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c46d24f18a4cf9aec3f93324c1a54e9618962eb7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: User required in Profile Manager Exchange settings I'm working with Profile Manager in Lion Server 10.7.2
I want the user to be prompted during the installation, not set the value here. To have the user prompted both fields need to be left blank. The User field, however, requires a value. Is there a workaround?
Also we are using Google Exchange as our exchange server.
A: You can use %short_name% and %long_name% to autofill some fields (such as email address, username, full name) in Profile Manager, and they will pull that information from your user directory.
If you're using Google Apps via Exchange ActiveSync, then that will only work if your on demand user accounts have the same short name as your Google Apps user accounts, or if you are syncing the two together.
| Q: User required in Profile Manager Exchange settings I'm working with Profile Manager in Lion Server 10.7.2
I want the user to be prompted during the installation, not set the value here. To have the user prompted both fields need to be left blank. The User field, however, requires a value. Is there a workaround?
Also we are using Google Exchange as our exchange server.
A: You can use %short_name% and %long_name% to autofill some fields (such as email address, username, full name) in Profile Manager, and they will pull that information from your user directory.
If you're using Google Apps via Exchange ActiveSync, then that will only work if your on demand user accounts have the same short name as your Google Apps user accounts, or if you are syncing the two together.
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f8413da46ad98058b4c27b1ece8fb7d9198ba501 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Migrate Data To New SSD Drive Without USB to SATA Cable I just bought a SSD For my MacBook Pro. It is running Lion. I have a time capsule with a full backup, as well as an image of the entire drive I created stored on a network drive. How do I copy everything from the current drive to the new SSD? I don't have any cables, i.e. a USB to SATA, is this possible?
Is there a way if I install the SSD and boot into a safe mode, and load Disk Utility, and then simply load the image backup from the network drive?
Thanks for the help.
A: I used an external 2.5" USB case. As @Richard suggested above, I also use Carbon Copy Cloner.
| Q: Migrate Data To New SSD Drive Without USB to SATA Cable I just bought a SSD For my MacBook Pro. It is running Lion. I have a time capsule with a full backup, as well as an image of the entire drive I created stored on a network drive. How do I copy everything from the current drive to the new SSD? I don't have any cables, i.e. a USB to SATA, is this possible?
Is there a way if I install the SSD and boot into a safe mode, and load Disk Utility, and then simply load the image backup from the network drive?
Thanks for the help.
A: I used an external 2.5" USB case. As @Richard suggested above, I also use Carbon Copy Cloner.
A: Why not just install the news operating system to the SSD and then restore from the time machine backup you have on your time capsule?
To install, when i upgraded my system to Lion, if you find the installer file called. Install OS X Lion and right click and view package contents, there will be a file inside called InstallESD. If you restore that image to say a USB pen using disk utility or terminal, you then can boot to that USB pen by holding 'alt' on boot.
Or why not install the system that come with the machine and upgrade to Lion again. I believe the download allows you to install 3 separate machines. (correct me if im wrong)
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9c06df59af57e84f50673ce90cef28a22e1e89ba | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How much free storage in a 16GB iPad? No, this isn't a "who's buried in Grant' tomb" question. Rather: How much space for apps, music, etc is available on a fresh-out-of-the-box 16GB iPad? My 64GB iPad says that its "capacity" is 58.12 GB, which suggests that almost 8GB is taken up by disk formatting and the OS. That wouldn't leave much for other stuff on a 16GB. I'm providing "pre-sales tech support" for a price-sensitive relative; any data out there? Thanks!
A: On iOS 5 you should expect to have about 13.75 GB for items you choose to store on any 16 GB iOS device. On iOS 4 it was slightly higher - slightly over 14 GB.
| Q: How much free storage in a 16GB iPad? No, this isn't a "who's buried in Grant' tomb" question. Rather: How much space for apps, music, etc is available on a fresh-out-of-the-box 16GB iPad? My 64GB iPad says that its "capacity" is 58.12 GB, which suggests that almost 8GB is taken up by disk formatting and the OS. That wouldn't leave much for other stuff on a 16GB. I'm providing "pre-sales tech support" for a price-sensitive relative; any data out there? Thanks!
A: On iOS 5 you should expect to have about 13.75 GB for items you choose to store on any 16 GB iOS device. On iOS 4 it was slightly higher - slightly over 14 GB.
A: Storage device manufacturers measure capacity using the decimal system (base 10), so 1 gigabyte (GB) is calculated as exactly 1,000,000,000 bytes. The capacity of the storage media in your Mac, iPad, iPod, iPhone and other Apple hardware is measured using this decimal system. This is detailed on product packaging and online through the statement "1 GB = 1 billion bytes."
Understanding storage capacity in iPad, iPhone, iPod
When you view the storage capacity of your iPod, iPhone, iPad, or other electronic devices within its operating system, the capacity is reported using the the binary system (base 2) of measurement. In binary, 1 GB is calculated as 1,073,741,824 bytes.
For example: The way decimal and binary numeral systems measure a GB is what causes a 32 GB storage device to appear as approximately 28 GB when detailed by its operating system, even though the storage device still has 32 billion bytes (not 28 billion bytes), as reported.
You can see this difference if you look at how your computer summarizes the capacity of your iPod, iPad, or iPhone’s storage when the device is connected to your computer. You will also see this difference in the About menu on your iPod, iPad, or iPhone. The important point to understand is that the available storage capacity is the same no matter which system (decimal or binary) is used. Nothing is missing.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419
A: On iOS 6.0.1, iPad 4, I started with 13.3 GB. It depends on your iCloud sync as well. But as I see, you need at least 2.5 GB of free space which means that you will have a number around 13.5 too.
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cad028f883b35bdacdc1de9e604122a68e1a884e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Fully displaying volume size info on the desktop No matter which combination of icon size, spacing, font size I use for the desktop Finder view, the info for my drives on my Mac Mini hooked up to my TV (1080p) shows up as:
999.85 GB, ...06 GB free
instead of
999.85 GB, 152.06 GB free
I've even made a screenshot:
Is there a fix/hack to display this fully all the time? Should I file a bug/request with Apple? Should I give up and use GeekTool or something else? This drives me nuts...
Thanks in advance !
A: For string to be as wide as possible change "Grid spacing" in Show View Options
but in case when the whole info string become 25 characters or more it will just become truncated anyway. On the next screenshot I have 104.69 GB available.
| Q: Fully displaying volume size info on the desktop No matter which combination of icon size, spacing, font size I use for the desktop Finder view, the info for my drives on my Mac Mini hooked up to my TV (1080p) shows up as:
999.85 GB, ...06 GB free
instead of
999.85 GB, 152.06 GB free
I've even made a screenshot:
Is there a fix/hack to display this fully all the time? Should I file a bug/request with Apple? Should I give up and use GeekTool or something else? This drives me nuts...
Thanks in advance !
A: For string to be as wide as possible change "Grid spacing" in Show View Options
but in case when the whole info string become 25 characters or more it will just become truncated anyway. On the next screenshot I have 104.69 GB available.
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163cd776494956d5d0acb6c550e2046dc36c082b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I find the size of multiple folders? When I highlight several folders in Finder and do a get info, I get an info window for each folder. Is there a way to get a single window showing size of all folders highlighted?
A: There are 3 forms of "Get Info":
1) Standard "Get Info" achieved through Command+i which can potentially create multiple windows for each item selected.
2) "Get Summary Info" achieved through Command+Control+i which uses a single window to show combined info about the selection:
3) "Inspector", like @iskra mentioned, achieved through Command+Option+i, which is similar to 2) except that it updates the info dynamically based on your selection.
| Q: How can I find the size of multiple folders? When I highlight several folders in Finder and do a get info, I get an info window for each folder. Is there a way to get a single window showing size of all folders highlighted?
A: There are 3 forms of "Get Info":
1) Standard "Get Info" achieved through Command+i which can potentially create multiple windows for each item selected.
2) "Get Summary Info" achieved through Command+Control+i which uses a single window to show combined info about the selection:
3) "Inspector", like @iskra mentioned, achieved through Command+Option+i, which is similar to 2) except that it updates the info dynamically based on your selection.
A: Open a finder window and set the view to list view.
Press command-J and select "calculate all sizes" then click "use as standard".
Now folder sizes will show in your finder.
I don't think it is possible to show sizes for multiple folders, but this might be a good workaround.
A: cmd+alt/option+i will give you info on multiple highlighed items.
A: Alternatively
*
*open Terminal.app
*cd to the directory 'above' the ones you need the size for
*du -sh FOLDER1 FOLDER2 gives sizes in "human readable" format (Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte
and Petabyte.)
*du -sm FOLDER1 FOLDER2 gives sizes in megabytes
*du -sg FOLDER1 FOLDER2 gives sizes in Gigabytes
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f66be154a8c4d880c76989348cdfc1d67a3709bd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: MacBook Pro 15 inch (2011) screen has stripes My 15 inch MacBook Pro recently has horizontal stripes on the screen.
It looks like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaPt6FHJmtg
It happens randomly and sometimes it gets worse (flickering with horizontal lines,stripes)
Does anyone know what might cause this and how to fix it?
No such issue during the past year...it has just started happening since yesterday.
A: Take it back to an Apple Store or send it in for repair - that sounds like faulty hardware, and you'll still be in warrantee so they'll repair or replace completely free.
In case they decide to replace it outright (it's fairly new so they may) you'll want to use time machine to snapshot your hard drive for backups.
| Q: MacBook Pro 15 inch (2011) screen has stripes My 15 inch MacBook Pro recently has horizontal stripes on the screen.
It looks like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaPt6FHJmtg
It happens randomly and sometimes it gets worse (flickering with horizontal lines,stripes)
Does anyone know what might cause this and how to fix it?
No such issue during the past year...it has just started happening since yesterday.
A: Take it back to an Apple Store or send it in for repair - that sounds like faulty hardware, and you'll still be in warrantee so they'll repair or replace completely free.
In case they decide to replace it outright (it's fairly new so they may) you'll want to use time machine to snapshot your hard drive for backups.
A: Try holding down Shift + Control and hitting the Eject button. It will make the screen go black for a few seconds, then it will come back, hopefully sans striping.
This will usually fix vertical striping on MacBook Pro screen which is caused by a problem with the backlighting; it may help you too even though your problem looks different.
I saw this video example of vertical striping when I looked at your video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=H62afsEjwZ0&feature=endscreen
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699fffe69cbda47519fb263aa781429b896d59d5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Fastest way to delete all Timemachine Backups for a machine What is the recommended way to get rid of a whole TimeMachine archive (aka Backups.backupdb)?
Using Disk Utility to erase the whole disk is not an option.
I moved everything to the Trash, but "preparing to empty trash" was counting files to delete forever. I cancelled at -100,000 files.
So what's the recommended way to delete huge amounts of files?
A: If you've got:
Operation Not Permitted
after executing
sudo rm -rf Backups.backupdb
you should follow this approach, which is adding bypass before the remove command:
sudo /System/Library/Extensions/TMSafetyNet.kext/Contents/Helpers/bypass rm -rfv Backups.backupdb
| Q: Fastest way to delete all Timemachine Backups for a machine What is the recommended way to get rid of a whole TimeMachine archive (aka Backups.backupdb)?
Using Disk Utility to erase the whole disk is not an option.
I moved everything to the Trash, but "preparing to empty trash" was counting files to delete forever. I cancelled at -100,000 files.
So what's the recommended way to delete huge amounts of files?
A: If you've got:
Operation Not Permitted
after executing
sudo rm -rf Backups.backupdb
you should follow this approach, which is adding bypass before the remove command:
sudo /System/Library/Extensions/TMSafetyNet.kext/Contents/Helpers/bypass rm -rfv Backups.backupdb
A: If you're comfortable with using Terminal.app (located in Utilities folder), you can try using Unix sudo rm -r <path>/Backups.backupdb command. Note that <path> is the placeholder for the path to the hard drive where your Time Machine backup is located. Please be careful with the path that you pass to this command by ensuring there is no typo.
The complete steps are:
*
*Launch Terminal.app
*In one of Terminal.app's window, type sudo rm -R followed by a space
*Use a Finder window to navigate to the Backups.backupdb folder, then
*Drag that folder to the Terminal.app's window of step 2, and press the Return key.
*You may be asked to type the password for the admin account.
*The default prompt will reappear in the Terminal.app's window when the deletion is done.
Type man rm for documentation.
A: Mattorb's approach works fine.
sudo /System/Library/Extensions/TMSafetyNet.kext/Contents/Helpers/bypass rm -rfv Backups.backupdb
However the path for Backups.backupdb can be more easily entered by dragging and dropping the folder into the terminal window after the command rm -rfv[space]
It still works if you have put Backups.backupdb in trash - all that is needed is to move it to it's original disc and then apply the above terminal command from there.
I hope this helps
A: Once terminal is open, I used the following command:
rm -rfv /path/to/folder/
The r means recursive, f means forcefully, v means verbose so you can actually see the files being deleted.
Be careful when using this command. You must specify the exact path otherwise there is no undo for this command (unless you have a backup which is wise).
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582c1dc6ed8f5e687be16d9270460bd190d7cc66 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I extract/use icons in an icontainer file? I want to change dock view so I downloaded an icontainer file that should contain files to replace some in /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Resources...
But how to extract files from icontainer files?
A: Have you tried out LiteIcon? It should be able to open iContainer format packages, and it is a free alternative to CandyBar.
| Q: How can I extract/use icons in an icontainer file? I want to change dock view so I downloaded an icontainer file that should contain files to replace some in /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Resources...
But how to extract files from icontainer files?
A: Have you tried out LiteIcon? It should be able to open iContainer format packages, and it is a free alternative to CandyBar.
A: You need specific software to open .icontainer files, e.g. CandyBar.
To use an iContainer, simply double-click it in the Finder. If it is not already running, CandyBar will launch and automatically create a new collection in your icon library. You can also import iContainers by simply dragging and dropping the iContainer directly into CandyBar's List Pane. If you would like to view the contents of an iContainer before importing it into CandyBar, and you are running Mac OS X 10.5 or later, simply select the iContainer in the Finder and press the spacebar. This will activate OS X's Quicklook feature and you can browse the icons within the iContainer quickly and easily.
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44371c597db102467b8bc30a2baaa3c151d4509c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I set up domain filtering on an Airport Extreme? I'm wondering if it is possible to set up domain filtering on an Airport Extreme based home network. Specifically, I'd like to block just rad.msn.com, and I need to do that at the network level.
A: Easiest way I know is to use a service like OpenDNS. You set up the Airport to send all DNS requests to OpenDNS and use their filtering (which can be quite sophisticated) to do the job of blocking or whitelisting web addresses. Of course you need to be able to protect the DNS settings on the Airport, but this is doable.
I have it set up for general filtering and monitoring on my home network which has more than 5 computers and more than a dozen wireless handhelds all served from an Airport Extreme.
Check it out at http://www.opendns.com/
| Q: Can I set up domain filtering on an Airport Extreme? I'm wondering if it is possible to set up domain filtering on an Airport Extreme based home network. Specifically, I'd like to block just rad.msn.com, and I need to do that at the network level.
A: Easiest way I know is to use a service like OpenDNS. You set up the Airport to send all DNS requests to OpenDNS and use their filtering (which can be quite sophisticated) to do the job of blocking or whitelisting web addresses. Of course you need to be able to protect the DNS settings on the Airport, but this is doable.
I have it set up for general filtering and monitoring on my home network which has more than 5 computers and more than a dozen wireless handhelds all served from an Airport Extreme.
Check it out at http://www.opendns.com/
A: Airport hardware doesn't have this sort of feature but you could easily accomplish this by running your own DNS on a computer or outsourcing the issue to a provider.
I believe you could also rely on an inexpensive router that did have this feature (or one where open source software was readily available) to run your DNS and let the AirPort handle the rest of the tasks on the network.
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50624bf472ff9b3bc73eab4c2b55787150cdd703 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: how can i set up mamp or web sharing to show clients php application remotely? I'm currently using mamp instead of web sharing and I'm trying to figure out the best approach to share php and mysql web application that I'm working on to clients. What is the best way to do this?
A: I personally prefer using Web Sharing and installing only MySQL Server, just to stick with the Mac OS X Apache setup.
Web sharing has support for PHP, all you need to do is remove the comment (#) from the following line of the file /etc/apache2/httpd.conf:
#LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.
So it becomes:
LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
The PHP module includes MySQL support, so you just need to install the MySQL Server, turn it on and then you are ready to go.
After turning Web Sharing on, put your .php files inside your personal Site folder, and access it on your browser using the address informed on the Web Sharing activation screen, inside Settings.
| Q: how can i set up mamp or web sharing to show clients php application remotely? I'm currently using mamp instead of web sharing and I'm trying to figure out the best approach to share php and mysql web application that I'm working on to clients. What is the best way to do this?
A: I personally prefer using Web Sharing and installing only MySQL Server, just to stick with the Mac OS X Apache setup.
Web sharing has support for PHP, all you need to do is remove the comment (#) from the following line of the file /etc/apache2/httpd.conf:
#LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.
So it becomes:
LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
The PHP module includes MySQL support, so you just need to install the MySQL Server, turn it on and then you are ready to go.
After turning Web Sharing on, put your .php files inside your personal Site folder, and access it on your browser using the address informed on the Web Sharing activation screen, inside Settings.
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857ae94f02102e7b8ff977edb72f9e5272403e12 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I use ipfw to allow LAN access but deny Internet access? How can I use ipfw (or another tool, if one is available) to allow unlimited access between computers on my LAN, but not allow access to the Internet?
(The IPs on my local LAN are 192.168.0.xxx)
A: Has been a while since I've used ipfw but running the following commands on all relevant computers should do the trick:
sudo ipfw -f flush
sudo ipfw add allow tcp from me to 192.168.0.0/24
sudo ipfw add allow ip from me to 192.168.0.0/24
sudo ipfw add deny tcp from me to any
sudo ipfw add deny ip from me to any
To disable just run sudo ipfw flush again
| Q: How do I use ipfw to allow LAN access but deny Internet access? How can I use ipfw (or another tool, if one is available) to allow unlimited access between computers on my LAN, but not allow access to the Internet?
(The IPs on my local LAN are 192.168.0.xxx)
A: Has been a while since I've used ipfw but running the following commands on all relevant computers should do the trick:
sudo ipfw -f flush
sudo ipfw add allow tcp from me to 192.168.0.0/24
sudo ipfw add allow ip from me to 192.168.0.0/24
sudo ipfw add deny tcp from me to any
sudo ipfw add deny ip from me to any
To disable just run sudo ipfw flush again
A: The crudest way I can think of to do this, assuming your network is based on static IPs, is to just not populate the "Default Gateway" IP in the network configuration.
If you are on a DHCP network, you could change the DHCP server configuration, but that would break the internet access of all computers on the LAN, not just some of them.
A: As I was looking for an answer to this, I found another way to do it which does not use ipfw. I'll mention it here in case anyone else is looking for a similar answer later.
The other way to do this is to set the DNS servers to 0.0.0.0.
This can accomplished on the command line using networksetup like this:
networksetup -setdnsservers Wi-Fi 0.0.0.0
If you have an Ethernet connection, you will want to use
networksetup -setdnsservers Ethernet 0.0.0.0
To revert this change, I was able to use 'empty' instead of '0.0.0.0'
networksetup -setdnsservers Ethernet empty
but, depending on your network setup, you may need to specify the actual IP address of your DNS servers instead of using empty.
I still think ipfw is a better tool for the job, but I mention this just in case someone prefers it.
The reason this works for allowing access to other computers on my LAN is that I can access them using hostname.local. instead. For example, the hostname for my MacBook Air is 'air' so I can use ssh air.local. to connect to it, even without DNS servers.
A: you can use ipfw to block all traffic to port 80 which is http. You will need to check if you also need to block other ports e.g. 443, 110, 993 etc
From the comment below, did you want to have http access between machines on your network?
If so just do above and then add the exception to allow http to machines on your ip range. e.g. /24 if thats what your network is.
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7f110c5436d4045a92b90759bc754296f4ea459e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to know what packages are available with (home)brew? I am new to Mac coming from Ubuntu Linux background. How do I find out what packages are available for Homebrew? With Ubuntu I could search packages.ubuntu.com for example, or Google since its using apt
A: brew search lists all available formula (aka packages), requires you to install brew first of course.
Additionally, if you want to get further information about that package before installing it brew info <package name> will list relevant information like version number, dependencies etc.
| Q: How to know what packages are available with (home)brew? I am new to Mac coming from Ubuntu Linux background. How do I find out what packages are available for Homebrew? With Ubuntu I could search packages.ubuntu.com for example, or Google since its using apt
A: brew search lists all available formula (aka packages), requires you to install brew first of course.
Additionally, if you want to get further information about that package before installing it brew info <package name> will list relevant information like version number, dependencies etc.
A: There is a cool website where you can search for the packages and it will list the necessary command to install the stuff.
BrewInstall is the website.
Suppose you want to install wget but don't know the exact name of the package, search the it on https://brewinstall.org it will show you the necessary commands to install it.
Here is how the commands looks like after searching the package:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew install wget
A: If you don't want to install Homebrew first (in order to see all the publicly available packages with brew search as patrix answered), you could browse the formulas on GitHub to see which packages are available — and how they will be installed.
Note: GitHub lists only the first 1000 files from a directory; which is far less than the number of Homebrew Formulae (3111 and counting). You can search for a known / partially known filename with file finder (or press t when at directory listing).
A: There is, of course, the online package (a.k.a. formula) browser on Homebrew’s own website: formulae.brew.sh. You can find formulae (formulas on the street), casks, and analytics data.
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a4fdf995b0599796303f4c3bb2adcb638bcda20b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I adjust additional cinema display screen's brightness? I have an iMac27 run Lion, now I buy a cinema display 27, but at display setting only main screen have brightness adjust controller. And use keyboard to adjust screen brightness also only change main screen.
A: I search and search, finally find this article https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2649213?start=0&tstart=0 .
Gilletty said that:
I was having the same issue on my MacBook Pro. Here is what I did to resolve it:
*
*Ensure lid of laptop is open
*Plug in power, mini-display, AND USB from the Cinema Display into MBP
*Restart computer (*this was the key step for me)
*When computer comes back up, launch System Preferences > Displays and you should now see the brightness option that was once hidden!
So I plug cinema display usb to iMac27, and reopen display setting, now cinema display has it own brightness controller.
lik this:
| Q: How can I adjust additional cinema display screen's brightness? I have an iMac27 run Lion, now I buy a cinema display 27, but at display setting only main screen have brightness adjust controller. And use keyboard to adjust screen brightness also only change main screen.
A: I search and search, finally find this article https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2649213?start=0&tstart=0 .
Gilletty said that:
I was having the same issue on my MacBook Pro. Here is what I did to resolve it:
*
*Ensure lid of laptop is open
*Plug in power, mini-display, AND USB from the Cinema Display into MBP
*Restart computer (*this was the key step for me)
*When computer comes back up, launch System Preferences > Displays and you should now see the brightness option that was once hidden!
So I plug cinema display usb to iMac27, and reopen display setting, now cinema display has it own brightness controller.
lik this:
A: It's way simpler than that guys. The brightness on the display is controlled by simply pressing:
Control+F1 OR Control+F2 to adjust brightness on your secondary screen (the one without the menubar).
F1 and F2 to adjust brighness on your main screen (the one on which the menubar is located).
If you have adjusted settings in System Preferences for the Function Keys to behave as standard Function keys, you will need to hold the Fn key in addition to each combination too.
If your Cinema display has a USB cable (older models), you will need to plug it in.
A: None of the approaches work for my Cinema LED Display 24 inch. Later I found the acdcontrol software from Github. It could only be installed in the Linux machine. You may encounter a situation that the Product ID (PID) of your monitor is not listed as in the file acdcontrol.cpp. (There are more than one version of a specific monitor model.) You have to modify the Product ID in the acdcontro.cpp to your monitors' which you can find by using "acdcontrol /dev/usb/* --detect", according to the manual. And then, compile the program with "make". Good luck.
A: It now works when I:
*
*Plug in the USB (if yours still has one)
*Use DisplayBuddy to control the brightness (use the Apple Display Control in DisplayBuddy)
A: I use Shades. This will solve your problem. I just hope it runs on Lion too.
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209e5e53a47ec5941ba5827d8a2dfc65825a71dd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: .app extension in Spotlight or Alfred I would like to have all applications names displayed without the .app extension in Spotlight or Alfred. Reeder for example is listed as "Reeder", whereas Sparrow is listed as "Sparrow.app".
Which setting determines whether the file extension is visible or not in applications like Spotlight and Alfred?
A: I believe that unless you have "Show all filename extensions" checked in Finder's Preferences, the .app extension is hidden by default. If you were to look at Sparrow in Finder, do you see the .app? If so, open the Get Info window for it (Cmd+i while highlighted) and make sure "Hide extension" is checked. You would have to check each app that is showing its extension manually.
Another thing is that if you have more than one of the app, I think it will always show the extension in Spotlight.
If none of that works, you can always try rebuilding your Spotlight index: $ sudo mdutil -E /
| Q: .app extension in Spotlight or Alfred I would like to have all applications names displayed without the .app extension in Spotlight or Alfred. Reeder for example is listed as "Reeder", whereas Sparrow is listed as "Sparrow.app".
Which setting determines whether the file extension is visible or not in applications like Spotlight and Alfred?
A: I believe that unless you have "Show all filename extensions" checked in Finder's Preferences, the .app extension is hidden by default. If you were to look at Sparrow in Finder, do you see the .app? If so, open the Get Info window for it (Cmd+i while highlighted) and make sure "Hide extension" is checked. You would have to check each app that is showing its extension manually.
Another thing is that if you have more than one of the app, I think it will always show the extension in Spotlight.
If none of that works, you can always try rebuilding your Spotlight index: $ sudo mdutil -E /
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3ef64f1c57175b1fa2e337b409867ecea8d512bb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I just swap the hard drives of two macbook pros (different years)? I'd like to swap the hard drives of two Macbook Pros. One is a Core 2 duo model from 2010, the other a 2011 i5 model. Will this work? I just want to save time and not go through a lengthy data copying process.
A: Yes. In almost all cases, OS X software is hardware-agnostic (as long as the hardware comes from Apple).
| Q: Can I just swap the hard drives of two macbook pros (different years)? I'd like to swap the hard drives of two Macbook Pros. One is a Core 2 duo model from 2010, the other a 2011 i5 model. Will this work? I just want to save time and not go through a lengthy data copying process.
A: Yes. In almost all cases, OS X software is hardware-agnostic (as long as the hardware comes from Apple).
A: Yes, as long as both machines have Intel processors in them then both hard disks are formatted with GUID partitioning. If one of the machines was older and had a Power PC processor in it then you'd need to reformat and partition that drive for the newer processor and partition scheme. In your case, swap away.
A: It would be best to check with Apple on both serial numbers. They can tell you if the part number for each drive is the same or whether the firmware on each drive is 100% correct for both models. Of course, most SATA drives are fine in any mac for general use, but you can get slowness or less than optimal speeds or sleep/wake issues if the firmware on the system and the drive are at odds with each other.
A: As long as you have a SATA hard drive, it doesn't matter what it is. You can also buy a SSD and replace your current one.
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c4148bfff8f15151a9a7b45574117e65eb0ad85b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I use my Logitech G9x mouse on Mac OS X Lion? I've got Logitech G9x mouse. Gaming mouse. Great mouse.
Logitech doesn't support it under MacOS X.
Mouse works perfectly (as far as I can see ) with standard Mac OS driver. (ie right/left/middle buttons and scroll works. What doesn't work are thumb buttons. I've got used to them to go back/forward while browsing, etc.
Couple options I've tried, none helped.
*
*Logitech Control Center (LCC v.3.5.1-28) - did not recognize mouse. Expected.
*USB Overdrive - no support for OS X Lion with repots on kernel crashes from users of OS X Lion. didn't try, as it's not stable solution.
*Steer Mouse didn't recognize G9x on Mac. But did recognize couple other mices I had (ie mx revolution, vx revolution)
Option left: Write own driver. How?
Did I miss anything? Any other drivers out there, I didn't find? (I found a lot of enhancers for magic mouse, or whatever it's called)
A: Use Better touch tool. Freeware. You can assign macros to any button with this wonderful tool.
| Q: How do I use my Logitech G9x mouse on Mac OS X Lion? I've got Logitech G9x mouse. Gaming mouse. Great mouse.
Logitech doesn't support it under MacOS X.
Mouse works perfectly (as far as I can see ) with standard Mac OS driver. (ie right/left/middle buttons and scroll works. What doesn't work are thumb buttons. I've got used to them to go back/forward while browsing, etc.
Couple options I've tried, none helped.
*
*Logitech Control Center (LCC v.3.5.1-28) - did not recognize mouse. Expected.
*USB Overdrive - no support for OS X Lion with repots on kernel crashes from users of OS X Lion. didn't try, as it's not stable solution.
*Steer Mouse didn't recognize G9x on Mac. But did recognize couple other mices I had (ie mx revolution, vx revolution)
Option left: Write own driver. How?
Did I miss anything? Any other drivers out there, I didn't find? (I found a lot of enhancers for magic mouse, or whatever it's called)
A: Use Better touch tool. Freeware. You can assign macros to any button with this wonderful tool.
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0cdd335aeb2838f0f38defc8065a9c51c7dec814 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you reset screen zoom to zero? How do you reset screen zoom to zero?
I mean the one you do with control-mouse wheel, I know you can reset it with the wheel again until it gets to 1:1 but it would be nice to have a keyboard shortcut to make it 1:1
Is there?
A: When zoom is enabled in accessibility preferences, command option - is the default shortcut for zooming out, it's not instant, but it's a pretty fast method.
| Q: How do you reset screen zoom to zero? How do you reset screen zoom to zero?
I mean the one you do with control-mouse wheel, I know you can reset it with the wheel again until it gets to 1:1 but it would be nice to have a keyboard shortcut to make it 1:1
Is there?
A: When zoom is enabled in accessibility preferences, command option - is the default shortcut for zooming out, it's not instant, but it's a pretty fast method.
A: I'd say hold ⌥+⌘+–. In fact, holding ⌥+⌘+8 will disable it, but once you press it again, it comes back to the old level, therefore ⌥+⌘+– seems the best solution.
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fc76392019a0b7c6da40ad0b48c69d8b7000d966 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Quicklook is broken in Lion [Turns out this is known bug #9536151]
I have a strange issue with Quicklook in Lion. This is on a clean install and happens with more than one user. It also isn't fixed if I clean out the Quicklook cache in /var/folders
I have to push the spacebar twice to get Quicklook to work properly.
The first time the usual Quicklook 'window' appears but it is blank:
Push the spacebar again and the image appears. If I restart the Finder the problem goes away briefly. It's driving me nuts.
A: This sounds like a bug; you can report it at bugreporter.apple.com with an Apple ID and password.
Can you reproduce the problem, then check for new error messages in /Applications/Utilities/Console.app? There's a small chance that this will indicate the source of the problem.
| Q: Quicklook is broken in Lion [Turns out this is known bug #9536151]
I have a strange issue with Quicklook in Lion. This is on a clean install and happens with more than one user. It also isn't fixed if I clean out the Quicklook cache in /var/folders
I have to push the spacebar twice to get Quicklook to work properly.
The first time the usual Quicklook 'window' appears but it is blank:
Push the spacebar again and the image appears. If I restart the Finder the problem goes away briefly. It's driving me nuts.
A: This sounds like a bug; you can report it at bugreporter.apple.com with an Apple ID and password.
Can you reproduce the problem, then check for new error messages in /Applications/Utilities/Console.app? There's a small chance that this will indicate the source of the problem.
A: You might see a message in the console like this:
com.apple.quicklook.32bit[22808]): Job appears to have crashed: Abort trap: 6
You should file as bneely says.
Have you tried the usual stuff of repairing permissions, restarting etc.
Also, if you file a report, you should include your system.log (/var/log) and Apple System Profile report (About this Mac > More Info > System Report > save....)
A: Some people recommended deleting your ~Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist file to fix it. I wasn't able to simply delete the file to fix the problem. I had to go into my back up account and make a copy of the file from ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist and then move it into my user account. I'm sure you could do the same thing with your Guest user account, too.
For me, the problem was caused by making the text in QuickLook copyable. I noticed when I turned on defaults write -g QLEnableTextSelection -bool true that the blank Quicklook bug was coming up as talked about in this thread. When I turned it off, (defaults write -g QLEnableTextSelection -bool false) the problem went away.
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4b3413e7c39590d72ec561edc769b51b4a717385 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there any way to block certain sites, eg MacKeeper? MacKeeper (and other sites) adverts pop up on some video sites which I find very irritating. Is there any way to block specific URLs in Safari?
This occurs both on Mac and iPad. Ideally, I'd like a solution I can directly apply to the iPad.
A: I would suggest OpenDNS. You can apply it to your entire network using their name servers and block categories or specific URL's. Although the ad might show up as a frame to a 'Website Blocked' page from OpenDNS, you'll probably find it useful (it's free).
| Q: Is there any way to block certain sites, eg MacKeeper? MacKeeper (and other sites) adverts pop up on some video sites which I find very irritating. Is there any way to block specific URLs in Safari?
This occurs both on Mac and iPad. Ideally, I'd like a solution I can directly apply to the iPad.
A: I would suggest OpenDNS. You can apply it to your entire network using their name servers and block categories or specific URL's. Although the ad might show up as a frame to a 'Website Blocked' page from OpenDNS, you'll probably find it useful (it's free).
A: My prefered solution is using glimmerblocker which is actually an ad blocker but can be also used to just block specific web sites/URLs.
For iDevices it's a bit more difficult (at least if not jailbroken). Glimmerblocker supports a proxy mode though which allows you to point Mobile Safari to the Mac running Glimmerblocker. Of course this requires both systems to be online.
A: For MacOS the quickest way is to edit hosts file:
sudo nano /etc/hosts
add the following line to the end of the file:
127.0.0.1 mackeeper.com
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fbb297e1b3cd220106f6f6b1c661e12e71b3726d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there such thing as a 3rd generation 8GB iPod touch? They are advertised all over Kijiji and Craigslist - just wanted to make sure that the 3rd generation only came in 32 and 64GB.
A: Here is the kb entry for the technical specification of the 3rd gen ipod touch. There are only 32 and 64 GB Models.
| Q: Is there such thing as a 3rd generation 8GB iPod touch? They are advertised all over Kijiji and Craigslist - just wanted to make sure that the 3rd generation only came in 32 and 64GB.
A: Here is the kb entry for the technical specification of the 3rd gen ipod touch. There are only 32 and 64 GB Models.
A: This support page from Apple explains how to identify iPod models. I do not see a 3rd generation iPod Touch with a capacity of 8GB on this list.
A: Working from memory here, so I could be mistaken, but at the time the third generation iPod touches came out, Apple released 32 and 64 GB models. It continued selling the second generation 8GB model alongside them. Someone who ordered an 8GB touch at the time when third generation models were on sale might well believe they have a third generation iPod touch, but there was no refresh of the 8GB model at that time.
A: In 2008, the second generation iPod touch was released, in 8 and 32GB sizes. The next year, the third generation was released with 32 and 64GB. The 8GB 2g was sold alongside it, probably to make it look cheaper. This model doesn't have multitasking or homescreen wallpaper support, nor can it be upgraded past iOS 4.2.1.
I do agree that this was confusing, and it even confused me when I bought the 8GB 2g.
You can identify if a touch 2g was bought before or after the 3g like so: go to Settings, General and About. Scroll down to the model; if it starts with MB, it's the older model. The 2g also has A1288 printed on the back of the device.
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804c1557c8c4b8ca56e0855d1c47eadf6a51d2e4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Are there any other dynamic iOS icons besides the calendar app? The iOS Calendar app dynamically changes every day, showing the current date and weekday. Are there any other dynamic icons, either provided by Apple or 3rd parties?
I'm not talking about the little red circle in the corner letting you know how many updates there are, but rather the entire icon. Jail-broken examples would be interesting, but I'm more interested in jailed examples.
A: The clock icon is dynamic since iOS 7.
| Q: Are there any other dynamic iOS icons besides the calendar app? The iOS Calendar app dynamically changes every day, showing the current date and weekday. Are there any other dynamic icons, either provided by Apple or 3rd parties?
I'm not talking about the little red circle in the corner letting you know how many updates there are, but rather the entire icon. Jail-broken examples would be interesting, but I'm more interested in jailed examples.
A: The clock icon is dynamic since iOS 7.
A: I don't have any jailed examples, I am sorry. AFAIK, it's not possible.
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fbb75f8dab07c747fa22e6e9f0cb1e7b3cc79f75 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where can I find the gray linen texture that's used as the Lion login screen background? My company just updated to Lion, and I really like the gray linen texture that's used as the initial login screen background. I'd like to use it for my desktop background, but it's not one of the options in the Desktop preferences (in the Apple section, anyway.) I'm assuming the graphic exists somewhere, and if I know where I can choose it from the folders.
Can anyone tell me where this graphic is saved or what its filename is?
A: *
*Open System Preferences » Desktop and Screen Saver:
*Click the "+" at the bottom left:
*Press Command + Shift + G to bring up the "Go To Folder" menu, and paste in the path to the background image:
/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/Resources/NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png
(Press Go, and then Return when you see the NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png file is selected)
*You will now be back at the System Preferences window. Make sure that the drop-down selector is set to 'Tile'
Voilà!
| Q: Where can I find the gray linen texture that's used as the Lion login screen background? My company just updated to Lion, and I really like the gray linen texture that's used as the initial login screen background. I'd like to use it for my desktop background, but it's not one of the options in the Desktop preferences (in the Apple section, anyway.) I'm assuming the graphic exists somewhere, and if I know where I can choose it from the folders.
Can anyone tell me where this graphic is saved or what its filename is?
A: *
*Open System Preferences » Desktop and Screen Saver:
*Click the "+" at the bottom left:
*Press Command + Shift + G to bring up the "Go To Folder" menu, and paste in the path to the background image:
/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/Resources/NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png
(Press Go, and then Return when you see the NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png file is selected)
*You will now be back at the System Preferences window. Make sure that the drop-down selector is set to 'Tile'
Voilà!
A: The dark linen source file is stored in the System Library folder so you will need "root" or administrator permissions to make changes to the directory or the file.
/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/Resources/NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png
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e8cb8d3f7bfe037f5de6587e00be11edee6e49ab | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I use the half-qwerty keyboard layout in OSX? I'd like to use the half-qwerty keyboard layout on my mac, without actually buying any (ridiculously priced) hardware. I found a auto-hotkey script, but that appears to be windows-only. Are there any alternatives?
A: I'm the developer of the one-handed typing Mac apps below. Should be just what you're looking for.
*
*One-Hand Keyboard
*One-Hand Keyboard: FREE demo
*Mirror-QWERTY
One-Hand Keyboard is the best option, as it has predictive text. Just type the one-hand keys and it will automatically figure out which word you meant. Type "tges" and it will change it to "this". Your muscle memory makes it very easy to do this.
Mirror-QWERTY is the non-predictive-text version. You hold spacebar to "mirror" the keys. So to type "this" you type [T] [G+Space] [E+Space] [S]. I find this a lot harder to do.
I hope one of these solutions works for you! Would love to hear your feedback.
| Q: How can I use the half-qwerty keyboard layout in OSX? I'd like to use the half-qwerty keyboard layout on my mac, without actually buying any (ridiculously priced) hardware. I found a auto-hotkey script, but that appears to be windows-only. Are there any alternatives?
A: I'm the developer of the one-handed typing Mac apps below. Should be just what you're looking for.
*
*One-Hand Keyboard
*One-Hand Keyboard: FREE demo
*Mirror-QWERTY
One-Hand Keyboard is the best option, as it has predictive text. Just type the one-hand keys and it will automatically figure out which word you meant. Type "tges" and it will change it to "this". Your muscle memory makes it very easy to do this.
Mirror-QWERTY is the non-predictive-text version. You hold spacebar to "mirror" the keys. So to type "this" you type [T] [G+Space] [E+Space] [S]. I find this a lot harder to do.
I hope one of these solutions works for you! Would love to hear your feedback.
A: I found One Hand Keyboard, but at €79,99, it's a little too expensive to try out.
Edit: There's now a free demo available on the Mac App Store:
One-Hand Keyboard [Practice Version]
A: The Magic Frogpad also looks promising, but isn't quite half-qwerty, and still forces me to buy expensive hardware (even though I already have the touchpad).
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e39527956c50c3dae4794d556e111edce02be566 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the last version of Skype that will run on OS X 10.5 for a PPC Mac? I've got a G4 Mac Mini that is running 10.5.8 and the latest version of Skype (v 5.3) will not install on my machine because it is Intel only. What is the last version that would work on PowerPC?
A: You're probably looking for Skype 2.8.0.866 (PPC), which you can find searching the OldApps website. It was released on 29 November, 2010.
Supported Systems: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (PowerPC)
| Q: What is the last version of Skype that will run on OS X 10.5 for a PPC Mac? I've got a G4 Mac Mini that is running 10.5.8 and the latest version of Skype (v 5.3) will not install on my machine because it is Intel only. What is the last version that would work on PowerPC?
A: You're probably looking for Skype 2.8.0.866 (PPC), which you can find searching the OldApps website. It was released on 29 November, 2010.
Supported Systems: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (PowerPC)
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791e3189455430058b5b8ce27ffe5c8706d6321d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: send non-delivery notification I am fairly sure MobileMe (and possibly Mail.App) had a feature which allowed you to send a non-delivery notification for an email. This is possibly the best way to battle spam, however I can not find this feature anywhere now. Has it been removed or is it hidden somewhere else?
A: This page suggests that the feature exists in Mail under Lion. The feature, however, does not appear to exist, either as a toolbar option, nor as a Message menu command, nor as a context menu command, nor as an item in the Help file for Mail. The aforelinked document says "Lion" in its title, but refers to Mail 4.0; the Mail program under Lion is Mail 5.1.
This may or may not have anything to do with Apple's acknowledgement that bounce does not always dissuade spammers.
| Q: send non-delivery notification I am fairly sure MobileMe (and possibly Mail.App) had a feature which allowed you to send a non-delivery notification for an email. This is possibly the best way to battle spam, however I can not find this feature anywhere now. Has it been removed or is it hidden somewhere else?
A: This page suggests that the feature exists in Mail under Lion. The feature, however, does not appear to exist, either as a toolbar option, nor as a Message menu command, nor as a context menu command, nor as an item in the Help file for Mail. The aforelinked document says "Lion" in its title, but refers to Mail 4.0; the Mail program under Lion is Mail 5.1.
This may or may not have anything to do with Apple's acknowledgement that bounce does not always dissuade spammers.
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12b8c11d3009a19b1e2ab1816224f7b663fa0947 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPhone 3G upgraded to iOS 4, does it now support multitasking? Can anybody clarify the availability of multitasking on an iPhone 3G?
I went through several documents in Apple's HI guidelines, which state that:
Multitasking is available on certain devices running ios4 and later.
What does it actually mean? I have an iPhone 3G which doesn't support multitasking, so now if I upgrade my iPhone 3G to iOS4 or later, will it support multitasking?
A: Only iPhone 3GS and later support multitasking. iPhone 3G does not, regardless of which version of iOS is installed, unless you jailbreak it.
| Q: iPhone 3G upgraded to iOS 4, does it now support multitasking? Can anybody clarify the availability of multitasking on an iPhone 3G?
I went through several documents in Apple's HI guidelines, which state that:
Multitasking is available on certain devices running ios4 and later.
What does it actually mean? I have an iPhone 3G which doesn't support multitasking, so now if I upgrade my iPhone 3G to iOS4 or later, will it support multitasking?
A: Only iPhone 3GS and later support multitasking. iPhone 3G does not, regardless of which version of iOS is installed, unless you jailbreak it.
A: The processor has nothing to do with multitasking capability.
It's a software feature that you can enable by jailbreaking the iPhone.
A: Easy way to check: double-press home button and if a bar slides up from the bottom, you've got "multitasking".
A: As Rob Mayoff said, Only iPhone 3GS and later support multitasking. iPhone 3G does not.
However there is a method to enable multitasking on iphone 3G.To enable multitasking on Iphone 3G. You have to download Red Snow on PC and after that download iphone Firmware 4.0(recommended) or later.Plug in your iphone to PC. Install Red Snow in your PC. Then install the iphone firmware 4.0 in your iphone. The iphone will be jailbreaked and will now support multitasking.
A: Iphone 3G does not support multitasking, even with iOS4.
It also does not support voicecontrol or even the last update to iOS4.3. My iphone 3G only updates to iOS4.2.1 :(
A: The key here is the processor the 3G uses. Only the 3GS and later have a processor capable of supporting iOS's multitasking. As noted, there are options with jailbreaking, if you prefer to go that route.
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69c5eb31ce50f28fd2afb35d66d4bc8c54a23fda | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I make auto-hide/show for the dock faster? I really like the auto-hide feature of the dock in Mac OS X.
However, the animation for the dock to reappear is just a bit too slow for me. Since this is quite annoying, I disable the feature.
Is it possible to manually shorten the time for the dock
to reappear?
Btw: I am aware that one can use the key-combo ⌥⌘D to toggle auto hide/show for the dock. But I want solution without using the keyboard.
A: I also find the Dock slow to use and the Launchpad can be sluggish. You might want to try an application launcher such as LaunchBar or Alfred. The former is a paid program (with a free demo), the latter is free. Either let you very quickly launch apps along with hundreds of other functions with applications, files, folders, and more. I don't use, or miss, the Launchpad or the Dock... even on a new Mac they are too slow, not to mention being mouse driven.
| Q: How can I make auto-hide/show for the dock faster? I really like the auto-hide feature of the dock in Mac OS X.
However, the animation for the dock to reappear is just a bit too slow for me. Since this is quite annoying, I disable the feature.
Is it possible to manually shorten the time for the dock
to reappear?
Btw: I am aware that one can use the key-combo ⌥⌘D to toggle auto hide/show for the dock. But I want solution without using the keyboard.
A: I also find the Dock slow to use and the Launchpad can be sluggish. You might want to try an application launcher such as LaunchBar or Alfred. The former is a paid program (with a free demo), the latter is free. Either let you very quickly launch apps along with hundreds of other functions with applications, files, folders, and more. I don't use, or miss, the Launchpad or the Dock... even on a new Mac they are too slow, not to mention being mouse driven.
A: To make it a tiny bit easier... here jonathan's answer, with semi colons so it can all be copied and pasted into the terminal window in one go. (And I tweaked the animation time to how I like it) BIG BIG Kudos to Jonathan for this suggestion, I tried to vote him up but I don't have enough rep!
Open Terminal and copy the following code into it :)
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -int 0; defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 1.0; killall Dock
Tweak the -float number to change animation time
A: To make the Dock instantly leap back into view when it’s needed, rather than slide, open a Terminal window and type the following:
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 0;killall Dock
I find this useful, but if you’d like the animation for the dock to reappear to last for a split-second, try the following:
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.15;killall Dock
To explain, changing "0.15" with any number can let you tailor things as it represents the time in seconds taken for the dock to reappear fully.
To revert back to the default sliding effect, open a Terminal window and type the following:
defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier;killall Dock
A: You can manually set the time it takes for the dock to appear.
Unlike the autohide-time-modifier tip posted by Marius Butuc, this command does not remove the animation of the Dock when it appears.
First, activate auto-hide in System Preferences → Dock → Autohide or type ⌘+⌥+D
Then open the Terminal and type:
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 0; killall Dock
*
*0 is the time it takes for the Dock to appear in seconds. You can choose floats and integers e.g. 2, 0.5,...
*killall Dock causes the Dock to restart.
Restore the default behavior using...
defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-delay; killall Dock
Note that com.apple.dock is case sensitive.
According to MacOSHints this trick was found by reverse engineering from the developer Christian Baumgart of Hyperdock.
This command only works in OS X 10.7 or newer.
A: The modifications in both @gentmatt's and @Marius Butuc's answers are important. I did some testing and in my opinion the delay (before the slide animation starts) should be zero while the animation duration should be 0.4s (to feel natural but fast). You can easily apply these settings by hiding your Dock ( > Dock > Turn Hiding On or ⌥⌘D) and entering these commands in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -int 0
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.4
killall Dock
You can change the values for 0 and 0.4 to see if a different setting works better for you. Don't forget to change int to float if you want to use a float instead of 0.
If you don't like it, you can undo the changes using these commands:
defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-delay
defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier
killall Dock
A: Nice tutorial, but the problem is that it still takes some to show up after you point your mouse to the dock area. To reduce the delay you need to use this code instead
defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0 && killall Dock
This way it comes up instantly! And you might want to leave a 1 second animation so that it looks nice and smooth
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 1 && killall Dock
A: This is a bit of a kludge, but it does make the Dock appear slightly faster.
If your Dock is on the right side of your screen (mine is; vary this for your desired Dock location), set upper and lower right Hot Corners to trigger Launchpad. When the mouse hits a hot corner, it triggers the action instantly, as opposed to after a brief delay with Dock Hiding. If the Dock is hidden and Launchpad gets triggered, the Dock appears. Ignore Launchpad; click what you want on your Dock.
So if you move the mouse to the edge, you get the Dock to appear after a brief delay, but hit either corner and the Dock appears faster. There's distracting action on the rest of the screen (i.e. Launchpad), but if you can ignore it, you get your desired results.
A: @gentmatt, I always install Secrets on my computer. It has lots of various system and application variables that you can toggle or set and the dock animation is one of them. It also allows you to put spacers on the dock to organize it by block a little. And the best thing is that it works as a control panel so no Terminal experience is required. http://secrets.blacktree.com
A: Short answer: There's no known way to actually speed up the animation.
But you might be able to make it marginally faster with a few tweaks.
Your best bet is to get one of the 3rd-party "tweaker" apps such as Cocktail or TinkerTool and disable any of the eye candy related to the Dock.
I'd recommend TinkerTool as it has more Dock-related options right now.
In particular, I'd recommend turning off "Use transparent Dock icons to show hidden applications". And turn on "Disable the three-dimensional glass effect of the Dock".
This will likely have only a minimal benefit, but it could help a bit.
And if anyone ever does figure out how to speed up that animation, it'll be the teams at Cocktail or TinkerTool, so having one of these apps means you'll probably be one of the first to know.
ETA: Fastest way of all: disable Auto-Hide.
I keep my Dock on the right side and it takes up very little screen real estate. It's mostly the vertical pixels that are precious.
And with Lion's new FullScreen feature, if I ever really need to hide it to minimize distractions, I just go FullScreen with the current app.
A: via Cocktail.app
You can modify almost everything with this app.
A: my two cents only to be complete. (in my case I DO hate not seeing bar at all, so I want it to stay ever)
from docs in terminal You can use:
a) usual animation:
defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide -bool TRUE; killall Dock
b) always Shown:
defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide -bool FALSE; killall Dock
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407e0de86997ab223268e539a9dd97dd877cafeb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to save an iTunes Podcast to a USB stick? I have downloaded WWDC 2010 podcast from iTunes. How can I find the Podcast file and save it to a USB Memory stick so people who doesn't have iTunes can play it using quicktime?
A:
Right-Click on the file in iTunes, then select "Show in Finder"
There you have your Podcast-File. You can copy it on your USB-Drive or wherever you want!
| Q: How to save an iTunes Podcast to a USB stick? I have downloaded WWDC 2010 podcast from iTunes. How can I find the Podcast file and save it to a USB Memory stick so people who doesn't have iTunes can play it using quicktime?
A:
Right-Click on the file in iTunes, then select "Show in Finder"
There you have your Podcast-File. You can copy it on your USB-Drive or wherever you want!
A: You can:
*
*Go into podcasts in iTunes.
*Select "Show Feed" at the bottom if you haven't already to show episodes not yet downloaded
*Click the Cloud Icon With Down Arrow next to the episode you want to download
*Open USB Stick in Finder
*Drag and drop the downloaded episode from iTunes to USB folder (no need to find the file, this creates a copy on USB stick)
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ba9879e18820bfc00386c687c93b6ac8ceb5654c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I duplicate an audio CD on Lion without importing tracks into iTunes? I want to create an exact duplicate of an audio CD on my Mac (Lion). Is there a way that does not involve to import the CD into iTunes? I just don't want to remember that I have to delete the tracks after copying. And I'm not sure if importing and burning again really creates an exact copy. (Track gaps preserved, and so on)
I tried using Finder, Crtl-click the CD, select duplicate. Ctrl-click the resulting Folder and select burn to CD, but that left my with a data CD containing AIFF-Files.
Any ideas, or AppStore suggestions?
A: Toast ($99)
Lets you capture, copy, convert, share and burn discs
or
Burn (open source)
again does the same but a more basic version which is free.
| Q: How do I duplicate an audio CD on Lion without importing tracks into iTunes? I want to create an exact duplicate of an audio CD on my Mac (Lion). Is there a way that does not involve to import the CD into iTunes? I just don't want to remember that I have to delete the tracks after copying. And I'm not sure if importing and burning again really creates an exact copy. (Track gaps preserved, and so on)
I tried using Finder, Crtl-click the CD, select duplicate. Ctrl-click the resulting Folder and select burn to CD, but that left my with a data CD containing AIFF-Files.
Any ideas, or AppStore suggestions?
A: Toast ($99)
Lets you capture, copy, convert, share and burn discs
or
Burn (open source)
again does the same but a more basic version which is free.
A: You can use the Disk Utility (included in OS X, Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility) to create an image of a music CD. You can then eject the source disk and with the same Disk Utility you can burn the disk image to a blank CD-R.
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1422ceca3d20fafef5b1bc3908c49b4a01136bee | Apple Stackexchange
Q: 10.7 Launchd + rvm This question fits somewhere between server fault, stackoverflow and askdifferent.
I am installing some web apps on my Lion server using webappctl, which hooks into apaches vhost configs to setup up a reverse proxy (simply mod_proxy). It uses launchd to start the server, in my case unicorn serving a Ruby on Rails app, listening on TCP port 5000. I use RVM (mixed-mode) to facilitate in separate ruby versions and gemsets for each webapp.
The problem lies with RVM and launchd, and the complete environment not being available for launchd.
I tried to start from launchd using /bin/bash -l -c 'unicorn_rails -l 5000' but that gave me bash usage errors in the logs.
Any suggestions for making RVM play nice with launchd?
A: I found a way to make a RVM-based rake command work with launchd:
/bin/bash -l -c '/absolute/path/to/myscript.sh'
My script was calling rake. I wasn't calling it directly.
Have you tried using an absolute path for your unicorn_rails?
The .plist looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>mylabel</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/bin/bash</string>
<string>-l</string>
<string>-c</string>
<string>/absolute/path/to/myscript.sh</string>
</array>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>10</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>00</integer>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>
| Q: 10.7 Launchd + rvm This question fits somewhere between server fault, stackoverflow and askdifferent.
I am installing some web apps on my Lion server using webappctl, which hooks into apaches vhost configs to setup up a reverse proxy (simply mod_proxy). It uses launchd to start the server, in my case unicorn serving a Ruby on Rails app, listening on TCP port 5000. I use RVM (mixed-mode) to facilitate in separate ruby versions and gemsets for each webapp.
The problem lies with RVM and launchd, and the complete environment not being available for launchd.
I tried to start from launchd using /bin/bash -l -c 'unicorn_rails -l 5000' but that gave me bash usage errors in the logs.
Any suggestions for making RVM play nice with launchd?
A: I found a way to make a RVM-based rake command work with launchd:
/bin/bash -l -c '/absolute/path/to/myscript.sh'
My script was calling rake. I wasn't calling it directly.
Have you tried using an absolute path for your unicorn_rails?
The .plist looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>mylabel</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/bin/bash</string>
<string>-l</string>
<string>-c</string>
<string>/absolute/path/to/myscript.sh</string>
</array>
<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>10</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>00</integer>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>
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ce177ae01f7db5baffce854be75d10b116ffd457 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to switch window with swiss german keyboard? I got used to switching between open windows in an application on my other mac (US keyboard: command + tilde.
This doesn't really work on swiss german keyboards, since the tilde is generated with: alt + n. Pressing command + alt + n behaves the same as command + n, that is, the applications tend to open new windows instead of cycling existing ones.
Any tips?
A: And you can edit this in your general settings > keyboard > shortcut to suit your needs.
| Q: How to switch window with swiss german keyboard? I got used to switching between open windows in an application on my other mac (US keyboard: command + tilde.
This doesn't really work on swiss german keyboards, since the tilde is generated with: alt + n. Pressing command + alt + n behaves the same as command + n, that is, the applications tend to open new windows instead of cycling existing ones.
Any tips?
A: And you can edit this in your general settings > keyboard > shortcut to suit your needs.
A: Never mind, I just figured it out by myself:
It turns out, on swiss german keyboards, the shortcut for cycling through windows is not command + tilde but instead command + backtick. The backtick is on the same key as caret, which is the first key to the left of the backspace key. Therefore, I need to press:
command + shift + ^
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eb7bab032a3e35e544af2763bd8e89a855ab268a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: 10.7 FileVault & TimeMachine I would like to know if turning on FileVault affects TimeMachine Backups; if yes how?
(E.G. Do the backups become encrypted? etc.)
A: Time Machine makes a second copy of your data and operates above the Core Storage layer.
File Vault is simply Core Storage setting a scrambling / encryption of all data before it gets written and after it gets read from one or more physical drive(s).
Combined, you can have FV on your real data and not on your TM data. Or the opposite. Or both or none. It all depends how you set it up as nothing changes automatically and you have to manually choose / set-up File Vault for each volume/drive where you wish to have data protected.
In the case you propose (turning on FV on source data), this won't change the encryption on/off status for an existing Time Machine destination. The only way the backup data gets encrypted is if you enable that on the drive when prompted or by intention using Disk Utility.
| Q: 10.7 FileVault & TimeMachine I would like to know if turning on FileVault affects TimeMachine Backups; if yes how?
(E.G. Do the backups become encrypted? etc.)
A: Time Machine makes a second copy of your data and operates above the Core Storage layer.
File Vault is simply Core Storage setting a scrambling / encryption of all data before it gets written and after it gets read from one or more physical drive(s).
Combined, you can have FV on your real data and not on your TM data. Or the opposite. Or both or none. It all depends how you set it up as nothing changes automatically and you have to manually choose / set-up File Vault for each volume/drive where you wish to have data protected.
In the case you propose (turning on FV on source data), this won't change the encryption on/off status for an existing Time Machine destination. The only way the backup data gets encrypted is if you enable that on the drive when prompted or by intention using Disk Utility.
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862fec7b35a647d697db4f9b87bb004f7b9fa173 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to use Notes without using Mail.app With iCloud I've found the notes app super handy now that it easily syncs to my iPhone and iPad. It also syncs to my mac via Mail.app, but I was wondering if there's an easy way to access and edit notes that doesn't require opening my email.
Any way to do this?
A: Currently there is no way to use notes outside of Mail.app as suggested there are other apps like evernote that will sync but not iOS notes sadly.
I would have expected some kind of widget like stickies to work with notes, but no.
| Q: Is there a way to use Notes without using Mail.app With iCloud I've found the notes app super handy now that it easily syncs to my iPhone and iPad. It also syncs to my mac via Mail.app, but I was wondering if there's an easy way to access and edit notes that doesn't require opening my email.
Any way to do this?
A: Currently there is no way to use notes outside of Mail.app as suggested there are other apps like evernote that will sync but not iOS notes sadly.
I would have expected some kind of widget like stickies to work with notes, but no.
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a057f7e9b8895a0e0bf240ef9688cb691c9d7ef5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to migrate my Mac OS X application and data from MacBook Pro to Mac Mini? At my job I have just switched from Windows to a Mac. I already have a MacBook Pro with all the tools for software development set up.
I would like to skip the painful setup process at my work computer and just somehow "clone" my MacBook Pro installation to my new Mac Mini that I got at work - all the apps, settings, files etc.
Is it possible? What tool should I use?
A: As @Globalnomad says using the Migration Assistant is the easiest way as per the Apple reference . However you do not need the extra disk but connect them with a firewire cable see Apple knowledge base for firewire booting
The steps are given in the first reference in he section "Migrating using FireWire or ThunderBolt "
or if no Firewire cable - connect via Ethernet and use the section "Wireless (Wi-Fi) or Ethernet migration" I suspect Wi-Fi might be a bit slow.
| Q: How to migrate my Mac OS X application and data from MacBook Pro to Mac Mini? At my job I have just switched from Windows to a Mac. I already have a MacBook Pro with all the tools for software development set up.
I would like to skip the painful setup process at my work computer and just somehow "clone" my MacBook Pro installation to my new Mac Mini that I got at work - all the apps, settings, files etc.
Is it possible? What tool should I use?
A: As @Globalnomad says using the Migration Assistant is the easiest way as per the Apple reference . However you do not need the extra disk but connect them with a firewire cable see Apple knowledge base for firewire booting
The steps are given in the first reference in he section "Migrating using FireWire or ThunderBolt "
or if no Firewire cable - connect via Ethernet and use the section "Wireless (Wi-Fi) or Ethernet migration" I suspect Wi-Fi might be a bit slow.
A: Easiest way I know is
*
*Make sure your Macbook Pro is connected to a power outlet (you don't
want your Macbook Pro to go to sleep)
*Find an external hard drive (that's big enough to fit all your applications
and data) and connect it to your Macbook Pro. Highly recommend if possible that you connect that hard drive using the fastest connection possible. e.g. IEEE1391/Firewire preferred over USB, or USB 3 over USB 2, etc. Likewise, a Direct Attached Storage will be faster than a Network Attached Storage.
*Launch System Preferences on your MacBook Pro, click on Time
Machine, enable it, and set the above-mentioned hard drive as the
Time Machine backup. Time Machine will start counting down from 100+ seconds, starts indexing. Depending on how much content (application and data) you have, this can take hours. You can continue using the MacBook Pro while Time Machine backs up.
*When Time Machine has completed backing up, if you have saved any
files while Time Machine was running, then run Time Machine one more
time to ensure you got that latest backup.
*Eject the external hard drive and disconnect it from your Macbook
Pro.
*Connect the external hard drive to your Mac Mini.
*Power on your Mac Mini. If your Mac Mini isn't set up, then when
prompted with choice to migrate
*Follow the steps from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4889. Time needed depends on how much application and data in the external hard drive.
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20e3a01fd77af43523125c18ce48e79142b5ba4e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I transfer my Microsoft Office Install to another Mac?
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best way to move Microsoft Office 2011 to a new Mac?
I'm planning on reinstalling Mac OS Lion, but I don't have the MS Office install file or disk. Can I move my installed copy of Office to a USB drive and then back, or to another machine?
A: You can try to move the main folders to an external drive:
*
*/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011
*/Applications/Microsoft Messenger.app
*/Applications/Microsoft Communicator.app
*/Library/Application Support/Microsoft
*/Users/username/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
*/username/Documents/Microsoft-Userdata
Copy these Folders to the same path on your new system.
| Q: How can I transfer my Microsoft Office Install to another Mac?
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best way to move Microsoft Office 2011 to a new Mac?
I'm planning on reinstalling Mac OS Lion, but I don't have the MS Office install file or disk. Can I move my installed copy of Office to a USB drive and then back, or to another machine?
A: You can try to move the main folders to an external drive:
*
*/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011
*/Applications/Microsoft Messenger.app
*/Applications/Microsoft Communicator.app
*/Library/Application Support/Microsoft
*/Users/username/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
*/username/Documents/Microsoft-Userdata
Copy these Folders to the same path on your new system.
A: moving it to a USB will most likely not work, however if you've got the license key you can go on the office website http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads and download the installer.
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3b6959db3a7e0777a78952a5a72d6433e88ea4d6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Which iSCSI initiator should I use on Lion? I am setting up a video editing / encoding workstation based on a mac mini and a freenas box for mass storage. We plan to use iSCSI to share the disk with the mac and had planned on using GlobalSAN's iSCSI initiator as it had worked in testing and was free. Unfortunately, version 5 isn't free so we are back to the drawing board. Or at least now that we have to pay we'd like to make sure we buy the right one.
Anyhow, we've identified a two options:
a) GlobalSAN v5.0
b) Xtend SAN iSCSI Initiator
In addition, I wonder of some open source iSCSI initiators might work since it is BSD under the hood. But I couldn't find a clear answer.
So, for what is essentially a single-user SAN, what iSCSI initiator would use on OSX 10.7?
A: Sorry but "global san Initiator" is both buggy and a slow.
The read/write figures are low, not to mention when you try to combine multiple LAN links together it is highly unreliable.
The ATTO version is far better, but I just wish Apple would provide a version in the kernel.
| Q: Which iSCSI initiator should I use on Lion? I am setting up a video editing / encoding workstation based on a mac mini and a freenas box for mass storage. We plan to use iSCSI to share the disk with the mac and had planned on using GlobalSAN's iSCSI initiator as it had worked in testing and was free. Unfortunately, version 5 isn't free so we are back to the drawing board. Or at least now that we have to pay we'd like to make sure we buy the right one.
Anyhow, we've identified a two options:
a) GlobalSAN v5.0
b) Xtend SAN iSCSI Initiator
In addition, I wonder of some open source iSCSI initiators might work since it is BSD under the hood. But I couldn't find a clear answer.
So, for what is essentially a single-user SAN, what iSCSI initiator would use on OSX 10.7?
A: Sorry but "global san Initiator" is both buggy and a slow.
The read/write figures are low, not to mention when you try to combine multiple LAN links together it is highly unreliable.
The ATTO version is far better, but I just wish Apple would provide a version in the kernel.
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67c476b91b00492d97aa5e4be0fda2756b953f09 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I add an email signature in my iPhone Gmail app? I understand it is fairly easy to add a signature to the standard iPhone mail app. However, I am now using the Gmail app on my iPhone 4S, and I can't seem to figure out how to append a signature to mail sent only through the phone. Is this possible?
A: *
*Open Mobile Safari and visit m.gmail.com
*Sign in and navigate up to the list of folders.
*There's a gear wheel in the top right, tap it.
*In here you can set your 'mobile' signature and opt to use it instead of your desktop signature.
This will now also apply to mail sent via the Gmail app.
EDIT
Theres an update to the gmail app that allows you to do the same thing but from within the app. Show the menu by clicking the icon in the upper left of the screen and you'll see a gear wheel. Tap that and you can set your mobile signature in there.
| Q: How can I add an email signature in my iPhone Gmail app? I understand it is fairly easy to add a signature to the standard iPhone mail app. However, I am now using the Gmail app on my iPhone 4S, and I can't seem to figure out how to append a signature to mail sent only through the phone. Is this possible?
A: *
*Open Mobile Safari and visit m.gmail.com
*Sign in and navigate up to the list of folders.
*There's a gear wheel in the top right, tap it.
*In here you can set your 'mobile' signature and opt to use it instead of your desktop signature.
This will now also apply to mail sent via the Gmail app.
EDIT
Theres an update to the gmail app that allows you to do the same thing but from within the app. Show the menu by clicking the icon in the upper left of the screen and you'll see a gear wheel. Tap that and you can set your mobile signature in there.
A: I does - but it only appends emails after the entire loop rather than the current email, which is something to be fixed yet
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a4de4a3bf8e3f05be5ea6f9603bce1fe44093407 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does iMessage work on both Wi-Fi and 3G? Will iMessage work on 3G if the sender or receiver isn't connected to a wi-fi network?
A: According to Apple, yes, iMessage works over either WiFi or 3G.
| Q: Does iMessage work on both Wi-Fi and 3G? Will iMessage work on 3G if the sender or receiver isn't connected to a wi-fi network?
A: According to Apple, yes, iMessage works over either WiFi or 3G.
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cd5415d05975194679a312a500da57c7a393ba47 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I configure Mac Terminal to have color ls output? How can I configure Mac Terminal to have color ls output?
I am using MacOS 10.5
A: Personally, I'm using Oh My Zsh for adding color and other tricks to my Terminal. I think that is the easiest way.
oh-my-zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing
your Zsh configuration.
It comes bundled with a ton of helpful functions, helpers, plugins,
themes, and a few things that make you shout…
| Q: How can I configure Mac Terminal to have color ls output? How can I configure Mac Terminal to have color ls output?
I am using MacOS 10.5
A: Personally, I'm using Oh My Zsh for adding color and other tricks to my Terminal. I think that is the easiest way.
oh-my-zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing
your Zsh configuration.
It comes bundled with a ton of helpful functions, helpers, plugins,
themes, and a few things that make you shout…
A: Another option is to use the GNU ls which is part of the 'coreutils' program.
You can get it via Rudix or Homebrew (brew info coreutils)or Macports or Fink. That might be preferable to using a "Mac OS X-only" solution if you use the same shell config files on different systems, or are already familiar with GNU ls.
A: UPDATE: I switched to Oh my zsh a year back and it is awesome. My favourite theme is lambda-mod and my version of it.
Combining all the answers here is what I use:
COLOR_RED="\033[0;31m"
COLOR_YELLOW="\033[0;33m"
COLOR_GREEN="\033[0;32m"
COLOR_OCHRE="\033[38;5;95m"
COLOR_BLUE="\033[0;34m"
COLOR_WHITE="\033[0;37m"
COLOR_RESET="\033[0m"
#git_color
function git_color {
local git_status="$(git status 2> /dev/null)"
if [[ ! $git_status =~ "working directory clean" ]]; then
echo -e $COLOR_RED
elif [[ $git_status =~ "Your branch is ahead of" ]]; then
echo -e $COLOR_YELLOW
elif [[ $git_status =~ "nothing to commit" ]]; then
echo -e $COLOR_GREEN
else
echo -e $COLOR_OCHRE
fi
}
#git_branch
function git_branch {
local git_status="$(git status 2> /dev/null)"
local on_branch="On branch ([^${IFS}]*)"
local on_commit="HEAD detached at ([^${IFS}]*)"
if [[ $git_status =~ $on_branch ]]; then
local branch=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
echo "($branch)"
elif [[ $git_status =~ $on_commit ]]; then
local commit=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
echo "($commit)"
fi
}
PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]'
PS1+="\[\$(git_color)\]" # colors git status
PS1+="\$(git_branch)" # prints current branch
PS1+="\[$COLOR_BLUE\]\[$COLOR_RESET\]\$ "
export PS1
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=gxBxhxDxfxhxhxhxhxcxcx
alias ls="ls -Gp"
A: Edit:
~/.bash_profile
or
~/.profile
and add the following line to simply enable color output via ls:
export CLICOLOR=1
To customize the coloring shown by ls you can optionally add this variable, LSCOLORS.
Examples
*
*Default
export LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad
*You can use this if you are using a black background
export LSCOLORS=gxBxhxDxfxhxhxhxhxcxcx
*If you'd like to mimic the colors of a typical Linux terminal:
export LSCOLORS=ExGxBxDxCxEgEdxbxgxcxd
Once you've add the above to either ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile you can either logout/login or source the file in your shell, for eg:
$ . ~/.bash_profile
NOTE: If you need help in selecting colors to use you can use this online tool called LSCOLORS Generator.
A: Simply add the following line to ~/.bash_profile file:
export PS1=" \[\033[34m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\]\w\[\033[31m\]\[\033[00m\] $ "
Preview:
This is my preferred colors. You can customize each part of prompt's color by changing m codes (e.g. 34m) which are ANSI color codes.
List of ANSI Color codes:
*
*Black: 30m
*Red: 31m
*Green: 32m
*Yellow: 33m
*Blue: 34m
*Purple: 35m
*Cyan: 36m
*White: 37m
A: For the Catalina version, you need to add export CLICOLOR=1 in ~/.zshrc.
If you want to adjust the colour palette, change colours theme in terminal settings.
A: I find that all I need really is adding this to my ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc (for Bash) or ~/.zshrc (for Zsh, the new default shell in Catalina)
export CLICOLOR=1
A: Forget all those decades-old cryptic codes for gosh sakes, use the built in Terminal --> Preferences... Settings pane to set the default skin, and edit the ANSI colors to your liking. You can set the font, too. I prefer Menlo 12pt. This is how any regular Joe can do it, and avoid all the crazy command-line, unix-esque way of doing things as other posters have suggested.
A: You can add
alias ls='ls -G'
to your ~/.bash_profile to get colored ls output.
A: If you want a readable Mac OS X Terminal color scheme, you may want to look into this:
*
*http://toddwerth.com/2008/01/25/a-black-os-x-leopard-terminal-theme-that-is-actually-readable/
*http://toddwerth.com/2011/07/21/the-original-ir_black-for-os-x-lion/
I've been using this for over a year now, and I might not be able to function without it!
Here's an updated link:
*
*https://github.com/justincase/IR_Black-OSX
A: Also you can customize the prompt color (and its format) by adding:
PS1='\[\e[0;33m\]\h:\W \u\$\[\e[m\] '
to ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile file. Where 0;33 is regular yellow which looks nice in my black/semitransparent terminal window.
Here is a full list of colors and their explanations: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt
A: Absolutely nothing worked for me.
Eventually I found a very weird solution that fixed everything.
I opened ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist and searched for 'terminal' with Ctrl+F. I removed a section, that said 'DisableColor' or something like that.
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35404e2f7017da4d516f859c5a34d4a05c4b2b85 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: show or copy password instead of dots in application In windows i had a program to inspect the password that i stored in filezilla.
But I forgot my ftp password I can still see the dots but I want to see what the password was that I stored.
Is there anything like that for the mac?
I found a solution for filezilla.
In the filezilla menu use "file->Export".
Save the file to a location
An XML file is generated with al the ftp sites entry's
Open the file with a browser and you should be able to see the passwords
A: Yes, of course. Try finding your "Keychain"-program,which is in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder.
After entering you admin pass, you can view all the passwords stored by your Mac. WiFi passwords, website-logins,...
| Q: show or copy password instead of dots in application In windows i had a program to inspect the password that i stored in filezilla.
But I forgot my ftp password I can still see the dots but I want to see what the password was that I stored.
Is there anything like that for the mac?
I found a solution for filezilla.
In the filezilla menu use "file->Export".
Save the file to a location
An XML file is generated with al the ftp sites entry's
Open the file with a browser and you should be able to see the passwords
A: Yes, of course. Try finding your "Keychain"-program,which is in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder.
After entering you admin pass, you can view all the passwords stored by your Mac. WiFi passwords, website-logins,...
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eb94444e6956e3276b5dac48da7123ce774d27b9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a comprehensive recurring Notifications / Tasks app for iPhone? I want to have configurable recurring tasks and notifications for those tasks.
Eg, I need to trim the hedge once a week, but it doesn't matter whenabouts in the week that I do it. So I want a task that recurs once a week, but I also want to set the notifications to remind me twice every day until I mark it as done, the task then being dormant until the following Monday when the reminders will continue twice every day until I have clipped the hedge that week.
I notice that NotifyMe for iPhone does more or less this: does it, specifically, allow me to customize when I am reminded?
A: Remember the milk is a popular one. They can do weekly reminders (set for last day of week) and after a week (due 7 days after you complete it).
| Q: Is there a comprehensive recurring Notifications / Tasks app for iPhone? I want to have configurable recurring tasks and notifications for those tasks.
Eg, I need to trim the hedge once a week, but it doesn't matter whenabouts in the week that I do it. So I want a task that recurs once a week, but I also want to set the notifications to remind me twice every day until I mark it as done, the task then being dormant until the following Monday when the reminders will continue twice every day until I have clipped the hedge that week.
I notice that NotifyMe for iPhone does more or less this: does it, specifically, allow me to customize when I am reminded?
A: Remember the milk is a popular one. They can do weekly reminders (set for last day of week) and after a week (due 7 days after you complete it).
A: Due provides most of what I'm looking for.
The developer explains in his FAQ that Apple places restrictions on the number of notifications allowed and when they can repeat. However, the app includes the ability to repeat reminders as well as to "snooze" and/or "postpone" them when they sound.
A: Have a look at Recurring Tasks
Do you have trouble keeping track of all the things you have to do?
Do you wish someone reminded you when it's time to change the sheets, make a dentist appointment or renew your subscriptions?
If so, this Recurring Tasks (RT) app might be just the thing for you! RT helps you keep track of when you did what last and reminds you when you should be doing it again.
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ce095136908fe720e1cbface9d276933054f52d4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can a Terminal window be resized with a Terminal command? So that I could resize the window to a certain size from within Terminal.
A: Yes. Terminal supports escape sequences for manipulating windows, including the size and position, layering, and minimizing. Dimensions can be expressed in pixels or characters. See Xterm Control Sequences for details (search for “Window manipulation”; if you’re not familiar with the notation, “CSI” stands for “Control Sequence Introducer”, which is ESC [).
For example, this shell command will set the window to 100x50 characters:
printf '\e[8;50;100t'
Minimize the window for a few seconds, then restore it:
printf '\e[2t' && sleep 3 && printf '\e[1t'
Move the window to the top/left corner of the display:
printf '\e[3;0;0t'
Zoom the window:
printf '\e[9;1t'
Bring the window to the front (without changing keyboard focus):
printf '\e[5t'
Enabling the Control Sequences in Terminal Emulators
Some terminal emulators ignore these control sequences by default and require configuration to enable them.
To enable these in XTerm, set the following resource to true:
allowWindowOps
To enable these in iTerm2, deselect the following preference:
Preferences > Profiles > [profile] > Terminal > Disable session-initiated window resizing
| Q: Can a Terminal window be resized with a Terminal command? So that I could resize the window to a certain size from within Terminal.
A: Yes. Terminal supports escape sequences for manipulating windows, including the size and position, layering, and minimizing. Dimensions can be expressed in pixels or characters. See Xterm Control Sequences for details (search for “Window manipulation”; if you’re not familiar with the notation, “CSI” stands for “Control Sequence Introducer”, which is ESC [).
For example, this shell command will set the window to 100x50 characters:
printf '\e[8;50;100t'
Minimize the window for a few seconds, then restore it:
printf '\e[2t' && sleep 3 && printf '\e[1t'
Move the window to the top/left corner of the display:
printf '\e[3;0;0t'
Zoom the window:
printf '\e[9;1t'
Bring the window to the front (without changing keyboard focus):
printf '\e[5t'
Enabling the Control Sequences in Terminal Emulators
Some terminal emulators ignore these control sequences by default and require configuration to enable them.
To enable these in XTerm, set the following resource to true:
allowWindowOps
To enable these in iTerm2, deselect the following preference:
Preferences > Profiles > [profile] > Terminal > Disable session-initiated window resizing
A: My apologies for necro-reviving an old question, but I thought this answer might be useful for others.
From tedsmith3rd, here's a bash function to move a Terminal window. The magic of terminal command sequences.
function bumpNjump() {
local xDimension="" yDimension="" width="" height="" OPTIND
while getopts 'x:y:w:h:' thisArg
do
case "${thisArg}" in
x) xDimension="${OPTARG}" ;;
y) yDimension="${OPTARG}" ;;
w) width="${OPTARG}" ;;
h) height="${OPTARG}" ;;
esac
done
if [ -n "${width}" -a -n "${height}" ]
then
printf '\e[4;'${height}';'${width}'t';
fi
if [ -n "${xDimension}" -a -n "${yDimension}" ]
then
printf '\e[3;'${xDimension}';'${yDimension}'t'
fi
}
Combine that with this termsize.bash script to get the current geometry, and you have an easy way to control your Terminal window.
#!/bin/bash
# based on a script from http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html
exec < /dev/tty
oldstty=$(stty -g)
stty raw -echo min 0
printf "\e[13t" > /dev/tty
IFS=';' read -r -d t -a pos
xpos=${pos[1]}
ypos=${pos[2]}
# Window (including chrome) size in pixels
printf "\e[14;2t" > /dev/tty
IFS=';' read -r -d t -a size
hsize=${size[1]}
wsize=${size[2]}
stty $oldstty
echo "bumpNjump -x $xpos -y $ypos -h $hsize -w $wsize"
A: Use /usr/X11/bin/resize.
resize -s 30 80 will give you 30 rows and 80 columns.
resize -s 30 0 will give you 30 rows and full columns.
resize -s 0 80 will give you full rows and 80 columns.
A: You could always use AppleScript:
setwidth() { osascript -e "tell app \"Terminal\" to tell window 1
set b to bounds
set item 3 of b to (item 1 of b) + $1
set bounds to b
end"; }
A: Actually you know, moving an resizing windows with a mouse is horribly slow.
I've been using this app SizeUp for a very long time now. It basically resizes any application window by using your keyboard command.
You can do the following (my custom keyboard commands below):
*
*make the window full screen (control + option + command + m)
*move a window 1/2 screen size to the left or right (control + option + command + ←/→ )
*move a window 1/4 screen size to any corner (control + option + shift + ←/→/↑/↓)
*move windows between screens
*move windows between spaces
I think this might do the trick and also help with other window management.
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59542fcfcdd961d5a2c01ce6b0af650807a08f8a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPhone iOS 5 showing incorrect time zone Recently (and only while at work) my phone has started to claim that its 8 hours ahead of the correct local time (e.g. it is currently a little after 1230 and the iPhone is showing a little after 2030).
If I disable automatic time setting (Settings > General > Date and Time > Set Automatically) and manually confirm my location, all is well and the iPhone shows 1230. (Location services are switched on.)
Of course, this isn't sustainable because I'd like my phone's time to be kept in sync.
From researching a little it seems as though this is a carrier related problem, can anyone confirm that?
Update: After discussing the issue with my carrier's helpdesk they confirmed a problem with one of their cells which they subsequently fixed and which caused my timing issue to go away.
Moral of the story: it's not always something that you can fix by yourself!
A: You should see the Location you are in under the set automaticly button. As below. It is greyed out, as this is taken from your current location, so you must have location service enabled.
| Q: iPhone iOS 5 showing incorrect time zone Recently (and only while at work) my phone has started to claim that its 8 hours ahead of the correct local time (e.g. it is currently a little after 1230 and the iPhone is showing a little after 2030).
If I disable automatic time setting (Settings > General > Date and Time > Set Automatically) and manually confirm my location, all is well and the iPhone shows 1230. (Location services are switched on.)
Of course, this isn't sustainable because I'd like my phone's time to be kept in sync.
From researching a little it seems as though this is a carrier related problem, can anyone confirm that?
Update: After discussing the issue with my carrier's helpdesk they confirmed a problem with one of their cells which they subsequently fixed and which caused my timing issue to go away.
Moral of the story: it's not always something that you can fix by yourself!
A: You should see the Location you are in under the set automaticly button. As below. It is greyed out, as this is taken from your current location, so you must have location service enabled.
A: I just had this problem and resolved it. My iPhone thought it was in New York when it was in Abu Dhabi.
Go to Settings > Location Services > System Services
System Services is the last item on the Location Services page. Scroll all the way down and tap it.
Inside System Services, there will be options for: Cell Network Search, Compass Calibration, Diagnostics & Usage, Location-Based iAds, Setting Time Zone, and Traffic.
On my iPhone, Setting Time Zone was switched off. I turned it on and voila! I now have the correct time zone.
I may have turned off location services when I was trying to troubleshoot battery life under iOS 5 and forgotten to turn it back on.
I hope this is helpful.
A: Try to reset Settings > General > Reset > Reset Location Warnings.
A: I had that issue too; it went back to normal after a sync with a PC.
A: I've had this problem too. The settings seemed to change when i entered my WiFi network at home. I resolved this simply by entering Settings -> General -> Date and time -> (uncheck)Set Automatically.
I then entered my timezone, and boom, problem solved!
Hope it helped :)
A: I found that calendars had time zone support on, which means all times are shown at that time zone, instead of the time zone of the current location. To turn it off, go to Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars>Time Zone Support>Off
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b94b00036b7e5bdc06e74fdb69abb875a33a0f52 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I open the .dmg install window on top of everything?
Possible Duplicate:
When opening a DMG file, how do I get it to open up in front of the windows?
Whenever I open up a .dmg file, it just gets opened, but it stays under everything that I've got open.
Right now I would have to launch Mission Control to see the opened .dmg window and then click on it, to become visible at the top.
How can I set it up to behave in a way, that when I open up a .dmg file, it gets displayed on top of everything?
A: That's a Finder (on Lion) issue and as such, there are no settings to tweak for your problem.
A faster way to reach the mount window is to simply click the Finder icon in your Dock.
| Q: How can I open the .dmg install window on top of everything?
Possible Duplicate:
When opening a DMG file, how do I get it to open up in front of the windows?
Whenever I open up a .dmg file, it just gets opened, but it stays under everything that I've got open.
Right now I would have to launch Mission Control to see the opened .dmg window and then click on it, to become visible at the top.
How can I set it up to behave in a way, that when I open up a .dmg file, it gets displayed on top of everything?
A: That's a Finder (on Lion) issue and as such, there are no settings to tweak for your problem.
A faster way to reach the mount window is to simply click the Finder icon in your Dock.
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9c4c3f30a59342e6827e3a6a377649498b8af7dd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Time Machine Backing Up Large Amounts of Data Each Time I've got 2 time machine drives. I have one at home that gets used on the weekend and another that gets backed up to during the week. I recently replaced the one at my office. The only thing that is weird is that it's backing up 3-4GB of data each hour. It goes super quick, so it doesn't feel like its actually backing up that much data, though. I've ran disk utility on the disk and it doesn't find anything. Any thoughts? Is it just something weird or is there a problem with the drive?
A: On Lion you can use tmutil to compare Time Machine backups:
sudo tmutil compare # compare computer to latest backup
sudo tmutil listbackups # list available backups
sudo tmutil compare <backup1> <backup2> # compare two backups from backup list
This should give you a good idea about where the volume is coming from.
| Q: Time Machine Backing Up Large Amounts of Data Each Time I've got 2 time machine drives. I have one at home that gets used on the weekend and another that gets backed up to during the week. I recently replaced the one at my office. The only thing that is weird is that it's backing up 3-4GB of data each hour. It goes super quick, so it doesn't feel like its actually backing up that much data, though. I've ran disk utility on the disk and it doesn't find anything. Any thoughts? Is it just something weird or is there a problem with the drive?
A: On Lion you can use tmutil to compare Time Machine backups:
sudo tmutil compare # compare computer to latest backup
sudo tmutil listbackups # list available backups
sudo tmutil compare <backup1> <backup2> # compare two backups from backup list
This should give you a good idea about where the volume is coming from.
A: Also:
tmutil calculatedrift machine_directory
gives you an overview of the sizes differences between each consecutive backup.
It is useful to pinpoint when exactly that happens, and which backup you should compare with:
sudo tmutil compare <backup1> <backup2>
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968ff5185e9b96c6b06f93ac25591a15a81946ea | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to delete only documents/data of an app without deleting the app itself? I am running out of space on my iPhone and since iOS 5 I can see the worst offenders in Settings -> General -> Usage.
Some apps while being very small themselves have accumulated a lot of data. I want to keep the app itself on the phone but would like to get rid of the data.
Is there a way to delete the data/documents directly on the phone without deleting the app itself?
Or is re-installing the app the only possible way?
A: If the application doesn't provide a way to delete documents, uninstalling and reinstalling the app is definitively the best option here.
| Q: Is there a way to delete only documents/data of an app without deleting the app itself? I am running out of space on my iPhone and since iOS 5 I can see the worst offenders in Settings -> General -> Usage.
Some apps while being very small themselves have accumulated a lot of data. I want to keep the app itself on the phone but would like to get rid of the data.
Is there a way to delete the data/documents directly on the phone without deleting the app itself?
Or is re-installing the app the only possible way?
A: If the application doesn't provide a way to delete documents, uninstalling and reinstalling the app is definitively the best option here.
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627eeff4220059ab0967d63a0689813e7e0950d7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I open a file from Spotlight in Finder? When I search for something e.g. a PDF file, in Spotlight and has i displayed in the search results list. How can I open the file in Finder? If I click on it, the file is opened e.g. in the pdf reader, but I would like to know where on the file system it is.
Any suggestions?
A: Hitting ⌘+↩ does the trick.
| Q: How do I open a file from Spotlight in Finder? When I search for something e.g. a PDF file, in Spotlight and has i displayed in the search results list. How can I open the file in Finder? If I click on it, the file is opened e.g. in the pdf reader, but I would like to know where on the file system it is.
Any suggestions?
A: Hitting ⌘+↩ does the trick.
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a54da12ae83f1eac13bef1920454903ee06fe048 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: In Macbook Pro 17", what's the difference between processors?
What's the difference between processors here, other than 0.1GHz? Are there actual model numbers given for the processors so I can look them up on Intel's website? I'd like to see the real differences, and information seems sparse on the Apple store page. Is it worth $250 for the difference?
A: *
*2.5 GHz (2860QM)
*
*2.5GHz base clock, 3.6GHz max TurboBoost clock.
*8MB cache.
*Bus/core ratio: 25.
*2.4 GHz (2760QM)
*
*2.4GHz base clock, 3.5GHz max TurboBoost clock.
*6MB cache.
*Bus/core ratio: 24.
You can compare the features side-by-side here.
The actual difference is 4x0.1 GHz.
The links will tell you that there is no difference besides the clock speed, cache and bus/core ratio. Exactly the same specifications for advanced technologies, memory and expansions.
According to this source there is a 5.2% difference in performance. 7987 vs 7592 with PassMark.
| Q: In Macbook Pro 17", what's the difference between processors?
What's the difference between processors here, other than 0.1GHz? Are there actual model numbers given for the processors so I can look them up on Intel's website? I'd like to see the real differences, and information seems sparse on the Apple store page. Is it worth $250 for the difference?
A: *
*2.5 GHz (2860QM)
*
*2.5GHz base clock, 3.6GHz max TurboBoost clock.
*8MB cache.
*Bus/core ratio: 25.
*2.4 GHz (2760QM)
*
*2.4GHz base clock, 3.5GHz max TurboBoost clock.
*6MB cache.
*Bus/core ratio: 24.
You can compare the features side-by-side here.
The actual difference is 4x0.1 GHz.
The links will tell you that there is no difference besides the clock speed, cache and bus/core ratio. Exactly the same specifications for advanced technologies, memory and expansions.
According to this source there is a 5.2% difference in performance. 7987 vs 7592 with PassMark.
A: The 2.4 GHz CPU only has 6 MB of L3 cache (in comparison to the 2.5 GHz' 8 MB) in addition to the infinitesimal clock speed increase. Is it worth an additional $250? I would say no, but for those looking to eek out as much speed as possible, perhaps.
I'm not aware of any benchmarks that compared these two processors, but I can't imagine anything above a 2-3% difference, but that is just an educated guess.
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4d0d0ee4732c93356ca7f24f2319d9070daab2e8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Automatically turn bluetooth on or off depending on current network (MBP running Lion) Is there any way to automatically turn Bluetooth on or off when my MacBook Pro (mid-2010, running Lion) joins specific networks? I typically want Bluetooth off except when I am connected to my home wireless or wired network. It would be really handy if I could configure Bluetooth to turn on whenever I join my home network(s), and likewise, turn it off when I join a non-home network.
A: ControlPlane is a supported development based on Marco Polo.
| Q: Automatically turn bluetooth on or off depending on current network (MBP running Lion) Is there any way to automatically turn Bluetooth on or off when my MacBook Pro (mid-2010, running Lion) joins specific networks? I typically want Bluetooth off except when I am connected to my home wireless or wired network. It would be really handy if I could configure Bluetooth to turn on whenever I join my home network(s), and likewise, turn it off when I join a non-home network.
A: ControlPlane is a supported development based on Marco Polo.
A: Once upon a time I was using the free app Macro Polo to do location-aware configuration changes on my MBPro. Sadly, it's not been supported or developed since Snow Leopard. It's still available to try though and it might work well enough on Snow Leopard or Lion to meet your needs. Worth a shot, costs you nothing but time really.
Locations 3 in the MAS purports to do all of the same things as Marco Polo. Included in the list of things it can change is enabling and disabling your BlueTooth radio. I haven't used it though so I can't speak to how well it works. If it's half as good as Marco Polo, it should be pretty useful.
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2c34bfbd68d746abe417cb38489705637a5e99c3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there any equivalent command for usermod? In Linux, if I want to change a user's home directory, I can use the usermod command:
http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl8_usermod.htm
usermod [-c comment] [-d home_dir [-m]]
[-e expire_date] [-f inactive_time]
[-g initial_group] [-G group [,...]]
[-l login_name] [-p passwd]
[-s shell] [-u uid [-o]] [-L|-U] login
Is there any equivalent command in OS X?
A: Since my original answer got transformed in a comment due to it's brevity, here is another go.
The command that you are looking for is dscl on OSX (which works both in OS 10.6 and 10.7 in my experience). As I mentioned this question has been asked before, and you can find the original answer (plus usage examples) on stackExcjange superUser forum at:
https://superuser.com/questions/60150/is-there-a-usermod-equivalent-in-terminal-for-os-x-10-6-1
which provides a number of examples for its use. For instance, adding a user to a group would work as:
dscl . append /Groups/the_group_you_want GroupMembership the_user
In addition, someone did provide a bash script that does what usermod does on linux, and you can find it here:
http://www.splode.com/~friedman/software/scripts/src/arch/noarch-apple-darwin/osx-usermod
(I haven't tested it, so it comes with no guarantees).
HTH
| Q: Is there any equivalent command for usermod? In Linux, if I want to change a user's home directory, I can use the usermod command:
http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl8_usermod.htm
usermod [-c comment] [-d home_dir [-m]]
[-e expire_date] [-f inactive_time]
[-g initial_group] [-G group [,...]]
[-l login_name] [-p passwd]
[-s shell] [-u uid [-o]] [-L|-U] login
Is there any equivalent command in OS X?
A: Since my original answer got transformed in a comment due to it's brevity, here is another go.
The command that you are looking for is dscl on OSX (which works both in OS 10.6 and 10.7 in my experience). As I mentioned this question has been asked before, and you can find the original answer (plus usage examples) on stackExcjange superUser forum at:
https://superuser.com/questions/60150/is-there-a-usermod-equivalent-in-terminal-for-os-x-10-6-1
which provides a number of examples for its use. For instance, adding a user to a group would work as:
dscl . append /Groups/the_group_you_want GroupMembership the_user
In addition, someone did provide a bash script that does what usermod does on linux, and you can find it here:
http://www.splode.com/~friedman/software/scripts/src/arch/noarch-apple-darwin/osx-usermod
(I haven't tested it, so it comes with no guarantees).
HTH
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1a16e72f8586ed05d211f863a83ef49430ec89ce | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to hide quoted text in Lion Mail? In Mail's conversation view, by default, quoted text is hidden and can be shown by clicking "See More from XXX" in the bottom of each message. After clicking that, how can quoted text be hidden again?
A: From the list of mails, change the mail and come back to the previous one. It automatically folds all the quotes when you revisit it.
| Q: How to hide quoted text in Lion Mail? In Mail's conversation view, by default, quoted text is hidden and can be shown by clicking "See More from XXX" in the bottom of each message. After clicking that, how can quoted text be hidden again?
A: From the list of mails, change the mail and come back to the previous one. It automatically folds all the quotes when you revisit it.
A: Go to 'adjust (customize?) toolbar". Drag the "conversations" icon into your toolbar. Now you can click on that icon to hide or show all quoted text again.
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ee9e909a12665ffc8e317a9a87d01720f7d0df15 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Preview in Lion fails when any document opened has changed In Lion Preview.app, if I have many image files open in a single preview window (so that I can scroll through them) and one of them changes on disk (e.g., I remade the image with a plotting program or convert), instead of loading the new image, the whole preview window shows an empty background for all images, even those that have not changed.
In Snow Leopard and Leopard, preview would just reload the new image in place.
Is there any way to fix the Lion version of Preview?
EDIT: related post refresh Preview from command line
A: A rather unsatisfactory solution might be File->Open Recent->*top of the list*
I suggest unsatisfactory because
*
*it launches a new window
*you have to go and close the old window
*the folder you are in might not be at the top of the list
*it's not a keyboard shortcut
*it's not automatic
*it requires a lot of mousing and a couple of clicks
*it makes me have to think
but i digress with this bitching and moaning, did anyone post an issue with Apple or find the proper solution?
| Q: Preview in Lion fails when any document opened has changed In Lion Preview.app, if I have many image files open in a single preview window (so that I can scroll through them) and one of them changes on disk (e.g., I remade the image with a plotting program or convert), instead of loading the new image, the whole preview window shows an empty background for all images, even those that have not changed.
In Snow Leopard and Leopard, preview would just reload the new image in place.
Is there any way to fix the Lion version of Preview?
EDIT: related post refresh Preview from command line
A: A rather unsatisfactory solution might be File->Open Recent->*top of the list*
I suggest unsatisfactory because
*
*it launches a new window
*you have to go and close the old window
*the folder you are in might not be at the top of the list
*it's not a keyboard shortcut
*it's not automatic
*it requires a lot of mousing and a couple of clicks
*it makes me have to think
but i digress with this bitching and moaning, did anyone post an issue with Apple or find the proper solution?
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5ba7ebdd5d5defc0980ef424cd58d3b8e49709df | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I remove DRM from my iTunes music without transcoding? I have some iTunes files with the file type AAC audio (protected) on Windows 7. The problem is that these songs only work with Apple software, and I want to remove the DRM.
A: Apple offers a feature called iTunes Plus to upgrade most purchases to a DRM-free version for a small fee. This link will bring you directly to the appropriate section in iTunes to do this.
| Q: How can I remove DRM from my iTunes music without transcoding? I have some iTunes files with the file type AAC audio (protected) on Windows 7. The problem is that these songs only work with Apple software, and I want to remove the DRM.
A: Apple offers a feature called iTunes Plus to upgrade most purchases to a DRM-free version for a small fee. This link will bring you directly to the appropriate section in iTunes to do this.
A: With iTunes Match you can re-download them in iTunes Plus quality without DRM protection. And it's just $25 a year, definitely worth if you have more than an album with DRM. http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/
A: Here's an article that lists three ways to do it. The first way involves burning audio to CD and re-importing, which would be lossy/transcoding. The second and third methods appear to be software-based techniques to remove the DRM from the files without transcoding. I have not tried any of these methods.
A: Burning to Audio CD and re-ripping is not 'lossy' - yes you change codecs - however, you aren't losing quality going up to Audio CD from your 128 bit files.
When you come back down from Audio CD quality - you could lose quality, however, you could use 'Apple Lossless' or just keep them as AIFF or WAV if you'd prefer. Then you haven't lost any quality from your original files - they are just LOTS bigger :)
A: This answer only applies to someone with a Mac. I don't believe in paying iTunes again for something I already bought once. So, in case it helps someone else:
I've been having success with the program Virtual CD-RW for Mac... there's a 15 day fully functional demo period. (http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33355/virtual-cd-rw)
Basically, it tricks your computer into thinking you've mounted a blank CD. So I just filtered out all my iTunes music whose Kind is Protected AAC (bought before they removed DRM), split it up into CD-sized playlists, and burn and import playlists one by one. Just a modification of burning all your songs to an audio CD and then importing.
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e0a73ad1e3a7eac710ef755869b80430d41d3302 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPhone 4S stereo sound
Possible Duplicate:
iPhone 4 - sound only comes out of one speaker
I finally got my iPhone 4S! But when playing a song, I noticed the sound isn't stereo. The right box is doing all the hard box, while the left one is producing a very minimal sound. Is this standard on the iPhone 4S or is it a hardware/software issue?
A: This is expected - the iPhone 4S does not have stereo speakers. The left "box" is actually a microphone:
image from apple.com/iphone/specs.html
| Q: iPhone 4S stereo sound
Possible Duplicate:
iPhone 4 - sound only comes out of one speaker
I finally got my iPhone 4S! But when playing a song, I noticed the sound isn't stereo. The right box is doing all the hard box, while the left one is producing a very minimal sound. Is this standard on the iPhone 4S or is it a hardware/software issue?
A: This is expected - the iPhone 4S does not have stereo speakers. The left "box" is actually a microphone:
image from apple.com/iphone/specs.html
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575a224294bcbd5d8e65415f0df6c729fc4034b4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I restore a Windows 7 System Image to a OS X Lion Boot Camp partition? I just updated the hard drive in my MacBook Pro. I decided to also take the opportunity to upgrade it to Lion. I previously had Boot Camp under Snow Leopard. I created a new Boot Camp partition and went through Windows 7 installation. Now, I am trying to restore my previous Windows 7 system image. Windows restore seems to insist on wanting to format the entire drive though. Clearly I don't want to do this.
Is there any way to restore the image back into the Boot Camp partition?
I am willing to hack around the recovery console if necessary.
A: Winclone might be a good solution.
Winclone allows you to image a Bootcamp partition and migrate it to a new Mac, or in this case a freshly installed OS on a new HD. Here's their tutorial: http://twocanoes.com/asset.php?id=9
| Q: How do I restore a Windows 7 System Image to a OS X Lion Boot Camp partition? I just updated the hard drive in my MacBook Pro. I decided to also take the opportunity to upgrade it to Lion. I previously had Boot Camp under Snow Leopard. I created a new Boot Camp partition and went through Windows 7 installation. Now, I am trying to restore my previous Windows 7 system image. Windows restore seems to insist on wanting to format the entire drive though. Clearly I don't want to do this.
Is there any way to restore the image back into the Boot Camp partition?
I am willing to hack around the recovery console if necessary.
A: Winclone might be a good solution.
Winclone allows you to image a Bootcamp partition and migrate it to a new Mac, or in this case a freshly installed OS on a new HD. Here's their tutorial: http://twocanoes.com/asset.php?id=9
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7be95bad34b41aa90ed937cdc33d59c81f4d852c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: An iOS app for JIRA that works I am a Jira superuser, my company runs Jira and I am looking for a way to use it on the go.
Unfortunately, none of the mobile Jira app I have been using seems to work with our setup.
Does anyone have recommendations?
A: Free iOS app for JIRA was released in March and there are a lots of features coming on mobile.Here is the link to official JIRA app, JIRA Mobile
| Q: An iOS app for JIRA that works I am a Jira superuser, my company runs Jira and I am looking for a way to use it on the go.
Unfortunately, none of the mobile Jira app I have been using seems to work with our setup.
Does anyone have recommendations?
A: Free iOS app for JIRA was released in March and there are a lots of features coming on mobile.Here is the link to official JIRA app, JIRA Mobile
A: At present, the best mobile app for JIRA may well be Mobile Safari. Have you tried installing Atlassian's JIRA iPhone Web Interface plug-in?
EDIT (based on subsequent comments):
It seems like you've tried most of the available apps. The only one I haven't tried is Undock - it's $5, but it supports Gemini, Basecamp, and Bugzilla as well as JIRA. Has great reviews, so it might be worth a shot.
Failing that, they do have the JIRA plug-in source code on Bitbucket. Updating it to JIRA 5 would be pretty difficult but I bet updating from 4.2.4 to 4.3 would not be too bad.
A: Here is nice free one officially from Atlassian: JIRA Real Life
It allows you to quickly add issues on the go with voice notes, photos.
Handy to add issues, but I guess it is not for browsing through existing issues.
A: You can try also JIRA.me application. We have released it 2 months ago (Pro version) and just recently we've published a Free, read-only version (you can buy Pro upgrade later) that allows you to get what the application is like.
A quick summary of current functionality:
*
*pre-defined and user defined (through Web interface) filters available,
*inline actions like assign directly from issues list, or issue details
*editing an issue,
*searching for issues
*supports Confluence Wiki markup language
A: Check out our new iOS JIRA App: Chronoscope for JIRA
Some of the features included are:
*
*track your working time with the included stopwatch (chronoscope)
*work on multiple JIRA systems simultaneously
*browse the cockpit for a very fast access to your tasks
*get an overview of all your work logs
*search for specific issues
Soon we are going to release a new version with a timesheet (looks like a calendar with all your worklogs).
A: JIRA Board offers a nice, native way to visualize your kanban & scrum boards
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jira-board-kanban-scrum-agile/id934196108?mt=8
A: Easy Jira is an iPhone app designed as an alternative to Atlassian's mobile client. Just as Atlassian's "JIRA Cloud" it is simple to use, but has some unique differences:
*
*The app works with self-hosted JIRA servers
*There is no "your session timed out" problem. App simply logs you in
automatically. The auto-login can be secured by fingerprint
verification if needed
*Caching mechanism inside the app allows you to access tasks while
offline (in read-only mode)
*Unlike all other iPhone clients, the app allows you to attach any
possible files to JIRA (not only images and videos)
The app is designed to work with custom workflows. If you find any problems with your JIRA workflow - write me (I'm the developer of this app) and I will try to make respective corrections in the engine.
The file uploading functionality is paid, but the rest 99% of the app is free to use.
http://easyjira.in.ua
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44dade0c68f54d39213b554908b5068a7cf35258 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Transmission aborts automated shut down. My ISP offers unlimited downloads at a certain time period at night, but I don't want to wake up to shutdown my MBP 13.3 at that time. I tried to specify a certain shutdown time using the Energy Saver option.
However, I found out to my utter dismay that Transmisison needs to be explicitly closed before it for the computer to shut down.
A: *
*In Transmission go to the preferences
*uncheck System sleep under Network
*uncheck Quit with active transfers under General
| Q: Transmission aborts automated shut down. My ISP offers unlimited downloads at a certain time period at night, but I don't want to wake up to shutdown my MBP 13.3 at that time. I tried to specify a certain shutdown time using the Energy Saver option.
However, I found out to my utter dismay that Transmisison needs to be explicitly closed before it for the computer to shut down.
A: *
*In Transmission go to the preferences
*uncheck System sleep under Network
*uncheck Quit with active transfers under General
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8ae56ce0d43ff6ccfe1680730d52170dbef9041d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Are there other options for reducing glare on a MacBook Pro? I'm discouraged that for those of us wanting matte displays, we have to get a pretty crummy looking white-gray border around the screen rather than the sleek black edge that normal MacBook Pros come with:
Is there a way to get a matte display without having to get the terrible-looking edge? Could I buy a regular MacBook and use some commercial screen overlay which would give the same effect without compromising the black edge?
A: I once saw someone using a sort of matte finish film on their MacBook display which seemed pretty effective.
It was something like the item in this review
Looks like you'd have to be very careful when applying it.
| Q: Are there other options for reducing glare on a MacBook Pro? I'm discouraged that for those of us wanting matte displays, we have to get a pretty crummy looking white-gray border around the screen rather than the sleek black edge that normal MacBook Pros come with:
Is there a way to get a matte display without having to get the terrible-looking edge? Could I buy a regular MacBook and use some commercial screen overlay which would give the same effect without compromising the black edge?
A: I once saw someone using a sort of matte finish film on their MacBook display which seemed pretty effective.
It was something like the item in this review
Looks like you'd have to be very careful when applying it.
A: There are lots of options a simple Google search for Macbook screen protector brings up many sheets of anit-glare plastic that can be applied over the screen in the same way as an iPhone protector.
http://www.gearzap.com/power-support-anti-glare-screen-protector-macbook-pro-13-inch.html
Is one of the first page hits, it is UK based though.
A: I have one of these on my glossy 15" MacBook Pro and love it. I use the same film on my iPhone 4S (and have used it previously on iPhone 4 and iPhone 3G with great success).
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71eb63707b7f25ff22f60af647779ada96263a53 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is is possible to go invisible in iChat? I want to be able to go invisible in iChat, like I can via Gmail. How can I do this?
A: When using Gmail in iChat before 10.7 you can't go invisible. I'm using Adium to be able to go invisible when I login via Gmail.
| Q: Is is possible to go invisible in iChat? I want to be able to go invisible in iChat, like I can via Gmail. How can I do this?
A: When using Gmail in iChat before 10.7 you can't go invisible. I'm using Adium to be able to go invisible when I login via Gmail.
A: Yes, just click on the Green light that says available and you will had all these options as in the picture below.
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6befb743f37ab12fd2f9a1aeb81de3a8e84ae9da | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Terminal behaving differently since updating to Lion Ever since my company updated to Lion, terminal.app has been behaving differently. When I click on the dock icon, it sometimes opens several terminal windows at once, instead of a single one, and all of them display my previous session's activity, rather than just opening to a shell prompt.
What can I do to make the terminal go back to behaving the way it used to? I can't find anything in the prefs that would account for these changes.
A: This is the resume feature of OS X Lion.
Undo resume for a specific application
Type the following command in the Terminal. Then restart the specific application.
In general the syntax is:
defaults write com."producer"."program-name" ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES
Thus, in your case (Terminal.app) it is:
defaults write com.apple.terminal ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES
If you want to set the resume feature again, simply write NO using the same syntax.
Undo resume for all applications
In order to disable this for all applications do this:
go to System Preferences->General
| Q: Terminal behaving differently since updating to Lion Ever since my company updated to Lion, terminal.app has been behaving differently. When I click on the dock icon, it sometimes opens several terminal windows at once, instead of a single one, and all of them display my previous session's activity, rather than just opening to a shell prompt.
What can I do to make the terminal go back to behaving the way it used to? I can't find anything in the prefs that would account for these changes.
A: This is the resume feature of OS X Lion.
Undo resume for a specific application
Type the following command in the Terminal. Then restart the specific application.
In general the syntax is:
defaults write com."producer"."program-name" ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES
Thus, in your case (Terminal.app) it is:
defaults write com.apple.terminal ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES
If you want to set the resume feature again, simply write NO using the same syntax.
Undo resume for all applications
In order to disable this for all applications do this:
go to System Preferences->General
A: If you prefer a graphical interface you can use the app TinkerTool.
This application gives you access to additional preference settings and allows to activate hidden features in the operating system.
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bef94b71310e2a3add02c02b535d936e2a09769f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Customising Lion’s accented letters
Possible Duplicate:
Add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion
I’m slightly disappointed by Lion’s iOS inspired feature to show a selection of accented characters on key hold.
On a German keyboard, when pressing a, I am able to choose between ä, â, à, á, æ, ã, å, ā. So far so nice.
However, I feel some characters are missing. There is no ç (although I could type this one using option+c), no ğ and no ł either. On the other hand the letter ń is shown (which like ł is more or less only used in Polish) but to which OS X does not show an upper case version. shift+n yields no results.
Is there some way to enhance and expand this set of letters with own additions?
A: This problem has been solved recently elsewhere in the forum:
How to add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion?
| Q: Customising Lion’s accented letters
Possible Duplicate:
Add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion
I’m slightly disappointed by Lion’s iOS inspired feature to show a selection of accented characters on key hold.
On a German keyboard, when pressing a, I am able to choose between ä, â, à, á, æ, ã, å, ā. So far so nice.
However, I feel some characters are missing. There is no ç (although I could type this one using option+c), no ğ and no ł either. On the other hand the letter ń is shown (which like ł is more or less only used in Polish) but to which OS X does not show an upper case version. shift+n yields no results.
Is there some way to enhance and expand this set of letters with own additions?
A: This problem has been solved recently elsewhere in the forum:
How to add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion?
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b6a969f3a9dee66549508ab6e557b3b6f4155f2a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I download a PDF document that is embedded on a webpage in iOS? If I'm viewing a webpage which embeds a PDF document with the <object> tag (example), how can I download this page on the iPhone?
If I view a non-embedded PDF document (example), I can select the Open in... option and download it to an application such as Dropbox. I have not found a way to do this when the PDF is embedded.
If there was a way to figure out the PDF's address, I could copy and paste it into the address bar, but I haven't figured out a way to do this either.
So my questions are:
*
*Is there any way to do this in Safari?
*Is there any way to get the URL of the embedded PDF document?
*Are there any 3rd party applications for iOS that allow me to download, or get the address of, the embedded document?
A: Use Google Chrome. Chrome will have the disk save option icon at the bottom. Chrome Web browser also has built-in print to PDF file.
| Q: How can I download a PDF document that is embedded on a webpage in iOS? If I'm viewing a webpage which embeds a PDF document with the <object> tag (example), how can I download this page on the iPhone?
If I view a non-embedded PDF document (example), I can select the Open in... option and download it to an application such as Dropbox. I have not found a way to do this when the PDF is embedded.
If there was a way to figure out the PDF's address, I could copy and paste it into the address bar, but I haven't figured out a way to do this either.
So my questions are:
*
*Is there any way to do this in Safari?
*Is there any way to get the URL of the embedded PDF document?
*Are there any 3rd party applications for iOS that allow me to download, or get the address of, the embedded document?
A: Use Google Chrome. Chrome will have the disk save option icon at the bottom. Chrome Web browser also has built-in print to PDF file.
A: You could install a View Source on iPhone bookmarklet and access the page content (including the link to the embedded pdf) directly.
A: In iOS 5.1.1 if found no way to get the PDF out of Safari without extra tools.
You can select the object (by double tap on it and hold) and select "copy", but i found no way to get anything out of it.
But with another webbrowser like "Opera mini" which don't show the PDf inline, you can get the URL or open the PDF direct in iBooks.
A: Try an app called Offline Reader.
When I open PDFs in Safari and tap on them it gives me the option to download them or open in iBooks.
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84e47c52b2edf5dc7902a10b46c65e4b7f6763ad | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I prevent the App Store from doing automatic update checks or notifications? I don't like the App Store app automatically checking for app updates, or showing me notifications when there are updates for my installed apps. I prefer to take care of updates when I'm ready to update.
How can I prevent the App Store from automatically checking from updates, or from giving me the the little red notification when updates are available?
I've got an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1.
A: Sadly, it seems there is no way to do that.
I checked the AppStore panel in the preference app, and the notification panel. No trace of an option to do that.
Sorry!
| Q: How can I prevent the App Store from doing automatic update checks or notifications? I don't like the App Store app automatically checking for app updates, or showing me notifications when there are updates for my installed apps. I prefer to take care of updates when I'm ready to update.
How can I prevent the App Store from automatically checking from updates, or from giving me the the little red notification when updates are available?
I've got an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1.
A: Sadly, it seems there is no way to do that.
I checked the AppStore panel in the preference app, and the notification panel. No trace of an option to do that.
Sorry!
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a8ae6fb2491fa9148b5dda48f45e76740b65bed2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Setting time format preference in unix (Mac-Terminal) I'm learning to work in unix using Terminal on a Mac and I'd like to set the default listing for the timestamp to display in 12 hour time, using AM and PM, instead of 24 hour time (ie: 1:00 PM, not 13:00). I'm somewhat familiar with setting preferences, so to speak, using the ~/.bashrc file, where I've set a couple of aliases, including one with the options for my preferred ls display. I've looked at the man pages and elsewhere online, but I haven't had any luck finding what I'm looking for time-wise though. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
A: Using GNU ls, on Linux, there is a --time-style flag you can use to specify one of a few pre-defined time types, or specifying a completely custom +FORMAT style like the date command accepts. However, BSD ls, which Apple ships, does not support this flag.
I've seen similar discrepancies in commands like date and tar as well, all rooted in the differences between the GNU and BSD variants.
| Q: Setting time format preference in unix (Mac-Terminal) I'm learning to work in unix using Terminal on a Mac and I'd like to set the default listing for the timestamp to display in 12 hour time, using AM and PM, instead of 24 hour time (ie: 1:00 PM, not 13:00). I'm somewhat familiar with setting preferences, so to speak, using the ~/.bashrc file, where I've set a couple of aliases, including one with the options for my preferred ls display. I've looked at the man pages and elsewhere online, but I haven't had any luck finding what I'm looking for time-wise though. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
A: Using GNU ls, on Linux, there is a --time-style flag you can use to specify one of a few pre-defined time types, or specifying a completely custom +FORMAT style like the date command accepts. However, BSD ls, which Apple ships, does not support this flag.
I've seen similar discrepancies in commands like date and tar as well, all rooted in the differences between the GNU and BSD variants.
A: The Mac OS terminal uses a bash shell. The prompt is controlled by the PS1 environment variable described more here. Try this for example.
export PS1='\t$ '
It will give you a prompt looking something like this
19:40:14$
A: man date
Check out the "+format" option. You could create a shell alias to display the date using a custom format.
If you're referring to the time format used by 'ls', I don't believe there is any way to change that.
A: to get 12:00 AM/PM use
export PS='\@'
I hope this helps.
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2f4db6d70ad969afd0175c485fb43fbd3eef2b28 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: The iPhone could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (9) This is an issue that occurred to my iPhone.
What is the recommended general fix for this?
A: I was able to fix this issue by plugging my iPhone into another Windows machine, then placing the iPhone back onto the original machine, then doing a restore on the iPhone.
| Q: The iPhone could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (9) This is an issue that occurred to my iPhone.
What is the recommended general fix for this?
A: I was able to fix this issue by plugging my iPhone into another Windows machine, then placing the iPhone back onto the original machine, then doing a restore on the iPhone.
A: I had this error occur today when attempting to update my iPhone 4 to iOS5. I'm using the latest iTunes (10.5) on Windows 7. Here's how I resolved it:
*
*Disconnected all devices from my computer except the iPhone and rebooted the laptop
*Put the iPhone in Airplane mode, then cycle the power (power down, power back up)
*Connect the iPhone and restart the update in iTunes
A: Re-try again, then run Console for any further details.
For advanced solution try to Download and install OS X USB Debug Kits which will provide more information about USB device and interface detection, driver and interface matching, driver loading and information generated as a result of normal and abnormal conditions.
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540a590780d619f974ce7764b363b4111b0ce8ce | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can homebrew and macports work together to let Firefox-X11 be installed? I want to install firefox-x11 but theres no repo in homebrew, only macports seems to have one, hence I'm at a loss how to get firefox-X11 on a system that relies on homebrew for OSS.
The way I'd solve this is:
*
*install software with macports (Firefox-X11 in particular)
*remove macports
*install homebrew and still use the software installed by macports (firefox)
I fear this will not work.
A: No - as removing macports will remove the software it installs. Macports )and Fink) are designed so that they use directories that only they update and control so that they have full control of what happens).
In this case however you can get to this stage.
*
*Remove Homwbrew or at least remove or rename /usr/local
*Install macports and check that the /opt/local/bin is at the end of
your path
*Install firefox-xll
*Reinstall Homebrew or restore /usr/local
As /usr/local/bin is before /opt/local/bin in your path then you will get the Homebrew program before the macports one.
| Q: Can homebrew and macports work together to let Firefox-X11 be installed? I want to install firefox-x11 but theres no repo in homebrew, only macports seems to have one, hence I'm at a loss how to get firefox-X11 on a system that relies on homebrew for OSS.
The way I'd solve this is:
*
*install software with macports (Firefox-X11 in particular)
*remove macports
*install homebrew and still use the software installed by macports (firefox)
I fear this will not work.
A: No - as removing macports will remove the software it installs. Macports )and Fink) are designed so that they use directories that only they update and control so that they have full control of what happens).
In this case however you can get to this stage.
*
*Remove Homwbrew or at least remove or rename /usr/local
*Install macports and check that the /opt/local/bin is at the end of
your path
*Install firefox-xll
*Reinstall Homebrew or restore /usr/local
As /usr/local/bin is before /opt/local/bin in your path then you will get the Homebrew program before the macports one.
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c23038fd5dd0d3c92ae4215956910fb59ab4ee3e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Prevent OS X from switching my keyboard layout when password fields are focused Some months ago, I switched to the Colemak keyboard layout, which is mostly great. But, there is one annoyance that is imposed by OS X.
When the OS pops up a confirmation dialog to ask me to type my password in order to authorize an app for higher privileges, the OS switches my keyboard layout back to QWERTY whenever the password field of this dialog is focused. Not only that, but the OS prevents me from changing the layout back as long as that field has focus.
Now, I am perfectly able to type my password on the Colemak keyboard. In fact, I'm much better at it now than I am at typing it on QWERTY. I want this behavior to stop. Unfortunately, I can find no setting for this, neither in system preferences nor in a defaults read dump. But just because I can't find it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Does anyone know how to fix this?
I'm running OS X 10.7.2 on a MacBookPro 3,1.
A: Put the .keylayout in /Library/Keyboard Layouts/ instead of ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts/.
| Q: Prevent OS X from switching my keyboard layout when password fields are focused Some months ago, I switched to the Colemak keyboard layout, which is mostly great. But, there is one annoyance that is imposed by OS X.
When the OS pops up a confirmation dialog to ask me to type my password in order to authorize an app for higher privileges, the OS switches my keyboard layout back to QWERTY whenever the password field of this dialog is focused. Not only that, but the OS prevents me from changing the layout back as long as that field has focus.
Now, I am perfectly able to type my password on the Colemak keyboard. In fact, I'm much better at it now than I am at typing it on QWERTY. I want this behavior to stop. Unfortunately, I can find no setting for this, neither in system preferences nor in a defaults read dump. But just because I can't find it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Does anyone know how to fix this?
I'm running OS X 10.7.2 on a MacBookPro 3,1.
A: Put the .keylayout in /Library/Keyboard Layouts/ instead of ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts/.
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6db8b94ba6fdfbe6e29ab06b9b42525d09decbcf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I figure out which keychain entries a process wants access to I'm getting really tired of seeing this:
As I understand it, ubd (the Ubiquity daemon) is responsible for the “Documents and Data” portion of iCloud's syncing. However, all of my iCloud-related data are in a separate, non-locking keychain.
How can I tell which keychain entries a particular process is trying to access? Failing that general case, does anybody know which keys specifically ubd needs access to?
A: First with any Keychain question/problem, run Keychain First Aid, found under the Keychain Access menu.
It is to be hoped you also check the option to Show Keychain Access in menubar, for quick access to all.
| Q: How can I figure out which keychain entries a process wants access to I'm getting really tired of seeing this:
As I understand it, ubd (the Ubiquity daemon) is responsible for the “Documents and Data” portion of iCloud's syncing. However, all of my iCloud-related data are in a separate, non-locking keychain.
How can I tell which keychain entries a particular process is trying to access? Failing that general case, does anybody know which keys specifically ubd needs access to?
A: First with any Keychain question/problem, run Keychain First Aid, found under the Keychain Access menu.
It is to be hoped you also check the option to Show Keychain Access in menubar, for quick access to all.
A: What you could do (but will take some time) is to check each keychain item and see which ones have allowed "ubd" to have access to (on the Access Control tab, while viewing a Keychain item).
Also make sure that "Confirm before allowing access" is selected. After that, you can just unlock the keychain and you will get a "ubd" wants to access the entry ... in your keychain.
A: This is just a first level warning that the process UBD wishes a look inside keychain for something. At that point you have to go inside that keychain and check that all of the items do not let that process automatically or always access the contents(one by one for each item in the keychain). The tool for this looking is Keychain Access.
What you verified the things in the keychain are set properly you can go ahead and allow the opening of the keychain and it will then be able to just examine what is inside that keychain file by name.
In this case everything seems "on the up and up" because the ubiquity demon would quite reasonably want to look inside that keychain file just to see if you could be storing an iCloud account credentials. It doesn't mean it would get to read the password or anything encrypted about that iCloud account, it's just checking to see if an iCloud account could be stored in there.
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7f7d3e54a10027c9eb6bcaa5eabfc62379040392 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I easily add a batch of files to the HandBrake queue? How do I add multiple files into the queue at once in HandBrake?
I heard that multiple files can be added to the queue by selecting the folder. But when I select the folder as source, only the first file is added, rather than all the files.
Am I missing something?
A: After adding the folder as the source, File>Add All Titles To Queue
| Q: How can I easily add a batch of files to the HandBrake queue? How do I add multiple files into the queue at once in HandBrake?
I heard that multiple files can be added to the queue by selecting the folder. But when I select the folder as source, only the first file is added, rather than all the files.
Am I missing something?
A: After adding the folder as the source, File>Add All Titles To Queue
A: I've wondered about automating HandBrake using the command line interface (CLI) and Automator. Here's a tutorial that covers lots of details of using the CLI, though I think it only processes one file at a time, rather than building a queue:
http://www.mactalk.com.au/18/87490-guide-convert-movies-ipod-format-one-click-finder.html
While looking for a solution to answer this question, I came upon a thread about using Hazel (instead of Automator - not free):
http://www.noodlesoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=859&p=3356#p3356
For the amount of labor I go through when converting videos, I'm considering giving this a try since it can help with other tasks such as copying to iTunes and my NAS.
For reference, here's a link to HandBrake's CLI Guide:
https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/CLIGuide
A: Here's your answer. It's a Handbrake add-on for Automator.
Download the most recent zip, open it, double-click on the automator action to add the Handbrake action to Automator.
A: If you want more control over the HandBrake/Automator integration, I wrote a blog post covering a custom Service I made with Automator that uses AppleScript to talk to the CLI.
http://dovfrankel.com/post/37269517618/using-handbrake-on-a-list-of-files
A: The Mac OS version has no explicit "open folder" option, however, you can still open a folder and process the content in batch mode.
Click the button "Open Source" and...
if you are inside the folder you want to process, "do not select any file", just click the open button.
OR
Select the folder to process and then click open.
A: The only way to set up multiple files for processing is to use the 'Add to Queue' button (or the ⌘B shortcut) in Handbrake.
This is by design as Handbrake requires you specify a destination folder and file name for the converted video file. If you were able to add all files in a folder, how would Handbrake know the unique output location and name for each rendered file? It doesn't make any guesses about those things, it requires the user to specify them for each render.
Once you've staged each file in the queue you can use the Start button (or the ⌘S shortcut) to tell Handbrake to begin processing the queue.
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865d79fde7bd1abc20c138ea7a30d0ce49b33c86 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does Notational Velocity/nvALT securely sync with Simplenote? I set nvALT to use a single database to store my notes. Using a database provides the benefit of encryption. I also sync my notes using Simplenote.
I just noticed this warning at the bottom of the synchronization settings window:
Note contents will be delivered in clear text.
This came as a bit of a shock because I have personal sensitive information stored in nvALT.
I searched for the syncing APIs of Simplenote which seem to use HTTPS but I'm not sure about that. Can anyone explain how the synchronization works exactly and what the warning message means?
A: The Notational Velocity FAQ appears contradictory:
How does encryption work in conjunction with Simplenote?
If database encryption is enabled under Preferences > Notes > Security, then your notes will be encrypted on disk. However, they will still be sent to Simplenote without encryption. (And obviously Notational Velocity will always use SSL regardless.)
It seems to say that the encrypted DB will be decrypted and then re-encrypted with SSL. So Simplenote will be able to see your notes after they receive and decrypt, but an eavesdropper would not.
| Q: Does Notational Velocity/nvALT securely sync with Simplenote? I set nvALT to use a single database to store my notes. Using a database provides the benefit of encryption. I also sync my notes using Simplenote.
I just noticed this warning at the bottom of the synchronization settings window:
Note contents will be delivered in clear text.
This came as a bit of a shock because I have personal sensitive information stored in nvALT.
I searched for the syncing APIs of Simplenote which seem to use HTTPS but I'm not sure about that. Can anyone explain how the synchronization works exactly and what the warning message means?
A: The Notational Velocity FAQ appears contradictory:
How does encryption work in conjunction with Simplenote?
If database encryption is enabled under Preferences > Notes > Security, then your notes will be encrypted on disk. However, they will still be sent to Simplenote without encryption. (And obviously Notational Velocity will always use SSL regardless.)
It seems to say that the encrypted DB will be decrypted and then re-encrypted with SSL. So Simplenote will be able to see your notes after they receive and decrypt, but an eavesdropper would not.
| apple | {
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75889249cebaec324d7464037f91c264dbd8761a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Text-To-Speech to read websites in Chrome? I am using the Chrome browser and I know OS X has built-in voice synthesis that can speak to assist visually impaired users.
Can I use this feature to have the computer read contents of websites for me? Eg., I'd like to select a couple of paragraphs and have them read.
I know Safari has that built-in, but for one, there I don't know how to change the voice (e.g. I'd prefer a male voice), and secondly, I'd prefer to have it with Chrome.
Is it possible?
A: OS X's built in screen reader, VoiceOver, works in Chrome.
To enable it, go to System Preferences-> Universal Access-> Seeing and toggle the VoiceOver: radio group to On. You will also be able to check the shortcut key for easily enabing/disabling VoiceOver.
I recommend you take some time and familiarize yourself with VoiceOver; it's very powerful but takes some getting used to.
Click the VoiceOver Utility button to configure VoiceOver. This lets you change, among many other options, the voice and speaking speed.
| Q: Text-To-Speech to read websites in Chrome? I am using the Chrome browser and I know OS X has built-in voice synthesis that can speak to assist visually impaired users.
Can I use this feature to have the computer read contents of websites for me? Eg., I'd like to select a couple of paragraphs and have them read.
I know Safari has that built-in, but for one, there I don't know how to change the voice (e.g. I'd prefer a male voice), and secondly, I'd prefer to have it with Chrome.
Is it possible?
A: OS X's built in screen reader, VoiceOver, works in Chrome.
To enable it, go to System Preferences-> Universal Access-> Seeing and toggle the VoiceOver: radio group to On. You will also be able to check the shortcut key for easily enabing/disabling VoiceOver.
I recommend you take some time and familiarize yourself with VoiceOver; it's very powerful but takes some getting used to.
Click the VoiceOver Utility button to configure VoiceOver. This lets you change, among many other options, the voice and speaking speed.
A: Fortunately, someone (me) developed a Chrome extension that does exactly what you're looking for: Announcify
PS: Sorry for shamelessly advertising my own products.
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134eff4338696cdaa229a38fd8f95d632858d03f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to send existing photos to photo stream? I just enabled iCloud on my iPad. I've also downloaded iPhoto on my Mac to sync my photos on the iPad. The problem is that I can only get pictures that I downloaded after I enabled iCloud on my iPad.
Is there a way to add all the photos to photo stream?
A: Drag the photos from the album to your photo stream. Careful though; I did this and can't find a way to undo what I've added to my photo stream!
| Q: How to send existing photos to photo stream? I just enabled iCloud on my iPad. I've also downloaded iPhoto on my Mac to sync my photos on the iPad. The problem is that I can only get pictures that I downloaded after I enabled iCloud on my iPad.
Is there a way to add all the photos to photo stream?
A: Drag the photos from the album to your photo stream. Careful though; I did this and can't find a way to undo what I've added to my photo stream!
| apple | {
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ae8d56b29ecdec36612d1047d2cc2a0079386c29 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What does an exclamation point mean next to an e-mail address in an iCal invitation? I'm getting strange behavior with invitations I send from iCal to another .mac address. The invitations never show up (not in the invitee's inbox, nor in his iOS Calendar or iCal) and my iCal shows an exclamation point next to his address in the invitation:
What does this mean and how do I (or does he) fix it?
I'm using iCloud and he is using MobileMe, but I find it hard to be believe that should prevent me from inviting him (or even notifying him).
A: This means that the invite has not been sent.
You should check that the email address is correct, edit the event and try again. If the invite is sent and accepted a checkmark will appear here. If an invite has been sent but not yet responded to, a question mark will appear. This suggests that the invite has not been sent.
Make sure you are connected to the internet.
If all this fails, check that you have set up a card for yourself in the Address Book, as iCal uses this info to send to the invitee.
| Q: What does an exclamation point mean next to an e-mail address in an iCal invitation? I'm getting strange behavior with invitations I send from iCal to another .mac address. The invitations never show up (not in the invitee's inbox, nor in his iOS Calendar or iCal) and my iCal shows an exclamation point next to his address in the invitation:
What does this mean and how do I (or does he) fix it?
I'm using iCloud and he is using MobileMe, but I find it hard to be believe that should prevent me from inviting him (or even notifying him).
A: This means that the invite has not been sent.
You should check that the email address is correct, edit the event and try again. If the invite is sent and accepted a checkmark will appear here. If an invite has been sent but not yet responded to, a question mark will appear. This suggests that the invite has not been sent.
Make sure you are connected to the internet.
If all this fails, check that you have set up a card for yourself in the Address Book, as iCal uses this info to send to the invitee.
| apple | {
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0b3719513937fdd9e653b76d56e00191154b00ca | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Enabling remote login without password authentication I have enabled remote login (ssh) on my Mac via System Preferences. But it doesn't work with keys and only works with normal user/pass authentication. I want to disable this behaviour and only allow public key (RSA or DSA) authentication.
I edited /etc/sshd_config and uncommented following lines:
PasswordAuthentication no
PermitEmptyPasswords no
I then restarted the Remote Login service but it didn't help. It still allows password authentication and my keys are rejected.
Could anyone help me set this up?
A: Allow me to answer myself as I found a resolution.
If PasswordAuthentication no doesn't work on its own (and I read in some situations it may) make sure to uncomment and set to "no" this:
UsePAM no
Kudos for this resolution go to Mac OS X Hints - http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050815135941513&lsrc=osxh.
| Q: Enabling remote login without password authentication I have enabled remote login (ssh) on my Mac via System Preferences. But it doesn't work with keys and only works with normal user/pass authentication. I want to disable this behaviour and only allow public key (RSA or DSA) authentication.
I edited /etc/sshd_config and uncommented following lines:
PasswordAuthentication no
PermitEmptyPasswords no
I then restarted the Remote Login service but it didn't help. It still allows password authentication and my keys are rejected.
Could anyone help me set this up?
A: Allow me to answer myself as I found a resolution.
If PasswordAuthentication no doesn't work on its own (and I read in some situations it may) make sure to uncomment and set to "no" this:
UsePAM no
Kudos for this resolution go to Mac OS X Hints - http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050815135941513&lsrc=osxh.
A: On Mac OS X 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion) you also need to comment out the following line in /etc/sshd_config:
# The default is to check both .ssh/authorized_keys and .ssh/authorized_keys2
# but this is overridden so installations will only check .ssh/authorized_keys
#AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys
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fcf95238d79cbb3bde40a39941bf440287e87186 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to restrict "Remote Login" (ssh) access to only certain IP ranges? Can someone please tell me how to restrict SSH access only to certain IP ranges (e.g. local network) and not the whole Internet? I guess this has to be done via firewall.
A: I did not test this, but I'd try this in terminal:
sudo ipfw add allow src-ip 10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/16,192.168.0.0/16 dst-ip me dst-port 22
sudo ipfw add reject src-ip any dst-ip me dst-port 22
| Q: How to restrict "Remote Login" (ssh) access to only certain IP ranges? Can someone please tell me how to restrict SSH access only to certain IP ranges (e.g. local network) and not the whole Internet? I guess this has to be done via firewall.
A: I did not test this, but I'd try this in terminal:
sudo ipfw add allow src-ip 10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/16,192.168.0.0/16 dst-ip me dst-port 22
sudo ipfw add reject src-ip any dst-ip me dst-port 22
A: From man sshd:
/etc/hosts.allow
/etc/hosts.deny
Access controls that should be enforced by tcp-wrappers are defined here.
Further details are described in hosts_access(5).
https://debian-administration.org/article/87/Keeping_SSH_access_secure offers these examples:
# /etc/hosts.allow
sshd: 1.2.3.0/255.255.255.0
sshd: 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
# /etc/hosts.deny
sshd: ALL
The TCP wrapper program in Mac OS X is: tcpd
A: If you are behind a router and didn't map the port to your computer, that effectively disables SSH access from the internet.
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720c40a24ed319ffcf5a6983dd4a7cdead4a4af2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What do the numbers after an invitee's status in iCal mean? After the text describing the status of an invitee in iCal (in the context menu for the invitee) there is a number. For example I nearly always see numbers like 1.1 or 1.2:
and occasionally I see "n/a":
More importantly, I've recently discovered that one of my invitees is consistently not getting my invitations, and his status (uniquely among all my contacts) shows a different number, 5.1:
What do these numbers mean and why does one of them seem to be associated with an inability to receive invitations from me?
I am using OS X 10.7.2, iCal 5.0.1, and iCloud. The invitations in question are all being sent to mac.com or me.com addresses.
A: These numbers are only present for users who have enabled the iCal "debug menu", using a third party configuration tweaking utility, or the command line
defaults write com.apple.iCal IncludeDebugMenu 1
which adds them, as part of an additional entry in each invitee's context menu, after his e-mail addresses:
The numbers themselves contain information about the invitee's version of
MobileMe or iCloud.
| Q: What do the numbers after an invitee's status in iCal mean? After the text describing the status of an invitee in iCal (in the context menu for the invitee) there is a number. For example I nearly always see numbers like 1.1 or 1.2:
and occasionally I see "n/a":
More importantly, I've recently discovered that one of my invitees is consistently not getting my invitations, and his status (uniquely among all my contacts) shows a different number, 5.1:
What do these numbers mean and why does one of them seem to be associated with an inability to receive invitations from me?
I am using OS X 10.7.2, iCal 5.0.1, and iCloud. The invitations in question are all being sent to mac.com or me.com addresses.
A: These numbers are only present for users who have enabled the iCal "debug menu", using a third party configuration tweaking utility, or the command line
defaults write com.apple.iCal IncludeDebugMenu 1
which adds them, as part of an additional entry in each invitee's context menu, after his e-mail addresses:
The numbers themselves contain information about the invitee's version of
MobileMe or iCloud.
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0e5b0d915038c2ecb856773e823c1a196e6e54c9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I set up multihoming? I am running Mac OS X Server 10.6 on my iMac and I am wondering how to multihome a Mac. I know it's possible to accomplish this by using both Wi-fi and Ethernet, but I just want to use Ethernet. Any idea how to set this up? Thanks.
A: Got it. All you have to do is add multiple Ethernet interfaces in Network Preferences. And then just configure each one to the correct settings and you're set to go. I tested this by hosting two different websites on two different IPs by multihoming my iMac and it worked!
*
*System Prefs -> Network dialog
*Press the + button and select the interface you want to add to (you may need to go back and identify which one if you have multiple Ethernet ports).
*Name the service and press "Create"
*Configure the new service as you would a static (manual) interface
*Click "Apply"
| Q: How can I set up multihoming? I am running Mac OS X Server 10.6 on my iMac and I am wondering how to multihome a Mac. I know it's possible to accomplish this by using both Wi-fi and Ethernet, but I just want to use Ethernet. Any idea how to set this up? Thanks.
A: Got it. All you have to do is add multiple Ethernet interfaces in Network Preferences. And then just configure each one to the correct settings and you're set to go. I tested this by hosting two different websites on two different IPs by multihoming my iMac and it worked!
*
*System Prefs -> Network dialog
*Press the + button and select the interface you want to add to (you may need to go back and identify which one if you have multiple Ethernet ports).
*Name the service and press "Create"
*Configure the new service as you would a static (manual) interface
*Click "Apply"
| apple | {
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08e0dad3aa2f6e6a4253fdbaeba4363c17aed4cd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why is Skype using 100% of my CPU or more and how can I fix it? Today I used the Mac version of Skype for the first time on my new MacBook Air 11" running Lion - v10.7.2.
To my surprise, the process was using more than 100% CPU, the CPU temperature went high, as expected, and the fan went wild! Even more, the battery went from full to critical after just one hour of the video call.
Just now, I opened Skype to get the version number - v5.3.60.1093 - with no active chats nor calls, the CPU usage went to 135.9% in the blink of an eye!
This issue seems to be all over the Skype forums, but I can't seem to find a solution.
If anybody can lead me towards a viable fix, I'd be grateful!
A: I found this fix on a Skype community thread:
Quit Skype, then in your home directory, look for a folder called Library/Caches/com.skype.skype and delete or rename that folder then start Skype... cpu usage should be back to normal.
If you can't find that folder, open your Terminal and simply type:
$ open ~/Library/Caches/com.skype.skype
| Q: Why is Skype using 100% of my CPU or more and how can I fix it? Today I used the Mac version of Skype for the first time on my new MacBook Air 11" running Lion - v10.7.2.
To my surprise, the process was using more than 100% CPU, the CPU temperature went high, as expected, and the fan went wild! Even more, the battery went from full to critical after just one hour of the video call.
Just now, I opened Skype to get the version number - v5.3.60.1093 - with no active chats nor calls, the CPU usage went to 135.9% in the blink of an eye!
This issue seems to be all over the Skype forums, but I can't seem to find a solution.
If anybody can lead me towards a viable fix, I'd be grateful!
A: I found this fix on a Skype community thread:
Quit Skype, then in your home directory, look for a folder called Library/Caches/com.skype.skype and delete or rename that folder then start Skype... cpu usage should be back to normal.
If you can't find that folder, open your Terminal and simply type:
$ open ~/Library/Caches/com.skype.skype
A: The issue exists with all 5.x and 6.x versions. However if you downgrade to version 2.8, CPU usage will be normal (3.5% with 2.8 version vs 149% with 6.x versions). The only problem is that video chats will not work any more. But if you do not use those, it is not a problem.
I keep 6.x version for video chats and 2.8 for all-day running. So if somebody asks me for a video call, I just ask them to wait until I restart skype.
| apple | {
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b30d4c05b69e22c80be7815cea75c690191dc62d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a Mac diagnostics utility for troubleshooting hardware issues? Is there software that helps identify problems, issues, conflicts, etc. with the hardware of a Mac?
I came across Tech Tool Deluxe, which was apparently used in Applecare. Wondering if there was any other hardware diagnostics tool out there.
A: Looks like Apple Hardware Test is a possible solution. Might need some elbow grease to get it to work on OS X Lion.
| Q: Is there a Mac diagnostics utility for troubleshooting hardware issues? Is there software that helps identify problems, issues, conflicts, etc. with the hardware of a Mac?
I came across Tech Tool Deluxe, which was apparently used in Applecare. Wondering if there was any other hardware diagnostics tool out there.
A: Looks like Apple Hardware Test is a possible solution. Might need some elbow grease to get it to work on OS X Lion.
| apple | {
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"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/34110"
} |
4fa39c0250b58256f658f2423ed873d75714ca08 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I sync Safari's Reading List between multiple Macs and an iPhone? I would like for Reading List to automatically sync between an iMac, MacBook Air, and an iPhone 4S. The Macs are both running Lion 10.7.2 and the iPhone is running iOS 5.0. All three devices are signed into the same iCloud account and have 'Bookmarks' checked. It appears that some syncing has occurred at some point between them, but it hasn't seemed to be working lately.
A: Sometimes this can be caused by temporary issues with your account or the connection to the iCloud servers. Waiting it out isn't a bad strategy if you don't want to go for official support or when restarting the affected devices is not effective at clearing up the issue.
For ongoing issues, you might reach out to iCloud support to ensure it's not an issue with your setup or account.
| Q: How do I sync Safari's Reading List between multiple Macs and an iPhone? I would like for Reading List to automatically sync between an iMac, MacBook Air, and an iPhone 4S. The Macs are both running Lion 10.7.2 and the iPhone is running iOS 5.0. All three devices are signed into the same iCloud account and have 'Bookmarks' checked. It appears that some syncing has occurred at some point between them, but it hasn't seemed to be working lately.
A: Sometimes this can be caused by temporary issues with your account or the connection to the iCloud servers. Waiting it out isn't a bad strategy if you don't want to go for official support or when restarting the affected devices is not effective at clearing up the issue.
For ongoing issues, you might reach out to iCloud support to ensure it's not an issue with your setup or account.
A: This might be an issue with Apple ID password requirements. Does your 8 character Apple ID password include at least 1 number and 1 capital letter? If it doesn't, try setting a new compliant password to see if this fixes the iCloud problem.
| apple | {
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b845238b9aa969a9c3a86ca400efc3750c62f19c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why won't my MacBook Pro boot from a Linux Live CD? Whenever I try to boot up from a live cd, it starts to boot and then it tells me:
No bootable file system available.
It's an Early 2011 MacBook Pro 13" 8,1 with the 2.3 GHz Core i5.
What's going on?
A: Macs use the EFI Firmware (BIOS for Windows).
You need to download a special Mac ISO that allows to boot on both BIOS and EFI Systems.
*
*For Ubuntu 11.10 you can download the specific Mac image here:
64-bit Mac (AMD64) desktop CD
*By experience I know that the following distros allow to boot on EFI systems using the "standard" ISO: Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint
Your questions is related to this here on askubuntu.
| Q: Why won't my MacBook Pro boot from a Linux Live CD? Whenever I try to boot up from a live cd, it starts to boot and then it tells me:
No bootable file system available.
It's an Early 2011 MacBook Pro 13" 8,1 with the 2.3 GHz Core i5.
What's going on?
A: Macs use the EFI Firmware (BIOS for Windows).
You need to download a special Mac ISO that allows to boot on both BIOS and EFI Systems.
*
*For Ubuntu 11.10 you can download the specific Mac image here:
64-bit Mac (AMD64) desktop CD
*By experience I know that the following distros allow to boot on EFI systems using the "standard" ISO: Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint
Your questions is related to this here on askubuntu.
A: You'll probably want to take a look at rEFIt
That's how I booted and installed Linux on my Mac. It's a very nice piece of software.
A: I installed the rEFIt on my late 2011 Macbook Pro and it messed up the whole startup and login. I never got refit screen after startup which should appear after a few restarts. The opposite, after a few restarts I was not able to login in on the startup screen. The password was still workin, so I could login into the computer using ssh on another computer. Weird. I finally solved it with TimeMachine.
Stay away from fEFIt if you're having the latest Macbook Pro with Lion.
A: What other commenters have not made plain is that virtually all Linux live boot CDs presume that you'll be using them on a computer that uses BIOS (that's basically all PCs designed for Windows). BIOS (Basic Input-Output System) is computer software in the firmware of the motherboard itself that is the first thing to run at bootup of a PC.
Macs do not use BIOS at all. They use a completely different method of booting the computer, called EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface).
So you need to see if your preferred distribution of Linux has a live boot CD that will work with EFI and not BIOS.
| apple | {
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ae1e967a5b525762543376c0a8d04c4f8751aa25 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a URL scheme for sending an SMS to multi-recipients? I just got quickpick from the app store, and of course I have it doing my basic call this person (tel://A), text this person(sms://B), but I would like to know, is there a URL scheme for SMS with multiple recipients? I've tried mms://A+B but it doesn't recognize mms:// as a command.
Any thoughts?
A: If sms:// launches Messages (and it does), then you don't need an mms:// handler, because sms:// launches Messages but doesn't determine the message type. Simply tap the camera icon and choose the photo to send once Messages launches.
Protocol handlers like tel:// and sms:// are just glorified urls, like http://www.askdifferent.com/, and they were not designed with multiple resources in mind. Resources being domains, files, etc. Note that you cannot request two files from within a single URL.
Example: You cannot do something like: http://www.askdifferent.com/images/uploadedscreenshot1.png+uploadedscreenshot2.png
I've attempted various delimiters for multiple recipients, such as %20, ,, |, +, and &, and none of them working. I would not be surprised if there is no way to specify multiple recipients via the sms:// protocol URI.
| Q: Is there a URL scheme for sending an SMS to multi-recipients? I just got quickpick from the app store, and of course I have it doing my basic call this person (tel://A), text this person(sms://B), but I would like to know, is there a URL scheme for SMS with multiple recipients? I've tried mms://A+B but it doesn't recognize mms:// as a command.
Any thoughts?
A: If sms:// launches Messages (and it does), then you don't need an mms:// handler, because sms:// launches Messages but doesn't determine the message type. Simply tap the camera icon and choose the photo to send once Messages launches.
Protocol handlers like tel:// and sms:// are just glorified urls, like http://www.askdifferent.com/, and they were not designed with multiple resources in mind. Resources being domains, files, etc. Note that you cannot request two files from within a single URL.
Example: You cannot do something like: http://www.askdifferent.com/images/uploadedscreenshot1.png+uploadedscreenshot2.png
I've attempted various delimiters for multiple recipients, such as %20, ,, |, +, and &, and none of them working. I would not be surprised if there is no way to specify multiple recipients via the sms:// protocol URI.
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d9684c6111cb1e00f528b7896b5a65bf7f713522 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I limit the headphone max volume on OS X? So I hurt my ears from excessively loud music last week at work. I'm well aware of the volume down key of course, but I tend to crank it up too much throughout the day without noticing it.
I need a limiter and it needs to be system-wide, since I listen to various other sound sources aside from iTunes. This isn't really an issue on my phone, since I can set a volume limit in the iOS settings.
Is there an equivalent built-in or third-party fix for OS X Lion?
A: If you're not satisfied with the default audio settings of your Mac (I can increase or decrease the sound for my whole OS with one key), you can try Hear. It's an equalizer (and limiter) for the sounds your Mac is producing.
If you really want to limit your sound, I'm afraid there is no app for it right now. I found some other topics however where they asked the same question as you. Here and here. Basically, it comes down to "use limited external speakers" or "be aware of your sound settings" :)
| Q: How can I limit the headphone max volume on OS X? So I hurt my ears from excessively loud music last week at work. I'm well aware of the volume down key of course, but I tend to crank it up too much throughout the day without noticing it.
I need a limiter and it needs to be system-wide, since I listen to various other sound sources aside from iTunes. This isn't really an issue on my phone, since I can set a volume limit in the iOS settings.
Is there an equivalent built-in or third-party fix for OS X Lion?
A: If you're not satisfied with the default audio settings of your Mac (I can increase or decrease the sound for my whole OS with one key), you can try Hear. It's an equalizer (and limiter) for the sounds your Mac is producing.
If you really want to limit your sound, I'm afraid there is no app for it right now. I found some other topics however where they asked the same question as you. Here and here. Basically, it comes down to "use limited external speakers" or "be aware of your sound settings" :)
A: I now got a working solution based on one of the links in Michiel's answer, but let's spell it out more clearly.
What I did was to
*
*Download volimiter, a faceless CLI application.
*Pair it upp with Lingon, a launchdaemon manager.
*Set volimiter to launch on login with preferred setting:
volimiter .6
.6 means 60% of volume.
Works terrific!
A: if your problem is still relevant, I created a little app called Earsafe. Basically, it's a status menu bar, which lets you limit the volume of the main output of your Mac.
Hope I could help!
A: We've just released Volume Limiter for Mac, available on the AppStore as well as our website. (The web version offers a free trial). It has advanced capabilities, including limiting by audio device, locking controls for all users on a computer, and 'Mute Mode' (automatic muting based on system events or a user-defined calendar).
A: If you're looking for a free solution, look no further:
Limiting your Mac’s volume in 2019
Limiting your Mac’s Volume in 2020, an Update
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5be4618e418b1f9990f03d0df586ae4df24b29a1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I share Internet with my devices? I have an iMac, that has Internet access via Ethernet cable (no Wi-Fi).
I know that my iMac has a Wi-Fi access point.
How can I share the iMac's Internet connection with an iPad?
A: System Preferences -> Sharing -> Internet Sharing
Share your connection from ethernet -> to computers using: Wi-Fi
In Wi-Fi options you can select a WEP password encryption for your network.
| Q: How can I share Internet with my devices? I have an iMac, that has Internet access via Ethernet cable (no Wi-Fi).
I know that my iMac has a Wi-Fi access point.
How can I share the iMac's Internet connection with an iPad?
A: System Preferences -> Sharing -> Internet Sharing
Share your connection from ethernet -> to computers using: Wi-Fi
In Wi-Fi options you can select a WEP password encryption for your network.
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0d3757c41eeb18e83cd8aaa09eaadb29de73b3e0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Add a new user with a specific uid and gid We have a mixed mac and linux environment at work, to make life easy we use the same uid, gid for each user both on the mac and linux side (I believe this is a standard practice).
The problem is, when you add a new user on a mac, there is no way to set the uid and gid "while" you are creating it, so you need to add the user then set the uid/gid and then go and execute a few find ... -exec ...{} ... commands to change the owner and permissions on the home directory for the user that you already made,
Is there a better solution for this?
A: One solution would be to write a simple script to do the whole job at once.
dscl . -create /Users/ali UniqueID 549 PrimaryGroupID 320 RealName "Ali Moeeny"
Or something like that.
| Q: Add a new user with a specific uid and gid We have a mixed mac and linux environment at work, to make life easy we use the same uid, gid for each user both on the mac and linux side (I believe this is a standard practice).
The problem is, when you add a new user on a mac, there is no way to set the uid and gid "while" you are creating it, so you need to add the user then set the uid/gid and then go and execute a few find ... -exec ...{} ... commands to change the owner and permissions on the home directory for the user that you already made,
Is there a better solution for this?
A: One solution would be to write a simple script to do the whole job at once.
dscl . -create /Users/ali UniqueID 549 PrimaryGroupID 320 RealName "Ali Moeeny"
Or something like that.
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5cc61c793104f4d25b6932d19ea4bd8debea6825 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: sync sent mail between iPhone and mail.app Can I set up my mac/iPhone/mobile me to sync the mails I've sent on my iPhone back to my mail.app on my mac?
I use two email addresses: an IMAP (gmail) address and a microsoft exchange address.
On the other hand, I can't even see the mails I've sent on my iPhone in the mail app on the iPhone, it only shows mail.app sent mails.
A: Solution for Gmail:
Gesendet must the the label of the mailbox that you use for sent mail on the iPhone. (info: gesendet is German for sent)
I believe the default label is named Sent Messages created once you set up Gmail on your iPhone using IMAP.
| Q: sync sent mail between iPhone and mail.app Can I set up my mac/iPhone/mobile me to sync the mails I've sent on my iPhone back to my mail.app on my mac?
I use two email addresses: an IMAP (gmail) address and a microsoft exchange address.
On the other hand, I can't even see the mails I've sent on my iPhone in the mail app on the iPhone, it only shows mail.app sent mails.
A: Solution for Gmail:
Gesendet must the the label of the mailbox that you use for sent mail on the iPhone. (info: gesendet is German for sent)
I believe the default label is named Sent Messages created once you set up Gmail on your iPhone using IMAP.
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5414ac7c6e2c19ca88b1d97d43f093c677403fb3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Call blocking for iPhone? How do I block unwanted callers without jailbreaking?
A: A new feature of iOS 7 is call blocking and it allows the device to block calls apart from the previous solutions that involved jailbreaking or having the carrier block calls for you.
Go to recent calls within the phone app. Tap on the "i" to the far right of the number you wish to block. On this info page, scroll down. At the bottom of the page, tap "Block this Caller". Confirm on the warning message.
From the settings app, use iMessage and FaceTime preferences to manage the block list.
This list blocks calls, messages and FaceTime calls (audio and video) from that contact. Combined with a blocked contact as Loïc Wolff has proposed, you have a neat solution for dispatching unwanted calls on an ongoing basis.
| Q: Call blocking for iPhone? How do I block unwanted callers without jailbreaking?
A: A new feature of iOS 7 is call blocking and it allows the device to block calls apart from the previous solutions that involved jailbreaking or having the carrier block calls for you.
Go to recent calls within the phone app. Tap on the "i" to the far right of the number you wish to block. On this info page, scroll down. At the bottom of the page, tap "Block this Caller". Confirm on the warning message.
From the settings app, use iMessage and FaceTime preferences to manage the block list.
This list blocks calls, messages and FaceTime calls (audio and video) from that contact. Combined with a blocked contact as Loïc Wolff has proposed, you have a neat solution for dispatching unwanted calls on an ongoing basis.
A: Before iOS 7, the only way to block callers is to create a "Don't Answer" contact and assign the numbers you want blocked to it.
That way, you'll know not to answer when those people call. You can also assign the contact a "silent" ringtone.
A: If the number is still in your "recent calls" list, simply click on the circled "i" on the right of the number. Scroll down to "Block this Caller" and then activate it That simple.
A: In iOS 7 caller blocking is supported by the OS. Unless I'm missing something here the number you want to block needs to be in your contact list. So to block a new number you still need to add a contact first which seems a bit backwards.
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a3d038dd4c953290eee3c34865ca0c0ac5d5e322 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I connect my PC to a Thunderbolt Display?
Possible Duplicate:
Are there adapters to use Thunderbolt Display with non-Thunderbolt computers?
So, I have a MacBook Air and a 27" Thunderbolt display. I was under the impression that I could connect my PC (Asus Laptop) to the Thunderbolt display by using a HDMI to Mini Displayport converter. However, it doesn't seem to be working. Is there some technical limitation as to why this isn't working?
A: Sorry, but currently it's not possible. Thunderbolt ports on Macs can output a Mini Displayport signal, but the Thunderbolt Display can only receive a Thunderbolt signal, nothing else. It's possible that an adapter to do this could be released in the future, but IMO that's unlikely or if it happens will be quite expensive.
| Q: How do I connect my PC to a Thunderbolt Display?
Possible Duplicate:
Are there adapters to use Thunderbolt Display with non-Thunderbolt computers?
So, I have a MacBook Air and a 27" Thunderbolt display. I was under the impression that I could connect my PC (Asus Laptop) to the Thunderbolt display by using a HDMI to Mini Displayport converter. However, it doesn't seem to be working. Is there some technical limitation as to why this isn't working?
A: Sorry, but currently it's not possible. Thunderbolt ports on Macs can output a Mini Displayport signal, but the Thunderbolt Display can only receive a Thunderbolt signal, nothing else. It's possible that an adapter to do this could be released in the future, but IMO that's unlikely or if it happens will be quite expensive.
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24272c90621c18afd34148a99c4080ae7b543cf1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Are non-unibody MacBook Pros capable of Lion's 3 and 4 finger multi-touch gestures? Are non-unibody MacBook Pros (Late 2006 ~ Early 2008) capable of Lion's 3 and 4 finger multi-touch gestures?
A: No - that era of hardware is a solid-state trackpad, not a multitouch trackpad and can only track one motion. Although it can guess fairly well if it's one finger or two that is moving in two dimensions (left-right and up-down), but that's all the hardware can tell.
Put another way, yours tracks the center of all touch points combined, not several touches individually at the same time with their own motion.
| Q: Are non-unibody MacBook Pros capable of Lion's 3 and 4 finger multi-touch gestures? Are non-unibody MacBook Pros (Late 2006 ~ Early 2008) capable of Lion's 3 and 4 finger multi-touch gestures?
A: No - that era of hardware is a solid-state trackpad, not a multitouch trackpad and can only track one motion. Although it can guess fairly well if it's one finger or two that is moving in two dimensions (left-right and up-down), but that's all the hardware can tell.
Put another way, yours tracks the center of all touch points combined, not several touches individually at the same time with their own motion.
A: Yes - but only the very late ones, like 2008ish - at least my early 2008 MBP (last non-uniboby) supported all kinds of multi-touch gestures using bettertouchtool - didn't try Lion on it but in the last Snowleopard versions all the OS X multi-touch gestures also worked.
A: No
Also notice the following:
*
*the trackpad is smaller
*scrolling with inertia is not enabled!
Fix
When connecting the external multitouch trackpad by Apple, all those features get enabled. They do run smooth.
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df6a7b02ac2cb10ada06d36cb2b19665a9a8e836 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to disable Versions for all applications? I've never used Versions, and the extra step needed to Save as are enough reasons for me to downgrade to Snow Leopard.
Is it possible to disable Versions in all apps and have a Save As… menu item instead of a Duplicate one?
A: I guess you're rather referring to Autosave. This post describes the difference.
To disable Versions, I posted the (maybe risky) procedure here:
How to disable Versions in OS X Lion
However for Autosave the easiest work-around might be to use "System Preferences" → "Keyboard" → "Keyboard Shortcus" to define a keyboard shortcut (I used ⌘ ⇧ S) for the programs that have Autosave support and the "Duplicate" option in the menu:
For Textedit it will then look like this:
So you would press ⌘+⇧+S, which gives you a new duplicate window and then ⌘+S to save as new filename.
However, you original document will also (continuously) be saved and end up in the state where you created the duplicate - and without Versions (or Time Machine) you won't be able to recover earlier states as soon as you close your original document or the program.
| Q: Is it possible to disable Versions for all applications? I've never used Versions, and the extra step needed to Save as are enough reasons for me to downgrade to Snow Leopard.
Is it possible to disable Versions in all apps and have a Save As… menu item instead of a Duplicate one?
A: I guess you're rather referring to Autosave. This post describes the difference.
To disable Versions, I posted the (maybe risky) procedure here:
How to disable Versions in OS X Lion
However for Autosave the easiest work-around might be to use "System Preferences" → "Keyboard" → "Keyboard Shortcus" to define a keyboard shortcut (I used ⌘ ⇧ S) for the programs that have Autosave support and the "Duplicate" option in the menu:
For Textedit it will then look like this:
So you would press ⌘+⇧+S, which gives you a new duplicate window and then ⌘+S to save as new filename.
However, you original document will also (continuously) be saved and end up in the state where you created the duplicate - and without Versions (or Time Machine) you won't be able to recover earlier states as soon as you close your original document or the program.
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6a1c4d67c373620ef701b1fdaff678f2ab274afe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does iTunes Match keep updating? I just subscribed to iTunes Match and it's currently scanning my library.
I've got a few tracks named as 'track 1', 'track 2', and 'unknown artist'. My plan is to clean up my library (some day). But will iTunes Match be able to rescan the new names of already matched songs?
In other words, will iTunes Match re-sync those songs already synced or will it only sync newly added songs?
A: Yes. The iTunes Match Library icon shows up from time to time (I haven't figured out what the exact requirements are) and you can re-scan your library.
Once you changed your id3 data, select the songs, right-click and select "Add to iCloud". This initiates a re-scan in iTunes Match as well.
If you add music, it will by added to iCloud instantly.
| Q: Does iTunes Match keep updating? I just subscribed to iTunes Match and it's currently scanning my library.
I've got a few tracks named as 'track 1', 'track 2', and 'unknown artist'. My plan is to clean up my library (some day). But will iTunes Match be able to rescan the new names of already matched songs?
In other words, will iTunes Match re-sync those songs already synced or will it only sync newly added songs?
A: Yes. The iTunes Match Library icon shows up from time to time (I haven't figured out what the exact requirements are) and you can re-scan your library.
Once you changed your id3 data, select the songs, right-click and select "Add to iCloud". This initiates a re-scan in iTunes Match as well.
If you add music, it will by added to iCloud instantly.
A: I just spent all day redoing all my album artwork and then I realised that it looks good on my Mac, but iTunes Match just doesn't "match". So after a lot of looking around, this is the best way to do it:
*
*Turn iTunes Match on.
*Command ⌘ + a (highlight all Albums) and Command ⌘ + Backspace ⌫ (delete).
*When asked "this will delete all blah blah blah..... check box "delete from iCloud".
*NOW BE CAREFUL... select "keep files" THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!
*it takes a while, then it all goes blank....and then more "iCloud" songs appear, Delete them too, same as step 3.
*now you have an empty iTunes and an empty iCloud/iTunes Match!
6a. Turn off iTunes Match!
*go to import files, and select the iTunes folder, locate Music and select it.
*and all your songs will return, some will have missing artwork, but they are the legit iTunes ones so just select "get album artwork".
*the few that are not there just add them manually (i had 10 out of 4886 (not bad)
*then go to "Store" and turn iMatch back on and it will rescan and re-upload as new.
This was the simplest way I found to do it.
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e7306dcf207baeb0b6050a50dd96a53aae07c912 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where does System Preferences store the name of the Time Machine Destination I am trying to create a script to determine the destination of time machine on a number of computers I manage. It shows very clearly via Time Machine Settings in System Prefs. I need to be able to find that info via command line.
A: The tmutil utility does exactly that, but I think it was only added in Lion.
As an added bonus, Apple doesn't document the tmutil argument you'll need, but I dug through the output of "strings /usr/bin/tmutil" and found this, which is what you're looking for:
tmutil destinationinfo
Also, "tmutil status" will tell you if a backup is currently running. It's another undocumented command.
| Q: Where does System Preferences store the name of the Time Machine Destination I am trying to create a script to determine the destination of time machine on a number of computers I manage. It shows very clearly via Time Machine Settings in System Prefs. I need to be able to find that info via command line.
A: The tmutil utility does exactly that, but I think it was only added in Lion.
As an added bonus, Apple doesn't document the tmutil argument you'll need, but I dug through the output of "strings /usr/bin/tmutil" and found this, which is what you're looking for:
tmutil destinationinfo
Also, "tmutil status" will tell you if a backup is currently running. It's another undocumented command.
A: In this link you can find the answer: https://superuser.com/questions/20887/in-what-preference-file-does-time-machine-store-the-backup-volume-name
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
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df322e732d1850fd3bb51630651c91defe21aa23 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable iMessage on a broken iPhone? How can I disable iMessage for a phone number if the iPhone it's attached to has been destroyed? My sister dropped her iPhone in the bath, so she is now using an older non-Apple phone. Whenever I send her a message, it gets sent as an iMessage (and even says "Delivered"), but her device never receives the message.
The only information I could find was this Apple knowledge base article which states the following:
If you plan on transferring your SIM card or phone number from an iPhone to a device that does not support iMessage, turn off iMessage in Settings > Messages first. If you do not, other iOS devices may continue to try to send a message using iMessage first, instead only using SMS or MMS.
However, since this iPhone was destroyed, we can't get into the settings to unregister her phone number.
A: The simplest solution is to contact Apple Support (as this article makes clear) since they actually have engineers that can modify which devices and phone numbers are associated with your (or another's Apple ID).
So, just contact Apple Support.
| Q: How to disable iMessage on a broken iPhone? How can I disable iMessage for a phone number if the iPhone it's attached to has been destroyed? My sister dropped her iPhone in the bath, so she is now using an older non-Apple phone. Whenever I send her a message, it gets sent as an iMessage (and even says "Delivered"), but her device never receives the message.
The only information I could find was this Apple knowledge base article which states the following:
If you plan on transferring your SIM card or phone number from an iPhone to a device that does not support iMessage, turn off iMessage in Settings > Messages first. If you do not, other iOS devices may continue to try to send a message using iMessage first, instead only using SMS or MMS.
However, since this iPhone was destroyed, we can't get into the settings to unregister her phone number.
A: The simplest solution is to contact Apple Support (as this article makes clear) since they actually have engineers that can modify which devices and phone numbers are associated with your (or another's Apple ID).
So, just contact Apple Support.
A: Try to log in to your iPhone with her Apple ID and turn off the settings for iMessage there. Worst case you need to insert her SIM card into your phone and do the changes.
A: I ran into this same issue, not with a broken iPhone though. I have a Nexus 5 to replace my old iPhone 4. My wife's texts to me from her iPhone kept going as iMessages.
I found this article that helped me solve the problem.
Note: If you no longer have access to the iPhone that is using the number you want to remove, reset your Apple ID password.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5538
What I did was disable facetime and iMessage on my phone (with no sim). Changed my apple ID password. After this texts worked again to me.
A: Complete the form below to de-register from iMessage. It will send you an authorisation code via SMS to verify you own the phone number.
https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage
A: Go to https://supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do, log in with her Apple ID, click on Edit products and click on the "x" to the right of the iPhone. Click Unregister.
A: In time, that device will expire as a destination for messages but since the phone was physically destroyed by dropping in water, it's highly likely the "delivered" message is due to another Mac or iOS device being registered for iMessage as opposed to the server thinking it had sent a message to a working iPhone (when that iPhone no longer works).
*
*https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage
You could also get that SMS active on a new device and follow the deregistration confirmation process (or move your account to a new number)
A: Changing your apple account password will fix this problem. I just did it and it worked.
A: *
*Use a friends iPhone, go into Settings > iTunes and App Store
*Sign out of their Apple ID and then sign into your Apple ID
*Then go turn iMessage off under Settings > Messages
*Sign out the same way and sign back into your friend's Apple ID
*Turn iMessage back on in Settings and try to message yourself on their phone
This will fix the problem immediately.
A: *
*First get an iPhone that is iMessage compatible.
*You will have to do a master reset (which erases everything) on this phone after, so make sure that this iPhone doesn't belong to somebody who cares about all of their stuff.
*Then, take the existing SIM card out of the iPhone and sign in to your sister's iMessage account.
*It is important that you do this with FaceTime so that the iPhone doesn't associate your sister's number with the account on that iPhone.
*Put your sister's SIM card in the phone.
*Turn iMessage and FaceTime off.
*Take the SIM card out of the iPhone, and then go to Settings > General, scroll down to Reset. Tap Reset, and then tap Erase All Content and Settings. This should solve your problem right away.
A: A bit of a lark here but I read on the Apple forums that resetting your Apple ID password will immediately cause the association between your old phone number and any iMessage account to timeout. (Sorry can't find the link...)
The non-lark part here is that I do know that this association does eventually timeout. I had two iPhones a few weeks ago each with their own working SIM and phone number. One of the phones got wiped and the SIM tossed. While the old phone number and associated iMessage address stayed around for a few days, it eventually disappeared.
https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/
A: The only thing that worked for me was changing my AppleID to use a different email address. That resets something on their end, and the next day I started to get text messages again from people who were previously sending iMessages.
A: The good and sure way of doing it is this:
Go to your cellphone provider, for example, AT&T. Have them do a "SIM Replacement" on your new phone. You will have to provide your phone number and ID. They will switch the SIM card number linked to your account. Depending on the generosity of the store you go to, this will cost you 0-5$
A: Find your sister in the Contacts in your iPhone. Change her current mobile number from "iPhone" to "Mobile". Let me know if this works!
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f16b68133b6fd0e6e4059cfe0f22239cc791ff44 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: "Ineligible" iCloud Songs on iOS devices I have some mp3's ripped from a language CD, "Lesson 1", "Lesson 2" and so forth. Some of them are uploaded to iCloud with iTunes Match, for some it says "Ineligible". I don't really need them in the cloud, but on my iOS devices. How do I get them there, as the music sync is disabled when iTunes Match is turned on?
A: Most likely, they are ineligbile because the bit rate is less than 96kb so rerip them. You don't have to do the originals, you can rerip the ones that are already in iTunes. The audio quality doesn't change and the files are bigger but Match will accept the new ones.
| Q: "Ineligible" iCloud Songs on iOS devices I have some mp3's ripped from a language CD, "Lesson 1", "Lesson 2" and so forth. Some of them are uploaded to iCloud with iTunes Match, for some it says "Ineligible". I don't really need them in the cloud, but on my iOS devices. How do I get them there, as the music sync is disabled when iTunes Match is turned on?
A: Most likely, they are ineligbile because the bit rate is less than 96kb so rerip them. You don't have to do the originals, you can rerip the ones that are already in iTunes. The audio quality doesn't change and the files are bigger but Match will accept the new ones.
A: You don't need to re-import your audiobooks. Go to each track, right click, get info, options, and select audio book in the field "support type" (I am translating form spanish, I don't know the real name of the field in english).
A: You can still sync audiobooks.
What you will need to do (as a work around) is import the CD as an audiobook (instructions here) then when the device is connected to iTunes you can choose to sync audiobooks.
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5a6e7c0afa23cb5120210d76925f990de6c1c2dd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: SSD upgrade and Lion I have Lion installed in my system (macbook pro 17 mid 2010).
I have also created a Lion DVD using a guide I've found while surfing the Internet.
Tomorrow I will receive a ocz agility 3 240gb ssd drive.
What is the best way to move all of my work to the new ssd drive?
I am a developer and I have numerous ide installed (like netbeans) and servers like glassfish.
It would be a complete disaster if I had to reinstall things, so I am wondering what is the best way to transfer the operating system and the installed applications easily.
Thank you.
A: Superduper, if you can connect the SSD as an external HD before installing it.
| Q: SSD upgrade and Lion I have Lion installed in my system (macbook pro 17 mid 2010).
I have also created a Lion DVD using a guide I've found while surfing the Internet.
Tomorrow I will receive a ocz agility 3 240gb ssd drive.
What is the best way to move all of my work to the new ssd drive?
I am a developer and I have numerous ide installed (like netbeans) and servers like glassfish.
It would be a complete disaster if I had to reinstall things, so I am wondering what is the best way to transfer the operating system and the installed applications easily.
Thank you.
A: Superduper, if you can connect the SSD as an external HD before installing it.
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fbe6496745f8cf00fab60d872d6f41756ad214b2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: View all a fonts characters app? Is there a Mac app for viewing all the characters of a font?
Font book doesn't seem have this feature.
A: Font Book does in fact have a view that displays all glyphs provided by a font — just select Preview - Repertoire on the menu bar:
You can also get a preview of a font using Quick Look: select a font file (from /Library/Fonts) and press space.
| Q: View all a fonts characters app? Is there a Mac app for viewing all the characters of a font?
Font book doesn't seem have this feature.
A: Font Book does in fact have a view that displays all glyphs provided by a font — just select Preview - Repertoire on the menu bar:
You can also get a preview of a font using Quick Look: select a font file (from /Library/Fonts) and press space.
A: I guess you're on Lion - right ?
Because in Snow-Leopard you could get that by showing the "character viewer" from the inputs menu or launching directly /System/Library/Input Methods/CharacterPalette.app as described here and choosing "Glyph" view.
Check out the new smilies (now part of the Unicode standard ;) in the DejaVu font
But if you still got access to a Snow-Leopard installation you can copy the CharacterPalette.app from /System/Library/Input Methods/CharacterPalette.app and it will run on Lion, I would not recommend replacing the Lion version, but rather keeping the Snow-Leopard CharacterPalette as separate app - why did Apple have to make it worse in the first place ?!
As you can drag & drop glyphs from the Snow-Leopard Character Palette but not from the new Lion Font Book...
This idea was inspired by Is it possible to use the character map as a standalone app?
A: I use character maps heavily and decides to make one which you access from anywhere using a web interface and requires no installation.
Features
*
*Select your own font file
*Provides font and character information
*Character copy-able
*Supports TTF/OTF
*Supports Icon fonts
*Smooth interface
*No installation necessary
*No server upload necessary
Screenshot
A: Alternatively in System Preferences -> International in the Input Menu tab there is an option to place a Character Palette on the menu bar that can (among other things) show you all the glyphs in a particular font, what the glyph is called and allow you to insert the character into a document or text field.
A: Unfortunately the Snow Leopard /System/Library/Input Methods/CharacterPalette.app no longer works in newer versions of macOS. For example, on High Sierra (10.13) it crashes immediately.
It may be that our only option are apps like PopChar X at this point.
I don't even think I'm happy with PopChar as it doesn't seem to have as strong of a numeric tabular display and so forth and so it will be necessary to keep exploring this path for various options that may exist for native options.
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104000acd4913d8bfe5518fdc5c5042a6baadca4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I use iChat with MSN through its new XMPP/Jabber compatibility? The Windows Team blog announced XMPP compatibility with their MSN/Live IM network recently.
Have anyone tried to get iChat to work with MSN yet?
(I'm not looking for Jabber transports)
A: No, it is not implemented yet.
In the meanwhile, you can use Cocoon for MSN chat as an iChat extension.
| Q: Can I use iChat with MSN through its new XMPP/Jabber compatibility? The Windows Team blog announced XMPP compatibility with their MSN/Live IM network recently.
Have anyone tried to get iChat to work with MSN yet?
(I'm not looking for Jabber transports)
A: No, it is not implemented yet.
In the meanwhile, you can use Cocoon for MSN chat as an iChat extension.
A: As Gerry said, Cocoon is your only option at the moment - but it hasn't been touched in months, despite continued donations from users.
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2293f4a33dbc9cfda1c148930d5279e02ec509f9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the MacBook Pro's infrared port used for? I know my macbook has an infrared port, but I don't know what it's used for.
A: Most typically, it is used for the Apple Remote, which can control iTunes, QuickTime and various other built in software. Additionally, 3rd party software (see Sofa Remote and Remote Buddy) also makes use of the device and can tie in much more functionality.
In the past (prior to Lion), the Apple Remote was an excellent companion to Front Row, a media manager that some call the predecessor to the Apple TV interface.
| Q: What is the MacBook Pro's infrared port used for? I know my macbook has an infrared port, but I don't know what it's used for.
A: Most typically, it is used for the Apple Remote, which can control iTunes, QuickTime and various other built in software. Additionally, 3rd party software (see Sofa Remote and Remote Buddy) also makes use of the device and can tie in much more functionality.
In the past (prior to Lion), the Apple Remote was an excellent companion to Front Row, a media manager that some call the predecessor to the Apple TV interface.
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3ae20dfc32fbce5eec4fd55694cd3b0d996c52d1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there an iMessage client for Windows? My wife's iPhone has iOS 5 and hence iMessage installed. I would like to be able to chat with her using my Windows computer. What options are available for this? Is there a Windows client or any web site that can provide a bridge?
A: As of May 2016 the only official iMessage clients are for iOS and OS X. Unfortunately you're out of luck using it on Windows.
It's very unlikely that any iMessage clients for non-Apple platforms will be released in the future. It's a major selling point for Apple's platforms, and therefore not in Apple's interest to make a Windows (or Android, Linux, etc.) version. Additionally, it has some fairly complex encryption and security protocols, which likely make it very difficult if not impossible for an unofficial client to be developed.
| Q: Is there an iMessage client for Windows? My wife's iPhone has iOS 5 and hence iMessage installed. I would like to be able to chat with her using my Windows computer. What options are available for this? Is there a Windows client or any web site that can provide a bridge?
A: As of May 2016 the only official iMessage clients are for iOS and OS X. Unfortunately you're out of luck using it on Windows.
It's very unlikely that any iMessage clients for non-Apple platforms will be released in the future. It's a major selling point for Apple's platforms, and therefore not in Apple's interest to make a Windows (or Android, Linux, etc.) version. Additionally, it has some fairly complex encryption and security protocols, which likely make it very difficult if not impossible for an unofficial client to be developed.
A: If your device is jailbroken, you can purchase the Remote Messages tweak from Cydia ($3.99, currently) and use iMessage via a web interface from anywhere (PC included).
A: As noted above, there currently exists no iMessage client for Windows. However, your question seems broader than that: your wife has an iPhone, you have a Windows computer, and you want to be able to communicate with each other.
There exist a number of options that could allow you to communicate.
If you wish to literally chat, you could use the embedded phone call feature in gmail (requires plugin) on your computer to call your wife's iPhone.
If you wish to type and have messages appear on each other's screen, both Windows computers and iPhones come with e-mail clients.
If you wish to send messages more optimized for shorter communication, you could create a Google Voice account exchange send SMS messages between Google's free interface and your wife's phone. To avoid SMS charges on your wife's phone, she'd need to install the Google Voice app and do the messaging through the app.
If there are particular features of iMessage you wish to exploit that these methods do not allow, please clarify your question to highlight the features you are missing here.
A: No, there is no iMessage client available for a Windows PC.
iMessage is based on a propietary, binary and encrypted protocol (source Wikipedia) with a client side device certificate, which makes it unlikely to be reverse engineered and implemented in third party apps any time soon (although attempts are being made).
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0c2669e7ff2f73abf964f5621a7aecdb2f684d70 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I keep Safari from re-opening my tabs from my last session? When I re-open Safari on my Mac Mini, it keeps opening the same tabs that were open before it was quit (or before the Mac OS X was switched off). The result is that it takes too much time to be operative, especially when I restart my Mac.
In the preference panel, the "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" option is already disabled, but Safari keeps opening the tabs open in the last session. I checked also in my MacBook, which is running Mac OS X 10.7.2, and that option doesn't change the Safari's behavior I describe in this question.
Is there any way to force it not to open all the tabs? I looked at its preferences, but I have not found anything that could help me. Is there any other way to disable this feature?
A: Quit Safari with ⌥⌘Q and run this in the Terminal
defaults write com.apple.Safari NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false
| Q: How can I keep Safari from re-opening my tabs from my last session? When I re-open Safari on my Mac Mini, it keeps opening the same tabs that were open before it was quit (or before the Mac OS X was switched off). The result is that it takes too much time to be operative, especially when I restart my Mac.
In the preference panel, the "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" option is already disabled, but Safari keeps opening the tabs open in the last session. I checked also in my MacBook, which is running Mac OS X 10.7.2, and that option doesn't change the Safari's behavior I describe in this question.
Is there any way to force it not to open all the tabs? I looked at its preferences, but I have not found anything that could help me. Is there any other way to disable this feature?
A: Quit Safari with ⌥⌘Q and run this in the Terminal
defaults write com.apple.Safari NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false
A: This behavior is the resume feature.
Disable using Terminal
If you only want to disable resume for safari, type this in the terminal:
defaults write com.apple.safari ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES
If you want to set the resume feature again, simply write NO using the same syntax.
Disable using TinkerTool
This application gives you access to additional preference settings and allows to activate hidden features in the operating system.
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