to disable icon preview just for network connections, but you can disable it for specific folders or for all of Finder. http://www.bombippy.com/archives/2008/02/how_to_disable.php
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41107f1319fa60f4579e90cb51915e4efd833eb2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: how do we organize our apps in itunes library is there anyway to arrange or organize our apps in the itunes library?
I mean i have well a ton of apps and it really helps if i could put them in folders / lists / or anything?
A: No - there is nothing in iTunes to make it easier. You can also use Xcode and the iPhone configuration utility to get a little more screen real estate, but managing apps is still fairly simplistic. The configuration utility does make it possible to automate installing several apps, so that's a step in the right direction for some.
I've filed bugs and sent feedback to Apple asking for more screen real-estate in iTunes to start making app management easier.
They have a 'Use Full Window for iTunes Store' view so it's not inconceivable they might do the same for iOS management at some point. Feel free to link to my picture in your bug report or feedback if you also want to ask Apple for this change.
http://skitch.com/mbrad/fgj28/itunes-managing-ios-apps
| Q: how do we organize our apps in itunes library is there anyway to arrange or organize our apps in the itunes library?
I mean i have well a ton of apps and it really helps if i could put them in folders / lists / or anything?
A: No - there is nothing in iTunes to make it easier. You can also use Xcode and the iPhone configuration utility to get a little more screen real estate, but managing apps is still fairly simplistic. The configuration utility does make it possible to automate installing several apps, so that's a step in the right direction for some.
I've filed bugs and sent feedback to Apple asking for more screen real-estate in iTunes to start making app management easier.
They have a 'Use Full Window for iTunes Store' view so it's not inconceivable they might do the same for iOS management at some point. Feel free to link to my picture in your bug report or feedback if you also want to ask Apple for this change.
http://skitch.com/mbrad/fgj28/itunes-managing-ios-apps
A: Since iOS 4.0, it is possible to organize your app icons into folders: just drag one icon on top of another, it will automatically create a folder for you.
If you have tons of icons to move around, you can be slightly more efficient in iTunes by using SHIFT to multi-select icons (or folders). Then drag them all at once onto another screen, or into an existing folder (or out of an existing folder).
A: It appears that regardless of settings, playlists and even the Library (if it's enabled) ignore all apps, and dragging apps to manual playlists doesn't seem possible. So the only options you have are those that are built-in, such as viewing the apps as a list (View>as List), selecting which columns are available (View>View Options) and sorting by the available columns.
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adc481f6524b0334050fce8e0725cc3496d71547 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: OS X Kindle App: Where are the books located? I was expecting to find .epub or .prc files on my hard-disk, but didn't. Does anyone know: Where are the ebooks that the official Kindle App downloads located?
A: The Kindle app stores AZW files, but only downloads them for Amazon-purchased content that you have opened in the Kindle app on that computer.
The AZW files are saved in ~/Documents/My Kindle Content.
Their names are random-looking (like B0043M4ZH0_EBOK), so it takes a little work to figure out which file corresponds to which book. Here's how you do that:
Open the book of interest on Amazon.com (make sure you're looking at the Kindle edition). It's URL will be something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-ebook/dp/B0043M4ZH0/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&qid=1309013055&sr=8-2, but all you're interested in is the code after /dp/. In this case, it's B0043M4ZH0.
So, you know that the AZW file with the name B0043M4ZH0_EBOK is The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
| Q: OS X Kindle App: Where are the books located? I was expecting to find .epub or .prc files on my hard-disk, but didn't. Does anyone know: Where are the ebooks that the official Kindle App downloads located?
A: The Kindle app stores AZW files, but only downloads them for Amazon-purchased content that you have opened in the Kindle app on that computer.
The AZW files are saved in ~/Documents/My Kindle Content.
Their names are random-looking (like B0043M4ZH0_EBOK), so it takes a little work to figure out which file corresponds to which book. Here's how you do that:
Open the book of interest on Amazon.com (make sure you're looking at the Kindle edition). It's URL will be something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-ebook/dp/B0043M4ZH0/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&qid=1309013055&sr=8-2, but all you're interested in is the code after /dp/. In this case, it's B0043M4ZH0.
So, you know that the AZW file with the name B0043M4ZH0_EBOK is The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
A: Well, by going to the "Content Folder" in Kindle "Preferences," and clicking on same, I found the .azw files, but greyed out. They are in ~/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content/.
You can also use the "find" command in Terminal: find ~ -name '*.azw' to locate them.
A: These files are now (October 2012) stored in:
~/Library/Containers/com.amazon.Kindle/Data/Library/Application Support/Kindle/My Kindle Content/
If they move again you can find them by running the command:
find . -name *.azw
A: You can find (and change) the location of your books in the general preferences. Simply choose Preferences from the Kindle menu. In the General tab, you can find an entry Content Folder and a button to change it.
This works at least on a fresh installation of Kindle from the App Store, running Mountain Lion.
Addition: Worth saying that if you change it that it will automatically move everything from the existing location to the new location so you don't have to worry about it losing track of your books.
A: After reading the above, I created a new folder under /Documents and then changed the target file location in Kindle/Preferences. Kindle app then copied the files to their. Then they became visible. Before that I also couldn't find them.
A: You can define the location of the files (and see where they are) in you application.
Under Kindle -> Preferences you will find the content folder. if you hover the mouse over you can see all of them one at a time.
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757258c0bdf1a10c5caf9bfc30328e249d1da7ce | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the best compression utility for Mac? What compression utility can you recommend that supports zip, rar, tar, etc... like 7zip and FilZip on Windows?
A: My personal recommendation is BetterZip for a small price and the ability to create archives. A free alternative is The Unarchiver but this is limited to archive extraction only.
| Q: What is the best compression utility for Mac? What compression utility can you recommend that supports zip, rar, tar, etc... like 7zip and FilZip on Windows?
A: My personal recommendation is BetterZip for a small price and the ability to create archives. A free alternative is The Unarchiver but this is limited to archive extraction only.
A: Stuffit Expander is a good one that I hear a lot about. The built-in Archive Utility will hand just about every thing except for RAR files. For that I would use UnRARX, which is also free.
A: I like Archiver (formerly known as Rucksack). But it's not free.
A: I found Keka that is some different to use, but solve the problem. And Unarchiver is a good choice to decompress too.
Thanks all!
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1d7531973b1184d928480c1dd3b325b09e5c6714 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Airport Extreme Guest Network and Dual-band Does enabling the Guest Network on a 4th Generation Airport Extreme have any impact on Dual-Band performance?
I have multiple 802.11/g devices that I want to use the 2.4GHz spectrum, and only occasional need for Guests. However, when Guest access is required, it is usually required suddenly, so it would be nice to have it always on.
Does enabling the Guest Network necessarily disable the dual-band, or do these capabilities co-exist?
A: Guest network is just a VLAN and doesn't otherwise affect the channels or the antennas.
So - the guests could use bandwidth because they are connected, so if you ignore those effects, the guest network just tags along with the main channels and settings which doesn't have any major effects on the system.
| Q: Airport Extreme Guest Network and Dual-band Does enabling the Guest Network on a 4th Generation Airport Extreme have any impact on Dual-Band performance?
I have multiple 802.11/g devices that I want to use the 2.4GHz spectrum, and only occasional need for Guests. However, when Guest access is required, it is usually required suddenly, so it would be nice to have it always on.
Does enabling the Guest Network necessarily disable the dual-band, or do these capabilities co-exist?
A: Guest network is just a VLAN and doesn't otherwise affect the channels or the antennas.
So - the guests could use bandwidth because they are connected, so if you ignore those effects, the guest network just tags along with the main channels and settings which doesn't have any major effects on the system.
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689f58c931aa0dae31bc5ef37c95fc8958a2aebb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I watch Youtube videos without Flash on Safari? Is there a way to watch Youtube videos without Flash installed on Safari?
If not, are there any other solutions?
A: Yes, most YouTube videos are also available as HTML5 videos. You need to sign in to YouTube and join the HTML5 trial -- see http://www.youtube.com/html5 for details.
| Q: How do I watch Youtube videos without Flash on Safari? Is there a way to watch Youtube videos without Flash installed on Safari?
If not, are there any other solutions?
A: Yes, most YouTube videos are also available as HTML5 videos. You need to sign in to YouTube and join the HTML5 trial -- see http://www.youtube.com/html5 for details.
A: There should be a preference thing on YouTube to select HTML5, but they've reorganized the page so many times since I last tracked it down that I have no idea where it is now.
Instead, I have ClickToFlash installed (it's under "Most Popular" in the Safari Extensions Gallery); open its preferences (Safari Preferences... > Extensions) and you can tell it to always use HTML5 for YouTube and other sites that support HTML5 in place of Flash.
A: I use the FlashToHTML5 Extension, works great!
FlashToHTML5 replaces the CPU and memory hogging YouTube Flash Player with a HTML5 player.
Not only will it look nicer, you will also notice that your computer will run cooler and faster. If you use a laptop, you will also notice that the battery life of a fully charged battery will increase.
A: FlashToHTML5 appears to be very buggy almost broken with YouTube and Safari 6.0.2. The recently re-written Safari plugin YouTube5 is much better but only works with YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook.
A custom designed HTML5 player to replace the usable, but very limited built-in player.
*
*Support for Vimeo and Facebook video.
*The ability to switch video
resolutions within the player, without having to access Safari’s
preferences.
*Support for downloading videos from YouTube and
Facebook.
*A fully functional volume control, rather than just a mute
button.
*Support for displaying the video’s title, author, and source,
in a video overlay, along with a link back to the video’s page on
YouTube, Vimeo, etc.
A: After uninstalling Flash, Youtube no longer worked on Safari. Turns out, I had left ClicktoPlugin active, and that somehow confused the site. Disabled it (i.e. just running plain Safari) works fine.
Wrote this in case others with legacy settings might experience the same. Check your Safari > Settings > Plugins
A: These plugins should also work with Safari+Ninjakit:
http://isebaro.com/viewtube/
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/169665
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e995e1398157f374b361d02f86c8cc4af5d4ca3a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I set the Mac OS X screensaver when not logged in? When logged in to my user account, the screensaver selected in System Preferences is used. However, when on the login screen before logging in or using fast user switching a different screensaver is used. How do I set the screensaver used on the login screen?
A: The screensaver for the login screen is the one set for the root (i.e. system) user account. To launch System Preferences as root, use sudo; a Terminal window run:
sudo /Applications/System\ Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System\ Preferences
Then you can change the screensaver settings as you normally would. Note that in order to use sudo, you needs to be an admin user.
| Q: How can I set the Mac OS X screensaver when not logged in? When logged in to my user account, the screensaver selected in System Preferences is used. However, when on the login screen before logging in or using fast user switching a different screensaver is used. How do I set the screensaver used on the login screen?
A: The screensaver for the login screen is the one set for the root (i.e. system) user account. To launch System Preferences as root, use sudo; a Terminal window run:
sudo /Applications/System\ Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System\ Preferences
Then you can change the screensaver settings as you normally would. Note that in order to use sudo, you needs to be an admin user.
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c37d20ebd5df06e71dc463962cd9080324e89aa3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Password protect folder without disk images? Is this possible?
I know you can protect a .dmg file, but is there a more convenient solution, by using a third party application?
A: The only way I can think of to do this would be to create a new user with the password you want to use for the folder, then use chmod to set rights on the folder to 700, then you'll use that new user's username and password to access the file.
| Q: Password protect folder without disk images? Is this possible?
I know you can protect a .dmg file, but is there a more convenient solution, by using a third party application?
A: The only way I can think of to do this would be to create a new user with the password you want to use for the folder, then use chmod to set rights on the folder to 700, then you'll use that new user's username and password to access the file.
A: credit: snazzylabs youtube channel
there is an openssl encrypt / decrypt command (sth like that - i dont remember the exact syntax )
openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -e -in (file path of file to encrypt ~users/user/desktop/filename- drag n drop) -out (filepath of new encrypted file ~users/user/desktop/filename2 )
if the command is right it will ask you for a password
this will keep the initial file (filename) and generate a 2nd file with the name you specified (manually) like in this case (filename2)
keep in mind that the encrytped file does not open if you double click and there is no dialog box or prompt from OS X to enter password and you will need terminal to decrypt it.
you will enter the same command but insted of -e after cbc you will type -d (for decrypt i assume)
also in the -in (filepath) you will enter the filename of the encrypted file to be decrytped by the command not the initial filename
openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -e -in (file path of file to DEcrypt ~users/user/desktop/filename2- drag n drop) -out (filepath of new DEcrypted file ~users/user/desktop/filename3
in this example filename is the file to encrypt , filename 2 is the name of the encrypted file generated by the command and filename3 is the name of the decrypted file .
if you dont delete the initial file you encrypted you are going to have 2 files after the openssl enc .... command which isnt any good since all the info in filename is still accessible even if filename2 is encrypted.
make sure you can decrypt the encrypted file then delete all unencrypted versions.
with this method you will need to run the decrypt command every time you want to access the file and delete the generated decrypted file afterwards and keep the encrypted only .
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165c6e532f8bc9fedf77cd009fe720345ae13744 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where is the forward delete button in iPhone’s keyboard? Where is the left-to-right delete button in iPhone’s keyboard? We have backspace but where is Delete?
A: There is no "forward delete" key (as it's often called) on the iPhone. The same is true on the Mac.
On the Mac you can hold down the Fn (Function) key and press the Delete key to get forward deletion, but there's nothing on the iPhone.
| Q: Where is the forward delete button in iPhone’s keyboard? Where is the left-to-right delete button in iPhone’s keyboard? We have backspace but where is Delete?
A: There is no "forward delete" key (as it's often called) on the iPhone. The same is true on the Mac.
On the Mac you can hold down the Fn (Function) key and press the Delete key to get forward deletion, but there's nothing on the iPhone.
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313bfb276d1230ace4f9b59330074d122e81dc1e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Auto open textmate project on startup How do I get textmate to remember what project i had open last and reopen it automatically?
Right now I have to select it from the menu.
A: By default TextMate should open the last open project or document - but it can be switched on/off - maybe it is off by you ??
Here is how to switch the feature on/off: http://manual.macromates.com/en/expert_preferences#oakdisablesessionrestore
22.7 OakDisableSessionRestore
When you launch TextMate it will open the project / document which was open when you last exited. You can however disable this feature by running:
defaults write com.macromates.textmate OakDisableSessionRestore 1
This means that you should run the above line in a Terminal - with a 0 instead of 1
| Q: Auto open textmate project on startup How do I get textmate to remember what project i had open last and reopen it automatically?
Right now I have to select it from the menu.
A: By default TextMate should open the last open project or document - but it can be switched on/off - maybe it is off by you ??
Here is how to switch the feature on/off: http://manual.macromates.com/en/expert_preferences#oakdisablesessionrestore
22.7 OakDisableSessionRestore
When you launch TextMate it will open the project / document which was open when you last exited. You can however disable this feature by running:
defaults write com.macromates.textmate OakDisableSessionRestore 1
This means that you should run the above line in a Terminal - with a 0 instead of 1
A: This command allowed me to re-open a project (I'm running Mountain Lion):
defaults write com.macromates.textmate NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool NO
TextMate needs to be closed when you issue Terminal commands, otherwise they will not work.
See this page for more information.
Make sure you created a TextMate project using TextMate. In other words, do not drag a folder into TextMate and assume that all the open-file states to be reloaded. You must have a .tmproj file into which you drag your files into.
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25c536821f596396084866c2740767f332318851 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Which websites provide alternative listing of Mac App Store content? For iOS there is quite a few websites providing a alternative ways to browse through the many apps and also provides neat info about it's popularity.
What websites are there for the Mac App Store?
I already know of AppShopper.
The reason I'm asking is because I wish there was an "add app to wishlist" feature and a way to see comments across the world and an easier way to look through the lists beyond the limit of 50 apps (I know of the See All, but..). And for a lot of other reasons.
A: AppsOnSale is a Mac app that shows an alternative listing of apps than the MAS.
| Q: Which websites provide alternative listing of Mac App Store content? For iOS there is quite a few websites providing a alternative ways to browse through the many apps and also provides neat info about it's popularity.
What websites are there for the Mac App Store?
I already know of AppShopper.
The reason I'm asking is because I wish there was an "add app to wishlist" feature and a way to see comments across the world and an easier way to look through the lists beyond the limit of 50 apps (I know of the See All, but..). And for a lot of other reasons.
A: AppsOnSale is a Mac app that shows an alternative listing of apps than the MAS.
A: Matt Neuberg from TidBITS reviewed a service called "Appalicious" last fall. He was impressed with the various ways Appolicious had to slice and dice Mac App Store information. I haven't used the product myself, but it sounds like it may meet your need for a more sophisticated way of sorting through Apps.
Since Matt's review the program has been renamed Appcuity, and is available here.
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028e4072b9285f3eb0a3104d5d2f0bec891681f6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What are the default permissions on the Applications folder in OS X supposed to be? I was trying to run VirtualBox on OS X when I got the error:
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine tinyXP.
Failed to load VMMR0.r0 (VERR_SUPLIB_WORLD_WRITABLE).
Unknown error creating VM (VERR_SUPLIB_WORLD_WRITABLE).
According to this article http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8410, it is because the permissions on my /Applications folder are too broad. I checked, and I was actually very surprised to learn that the folder was in fact world-readable / world-writable.
drwxrwxrwx+ 164 root admin 5576 Jun 26 22:27 Applications
So before I go changing them, I'm wondering if that is normal or if somehow they got changed?
A: That is not normal - I have
drwxrwxr-x+ 73 root admin 2482 24 Jun 09:28 Applications/
There is a option in Disk Utility.app to repair permissions which should change the Applications directory and others back.
| Q: What are the default permissions on the Applications folder in OS X supposed to be? I was trying to run VirtualBox on OS X when I got the error:
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine tinyXP.
Failed to load VMMR0.r0 (VERR_SUPLIB_WORLD_WRITABLE).
Unknown error creating VM (VERR_SUPLIB_WORLD_WRITABLE).
According to this article http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8410, it is because the permissions on my /Applications folder are too broad. I checked, and I was actually very surprised to learn that the folder was in fact world-readable / world-writable.
drwxrwxrwx+ 164 root admin 5576 Jun 26 22:27 Applications
So before I go changing them, I'm wondering if that is normal or if somehow they got changed?
A: That is not normal - I have
drwxrwxr-x+ 73 root admin 2482 24 Jun 09:28 Applications/
There is a option in Disk Utility.app to repair permissions which should change the Applications directory and others back.
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574fe28d48560f7f5159fb15addd4315aa00f8f8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I install an App that is not available in my country's iTunes appstore? I want to download and install an app on my iPhone, that is available in the US iTunes App Store - but not in my country's iTunes App Store.
Is that possible without creating a US iTunes account or jailbreaking my phone?
A: A common way to work around the cross-border restrictions of the iTunes store is by using pre-paid iTunes cards. These are often available on eBay and you can redeem them in the iTunes store for the country of origin (assuming you want US items, you need to buy a pre-paid card from the US.)
| Q: Can I install an App that is not available in my country's iTunes appstore? I want to download and install an app on my iPhone, that is available in the US iTunes App Store - but not in my country's iTunes App Store.
Is that possible without creating a US iTunes account or jailbreaking my phone?
A: A common way to work around the cross-border restrictions of the iTunes store is by using pre-paid iTunes cards. These are often available on eBay and you can redeem them in the iTunes store for the country of origin (assuming you want US items, you need to buy a pre-paid card from the US.)
A: It is not possible.
The author of the app selects where the app will sell, and would not be available in other countries.
A: It IS possible. I have done this. I can't imagine why an app developer wouldn't want everyone to buy their app.
This whole situation seems to be born out of some aspect of international distribution rights, it's archaic but can be legitimately navigated.
The way you have to do it is to change your iTunes billing information to use an account that is billed in a country where that app is "available". Then you'll be able to buy that content just fine and your existing content will function fine too. I operated this way for about a year. I had a friend open a bank account and I gave him money through paypal. He then let me use that account for iTunes access. I don't know of an easier way....
cough
There are OTHER ways too, but I'm pretty sure such discourse is not permitted here. And actually, I haven't explored those as I fear big brother will have a temper tantrum.
A: It's possible. I kept my SIM card issued by a US telco and have that in my iPhone when I need to download and install app from iTunes US AppStore. I switch back to my Lebanese telco issued SIM card to use my phone where I am now.
A: Have you tried going to iTunes on a computer and just changing the store to the US App store? It's a long shot, but there is functionality to shop another countries store simply by clicking the flag at the bottom of your main iTunes store page. Scroll to the bottom and try switching to US.
If you wanted to switch permanently, see here for a self service solution:
*
*How can I change the currency on the App Store?
A: I live in Canada and use an alternate account for US only apps. My alternate account just has a fake address/zip code from the US, and as such, is tied to the US App Store instead of Canada's
However, when updating apps it's necessary to enter passwords for both accounts, since both accounts might have apps to be updated.
A: Use a VPN for either your phone or computer should work. Just my 2 cents
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508121bcf29d48e6b0b5b4a9d3abeb3182c42f21 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I start TextEditor from the command line? I work a lot at the command line in a Terminal and would like to start a text editor on a certain file. I'm from Linux Land and normally use kwrite or gedit from a bash shell. Trying to find the Mac equivalent, as a guess, tried
user> textedit somefile.txt
and
user> texteditor somefile.txt
and
user> TextEditor somefile.txt
and other variations. I can't seem to find the proper name of the text editor app. (No, vi isn't to my liking.) Oddly, the guy at an Apple store didn't know this.
A: If you search for a comfortable way with more "linux feel"
add something like the following to your ~/.profile:
alias textmate='open -a TextMate'
or
alias textedit='open -a TextEdit'
depending on your editors.
| Q: How do I start TextEditor from the command line? I work a lot at the command line in a Terminal and would like to start a text editor on a certain file. I'm from Linux Land and normally use kwrite or gedit from a bash shell. Trying to find the Mac equivalent, as a guess, tried
user> textedit somefile.txt
and
user> texteditor somefile.txt
and
user> TextEditor somefile.txt
and other variations. I can't seem to find the proper name of the text editor app. (No, vi isn't to my liking.) Oddly, the guy at an Apple store didn't know this.
A: If you search for a comfortable way with more "linux feel"
add something like the following to your ~/.profile:
alias textmate='open -a TextMate'
or
alias textedit='open -a TextEdit'
depending on your editors.
A: If you already started to write in terminal and you want to continue on your favorite editor you can press ctrl+X, ctrl+E and continue working in emacs or your default bash editor.
If you want to change the default editor, change the environment variable EDITOR to your favorite one:
EDITOR=vim;export EDITOR
A: The default text editor is TextEdit. You can open a text file in there by using open -a:
$ open -a TextEdit hi.txt
If you want to use another app, just put it's name in, like this:
$ open -a Coda index.html
A: Here are some possible answers, all using the 'open' command-line utility.
The -a option means "open the file argument with the named application":
open -a TextEdit file.txt
The -e option means "open the file argument with the TextEdit application":
open -e file.txt
The -t option means "open the file with the default application for editing text files, as determined via LaunchServices". By default, this will be /Applications/TextEdit.app; however, it's possible for this setting to get overridden:
open -t file.txt
Finally, any file that's of the "text" type will get opened by the application bound to the text type if you just say open file.txt. You can use the "file" command to reveal what the operating system thinks the file type is: file file.txt. So, for example, if you renamed "file.txt" to just "textfile" then open textfile would still open it in the default text-file editing application, as long as file textfile still thought that "textfile" was actually a text file.
A short 'help' file on open can be found by running
open --help
Or you can read the whole manual with
man open
A: There are two ways:
If your default text editor is TextEdit, you can simply use
open -t file.txt
to open it in TextEditor.
If your default text editor is not TextEdit, and you want to open it in TextEdit specifically, you can use
/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit file.txt
Either of those can be made an alias in your shell config file, of course.
A: 1) Quick open textEdit content edit interface, note that the generated files are stored in the /tmp directory:
#Input content + Enter + Ctrl+D
open -f
#open empty tempfile
echo|open -f
#alias
alias txted='echo|open -f'
txted
2) Prefer to take standard input and output it to TextEdit
echo "input something"|open -f
cat Dockerfile|open -f
3) Just open a TextEdit:
open -e
From man open:
-e Opens with TextEdit.
-f Reads input from standard input and opens with TextEdit.
A: See if you have the vim editor, I didn't even realize my terminal could use it.
Try:
user> vimtutor
to figure out its controls.
You can edit files pretty well with it. The syntax looks something like:
user> vim foo.txt
A: TextWrangler (now defunct and replaced with BBEdit) when installed with the Command Line Utilities, allowed you to do:
edit README.txt
to launch TextWrangler, which to me is nicer than open -t README.txt, but maybe I'm just suffering from inertia.
FYI - edit is a binary executable file (from the TextWrangler kit), not just an alias or symlink.
A: Since you want to open "a" text editor. It shouldn't be wrong if you use a command line text editor such as vim or vi. Just type
user> vim filename
Looking at the other answers this might seem controversial. But as you work mostly inside the the terminal. Using vim or Gedit is the ideal choice.
A: Use gedit command:
gedit your-file.ext
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34f165f4423549b008792ec16a31e9e6b724eb31 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I merge .m4v files? I transcoded a DVD into several m4v files with HandBrake. How can I merge these files into one m4v movie?
A: You can use the built-in iMovie app to do this.
Create a new project, add your video files, and drag them to the timeline in order. Export your project as an M4V (Share-> Export Movie).
If you're completely new to iMovie, some good introductory tutorials can be found on YouTube.
| Q: How can I merge .m4v files? I transcoded a DVD into several m4v files with HandBrake. How can I merge these files into one m4v movie?
A: You can use the built-in iMovie app to do this.
Create a new project, add your video files, and drag them to the timeline in order. Export your project as an M4V (Share-> Export Movie).
If you're completely new to iMovie, some good introductory tutorials can be found on YouTube.
A: Join can use MP4Box.
On the shell:
MP4Box $(for file in single*m4v; do echo -cat $file; done) joined.m4v
Related: https://superuser.com/a/364159/95878
A: With iMovie (Yosemite) I merged 3 videos made on my iPhone 6s, piece of cake.
in Projects (tab) click +
Select Movie, no theme
Import Media (I had my 3 videos on desktop, Cmd-Click selected all 3 at same time)
Import Selected (presto, imported)
Click on one of the videos then Cmd-a for selecting all 3.
Click Hold-Drag all 3 down to timeline.
File, Share
If you click on Share, Email you will get 5 choices of sizes to save the video, it will then open an email and place the video in the email. You can drag the video off the email to desktop (or not) and delete the email.
There is a checkbox to add the video to Theater, where all your completed videos are shown.
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1c3132c2e3e7c052ca60f3daec5cfd071c00ce0e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Extracting data from old Mac resource files What utility or tool that runs which under Mac OS X 10.6 can I use to extract data (icon images and strings, etc.) from old Mac OS 7 (and earlier) resource files/resource forks? (...files created using ResEdit.)
A: Rezycle might work for you. Let us know.
| Q: Extracting data from old Mac resource files What utility or tool that runs which under Mac OS X 10.6 can I use to extract data (icon images and strings, etc.) from old Mac OS 7 (and earlier) resource files/resource forks? (...files created using ResEdit.)
A: Rezycle might work for you. Let us know.
A: On OSX you can access the raw resource fork of a file like this:
cp resource_file/..namedfork/rsrc resource_fork
There's also the system utilities DeRez/Rez (available in OSX 10.7 and as mention by @marc as part of Xcode tools on newer MacOS versions) which allows for extraction of resource fork data into a form for use by the Rez resource compiler - e.g. extract icon data from an Icon file:
DeRez -only icns Icon^M > icon
It should be noted that the resulting files from both of the above commands require additional processing to convert the resources to a suitable form.
See related question on Icon files.
A: Abet slightly unstable, the resource editor Rezilla runs under 10.7.4.
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e51dbf42fd220c8a0b0b6f9c12670b896b6180dd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Any way to view Microsoft Publisher files in Mac OS X I'm trying to view a MS Publisher file without running a Windows virtual machine. Any way to do that? It's ok if it doesn't render 100% accurately.
A: Another vote for Crossover/Wine. Not sure how well Publisher runs personally, but I know that the rest of Office 2003 (if that's the version that you're using) works perfectly (and that's using the free version they gave out a couple of years ago, I imagine it's only gotten better since).
| Q: Any way to view Microsoft Publisher files in Mac OS X I'm trying to view a MS Publisher file without running a Windows virtual machine. Any way to do that? It's ok if it doesn't render 100% accurately.
A: Another vote for Crossover/Wine. Not sure how well Publisher runs personally, but I know that the rest of Office 2003 (if that's the version that you're using) works perfectly (and that's using the free version they gave out a couple of years ago, I imagine it's only gotten better since).
A: If your idea is only to READ and never to edit, I would suggest that you convert the file into PDF format using any of the thousands free converters out there, for example:
http://www.publishertopdf.com/
So you don't need a license of Microsoft Publisher neither CrossOver.
A: Another vote for converting first. If you convert the file using Zamzar online, then you can open the file as a PDF on your Mac. You could also ask the sender to save in an alternative format if that's an option for you. For more information and help plus all the great alternatives to Publisher for Mac, check this post:
http://machow2.com/publisher-for-mac/
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8dc8f63e7fb2be4ab5abaa69ae510b065c6cb876 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I prevent iPhoto from opening everytime I plug my iPad/iPhone? How can I prevent iPhoto/Photos/Image Capture from launching everytime I plug in my iPad/iPhone?
A: The way disable this in bulk using terminal or a script:
defaults -currentHost write com.apple.ImageCapture disableHotPlug -bool YES
This sets a flag to tell the system to not activate ImageCapture or Photos or iPhoto when a hot plug of an iOS device is detected. The benefit here is you pre-emotively disable the connection as opposed to reacting to each single device after an app has launched and the specific device is connected.
| Q: How can I prevent iPhoto from opening everytime I plug my iPad/iPhone? How can I prevent iPhoto/Photos/Image Capture from launching everytime I plug in my iPad/iPhone?
A: The way disable this in bulk using terminal or a script:
defaults -currentHost write com.apple.ImageCapture disableHotPlug -bool YES
This sets a flag to tell the system to not activate ImageCapture or Photos or iPhoto when a hot plug of an iOS device is detected. The benefit here is you pre-emotively disable the connection as opposed to reacting to each single device after an app has launched and the specific device is connected.
A: Do this:
*
*Plug in your iPad/iPhone
*Open Image Capture
*Select your device ("devMikePad")
*Press the triangle in square symbol in the lower left corner.
*Select "No application" in the menu.
Here is a picture showing what to look for on Snow Leopard or Yosemite.
A: iPhoto:
Preferences > General > "Connecting Camera Opens ..."
set it to "No Application"
added: How to do this with the new Photos app
Connect the iPad/iPhone
Photos:
Import
check or uncheck "Open Photos for this device"
A: On Yosemite, it was driving me nuts and the above answers helped some, but I still had to dig around a bit. Here's my own clarification:
Connect your phone and open Photos.
*
*Drop down the View menu and
*Select Show Sidebar (changing the option to Hide Sidebar as shown in my screenshot)
*Select your phone in the now visible sidebar and uncheck the box labeled "Open photos for this device"
I looked through all preferences, settings, and help menus I could find and found nothing. So thanks for the help!
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dd7cf611ec3a19cdec9270e3104a140c3805ecae | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Make a screen-shot and upload with a script I am not very good with AppleScript but I would imagine this is something quite easy for the AppleScript guru out there, I am looking to make a screenshot of a region like with doing Apple-Shift-s and feed it the ScreenShot filename to a shell script which would take care of the upload.
Thanks.
PS: I don't need the shell script part just the AppleScript one.
A: simply run shell command:
screencapture -i filename
this will start screencapture in interactive mode (selecting region). See screencapture -h or man screencapture
If you realy need run the screencapture command from the applescript just use:
do shell script "screencapture -i filename"
you can test the applescript from shell:
osascript -e 'do shell script "screencapture -i /tmp/filename.png"'
| Q: Make a screen-shot and upload with a script I am not very good with AppleScript but I would imagine this is something quite easy for the AppleScript guru out there, I am looking to make a screenshot of a region like with doing Apple-Shift-s and feed it the ScreenShot filename to a shell script which would take care of the upload.
Thanks.
PS: I don't need the shell script part just the AppleScript one.
A: simply run shell command:
screencapture -i filename
this will start screencapture in interactive mode (selecting region). See screencapture -h or man screencapture
If you realy need run the screencapture command from the applescript just use:
do shell script "screencapture -i filename"
you can test the applescript from shell:
osascript -e 'do shell script "screencapture -i /tmp/filename.png"'
A: See my answer to the question linked to below which uses Automator to take screenshots and feed them automatically to the FTP script. Since you don't say that it absolutely has to be done by Applescript, I'm just offering it as a suggestion in case it covers your needs.
Seeking ambient screen recorder
A: You could try adding an automator folder action that will take added files and upload them. If you have fetch it has its own FTP options that can be integrated into an automator routine.
If that doesn't work for you, the app Nathan suggested performs what you need wonderfully.
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3077ce4614b87ac728b7a999fff34843ddee0c15 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to cancel or disable the slow dock transition easter eggs? If you shift-click the minimize button or hold shift while restoring a window, you get the slow-motion genie or scale effect.
Is there a way to resume full speed after an accidental shift-click?
Is there a way to disable the shift-click combination so that the transition always runs at full speed?
A: There is a way!
Open Terminal.app
Then, type this and type the following:
defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableSlowAnimation -bool false
To make it go on again, just change the false to true.
Edit:
It seems that there is no way to disable the Slow Animation special effects on shift-click.
| Q: Is there a way to cancel or disable the slow dock transition easter eggs? If you shift-click the minimize button or hold shift while restoring a window, you get the slow-motion genie or scale effect.
Is there a way to resume full speed after an accidental shift-click?
Is there a way to disable the shift-click combination so that the transition always runs at full speed?
A: There is a way!
Open Terminal.app
Then, type this and type the following:
defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableSlowAnimation -bool false
To make it go on again, just change the false to true.
Edit:
It seems that there is no way to disable the Slow Animation special effects on shift-click.
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164b9cfde96d86cf7ab4149c0f4c497413efffa6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: organising apps by multiple levels of folders possible? I like the idea of putting our apps in "folders" , but is there anyway we can furthur put those "folders" into "folders" ?
A: Not at this time. You cannot make a folder within a folder in iOS.
| Q: organising apps by multiple levels of folders possible? I like the idea of putting our apps in "folders" , but is there anyway we can furthur put those "folders" into "folders" ?
A: Not at this time. You cannot make a folder within a folder in iOS.
A: As a substitute, maybe use the pages of apps on the iphone.
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bb993874fec8b732dbcd9cc985751c51472f74d4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I see what bandwidth each App or process is using? I see suddenly that my downstream bandwidth is 400 KBps which is the maximum my ISP gives me, so there's an application downloading at its top capacity.
The thing is I didn't start any download, so it's doing it in the background without telling.
How can I know which app or process is using it?
Or, basically, how can I determine how much bandwidth each open process or application is using?
A: Just to complement the (terrific) nettop answer - some complained that the output is cryptic. For clean output, try:
nettop -P -k state,interface -d
Flags explained:
-P collapses the rows of each parent process
-k state,interface removes less informative columns that stand between you and the bytes in/out columns
-d activates the delta option (same as pressing the d button)
Use the h button or run man nettop for some more options.
| Q: How can I see what bandwidth each App or process is using? I see suddenly that my downstream bandwidth is 400 KBps which is the maximum my ISP gives me, so there's an application downloading at its top capacity.
The thing is I didn't start any download, so it's doing it in the background without telling.
How can I know which app or process is using it?
Or, basically, how can I determine how much bandwidth each open process or application is using?
A: Just to complement the (terrific) nettop answer - some complained that the output is cryptic. For clean output, try:
nettop -P -k state,interface -d
Flags explained:
-P collapses the rows of each parent process
-k state,interface removes less informative columns that stand between you and the bytes in/out columns
-d activates the delta option (same as pressing the d button)
Use the h button or run man nettop for some more options.
A: You can easily view all network activity from the Activity Monitor; it's built right in to OS X.
*
*Open Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor
*Click Network tab
A:
Quote: "How can I know which app or process is using it?"
You can try nettop(1) in the Terminal. It is pre-installed, and refreshes every few seconds to provide a dashboard of all open network connections (by process) with their usage. Better than lsof since it shows the usage data too.
$ nettop
Then hit 'd' and look for odd-looking entries or entries with consistently large traffic in the 'bytes in' or 'bytes out' column. The 'd' instructs nettop to only show differences in each screen refresh.
Practical usage notes:
If you don't recognize the process name, Google it.
If you don't want the process around, get the pid (the number next to the process name in nettop), and kill it with kill -9 <pid>. If that doesn't solve it, find out if you can uninstall the process.
If you're interested in what the process is transmitting over the network, use the client port number for that particular connection (e.g. '53133' from 10.0.0.1:53133->74.125.68.100:80) to run a tcpdump(1) to see the data in the packets being exchanged: sudo tcpdump -nnvvXSs 1514 port 53133
If you're interested in the destination the process is talking to, but the destination IP address doesn't have a reverse DNS hostname (like in the previous example), then try visiting that IP address in a web browser as https://IP, click the broken lock icon in the address bar, and view the certificate details to find out which domain is served there (*.google.com in this case). This won't work if SSL port 443 isn't open on the destination.
A: lsof and iftop (direct Link to install package) are the best tools that come to mind.
Also, take a look at this question.
A: Rubbernet is a really great app that allows you to see the per application network usage of your Mac plus it supports Remote Monitoring. You can install a Rubbernet plugin any Mac that you have administrative access and then monitor the per application bandwidth utilization of all the Macintosh on your network from your own computer.
It does cost money (30 Euros on their website but for some reason its $19.99 on the Mac App Store but they have a fully functional Free Trial on their website. I haven't bought the app yet, so I can not confirm that you can buy one license for the app and then install the plugin on any number of Macs for now additional charge. But that seems to be the situation.
The Developers are the same folks who do the Linkinus IRC Client.
link to rubbernet removed as it lead to a website with a fake alert about updating out of date Flash
A: This help at all? Take a look at the NetMonitor Sidekick add on. Have not tried it myself but will probably load on virtual machine to see how it works.
http://netmonitor.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/net.html
A: Update: This app no longer exists
Another option that is not quite as good as it does not have any kind of remote monitoring mechnaism and didn't seem to do as good a job is OS Track. Its also available on the Mac App Store for free. I didn't really like this app as it seemed to consume a lot of resources itself. But that might be something they fixed in a later version.
A: sudo fs_usage might id the process
A: Little Snitch offers a great Network Monitor that gives all sorts of details including transfer rates and which processes have used the most data. You can also block anything you want or dig into things in more detail quite easily.
The nettop answers were by far the best, however if you're more of a GUI kind of person and want a recently supported and updated tool, check out
Little Snitch.
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8d8cbe77dba92ece41ee19f0c809100a018c9744 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to uninstall an uninstalled app from the App Store? I tried to install Xcode from the App Store. While it was being downloaded, a network problem occurred so the installation didn't complete. However, in the App Store, it appears marked as installed (so now I can't install it).
I don't see any uninstall option. Is there any way to uninstall it from the backend or something like that?
A: In the special case of Xcode, the App Store downloads an installer app that you use to install Xcode. Look in /Applications for "Install Xcode.app" and delete that.
When you get Xcode installed properly, if you delete the installer, the App Store won't think it's installed and won't display updates.
| Q: How to uninstall an uninstalled app from the App Store? I tried to install Xcode from the App Store. While it was being downloaded, a network problem occurred so the installation didn't complete. However, in the App Store, it appears marked as installed (so now I can't install it).
I don't see any uninstall option. Is there any way to uninstall it from the backend or something like that?
A: In the special case of Xcode, the App Store downloads an installer app that you use to install Xcode. Look in /Applications for "Install Xcode.app" and delete that.
When you get Xcode installed properly, if you delete the installer, the App Store won't think it's installed and won't display updates.
A: Just throwing out some random suggestions:
*
*First of all, remember to empty your trash.
*Check ~/Music/iTunes and see if you can find it there. Try moving anything related to Xcode to the trash (and empty).
*See if you have /Library/Developer. Maybe you can find any uninstaller there.
A: This is the first time I ever heard of installing Xcode with iTunes, but try the Xcode commandline uninstaller: sudo Xcode directory/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all. If the uninstaller isn't there, (because you say it's incomplete), just delete the folder (usually at /Developer) or reinstall by downloading the .dmg that can be found at http://developer.apple.com/.
A: The app store is marking this as installed because there's part of a .dmg or some other file type somewhere hiding. If you go to the 'Purchased' tab in the App store you should get the option to re-install once you remove this file.
The App Store downloads its files to a temp directory before moving the .app file to your Applications Folder. The directory is
/Users/<USERNAME>/Library/Application Support/AppStore/
Go to that directory and look for anything that says Xcode and get rid of it. Then redownload and install from the App Store's Purchased tab.
A: Had the same problem with "Pickr.app." and found a solution. My problem was that it didn't show up in Launchpad, but the Mac App Store said 'installed'.
Go to /Applicatons/or ~/Applications and manually delete your app, in my case "Pickr.app", then reinstall.
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464a8aa455284464bcffef1f4e420a87d17f4d69 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Use external display only with MacBook? I have a Mid 2010 MacBook. Is it possible to make the external display into the only one, so that I can close the lid and keep working on my MacBook with an external keyboard/mouse and monitor?
A: Yes. It usually "just works," but if you're having trouble, Apple has detailed instructions:
Apple Portables: How to use your computer in closed clamshell (display closed) mode with an external display
| Q: Use external display only with MacBook? I have a Mid 2010 MacBook. Is it possible to make the external display into the only one, so that I can close the lid and keep working on my MacBook with an external keyboard/mouse and monitor?
A: Yes. It usually "just works," but if you're having trouble, Apple has detailed instructions:
Apple Portables: How to use your computer in closed clamshell (display closed) mode with an external display
A: Yes, it is possible (I use mine like this al the time). All you need to do is ensure that the external power supply is plugged in.
If you intend on using this setup all the time, ensure you occasionally (say once a month), unplug the external power supply and use the battery.
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99cbff564f54e934461c6ce8b37db8a05a7a07f9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disk Space requirement for Xcode on a Solid State Drive (SSD) I have a question on the storage requirement for running Xcode and working on Application development.
I am planning on upgrading my Macbook Hard disk to a Solid State Drive (SSD) for an increase in speed. Would it be enough if I have a 128GB SSD , or should I go for the 256GB SSD (which is more expensive) ? Could anyone help me with this ?
Thanks.
A: Xcode and iOS SDK takes up around 10.5 GB of hard drive space. Depending on how much other space you plan to use up, I suppose a 128 GB hard drive is enough.
| Q: Disk Space requirement for Xcode on a Solid State Drive (SSD) I have a question on the storage requirement for running Xcode and working on Application development.
I am planning on upgrading my Macbook Hard disk to a Solid State Drive (SSD) for an increase in speed. Would it be enough if I have a 128GB SSD , or should I go for the 256GB SSD (which is more expensive) ? Could anyone help me with this ?
Thanks.
A: Xcode and iOS SDK takes up around 10.5 GB of hard drive space. Depending on how much other space you plan to use up, I suppose a 128 GB hard drive is enough.
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95f5a731b835e95a49dbb9029d4c76a959f4c16c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What are some unusual uses of the MacBook trackpad? You know, the MacBook has such a beautiful trackpad. Are there applications that use its power for music-making, drawing, or anything else unusual?
A: In the "unusual" camp there's a program called Inklet that purports to turn your trackpad into a Wacom-like tablet. They also sell a special stylus and sketching software.
For music there's Trackpad Magic, which allows you to create music using trackpad for input, and djay, a DJ'ing app that lets you "scratch" records with your trackpad.
| Q: What are some unusual uses of the MacBook trackpad? You know, the MacBook has such a beautiful trackpad. Are there applications that use its power for music-making, drawing, or anything else unusual?
A: In the "unusual" camp there's a program called Inklet that purports to turn your trackpad into a Wacom-like tablet. They also sell a special stylus and sketching software.
For music there's Trackpad Magic, which allows you to create music using trackpad for input, and djay, a DJ'ing app that lets you "scratch" records with your trackpad.
A: There is MultiTouchMIDI by Jeff Kaufman, a free software that translate pressure on the trackpad into MIDI signal.
You can then use a music software to translate this MIDI into audio.
It is then a good Idea to have an external mouse that can control the pointer. Check "Ignore Trackpad when Mouse is plugged in" under Universal Access, so the mouse holds still when you play music.
A: EDIT: I just now realized you meant software applications, not practical applications. Answering that question, there aren't any applications that I know of that have specific functionality built in for the gestures of the Magic Trackpad. There are lots of applications that allow for performing basic functions using trackpads, but nothing beyond basic scrolling and clicking gestures.
Original Answer:
I use my Magic Trackpad exclusively and have found the gestures to be the most useful. As a drawing tool (I'm a graphic designer) it is not good...get a tablet for that. I have configured my gestures so that they invoke various tools or perform specific actions like creating or deleting a layer. There are keyboard shortcuts to performs these tasks, but I find a motion gesture to be faster than contorting my fingers to hit Command+Ctrl+N, etc.
Some of my global actions include:
3-Finger Tip-Swipe Down: Launch Chrome
3-Finger Tip-Swipe Up: Launch Mail
3-Finger Tip-Swipe Right: Launch iTunes
3-Finger Swipe Down: (Command+W)
3-Finger Swipe Up: (Command+T) // for creating tabs in browsers
3-Finger Click-Swipe Down: (Command-Q)
4-Finger Swipe Up: Reveal Desktop
4-Finger Swipe Down: Expose
4-Finger Swipe Left/Right: Application Scrolling (Alt+Tab)
5-Finger Swipe Left/Right: Snap window left/right
5-Finger Swipe Up/Down: Maximize/center window
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9f65c40ecde291882f3ada31ecfef3cfa8e8e4cf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Using grep on Mac-style text files When I run grep on a text file, I get nonsense results. It seems as if the whole file is printed out but on one line overwriting itself. I read that on the Mac, text files use \r instead of the normal \n as a line ending. That would explain it, but how to make grep treat \r as if it were \n?
I'm using Snow Leopard OS X, and am quite new to using Apple anything, but a long-time Linux programmer.
A: You can't change grep's behavior, but you can change the file it sees:
tr '\r' '\n' <file | grep foo
Also, \r line endings are legacy these days; OS X officially uses \n, although there are still things that haven't been updated. In particular, AppleScript still hasn't quite caught up, which also shows in its using pre-OS X file paths by default and requiring POSIX file to indicate OS X native paths; also, many Carbon applications still use \r, Carbon being a transition framework from Mac OS 9 to OS X.
| Q: Using grep on Mac-style text files When I run grep on a text file, I get nonsense results. It seems as if the whole file is printed out but on one line overwriting itself. I read that on the Mac, text files use \r instead of the normal \n as a line ending. That would explain it, but how to make grep treat \r as if it were \n?
I'm using Snow Leopard OS X, and am quite new to using Apple anything, but a long-time Linux programmer.
A: You can't change grep's behavior, but you can change the file it sees:
tr '\r' '\n' <file | grep foo
Also, \r line endings are legacy these days; OS X officially uses \n, although there are still things that haven't been updated. In particular, AppleScript still hasn't quite caught up, which also shows in its using pre-OS X file paths by default and requiring POSIX file to indicate OS X native paths; also, many Carbon applications still use \r, Carbon being a transition framework from Mac OS 9 to OS X.
A: A common legacy utility for handling line endings is flip. It does in-place transformation for files between Unix, DOS/Windows, legacy Mac line-end formats, and can also sample a file to let you know what type it currently thinks it is. It doesn't ship with OSX, but you can get binaries from the link as well as source.
In this case, you can first flip -u yourFile.txt to make sure it's using newlines and not linefeeds to demarcate lines, and then use grep on it.
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81d84cc5325d54077adc99b2ed2b6bfb90ab53f1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Run iTunes without it being in the dock I'm trying to keep my dock simple - just Chrome, MacVim, and the terminal. Is there a way to run iTunes without it being in the dock (i.e. just show the icon in the menu bar)?
A: The only way for an application to not appear in the dock (while also keeping the menu bar) is for the developers to place that functionality into it. I don't use my dock as a launcher, using Butler instead (which is a dockless application, btw).
You might try backing up a step and asking why you want to remove the iTunes from the dock and see if there's another solution. For example, I often listen to tunes on my iPhone rather than iTunes. If it's to keep the dock clean, try a different launcher than the dock and hide the dock instead.
| Q: Run iTunes without it being in the dock I'm trying to keep my dock simple - just Chrome, MacVim, and the terminal. Is there a way to run iTunes without it being in the dock (i.e. just show the icon in the menu bar)?
A: The only way for an application to not appear in the dock (while also keeping the menu bar) is for the developers to place that functionality into it. I don't use my dock as a launcher, using Butler instead (which is a dockless application, btw).
You might try backing up a step and asking why you want to remove the iTunes from the dock and see if there's another solution. For example, I often listen to tunes on my iPhone rather than iTunes. If it's to keep the dock clean, try a different launcher than the dock and hide the dock instead.
A: From HERE. I have not personally tried it with iTunes, but it does work with some applications.
If you'd like to have an application running, but without a dock icon, there's a
way achieve this by modifying the application's plist file.
Open a terminal session, and first navigate to the "Contents" folder of the
application you'd like to modify (note - you may want to make a backup of the app
first, especially if it's one of the Apple-installed applications). This example
uses Key Caps:
cd 'Applications/Utilities/iTunes.app/Contents/'
Now, edit the Info.plist file:
vi Info.plist
You can use vi, pico, or emacs to do the editing.
Just before the closing Just before the closing </dict> tag, add
<key>NSBGOnly</key>
<string>1</string>
Save the edited Info.plist, then launch iTunes from the GUI
(your application foler). If your edit was successful, you should see iTunes,
but no icon in the dock.
A: Two things come close: you can (in Finder) select the
iTunes application and 'get info', then paste a new icon
over the icon (at top of the info window). The trick is, you use a
selected patch of your desktop background picture as the
icon (open the desktop picture in Preview, select a patch and copy).
Or, to put items in the dock that don't take up space until you
click them, but are always easy to locate without navigating folders,
make a folder and put aliases of applications and such into it.
Then, drag the folder to the dock, where a single click on the
icon of the folder will show all the contents.
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571fae158a4c2722f93c92bb0c1bcaa2c8d7da87 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there an OS X 'tail' tool that can monitor remote log files? I am looking for a visual tail tool that can monitor several local or remote log files.
Optional features that interest me: color highlight based on log error level, coloring for special words, filtering of messages and/or notifications on new activity.
A: You may try to use a combination of multitail and ssh.
*
*https://serverfault.com/questions/53976/use-local-tools-to-monitor-remote-logs
*https://superuser.com/questions/320575/mac-os-x-logfile-viewer
| Q: Is there an OS X 'tail' tool that can monitor remote log files? I am looking for a visual tail tool that can monitor several local or remote log files.
Optional features that interest me: color highlight based on log error level, coloring for special words, filtering of messages and/or notifications on new activity.
A: You may try to use a combination of multitail and ssh.
*
*https://serverfault.com/questions/53976/use-local-tools-to-monitor-remote-logs
*https://superuser.com/questions/320575/mac-os-x-logfile-viewer
A: I found a tool that can do this GeekTool, it even has a version that works on Lion (see the forum).
It can be used to do just simple tails, without filtering or other stuff, so maybe someone has a better alternative.
A: Survlog (Mac App Store, $)
Survlog is a convenient way to watch remote log files. Simple setup, and allows for ssh keys and sudo passwords. Store log file information for easy access and reusability.
Hasn't seen any updates since 2015.
A: PostRemoteLog (free)
PostRemoteLog has Growl notifications support and it is free.
A: While I haven't used it myself yet, I recently discovered Log.io. It appears to meet all your criteria.
A: Only for the sake of completeness it shall be said, that there is a tool for Mac OS X with highlighting on keywords and some other features.
It's called Logtastic
I know, this is an old post, but maybe someone finds this useful?! :)
A: Might I suggest the LogTail macOS app - it checks all the requirements you mentioned (except the notifications part). It has SSH based remote log viewing functionality and can tail the remote log file (configurable polling interval). You can setup multiple SSH servers and browse them to select the log file to view.
It supports filtering and/or highlighting search patterns, searching the remote log file incrementally, and lets you adjust the foreground, background colors and font.
Also, it doesn't load the entire remote log file at once but intelligently fetches content based on your scrolling actions, so it is quite efficient.
The app site has more information. Hope it helps!
PS: I'm the app developer :)
A: OS X has a Tail utility built right in.
Open a Terminal window, and the format would be
tail -f filename.log
The -f option would make sure to keep displaying new entries to the file as it's written to.
Of course, this is the basic Unix tail utility, so there aren't coloring options and the like... however you can open multiple terminal windows / tabs to monitor different log files as needed.
A: I was looking for something similar a few months back and discovered and excellent Linux appliance distribution called Security Onion: https://security-onion-solutions.github.io/security-onion/
I pretty much ignore the IDS and packet capturing (for now) and just use it for log analysis. It was pretty simple to set up virtual box and then load the Security Onion image. Other than being a little RAM hungry it's a great way to get some pretty sophisticated log analysis from several really good open source packages that are already integrated in a read-to-use solution. Now that I have logging pretty much taken care of, I might start playing with some of the IDS features built into it - but that takes even more RAM...
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f377ce30f7ec02af6a2469d39f376aef6c71068f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to make iPhone camera silent? On my iPhone, the camera shutter sound follows the ring/silent switch. However, I'd like the camera to be always silent, regardless of whether incoming calls & messages make a sound. Is there any way to configure it that way?
(Non-jailbroken iPhone 4 with latest iOS.)
A: It may not be the best solution, but I use an old headphone jack. Essentially, I cut the end of the cord up to the point where the jack is. I use the jack as a "sound" blocker. Does wonders if you don't mind a little jack sticking out at the bottom lol
| Q: How to make iPhone camera silent? On my iPhone, the camera shutter sound follows the ring/silent switch. However, I'd like the camera to be always silent, regardless of whether incoming calls & messages make a sound. Is there any way to configure it that way?
(Non-jailbroken iPhone 4 with latest iOS.)
A: It may not be the best solution, but I use an old headphone jack. Essentially, I cut the end of the cord up to the point where the jack is. I use the jack as a "sound" blocker. Does wonders if you don't mind a little jack sticking out at the bottom lol
A: A simple solution is to use the mute switch on the side of the phone. The camera shutter sound is controlled by the ringer volume, since the mute switch mutes the ringer the shutter sound is also mute. However, you are asking an optional permanent solution. So far there is none. The application doesn't have any additional options within the app or within System Preferences.
Digging into the app store there is a simple camera application called Secret Camera - Taking Photo Secretly for $1.99. Apple Store Link It looks like it functions like the normal Camera application, but reading its description it doesn't explicitly mention a shutter mute option. I assume this is an implied feature due to the app's name.
A: Don't think there's an option to disable the camera shutter sound, but here is a guide on how to disable the sound.
A: Initially, silencing the camera was a simple flick of the physical mute switch, however many governments now regulate this and the os will bypass many efforts to silence the capture noise.
*
*iPhone makes shutter sound when taking photos despite being on mute
This may or may not work long term since video capture is typically silent and extracting high quality stills is easy. Also, Live Photo feature further blurs the line between a photo and a video that pre-records the scene before you trigger a “photo” from the “camera”.
A: just flip the the phone's ring/silent switch to silent.
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f91262c5e0590774e23eb7907bc558df7d3b7b91 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to rotate images in Preview in degrees other than 90? I want to rotate an image in preview but I only need to move it a few degrees. Is this possible? Or can you only rotate 90 degrees?
A: Copy-paste the image into another image or new file (cmd+N)
and twist the pasted object with two fingers.
(as shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvE2DHJOTCE)
| Q: Is it possible to rotate images in Preview in degrees other than 90? I want to rotate an image in preview but I only need to move it a few degrees. Is this possible? Or can you only rotate 90 degrees?
A: Copy-paste the image into another image or new file (cmd+N)
and twist the pasted object with two fingers.
(as shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvE2DHJOTCE)
A: There is a way to do it using Preview, although it is imprecise.
You can use a two finger twisting gesture to arbitrarily rotate the image within preview. Now, it snaps back to normal once you let go, but if you take a screenshot to clipboard while maintaining the rotated view, then paste from the clipboard into preview, then save. Then I open the image again and do a little bit of cropping to get it looking nice.
I mapped the 'screenshot to clipboard' function to a key combination that was easy to hit while maintaining my twist.
Obviously a dedicated app will do the job better, but I thought it was worth mentioning my OS only workaround which I discovered.
A: In Yosemite, open the image in Photos and crop it - this function brings up a grid and alignment tool, you can then save the image simply aligned, but not necessarily cropped.
A: Unfortunately, Preview can only rotate in 90* increments and flip images.
If you want to rotate a different amount, you'll have to use a more-powerful program, like Photoshop or Pixelmator.
From Preview Help:
A: It's possible to do this by copying or opening the object in a separated window, then there you can rotate it. Next, just copy back the object already at the desired position. This is the only way I've found, and works for quick tasks.
A: In Preview, yes...! I just discovered. Hold the option button down, and use 2 fingers on the trackpad. So many hidden features.
A: There's no current way to do that with Preview, although you can use ImageMagick's convert command to do it:
convert your_input_image_name.png -rotate X new_output_image_name_path.png
This command will rotate your image X degrees, accepting a positive or negative value.
Finally, you'll probably want to remove the white background:
convert rotated_image_name_path.png -transparent white final_output_image_name_path.png
A: If you're not averse to using the command line, you can use the sips command to rotate images. For example…
sips -r 23 --padColor FFFFFF image.jpg
…will rotate image.jpg 23 degrees clockwise and "fill in" the empty space with white. (If you rotate PNGs, the alpha channel should be retained.)
Worth reading the man page for sips as it can do other useful stuff.
A: I love the free ToyViewer.app (check Mac App Store). Can do some cool things with images. Small and fast.
A: Apparently, it used to be possible by holding down the option key while rotating (using the button on the toolbar), at least according to this forum entry from 2005:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2005012115382953
But it didn't work for me on OS X Mountain Lion, all the option button did was change the rotation direction (for the rotation button on the toolbar).
A: I found an online website that does it (probably there are many others):
*
*LunaPic (http://www140.lunapic.com/editor/)
No need to register or install anything. Just upload the picture, type how many degrees should be rotated and done.
A: You can do this straight from Preview if you're on a MacBook. Just put two fingers on the touch pad, rotate, and viola. Unfortunately, there is no way to input exactly the degrees to which you want to rotate, but this at least allows for an approximation.
Hope that helps.
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198a9c539c25d3c3b011652aa09e991eefcc6aed | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Restarting sound service? My macbook pro running Snow Leopard stopped making sounds a couple hours ago. I've found other reports of people with sounds working through headphones, but that's not the problem I'm seeing. I get no sound when my headphones are plugged in either.
I'm wondering if there's a LaunchAgent or LaunchDaemon to restart which would remedy this. I've already tried killing the coreaudio daemon (and it dutifully automatically restarted) but that didn't fix it.
I need to reboot for an OS update, so I think that'll probably rectify things.
Is there another way?
A: sudo pkill -9 coreaudiod kills the coreaudio process immediately. MacOS will automatically restart the coreaudio daemon, which will fix audio output in most cases.
This works on all MacOS versions.
| Q: Restarting sound service? My macbook pro running Snow Leopard stopped making sounds a couple hours ago. I've found other reports of people with sounds working through headphones, but that's not the problem I'm seeing. I get no sound when my headphones are plugged in either.
I'm wondering if there's a LaunchAgent or LaunchDaemon to restart which would remedy this. I've already tried killing the coreaudio daemon (and it dutifully automatically restarted) but that didn't fix it.
I need to reboot for an OS update, so I think that'll probably rectify things.
Is there another way?
A: sudo pkill -9 coreaudiod kills the coreaudio process immediately. MacOS will automatically restart the coreaudio daemon, which will fix audio output in most cases.
This works on all MacOS versions.
A: sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext
These two commands will unload then reload the audio kernel extension. This is cleaner than sending a kill signal but might need an adjustment for newer OS.
A: You can kill the CoreAudio process by opening Terminal and running:
sudo kill -9 `ps ax|grep 'coreaudio[a-z]' | awk '{print $1}'`
It will restart automatically after a couple seconds.
That fixes some problems my aging MBP has been having, where it sometimes fails to detect headphones or decides the speakers aren't connected. No guarantees it will work for every audio problem, but it's worth a shot.
Source: zakgreant on macosxhints forums.
A: In my experience, a reboot is required to fix this. It's a poor fix since it seems to recover from the failure and not address the root cause. I would like to have, but have not yet discovered if there is another quicker/simpler method to get sound back...
A: I am on 10.9.2 and have the same problem. Since there are two answers, I wanted to document my findings:
sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext
These two commands will unload then reload the audio kernel extension. This post fixes my problem 100% of the time, So please upvote that original post
This solution did not work for me:
sudo kill -9 `ps ax|grep 'coreaudio[a-z]' | awk '{print $1}'`
It shuts down the internal speakers and sends the sound to my 27" monitor but does not bring back the sound to my internal speakers or headset. Perhaps in some cases it works, but hopefully this post might explain when to use one solution vs the other.
A: Use killall command with _coreaudiod user as parameter:
echo -e "# CoreaudioD restart\nalias audiorestart=\"sudo killall -u _coreaudiod -SIGKILL\"\n" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
audiorestart
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c96c78dc8ad3e77538eaf64d828afeb8d01b940c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I disable the volume control overlay? When changing the volume on a Mac, you get a big ugly gray bezel showing the change in volume. This is super annoying when (say) watching a movie. Is there any way to disable this?
A: If you just want a minimal HUD I've written one that works with mySIMBL. It just draws a bar in the top center of your screen. It may get more functionality in the future.
https://github.com/w0lfschild/mySIMBL
https://github.com/w0lfschild/cleanHUD
| Q: How do I disable the volume control overlay? When changing the volume on a Mac, you get a big ugly gray bezel showing the change in volume. This is super annoying when (say) watching a movie. Is there any way to disable this?
A: If you just want a minimal HUD I've written one that works with mySIMBL. It just draws a bar in the top center of your screen. It may get more functionality in the future.
https://github.com/w0lfschild/mySIMBL
https://github.com/w0lfschild/cleanHUD
A: Hold up, don't modify important system files!
Mac OS has a nice way to start/stop services without doing permanent damage.
To turn off bezels for this user until next login:
launchctl unload -F /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.BezelUI.plist
To undo, change unload to load, or just log out and back in.
For macOS 10.12 Sierra: Disable System Integrity protection, then:
launchctl unload -F /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.OSDUIHelper.plist
Don't forget to enable System Integrity protection when you're done.
To turn off bezels indefinitely for this user:
launchctl unload -wF /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.BezelUI.plist
For macOS 10.12 Sierra: Disable System Integrity protection, then:
launchctl unload -wF /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.OSDUIHelper.plist
You can now enable System Integrity protection again -- your settings will persist.
To undo, change unload to load.
To turn off bezels indefinitely for all users:
sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.BezelUI Disabled -bool YES
For macOS 10.11 Sierra: Disable System Integrity protection before doing the above.
To undo, change YES to NO, or:
sudo defaults delete /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.BezelUI Disabled
For macOS 10.12 Sierra: Disable System Integrity protection, then:
sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.OSDUIHelper Disabled -bool YES
You can now enable System Integrity protection again -- your settings will persist.
To undo, change YES to NO, or:
sudo defaults delete /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.OSDUIHelper Disabled
Users can override this global setting using the two methods above.
More info: launchctl is the command-line interface to launchd, the program that manages services and jobs on Mac OS.
*
*To reverse any of the above actions, just change unload to load.
*-w means write preference to disk so that it will be used for subsequent logins
*-F means force un/load regardless of the global Disabled key
You can read more about it in man launchctl.
A: Simple solution:
/System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin/Contents/Resources/Bezel UI/
'Show Package Contents' on 'BezelServices.loginPlugin' to access through Finder
Rename “BezelUIServer” to something else
(I just put a space at the front of it) - this will disable the volume overlay.
A: In automator, create a new service that takes no input.
Give it a single action: Run AppleScript
Enter the following AppleScript:
set x to get output volume of (get volume settings)
if x > 10 then
set volume output volume (x-10)
else
set volume output volume 0
end if
Save the service with the name "Volume down", and bind the service to F11.
Create another new service that takes no input.
Give it a single action: Run AppleScript
Enter the following AppleScript:
set x to get output volume of (get volume settings)
if x < 90 then
set volume output volume (x+10)
else
set volume output volume 100
end if
Save the service with the name "Volume up" and bind the service to F12.
Goodbye volume overlay.
A: There's no built-in method for doing so, but Googling brings up suggestions such as overriding the image used for it so that it's less obtrusive.
A: Don't use the volume keys. If you change the volume with the menu bar control the overlay does not display.
Note you only need to activate the menu item, and then the cursor keys can be used to manipulate it
A: I found the AppleScript solution didn't work for me, I wasn't able to bind the scripts to my volume up and down buttons (on my remote or keyboard). Due possibly to the much newer OS X.
Playing around however, I've found a solution which disables ALL Bezel services (anything that comes up in the grey translucent square; volume, screen brightness, keyboard brightness, etc.).
Working off patrix' information concerning where the relevant files are located, I renamed "BezelUIServer" to "mBezelUIServer" (although any rename is adequate, this one is easily reversed).
Find the file here: /System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin/Contents/Resources/BezelUI/
Hope this can help you or any future googler's.
A: For anyone who's interested, this worked like a charm for me on Yosemite:
sudo /bin/chmod -x /System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin/Contents/Resources/BezelUI/BezelUIServer
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66f846c2948e6c18749056c29debdb30c9e3c182 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPad PDF Reader with annotation support? I have to read lots of PDF books on my iPad but I also need to make notes (annotations), notes that I want to be able to transfer to the Mac later.
What solutions do I have for this?
Please do not not provide more than one suggestion per answer. Also include link and pricing information in the first line.
Example: ## [SomeApp](http://...) 4$
A: GoodReader $4.99
I can't compare it to any other PDF reader for the iPad, but I've been very happy with GoodReader. From the marketing spiel on iTunes:
Annotation is a feature long sought after by users who want to add their own mark-ups to PDFs, especially those collaborating as a team on shared documents. The types of annotations that can be created and edited in GoodReader include typewriter text boxes, popup comments ("sticky notes"), text highlights, freehand drawings, lines, arrows, rectangles, ovals, cloudy shapes, text underlines, strikeouts, text insertion marks.
| Q: iPad PDF Reader with annotation support? I have to read lots of PDF books on my iPad but I also need to make notes (annotations), notes that I want to be able to transfer to the Mac later.
What solutions do I have for this?
Please do not not provide more than one suggestion per answer. Also include link and pricing information in the first line.
Example: ## [SomeApp](http://...) 4$
A: GoodReader $4.99
I can't compare it to any other PDF reader for the iPad, but I've been very happy with GoodReader. From the marketing spiel on iTunes:
Annotation is a feature long sought after by users who want to add their own mark-ups to PDFs, especially those collaborating as a team on shared documents. The types of annotations that can be created and edited in GoodReader include typewriter text boxes, popup comments ("sticky notes"), text highlights, freehand drawings, lines, arrows, rectangles, ovals, cloudy shapes, text underlines, strikeouts, text insertion marks.
A: Actually, the latest version of ibooks does offer two ways to export notes:
*
*Via e-mail.
*Via PDF provided you print to an app like printopia (Mac) or a virtual printing solution (PC).
If you need the PC solution, please respond and I will research it for you.
Also, Nook in conjunction with Nookstudy (Mac/PC) may have this feature.
The people on the web are recommending iAnnotatePDF, which can export annotations as text. They say the interface is not that great.
Possible untested Nook instructions are below:
To use the Nookstudy options:
1. Download Nookstudy. Import the PDF.
2. Ensure it shows up and can be read on Nook for ipad.
3. Annotate.
4. Go back to Nookstudy. Your changes will be there. Then, export the notes to a .doc file. (supported.)
URL: www.nookstudy.com
I would also take a serious look at Readdle's products and Goodreader.
A: If you want the ability to annotate PDF as well as fill out PDF forms, the best iPad app out there is PDF Expert.
PDF Expert lets you read and annotate PDF documents, highlight text,
make notes, draw with your finger and save these changes which are
compatible with Preview and Adobe Acrobat! Moreover, PDF Expert is the
only iPad application that can fill in PDF forms!
If you want additional opinions specifically dealing with annotating PDF files on an iPad, this macrumours thread has a lot of info.
Hope this helps.
A: iBooks (free)
I heard that the new iBooks application can add notes to PDFs but there is no option to export them so this makes them almost useless.
A: I use ezPDF on Android and I see that it exists on iPhone and iPad too, for $2 and $3 respectively. It has proper PDF annotation support. While I've not used the iVersions, I'd expect they are just as awesome as the Android version.
A: Try the app called Digested - "Quickly import bookmarks and notes from iBooks on iPhone, iPod, iPad export to PDF and Evernote...". Works very well for me - designed especially for iBooks.
A: forScore
is designed for displaying sheet music PDF files, but its annotation features are quite extensive and I think it might be useful to you. Of course it will work with any PDF file, not just sheet music files.
A: For exporting highlights and notes from iBooks check out http://118.139.182.210/EEP/. A
step by step guide is available here.
A: Documents by Readdle (Free)
It's an amazing completely free application that enables you to read and annotate PDF files as well as Microsoft office documents, watch videos, and many more!
Foxit (Free)
It's a feature-rich completely free PDF viewer in PC and iPad, with great annotation/highlighting capabilities. Enjoy it!
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9e9e8823e4a1c820cbe7ad06b84a96d67b1cd441 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there any Mac software to handle archives (zip, rar, 7z, tar, etc.) that allows browsing? I am looking for a software to handle archives on OS X.
I know there are many of them quite easy to find, but none seems to have the most basic feature that most Windows archive applications have: browsing!
I mean, most OS X unarchivers, when they open an archive, they just unzip it... then ask you for target location in the best case.
What I want is something such as WinRAR or 7zip, which is basically an explorer (ie. Finder) that opens archives.
What I want is precisely this! I want to be able to browse any archive without extracting it, opening files directly from the archive and then be able to modify it so that the file is actually modified in the archive.
I want to be able to drag'n'drop a file to and from an archive to extract/add it.
Those features are so useful when modifying directly JAR files contents, JAR files MANIFESTs, war webapps conf-files and so on...
Thank you.
A: Zipeg allows you to browse and uncompress a number of formats, but does not allow compressing.
| Q: Is there any Mac software to handle archives (zip, rar, 7z, tar, etc.) that allows browsing? I am looking for a software to handle archives on OS X.
I know there are many of them quite easy to find, but none seems to have the most basic feature that most Windows archive applications have: browsing!
I mean, most OS X unarchivers, when they open an archive, they just unzip it... then ask you for target location in the best case.
What I want is something such as WinRAR or 7zip, which is basically an explorer (ie. Finder) that opens archives.
What I want is precisely this! I want to be able to browse any archive without extracting it, opening files directly from the archive and then be able to modify it so that the file is actually modified in the archive.
I want to be able to drag'n'drop a file to and from an archive to extract/add it.
Those features are so useful when modifying directly JAR files contents, JAR files MANIFESTs, war webapps conf-files and so on...
Thank you.
A: Zipeg allows you to browse and uncompress a number of formats, but does not allow compressing.
A: Apple actually has an example application called ZipBrowser on their developer site. The direct download is located here. Unfortunately this only works with zip files. The actually app is only 600K so it's nice and small. (Note that ZipBrowser only works on 10.6+)
A: I know this thread is old, but to anyone looking for an answer; the best tool I have found is the B1 Free Archiver.
It works on all platforms (even Android), and is simple and easy to use. It's fast, free, and it supports most compression formats (including zip, 7-zip, rar, dmg, and more :)).
A: iUnarchive seems to be quite nice. It is available at the App Store.
iUnarchive can be used to preview and extract files from archives. Instead of cluttering the disk with files, you can preview and open files directly from within iUnarchive.
Only files selected for preview and extracted files are actually uncompressed.
Supported archives include zip, rar, 7-zip, tar, gzip, bz2/BZip2, LhA and StuffIt, including password protection for zip, 7-zip, rar and multi part rar.
Edit: Not sure if you looked for a free application. It costs 4 Euro now (I think it was free before).
A: Springy can do this.
From Softonic:
Springy integrates with Finder to make archiving as simple as drag and drop or through Springy’s Finder contextual menu. One thing I really like is that you can preview and browse archives before extracting them - very useful if you're dealing with big archives.
Extracting and compression is extremely quick and you can modify files within an archive just by double clicking.
Most major formats are supported including: ZIP, TAR, RAR, 7Z, PAX, CPIO, CPGZ, GZIP, BZIP2, UNIX Compress, SIT, JAR, DMG and ISO disk images.
Note that as an added bonus, you can also create disk images with it as well.
A: I think that BetterZip works great!
BetterZip allows you to:
Preview files in your archives without extracting or use Quick Look.
BetterZip's Window is:
Similar to the Finder it has a sidebar on the left side into which you
can drop your favorite folders for archives, e.g., your downloads
folder. The main file list in the center shows the contents of the
archive and on the right side is a sidebar which can display a preview
of the selected file.
A: I'd say that you are looking for The Unarchiver. It's free in the Mac Appstore.
A: Stuffit browses at least certain types of archives.
A: Late edit 2022 - Zipster is dead & gone.
just to add to the plethora of useful answers..
Zipster (Freeware)
From their own page...
What is Zipster?
Ever been envious of the way Windows users can just
browse into Zip files, copy files in and out of them with ease and all
without running a Zip utility? With Zipster, your Zip files are just
like another folder in Finder. Plus, unlike on Windows, you can open
files and save into them from any application.
Zipster is
*
*Free.
*Fast. Writes and compression are done in the background so you
can get on with your work. And we’ve done a bit of work to make
reading snappy too.
*Friendly. No more pesky .DS_Store files — and your
friends on other platforms won’t be complaining any more.
*Useful. In
addition to plain Zip files, Zipster works with JAR, WAR, ipa and apk
files.
I'm torn as to whether I think it's 'great' or 'annoying' - you can deal with zips like they were folders, but you have to put them away like .dmgs...
Give it a try, it will cost you nothing.
No affiliation
A: Some file managers can navigate archives as directories.
A good old terminal option which you might already have is Midnight Commander installable via brew install mc (assuming you use homebrew).
A free mac GUI file manager with good archive support is Double Commander:
brew cask install double-commander
And finally, if you a terminal user, you can list the contents of a zip file with with unzip -l myfile.zip.
A: "Unzip One" also allows preview of zip/rar archives before extraction. It's available on App Store and free.
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2a8afbb1d4d70474383065f47a8511824f2ca37e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to install Android OS on an iPhone? Just wondering, is it possible to install dual OS on an iPhone 3GS/4?
A: Yes it is for iPhone 3G and 3GS, but not for iPhone 4 as it uses a different bootrom. Just google "Android on iPhone 3GS" and click on the first entry, where you'll find instructions on how to do it.
| Q: Is it possible to install Android OS on an iPhone? Just wondering, is it possible to install dual OS on an iPhone 3GS/4?
A: Yes it is for iPhone 3G and 3GS, but not for iPhone 4 as it uses a different bootrom. Just google "Android on iPhone 3GS" and click on the first entry, where you'll find instructions on how to do it.
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101180393441134127c1fb7e8e04e9f88e5cf9c7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you get Function keys to work on Mac Book Pro running Windows 7 under bootcamp? The Fn keys don't seem to work on my Macbook Pro when it's runnign windows 7 Under bootcamp. I can't turn the volume up or down or mute the sound etc.
I've found articles leading to me to believe that I can do this using the bootcamp entry in control panels but I've had no luck doing this. all it seems to change is whether I have to press the Fn button to get the normal behaviour of the F keys. E.G. whether I have to press Fn and F5 to refresh the page of just F5.
I think there is a driver issue with Windows 7 as people seem to have gotten them to work under XP.
A: bootcamp.exe should launch upon Login. Sometimes it doesn't or at least it doesn't stay running. You can log out and log back in or try the following, it worked for me:
Open Task Manager and see if bootcamp.exe is running. If not, open C:\Program Files\Boot Camp with Windows Explorer and launch bootcamp.exe.
Function keys will work again.
| Q: How do you get Function keys to work on Mac Book Pro running Windows 7 under bootcamp? The Fn keys don't seem to work on my Macbook Pro when it's runnign windows 7 Under bootcamp. I can't turn the volume up or down or mute the sound etc.
I've found articles leading to me to believe that I can do this using the bootcamp entry in control panels but I've had no luck doing this. all it seems to change is whether I have to press the Fn button to get the normal behaviour of the F keys. E.G. whether I have to press Fn and F5 to refresh the page of just F5.
I think there is a driver issue with Windows 7 as people seem to have gotten them to work under XP.
A: bootcamp.exe should launch upon Login. Sometimes it doesn't or at least it doesn't stay running. You can log out and log back in or try the following, it worked for me:
Open Task Manager and see if bootcamp.exe is running. If not, open C:\Program Files\Boot Camp with Windows Explorer and launch bootcamp.exe.
Function keys will work again.
A: I was having a similar problem and just finally got it fixed. Heres how I did it:
*
*Update everything on the Mac side. I mean actually go over and make sure everything is updated, not just assuming it is via the 'Apple software' updates you get in windows... (I found about 14 updates windows had not updated for the Mac side of things)
*Ensure Windows is fully updated. (This should be pretty easy to do, but again, double check.)
*Get Boot Camp 3.3
*Enjoy having your function keys back. (And the backlit keyboard, the real reason I missed it all.)
I also noticed during this time that the boot camp icon is gone(no longer showing in system tray, even though it is supposed to be shown constantly). You may be able to just skip to step 3 and be done with it, but it never hurts to fully update everything anyway... :)
A: It does sound like a drivers issue. Have you tried updating to the latest Boot Camp Drivers for Windows 7? The latest seems to be Version 3.2.
Make sure you grab the correct version (32 bit or 64 bit).
http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&src=support_site.kbase.search&locale=en_US&q=Boot%20Camp%20Software%20Update
A: *
*Look in your task bar for Boot Camp, it should appear as a grey diamond.
*Click it and select "Boot Camp Control Panel..." (click YES to UAC if activated)
*Select Keyboard tab
*Make sure "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" is checked in the checkbox.
*Click Apply and OK. You will now have your function keys as primary without needing a restart.
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6daf2a73bdd8c5a7f5682c74a75d49c63d178162 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac webcam - get the device How do I access my default video camera on my mac? I know on Linux it is /dev/video0 but my Mac does not have that. I'm trying to capture my webcam into ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i /dev/video0
But it won't work because /dev/video0 doesn't exist.
A: Unfortunately, it appears that ffmpeg can't record using the iSight, as reported in a ffmpeg-users thread.
Really a shame that Apple doesn't expose this functionality!
| Q: Mac webcam - get the device How do I access my default video camera on my mac? I know on Linux it is /dev/video0 but my Mac does not have that. I'm trying to capture my webcam into ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i /dev/video0
But it won't work because /dev/video0 doesn't exist.
A: Unfortunately, it appears that ffmpeg can't record using the iSight, as reported in a ffmpeg-users thread.
Really a shame that Apple doesn't expose this functionality!
A: Macs use the AVFoundation framework to expose the camera programatically.
You'll want to start with the StopNGo sample project if you've got a copy of Xcode. (and just browsing the source may help figure if you care to go down that path without needing Xcode to make a decision)
It would be a big security risk to expose that API to the terminal on every mac by default, but someone may have writen a bridge you could use.
You might need to ask that specifically on the programming sites. Your query looking for an equivalent to attaching a pre-existing device is advanced consumer and on-topic here. Getting into API usage is generally off topic even when the simple "consumer" answer is "no - the equivalent video device isn't available on Mac OS X"
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41ec0eadc9717f903ed954f197216e4bd6a207a5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Send/Receive SMS on an iPad I would like to know if one can send and receive text messages on the iPad without having to bother those who are texting you to join IMs etc.
A: Google voice is a good option. It lets you send and receive texts from anywhere you have Internet. You get a phone number through it.
It's completely free, and you can use Google's iPhone app on your iPad. Or, you can buy GV Connect for iPad.
| Q: Send/Receive SMS on an iPad I would like to know if one can send and receive text messages on the iPad without having to bother those who are texting you to join IMs etc.
A: Google voice is a good option. It lets you send and receive texts from anywhere you have Internet. You get a phone number through it.
It's completely free, and you can use Google's iPhone app on your iPad. Or, you can buy GV Connect for iPad.
A: Skype for iPad?
But to receive the messages you have to configure your Skype account with your mobile phone number and then you will receive the replies on it instead of the iPad.
Also, give Textfree a look.
A: iMessage in iOS5 will bring about some of this, but only for other people running an iOS5 device. Viber and other similar apps to the same thing but they're even more niche.
A: If you own an iPhone, you can send and receive SMS from your iPhone contact number using the iPad. This can be made to work by enabling Text Message Forwarding on your iPhone.
It can be enabled by going to Settings apps → Messages → Text Message Forwarding on your iPhone and turning on the switch which appears against your iPad device in the list. You need to be signed in with the same Apple ID on both the iPhone and the iPad for this to work.
For setup instructions, you can go through the Apple Support article How to forward SMS/MMS texts on your iPhone.
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c60271ac97e7b0dd4f5572f20d7d52298ef898e2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: can i delete "developer-old" folder? I've got a "developer-old" folder besides for my "developer" folder. "developer-old" contains "headers", "SDKs", etc folders.
It'd be nice to delete this folder bc it takes up 10GB. Can I?
A: Yes, you don't have to keep that folder according to https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2780986?start=0&tstart=0
/EDIT
It's the backup of old Xcode installation.
| Q: can i delete "developer-old" folder? I've got a "developer-old" folder besides for my "developer" folder. "developer-old" contains "headers", "SDKs", etc folders.
It'd be nice to delete this folder bc it takes up 10GB. Can I?
A: Yes, you don't have to keep that folder according to https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2780986?start=0&tstart=0
/EDIT
It's the backup of old Xcode installation.
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ca7252d955a6dc328b22732fb2a7003d419f5a85 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Are the chargers the same on the iPad and the iPad 2? Is the charger of iPad and iPad 2 same? I want to buy i extra charger for my iPad but in future I can buy iPad 2 also. So I want to buy a charge which should be compatible with iPad and ipad 2 both.
A: The charger is 10W like the old iPad. It's called iPad 10W USB Power Adapter and has product number MC359LL. Specs and QnA are available at the Apple US online store.
| Q: Are the chargers the same on the iPad and the iPad 2? Is the charger of iPad and iPad 2 same? I want to buy i extra charger for my iPad but in future I can buy iPad 2 also. So I want to buy a charge which should be compatible with iPad and ipad 2 both.
A: The charger is 10W like the old iPad. It's called iPad 10W USB Power Adapter and has product number MC359LL. Specs and QnA are available at the Apple US online store.
A: I have an iPad and my wife has an iPad 2. It's too dark in my house to look at the power adapters right now but they are either identical, or close enough to not matter. They are both 10W. We interchange them all the time.
A: It is probably also useful to know that you can also charge an iPad using any iPhone or iPod Touch charger. It will charge a lot slower when not using the iPad specific charge, but it will still charge it.
The non-iPad chargers don't however provide enough power to charge the iPad while it is using used, they will provide enough to stop it discharging though.
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28b0d679db3affe8dc1937ec4d17c12b1b1217ea | Apple Stackexchange
Q: My Developer Account cannot be activated because I used a relative's credit card So now I have an "identity cannot be verified" message whenever I activate it from the activation code Apple gave me via email.
Is there anything I can do about this or is my $99 "doomed"?
A: From the iOS Developer Program Support:
If I enroll as an Individual in the Standard program can I use someone else’s credit card to purchase the Program?
The billing information provided for
the purchase must exactly match the
Program enrollment information. If
this information does not match your
enrollment will be delayed and you
will be asked to provide a notarized
copy of a government issued
identification.
I would contact support and ask them what to do next.
| Q: My Developer Account cannot be activated because I used a relative's credit card So now I have an "identity cannot be verified" message whenever I activate it from the activation code Apple gave me via email.
Is there anything I can do about this or is my $99 "doomed"?
A: From the iOS Developer Program Support:
If I enroll as an Individual in the Standard program can I use someone else’s credit card to purchase the Program?
The billing information provided for
the purchase must exactly match the
Program enrollment information. If
this information does not match your
enrollment will be delayed and you
will be asked to provide a notarized
copy of a government issued
identification.
I would contact support and ask them what to do next.
A: I have used other individual's credit cards for this purpose. You should have no problem after phoning Developer Support Hotline http://developer.apple.com/contact/phone.html
Occasionally it gets stuck for no apparent reason that Apple could explain. Happened to a client of mine yesterday. We phoned and all was made well in minutes.
A: You will have to get in touch with Apple and perhaps they will ask your relative to call, because they will want to make sure that you didn't "steal" the credit card. Other than that, you're not "doomed" in any way.
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21f0c9b666de77eb72dd2da08fa439ee6364fe92 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the best way to view Wikipedia offline on the iPad? I'd like to view most articles of Wikipedia while I'm offline. I understand that it doesn't have to be or probably could be all articles, but a good subset would be nice.
A: I use the Wikipanion free version on my iPad and there's a Wikipanion Plus available that supports offline viewing. I'm happy with Wikipanion on my iPad and iPhone. Hope that helps!
| Q: What is the best way to view Wikipedia offline on the iPad? I'd like to view most articles of Wikipedia while I'm offline. I understand that it doesn't have to be or probably could be all articles, but a good subset would be nice.
A: I use the Wikipanion free version on my iPad and there's a Wikipanion Plus available that supports offline viewing. I'm happy with Wikipanion on my iPad and iPhone. Hope that helps!
A: AllofWikiOffline app is the best I have seen and has reasonable update pricing if your offline copy needs updating in the future.
A: I'm the author of an app called "Wiki Offline" for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Mac. It provides the whole text of Wikipedia for offline consumption (images and tables can be imported for individual articles if you have an internet connection).
It is a very mature, highly rated product, with experience enhancements like tabbed browsing, a read-later queue, bookmarks/folders, customizable fonts, etc.
The other two "competing apps" are AllofWiki Offline and Encyclopedia. I encourage you to check out all of them.
Wiki Offline
All of Wikipedia
A: Personally, I like minipedia the best. It is available for both iOS and Android and works completely offline after an initial download.
A: I downloaded and access the whole wikipedia offline by following a tutorial given here(using kiwix) - http://www.superpctricks.com/2013/10/download-entire-wikipedia-and-access-it.html
A: Try the kiwix app! It's free and open source.
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80bf1e50f2e8cb744c09e2a0e84c6ae46d46fdb0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Shortcuts for # and $ not working on Turkish keyboard layout My keyboard layout is "Turkish QWERTY PC" and the problem is that I cannot type the special symbols being typed by using ⌥+3 and ⌥+4 which are "#" and "$".
I opened the key viewer and typed ⌥+3. It then says that I typed "#" but that's wrong.
Is there any solution to fix this?
I am using a Macbook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.8.
A: A brief look around and it seems as though an third party application like Ukelele should help you map keys correctly for your keyboard.
| Q: Shortcuts for # and $ not working on Turkish keyboard layout My keyboard layout is "Turkish QWERTY PC" and the problem is that I cannot type the special symbols being typed by using ⌥+3 and ⌥+4 which are "#" and "$".
I opened the key viewer and typed ⌥+3. It then says that I typed "#" but that's wrong.
Is there any solution to fix this?
I am using a Macbook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.8.
A: A brief look around and it seems as though an third party application like Ukelele should help you map keys correctly for your keyboard.
A: Try using right-side ⌥+4.
A: The most common cause for a key or two not working is that they have been set as triggers for speech recognition or text to speech. Double check system preferences/speech to make sure this is not the case with your machine.
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8aa7293552161d15ea29cb5106ad86ae7c29aaf4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's a good SSH tunneling client for OS X? I've been using SSH Tunnel manager to easily set up and stop port tunneling over SSH to various servers at my company. That saved me the pain of opening up a new terminal window which will hang out there just for the sake of having a tunnel open.
This worked great (well , sort of) but SSH Tunnel Manager is a PowerPC application. With Lion, it is not supported any more.
What is a good replacement?
A: Why not just use an SSH Tunnel via OSX's built in Terminal?...
Launch an SSH tunnel
To initiate your SSH tunnel, simply open Mac OSX Terminal.app and connect to your remote server via SSH with the following flags:
ssh -D 8080 -C -N [email protected]
This will launch our SSH tunnel on port 8080 and route all traffic (securely) through the server at example.com.
Browse the Web
Now, let’s start browsing the web using with your new SSH Tunnel (Chrome):
*
*Open Google Chrome
*Select ‘Chrome’ up the top left
*Select ‘Preferences’
*Select ‘Show advanced settings…’
*Select ‘Change proxy settings…’
*Select ‘SOCKS Proxy’
*Enter ’127.0.0.1′
*Enter port ’8080′
*Save changes by selecting ‘OK’
| Q: What's a good SSH tunneling client for OS X? I've been using SSH Tunnel manager to easily set up and stop port tunneling over SSH to various servers at my company. That saved me the pain of opening up a new terminal window which will hang out there just for the sake of having a tunnel open.
This worked great (well , sort of) but SSH Tunnel Manager is a PowerPC application. With Lion, it is not supported any more.
What is a good replacement?
A: Why not just use an SSH Tunnel via OSX's built in Terminal?...
Launch an SSH tunnel
To initiate your SSH tunnel, simply open Mac OSX Terminal.app and connect to your remote server via SSH with the following flags:
ssh -D 8080 -C -N [email protected]
This will launch our SSH tunnel on port 8080 and route all traffic (securely) through the server at example.com.
Browse the Web
Now, let’s start browsing the web using with your new SSH Tunnel (Chrome):
*
*Open Google Chrome
*Select ‘Chrome’ up the top left
*Select ‘Preferences’
*Select ‘Show advanced settings…’
*Select ‘Change proxy settings…’
*Select ‘SOCKS Proxy’
*Enter ’127.0.0.1′
*Enter port ’8080′
*Save changes by selecting ‘OK’
A: I found Coccinellida, it works on Lion but it's new and a bit buggy : /
A: On the terminal:
$ ssh -N -L SOURCE-PORT:127.0.0.1:DESTINATION-PORT USER@SERVER-IP
If you use ssh with a private key just type:
$ ssh -N -L SOURCE-PORT:127.0.0.1:DESTINATION-PORT -i KEYFILE USER@SERVER-IP
e.g.
$ ssh -N -L 8888:127.0.0.1:80 -i Documents/default.pem [email protected]
After that, you can browse using the tunnel.
e.g.
on the browser:
http://127.0.0.1:8888
A: I strongly recommend using sshuttle. It's very handy.
A: You could also check out Meerkat.
A: SSHTunnel is a free, cocoa-based UI for SSH tunnel management. Works on 10.5 and up. It hasn't been updated in a while but the code that's there is reasonably stable. It's worked well for me in the past.
A: Try Secure Pipes: http://www.opoet.com It's free software and I'm looking to get more people using it.
A: I am using iSSH in Lion, which is a front-end application to the command line application “ssh”. It provides a quick and easy way to start an SSH connection to a remote computer.
A: SSH Tunnel Manager is still alive and supported.
Sorry about the delay though, it is not compatible with El Capitan.
http://projects.tynsoe.org/stm/
A: I have an open-source and secure solution with XBar.
Install XBar:
*
*https://xbarapp.com
Install this ssh-tunnelling plugin:
*
*https://github.com/matryer/xbar-plugins/blob/main/Network/ssh-tunnel.1s.sh
You do need to edit the configuration for one time, but it's not that complicated:
Configure your ssh-tunnel config in your ~/.ssh/config (I use something like below):
Host *
AddKeysToAgent yes
UseKeychain yes
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
IdentitiesOnly yes
Host some_name
Hostname host_ip_or_url_etc
Port 22
User your_username
LocalForward 5999 127.0.0.1:5900
Don't forget to auto-start the ssh-agent:
$ ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa
A: Core Tunnel baked by Codinn is a tunnel manager that intuitive and easy to use:
*
*Support local, remote and dynamic port forwarding
*Compatible with OpenSSH
*Integrated with macOS Keychain
*Automatic reconnect
*Advanced config editor
*Status icon in menu bar
*Custom tags
*Importing and exporting
A: SSH Tunnel Manager is now in the Mac App Store! So, you can run it on Lion.
A: iSSH can not remember my password.
Coccinellida can save password. But it freezed my Mountain Lion sometimes ...
Shimo is good, but it IS commercial.
A: TunnelerX is simple and easy to use, focused on SSH SOCKS proxy. It doesn't exactly cover the requirement to manage several servers, as you can only add one server, although, it's usually enough for people looking to use an external box as proxy. It works fine under Mountain Lion.
A: SSH Proxy on Mac App Store. It's simple, and it has the option to switch between Use Proxy for All Sites and Direct Internet Connection while SSH Tunneling is still connected. That way I don't have to clear the socks proxy from the browser whenever I need direct internet access.
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8ab84ddfe4b640daac5c8119cda333b334d6655f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Create PDF from tall images (Automator?) I have a number of images that are 8.5" wide, but very long (around 40" tall) and I want to create a standard multi-paged 8.5" x 11" PDF document from all of the images. The problem is that the PDF will resize the images to fit the height of the PDF page or each page will be one image, which looks horrible.
Is there a way to do slice each image after multiples of 11" and combine those slices into a single PDF? I looked at Automator, but I couldn't find what I needed. If it's an application or script and not Automator, that's fine, too.
Thanks!
A: PosteRazor is free, open source, and appears to do what you need. It takes a large image and splits it into a multi-page PDF.
As Nathan comments, the interface is pretty rough around the edges. Tiler and SplitPrint are paid alternatives if you prefer a little more flexibility and an interface that's easier on the eyes.
| Q: Create PDF from tall images (Automator?) I have a number of images that are 8.5" wide, but very long (around 40" tall) and I want to create a standard multi-paged 8.5" x 11" PDF document from all of the images. The problem is that the PDF will resize the images to fit the height of the PDF page or each page will be one image, which looks horrible.
Is there a way to do slice each image after multiples of 11" and combine those slices into a single PDF? I looked at Automator, but I couldn't find what I needed. If it's an application or script and not Automator, that's fine, too.
Thanks!
A: PosteRazor is free, open source, and appears to do what you need. It takes a large image and splits it into a multi-page PDF.
As Nathan comments, the interface is pretty rough around the edges. Tiler and SplitPrint are paid alternatives if you prefer a little more flexibility and an interface that's easier on the eyes.
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4a3cdfac85133d1a4e8a1f1ac51e924847f54cae | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Cleaning a MacBook Pro keyboard that's been covered in juice My lovely son spilled apple juice on my laptop keyboard.
It works, but it feels like it has grit under the keys and sticks a bit.
How do I clean it out?
I remember old keyboards could be just banged hard against the desk... I presume thats a bad idea though...
It's a macbook pro 15 inch laptop
A: You can actually remove the keys, clean them and then replace them again.
Follow this link to see how it's done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSpPlMdGvVI
The problem with liquid damage is that although the laptop may work fine now, if the juice has got onto the Logic Board, it can cause corrosion over time, which will more than likely cause issues.
However, I do hope this is not the case! Good luck!
| Q: Cleaning a MacBook Pro keyboard that's been covered in juice My lovely son spilled apple juice on my laptop keyboard.
It works, but it feels like it has grit under the keys and sticks a bit.
How do I clean it out?
I remember old keyboards could be just banged hard against the desk... I presume thats a bad idea though...
It's a macbook pro 15 inch laptop
A: You can actually remove the keys, clean them and then replace them again.
Follow this link to see how it's done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSpPlMdGvVI
The problem with liquid damage is that although the laptop may work fine now, if the juice has got onto the Logic Board, it can cause corrosion over time, which will more than likely cause issues.
However, I do hope this is not the case! Good luck!
A: Clean all the parts, especially the logicboard. Heat it up and apply flux! Or have a professional do it for you, shouldn’t cost too much. There’s also other cleaning solutions. Most important part, give it a few days to completely dry out afterwards.
A: Before doing anything I would drop the computer in a big sack of rice to make sure it dries up internally. You don't want any of that juice seeping down the cracks to the motherboard believe me!
Good luck!
TOM
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7b906c9355e8d2da6145943a8398f2fc8e210914 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: This iPhone is synced with another iTunes library........do you want to erase this iPhone How to copy songs from my PC to iphone without erasing my iphone?
itunes giving this error
A: You have to connect the iPhone to the machine you originally synced it with and check the manually manage music and videos option on the summary screen, in iTunes.
After that you'll be able to connect your iPhone to any iTunes library and drag and drop media straight on to the device, in the column on the left of iTunes.
You can also try to back up your iPhone on the new machine, by right clicking on the device in the left pane of iTunes and selecting backup.
Note: If you sync with the new machine, music will not transfer from your phone to the computer, and you will have the same problem if you try to perform a sync with the original machine!
| Q: This iPhone is synced with another iTunes library........do you want to erase this iPhone How to copy songs from my PC to iphone without erasing my iphone?
itunes giving this error
A: You have to connect the iPhone to the machine you originally synced it with and check the manually manage music and videos option on the summary screen, in iTunes.
After that you'll be able to connect your iPhone to any iTunes library and drag and drop media straight on to the device, in the column on the left of iTunes.
You can also try to back up your iPhone on the new machine, by right clicking on the device in the left pane of iTunes and selecting backup.
Note: If you sync with the new machine, music will not transfer from your phone to the computer, and you will have the same problem if you try to perform a sync with the original machine!
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dd80098770b947f23600f970283255215ba851da | Apple Stackexchange
Q: SSD instead of DVD temperature just installed Intel 320 instead of DVD in Macbook MC516LL.
Does old DVD place is equivalent to standard HDD place in Macbook from temperature (thermal) perspective?
A: Since the SSD is likely to be powered on much more than the DVD ever was, your thermal load inside the mac will be higher. Most SSD use even more power at idle than HDD, but it won't be nearly as bad as the CPU/GPU running full tilt. The fans may run faster to compensate if the ambient temperature is high, but I've heard no hints of problems even from people in warm environments with SSD+HDD.
There are many apps to log the temperatures so you can get a before / after log and check on things as you should whenever you add parts not planned by the manufacturer.
| Q: SSD instead of DVD temperature just installed Intel 320 instead of DVD in Macbook MC516LL.
Does old DVD place is equivalent to standard HDD place in Macbook from temperature (thermal) perspective?
A: Since the SSD is likely to be powered on much more than the DVD ever was, your thermal load inside the mac will be higher. Most SSD use even more power at idle than HDD, but it won't be nearly as bad as the CPU/GPU running full tilt. The fans may run faster to compensate if the ambient temperature is high, but I've heard no hints of problems even from people in warm environments with SSD+HDD.
There are many apps to log the temperatures so you can get a before / after log and check on things as you should whenever you add parts not planned by the manufacturer.
A: SSD Should be safe. I have the same scenario - my drive is a WD Caviar Black 500GB runing at 7200 rpm (WD500BEKT) and I have a Intel 320 120GB SSD on the optical drive. I have a 13" MBP 2010, which has a little better motherboard layout, but the same chipset. Here is my point:
*
*Intel 320 does not have a thermal sensor.
*Intel 320 has 5 years of warranty.
*The drive's operating temperature range is 0˚C to 70˚C (Intel 320 Specs)
*The only wear out indicator is the E9 Smart attribute (media wear-out indicator), and it's not connected to the temperature at all.
*You always have a backup, right?
Having all this in mind: There should be very hard to reach 70˚C inside the drive bay and EVEN if your device fails because of that, there is no way for Intel to prove this (there is not a temperature record in the SMART database).
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0fb642af114586decf1c0e2e093612c7f923d0c0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Monitoring network usage of individual applications? I want to monitor each application's network/internet usage on my Mac.
Sort of like how Activity Indicator shows total upload/download usage -- but I also want to know particular application usages.
Is this possible?
A: The app Little Snitch can do this. Among many other things, it shows traffic by app.
It costs $29, but there is a free trial available.
| Q: Monitoring network usage of individual applications? I want to monitor each application's network/internet usage on my Mac.
Sort of like how Activity Indicator shows total upload/download usage -- but I also want to know particular application usages.
Is this possible?
A: The app Little Snitch can do this. Among many other things, it shows traffic by app.
It costs $29, but there is a free trial available.
A: Another app I've used is RubbertNet (site is down, linked via archive.org). Also not free, but has a free trial available.
A: A combination of
HandsOff! and SurplusMeter
is my current solution. HandsOff is an advanced firewall which similar to LittleSnitch. It's not free, but a trial version is available. Surplusmeter on the other hand is free and open source.
Among the features which you need for monitoring network usage are:
*
*monitoring network activity of every process (HandsOff!)
*get the network usage of individual processes (HandsOff!)
*log total network usage (SurplusMeter)
HandOff does only display the network usage since boot. It does not log the data which is why I need SurplusMeter. However, SurplusMeter only logs the total network usage for all applications.
A: Apple include a customised version of tcpdump as part of MacOS/OSX which allows for the display/filtering of packet capture metadata information - which contains a number of items (see man page excerpt below) and includes process information. e.g. so you could run it to capture traffic only from firefox (-Q proc=firefox) and print out all packet metadata information (-k):
sudo tcpdump -Q proc=firefox -k
Or you could run it with just the -k option(s) and extract and analyse data per process name/pid. For more details see man tcpdump - here's the relevant sections (though there's more in the man page about the PKTAP filters):
-k Control the display of packet metadata via an optional metadata_arg argument.
This is useful when displaying packet saved in the pcap-ng file format or with
interfaces that support the PKTAP data link type.
By default, when the metadata_arg optional argument is not specified, any avail-
able packet metadata information is printed out.
The metadata_arg argument controls the display of specific packet metadata
information using a flag word, where each character corresponds to a type of
packet metadata as follows:
I interface name (or interface ID)
N process name
P process ID
S service class
D direction
C comment
C flags
U process UUID (not shown by default)
A display all types of metadata
This is an Apple modification.
-Q expression
To specify a filter expression based on packet metadata information like inter-
face or process name. Packet with matching packet metadata will be displayed or
saved to a file. See section PACKET METADATA FILTER for the syntax of packet
metadata filter expressions. This is an Apple addition.
A: You could look at WireShark. It may have a daunting interface, but once you learn it, you can track traffic by port.
You can also check out the built-in terminal utilities NetStat, TCPDump and PCap.
Using netstat -t -u will display the send and receive queue by process name.
A: If you are using iOS 5+ you can use the remote virtual interface
$ # First get the current list of interfaces.
$ ifconfig -l
lo0 gif0 stf0 en0 en1 p2p0 fw0 ppp0 utun0
$ # Then run the tool with the UDID of the device.
$ rvictl -s 74bd53c647548234ddcef0ee3abee616005051ed
Starting device 74bd53c647548234ddcef0ee3abee616005051ed [SUCCEEDED]
$ # Get the list of interfaces again, and you can see the new virtual
$ # network interface, rvi0, added by the previous command.
$ ifconfig -l
lo0 gif0 stf0 en0 en1 p2p0 fw0 ppp0 utun0 rvi0
You should be able to use wireshark or tcpdump, or ngrep on the problem, via the mac.
EDIT: ipfw is deprecated, but you can just turn on logging and see which packets go where. I don't know how to do that with pf :(
EDIT: I don't know why I thought this was for iOS. Apologies
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d18fad304228951b1c701e70ad5093b3d21827a3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I edit Managed Client preferences without them getting replaced? Specifically I would like to edit com.apple.applicationaccess.new.plist. (Which is in /Library/Managed Preferences/[username]/), but when I restart the computer my edited preferences are replaced with the old version.
How do I go about editing them for good? I only have command line access via SSH.
A: Turns out that the master copy of com.apple.applicationaccess is kept in /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/[user].plist. Editing that solved the problem for me. Thanks to Lyken for helping me find this on this question.
| Q: How do I edit Managed Client preferences without them getting replaced? Specifically I would like to edit com.apple.applicationaccess.new.plist. (Which is in /Library/Managed Preferences/[username]/), but when I restart the computer my edited preferences are replaced with the old version.
How do I go about editing them for good? I only have command line access via SSH.
A: Turns out that the master copy of com.apple.applicationaccess is kept in /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/[user].plist. Editing that solved the problem for me. Thanks to Lyken for helping me find this on this question.
A: Managed preferences are set up by the administrator of the Open Directory / Active Directory, so short of unbinding your mac from all of these servers, you will have to live with the changes imposed on that mac or keep changing them when you log in.
Do you really need to stay connected to the servers if they are making changes you can't get them to reverse?
Launchd would be a good tool for you to add a script that makes those changes for you when you log in, but that's just automating a workaround and not resolving the issue. Similarly, launchd can be used to implement Managed Preferences on boot as described in this short video seminar. You might have to check into launchd on the mac to see if someone implemented a similar restriction using Workgroup Manager.
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09ed3acac2e8ef351d09edfb9b639e1b324bebc7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I take an iPad screenshot that includes a picture of the iPad border around it? I know how to take a normal screenshot with my iPad, but I'm looking to see how people on the internet are able to show content on the iPad in a picture that has the physical border of an iPad.
Do they just take a screenshot and superimpose the image?
A: Thanks, for mentioning my app, AutoScreenshot 3D!
I created it for myself, as well as other developers, who want to superimpose their screenshot onto an actual image of an iOS device, and have it displayed at an angle, with mirror effect. Makes a nice screenshot for iTunes or web or print!
The PRO version, for $0.99, lets you provide your own background image. By default, it ships with an iPhone 4. You can also download images that you can use for free, from http://www.AutoScreenshot.com. We will add iPad images in the future, but you can google for an acceptable one.
A free version is awaiting Apple's approval and it only uses the default background.
| Q: How do I take an iPad screenshot that includes a picture of the iPad border around it? I know how to take a normal screenshot with my iPad, but I'm looking to see how people on the internet are able to show content on the iPad in a picture that has the physical border of an iPad.
Do they just take a screenshot and superimpose the image?
A: Thanks, for mentioning my app, AutoScreenshot 3D!
I created it for myself, as well as other developers, who want to superimpose their screenshot onto an actual image of an iOS device, and have it displayed at an angle, with mirror effect. Makes a nice screenshot for iTunes or web or print!
The PRO version, for $0.99, lets you provide your own background image. By default, it ships with an iPhone 4. You can also download images that you can use for free, from http://www.AutoScreenshot.com. We will add iPad images in the future, but you can google for an acceptable one.
A free version is awaiting Apple's approval and it only uses the default background.
A: A lot of the times those screenshots are taken on a computer from the iPhone or iPad simulator on the developer's Mac. It's included in the SDK if you have that it's free to download just not the development version of the iOS 5 SDK. Other than that take one of those images or an image of an iPad off the internet and then photoshop your screenshot into it and it should look pretty good.
A: There is also a free browser app for adding a frame around the screenshot: FrameApp.
It works like this: you upload your screenshot, select the desired frame (iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire, Google Galaxy - horizontal or vertical) and size, and then save your png. The best part is that the png has rounded corners, so that you can use it with any background. The tool is HTML5-based, so it works only in the browsers which support this (Firefox, Chrome & Opera).
A: Take a look at this collection to use your screenshot in. I think this is what you may be looking for. They also make one for the iPhone.
http://www.teehanlax.com/downloads/ipad-gui-psd/
A: There's an app for that...
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/autoscreenshot-3d/id430515377?mt=8
Unfortunately, I can't see if it provides an ipad as well as the iphone border.
A: Using AirServer on your Mac , It's possible to screenshot the iPad with your requirement.
A: *
*Use Reflector to Airplay the iOS device onto your computer screen
*Press shift-command-4 to enter "screen grab mode"
*Hover over the mirrored device and press the space bar (this select only that window)
*Click mouse for screen grab (to desktop)
The screen grab will be the mirrored iOS screen AND any device screen you've chosen.
A: Unless there is a specific app to (1) take a regular screenshot, then (2) superimpose the image to give it a border, this isn't possible out of the box.
I've had the iPad for a while now, and was wondering the same thing. But alas, GIMP makes borders for me.
A: Apple developers (which is where most of these screenshots come from) are given access to various marketing gumpf from Apple including device images (with empty screens) that they can just overlay their screenshots in, as well as things like "App Store" logos, etc.
I can't remember the exact wording (nor can I be bothered to re-read it right now) but I think it's against the Developer agreement to give those images out as they are. They're for marketing and that's their only licensed purpose.
If you want them (legally), pay Steve $99/year and he'll furnish you with the goods.
A: I use Box shot king which allows you to easily do the iPad and many other items - it even allows you to create book covers. Incredibly simple to use but comes at a price ($99 a year).
A: Using Reflector you can broadcast the iPhone and iPad screens to a Mac. Reflector superimposes a black (or white) border on the screen image.
The coolest part about Reflector is that with a screen video capture app, like SnapzProX, you can record the iPad in action.
We plan to use Reflector for our iPads at school on our Mac & PC desktop classroom machines.
A: There is a free app, DS Screenshot, that will add your screenshots to all device images at the same time. It does both iPhone and iPad.
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f290fcb48d76831a7b82be056c8062fa71adf693 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Add a hosts file entry without jailbreaking I have an iPad that needs to be able to connect to a server via its short hostname, e.g. http://app instead of http://app.example.com. The network it connects to assigns it a domain name other than example.com so it doesn't work automatically.
Is there a way to add a hosts entry (/etc/hosts) for that server in iOS, or add the appropriate domain name to the resolver search list without jailbreaking?
A: No.
See this answer on stackoverflow.
| Q: Add a hosts file entry without jailbreaking I have an iPad that needs to be able to connect to a server via its short hostname, e.g. http://app instead of http://app.example.com. The network it connects to assigns it a domain name other than example.com so it doesn't work automatically.
Is there a way to add a hosts entry (/etc/hosts) for that server in iOS, or add the appropriate domain name to the resolver search list without jailbreaking?
A: No.
See this answer on stackoverflow.
A: No, but as a work-around, you could have your iPad proxy to a Mac on your home LAN and then do the DNS trickery there.
(I'm assuming that you need this ability during debugging/testing, not "everywhere.")
A: In general, editing the Hosts file is a bad solution. I only use it for temporary testing, and always remove any hosts file entry a few minutes after adding it.
You should be using a DNS server of some kind to setup your custom domain, perhaps this is possible with your wifi router, or else you can set up any mac as a DNS server.
As a nice side benefit, having your DNS server on the LAN will make your internet noticeably faster. Most people are using their router as a DNS server and they really are not fast enough to implement DNS properly. It's a good idea to use a fast remote DNS server (which one is best will depend on what city you live in), but having one on your LAN is even better.
You can google for instructions how to setup bind on any mac, it's free. Or you can purchase Lion Server from Apple in the App Store, and download Server Admin Tools to configure bind with a nice GUI (with Lion, unlike Snow Leopard, you have to download Server Admin Tools separately form buying a license for Mac OS X Server. Basically they've separated the advanced server tools out into a separate download from the basic ones).
A: Use Weblock - AdBlock for iOS app to create a redirect rule from http://app to the IP and port you like.
(Only works when on a WIFI network)
A: It's been two years after the last comment & I've no idea if the OP will even read this or still needs a solution; however, for anyone who may have been led here via a search engine, the answer is yes, though not directly. Let me attempt an explanation. Editing the actual /etc/hosts file of a non-jailbroken iOS or iPadOS device isn't possible. However, as was alluded to in previous comments, you can use a local VPN. By local, I mean a device-only VPN as there is no need for a LAN server - excepting the security, privacy, speed, & fun that running a local DNS server would give you. Since the VPN opens up the "space" to use not only custom hosts files, but also allows you to connect to any, including private, DNSCrypt v1 or v2 servers, DNS over HTTPS (DoH) servers, or DNS over TLS (DoT)(1) servers with or without a custom hosts file, whether the hosts file is used as an extra layer of device security & privacy, for blocking the seemingly greater & greater number of ads on iDevices, or for the OP's desired purpose(2). Apple had been vague regarding the rules regarding App Store acceptance & in fact has rejected Apps due to a "lack of entertainment value", even if the rejected App is of practical use. Now, in order to detail the methods used to use a custom hosts file on a non-jailbroken iPad, I have to refer to specific Applications; I am not connected to any of the three Apps nor their developers beyond being a Beta Tester for one of them & a former Beta Tester for two of them, both of which no longer conduct beta testing. I'll use the list below to detail the relevant information: cost; DNS; stability; customization.
*
*DNSCloak: Free; DNSCrypt v1&2, DoH; stable, very customizable including being able to (2)forward IP addresses via DNS & do CNAME flattening.
*AdGuard Pro $4.99USD; stable, DNSCrypt v1; customizable.
*AdGuard Basic functions are free, everything else costs. Currently beta tested, which gives you everything at no cost beyond some of your time on GitHub. This is the only App that enables the use of (1)DoT. Both built-in and custom servers may be used; semi-stable; customizable.
Note: each of the three apps show all incoming and outgoing DNS requests, which is helpful to, e.g. block specific traffic from ever leaving or reaching your device.
A: Actually, there is a way.
Create your own app including a network extension that filters DNS queries using NEPacketTunnelProvider and parsing IP packets manually.
I already have it, working perfectly, and will upload it in a few days. I will add the possibility to upload host files too.
Although 7 years ago this was not technically possible.
A: I had the same issue, a solution that works for me:
Add a "search domain" in the (manual) DNS settings in IOS for the wifi connection you are on. Entering "example.com" or ".example.com" as search domain should result in the short name "app" being picked up and the search domain would automatically be appended so that "app.example.com" is connected to.
In case of a full domain name (for example a local test domain) which is not in the public DNS, and which needs to resolve to a (local) IP, it's an option to add such a domain to your home / office router's "LAN DNS" settings, so that the router catches and answers such DNS request instead of the public DNS server(s). A good solution in many scenarios although I assume it won't work for a short name like "app".
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26a2a6255098c664abe8050ed0ddba2de26c1fd5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac Terminal: emacs-style command editing messed up This has been a "quality of life" issue for me for a while now- command-line editing in the Mac terminal is messed up for me.
If I type a few chars, and then hit CTRL-A to move to the beginning of the line, it'll move the cursor too far over. It seems like what's on the screen is out of sync with what bash really has in its "buffer".
For example, I start typing "ls -l":
... and then hit CTRL-A to move the cursor, and I end up with the following on the screen:
I think the following snippets from my .bashrc are relevant to a potential diagnosis:
export PS1="\[\h:\w\]\$ "
export SUDO_PS1="\[\h:\w\]\\$ "
set -o emacs
FWIW, this also happens to me while using iTerm2 instead of the Mac default terminal.
A: Drop the '\[' and '\]'. They mean "the enclosed stuff doesn't take up display space", and are messing up the count, as you suspected. They are usually used to enclose strings that set the following text color, f/ex. Without them, the prompt - and emacs editing - will work correctly.
Here's a handy prompt-syntax reference card.
| Q: Mac Terminal: emacs-style command editing messed up This has been a "quality of life" issue for me for a while now- command-line editing in the Mac terminal is messed up for me.
If I type a few chars, and then hit CTRL-A to move to the beginning of the line, it'll move the cursor too far over. It seems like what's on the screen is out of sync with what bash really has in its "buffer".
For example, I start typing "ls -l":
... and then hit CTRL-A to move the cursor, and I end up with the following on the screen:
I think the following snippets from my .bashrc are relevant to a potential diagnosis:
export PS1="\[\h:\w\]\$ "
export SUDO_PS1="\[\h:\w\]\\$ "
set -o emacs
FWIW, this also happens to me while using iTerm2 instead of the Mac default terminal.
A: Drop the '\[' and '\]'. They mean "the enclosed stuff doesn't take up display space", and are messing up the count, as you suspected. They are usually used to enclose strings that set the following text color, f/ex. Without them, the prompt - and emacs editing - will work correctly.
Here's a handy prompt-syntax reference card.
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f95d8c97b2c08e10e13fe275891157f1d0ecfe41 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does iTunes consider a one-star rating worse than no rating at all? If I want to tell iTunes I don't really like a track very much (but don't want to uncheck the track or delete it from my library) should I rate it as one star or leave it with no stars? Which would iTunes consider to be the lesser rating for a track?
A: No stars is a lesser rating than one star. This can be verified by sorting a playlist by rating, and having at least one song on it with one star, and at least one with no stars. The one with one star will float above the one(s) with none.
| Q: Does iTunes consider a one-star rating worse than no rating at all? If I want to tell iTunes I don't really like a track very much (but don't want to uncheck the track or delete it from my library) should I rate it as one star or leave it with no stars? Which would iTunes consider to be the lesser rating for a track?
A: No stars is a lesser rating than one star. This can be verified by sorting a playlist by rating, and having at least one song on it with one star, and at least one with no stars. The one with one star will float above the one(s) with none.
A: One star is certainly rated higher than none, but in practice, marking one star for the songs you really don't want to shuffle is a great practice.
I have several "utility" playlists to weed out songs and having one star is one of the exclusionary criteria for the source of iTunes DJ
my zPartyTracks smart playlist criteria are all of:
*
*Album Rating - is not - one star
*Rating - is not - one star
*Genre - is not - holiday
*Time - is less than - 12 minutes
As I've got many songs rated above 1 star, those never seem to show up in playlists that prefer higher rated songs, and the one star songs are relegated to being specifically included even though they did get one star.
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1be5b74f14fe070d8056d3c6d2d4bb16368ceea7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: In OS X 10.6 how do you mount an AFP share at boot or before user login? Is there a way to mount an AFP share at boot so it is accessible to the system without a user logged in?
I would like to run scripts via SSH or as a daemon on boot that check files on my AFP share. Unfortunately, the shares don't mount until a user logs in.
A: Not sure that you can. I would think for security reasons a user has to be logged in, so that a set of credentials can be used. There's probably some scripts that are run pre-login though, so I suppose if you specify your credentials in there it would be fine.
| Q: In OS X 10.6 how do you mount an AFP share at boot or before user login? Is there a way to mount an AFP share at boot so it is accessible to the system without a user logged in?
I would like to run scripts via SSH or as a daemon on boot that check files on my AFP share. Unfortunately, the shares don't mount until a user logs in.
A: Not sure that you can. I would think for security reasons a user has to be logged in, so that a set of credentials can be used. There's probably some scripts that are run pre-login though, so I suppose if you specify your credentials in there it would be fine.
A: Indeed you can script it all from terminal.
You will want to learn a little about launchd - that will specify when the mount will happen. At $5 the Lingon app from the App Store is great if you don't want to learn launchd configuration files.
Next, you'll need a command to make the AFP mount.
Last, you might learn security command to store or retrieve a password from the keychain if you don't want to store your afp password in the script.
Each of these should be easy to learn more with a few internet searches.
A: I would look into AutoFS. You can have AFP mounted on demand (see page 14 of the linked PDF).
A: Here you go. A bit outdated, but you can see how to do what you want from here.
http://www.real-world-systems.com/docs/launchctl.1.html
A: I recently had to support a client who needed to make sure an AFP network volume was always mounted so FileMakerPro server v5.5 could backup to that network drive. As you might imagine backups are really important for a 16 year old G5 XServe that is a mission-critical system, and yet still doesn't have the budget for new software & 40 new Macs all at once. So they are stuck at Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard, and the server has been surprisingly OK running Mac OSX Leopard for about 20 years.
In this case, just mounting a drive at startup is not enough. Any network burp, even just power cycling a network switch could break that AFP connection.
No one ever looks in on this server, so it needs to try to take care of itself. (Alternately CronoSync Agent & ChronoSync can copy those files elsewhere, that was working well too).
My solution for OSX Tiger 10.4.11 was to use AUTOMATOR to make a 2 line app to mount the network drive (uses saved login from OSX Keychain) and run it daily via Cronnix, which is a GUI for Crontab. I expect this would also work in Mac OSX Leopard, Snow Leopard and maybe others.
The Automator workflow is;
*
*Get Specified Finder Items
*
*give it an alias of the network drive to mount.
*Open Finder Items
Save this both as a workflow and Save As again as an app. You can easily edit the workflow, and the App is slightly easier to run automatically. In this example below, the 2 line app is kept in the ~/Documents folder .
The Crontab command to run this is;
/usr/bin/open "/Users/<username>/Documents/<app_name.app>"
See attached screenshots. Hope this helps. :-)
I also blogged it here:
https://www.nathanson.org/davesays/2021/how-to-mount-afp-network-drive-in-mac-osx-tiger-snow-leopard/
A: Yes, this can be done, and it's actually necessary when you want the share point available to something like servers which are started and run without a user logged in.
I did this years ago for something, and just again needed to do it, but my notes were inadequate. After a lot of fiddling, I've written enough details out so that I'll never have to do that again (I hope).
You combine launchd and a script, but there's some details that many other posts fail to mention. I captured them (at least for my setup).
All the nitty gritty details are here:
http://www.gregwillits.ws/articles/using_launchd_to_mount_afp_share_point_upon_startup
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2be6ebef1c932cd914641dd8a10d1799a5d9edc9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Will I need a Magic Trackpad to take advantage of OS X Lion? From what I have read and/or seen about OS X Lion, it sounds like many of its new features rely on gestures. I have a Mac Pro and do not have a trackpad of any kind. Will I need to get a Magic Trackpad to take advantage of many of the new features in OS X Lion? What kind of user experience can I expect in Lion if I don't have one? What will I be missing out on?
A: The only thing you wont be able to use, are the Multi-Touch Gestures.
| Q: Will I need a Magic Trackpad to take advantage of OS X Lion? From what I have read and/or seen about OS X Lion, it sounds like many of its new features rely on gestures. I have a Mac Pro and do not have a trackpad of any kind. Will I need to get a Magic Trackpad to take advantage of many of the new features in OS X Lion? What kind of user experience can I expect in Lion if I don't have one? What will I be missing out on?
A: The only thing you wont be able to use, are the Multi-Touch Gestures.
A: Generally, Stack Exchange network avoids talking about future products, but since Lion is going to be released very soon (according to a lot of sources), and having the GM installed on a computer next to me, I'd say that a multi-touch surface like the Trackpad or the Magic Mouse does add a lot of interesting possibilities to the UI.
If you're a regular OS X user and don't have a magic XXX, you will be able to do the same you do right now, you will be just missing the possibility to perform gestures that simplify your workflow.
I personally cannot get used to it to be honest, but I'm a heavy keyboard oriented user, so the mouse is for those "moments" when the Keyboard doesn't cut it.
I would recommend you go to the nearest Apple store and play with it for a while (i.e. more than 5 minutes). to see if you can get used to the concept of a trackpad surface.
A: You won't be required to have a Magic Trackpad with Lion. But it will certainly add to your user experience, as you'll be able to use gestures. I bought one from Amazon (used, but in like new condition) just so I can experiment with the gestures on my Mac Pro.
Let's not forget that it won't just be the OS that will benefit from the gestural repertoire. Many applications will also take advantage of the improved gestural support in Lion. And the number of applications that will add gestural support will increase once it becomes a core OS feature.
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956fac34e82018acd657c687f88544a8c0c4829c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I change a filetype’s “Kind” value in the Finder? There are several filetypes that get a generic “Kind” description (if viewed in Finder’s List View) based on the program used to open them.
I’d like to add descriptions for some file extensions so that they are not of the Kind “[editor] document”.
Is this possible?
If so, how?
A: /path/to/default/app/Contents/Info.plist → CFBundleDocumentTypes → CFBundleTypeName:
<key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>
<array>
<string>adb</string>
<string>ads</string>
</array>
<key>CFBundleTypeIconFile</key>
<string>ADA</string>
<key>CFBundleTypeName</key>
<string>ADA source</string>
Modifying files inside application bundles invalidates the code signature and changes aren't necessarily respected by updates.
| Q: How can I change a filetype’s “Kind” value in the Finder? There are several filetypes that get a generic “Kind” description (if viewed in Finder’s List View) based on the program used to open them.
I’d like to add descriptions for some file extensions so that they are not of the Kind “[editor] document”.
Is this possible?
If so, how?
A: /path/to/default/app/Contents/Info.plist → CFBundleDocumentTypes → CFBundleTypeName:
<key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>
<array>
<string>adb</string>
<string>ads</string>
</array>
<key>CFBundleTypeIconFile</key>
<string>ADA</string>
<key>CFBundleTypeName</key>
<string>ADA source</string>
Modifying files inside application bundles invalidates the code signature and changes aren't necessarily respected by updates.
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bddb8a347ad99c09ed663235a3019e1e5d792707 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: View All Assigned Keyboard Shortcuts Is there a way (probably an app) that lets you see all global (and possibly local) keyboard shortcuts that have been defined? Something similar to ActiveHotkeys on Windows. I dislike assigning new keyboard shortcuts without being sure that they won't cause shortcut collision.
A: There is a very nice app that's freely available to show you all shortcuts when you hold down the command key a bit longer than normal.
*
*http://www.cheatsheetapp.com/CheatSheet/
It works on Mavericks and several older OS and I've never had problems with it other than forgetting to quit it after I'm done discovering shortcut keys. It appears to be advertisement supported, so consider that if you prefer to pay to support developers as opposed to be part of what's being sold.
| Q: View All Assigned Keyboard Shortcuts Is there a way (probably an app) that lets you see all global (and possibly local) keyboard shortcuts that have been defined? Something similar to ActiveHotkeys on Windows. I dislike assigning new keyboard shortcuts without being sure that they won't cause shortcut collision.
A: There is a very nice app that's freely available to show you all shortcuts when you hold down the command key a bit longer than normal.
*
*http://www.cheatsheetapp.com/CheatSheet/
It works on Mavericks and several older OS and I've never had problems with it other than forgetting to quit it after I'm done discovering shortcut keys. It appears to be advertisement supported, so consider that if you prefer to pay to support developers as opposed to be part of what's being sold.
A: I'm not a Windows user so I'm unsure of what ActiveHotKeys does. However, on System Preferences on the Mac OS X, there's a Keyboard preferences which when clicked will display "Keyboard Shortcuts" (the choice to the right of "Keyboard").
Hope this helps, and please mark your question as answered if this is what you're looking for.
A: There is a rather expensive program that does just this. I installed it on several classroom Macs, to help new users learn keyboard shortcuts:
*
*KeyCue by Ergonis Software.
Works well, easy to use, but at $28.00 a little pricy.
A: There is a cool widget for dashboard by dashkards that has both general OSX shortcuts as well as a good list for several common apps. Its got a small ad banner, but it's quick to access which is nice. http://dashkards.com
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8efc588e0524d3f1e7679cdebbdc0c2291d1d51c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: I am seeking a SCP/SFTP client for iOS devices There are clients for telnet and SSH but I couldn't find any app including SCP. Is there any?
A: I use a combination of two apps to administer local servers without internet access. There might be a good scp/sftp app I don't know - but AirSharing does file serving so well that I just turn it on then ssh into the server. From there, I sftp/curl the files I need back from the iOS file server.
*
*Prompt - a great ssh app by Panic.
*Air Sharing Pro - a file server that supports webdav/sftp/curl/http
| Q: I am seeking a SCP/SFTP client for iOS devices There are clients for telnet and SSH but I couldn't find any app including SCP. Is there any?
A: I use a combination of two apps to administer local servers without internet access. There might be a good scp/sftp app I don't know - but AirSharing does file serving so well that I just turn it on then ssh into the server. From there, I sftp/curl the files I need back from the iOS file server.
*
*Prompt - a great ssh app by Panic.
*Air Sharing Pro - a file server that supports webdav/sftp/curl/http
A: Found something more useful. Textastic works with SFTP.
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28dce8b970bf75e134af7ee8a7b8dadb499015f3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Are there any GPS recording applications for the iPhone? I was wondering if there was an iPhone application that would continuously read the GPS location and save it for later analysis. For example, I would like to be able to tell where I was at certain point of time, or how long did it take me to travel from one place to another.
Is there such an app?
A: There are a ton of 'em; Cyclemeter, Strava, MotionX, and many, many, others to name a few.
Most have an export option that'll spew out a gpx file (or one of a different format) that you can then do whatever you want with.
(I personally use Cyclemeter for recording and sharing bike rides -- there are many others that are more customized to other kinds of activity)
| Q: Are there any GPS recording applications for the iPhone? I was wondering if there was an iPhone application that would continuously read the GPS location and save it for later analysis. For example, I would like to be able to tell where I was at certain point of time, or how long did it take me to travel from one place to another.
Is there such an app?
A: There are a ton of 'em; Cyclemeter, Strava, MotionX, and many, many, others to name a few.
Most have an export option that'll spew out a gpx file (or one of a different format) that you can then do whatever you want with.
(I personally use Cyclemeter for recording and sharing bike rides -- there are many others that are more customized to other kinds of activity)
A: My personal favourite is Kinect GPS (iTunes Link).
It's described as a swiss army knife for GPS tracking and I tend to agree. I had originally bought it to track backwoods bike rides but quickly found myself using it for all kinds of tracking: walks, runs, even car drives.
They have a modular approach to configuring the application. You can slice and view the data in all kinds of ways thanks to the pluggable interface. Analyze it over time for peaks, overlay it on a map. Very cool stuff.
And important to me: you can export your data in one of three common formats.
A: mshamma
I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to respond...
I too actually wanted an app to continuously track myself (on iPhone) in the background, each day, and without draining my battery too much... I used Google Latitude for a while which I found great, but they sadly discontinued it... the only downside of that was that I had to give my location data to a big tech company (not the end of the world, but I'd prefer not to)... in the end I took the long route and actually decided to build an app myself to do exactly what I (and I think you) wanted...
*
*It continuously tracks iPhone user's location all day each day
*Lets you search by date (or area) to see your movements
*Battery drain typically only 2%-4% for entire day
*All location data stays local on the device (so only accessible by the user)
It's called 'Location Log', and I've made it it free to download (for now at least)
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/location-log/id1543208785
It's my first ever app, so now doing the rounds and trying to respond to any forum requests for such an app
A: runkeeper has this functionality. i don't believe that you can access the raw gps data though.
A: I would recommend Runmeter as the best tool for getting raw tracking data. (it's the same as walkmeter / cyclemeter - so pick the color and icon you prefer)
It comes pre-loaded with at least 16 activity types and you can control all sorts of activities (motorcycle / kayak / cross country ski / downhill ski). You can add or delete these as you wish, so it's very user friendly and customizable.
The developer responds quickly to support questions and it seems designed to give you your data and not force you into using one web service or locking you in to a corporate database. (ahem - yes I'm thinking of you, Nike+)
Here is a chart I've found to be fair and accurate comparison of what the app can do compared to other running GPS apps that I have actually used. (but do note it's made by the company that made Runmeter - hone in on the things you need and ignore the rest - like if you don't really care about twitter integration)
It also is easy to use on it's own with mapping, graphs as well as integrating with a large handful of popular social sharing services if that is your preference. Lastly, it has no subscription and you don't need to make any in-app purchases if you don't want more than one voice (and even that isn't needed to get the data out of the app.)
After each activity, you can configure it to email you a link to a kml file for additional processing as well as transfer the files through iTunes and USB.
Here's one shot of the detail you can have over the GPS tracking if you wish.
A: Xtrail will track your location in the background and plot your route on a map, although it is exercise-focused.
Currently on sale for $5, iPhone and iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xtrail/id382807586?mt=8
A: Both Google Maps and the stock Maps application for iOS do this. Google's is a little better but Apple's is built into the OS. The only problem with the Apple solution is that it will only show you places that you "frequent".
A: ViewRanger will track you as you walk, it can use several types of map including OpenStreetMap and also several premium paid for maps, all of which are better than Apple or Google for walking in that they show more footpaths
Many other do this you want apps that export gpx files
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affcea40bf047d500567c3e6a1af830639d65dc2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to add Spotlight comments to the bundled OS X apps? I'd like to add a Spotlight comment to TextEdit.app. Is that possible?
What I've done:
*
*Open Finder
*Browse to /Applications/
*Select TextEdit
*Press ⌘ + I (Get Info)
*Click the lock icon to unlock the dialog
*Click on Spotlight comment text field
*Nothing happens. Even cut, copy and paste options are disabled in the context menu.
This seems to be the case for all the other OS X bundled apps as well (Font Book, iChat, iCal, …)
I could create an alias of the app and give comments to it, but are there any other ways?
A: You need to have write permission for the bundle. After you open the lock:
*
*Select 'Read & Write' permission for 'everyone'
*Add your comments
*Restore the permissions
| Q: How to add Spotlight comments to the bundled OS X apps? I'd like to add a Spotlight comment to TextEdit.app. Is that possible?
What I've done:
*
*Open Finder
*Browse to /Applications/
*Select TextEdit
*Press ⌘ + I (Get Info)
*Click the lock icon to unlock the dialog
*Click on Spotlight comment text field
*Nothing happens. Even cut, copy and paste options are disabled in the context menu.
This seems to be the case for all the other OS X bundled apps as well (Font Book, iChat, iCal, …)
I could create an alias of the app and give comments to it, but are there any other ways?
A: You need to have write permission for the bundle. After you open the lock:
*
*Select 'Read & Write' permission for 'everyone'
*Add your comments
*Restore the permissions
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32e13b867e73ab54403628a8d21ee0a6229441d5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I write an Automator/AppleScript script to download all the iTunes app updates? This is related to How can I tell iTunes to always download free updates
I would like to write a script to tell iTunes to download all the free app updates available, and have that script run regularly using iCal. Is this possible?
A: At the moment this feature is currently not available or easy to implement. There has been mention that the next version of iOS and iTunes may include this feature. But its all speculative until it is actually released.
| Q: Can I write an Automator/AppleScript script to download all the iTunes app updates? This is related to How can I tell iTunes to always download free updates
I would like to write a script to tell iTunes to download all the free app updates available, and have that script run regularly using iCal. Is this possible?
A: At the moment this feature is currently not available or easy to implement. There has been mention that the next version of iOS and iTunes may include this feature. But its all speculative until it is actually released.
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2f1e85eab56ba62088df8116ac26245483bea297 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to "block" calls? How do we "block" calls such that no one is able to call through?
For example, I would not like anyone to call me for the next 60 minutes, but I do not wish to turn off the phone.
What's the best solution?
A: You have four options.
*
*Turn on Do Not Disturb and lock the screen (or configure it to block all calls whether the screen is locked or not on iOS 7)
*Place the phone in AirPlane mode - this disables the cellular data, SMS and cellular calls as well as WiFi. You can turn on WiFi while in AirPlane mode to access data and still be undisturbed.
*Use your carrier to start call forwarding. It will send your calls to another number (google voice is a nice place to send them if you don't have another appropriate line). On AT&T, you dial the following to start forwarding, call: **21*1234567890# - assuming your other number is (123)456-7890. To stop the forwarding, call #21#
*Remove the sim. If you have another sim (same carrier or unlocked phone) that would in effect turn off your primary phone service without deactivating the phone.
| Q: How to "block" calls? How do we "block" calls such that no one is able to call through?
For example, I would not like anyone to call me for the next 60 minutes, but I do not wish to turn off the phone.
What's the best solution?
A: You have four options.
*
*Turn on Do Not Disturb and lock the screen (or configure it to block all calls whether the screen is locked or not on iOS 7)
*Place the phone in AirPlane mode - this disables the cellular data, SMS and cellular calls as well as WiFi. You can turn on WiFi while in AirPlane mode to access data and still be undisturbed.
*Use your carrier to start call forwarding. It will send your calls to another number (google voice is a nice place to send them if you don't have another appropriate line). On AT&T, you dial the following to start forwarding, call: **21*1234567890# - assuming your other number is (123)456-7890. To stop the forwarding, call #21#
*Remove the sim. If you have another sim (same carrier or unlocked phone) that would in effect turn off your primary phone service without deactivating the phone.
A: Ask you cellular carrier how to forward calls. Then forward the calls to some other number (your office, an answering service, some phone that your cousin never picks up, etc.)
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045a1c2c2851fca7a0552f8f25fca116e1f7a542 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I jailbreak my iPad 2? I want to jailbreak my iPad 2.
How can this be done?
A: What is your iPad firmware?
If you're running 4.3.3 you can use http://jailbreakme.com.
| Q: How can I jailbreak my iPad 2? I want to jailbreak my iPad 2.
How can this be done?
A: What is your iPad firmware?
If you're running 4.3.3 you can use http://jailbreakme.com.
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63dfeffd15ecb2c8b411f8210ebcc007d7c31794 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Split Windows on Textmate Textmate has been around for a while, I bought it in 2006. Is it possible to split windows horizontally and or vertically on Textmate nowadays? Probably someone out there made a kind of Plugin for this :-/ Like C-x 2 when I'm on GNU Emacs to split horizontally or C-x 3 to split vertically and have flexible control on each windows' width or :split on ViM.
A: As far as I know this feature is still not possible. Mind you many people have discussed this and it is a very south-out feature http://wiki.macromates.com/Suggestions/GUI.
| Q: Split Windows on Textmate Textmate has been around for a while, I bought it in 2006. Is it possible to split windows horizontally and or vertically on Textmate nowadays? Probably someone out there made a kind of Plugin for this :-/ Like C-x 2 when I'm on GNU Emacs to split horizontally or C-x 3 to split vertically and have flexible control on each windows' width or :split on ViM.
A: As far as I know this feature is still not possible. Mind you many people have discussed this and it is a very south-out feature http://wiki.macromates.com/Suggestions/GUI.
A: The only thing I could find is seandunn/window-buddy.tmbundle - GitHub:
Window Buddy is a bundle to add basic window management to TextMate
Sorry but... WORK IN PROGRESS!
Currently it's a bit rough and incomplete but the aim is to provide pseudo split window editing by using auxiliary windows in TextMate.
A: You can open a file in two windows at once. Whatever edits you do in one window are performed in the other as well. It's not quite the same as a single split-view window, but it's not all that different either.
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b89259e4755cfe73211fe2f170e376d2a0b6b0f4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way I can import ReadItLater's exported html file into my Instapaper? Is there a way I can import my ReadItLater's exported html file into my Instapaper?
A: Though I don't have a tool now, I guess it can be done in couple of ways. Yes, no one click solution.
*
*Email each url to your personal instapaper id (Refer this Lifehacker article)
*Can parse your export list and use simple API from Instapaper to add the links to your account. Refer API docs
Update:
As I said earlier, it is not a one click solution but doable. As a matter of fact, I did create an extension for chrome to do this. Here is the link http://minus.com/mc3va2C
Update 2:
The source of the extension is available @ https://github.com/palaniraja/RIL2Insta
| Q: Is there a way I can import ReadItLater's exported html file into my Instapaper? Is there a way I can import my ReadItLater's exported html file into my Instapaper?
A: Though I don't have a tool now, I guess it can be done in couple of ways. Yes, no one click solution.
*
*Email each url to your personal instapaper id (Refer this Lifehacker article)
*Can parse your export list and use simple API from Instapaper to add the links to your account. Refer API docs
Update:
As I said earlier, it is not a one click solution but doable. As a matter of fact, I did create an extension for chrome to do this. Here is the link http://minus.com/mc3va2C
Update 2:
The source of the extension is available @ https://github.com/palaniraja/RIL2Insta
A: No, there is no way of doing this. With those applications.
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Q: Equivalent to Windows' Baretail Is there any alternative to Windows' Baretail?
What I am looking for is a graphical Baretail?
Actually, I don't really care that it is graphical but I want to be able to have colors (lines with ERROR in red, lines with WARNING in yellow and so on...)
And I want it to behave like a "perfect" tail -f command meaning that I want it to be non-invasive (does not prevent the file deletion).
But always on the watch (if a file is deleted, and recreated and re-written in it then the tool would just start showing it again).
In any case, any tool that does a better graphical interpretation of tail -f is welcome.
A: Multitail
Install with
brew install multitail
| Q: Equivalent to Windows' Baretail Is there any alternative to Windows' Baretail?
What I am looking for is a graphical Baretail?
Actually, I don't really care that it is graphical but I want to be able to have colors (lines with ERROR in red, lines with WARNING in yellow and so on...)
And I want it to behave like a "perfect" tail -f command meaning that I want it to be non-invasive (does not prevent the file deletion).
But always on the watch (if a file is deleted, and recreated and re-written in it then the tool would just start showing it again).
In any case, any tool that does a better graphical interpretation of tail -f is welcome.
A: Multitail
Install with
brew install multitail
A: I've been using "Console" as a general log viewer. (Comes with the Mac as a system utility)
You can open up files and it'll act like tail but then also has filter abilities. No color coding (that i'm aware of)...
A: This is an alternative, Glogg, and it is expected to be released for Mac soon.
I couldn't find much more than this.
A: While it does not do colorization, if you use tail -F (big F as opposed to little f), the tail activity will continue following a file if it's deleted and/or truncated and replaced with a new file of the same name.
Verbatim from the tail(1) man page:
-F
The -F option implies the -f option, but tail will also check to see if the file being followed has been renamed or rotated. The file is closed and reopened when tail detects that the filename being read from has a new inode number. The -F option is ignored if reading from standard input rather than a file.
A: I know this is an old question but finally a more modern one is under development. See Tail Blazer
Disclaimer: this is an open source project and I am the developer
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Q: Identify connected external disks programmatically I want to write a shell script that ejects all currently-connected external drives (either USB or Firewire drives). I can use the disktuil eject <disk-path> to eject a specified drive. But I still can't figure how to find out what are the external drives. For instance, /Volumes shows internal drives, external drives, and mounted images. Is there a way to identify only external drives programmatically?
A: Have you considered using diskutil info /dev/disk[n|s{n}] | grep Ejectable which allows you to identify whether the device (or device slice) is ejectable.
This would need to be expanded upon in a script using awk to work through each disk device that is currently attached to determine whether it can be ejected and then eject it.
| Q: Identify connected external disks programmatically I want to write a shell script that ejects all currently-connected external drives (either USB or Firewire drives). I can use the disktuil eject <disk-path> to eject a specified drive. But I still can't figure how to find out what are the external drives. For instance, /Volumes shows internal drives, external drives, and mounted images. Is there a way to identify only external drives programmatically?
A: Have you considered using diskutil info /dev/disk[n|s{n}] | grep Ejectable which allows you to identify whether the device (or device slice) is ejectable.
This would need to be expanded upon in a script using awk to work through each disk device that is currently attached to determine whether it can be ejected and then eject it.
A: In a terminal window (bash shell)
diskutil info /Volumes/name-of-volume
will return a list of properties of the volume, including
Protocol: FireWire
...
Ejectable: Yes
Whole: No
Internal: No
so, I suppose you could start with that. I'm not clear on what
the "Internal" property implies, it might be better to look at
"Protocol" if your concern is with Firewire or USB external devices.
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