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e0a3dbfe0bcd6f85465b38aed5ecc5cae2b1a623 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to send predefined/canned SMS/iMessages? Is there a way to prepare predefined/canned messages in order to quickly send them by SMS/iMessage on the iPhone or iPad? I find myself quite often using the same 4-5 templates:
*
*I'm in a meeting, I will call you later!
*I'm on my way
*Ok, drop me an email!
*Is it a good time to talk?
A: You can use the Keyboard shortcuts.
Go to
Settings • General • Keyboard • Shortcuts
From there, you can add shortcuts, like omw for "On my way."
| Q: How to send predefined/canned SMS/iMessages? Is there a way to prepare predefined/canned messages in order to quickly send them by SMS/iMessage on the iPhone or iPad? I find myself quite often using the same 4-5 templates:
*
*I'm in a meeting, I will call you later!
*I'm on my way
*Ok, drop me an email!
*Is it a good time to talk?
A: You can use the Keyboard shortcuts.
Go to
Settings • General • Keyboard • Shortcuts
From there, you can add shortcuts, like omw for "On my way."
A: Unfortunately it's now 2016 and Apple still don't provide an easy way to do this, but one option would be to try Tap Tap Send. I built the app a few years ago to solve this exact same problem, and have recently given it some much needed TLC.
With Tap Tap Send you simply bookmark the people you message the most, then enter the messages you might want to send them. Now, next time you need to fire off a quick message just: Tap to select a person, Tap to select a message, Tap send, and you're done.
Here's a bit more about it — website, or check it out on the App Store.
A: You can create your own template by going to settings, general, keyboards then click on text replacement. There you can create a shortcut and what you want it to say!
A: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smsy/id1009761842?mt=8
This app answers you really well :)
I personally built it for this use.
I hope apple makes more entries in the future.
A: It looks like Texts is the perfect app to fit your need :
*
*Thanks to iCloud, keep your messages up to dates on all your devices.
*Get your messages at hand with the Texts iMessage extension.
*Add new messages to your list from application and also through the iOS share extension.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/texts/id1401953728?ls=1&mt=8
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cffe4bf64adc6f2b7454be99fd65d2937fc3265c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to Increase LaunchBar Width? Is there a way of increasing the width of the LaunchBar bar? Especially when I enter something that results in a web page, this width is insufficient for showing the full title, not even talking about what I entered.
A: Yes.
*
*Move your mouse curser to the left/right edge of the launch bar. Then you can increase the width.
*Use ctrl+⇧+←/→ to change the width in pre-defined increments.
| Q: How to Increase LaunchBar Width? Is there a way of increasing the width of the LaunchBar bar? Especially when I enter something that results in a web page, this width is insufficient for showing the full title, not even talking about what I entered.
A: Yes.
*
*Move your mouse curser to the left/right edge of the launch bar. Then you can increase the width.
*Use ctrl+⇧+←/→ to change the width in pre-defined increments.
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d4fca8f4f7c8783bd3c7a2c4b01763e7486f0fa4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Gigabytes of disk space shown as hidden space in DaisyDisk My disk space usage doesn't add up. I should have used only about 80 gigabytes, but according to DaisyDisk about 25 gigabytes is taken up by hidden space. The mystery disk space seems to be classified as other in the About This Mac window.
I've disabled local Time Machine snapshots with sudo tmutil disablelocal and deleted /Volumes/MobileBackups/.
Does anyone know what the hidden space could be or how I could free it up?
Possibly related to Macbook HD "Other" all the Sudden Almost Full.
A: Starting up from the recovery partition and repairing the disk fixed the issue. (Disk Utility showed an error about an invalid free block count.) Thanks @cksum.
| Q: Gigabytes of disk space shown as hidden space in DaisyDisk My disk space usage doesn't add up. I should have used only about 80 gigabytes, but according to DaisyDisk about 25 gigabytes is taken up by hidden space. The mystery disk space seems to be classified as other in the About This Mac window.
I've disabled local Time Machine snapshots with sudo tmutil disablelocal and deleted /Volumes/MobileBackups/.
Does anyone know what the hidden space could be or how I could free it up?
Possibly related to Macbook HD "Other" all the Sudden Almost Full.
A: Starting up from the recovery partition and repairing the disk fixed the issue. (Disk Utility showed an error about an invalid free block count.) Thanks @cksum.
A: DaisyDisk's hidden space (if scanned as administrator) should be within 4-8GB limit for most Macs. If the numbers are larger, try repairing the volume as this may serve an indicator for file system errors.
Taras Brizitsky, DaisyDisk's designer.
A: Another possibility—and one that ended up being the culprit in my particular case—is that your machine is making local backups when it's unable to connect to your external backup source. In this case, you can just disable the backups by entering the following command in the Terminal:
sudo tmutil disablelocal
Later, if and when you decide to re-enable the backup, you can reverse it with the following Terminal command:
sudo tmutil enablelocal
Update for MacOS Sierra and Later
It seems like the disablelocal and enablelocal commands are no longer available. As an alternative you can delete local snapshots by doing the following:
*
*Get a list of the local snapshots by running:
tmutil listlocalsnapshots
You should get some output like
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-10-03-145245.
*Delete a snapshot by running:
tmutil deletelocalsnapshots <date of snapshot>
So, for example, using the output from step 1, you would run:
tmutil deletelocalsnapshots 2018-10-03-145245
And you should get some output like
Deleted local snapshot '2018-10-03-145245'
A: According to DaisyDisk manual:
Sometimes the amount of "used" space on a disk may appear greater than the total size of all scanned files and folders on that disk. This is normal. The difference is usually taken by the file system overhead and system stuff like Spotlight index, but in certain cases a significant amount of disk space may be hiding in other users' accounts or folders that are normally not visible to you. In order to reveal those folders you should scan the disk as administrator.
(Hidden space) is a virtual disk map item that only appears when the total size of restricted files is significant, so you can see whether it's worth rescanning the disk as administrator or not.
Large amounts of hidden disk space may also indicate to file system errors. Follow our troubleshooting guide for details.
In case you have a lot of hidden disk space when running it as administrator, it's possible that you have file system errors or broken file permissions.
A: I noticed this folder /.MobileBackups.trash was taking a lot of space (62GB!). Check yours with sudo du -hs /.MobileBackups.trash
Just ran sudo rm -rf /.MobileBackups.trash and got my space back.
A: In my case I was missing 771 Gigs of space. I had to clear my /cores folder. Apparently an application was crashing and leaving core dumps the amount of space missing was the exact amount of disk space in the cores folder.
A: Another possible culprit could be homebrew (if you are using it). By default, it keeps old vesions of the installed packages after updates. In my case, this summed up to ~11GB. Run brew cleanup -n to see how much space these backups take up on your machine (this won't delete anything yet. To do so, leave out the -n flag).
Source: https://til.hashrocket.com/posts/44a4b95cdd-homebrew-is-eating-up-your-harddrive
A: In my case 40GB was missing, and by using DaisyDisk Pro I had it isolated to root, which I was denied permission to look into.
Via Command ⌘ + I I gave myself permission, and found a partial systems Library folder with old sound files for Garageband and logic.
I have no idea how or what - and some of the folders in that Library folder has today's date, e.g. Keychains, which has me worried a bit. But I was able to delete the sound files, and got my data back.
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5dbbf5d10c6e16ff7cfc461974b4ed0f282d772e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does a "SAMSUNG_Android" network service keep appearing? I recently noticed a strange service in the Network preferences called "SAMSUNG_Android", which seems to be configured as a modem:
I don't have an Android or Samsung device and I've never plugged one into my computer. The only things I've recently plugged in are an iPhone, iPad, and Sony camera.
I noticed this yesterday, and deleted the service. Today, it's back!
Where could this be coming from, and how can I make it go away for good?
A: This looks like someone near you has a Samsung Android device with the ability to create a personal WiFi hotspot.
Your computer WiFi is able to detect this so will add it to your list of available networks. You might try disabling the prompt to join new networks if you don't want your Mac polling for open and closed hotspots and cluttering up your network connection profile if you cannot isolate or control for the source of this hotspot.
| Q: Why does a "SAMSUNG_Android" network service keep appearing? I recently noticed a strange service in the Network preferences called "SAMSUNG_Android", which seems to be configured as a modem:
I don't have an Android or Samsung device and I've never plugged one into my computer. The only things I've recently plugged in are an iPhone, iPad, and Sony camera.
I noticed this yesterday, and deleted the service. Today, it's back!
Where could this be coming from, and how can I make it go away for good?
A: This looks like someone near you has a Samsung Android device with the ability to create a personal WiFi hotspot.
Your computer WiFi is able to detect this so will add it to your list of available networks. You might try disabling the prompt to join new networks if you don't want your Mac polling for open and closed hotspots and cluttering up your network connection profile if you cannot isolate or control for the source of this hotspot.
A: I began noticing the "SAMSUNG_Android" preference (via a message from a pop-up dialog box every time I connected my Samsung Galaxy S II to charge on the USB cable) shortly after I'd installed Kies on my MacBook.
I've just Un-installed Kies gracefully by using the uninstaller and no longer receive the pop-ups when attaching my phone to USB, nor does the Samsung network appear in my network preferences.
A: Did you by any chance install the Android SDK? Apparently, installing it create this network interface.
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7a1f936f5c35ec03ef35030100cbe5180f89ac18 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to define Lion’s key variations in a `.keylayout` file? In Lion you can hold down a key to show its variations.
However, when using my custom keyboard layout in .keylayout format, this functionality is disabled.
I assume Lion’s default keyboard layouts have the special characters that appear when you hold down a certain key hardcoded somewhere, and my old custom keyboard layout (based on the default Snow Leopard-layouts) lacks that data.
My question is: how can these “key variations” be defined in a .keylayout file?
A: The special characters included in the popovers are defined in files like /System/Library/Input Methods/PressAndHold.app/Contents/Resources/Keyboard-en_US.plist, not in .keylayout files. (The popovers are also used with languages that have their own input methods like Vietnamese.)
I don't know how to add a property list like that for a custom layout though. I also tried copying the U.S..keylayout that comes with Ukelele to ~/Libary/Keyboard Layouts/ (without changing the name or id), but the popovers didn't work with it.
| Q: How to define Lion’s key variations in a `.keylayout` file? In Lion you can hold down a key to show its variations.
However, when using my custom keyboard layout in .keylayout format, this functionality is disabled.
I assume Lion’s default keyboard layouts have the special characters that appear when you hold down a certain key hardcoded somewhere, and my old custom keyboard layout (based on the default Snow Leopard-layouts) lacks that data.
My question is: how can these “key variations” be defined in a .keylayout file?
A: The special characters included in the popovers are defined in files like /System/Library/Input Methods/PressAndHold.app/Contents/Resources/Keyboard-en_US.plist, not in .keylayout files. (The popovers are also used with languages that have their own input methods like Vietnamese.)
I don't know how to add a property list like that for a custom layout though. I also tried copying the U.S..keylayout that comes with Ukelele to ~/Libary/Keyboard Layouts/ (without changing the name or id), but the popovers didn't work with it.
A: Ukelele.app 2.2 now supports this, kind of:
By saving a keyboard layout in a bundle, it will become compatible with the “press and hold” mechanism for entering diacritics, introduced in OS X 10.7 (Lion). For this purpose, an “intended language” can be supplied (default is the system language), which will determine which possibilities are offered in the pop-up. However, such bundles may not work with OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and earlier.
A: As far as I know the .keylayout file is not involved with this feature, it is somewhere else in the system.
Many people have also asked how the character picker can be customized, but to date nobody has figured out how to do that either.
A: The new version of English/Russian Typographical keyboard layout by Ilya Birman (v. 3.0) supports Press and Hold for entering key variations even though it’s a custom keyboard. I’ve managed to replace his layout from the bundle with mine, but these functionality worked only if layout name set in Ukelele was kept the same.
Now I have my own custom layout with my own icon and Press and Hold support, but it’s name is “English — Ilya Birman Typography” and yet I can’t do anything about it. Can anybody think of an workaround for these?
You can download Birman’s layout from here (install script) — http://ilyabirman.ru/projects/typography-layout/ (click on “Скачать раскладку для Мака”)
or here — http://cl.ly/HrDP though I’m not sure the second option will have Press and Hold support without running install script first.
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653f7ee0be4e8152affdd901d0eb9f98efd59118 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Retrieve Voice Memos from device? iOS seems to refuse to allow me to email "long" voice memos, and I'm unaware of any way to extract them from iTunes backups of my phone. How can I retrieve entire voice memos that aren't really short?
A: There is a free third-party utility that I find very useful in situations like this. Macroplant iExplorer, for Mac and Windows, lets you mount the file system of your iOS device in the Finder or Windows Explorer, so you can copy the voice memo files (and most other iOS document files) directly to your computer without using iTunes. Macroplant also provides other paid apps with additional functionality.
| Q: Retrieve Voice Memos from device? iOS seems to refuse to allow me to email "long" voice memos, and I'm unaware of any way to extract them from iTunes backups of my phone. How can I retrieve entire voice memos that aren't really short?
A: There is a free third-party utility that I find very useful in situations like this. Macroplant iExplorer, for Mac and Windows, lets you mount the file system of your iOS device in the Finder or Windows Explorer, so you can copy the voice memo files (and most other iOS document files) directly to your computer without using iTunes. Macroplant also provides other paid apps with additional functionality.
A: You can extract the voice memos from your iPhone back up by downloading this free application: http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=4974
This will allow you to read the files from your back up files. (saved my life)
The site also walks you through how to use it - it's really simple.
Once you have extracted the IOS files, go to the media folder and you will find recordings. That's where your voice memos will be!
A: There is an unclear aspect of iTunes which isn't mentioned in the other answers here.
After selecting the iPhone, iTunes (12.1.2.27) shows an On My Device > Voice Memos list in the sidebar. However, this list doesn't actually seem to show all the voice memos on the device(!).
In particular, newly recorded memos don't seem to show for me, although they do in the PhoneView app. Perhaps memos only appear in that list after the device has been synced.
So: don't try and use the On My Device > Voice Memos list to retrieve memos from the device. Use the solutions mentioned in the other answers here instead.
A: This answer by jmlumpkin is canonically correct, all existing memos sync over to a special "Voice Memos" playlist in iTunes. However, if you like to record voice memos that you will retrieve later on your computer, my suggestion would be to check out DropVox. Instead of having to go through iTunes, DropVox uploads your recordings to your DropBox folder as soon as you finish recording, which for me is far more convenient than syncing and dealing with iTunes. Personally, I have completely dropped Voice Memos and now completely use DropVox for everything.
Another avenue to avoid iTunes but still use the Voice Memo app is to use a software package like PhoneView to grab your existing memos directly from the device.
A: If you look in the iPhone user manual - in the section on Voice Memos (Chapter 28, page 105) - it walks you through the intended process for syncing with your computer.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf
Sharing voice memos with your computer
You can sync voice memos with
the primary iTunes library on your computer, then listen to memos on
your computer or sync them with another iPhone or iPod touch.
When you
delete a synced memo from iTunes, it stays on the device where it was
recorded, but is deleted from any other iPhone or iPod touch you
synced. If you delete a synced memo on iPhone, it's copied back to
iPhone the next time you sync with iTunes, but you can’t sync that
copy back to iTunes a second time.
Sync voice memos with iTunes:
Connect iPhone to your computer, then in iTunes select iPhone. Select
Music at the top of the screen (between Apps and Movies), select Sync
Music, select “Include voice memos,” and click Apply.
Voice memos
synced from iPhone to your computer appear in the Music list and in
the Voice Memos playlist in iTunes. Memos synced from your computer
appear in the Voice Memos app on iPhone, but not in the Music app
iTunes should actually sync Voice Memos if you have the option 'Sync Voice Memos' checked in the 'Music' tab when the iOS device is connected (either through USB or Wifi).
I actually forgot I had this item checked in iTunes, and noticed I had a new playlist named 'Voice Memos' in iTunes. These were rather short (only a minute to 5 long I think), but synced ok.
If you delete a Voice Memo from the iTunes Library, it will not be deleted from the device on which it was recorded, as stated by the Manual, the next time that device is synced. In fact when you re-sync that device again, it is possible to have that Memo (which had been deleted from the iTunes Library on the computer) be copied back again into the iTunes Library on the computer, by checking the Include Voice Memos on the Device/Settings/Music page (as of iTunes 12.11.0.26).
Additionally, if the iTunes Library on the computer is empty at the time you connect a device on which some memos have been recorded, these memos will not be erased on the device when you sync; on the contrary, they will be copied back to the iTunes Library on the computer, no matter if Include Voice Memos is checked or not on the Device/Settings/Music page. Do not be deterred by the warning message in iTunes :
This iTunes library is empty. If you link the iPhone [device name] to
this library, all songs on the iPhone will be erased. Are you sure you
want to continue?
as this will not apply to the Voice Memos which were recorded on the device (as of iTunes 12.11.0.26).
A: First, you don't need to download any software.
Visit this article, which explains how to transfer the memo to iTunes.
*
*Dock your iPhone via USB
*Click the name of your iPhone under Devices in the left column
*Click the Music tab
*Click the checkbox for Include voice memos
*Sync your device
*Your files will appear under a new Voice Memos playlist
Then, if you want to have it play on Apple Tv or hear it from your phone and it still doesn't work, there is another trick.
Go into iTunes, hold the Ctrl button and click on the song/memo you've imported. Choose the "Create an AAC Version" option. It will make a copy of the song above or below the original in iTunes. Then you can play this on Apple TV or off your phone like a regular song.
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30835bd57fd1ea4f3f311550045b93234dc2b031 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Make a custom keyboard layout the system default — even for the login screen Can I make a custom keyboard layout (one that wasn’t included with OS X by default) the system default — even for the login screen?
A: I’m using a custom keyboard layout created with Ukelele in OS X 10.8.5. I changed the login screen keyboard layout with the following steps:
*
*Open Users & Groups in System Preferences
*Select Login Options from the bottom of the left panel
*Check Show Input menu in login window
*Go to login screen
*Select the preferred layout under Other input sources from the input menu, located at top right
*Go back and uncheck the Show Input menu in login window to prevent further changes to the login layout
I found this method far easier than editing some random .plist files and running commands it the Terminal.
This method might require administrative access, as you possibly have to unlock the right pane in step 3. above by clicking the lock icon at the bottom.
Update: Sadly, this doesn’t seem to work on OS X 10.9.
| Q: Make a custom keyboard layout the system default — even for the login screen Can I make a custom keyboard layout (one that wasn’t included with OS X by default) the system default — even for the login screen?
A: I’m using a custom keyboard layout created with Ukelele in OS X 10.8.5. I changed the login screen keyboard layout with the following steps:
*
*Open Users & Groups in System Preferences
*Select Login Options from the bottom of the left panel
*Check Show Input menu in login window
*Go to login screen
*Select the preferred layout under Other input sources from the input menu, located at top right
*Go back and uncheck the Show Input menu in login window to prevent further changes to the login layout
I found this method far easier than editing some random .plist files and running commands it the Terminal.
This method might require administrative access, as you possibly have to unlock the right pane in step 3. above by clicking the lock icon at the bottom.
Update: Sadly, this doesn’t seem to work on OS X 10.9.
A: After installing macOS Sierra my custom layout was reinitialized back to the default each time after login in my account.
Apple added new keyboards and the ID was conflicting with the keyboard I was using.
To validate if you have this issue run:
sudo touch /Library/Keyboard\ Layouts/
The output:
Keyboard Layouts: duplicate keyboard layout identifier 5000.
Keyboard Layouts: keyboard layout identifier 5000 has been replaced with 16383.
The output claims it fixes something but it actually did not do anything. I still had to edit the layout myself and it started working like before.
A: This works on OSX 10.9 Mavericks, with a keyboard layout that I created with Ukulele. Assuming that you have the layout already installed in your system, log into your account and make your custom keyboard layout active.
Open a terminal and run the following command:
cp /Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist /tmp/
If you intend to use a text editor (e.g., TextWrangler) to make this change instead of XCode (which has a specialized graphical plist editor), also run:
plutil -convert xml1 /tmp/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist
Now, open /tmp/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist in the text editor or in XCode.
Throughout the file you will find several mentions of a KeyboardLayout ID key followed by an integer and KeyboardLayout Name followed by a string. Change these strings to the name of your custom keyboard layout and the id integers to the ID of your layout (the easiest way to find the right values is to compare with your user settings found in the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist.
Also the value of the key AppleCurrentKeyboardLayoutInputSourceID must be changed accordingly (probably to something like org.unknown.keylayout.NameOfYourLayout). Again you can find this value in your local preference file.
Once these changes are done, save the file and go back to the terminal. To play it safe, you can create a copy of the original com.apple.HIToolbox.plist file, just in case you made an error and need to roll back. For instance, to save a copy in your Documents folder:
sudo cp /Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist ~/Documents
Then install your change with the following:
sudo sh -c 'cat /tmp/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist > /Library/Preferences/com.apple.HIToolbox.plist'
(It isn't necessary to convert your file back out of text form with plutil if you did so earlier.)
Exit the terminal, and restart the computer (logout is not sufficient: the file will not be reread). After restart, you should have your keyboard layout in the login screen.
NOTE: it's possible that it would have been enough to copy the file com.apple.HIToolbox.plist from ~/Library/Preferences/ to /Library/Preferences/, however in my case it has more entries, so I decided to play it safe and just modify the existing file.
A: I found this old MacWorld tip, that suggested running the Setup Assistant again:
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/Setup Assistant.app\
/Contents/MacOS/Setup Assistant
At first I thought this wasn’t supported in Lion anymore as running this command didn’t seem to have any effect. Only after posting this question, I noticed there’s a typo in the command. The space characters need to be escaped properly, or the location of the binary needs to be quoted. For this reason, the tip I linked to doesn’t work.
Here’s the correct command:
sudo "/System/Library/CoreServices/Setup Assistant.app/Contents/MacOS/Setup Assistant"
Alternatively, this would work as well:
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/Setup\ Assistant.app/Contents/MacOS/Setup\ Assistant
Another gotcha that wasn’t mentioned on the page I linked to: the custom keyboard layout needs to be installed in /Library/Keyboard Layouts/ (i.e. cd /Library/Keyboard\ Layouts), not ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts, for it to appear in the Setup Assistant’s keyboard layout selection screen.
Update: As of OS X 10.8, you’ll need to run an extra command (i.e. remove a file first):
sudo rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone; sudo "/System/Library/CoreServices/Setup Assistant.app/Contents/MacOS/Setup Assistant"
Also, you will have to create a new user account in order to complete the Setup Assistant — but don’t worry, you can delete the new account afterwards.
This trick doesn’t work anymore in recent OS X 10.8 versions.
Update: Here’s everything I know about custom keyboard layouts on OS X.
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091ffcbaaafcd29fe7f9d6758b13822808219060 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Animate a pie-chart in Keynote Suppose I want to compare two situations via two pie-charts. I know I can grow a pie-chart per part in an animation or on click. But I would like to be able to transition that pie-chart to new numbers and it grows or shrinks the appropriate parts automagically.
Clarification: I would like to animate between these two pie-charts:
A: I also wanted this effect , and am getting close to what I want by setting the first slide transition to 'Magic Move' with zero delay and Start Transition on 'Automatically', and then duplicating the first slide about 25 times, and incrementing each segment data value on each slide to get close to 'smooth clock winding' action on 'Play'
| Q: Animate a pie-chart in Keynote Suppose I want to compare two situations via two pie-charts. I know I can grow a pie-chart per part in an animation or on click. But I would like to be able to transition that pie-chart to new numbers and it grows or shrinks the appropriate parts automagically.
Clarification: I would like to animate between these two pie-charts:
A: I also wanted this effect , and am getting close to what I want by setting the first slide transition to 'Magic Move' with zero delay and Start Transition on 'Automatically', and then duplicating the first slide about 25 times, and incrementing each segment data value on each slide to get close to 'smooth clock winding' action on 'Play'
A: Here's one approach that's fairly quick and easy:
Create a Pie chart and input its values with the Chart Data Editor.
With the chart object selected, open the Slide Inspector and set the transition for Magic Move
With the chart still selected, copy the chart object using the menu or ⌘ + c
Create a new slide following your original and paste the chart object onto it.
Use the Chart Data Editor to change the values for your pie slices to reflect the new figures.
The chart will now morph from old to new when you advance the slides.
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f675b99758e6cd22b95b183684dd8d3b7c86681b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Downloaded app on iPad, now I cannot download it on iPhone I downloaded cinemagram on my iPad2 running latest iOS5.1 - now I want to install it on my iPhone 4S running latest iOS5.1, the install is greyed out
I even deleted it on my iPad - that did not help.
UPDATE iCloud had instantaneously downloaded it onto my iPhone but on the other screen I never look at.
A: You might be having this error because the app is already installed. If you have automatic downloads turned "on" for the App Store on your iPhone, iCloud will push the app to your phone if you buy it on another device.
| Q: Downloaded app on iPad, now I cannot download it on iPhone I downloaded cinemagram on my iPad2 running latest iOS5.1 - now I want to install it on my iPhone 4S running latest iOS5.1, the install is greyed out
I even deleted it on my iPad - that did not help.
UPDATE iCloud had instantaneously downloaded it onto my iPhone but on the other screen I never look at.
A: You might be having this error because the app is already installed. If you have automatic downloads turned "on" for the App Store on your iPhone, iCloud will push the app to your phone if you buy it on another device.
A: I'm assuming you iPhone is compatible (iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S)? If not, that's your problem. That's the only reason I could think for it being greyed out.
update: Make sure iCloud didn't already install it on your phone.
A: *
*Go to the App Store from your iPhone and iPad.
*Tap on the Update tab.
*Open Purchased and filter by Not on This iPhone/iPad.
*A list of apps able to be re-downloaded will be shown. Tap on iCloud button to re-download and re-install from App Store in your iPad or iPhone.
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b998d67f0582372ae96ea5ef5da0976f0a11f994 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Make RSS screensaver show more articles? I have an RSS screensaver, but at the moment it only displays a few articles and then loops. Is there a way to make it display more articles?
A: Sure — the easiest way to do this is to edit the screensaver's Quartz composition file. It's located at
/System/Library/Screen Savers/RSS Visualizer.qtz
In order to edit this, you'll need Quartz Composer, which you may already have (if you installed an old version of the developer tools), or you can download it with the Graphics Tools package here.
Open the aforementioned file, click on the "RSS" macro patch, and change the News Count to your liking:
Then save the file or make a copy and put it in ~/Library/Screen Savers.
Edit: I just spent a while trying to figure out if you can expose this option via the options panel, but it seems there's some very specific interface in place for the RSS Visualizer screensaver (see /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources/.Quartz Composer.saver/Contents/Resources), so you can't do it if you also want to see the normal RSS options.
| Q: Make RSS screensaver show more articles? I have an RSS screensaver, but at the moment it only displays a few articles and then loops. Is there a way to make it display more articles?
A: Sure — the easiest way to do this is to edit the screensaver's Quartz composition file. It's located at
/System/Library/Screen Savers/RSS Visualizer.qtz
In order to edit this, you'll need Quartz Composer, which you may already have (if you installed an old version of the developer tools), or you can download it with the Graphics Tools package here.
Open the aforementioned file, click on the "RSS" macro patch, and change the News Count to your liking:
Then save the file or make a copy and put it in ~/Library/Screen Savers.
Edit: I just spent a while trying to figure out if you can expose this option via the options panel, but it seems there's some very specific interface in place for the RSS Visualizer screensaver (see /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources/.Quartz Composer.saver/Contents/Resources), so you can't do it if you also want to see the normal RSS options.
A: This might depend on the RSS feed. If the RSS feed only contains 5 entries, there’s no easy way for you to display more entries in the screensaver.
If that’s the case (your question didn’t specify which feed you’re talking about, so there’s no way for me to check), you could create your own RSS feed based on the website’s HTML, rather than use the one the website is offering. That way, you could have more entries in the feed. This can be done using FeedWeaver, a free online web app.
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62978801e9134970f7960144118cc46a8b5e2da6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Prevent iMac from sleeping, for VPN login? We have an iMac in the office, and I have been getting inconsistent access when trying to log in to it. The firewall isn't going down, since I can connect to the VPN. After discussing it with the people at the office, we suspect that the iMac is going to sleep.
Is it possible to keep the iMac "awake" 24 hours a day? How do I instruct the people at the office to configure the iMac? What settings should be changed? The iMac is running OS X Lion 10.7.3.
A: You can disable sleeping in the Energy Saver preference pane of System Preferences.
Alternatively, you can use a free app called Caffeine to easily prevent your Mac from sleeping just with a click of the mouse. Both work exactly the same, but Caffeine makes it easier to dynamically switch between the two settings.
| Q: Prevent iMac from sleeping, for VPN login? We have an iMac in the office, and I have been getting inconsistent access when trying to log in to it. The firewall isn't going down, since I can connect to the VPN. After discussing it with the people at the office, we suspect that the iMac is going to sleep.
Is it possible to keep the iMac "awake" 24 hours a day? How do I instruct the people at the office to configure the iMac? What settings should be changed? The iMac is running OS X Lion 10.7.3.
A: You can disable sleeping in the Energy Saver preference pane of System Preferences.
Alternatively, you can use a free app called Caffeine to easily prevent your Mac from sleeping just with a click of the mouse. Both work exactly the same, but Caffeine makes it easier to dynamically switch between the two settings.
A: There are two main things that would make connecting to the iMac difficult over VPN, the machine going to sleep being one and being assigned a different IP address over DHCP being the other.
The settings for sleep are stored in the Energy Saver preference pane in System Preferences.
There is a slider for Computer Sleep, slide this to 'Never'. This will mean the machine will never sleep automatically.
There are options for waking over LAN too if you desperately need things to sleep.
If you still experience issues after this you may find that you need to configure a manual IP in the firewall and in the Network preference pane, again in System Preferences.
I don't have a 10.7 system here for screenshots otherwise I'd add some. If someone edits with some or if I get home to grab some that would be ideal.
A: If you need more control over when to or not to sleep, take a look at Wimoweh. It allows you to never sleep when: specific apps are running, system conditions such has high CPU usage, network connections, etc. $1 on the Mac App store
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f1a2406b8f6f1144bf22c344ff6cd322e34d1ca2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can iTunes find all songs with no Album Art? I want to find all songs or tracks which don't have Album Art associated with them in my iTunes music library. I want to do this so that I can fix Album Art problems in advance of a backup. How can I have iTunes show me just these tracks?
My iTunes library is on a Windows 7 PC.
A: With the new iTunes 11, the smart playlist has a new filter labelled "Has Artwork". Simply set that to false, and there's your songs without artwork!
| Q: Can iTunes find all songs with no Album Art? I want to find all songs or tracks which don't have Album Art associated with them in my iTunes music library. I want to do this so that I can fix Album Art problems in advance of a backup. How can I have iTunes show me just these tracks?
My iTunes library is on a Windows 7 PC.
A: With the new iTunes 11, the smart playlist has a new filter labelled "Has Artwork". Simply set that to false, and there's your songs without artwork!
A: You can do this by creating a Smart Playlist:
(I'm using a Mac, but it will be similar for you)
Set the "Album Artwork" rule to "false":
This will update automatically as you add artwork to your albums. And you can simply delete this playlist when you're done.
A: Sounded like a good answer but on my itunes on Macbook Air, this finds 439 songs with no artwork, yet many of them when I look at them in the playlist, I see album artwork. Even odder, some of the songs in the same album, having the same artwork, make the list while others don't.
I have used Doug Scripts to find songs with missing artwork
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts13.php
A: If you want to get all the album artwork for your songs or albums I recommend you find a program that gets metadata for your songs. Like I use TuneUp on my mac and it gave all my albums with no artwork an artwork that is one of the ones for your album.
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00407f848250f583fb210f69c57c5a7e5838db63 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I use text substitutions without having to type a space? I have some custom text substitutions set up in the Language & Text pane of System Preferences. But in order to activate a substitution, I have to type the shortcut and then press the spacebar. This results in the replacement text followed by a space character. So if I want the text to be at the end of a text field when I submit a form, for example, I have to type "[shortcut]space⌫↩" instead of just "[shortcut]↩".
Is there any way to make the replacement instantaneous, so I don't have to insert and delete a space that I don't want?
A: Related: Text expansion for Mac OS X Lion?
TextExpander and DashExpander meet the requirement.
In TextExpander I have macros that are expanded without keying space, return or enter.
| Q: How can I use text substitutions without having to type a space? I have some custom text substitutions set up in the Language & Text pane of System Preferences. But in order to activate a substitution, I have to type the shortcut and then press the spacebar. This results in the replacement text followed by a space character. So if I want the text to be at the end of a text field when I submit a form, for example, I have to type "[shortcut]space⌫↩" instead of just "[shortcut]↩".
Is there any way to make the replacement instantaneous, so I don't have to insert and delete a space that I don't want?
A: Related: Text expansion for Mac OS X Lion?
TextExpander and DashExpander meet the requirement.
In TextExpander I have macros that are expanded without keying space, return or enter.
A: The closest thing to doing what you’re after without using additional software, is to create a custom keyboard layout. You can map a single key or a key combination to any string you want.
For example, using my custom QWERTY layout, I can type ⌥ + O to get ಠ_ಠ (instead of ø, which I never used).
It’s not really “text replacement”, but it’s a solution nevertheless. Also, I found that keyboard shortcuts work much faster than text replacements, once you get used to them.
Another benefit of this solution is that it works in all applications, while text substitution only works in Cocoa apps.
A: I don't have this issue, pressing the enter key also works instead of space.
I created a custom Text Substitution in Language & Text, then opened TextEdit and it worked on any key press, not just space or enter.
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f95a16668dd25f1cb25708d7b9bc09ccf76c4edb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Adium + Office Communicator We are required to use Office Communicator at my work for instant messages. I am currently using the multi-protocol client Adium for my other accounts (AIM, Gtalk). I don't see a way to add an account for Office Communicator, so I'm wondering if there is any 3rd party support for this?
All of the searching I've been doing only points to running a separate application (which I already use), or to requests to add this feature to Adium. I've haven't tracked down a 3rd party module, so I thought I would ask here if anyone knows of one.
A: A SIPE plugin is under development. Here's a link to an Adium plugin binary: dropbox
And here's the link to the Adium issue tracking system so you can follow progress: trac.adium.com
Looks like a number of people are interested and development is active.
See comment 144 for plugin installation instructions.
| Q: Adium + Office Communicator We are required to use Office Communicator at my work for instant messages. I am currently using the multi-protocol client Adium for my other accounts (AIM, Gtalk). I don't see a way to add an account for Office Communicator, so I'm wondering if there is any 3rd party support for this?
All of the searching I've been doing only points to running a separate application (which I already use), or to requests to add this feature to Adium. I've haven't tracked down a 3rd party module, so I thought I would ask here if anyone knows of one.
A: A SIPE plugin is under development. Here's a link to an Adium plugin binary: dropbox
And here's the link to the Adium issue tracking system so you can follow progress: trac.adium.com
Looks like a number of people are interested and development is active.
See comment 144 for plugin installation instructions.
A: I am using Adium 1.5.8 with SIPE Plugin 1.17.0 on Mac 10.8.5
*
*Remove previous version of Adium installed on your mac.
*Copy SIPE Plugin to ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/PlugIns
*Restart Adium and account creation should list "Office Communicator"
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b4c08b3abc8de36cf7e12670a68a42cdec3645fc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do you access the content of the iPhoto bundle from Time Machine? I would like to access the files of the iPhoto library bundle to retrieve just some of the files to help solving this question about corrupted iPhoto db files properly.
In time machine mode there is no way to show the content of the bundle.
All I can get is a time machine view of the iPhoto application.
A: *
*Open the iPhoto bundle before your enter Time Machine.
*When you start Time Machine, the whole folder looks empty (plain white) - which is probably a bug that still needs a fix (I'm on 10.7.3).
You can get to show the contents by toggling the view options.
BTW: It's also possible to use Go to Folder... via ⌘+⇧+G in Time Machine. But this will not help you to enter the iPhoto bundle - whatever the reason is :(
| Q: How do you access the content of the iPhoto bundle from Time Machine? I would like to access the files of the iPhoto library bundle to retrieve just some of the files to help solving this question about corrupted iPhoto db files properly.
In time machine mode there is no way to show the content of the bundle.
All I can get is a time machine view of the iPhoto application.
A: *
*Open the iPhoto bundle before your enter Time Machine.
*When you start Time Machine, the whole folder looks empty (plain white) - which is probably a bug that still needs a fix (I'm on 10.7.3).
You can get to show the contents by toggling the view options.
BTW: It's also possible to use Go to Folder... via ⌘+⇧+G in Time Machine. But this will not help you to enter the iPhoto bundle - whatever the reason is :(
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8795ab22cdc635a82c36e14a0d2f5cc26696482e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a window tiling app that snaps to other windows' edges rather than predefined screen areas? All window tiling apps I've seen are designed to make windows snap to preset screen areas, such as "the left half of the screen" or even "this size of rectangle specified with a grid." Is there one that would let me do, say, this:
A: Take a look at this Wiki question, and see if any of the answers meet your needs.
In particular, this one looks interesting:
Zooom/2 - "Magnetism. If you like snapping windows the the edges of the screen or other windows (as in many X window managers), you will love this."
| Q: Is there a window tiling app that snaps to other windows' edges rather than predefined screen areas? All window tiling apps I've seen are designed to make windows snap to preset screen areas, such as "the left half of the screen" or even "this size of rectangle specified with a grid." Is there one that would let me do, say, this:
A: Take a look at this Wiki question, and see if any of the answers meet your needs.
In particular, this one looks interesting:
Zooom/2 - "Magnetism. If you like snapping windows the the edges of the screen or other windows (as in many X window managers), you will love this."
A: Cinch provides the snap to edges you are looking for, but I don't think it's good enough to do the total window arrangement you are looking for.
SizeUp by the same provider as Cinch provides the ability to quadrant your screen, but these are more precise full quarter, rather than the different sized windows you have.
A: BetterSnapTool
Just like BetterTouchTool this app by Andreas Hegenberg is a very feature rich and highly customizable windows management tool.
*
*You can either snap or use shortcuts for predefined areas.
Window snapping can be customized for each corner and and side (except bottom).
*You can define snap areas for any sort of window position and dimension.
*Shortcut behavior may be customized depending on application.
A: Update in 2018:
Rejoice, this is now an OS feature!
Try dragging your window slowly against another one, you'll encounter some resistance. You can use this to line them up quite easily.
I can't remember for sure when they added this, but I believe it was in OS X v10.12 Sierra.
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bc39140d636f4e0b3374c6489e4e966007515081 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I back up my app data? I have some app data that I'd like to preserve when the time for a new iPhone rolls around. This app does not (seem to) have any cloud-syncing functionality. I regularly sync my iPhone to iTunes via USB on a Macbook Air running OS X 10.5.8. How can I ensure that this app's data is backed up, so as to re-use it on a new device?
A: Vlad's answer is good, and he's absolutely right.
An alternative to iTunes would be to use an iOS device browser. This would be especially good if you only wanted to back up one app's data rather than the whole device. Options of these include Phone Disk and PhoneView.
| Q: How can I back up my app data? I have some app data that I'd like to preserve when the time for a new iPhone rolls around. This app does not (seem to) have any cloud-syncing functionality. I regularly sync my iPhone to iTunes via USB on a Macbook Air running OS X 10.5.8. How can I ensure that this app's data is backed up, so as to re-use it on a new device?
A: Vlad's answer is good, and he's absolutely right.
An alternative to iTunes would be to use an iOS device browser. This would be especially good if you only wanted to back up one app's data rather than the whole device. Options of these include Phone Disk and PhoneView.
A: To backup your device to iCloud:
*
*Launch the Settings app.
*Go to iCloud > Backup & Storage.
*If you enable iCloud Backup all your data will automatically be backed up each night.
*Or you can press Back Up Now to immediately perform a backup of all your data.
To restore your data to the same phone:
*
*Make sure you backed up and that the backup completed successfully.
*Delete all data on the phone by going to Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings. -- WARNING: This will delete all your data, so make sure you have it backed up, especially anything not syncing to iCloud.
*Follow the steps below for a new phone.
To restore your data to a new Phone:
*
*During the Setup Assistant, choose to Restore from iCloud Backup.
Notes:
*
*This will only work if you have less than 5 GB of data on the device. Otherwise you will need to buy more space from Apple or choose to not sync certain things (e.g. Photos and Videos). If do the latter, realize that when you erase all your settings all that data will be gone unless you copied it somewhere else besides iCloud.
A: If you take a full backup of your iPhone (right click on it in iTunes and choose Back Up) and then restore it to a new phone, all data will be preserved, including apps' data:
iTunes will back up the following information
*
*Contacts* and Contact Favorites (regularly sync contacts to a computer or cloud service such as iCloud to back them up).
*App Store Application data including in-app purchases (except the Application itself, its tmp and Caches folder).
*Application settings, preferences, and data, including documents.
From iTunes: About iOS backups.
A: If you have jailbreak on your device, you can use "Apps Manager" tweak (https://repo.xarold.com/pack/appdatamanager) to locally backup/restore data by app. It works fine even on iOS 10 and 11.
A: i dont know about i cloud but with itunes it back ups everything
A: Only the best thing to save data is icloud
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b3ea26d17e36506a54157fd02a9a06d85a6686bd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it safe to use my US iPhone/iPad charger with a simple European plug adapter? I'm using the US wall adapter that came with my iPhone to charge it:
When I travel to Europe, is it safe to use this with a simple US-European adapter, or do I need a transformer or some other device to step to the appropriate voltage/current? Do I risk frying my device?
A: Yes, you can use the simple adapter. If you read the tiny fine print on the plug end you see "110-240V 50-60Hz" which means it will work on most common electrical systems around the world without a transformer.
| Q: Is it safe to use my US iPhone/iPad charger with a simple European plug adapter? I'm using the US wall adapter that came with my iPhone to charge it:
When I travel to Europe, is it safe to use this with a simple US-European adapter, or do I need a transformer or some other device to step to the appropriate voltage/current? Do I risk frying my device?
A: Yes, you can use the simple adapter. If you read the tiny fine print on the plug end you see "110-240V 50-60Hz" which means it will work on most common electrical systems around the world without a transformer.
A: Yes, it is perfectly safe to use a simple adapter for EU. You do not need additional transformers. When I went in visit to Europe I got one adapter exactly like the one in your post, the black one.
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3c3cfcde1d64496ca28a4ab01134cf6852a54b6c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Cut functionality shortcut for folders and files I'm accustomed to ctrl+x, ctrl+v combination to move files and folders using only the keyboard. Can I get the same functionality on OS X Lion?
A: Yes, but it's a little different in Lion.
In both the move and the copy situation, you use ⌘ CommandC to put a file on the clipboard.
When pasting:
*
*To copy the file to the new location, press ⌘ CommandV.
*To move the file to the new location, press ⌥ Option⌘ CommandV.
| Q: Cut functionality shortcut for folders and files I'm accustomed to ctrl+x, ctrl+v combination to move files and folders using only the keyboard. Can I get the same functionality on OS X Lion?
A: Yes, but it's a little different in Lion.
In both the move and the copy situation, you use ⌘ CommandC to put a file on the clipboard.
When pasting:
*
*To copy the file to the new location, press ⌘ CommandV.
*To move the file to the new location, press ⌥ Option⌘ CommandV.
A: You could use cmd +x too : if I'm not mistaken, cut exists in Mac OS since the 10.4.8 version, it's just disable.
To get the combination cmd +x working, you could just enable it, by opening a terminal and run this command :
defaults write com.apple.finder AllowCutForItems 1
You could re-disable it, by changing the final "1" to "0".
EDIT :
I didn't try this trick for a while, so it appears that it's not working under Lion (It's was working on leopard for me).
Anyway jtbandes's solution is the best way to do cut and paste :)
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7cb99bfb7a75ecc2d0ed17cccd54453ec1b7bd19 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I pay for my Netflix subscription using iTunes credit? Now that you can sign up for Netflix with your Apple ID and use that for billing, does that allow you to get it billed to your iTunes Credit rather than credit card?
A: According to this Bloomberg article:
Netflix Inc. (NFLX) is deepening its ties with Apple Inc. (AAPL) by
allowing owners of Apple TV set-top boxes to sign up for the
video-streaming service directly and pay through their iTunes
accounts.
More details and support links can be found on Netflix's iTunes billing page.
Finally, according to the current US iTunes terms and conditions:
When making purchases, content credits are used first, followed by
Gift Certificate, iTunes Card, or Allowance Account credits; your
credit card or PayPal account is then charged for any remaining
balance.
While the current T&C doesn't directly mention the Netflix subscription situation., the iTunes Card ("credit") comes before the credit card or PayPal account. However, since Apple also has your credit card information, as this Fast Company article notes, your credit card might actually be used to pay for your Netflix subscription instead of the iTunes credits.
| Q: Can I pay for my Netflix subscription using iTunes credit? Now that you can sign up for Netflix with your Apple ID and use that for billing, does that allow you to get it billed to your iTunes Credit rather than credit card?
A: According to this Bloomberg article:
Netflix Inc. (NFLX) is deepening its ties with Apple Inc. (AAPL) by
allowing owners of Apple TV set-top boxes to sign up for the
video-streaming service directly and pay through their iTunes
accounts.
More details and support links can be found on Netflix's iTunes billing page.
Finally, according to the current US iTunes terms and conditions:
When making purchases, content credits are used first, followed by
Gift Certificate, iTunes Card, or Allowance Account credits; your
credit card or PayPal account is then charged for any remaining
balance.
While the current T&C doesn't directly mention the Netflix subscription situation., the iTunes Card ("credit") comes before the credit card or PayPal account. However, since Apple also has your credit card information, as this Fast Company article notes, your credit card might actually be used to pay for your Netflix subscription instead of the iTunes credits.
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51ea68003eb05c28e164456dbc7a3d9753b0ff9c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I get the Parallels Desktop Application Icons in Launchpad? I have the opposite problem of this one; I have Parallels Desktop 6 installed and while I do have the Applications folder in the dock, I don't have links to any of these applications in Launchpad.
How can I get these application icons in Launchpad? I'm aware that Parallels has the following knowledge base article which says that there is going to be a folder in Launchpad, but that's not what I want. I'm looking for a way to get all the applications icon to be visible in Launchpad, similar to this:
Note: I had Parallels installed on Snow Leopard (before I had Launchpad), and now I am using Lion.
A: To add an application to Launchpad, you can simply drag it to Launchpad in the Dock.
But be careful — currently there's no way to remove something from Launchpad that you've added.
(And if you have items in a folder in Launchpad, you can easily drag them out and organize them as you wish.)
| Q: How can I get the Parallels Desktop Application Icons in Launchpad? I have the opposite problem of this one; I have Parallels Desktop 6 installed and while I do have the Applications folder in the dock, I don't have links to any of these applications in Launchpad.
How can I get these application icons in Launchpad? I'm aware that Parallels has the following knowledge base article which says that there is going to be a folder in Launchpad, but that's not what I want. I'm looking for a way to get all the applications icon to be visible in Launchpad, similar to this:
Note: I had Parallels installed on Snow Leopard (before I had Launchpad), and now I am using Lion.
A: To add an application to Launchpad, you can simply drag it to Launchpad in the Dock.
But be careful — currently there's no way to remove something from Launchpad that you've added.
(And if you have items in a folder in Launchpad, you can easily drag them out and organize them as you wish.)
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effcd5b5f2910ce8b588a6f4037d41a5a2ae14fb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Photo Sharing from iTunes In iTunes, from the Advanced menu, I selected Photos to Share. I then picked a folder and the hard drive cranked at full speed for good 5-10 minutes.
I do not see any of the photos on the iPad. So, who did I actually share the Photos with?
A: Mathias is correct about the proper way to sync photos to your iPad. Sharing photos from iTunes approves them for Home Sharing, a system designed to share iTunes Store purchases and media amongst family members.
Apple Knowledgebase: iTunes: Setting up Home Sharing on your computer
Home Sharing can also be used to allow access to photos from an AppleTV.
Apple Knowledgebase: Setting up Home Sharing for Apple TV (2nd generation)
| Q: Photo Sharing from iTunes In iTunes, from the Advanced menu, I selected Photos to Share. I then picked a folder and the hard drive cranked at full speed for good 5-10 minutes.
I do not see any of the photos on the iPad. So, who did I actually share the Photos with?
A: Mathias is correct about the proper way to sync photos to your iPad. Sharing photos from iTunes approves them for Home Sharing, a system designed to share iTunes Store purchases and media amongst family members.
Apple Knowledgebase: iTunes: Setting up Home Sharing on your computer
Home Sharing can also be used to allow access to photos from an AppleTV.
Apple Knowledgebase: Setting up Home Sharing for Apple TV (2nd generation)
A: You don't copy Photos to an iPad using the Advanced menu…
Here’s how I do it: go to iTunes → Devices → Your iOS Device → Photos → enable “Sync Photos from…” and choose either iPhoto album(s) or a folder on your hard drive. Then press the Sync button in the bottom right corner.
See Apple Knowledgebase: iOS and iPod: Syncing photos using iTunes for more details.
A: It seems that Advanced > Choose Photos to Share uses iTunes' Home Sharing feature to share photos with Apple TV devices.
If you want to sync photos from your computer to the iPad, you can either use PhotoStream or enable photo syncing when you connect the iPad.
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f4c13ff752b221139173961b548ed79bd28568b1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to automatically sign in to the Mac App Store? Each time (at the beginning of the session) I buy or update an app in the mac app store I have to sign in.
I want to be automatically signed in, like I am in the iTunes Store.
I couldn't find any "remember password in keychain" option.
Did I miss an option somewhere? Or is there any way so I get signed in automatically?
A: No, this option doesn't exist. (Perhaps because it would be to some extent a security risk.) You might remain signed in for a short period of time, but you can't automatically log yourself in.
| Q: Is it possible to automatically sign in to the Mac App Store? Each time (at the beginning of the session) I buy or update an app in the mac app store I have to sign in.
I want to be automatically signed in, like I am in the iTunes Store.
I couldn't find any "remember password in keychain" option.
Did I miss an option somewhere? Or is there any way so I get signed in automatically?
A: No, this option doesn't exist. (Perhaps because it would be to some extent a security risk.) You might remain signed in for a short period of time, but you can't automatically log yourself in.
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be2c7ffd3fe2d8c8a9f7b4d58b03f0c8f345ed39 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How many External Hard Drives can I plug to Airport Extreme? I need to backup all my computer data. I'm thinking of buying 3 External Hard Drives and connect them to Airport Extreme. Can I do this?
A: The constraint is be the number of ports available on your USB hub.
Any connected hard drives should appear in Mac OS X.
Use a self-powered usb hub and connect hard drives your hub. Only then will multiple external drives have enough power to run.
Also see store.apple.com for related questions.
| Q: How many External Hard Drives can I plug to Airport Extreme? I need to backup all my computer data. I'm thinking of buying 3 External Hard Drives and connect them to Airport Extreme. Can I do this?
A: The constraint is be the number of ports available on your USB hub.
Any connected hard drives should appear in Mac OS X.
Use a self-powered usb hub and connect hard drives your hub. Only then will multiple external drives have enough power to run.
Also see store.apple.com for related questions.
A: As shown on the Apple website, the Airport Extreme has only one USB port:
However, you can use a USB hub to connect multiple devices to it.
(I also wouldn't be surprised if Apple eventually creates a Thunderbolt-compatible version of the Airport Extreme — and Thunderbolt devices can be daisy-chained, so you might be able to connect more than one hard drive at a time.)
For a single hard drive, you might also like the Time Capsule which has an integrated hard drive.
For a more flexible and heavy-duty solution for multiple drives, you could use something like Drobo.
A: Yes you can - Apple's web site says "multiple printers, multiple hard drives" and mentions using them with a USB hub.
Don't expect fancy NAS or RAID features though, you will just be able to share the existing partitions.
A: The problem is how much power USB on the Airport Extreme supplies.
If you had one external drive, then 2.5 inch drives will be fine with the power they get, 3.5 inch drives usually are not. I had one drive that came with a special USB cable with two connectors, one for data + power, the other to get a bit more power. That won't work obviously.
For multiple drives, you need a hub. For multiple drives without their own power supply, you will need a POWERED USB hub, that is a USB hub with its own power plug. Be careful when you order one, because some people sell their unpowered hubs as "USB POWERED", which means it tries to get its power from the Airport Extreme USB port. That's not going to work.
If you buy 3.5 inch drives that usually come with their own power supply, they might be fine with an unpowered hub, but I wouldn't take the risk and get a powered hub.
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0e8678fe2767adb48b7af19bc30364caf59e6037 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Cannot connect to the internet on my iPhone 4S after upgrading to iOS 5.1 Just updated the iOS to 5.1 this morning and now I cannot connect to the internet. WiFi is not available to me right now...
A: You will need to re-enter the network settings. Updating iOS seems to wipe these settings.
Go to Settings → General → Network → Cellular Data Network and enter all fields.
To use a VPN connection, Choose Settings → General → Network → VPN and then choose “Add VPN Configuration”. Ask your company’s IT guy for the credentials.
| Q: Cannot connect to the internet on my iPhone 4S after upgrading to iOS 5.1 Just updated the iOS to 5.1 this morning and now I cannot connect to the internet. WiFi is not available to me right now...
A: You will need to re-enter the network settings. Updating iOS seems to wipe these settings.
Go to Settings → General → Network → Cellular Data Network and enter all fields.
To use a VPN connection, Choose Settings → General → Network → VPN and then choose “Add VPN Configuration”. Ask your company’s IT guy for the credentials.
A: Try resetting you network settings. Go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings. This should do the trick - it did for me.
You will have to enter WiFi keys again, but that's the only downside.
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42392450f8f3eeb2fccf438377bac43da8c4c91c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I use a USB headset with my iPad's camera connection kit? I know the camera connection kit can be used with USB microphones, but I'm wondering if USB headsets will work as well — both the speakers and the microphone — and whether this requires special applications (as with a MIDI USB device) or if they work natively with all audio apps?
A: According to this and other articles, yes, it does work! (And it functions just like any other audio input/output device — with any application that supports audio in/out.)
| Q: Can I use a USB headset with my iPad's camera connection kit? I know the camera connection kit can be used with USB microphones, but I'm wondering if USB headsets will work as well — both the speakers and the microphone — and whether this requires special applications (as with a MIDI USB device) or if they work natively with all audio apps?
A: According to this and other articles, yes, it does work! (And it functions just like any other audio input/output device — with any application that supports audio in/out.)
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313f6e32a07bf7b50719b7492c971d4d08d4dcc5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What cable/adapter should I buy to connect a MacBook Pro's Thunderbolt port to a TV via HDMI? I have a late 2011 15" MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt/mini DisplayPort. What cable do I need which will transmit both audio AND video?
A: Dr. Bott have HDMI adapters that can transmit audio as well as video, assuming your MacBook supports it (yours does): http://www.drbott.net/product/5499-MDHD/
Then, get a Thunderbolt to HDMI adapter by Apple which transmits both video and audio. Note that Thunderbolt is backwards compatible with Mini DisplayPort as far as these cables/adapters are concerned.
| Q: What cable/adapter should I buy to connect a MacBook Pro's Thunderbolt port to a TV via HDMI? I have a late 2011 15" MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt/mini DisplayPort. What cable do I need which will transmit both audio AND video?
A: Dr. Bott have HDMI adapters that can transmit audio as well as video, assuming your MacBook supports it (yours does): http://www.drbott.net/product/5499-MDHD/
Then, get a Thunderbolt to HDMI adapter by Apple which transmits both video and audio. Note that Thunderbolt is backwards compatible with Mini DisplayPort as far as these cables/adapters are concerned.
A: Monoprice has this adapter. They say it's Thunderbolt compatible, and for $7, I'd give it a try!
A: As @Asmus mentioned, you have to have a CEC channel or else it messes up your home theater setup. I am experiencing the same problem where I have a Samsung TV, an Onkyo 7.1 Surround Sound system, a 3D Blu-Ray player and then I have XBMC installed on my iMac as an HTPC. However, if I have my iMac plugged in using a Griffin Thunderbolt to HDMI, It causes my whole CEC system to fail.
The only solution I have found (and it isn't cheap) is a USB-CEC adapter. It's pricey at $47 without shipping, but it completely solved my problem - as well as made it so I can use my TV remote to control my XBMC on iMac.
A: In another, more cheap way to fix the HDMI-CEC to interrupt is to remove pin 13 from the HDMI connector.
I did this on a cheap mini-Displayport adapter for my macbook as i didnt want to spend much cash getting a HDMI-CEC-USB kit. I already had raspberry connected with XBMC on it so I didnt need the TV to control anything on my mac. Just wanted to keep mac not making trouble with the other units.
Fixing this makes the CEC dont send any data on the pin 13 that is making this trouble from keeping the TV not to turn off CEC when dont getting any answer.
Pinout scheme:
Another thread describing the same problem:
http://community.nowtv.com/t5/NOW-TV-Box/HDMI-CEC-not-working-when-Now-TV-box-plugged-in/td-p/125670/page/3
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5a529e063a11a8638578aac5e43579e3f1ac2ddd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I attach more than one photo to a single email sent on my iPhone? There doesn't seem to be a way to attach photos to an email in the Mail app on the iPhone. I can send photos from the Camera Roll in the Photos app, but I can only attach one photo per email? Is there a trick I'm missing? Or is there an app for that?
A: The simplest way for attaching more than one photo is:
*
*Tap the edit button in photo app
*Tap the photos you want to attach
*Tap copy button on your screen or in sharing options
*Then go to e-mail app, hold your finger on the screen and choose paste command
| Q: How do I attach more than one photo to a single email sent on my iPhone? There doesn't seem to be a way to attach photos to an email in the Mail app on the iPhone. I can send photos from the Camera Roll in the Photos app, but I can only attach one photo per email? Is there a trick I'm missing? Or is there an app for that?
A: The simplest way for attaching more than one photo is:
*
*Tap the edit button in photo app
*Tap the photos you want to attach
*Tap copy button on your screen or in sharing options
*Then go to e-mail app, hold your finger on the screen and choose paste command
A: OS 3.0 and above allows you to email out up to 5 photos.
*
*Go to your Camera roll. Select the roll you want.
*Tap Share icon (bottom left)
*Tap each photo you want to send via e-mail ( you should get a red check mark in each photo > Share count will increase to the number of photos selected).
*Tap "Share Icon" again
*A pop up "e-mail" message will appear
*All the photos you selected will appear in your e-mail message to send.
A: When you have the photo app open after you click attach file from email, Click the "share and command"buttons at the same time! Then you will have the option to attac more that one picture. I just did it a second ago! It worked!!!!!
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a78a4afb2e7f0d98e3aff72d06235672ba77486a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I remove the bluetooth setup wizard on a headless Mac Mini? I finally moved my old Mini into the back room on a TV. I use Air Mouse to control it from my iOS devices.
However, with no keyboard and mouse connected it seems to bring up the bluetooth setup wizard each time I wake it from sleep. This is a 2007 (core duo 1.83) running the latest Snow Leopard.
How do I disable this behavior or utility?
A: You can disable the Bluetooth Setup Wizard by:
*
*Go to System Preferences
*Click Bluetooth
*Click Advanced
*Un-check 'Open Bluetooth Setup Assistant at start up when no input device is present'.
The screen should look like this (the checkbox above the highlighted section):
More information in this Apple KB - Wireless Input Devices
Also, if you are not using Bluetooth at all, you can disable it as well.
| Q: How can I remove the bluetooth setup wizard on a headless Mac Mini? I finally moved my old Mini into the back room on a TV. I use Air Mouse to control it from my iOS devices.
However, with no keyboard and mouse connected it seems to bring up the bluetooth setup wizard each time I wake it from sleep. This is a 2007 (core duo 1.83) running the latest Snow Leopard.
How do I disable this behavior or utility?
A: You can disable the Bluetooth Setup Wizard by:
*
*Go to System Preferences
*Click Bluetooth
*Click Advanced
*Un-check 'Open Bluetooth Setup Assistant at start up when no input device is present'.
The screen should look like this (the checkbox above the highlighted section):
More information in this Apple KB - Wireless Input Devices
Also, if you are not using Bluetooth at all, you can disable it as well.
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d703f08ddfbb66ab6bb06a2e273f72b77d5d6a97 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to pass the endless verifying status on iMessage or FaceTime activation when phone number is wrong? My iMessage continues to show Verifing status on iPhone 4S (iOS 5.1).
*
*The phone number displayed at iMessage verifing screen is wrong (old one)
*The Settings > Phone displays the correct number
*iTunes shows correct number
*The phone can successfully send or receive SMS messages
I already tried the accepted answer from https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3401647?start=0&tstart=0 but it does not work.
A: I assume you changed phones/data plans and restored your iPhone from backup?
The only time I encountered quite important problems with my iPhone's setup was when I made a backup (in iTunes) sold my iPhone (3G) flew to a new country bought a new iPhone (4) with a new provider and setup the new iPhone by restoring restoring from backup. From that point my network settings went bad and I experienced numerous issues (visual voicemail, FaceTime and internet access were not working properly or at all).
To solve the problem I had to restore the iPhone and then setup the iPhone as a new iPhone. It was the only thing that worked for me. You could try that.
| Q: How to pass the endless verifying status on iMessage or FaceTime activation when phone number is wrong? My iMessage continues to show Verifing status on iPhone 4S (iOS 5.1).
*
*The phone number displayed at iMessage verifing screen is wrong (old one)
*The Settings > Phone displays the correct number
*iTunes shows correct number
*The phone can successfully send or receive SMS messages
I already tried the accepted answer from https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3401647?start=0&tstart=0 but it does not work.
A: I assume you changed phones/data plans and restored your iPhone from backup?
The only time I encountered quite important problems with my iPhone's setup was when I made a backup (in iTunes) sold my iPhone (3G) flew to a new country bought a new iPhone (4) with a new provider and setup the new iPhone by restoring restoring from backup. From that point my network settings went bad and I experienced numerous issues (visual voicemail, FaceTime and internet access were not working properly or at all).
To solve the problem I had to restore the iPhone and then setup the iPhone as a new iPhone. It was the only thing that worked for me. You could try that.
A: This is quite a common problem that can be solved by turning off and on iMessages. You may want to wait a little bit between these operations.
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ec035f1d6c70ae5b241ea9f109bb191be804a4b8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I globally change the cmd-Q shortcut to require holding for two seconds, like the option in Chrome? Many, many times, I accidentally press ⌘+Q when I meant to close a tab or window, or switch applications. When I saw the option in Google Chrome to require the shortcut to be held, I was overjoyed. Problem is, I use Safari.
So, in short: How can I make the "hold command-Q" shortcut universal across all of my applications (or at least Safari)?
A: Another option is to use Karabiner with the following XML:
__HoldingKeyToKey__ KeyCode::Q, VK_COMMAND | ModifierFlag::NONE, KeyCode::VK_NONE, KeyCode::Q, VK_COMMAND, Option::NOREPEAT
| Q: Can I globally change the cmd-Q shortcut to require holding for two seconds, like the option in Chrome? Many, many times, I accidentally press ⌘+Q when I meant to close a tab or window, or switch applications. When I saw the option in Google Chrome to require the shortcut to be held, I was overjoyed. Problem is, I use Safari.
So, in short: How can I make the "hold command-Q" shortcut universal across all of my applications (or at least Safari)?
A: Another option is to use Karabiner with the following XML:
__HoldingKeyToKey__ KeyCode::Q, VK_COMMAND | ModifierFlag::NONE, KeyCode::VK_NONE, KeyCode::Q, VK_COMMAND, Option::NOREPEAT
A: CommandQ ($4.00) does exactly this. It's very customizable and has a nice GUI, though I haven't used it personally. It seems to fulfil the requirements of this question.
A: Here's a partial solution for starters:
Preventing accidental quitting in Safari (or any specific application)
Simply set up an unusual keyboard shortcut for the "Quit Safari" menu item in Keyboard preferences.
This will disable the standard ⌘Q shortcut, so accidentally hitting it doesn't make a difference — and you have to think before you quit!
(Unfortunately, I haven't found an easy way to do this for every application, without entering each one manually.)
A: Continuing on jtbandes' solution, once you have remapped the standard Quit command to a different keystroke (yes, sadly, you need to remap it manually for every application you are worried about accidentally quitting), you can create a service in Automator that takes no input. It should have a single action: Run AppleScript. The script is:
tell application "System Events"
set theName to name of the first process whose frontmost is true
end tell
tell application theName
display dialog "Are you sure you want to quit?"
quit
end tell
You then save that service (I called mine "SafeSave"), and assign the service the keystroke ⌘Q. You have thus reclaimed the standard keystroke.
A: Douglas Teoh has made an app called SlowQuitApps, that does exactly this.
An OS X app that adds a global delay of 1 second to the Cmd-Q
shortcut. In other words, you have to hold down Cmd-Q for 1 second
before an application will quit.
When the delay is active, an overlay is drawn at the center of the
screen.
A: I don't believe that's possible.
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f3b9e76001b876abc7b1a4c4817344998c146fcd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I restore an iPad to factory defaults? I'm planning to sell / give my old iPad to a friend. I've already saved everything that I want off of the old iPad. How can I restore the old iPad to factory default settings so that my friend can start fresh?
It's a first-gen iPad, in case it matters.
A: In iPad Settings, go to General, then Transfer or Reset, then "Erase All Contents and Settings". The next thing you see ( after confirmation) is the welcome screen as if just out of the box.
Also: If shipping it you might want to power off by holding top and bottom buttons until you see the "slide to power off" slider. I recently sold my iPad 2, cleared it to factory settings as described and powered off. Happy new owner received it with charge, ready to configure.
Late note:
If FindMy is enabled, you must disable this first [meaning you must have access to its iCloud account] or the new owner will not be able to use it, it will still be locked to you.
| Q: How can I restore an iPad to factory defaults? I'm planning to sell / give my old iPad to a friend. I've already saved everything that I want off of the old iPad. How can I restore the old iPad to factory default settings so that my friend can start fresh?
It's a first-gen iPad, in case it matters.
A: In iPad Settings, go to General, then Transfer or Reset, then "Erase All Contents and Settings". The next thing you see ( after confirmation) is the welcome screen as if just out of the box.
Also: If shipping it you might want to power off by holding top and bottom buttons until you see the "slide to power off" slider. I recently sold my iPad 2, cleared it to factory settings as described and powered off. Happy new owner received it with charge, ready to configure.
Late note:
If FindMy is enabled, you must disable this first [meaning you must have access to its iCloud account] or the new owner will not be able to use it, it will still be locked to you.
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364731eda6502f88607f8f86283eb20339784a7c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I send an email to a google contact group on my iOS devices? I have groups in my Google Contacts for sending emails to sets of people via the web interface on a browser.
I sync Google mail and contacts onto a couple iOS devices via Microsoft Exchange.
How can I send an email to a google group from iOS? Neither the built in mail/contact apps have any reference to my groups, and I cannot acces them via the web browser (mobile version), nor the official gmail app (which seems to be a resigned web interface).
A: Unfortunately, there's not a way of doing it with the native iOS app. Try using the Gmail app (which I personally prefer). If not, there's this little workaround: http://red66.com/2009/07/how-to-send-group-emails-from-your-iphone/
The gist of the workaround is to make one contact for the group and add a comma separated list of emails to the singular email field for the "group contact"
This doesn't allow you to leverage arbitrary groups and does require some manual setup, but once that's done you can email limited group sizes from iOS without needing a computer.
| Q: How can I send an email to a google contact group on my iOS devices? I have groups in my Google Contacts for sending emails to sets of people via the web interface on a browser.
I sync Google mail and contacts onto a couple iOS devices via Microsoft Exchange.
How can I send an email to a google group from iOS? Neither the built in mail/contact apps have any reference to my groups, and I cannot acces them via the web browser (mobile version), nor the official gmail app (which seems to be a resigned web interface).
A: Unfortunately, there's not a way of doing it with the native iOS app. Try using the Gmail app (which I personally prefer). If not, there's this little workaround: http://red66.com/2009/07/how-to-send-group-emails-from-your-iphone/
The gist of the workaround is to make one contact for the group and add a comma separated list of emails to the singular email field for the "group contact"
This doesn't allow you to leverage arbitrary groups and does require some manual setup, but once that's done you can email limited group sizes from iOS without needing a computer.
A: I use Google Chrome on iOS.
Go to google.com/contacts and choose "Request Desktop Site" from the top right icon (three horizontal lines).
Select your group from the left and click the empty square above the list to select all members. It will then open a new message in Gmail to all the recipients.
I've tested this on my iPad, running iOS 6
A: Actually it is possible, I just went into my sent mail where I've emailed 34 people from my desktop, I clicked forward email, which will display all of the emails, I selected all, copied. Went to contacts on my ipad mini, created a name called grouped apples for example, clicked on email, and pasted all 34 email addresses, click done. Go to gmail app in apple os ipad, click compose, click plus sign, select name in contacts where group emails were added, and click send once email is ready. It sent. I know it did because I received 13 out of office replies. I did get a message that said invalid email, send anyway? I selected send and it sent to everyone
A: I would suggest the app "ContactSync" to turn your Google Groups into mail groups for the ios mail.
A: I run a list (upwards of 300 names) and have been stymied by this as well when needing to send an email on the run ("Hey--we're still playing disc today...")
My work around is to save a draft letter (from the web app) with the BCC filled in with my group members. I just leave the letter sitting in "Drafts". Then when I need to send a quick email using my iPhone, I use that draft, and change the body and subject.
drawbacks:
1) Have to remember to make a new draft next time I'm on a a desktop.
2) The names are not dynamic, so all changes to the group are not reflected in the draft BCC (additions or deletions to the group)
Hope this is resolved sooner than later!
A: Groups
*
*send group SMS and Email to any group (including Exchange servers or Google Sync)
*mail groups with To, Cc and Bcc selections
*drag&drop single or multiple contacts into or out of groups
*vCard attachments
*merge contacts
*built-in T9 Dial
*...
A: On iOS, the Google Chrome method above doesn't work if the Group is too large because the URL is too long. (My group is 46 emails.)
I found that the best method is to simply create a draft email on my desktop and then write and send from my phone.
A: I just discovered I could go to https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox
On my iPad within Safari to get to a clone of my desktop PC Gmail app. I can compose an email and select one of my Groups to send it.
The Gmail app from the app store does not have this feature. The cumbersome workarounds above are not needed.
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c0eb897b593f094afe7311d96ce376a9c41c4d63 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I change the flash storage in my iPhone 4? I saw a super deal where I could get an iPhone 4 8GB for such a small amount that I couldn't resist.
Does someone know if it's possible to change the flash storage for a 16GB or 32GB ?
Would iTunes recognize the device and/or enable me to reset it to default iOS and settings ?
A: The flash memory is a BGA surface mount package, and is not something you could manage even if you were proficient with a soldering iron. A hot air reflow workstation would be required, along with a few other specialized tools for working with replacement and repair of BGA devices.
Even if you made the change, it's possible it wouldn't be recognized by the device, and if they are storing configuration information in the flash you may need to get a copy of someone else's 64GB flash to be successful.
It's something very few electronics professionals would attempt, and it would certainly cost them more than $200 in time and effort, assuming they already had the tools to perform the work.
| Q: Can I change the flash storage in my iPhone 4? I saw a super deal where I could get an iPhone 4 8GB for such a small amount that I couldn't resist.
Does someone know if it's possible to change the flash storage for a 16GB or 32GB ?
Would iTunes recognize the device and/or enable me to reset it to default iOS and settings ?
A: The flash memory is a BGA surface mount package, and is not something you could manage even if you were proficient with a soldering iron. A hot air reflow workstation would be required, along with a few other specialized tools for working with replacement and repair of BGA devices.
Even if you made the change, it's possible it wouldn't be recognized by the device, and if they are storing configuration information in the flash you may need to get a copy of someone else's 64GB flash to be successful.
It's something very few electronics professionals would attempt, and it would certainly cost them more than $200 in time and effort, assuming they already had the tools to perform the work.
A: No there is not hard drive nor a removable SSD or even a removable flash drive. It is all integrated into the circuit board as noted in iFixit's teardown for the iPhone 4. However it is possible to swap the entire board out, but that would probably not be practical unless you could get one for cheap.
As noted on iFixit, the largest chip pictured below with Samsung written on it is the flash storage for the iPhone.
A: No, it is flash memory soldered onto the main circuit board and cannot be changed. It is not similar to devices with removable/upgradeable storage at all.
In this case "no user-serviceable parts inside" would be pretty close to the truth. iFixit has a great iPhone 4S tear down if you'd like a complete tour of the internals. They have done the same to many devices if you explore a bit, very interesting.
A: I'm sure it's possible people did it with iPods up to like 360 gb
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44f0f0f882095821c9575cd60c9cbd051345108e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How does the new iPad's Retina Display affect its battery life? As we all know, the new iPad has a gorgeous new Retina Display. And yet, it's advertised to have battery life just as good as the iPad 2's.
How is this possible? Doesn't the new display require a lot more power to run? Were any performance tradeoffs made (e.g. refresh rate), or did Apple improve the battery enough that it's irrelevant?
A: Your question's wording is a bit unluckily.
There is no previous iPad with the same battery capacity. It does not really makes sense to talk of an impact of a new display to the battery-life. That's not a reasonable comparison because the battery has been updated as well.
The retina display of the iPad 3rd generation
The new iPad uses 2.5 times the backlight power of the iPad 2. This is due to the TFT transistors of the high-res LCD display blocking more light. (source)
This also contributes to the heat emission. The overall performance however is only little affected, because Apple compensated the increased power drain by adding a 70% bigger battery.
(pictures 1,2)
| Q: How does the new iPad's Retina Display affect its battery life? As we all know, the new iPad has a gorgeous new Retina Display. And yet, it's advertised to have battery life just as good as the iPad 2's.
How is this possible? Doesn't the new display require a lot more power to run? Were any performance tradeoffs made (e.g. refresh rate), or did Apple improve the battery enough that it's irrelevant?
A: Your question's wording is a bit unluckily.
There is no previous iPad with the same battery capacity. It does not really makes sense to talk of an impact of a new display to the battery-life. That's not a reasonable comparison because the battery has been updated as well.
The retina display of the iPad 3rd generation
The new iPad uses 2.5 times the backlight power of the iPad 2. This is due to the TFT transistors of the high-res LCD display blocking more light. (source)
This also contributes to the heat emission. The overall performance however is only little affected, because Apple compensated the increased power drain by adding a 70% bigger battery.
(pictures 1,2)
A: Battery life is marginally improved overall. Basically it's a bigger battery. The extra power required by the higher quality screen, along with the GPU that is needed to power it is more than made up for by increasing the battery capacity by approximately 70%.
Rumours that the iPad 4 will include Fuel Cell batteries with a 14 year lifecycle that takes 3 years to charge are thus far unfounded.
See this interesting article for more info
excerpt follows:
Because of the increased battery draw of the MDM9600 and Retina display, Apple had to significantly increase the iPad's battery capacity. The original iPad had a 24.8Whr battery, and Apple increased that slightly to 25Whr in the iPad 2 while shaving off nearly 5mm of thickness. Though the iPad 3 is just 0.6mm thicker than the iPad 2, it boasts a 42.5Whr battery—an impressive 70 percent capacity improvement.
The revised three-cell design appears to be slightly larger than the battery in the iPad 2—each measures about 125 x 65 x 4 mm, according to iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens. The cells in the iPad 2 measure 108 x 63 x 2.7mm, so the iPad 3 battery is actually about 70 percent larger. Earlier speculation suggested that Apple had somehow significantly improved on the power density of the cells, but our calculations show otherwise. Apple was just able to more efficiently pack in the components—and increase the overall device thickness ever so slightly—to make the battery larger.
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10eb88b023969dae0c585541de281e356c77d99b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to have iOS remember passwords to HTTP authenticated sites? There's a page I frequently access on my iPhone that's protected by HTTP authentication, and I'm finding it annoying having to type in my username and password every time I want to access it. I tried saving the logged-in page as a home screen icon, but I'm still prompted every time. There isn't option to save my password when I'm logging in, and I can't find one in the settings either.
Is this possible?
example authentication screen to show what I'm referring to
A: I just had to do this on the latest version of iOS as of this date, 10.1.1. I also had to make a shortcut on the home screen. Problem was, putting the username:password in the URL wouldn't work because Safari would immediately remove the username:password from the URL, so I couldn't capture the fully-formed URL in a home screen shortcut.
I made a web page that redirected (JavaScript) to the fully-formed target URL (e.g., http://user:pass@hostname). I navigated to it in Safari, and Safari preserved the fully-formed URL for some reason. From there I made a home screen shortcut.
| Q: Is there a way to have iOS remember passwords to HTTP authenticated sites? There's a page I frequently access on my iPhone that's protected by HTTP authentication, and I'm finding it annoying having to type in my username and password every time I want to access it. I tried saving the logged-in page as a home screen icon, but I'm still prompted every time. There isn't option to save my password when I'm logging in, and I can't find one in the settings either.
Is this possible?
example authentication screen to show what I'm referring to
A: I just had to do this on the latest version of iOS as of this date, 10.1.1. I also had to make a shortcut on the home screen. Problem was, putting the username:password in the URL wouldn't work because Safari would immediately remove the username:password from the URL, so I couldn't capture the fully-formed URL in a home screen shortcut.
I made a web page that redirected (JavaScript) to the fully-formed target URL (e.g., http://user:pass@hostname). I navigated to it in Safari, and Safari preserved the fully-formed URL for some reason. From there I made a home screen shortcut.
A: You can do this with the app 1Password. You just have to use the browser inside of the app.
Create a login in the app with the appropriate URL, username and password.
A: It seems that Safari on iOS doesn't support this natively. You have a couple options:
Workaround:
If you're not too worried about security, you can embed the username and password in the link itself, and bookmark that:
http://username:[email protected]/...
(Also of note: it sounds like iOS may pop up a warning when you visit a link that includes a username and password.)
Alternative:
There is another browser called Atomic Web Browser [App Store link] that can autofill HTTP authentication, among many other neat features.
A: Mercury browser will also save Basic Authentication on iOS and is a free download.
http://mercury-browser.com
Be sure to finish typing and then press "Save" before logging in. You may have to do it a couple times for different parts of the site.
A: While I haven't managed to make Mobile Safari prefill the dialogue, you can manually add the credentials via the Accounts & Passwords section in Settings. There's an 'Add password' button at the bottom of the list (search for something to make it shorter).
Then, next time you get presented with the dialogue you can tap the key icon in the autocomplete bar and search for the credential and have it fill in the dialogue fields for you. Not perfect, but better than nothing.
N.B. I did also try moving the creds from my login keychain on my Mac to the iCloud one, so that it would sync across, but it wouldn't show up on my iOS device.
A: In iOS 15, Settings > Passwords allows adding new entries by hand. You can fill in the website URL and the credentials here. The next time the basic auth dialog shows up, it will not, unfortunately, be pre-filled, but you will be presented with the Passwords button in your on-screen keyboards once you focus either of the username / password fields and from there you can pick the credentials. It's not completely straight-forward, but it is the best option I found, especially because some websites do not support reading the username and password from the URL, only from the HTTP header, so the trick with the bookmark with the credentials in it doesn't work everywhere.
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a587857fccd5281fb17feb5c1f6f3a8d79cfaad8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Run AppleScript after waking from Sleep? Is there an easy way to run an AppleScript or application immediately (or a brief delay of X seconds) after waking up from sleep?
I'm looking for a solution that doesn't involve a 3rd-party app.
A: Yes indeed there is, and it is detailed in this, the Dragon Systems Software UK blog.
I do not believe it is possible without using some external software. The kernel notifies apps that register for registerSleepWakeInterest events, and AppleScript seems not to include the ability to register for this notification.
There's a code sample given in Apple's Kernel Programming Guide.
Bernard Baehr has even made source code for his application, SleepWatcher, available.
| Q: Run AppleScript after waking from Sleep? Is there an easy way to run an AppleScript or application immediately (or a brief delay of X seconds) after waking up from sleep?
I'm looking for a solution that doesn't involve a 3rd-party app.
A: Yes indeed there is, and it is detailed in this, the Dragon Systems Software UK blog.
I do not believe it is possible without using some external software. The kernel notifies apps that register for registerSleepWakeInterest events, and AppleScript seems not to include the ability to register for this notification.
There's a code sample given in Apple's Kernel Programming Guide.
Bernard Baehr has even made source code for his application, SleepWatcher, available.
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fc8d2c92ef261e8ad3d510db8a4b32e6102048af | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Reduce iPhone Ringer Volume Without Affecting Messagaging Alert Volume I need to know how I can lower the volume on my phone ringer without lowering the volume for messaging alerts. At night, I need Messaging to be LOUD, but I want my phone ringer to be barely audible (note: ringer still needs to emit some sound, not completely turned off).
A: Sadly this isn't an option on a non-jailbroken device.
| Q: Reduce iPhone Ringer Volume Without Affecting Messagaging Alert Volume I need to know how I can lower the volume on my phone ringer without lowering the volume for messaging alerts. At night, I need Messaging to be LOUD, but I want my phone ringer to be barely audible (note: ringer still needs to emit some sound, not completely turned off).
A: Sadly this isn't an option on a non-jailbroken device.
A: One option is to use a silent (or very quiet) ringtone for phone calls and then have the normal sound play for messages. This site has a walkthrough. You could also use the same trick to silence calls from specific numbers.
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e567a64f8572e7f8b484f2090c1baebbbd7c1445 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Accept auto-correct suggestion with one keystroke Sometimes, there's an auto-correct suggestion I want to accept, but I don't want to type a period or space followed by a delete. Nor do I want to hit down arrow, return. (That's incredibly lazy of me, now that I think about it.)
Is there any way, barring macro apps, to do this with one keystroke?
A: I have 69 non-modifier keys on my MacBook Air and 9 modifier keys. Having worked my way through all 78 single keystrokes possible on my keyboard, I can say with confidence that none of them have the effect of both accepting the autocorrect suggestion and not producing any input on your system. If you are looking for a single key press, the answer is definitively, as set up out of the box, no this cannot be done. Once you open the door for multiple key presses, there are options, as you acknowledge, but if your standard is a single key press, no, it cannot be done.
| Q: Accept auto-correct suggestion with one keystroke Sometimes, there's an auto-correct suggestion I want to accept, but I don't want to type a period or space followed by a delete. Nor do I want to hit down arrow, return. (That's incredibly lazy of me, now that I think about it.)
Is there any way, barring macro apps, to do this with one keystroke?
A: I have 69 non-modifier keys on my MacBook Air and 9 modifier keys. Having worked my way through all 78 single keystrokes possible on my keyboard, I can say with confidence that none of them have the effect of both accepting the autocorrect suggestion and not producing any input on your system. If you are looking for a single key press, the answer is definitively, as set up out of the box, no this cannot be done. Once you open the door for multiple key presses, there are options, as you acknowledge, but if your standard is a single key press, no, it cannot be done.
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747974cfce4874459a94fbd15141beeb258c6ec5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can the new iPad record dictation while recording audio? Apple has featured Voice Dictation as one of the marquee features of the new iPad. Either through a app that ships with the iPad or an App Store one, can the iPad record audio (as for a podcast) and at the same time transcribe the text therein?
A: No, this does not work.
I started a background recording with DropVox, then switched over to PlainText and tapped the dictation button and dictated a sentence. I then switched back to DropVox and it looked like it was still recording (the counter was still going up). I stopped it, it uploaded the file, but when I listened to it the start and end were there, but the part from when I started dictating to when I opened DropVox back up wasn't. Very strange, but ultimately the answer is it doesn't work.
If you're curious, the resultant audio file can be found here. "And it looks like the timer's still going" was said after DropVox opened back up.
| Q: Can the new iPad record dictation while recording audio? Apple has featured Voice Dictation as one of the marquee features of the new iPad. Either through a app that ships with the iPad or an App Store one, can the iPad record audio (as for a podcast) and at the same time transcribe the text therein?
A: No, this does not work.
I started a background recording with DropVox, then switched over to PlainText and tapped the dictation button and dictated a sentence. I then switched back to DropVox and it looked like it was still recording (the counter was still going up). I stopped it, it uploaded the file, but when I listened to it the start and end were there, but the part from when I started dictating to when I opened DropVox back up wasn't. Very strange, but ultimately the answer is it doesn't work.
If you're curious, the resultant audio file can be found here. "And it looks like the timer's still going" was said after DropVox opened back up.
A: OK, so a possible workflow is thus:
*
*Record audio file
*Transfer audio file to iPhone or iPod touch
*Sit iPhone/iPod touch next to iPad
*Get text editor app set up to transcribe on iPad
*Play audio via speakers on iPhone/iPod touch
*Generate transcript of audio file
A: I've had a look in developer docs and I don't think it's possible for any app to do this. I was thinking of a line input recording audio while Voice Dictation processes input from the built-in mic - but the developer docs don't show me any way to select which audio input is active at any one time.
There is only a simple boolean available to AVAudioSession, the class providing the recording context for an iOS app, to determine whether an audio input source is available with no means of enumerating or selecting any specific input.
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a58d833f2344823d6ba6997e357df5060024e1a8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does PhotoStream copy videos too or just still photos? If I use PhotoStream to sync photos from an iOS device and my Mac, will it transfer videos too? Are the higher resolution videos from the new iPad treated any differently than other devices?
A: The iCloud Photo Stream FAQ says no - photos only.
| Q: Does PhotoStream copy videos too or just still photos? If I use PhotoStream to sync photos from an iOS device and my Mac, will it transfer videos too? Are the higher resolution videos from the new iPad treated any differently than other devices?
A: The iCloud Photo Stream FAQ says no - photos only.
A: Apparently, some research after posting the question tells me that the answer is no to the first question, making the second a rather trivial no also.
According to Apple, PhotoStream is only for still-photos.
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c0520d927eea567f11fbee864a411c81c6970e85 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I know which setting TinkerTool is modifying? Is there any way to easily know which setting a TinkerTool option relates to in Mac OS X?
For example, the Show Hidden and System Files setting seems to be related to com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles. What about all the other settings?
A: Here’s a generic solution to find out what changed after applying a certain setting. I used this to create my .osx file which is full of hidden OS X tweaks.
Open Terminal.app, cd into a temporary directory, and check the difference between defaults read output before and after changing the setting.
cd /tmp
defaults read > a
# change the setting using TinkerTool or however you like
defaults read > b
diff a b # view the difference
If you’d rather use a UI to view the diffs instead of the diff binary, you could download the Kaleidoscope.app trial.
Alternatively, you could do a Spotlight search within the past hour/day/minute for plist files. That will only tell you which file changed, though; you would still have to figure out which setting in the file was tweaked.
| Q: How can I know which setting TinkerTool is modifying? Is there any way to easily know which setting a TinkerTool option relates to in Mac OS X?
For example, the Show Hidden and System Files setting seems to be related to com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles. What about all the other settings?
A: Here’s a generic solution to find out what changed after applying a certain setting. I used this to create my .osx file which is full of hidden OS X tweaks.
Open Terminal.app, cd into a temporary directory, and check the difference between defaults read output before and after changing the setting.
cd /tmp
defaults read > a
# change the setting using TinkerTool or however you like
defaults read > b
diff a b # view the difference
If you’d rather use a UI to view the diffs instead of the diff binary, you could download the Kaleidoscope.app trial.
Alternatively, you could do a Spotlight search within the past hour/day/minute for plist files. That will only tell you which file changed, though; you would still have to figure out which setting in the file was tweaked.
A: This may not really be the answer you´re looking for, but I´d suggest having a look at secrets.blacktree.com for a very good database of hidden OS X settings (they also offer a preference pane to manipulate them).
If you´re looking for a more specific function that is available in TinkerTool, chances are that someone around here will know the command line way for it ;-)
A: The most GUI-friendly way I can think of would be to use the endlessly-fascinating fseventer, which lets you see which files on your disk are changing, in real time. With a bit of filtering, you can narrow it down to showing only those files that are changing in your Preferences folders, as you make settings changes in TinkerTool (or anywhere else).
A: Here is something you might try:
1) Purchase the paid version of TinkerTool for €11.90. It's called TinkerTool System 2.
2) Send an email to the developer, Marcel Bresink. Tell him that you are a paid customer. Ask him nicely if he will tell you the answer to your specific question.
I don't know Marcel, but in my experience, independent shareware software developers are very helpful when you help them out by buying one of their modestly-priced products.
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3ef59f1bf085128609e486627e8cfa753c9c8784 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What does setting Media Kind to Audiobook do? If I change the Media Kind option on a track to Audiobook, what does effects does that have on my iTunes library? How does it change the presentation and functionality of the track?
A: Jesse Hollington wrote a great guide to Audiobook handling "The Complete Guide to iTunes Books, Podcasts + iTunes U" at iLounge. Basically it comes down to separating AudioBooks from music and providing different sync and management options within iTunes.
Your sync differences are obvious, you get a different sync category enabling you to sync all or selected Audiobooks. One really interesting difference is that on iOS devices, media kind Audiobook lets you adjust playback speed. I haven't tried setting a music track to audiobook and then changing playback speed - might be useful for learning guitar tracks if pitch is maintained.
| Q: What does setting Media Kind to Audiobook do? If I change the Media Kind option on a track to Audiobook, what does effects does that have on my iTunes library? How does it change the presentation and functionality of the track?
A: Jesse Hollington wrote a great guide to Audiobook handling "The Complete Guide to iTunes Books, Podcasts + iTunes U" at iLounge. Basically it comes down to separating AudioBooks from music and providing different sync and management options within iTunes.
Your sync differences are obvious, you get a different sync category enabling you to sync all or selected Audiobooks. One really interesting difference is that on iOS devices, media kind Audiobook lets you adjust playback speed. I haven't tried setting a music track to audiobook and then changing playback speed - might be useful for learning guitar tracks if pitch is maintained.
A: If an MP3 has its Media Kind set to Audiobook (in the Options tab):
then iTunes will do some different things, compared to Music type tracks:
*
*Audiobooks will appear in their own section of the iTunes library, rather than in the Music section. For me, it was a huge improvement to get these items out of my Music library.
*
*If your Audiobook is a .m4b file, you can play it at twice the regular speed.
The Remember playback position option isn't solely a property of Audiobooks, but if you're importing Audiobooks you might want to check that this is enabled.
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96c7e669ec85bb88a7fd575281abcdf55cd41dbb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to checksum for a DVD under Panther? I'm helping a friend checking if a DVD was burned properly but he's saying that under Panther there's no Images menu in Disk Utility.
A: It looks like Panther's hdiutil supports checksumming, even if the Disk Utility GUI might not:
hdiutil checksum myimage.dmg -type MD5
(The supported types of checksums are listed in the man page. A common one seems to be UDIF-CRC32. If you use UDIF-CRC32 or UDIF-MD5 the checksums will be calculated separately per partition.)
Or you could always simply use the md5 command:
md5 myimage.dmg
| Q: How to checksum for a DVD under Panther? I'm helping a friend checking if a DVD was burned properly but he's saying that under Panther there's no Images menu in Disk Utility.
A: It looks like Panther's hdiutil supports checksumming, even if the Disk Utility GUI might not:
hdiutil checksum myimage.dmg -type MD5
(The supported types of checksums are listed in the man page. A common one seems to be UDIF-CRC32. If you use UDIF-CRC32 or UDIF-MD5 the checksums will be calculated separately per partition.)
Or you could always simply use the md5 command:
md5 myimage.dmg
A: Use hdiutil on the mounted drive:
hdiutil checksum /dev/disk1 -type UDIF-CRC32
The final calculated CRC appears at the bottom when the command completes running:
macbook:~ me$ hdiutil checksum /dev/disk1 -type UDIF-CRC32
Checksumming Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)…
Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0): calculated CRC32 $4F7D78B1
Checksumming Apple (Apple_partition_map : 1)
Apple (Apple_partition_map : 1): calculated CRC32 $C4E22BED
Checksumming disk image (Apple_HFS : 2)
disk image (Apple_HFS : 2): calculated CRC32 $04805620
Checksumming (Apple_Free : 3)…
(Apple_Free : 3): calculated CRC32 $00000000
calculated CRC32 $52BB898F
This final calculated CRC ($52BB898F in the above example) is exactly the same as the one reported by Disk Utility:
You can use the diskutil list command for assistance in finding out the mounted drive's name.
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edcdfdfe4962e5b30071d95d0d5d58fe565a4697 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Unable to manage mobile account settings I'm trying to manage my mobile account settings after migrating my local account to a network account.
The problem is that the settings button is greyed out.
How can I change this in order to get my local account syncing with my home server?
note: the lock icon is "locked" in the screenshot, however even unlocked the settings button is still grey
A: This is something you'll have to change in Workgroup Manager on your home server (assuming you're using Mac OS X Server).
What you'll need to do is:
*
*Open Workgroup Manager from /Applications/Server
*Authenticate as a server administrator
*Find your user account and go to the Preferences tab
*Go to Mobility
*Change all the managed preferences from Once or Always to Never:
Log out and log back in on your client computer and you should be good to go!
| Q: Unable to manage mobile account settings I'm trying to manage my mobile account settings after migrating my local account to a network account.
The problem is that the settings button is greyed out.
How can I change this in order to get my local account syncing with my home server?
note: the lock icon is "locked" in the screenshot, however even unlocked the settings button is still grey
A: This is something you'll have to change in Workgroup Manager on your home server (assuming you're using Mac OS X Server).
What you'll need to do is:
*
*Open Workgroup Manager from /Applications/Server
*Authenticate as a server administrator
*Find your user account and go to the Preferences tab
*Go to Mobility
*Change all the managed preferences from Once or Always to Never:
Log out and log back in on your client computer and you should be good to go!
A: I had to go into active directory (Windows 2008 R2) and go to the user's properties. From there, Profile Tab, then the "connect" radio button under "Home folder" has to have any drive letter selected, and a UNC path the the location that the users home folder will reside.
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64b3a67a12fb1c150678a2d9981839615a06b8c3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Saving a picture to a file in Skitch with one click? Is there any way to press a single button in Skitch and have it save the current image to a folder of your choosing (e.g. Documents). This is as opposed to using the drag and drop feature and having to open up finder and only then dropping the picture there.
I'm looking for something simple like the Save to history button on top.
A: If you press ⌘ Command+E, it brings up an Export window where you can select the destination to export:
(I would suggest pressing ⌘ Command+⇧ Shift+O to switch to the Documents folder, but it seems this doesn't work in Skitch's Export window!)
| Q: Saving a picture to a file in Skitch with one click? Is there any way to press a single button in Skitch and have it save the current image to a folder of your choosing (e.g. Documents). This is as opposed to using the drag and drop feature and having to open up finder and only then dropping the picture there.
I'm looking for something simple like the Save to history button on top.
A: If you press ⌘ Command+E, it brings up an Export window where you can select the destination to export:
(I would suggest pressing ⌘ Command+⇧ Shift+O to switch to the Documents folder, but it seems this doesn't work in Skitch's Export window!)
A: As others have pointed out you can't save with one click. My solution is to create a folder specific to the project I'm working on which I place in the dock. Then I just drag the skitch tab to that folder. This way I can quickly create a few image variations and have them in one place ready for whatever's next. This method is handy too because you can very quickly set the image file type, drop it off and get back to manipulation.
A: No.
There is no other single-click option besides saving (edited) pictures to the history.
You can however create an Alias of the Skitch folder ~/Pictures/Skitch where the history is saved and drag it to a custom location.
→
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53987f522343976fe7a8c7f60008ca151bddd63e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I force my keyboard backlight to turn on? I have a MacBook Pro. When it senses the ambient light is low, the backlit keyboard turns on, and there are keys that let me control its brightness.
But when enough light reaches the ambient light sensor, the backlight turns off and I can't adjust it:
In some settings the screen may be illuminated, but the keyboard is not well-lit and hard to see, so I'd really like the backlight to turn on. Is there any way to force-enable it?
A: gentmatt’s answer seems useful!
Alternatively, you could try going to System Preferences → Keyboard, and unchecking the “Automatically illuminate keyboard in low light” setting. That should prevent the “disabled” icon from your screenshot altogether.
| Q: How can I force my keyboard backlight to turn on? I have a MacBook Pro. When it senses the ambient light is low, the backlit keyboard turns on, and there are keys that let me control its brightness.
But when enough light reaches the ambient light sensor, the backlight turns off and I can't adjust it:
In some settings the screen may be illuminated, but the keyboard is not well-lit and hard to see, so I'd really like the backlight to turn on. Is there any way to force-enable it?
A: gentmatt’s answer seems useful!
Alternatively, you could try going to System Preferences → Keyboard, and unchecking the “Automatically illuminate keyboard in low light” setting. That should prevent the “disabled” icon from your screenshot altogether.
A: You can just put your hand front of iSight sensor and then press backlight keys.
Like this:
A: Another solution: put a piece of tape or something over the ambient light sensor. It will always think it is night. The sensor is either below the speakers or on the display somewhere (on my early 2008 MacBook Pro, it was below the speakers; on my new Retina MacBook Pro, it is right next to the camera). You can find it by running your hand across the computer in full light until the keys light up. Note that if it's below the speakers, it might require both speakers to be covered.
A: LabTick allows you to manually control the keyboard backlight:
A: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1305637
I tried this after replacing my RAM. It works fine now.
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ed007702718f87181060825b855b1be142151917 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I navigate to individual windows? I have many many apps running in the background some are infact two or three windows of same program, i.e. Firefox 3-4 windows and Xcode 3-4 windows etc...
I know that I can switch using ⌘+⇥ but that only switches on programs and I want to go to each individual window.
I've tried spotlight and it's not what im looking for. Also, I do not prefer to install any paid software and would like to use build in features if possible.
A: To switch between windows of the same application, use ⌘ + ~.
If you need a shortcut like the Windows' Alt+Tab that switches between all open windows, you can set one in your System Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts as shown below.
As you can see above, the default is Ctrl+F4, which actually means you need to press Ctrl+Fn+F4 because of the special meaning of the function keys. You could change it to any unused key combination, e.g. Alt+Tab itself.
| Q: How can I navigate to individual windows? I have many many apps running in the background some are infact two or three windows of same program, i.e. Firefox 3-4 windows and Xcode 3-4 windows etc...
I know that I can switch using ⌘+⇥ but that only switches on programs and I want to go to each individual window.
I've tried spotlight and it's not what im looking for. Also, I do not prefer to install any paid software and would like to use build in features if possible.
A: To switch between windows of the same application, use ⌘ + ~.
If you need a shortcut like the Windows' Alt+Tab that switches between all open windows, you can set one in your System Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts as shown below.
As you can see above, the default is Ctrl+F4, which actually means you need to press Ctrl+Fn+F4 because of the special meaning of the function keys. You could change it to any unused key combination, e.g. Alt+Tab itself.
A: There are several options to navigate between windows build right into OSX.
Basic input methods are...
Shortcuts
You can configure various window management effects in
System Preferences → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → Mission Control/Keyboard & Text Input
*
*⌘+⇥+(⇧) Application Switcher
*⌘+~+(⇧) Window Switcher
*ctrl+←/→ Desktop Switcher
*some of the function keys trigger certain features
*...
Gestures
You can configure various window management effects in System Prefernces → Trackpad/Mouse (requires multitouch input device)
Using these inputs you can trigger the following window management options...
*
*Classical Exposé
(OSX 10.3-10.6)
View all open windows of all open applications at once.
*Dock/App Exposé
(like 1, but only of one application) (OSX 10.6-today)
*Mission Control (OSX 10.7-today)
View all open windows of all open applications and all desktops at once.
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27c10c39f4282302d58f87599fca83ecad29a7e8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Lost keyboard shortcut for beginning-of-line/end-of-line After purchasing a new computer (Mac Mini w/Lion) and migrating my settings from old one (Macbook Pro w/Snow Leopard), the system shortcuts for beginning-of-line and end-of-line text navigation commands (Cmd-left/right arrow) just don't work anymore, anywhere.
Curiously, this happens only in a single user account, and in other accounts on the same computer it's OK. Other shortcuts with the Command key (like Cmd-up) also work just fine.
I have browsed through the keyboard shortcuts in System Preferences > Keyboard. I also have KeyRemap4Macbook installed and browsed through its settings, to no avail. There is no Keybindings folder in my ~/Library, either.
Anybody have any idea how to even start debugging this problem?
A: I remember having the same problem in some apps after upgrading to Lion. A reboot fixed it for me.
Workaround: use Ctrl+A (instead of ⌘+←) to move the cursor to the beginning of the line and Ctrl+E to move the cursor to the end of the line (instead of ⌘+→). This works in all Cocoa-based applications.
| Q: Lost keyboard shortcut for beginning-of-line/end-of-line After purchasing a new computer (Mac Mini w/Lion) and migrating my settings from old one (Macbook Pro w/Snow Leopard), the system shortcuts for beginning-of-line and end-of-line text navigation commands (Cmd-left/right arrow) just don't work anymore, anywhere.
Curiously, this happens only in a single user account, and in other accounts on the same computer it's OK. Other shortcuts with the Command key (like Cmd-up) also work just fine.
I have browsed through the keyboard shortcuts in System Preferences > Keyboard. I also have KeyRemap4Macbook installed and browsed through its settings, to no avail. There is no Keybindings folder in my ~/Library, either.
Anybody have any idea how to even start debugging this problem?
A: I remember having the same problem in some apps after upgrading to Lion. A reboot fixed it for me.
Workaround: use Ctrl+A (instead of ⌘+←) to move the cursor to the beginning of the line and Ctrl+E to move the cursor to the end of the line (instead of ⌘+→). This works in all Cocoa-based applications.
A: Thanks to the commenter Lri for pointing to this question: Command+right/left stopped working! It made me browse through the system shortcuts again, and lo and behold - Cmd+Left & Cmd+Right were indeed in plain sight as shortcuts for "Move Left a Space" and "Move Right a Space" - I didn't even look there before because I did not use Spaces at all in Snow Leo, and so I assumed these shortcuts were inactive. Now the upgrade to Lion and Mission Control activated them, but I still had only one space so they did nothing.
So it was enough to actually redefine them to something else to regain the beginning/end-of-line functionality.
Sorry everyone for misleading with the wrong information (turns out I did not actually browse through all possible shortcuts...)
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874f41ef8895aee329503bef88fdaae4ada5270c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I build a PC Into a Mac PPC G5 case? How can I convert my (unfortunately) obsolete Mac G5 PPC case into a PC? It only supports Leopard OS-wise and I'd like to keep the beautiful Mac Case and reuse it with PC components inside.
Can that be done? Can the hardware inside be replaced with a PC motherboard etc?
A: Yes it is possible, and instructions are probably outside the scope of this forum due to the extreme variations and nature of the hardware available.
But heres a video of one guy's journey to turning a G5 case into a hackintosh so you can see what is involved before you make the decision.
And another more detailed tale here again not for the faint of heart.
| Q: How do I build a PC Into a Mac PPC G5 case? How can I convert my (unfortunately) obsolete Mac G5 PPC case into a PC? It only supports Leopard OS-wise and I'd like to keep the beautiful Mac Case and reuse it with PC components inside.
Can that be done? Can the hardware inside be replaced with a PC motherboard etc?
A: Yes it is possible, and instructions are probably outside the scope of this forum due to the extreme variations and nature of the hardware available.
But heres a video of one guy's journey to turning a G5 case into a hackintosh so you can see what is involved before you make the decision.
And another more detailed tale here again not for the faint of heart.
A: The easiest method is to purchase a smaller computer that fits inside. If you do a google search for "atom pc" you'll find a lot of options of reasonably useful machines that will readily fit into the G5 case. You won't be able to use the original slots for cards, but you should be able to extend SATA cables outside the atom pc to the drives, and attach the power button wire to the correct spot on the atom PC. You can also extend the USB ports to the outside of the G5 case.
It's not ideal, but for a quick hack that's easier than a full PC upgrade, it's cheaper and easier if you merely want the design aesthetic.
A: To the question regarding whether one put can a PC motherboard in G5 tower: the answer is yes.
I placed a gigabyte ga-945gcmx-s2 with 6700 intel into the G5 (it was one I took out of a tower I was updating). The G5 was one that I found at a Goodwill store. There was nothing inside except a fried motherboard. It has four 120mm fans which I added. You will have to rewire the switch but the computer now lights up and turns on. It also has a 500w power supply.
This is my first attempt at something like this. I am planning to upgrade the processor to i7 next month. By the way, I recommend that you do some planning before doing any cutting. That is something I wish I would have done.
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cbbf3a9ac931675d7f6e75c610a36687d9e5d6d5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to find a cause of a Kernel Panic message, or BSoD? How to understand why Beautiful Screen of Death1 appeared?
When I tried to find what happened using "Console" I couldn't find anything useful in logs? There's no 'panic' or 'SIG*' in logs, so what should I look for?
Where does OSX writes the cause of it's death?
1 I'm not sure that it's called BSoD on OSX, but it doesn't look like kernel panic screen (black screen in text mode) either.
A: All panic and sleep failure logs are stored in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports since Mojave, in Kernel-%DATE%-.panic files.
| Q: How to find a cause of a Kernel Panic message, or BSoD? How to understand why Beautiful Screen of Death1 appeared?
When I tried to find what happened using "Console" I couldn't find anything useful in logs? There's no 'panic' or 'SIG*' in logs, so what should I look for?
Where does OSX writes the cause of it's death?
1 I'm not sure that it's called BSoD on OSX, but it doesn't look like kernel panic screen (black screen in text mode) either.
A: All panic and sleep failure logs are stored in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports since Mojave, in Kernel-%DATE%-.panic files.
A:
The kernel panic text is added to the log after you restart the computer, assuming that you did not reset PRAM (the kernel panic text is stored in PRAM until you restart). In Mac OS X v10.6, the logs are located in in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports. In Mac OS X v10.5, the logs are located in /Library/Logs/PanicReporter (source)
If you cannot find these files, or they contain no information on the kernel panic, then there is likely something wrong with the hardware of the computer. Running a system diagnostic or visiting the genius bar is probably your next step.
If you are really interested in attempting to resolve the issue yourself, you might find this guide to resolving OS X kernel panics helpful.
A: It is indeed a kernel panic, the default behaviour is to display this screen rather than printing anything useful unfortunately.
If there's nothing in the system logs in console, then you can try booting your Mac in verbose mode. Hold Cmd + V while powering it on, you'll know when you get it right when loads of text gets written to screen instead of the normal spinning indicator.
Verbose mode causes kernel panics to log information to the screen rather than just showing the "you need to restart your computer" instruction. If you get another panic this should at least give you more specific details about the problem.
Apple's official troubleshooting guidelines recommend a safe boot and then a reboot. That support page also includes advanced troubleshooting information such as the location of the panic logs.
A: The cause of a kernel panic can be found in the appreciate report logs and core dumps.
The location of kernel panic log can be found at /Library/Logs/panic.log on your startup disk.
Source: Retrieve Kernel Panic Log.
Cores dump (if enabled), can be located at /cores.
See: Where are core dumps written on Mac?
See also: Technical Note TN2118 about Kernel Core Dumps.
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c732ad6bde7f7cd297239d3ba3b4c3e0f1769959 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I prevent my Macbook Pro 2011 from going to sleep when I close the lid? This is not a duplicate of this question as it does not work: Is there any way to set a MacBook Pro to not sleep when you close the lid?
I have a Macbook Pro 2011. I want to be able to close the lid without the Macbook Pro going into sleep mode. It seems InsomniaX is not doing anything. I've seen people with MacBook Air having the same problem.
Does anyone have an alternative suggestion for that?
UPDATE: I forgot to mention that I close the lid but I have a Thunderbolt to HDMI adapter plugged in that displays something on an external monitor. I want to close the lid and still be able to view to video that is playing on this external monitor.
A: The laptop will automatically go to the default sleep mode when closed unless it is plugged into power. Once plugged in, you will be able to run it to the monitor, wireless mouse, etc.
| Q: How can I prevent my Macbook Pro 2011 from going to sleep when I close the lid? This is not a duplicate of this question as it does not work: Is there any way to set a MacBook Pro to not sleep when you close the lid?
I have a Macbook Pro 2011. I want to be able to close the lid without the Macbook Pro going into sleep mode. It seems InsomniaX is not doing anything. I've seen people with MacBook Air having the same problem.
Does anyone have an alternative suggestion for that?
UPDATE: I forgot to mention that I close the lid but I have a Thunderbolt to HDMI adapter plugged in that displays something on an external monitor. I want to close the lid and still be able to view to video that is playing on this external monitor.
A: The laptop will automatically go to the default sleep mode when closed unless it is plugged into power. Once plugged in, you will be able to run it to the monitor, wireless mouse, etc.
A: If you're running OS X Lion, you need you use...
InsomniaX 2
The other post only refers to InsomniaX 1 - which does not work in Lion.
A: In my experience with my early 2011 MacBook Pro, it has to be plugged in to power (charging) for it to send anything through the thunderbolt port, even with external mouse/keyboard. Caffeine seems to work for me for keeping my MacBook Pro awake when plugged in to power and external monitor.
A: You don't need to install software to prevent sleep. Simply open a terminal and enter
pmset noidle
If that is tedious to remember you can create an alias to it by appending your ~/.bash_profile with
alias nosleep='pmset noidle'
you can then prevent sleep with nosleep
To exit out of the no sleep mode hit control c in the terminal and stuff goes back to normal.
A: Another choice, if InsomniaX does not meet your needs, is NoSleep. I've used it for several years without issue, and it provides for separate settings for powered vs. battery.
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a55e54ffa1484e2838d0a7d60e35d955e40d795a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iOS or Airprint receipt printers? Apple stores print receipts from their iPod touch credit card readers. They probably use a custom solution with a server backend.
Square has a few wireless receipt printers it can work with.
I haven't yet seen a receipt printer that is airprint compatible though, allowing more apps to use it. While credit card acceptance and sales apps would obviously benefit, I can imagine a number of other uses for a small printer that prints bits of disposable information. The daily forecast, sudoku puzzles, today's schedule, todo lists, etc, for those who have to share their iPad with a spouse or children, for instance.
Are there air print receipt printers, or is there an easy way to set up a receipt printer, perhaps with an airprint server (device or software on the mac) that would allow this?
A: The Apple Store doesn’t list any AirPrint-compatible receipt printers.
However, the AirPrint Activator (an app for your Mac) allows you to use any shared printer via AirPrint.
| Q: iOS or Airprint receipt printers? Apple stores print receipts from their iPod touch credit card readers. They probably use a custom solution with a server backend.
Square has a few wireless receipt printers it can work with.
I haven't yet seen a receipt printer that is airprint compatible though, allowing more apps to use it. While credit card acceptance and sales apps would obviously benefit, I can imagine a number of other uses for a small printer that prints bits of disposable information. The daily forecast, sudoku puzzles, today's schedule, todo lists, etc, for those who have to share their iPad with a spouse or children, for instance.
Are there air print receipt printers, or is there an easy way to set up a receipt printer, perhaps with an airprint server (device or software on the mac) that would allow this?
A: The Apple Store doesn’t list any AirPrint-compatible receipt printers.
However, the AirPrint Activator (an app for your Mac) allows you to use any shared printer via AirPrint.
A: Most receipt printers I have seen use a wired ethernet connection, so you could add a slick Lantronix xPrintServer which uses AirPrint to avoid needing a computer running for your iOS devices to print to these specialized printers.
Image from the vendor site linked above
There are several reviews of this product, and the unit is physically about the size of three iPhone 4 stacked in a neat pile. It is intended to support between 7 and 10 printers before you need to buy a second device. I am not clear whether you can set this up from iOS, but it works well once you have it set up.
The day will come when label printers ship with wireless chips and AirPrint embedded, but that day is not yet here.
A: By adding something like atBox, you could send the PDF to an email account which in turn sends it to a selected printer. Disclosure: we make this tool.
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47ed7797e88724c9a58a9f8d9652e8c592075f7c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to Change File Type Associations? How do I stop Numbers from being the default program when a financial file is downloaded or imported?
A: In Finder, choose File > Get Info (or ⌘ Command+I, or right-click on the file) to change the default application for a particular file:
And you can also change the association for all files of the same type:
| Q: How to Change File Type Associations? How do I stop Numbers from being the default program when a financial file is downloaded or imported?
A: In Finder, choose File > Get Info (or ⌘ Command+I, or right-click on the file) to change the default application for a particular file:
And you can also change the association for all files of the same type:
A: RCDefaultApp
A preference pane that allows a user to set the default application used for various URL schemes, file extensions, MIME types, and more.
Easy to use, free, works on Lion and you can do all your file type associations from a single window.
A: Right click on your file, and choose "Get Info".
Under the "Open With" section, choose the program you would like to keep as the default for your file type.
Before closing the window, click the "Change All.." button and confirm your selection in the alert that appears.
There's a quicker way if need you to change the association for select files only. Press alt after you've right clicked (this turns the Open With menu option to Always Open With), and then select your preferred application from the pop-up that appears.
A: Download a file, select it in Finder, open the Information dialog and goto "Open width:" section. There you can change the application you want to open a specific file type with. Then click "Change All..." and you're done.
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e401f67bf7df5d9d52b05b3c1188d1460134eda4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the difference between .m3u8 and .m3u playlists types? iTunes will export a few different kinds of playlists, including .m3u8 and .m3u types. What is the difference between these two file types?
A: .m3u8 is simply a UTF-8 version of the M3U format [source]. (.m3u files can have various encodings.)
| Q: What is the difference between .m3u8 and .m3u playlists types? iTunes will export a few different kinds of playlists, including .m3u8 and .m3u types. What is the difference between these two file types?
A: .m3u8 is simply a UTF-8 version of the M3U format [source]. (.m3u files can have various encodings.)
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197d32f85d25c1e8eab17573f10c57be6fe4b697 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Using FaceTime without the video I have a first generation MacBook Air that heats up a lot when playing videos, and almost grinds to a halt after a few minutes of playback.
Is there a way I could turn off the video during FaceTime calls so that the audio could continue smoothly?
A: All reports seem to indicate that there is no way to use facetime on the mac without video. You can continue a facetime call audio-only on iOS devices by pressing the home button, but oddly enough you can't disable video for the mac.
One suggestion I read awhile ago for low end machine was to place a piece of black paper over the camera. It takes much less processing power to encode a static image of mostly black than your face.
Minimizing the window will disable the video reception decoding, and may save you some processing power. Taping over your camera and minimizing the window might give you enough processing power back to use audio comfortably.
You might also consider skype or google voice if all you need is audio.
| Q: Using FaceTime without the video I have a first generation MacBook Air that heats up a lot when playing videos, and almost grinds to a halt after a few minutes of playback.
Is there a way I could turn off the video during FaceTime calls so that the audio could continue smoothly?
A: All reports seem to indicate that there is no way to use facetime on the mac without video. You can continue a facetime call audio-only on iOS devices by pressing the home button, but oddly enough you can't disable video for the mac.
One suggestion I read awhile ago for low end machine was to place a piece of black paper over the camera. It takes much less processing power to encode a static image of mostly black than your face.
Minimizing the window will disable the video reception decoding, and may save you some processing power. Taping over your camera and minimizing the window might give you enough processing power back to use audio comfortably.
You might also consider skype or google voice if all you need is audio.
A: Yes — if you simply minimize the FaceTime window (⌘ Command+M) or hide FaceTime (⌘ Command+H), video will pause while audio still functions as usual.
(Similarly, on iOS, pressing the home button will pause video and allow you to use other applications while audio still works.)
A: If you are having trouble with heat due to video processing through FaceTime, you should look at alternatives for your Mac. It is not just the video you are sending but also the video you are receiving that is causing your processor to overheat.
Perhaps if you were to use skype you would have lees issues during calls, as you do not need to share video.
Skype is available on all devices that FaceTime is available for with the added benefit that you can call non Mac and iOS users including Windows 7 PC, Windows Mobile, Android and the link. See it as a more compatible solution.
A: I discovered a simple hack. If you use Google Hangouts, while in hangouts you can turn the camera off (standard feature). This switches off the camera globally. Even after you've closed the Hangouts browser, next time you go into FaceTime, the camera remains switched off with a message "No camera available. To use FaceTime turn on the camera."
A: Depending on if you were planning to use your Mac for other purposes during the call, you can always just dim your screen all the way off. That's what I do while I'm out the country!
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c4273c4bfb002ddba2ada1263f51292a76f6dd7b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where can I find software for the Mac Classic? I just found a really great application: Mini vMac, a Mac Classic emulator (simple and one that actually works). Is there a place where I can find some actual software that was meant for the original Macintosh? I think someone I know might have some boxes of floppies, so would it be possible to copy files off of them? I don't want modern software that was made for emulators. Would the Apple website have some hidden like how they have old System 6+ downloads?
A: Apple's website has a page dedicated to Older Software Downloads for systems earlier than 8.1.
(They also still have a support page for OS 9, but the Downloads link on this page just links to the current OS X downloads page.)
| Q: Where can I find software for the Mac Classic? I just found a really great application: Mini vMac, a Mac Classic emulator (simple and one that actually works). Is there a place where I can find some actual software that was meant for the original Macintosh? I think someone I know might have some boxes of floppies, so would it be possible to copy files off of them? I don't want modern software that was made for emulators. Would the Apple website have some hidden like how they have old System 6+ downloads?
A: Apple's website has a page dedicated to Older Software Downloads for systems earlier than 8.1.
(They also still have a support page for OS 9, but the Downloads link on this page just links to the current OS X downloads page.)
A: In addition to AppleCare's Older Software Downloads list, there are a few other sites that host old Macintosh software, including Software for Classic Macs and Info-Mac Archive.
Wikipedia's list of old Macintosh software should also help you get names of specific applications.
A: Macintosh Garden is another good source.
A: You can download System 6, System 7 and MacOS 8 and 9 from my ftp server hosted on a 1992 Mac LCII running system 7.0.1:
ftp://oldservers.ddns.net/
A: And a few classic games: Cliff Johnson's game site
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f4138e01c460b7130a3dd77a28def1e782b517ac | Apple Stackexchange
Q: A utility for tuning your WiFi network? Is there an app available to help tune Wi-Fi network settings?
My local air space is starting to get congested and I want to make sure I'm using the optimal channel and settings on my router to avoid collisions and keep my WiFi as speedy as possible. I'm looking to run it on a 2010 MacBook Pro that supports up to Wireless N but I'd like to be able to tune the N and G protocols on my router (a D-Link DIR-655).
A: Netspot
You can use netspot to basically create a 'map' of your location, and see network information around you. It will show you areas that network connectivity may suffer. You can then revisit the data points to possibly determine better locations for your router, or where the worst offending networks are to better decide which channels to use.
| Q: A utility for tuning your WiFi network? Is there an app available to help tune Wi-Fi network settings?
My local air space is starting to get congested and I want to make sure I'm using the optimal channel and settings on my router to avoid collisions and keep my WiFi as speedy as possible. I'm looking to run it on a 2010 MacBook Pro that supports up to Wireless N but I'd like to be able to tune the N and G protocols on my router (a D-Link DIR-655).
A: Netspot
You can use netspot to basically create a 'map' of your location, and see network information around you. It will show you areas that network connectivity may suffer. You can then revisit the data points to possibly determine better locations for your router, or where the worst offending networks are to better decide which channels to use.
A: iStumbler
iStumbler is an application that shows nearby Wi-Fi networks along with lots of useful diagnostic information (such as signal strength and noise). It doesn't seem to have any built-in optimization tools, but it should get you started with some information.
List of features:
*
*Lists visible wireless networks with complete information.
*Inspector shows detailed information including a high-resolution graph, notes, extended properties and samples.
*Always displays the connected network, even if it's private.
*Graphically indicates network type and encryption status.
*Signal and noise graphed over time for the selected network.
*Connection monitor for connected network.
Wi-Fi menu extra
If you hold down ⌥ Option while clicking on the Wi-Fi menu item, you can see some more information about the Wi-Fi network you're connected to and others (hover over other networks to see information about them.)
A: Apple has beefed up the Wireless Diagnostic tool to help perform the most important checks for most consumers:
*
*graph signal to noise ratio
*show TxRate negotiated between the chipset and base station
*suggest optimal channels
*perform a scan of open and visible base stations
You can also perform packet captures and collect some very nice logs in one file for analysis of conditions over time. I find a weekly check useful for problem sites or active work and also like to keep a diagnostic snapshot of the conditions when I place a new router in service. Also, the airport command line binary might be useful if you wanted to script some aspects of the data collection.
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75e261db9f1271b294f0994e08d49f80f413211f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I get the iPhone to "forget" certain words? The auto-complete features can be nice, but somewhere along the line my iPhone has learned some questionable language. How can I get the iPhone to "forget" certain words from its auto-complete settings / dictionary?
A: I opened notes, typed the word I wanted and when the incorrect autocorrect showed I pressed the cross. I pressed space bar and repeated the process 8 times. On the 9th time the incorrect suggestion stopped showing. Now it doesn't suggest the incorrect word anywhere!
| Q: How can I get the iPhone to "forget" certain words? The auto-complete features can be nice, but somewhere along the line my iPhone has learned some questionable language. How can I get the iPhone to "forget" certain words from its auto-complete settings / dictionary?
A: I opened notes, typed the word I wanted and when the incorrect autocorrect showed I pressed the cross. I pressed space bar and repeated the process 8 times. On the 9th time the incorrect suggestion stopped showing. Now it doesn't suggest the incorrect word anywhere!
A: Go to Settings--General--Keyboard--Add New Shortcut
Put the CORRECT word in the phrase spot and the misspelled word in Shortcut spot. Every time you type the word the phone wants to autocorrect with the misspelled word, it will automatically default to the CORRECT spelling! It doesn't remove the word from the dictionary, but it beats the phone at its own game!
A: You can either erase all learned words by going to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Keyboard Dictionary, or you can have your iPhone automatically censor out bad language that you type. To do the latter, go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Edit. You can then set a "censor" for bad language. What you could do is create a new shortcut for when you type the Phrase "cheese", it'll automatically Shortcut to "ch***e."
A: The easiest way is to reset the keyboard dictionary:
Settings → General → Reset → Reset Keyboard Dictionary
A: Short of a reset (as the other answers mentioned) or jail breaking, you can't :-(
There are a lot of tips to tuning it in this GigaOm article (including the name of the file to edit if you do jailbreak).
You can tune it by typing a word and insisting it is correct, you can add a word manually Through a somewhat hidden feature in international keyboard settings, but annoyingly the only way to make it forget is to forget everything.
A: It sounds like it used to be possible to manually edit the user dictionary, but unfortunately it isn't anymore.
Just a guess, but perhaps you can have it forget them the same way it learned them — when it suggests the word, try tapping on the small [x] next to the suggestion. If you do this a few times it may "forget" the word.
You can reset the dictionary entirely by going to Settings > General > Reset:
A: For completeness, there's also this option which will make it not replace any words:
Turn off Auto-Correction:
*
*Launch the Settings app
*Go to General > Keyboard
*Turn off Auto-Correction
A: Found a solution to this. Opened notes, and commenced meeting in a word. Words I do not want appear on the banner above the keyboard. Just press and hold those words and you will be invited to remove the word from the dictionary.
A: I had an issue where every time I typed the name "Larissa" it would capitalize it to "LARISSA". No matter how many times I hit the "X" next to the suggestion, the thing just would not go away.
I discovered that I had a contact in my address book with the surname "LARISSA" (capitalized), and it was using this contact to make the correction automatically. As soon as I adjusted the contact, it no longer forced this capitalization.
It's possibly a rare case, but hope it helps someone else out there.
(Using iOS 9.3)
A: In more recent versions of iOS, this process has changed. To remove a specific incorrect autocorrect suggestion, long-click on the incorrect suggestion, click "Stop suggesting", then--this is important--click the right suggestion. From my testing it appears as though the incorrect suggestion is not actually removed until you tell it the correct suggestion.
A: Keyboard was capitalising a name. I tried resetting the keyboard in settings but that didn’t work. Found it capitalised in contacts. As soon as I corrected it in contacts it stopped suggesting it.
A: You can create a keyboard shortcut. Settings>General>Keybord>Text Replacement. This may work for a word or phrase you use frequently. This may help in reprogramming the dictionary. It's an indirect way to edit the spell check function.
A: add another English keyboard (e.g Canada / UK) and voilá
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192111b9100bb77c9435c5311888d23dae197445 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Adobe Bridge Opening on Login For some reason Adobe Bridge is opening on login, even though my Login Items shows that it is unchecked.
Without uninstalling Adobe Bridge, how can I stop it opening on login?
A: The checkbox is to hide the application:
Remove it from the list by clicking the "-" button while it is selected.
| Q: Adobe Bridge Opening on Login For some reason Adobe Bridge is opening on login, even though my Login Items shows that it is unchecked.
Without uninstalling Adobe Bridge, how can I stop it opening on login?
A: The checkbox is to hide the application:
Remove it from the list by clicking the "-" button while it is selected.
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a20dcd08d6bba341a978798e2eadc10562b04662 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does PhotoStream sync to my Mac when iPhoto is not open? The only application I have on my Mac that works with PhotoStream is iPhoto. I'm wondering if my Mac grabs the images from PhotoStream constantly or if it only downloads them when I launch an application that uses PhotoStream (such as iPhoto).
A: Yes! A process called PhotoStreamAgent runs at login, and idles in the background, downloading new photos when they're uploaded to your Photo Stream.
There exist both /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/PhotoStreamAgent.app and /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/PhotoStreamAgent.app, indicating that this background-downloading behavior works no matter which application you use to manage your photo library.
(And as Asmus points out, photos are stored in ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets)
| Q: Does PhotoStream sync to my Mac when iPhoto is not open? The only application I have on my Mac that works with PhotoStream is iPhoto. I'm wondering if my Mac grabs the images from PhotoStream constantly or if it only downloads them when I launch an application that uses PhotoStream (such as iPhoto).
A: Yes! A process called PhotoStreamAgent runs at login, and idles in the background, downloading new photos when they're uploaded to your Photo Stream.
There exist both /Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/PhotoStreamAgent.app and /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/PhotoStreamAgent.app, indicating that this background-downloading behavior works no matter which application you use to manage your photo library.
(And as Asmus points out, photos are stored in ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets)
A: The photos are "constantly" downloaded to your Mac, and stored in subfolders within ~/Library/Application\ Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/sub.
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046106972bf5d01a65312434cb8864110b2718df | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I start Bluetooth tethering using the command line? I'd like a quick way to start tethering using my iPhone, hopefully just using the keyboard. Using the bluetooth menu, I can choose the Connect to Network option in the submenu for my device, but is it possible to automate this?
Ultimately I want to assign this to a shortcut in (the very awesome) Alfred.app, but anything using the command line or AppleScript will work.
Is this possible? Thanks!!
A: It doesn't look like there is a direct AppleScript dictionary for working with Bluetooth this way.
You could use GUI scripting though, which basically uses the accessibility feature of the Mac OS to select menu items, etc.
A great writeup on how to start with GUI AppleScript is available on MacOSAutomation.com.
GUI automation can be difficult if you have a constantly changing list of things, but if you commonly have a list of bluetooth items connected that stays the same you should be ok.
You could then call this AppleScript through Alfred.
| Q: How can I start Bluetooth tethering using the command line? I'd like a quick way to start tethering using my iPhone, hopefully just using the keyboard. Using the bluetooth menu, I can choose the Connect to Network option in the submenu for my device, but is it possible to automate this?
Ultimately I want to assign this to a shortcut in (the very awesome) Alfred.app, but anything using the command line or AppleScript will work.
Is this possible? Thanks!!
A: It doesn't look like there is a direct AppleScript dictionary for working with Bluetooth this way.
You could use GUI scripting though, which basically uses the accessibility feature of the Mac OS to select menu items, etc.
A great writeup on how to start with GUI AppleScript is available on MacOSAutomation.com.
GUI automation can be difficult if you have a constantly changing list of things, but if you commonly have a list of bluetooth items connected that stays the same you should be ok.
You could then call this AppleScript through Alfred.
A: http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=38559
In the above link there's a very nice script I've just updated a bit. Note that it uses blueutil [ git repo ] [ website/binaries ].
Enable Bluetooth:
-- Enable Bluetooth and Connect to iPhone
property blueutilPath : "/opt/local/bin/blueutil"
-- Turn on bluetooth.
if execBlueutil("status") contains "Status: off" then
execBlueutil("on")
connectDevice()
doGrowl()
end if
on execBlueutil(command)
set res to do shell script blueutilPath & " " & command
if res contains "Error" then
display dialog res
quit
end if
return res
end execBlueutil
-- Connect Device
on connectDevice()
tell application "System Preferences"
activate
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.network"
set winNetwork to "Network"
set btooth to "Bluetooth"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
set theRow to row 1 of table 1 of scroll area 1 of window winNetwork whose value of static text 1 contains btooth
select theRow --clicks the bluetooth row
--If Bluetooth is already connected, the button will say Disconnect, so we don't want to turn it off:
try
click (button 1 of group 1 of window winNetwork whose title is "Connect")
end try
end tell
tell application "System Preferences"
quit
end tell
end tell
end connectDevice
on doGrowl()
tell application "System Events"
set isRunning to (count of (every process whose bundle identifier is "com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp")) > 0
end tell
if isRunning then
tell application id "com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp"
set the allNotificationsList to ¬
{"Bluetooth Setting"}
set the enabledNotificationsList to ¬
{"Bluetooth Setting"}
register as application ¬
"AppleScript - Bluetooth" all notifications allNotificationsList ¬
default notifications enabledNotificationsList
notify with name ¬
"Bluetooth Setting" title ¬
"Bluetooth is On & iPhone Connected" description ¬
"Bluetooth has been enabled with iPhone tethered." application name "AppleScript - Bluetooth" icon of file (path to me)
end tell
end if
end doGrowl
Disable bluetooth:
property blueutilPath : "/opt/local/bin/blueutil"
-- Turn off Bluetooth.
if execBlueutil("status") contains "Status: on" then
execBlueutil("off")
doGrowl()
end if
on execBlueutil(command)
set res to do shell script blueutilPath & " " & command
if res contains "Error" then
display dialog res
quit
end if
return res
end execBlueutil
on doGrowl()
tell application "System Events"
set isRunning to (count of (every process whose bundle identifier is "com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp")) > 0
end tell
if isRunning then
tell application id "com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp"
set the allNotificationsList to ¬
{"Bluetooth Setting"}
set the enabledNotificationsList to ¬
{"Bluetooth Setting"}
register as application ¬
"AppleScript - Bluetooth" all notifications allNotificationsList ¬
default notifications enabledNotificationsList
notify with name ¬
"Bluetooth Setting" title ¬
"Bluetooth Off" description ¬
"Bluetooth has been disabled." application name "AppleScript - Bluetooth" icon of file (path to me)
end tell
end if
end doGrowl
A: I would recommend using automator for this, you can call it from Alfred to make it easy :)
My current automator workflow does this:
Click the "bluetooth" menu bar item.
Connect to Network
Using this method you can automate almost anything within a minute
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dc7eee9160fb07c9b3067aa627e97aa1ea04c035 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disconnecting disks from Airport Extreme Since Apple released the new Airport Utility with the simplified UI, there doesn't seem to be an option to "Disconnect All Users" to kick all users off a hard drive to safely remove it when connected to an Airport Extreme. See the screenshot for this button in the previous version of Airport Utility.
How should I do this in the new version?
A: Consensus is that Apple simply forgot it - or didn't make the UI clear!
Deselecting "Enable file sharing" looks to have replaced it. At the very least that will disconnect users before you pull the plug.
| Q: Disconnecting disks from Airport Extreme Since Apple released the new Airport Utility with the simplified UI, there doesn't seem to be an option to "Disconnect All Users" to kick all users off a hard drive to safely remove it when connected to an Airport Extreme. See the screenshot for this button in the previous version of Airport Utility.
How should I do this in the new version?
A: Consensus is that Apple simply forgot it - or didn't make the UI clear!
Deselecting "Enable file sharing" looks to have replaced it. At the very least that will disconnect users before you pull the plug.
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2c4b05dc10b258f2c09afd20ad7b477079a47b45 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I disable the caps lock key? Is there any way to completely disable the caps lock key without using any third-party apps?
(Virtually, of course—I don't plan on jamming something under the key.)
A: In System Preferences, go to Keyboard > Keyboard > Modifier Keys… From the popup that appears, you can change caps lock's function to another modifier key, or to "No action."
The options available in the pop up menu:
| Q: How can I disable the caps lock key? Is there any way to completely disable the caps lock key without using any third-party apps?
(Virtually, of course—I don't plan on jamming something under the key.)
A: In System Preferences, go to Keyboard > Keyboard > Modifier Keys… From the popup that appears, you can change caps lock's function to another modifier key, or to "No action."
The options available in the pop up menu:
A: Just use the Keyboard pane of System Preferences.
Click "Modifier Keys", and set "Caps Lock" to "No Action".
n.b. This setting can be different if you have more than one keyboard.
A: This changed in macOS Ventura 13.
*
*System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts... > Modifier Keys
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f42aadba996e3d27bb294ef46bff6f329f66a8c8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I send a mail message later? Back in the day, I remember having an e-mail program (perhaps it was Eudora?) that could schedule the sending of mail, so when composing a message, you could set some preference for when it would be sent. The message would be composed and queued up, but would not send until the computer was connected to the internet at or after the schedule time.
Is there a way to duplicate this feature in Apple Mail? Specifically, I want to compose a message, but rather than clicking "Send", I click "Delayed send" (either from the Services menu, the AppleScript menu, or, ideally, from an icon magically added to the Mail toolbar, but I don't expect that will be easy to pull ofF). When I do this, I'd get a dialog box asking me when I want to send the message. I enter the information, and the message is queued up and will be sent at the soonest time after the scheduled send time/date when the computer is on and connected.
A: There is a plugin for Mail app which name is SendLater:
| Q: How can I send a mail message later? Back in the day, I remember having an e-mail program (perhaps it was Eudora?) that could schedule the sending of mail, so when composing a message, you could set some preference for when it would be sent. The message would be composed and queued up, but would not send until the computer was connected to the internet at or after the schedule time.
Is there a way to duplicate this feature in Apple Mail? Specifically, I want to compose a message, but rather than clicking "Send", I click "Delayed send" (either from the Services menu, the AppleScript menu, or, ideally, from an icon magically added to the Mail toolbar, but I don't expect that will be easy to pull ofF). When I do this, I'd get a dialog box asking me when I want to send the message. I enter the information, and the message is queued up and will be sent at the soonest time after the scheduled send time/date when the computer is on and connected.
A: There is a plugin for Mail app which name is SendLater:
A: No promises, because some of the scripts break under OS X 10.7 Lion, but you might find your answer by using Andreas Amann's Mail Scripts which includes
Schedule Delivery (Mail)
Allows you to send individual messages at predefined times (this
script uses iCal for scheduling message delivery).
Andreas makes the source code of his compiled scripts available. You can download the .dmg
A: The simplest way I know is to save a draft and then set a reminder on iOS so I get bugged to hit send.
It's not ideal, but works in practice when the sending of a message at the exact moment is worth more to me than uninterrupted sleep (or whatever else might be going on in my life).
A: It is possible to achieve this effect using Calendar and Automator:
*
*Open Automator and create a Calendar Alarm.
*Use the tasks “New mail message” and “Send Outgoing Messages”, customize them as required, and save (⌘S).
*An event will be created in Calendar automatically. Move the event to when you want the message to be sent.
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0a24059faf31c711cb94bce8be4e5651e9057298 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Colorware with Apple Products Could someone who has, or knows someone who has, used Colorware for an Apple product comment on their experiece? I'm thinking about getting an third-generation iPad colored through Colorware, as they seem to be a solid coloring solution. Are the devices returned in factory condition? Does Apple accept colored devices if, say, a pixel died in the first month or so? Does the coloring look professional?
A: Colorware clearly states that their customization voids Apple's warranty:
ColorWare Inc. replaces all existing Apple Inc. warranty policies and procedures with a ColorWare Inc. warranty, the documentation for which is included with all products purchased from ColorWare Inc.
More detailed information is available at ColorWare's warranty page, where they specify that they cover "workmanship defects and non-accidental hardware failures". While this sounds similar to Apple's warranty, it would be difficult to expect similar quality of service, especially outside of the United States.
| Q: Colorware with Apple Products Could someone who has, or knows someone who has, used Colorware for an Apple product comment on their experiece? I'm thinking about getting an third-generation iPad colored through Colorware, as they seem to be a solid coloring solution. Are the devices returned in factory condition? Does Apple accept colored devices if, say, a pixel died in the first month or so? Does the coloring look professional?
A: Colorware clearly states that their customization voids Apple's warranty:
ColorWare Inc. replaces all existing Apple Inc. warranty policies and procedures with a ColorWare Inc. warranty, the documentation for which is included with all products purchased from ColorWare Inc.
More detailed information is available at ColorWare's warranty page, where they specify that they cover "workmanship defects and non-accidental hardware failures". While this sounds similar to Apple's warranty, it would be difficult to expect similar quality of service, especially outside of the United States.
A: I know the above question was posted some time ago, but perhaps others have thought about ordering a customized Apple product from Colorware.
I purchased my Macbook Pro in 2010 in the Apple Retail Store located in Greensboro, NC.
2 weeks later, I shipped my Macbook Pro to ColorwarePC. My color choice was Ferrari Red, with trackpad and hinge in Smoke White.
Some 2 weeks later, I had my one of a kind Macbook back in hand.
First..... I have visited them for training and technical questions regarding software and technical questions about upgrading RAM, etc. (Since this was my first Mac). NEVER ONCE did anyone at Apple EVER even try to avoid helping me. In fact, they all gathered around wanting to check it out. That was in 2010. Here it is 2016, and they STILL flock to help me, and everyone wants to know where they can get one. Of course, the cost keeps most only observers.
I still have the same Macbook... It still looms lime it did the day it came back from Colorware PC. Only one light surface buff mark. I can't say enough about the incredible glossy finish.
I have replaced the 350GB HDD with a 1TB SS Drive.... and I have replaced the standard 4GB RAM with 16GB RAM. Yes... You read that correctly. Nothing special needed... and yes, FULLY compatible, with no glitch and no rejection. Lightning speed.
BTW... It will void your Apple warranty, but I've never met the very first Macbook user who ever had to utilize the warranty anyway. Screens are the biggest risk, and are not covered anyway.
Hope this helps.
John
A: I would be happy to provide current photos of the Ferrari Red MacBook Pro. Even years later, I think you will be impressed with the quality of finish.
John
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90821a1e43eced421f66747ef04a984e7ab29d3b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Delete a rented movie that is only partially downloaded I rented a movie and actually was able to watch it, but in iTunes it still shows up as a download in progress with an error and when I tap the icon it just says I don't have enough memory to continue the download (for the movie that I already watched and the rental time expired for). It is taking up a bunch of space and I want it gone! Please help. I do not have a computer I can get onto at this time and don't want to lose my 100+songs currently stored on my iPhone.
A: Somewhat bizarrely it is not possible to delete downloads in the iPhone iTunes.
The only way to delete the download, is to contact Apple (the iTunes section) and they will delete it for you. (you can contact support through the desktop iTunes app, or here)
| Q: Delete a rented movie that is only partially downloaded I rented a movie and actually was able to watch it, but in iTunes it still shows up as a download in progress with an error and when I tap the icon it just says I don't have enough memory to continue the download (for the movie that I already watched and the rental time expired for). It is taking up a bunch of space and I want it gone! Please help. I do not have a computer I can get onto at this time and don't want to lose my 100+songs currently stored on my iPhone.
A: Somewhat bizarrely it is not possible to delete downloads in the iPhone iTunes.
The only way to delete the download, is to contact Apple (the iTunes section) and they will delete it for you. (you can contact support through the desktop iTunes app, or here)
A: Yeah agree with Jonathan, explain that you've already seen it, that it is causing issues and you want it removed from your downloads queue. They should have no problem doing so for you.
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39f7935a46244a243a09bbeab6da00a911cd4ed0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How does "Find my Mac" work, since there's no GPS in a Mac? I have used "Find my Mac" to find our Macbook Pro. It was pretty accurate and was able to place the computer within 10 feet of its actual location. I started thinking about how it actually works, since the MBP doesn't have a GPS. How does "Find my Mac" work?
A: Even without a GPS chip, your location can be determined using your MAC address, SSIDs of WiFi networks in range (both private and public networks), their signal strength, etc. In Apple’s case, this data is submitted to the Skyhook Wireless service, which then returns a set of GPS coordinates (latitude, longitude).
If you’re interested in how geolocation works in other devices and applications, and what data is being sent back and forth exactly, see this answer on Stack Overflow which explains how Firefox does this using Google’s geolocation service (which is what most other apps use).
| Q: How does "Find my Mac" work, since there's no GPS in a Mac? I have used "Find my Mac" to find our Macbook Pro. It was pretty accurate and was able to place the computer within 10 feet of its actual location. I started thinking about how it actually works, since the MBP doesn't have a GPS. How does "Find my Mac" work?
A: Even without a GPS chip, your location can be determined using your MAC address, SSIDs of WiFi networks in range (both private and public networks), their signal strength, etc. In Apple’s case, this data is submitted to the Skyhook Wireless service, which then returns a set of GPS coordinates (latitude, longitude).
If you’re interested in how geolocation works in other devices and applications, and what data is being sent back and forth exactly, see this answer on Stack Overflow which explains how Firefox does this using Google’s geolocation service (which is what most other apps use).
A: It checks what Wifi networks are in range and then looks up their locations in a big database of known Wifi access points -- I think Apple use the Skyhook database.
A: Wi-Fi Positioning system (WPS)
The Mac can use Wi-Fi network identification for localization. This is called a Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS). The access points name and signal strength is determined and looked up in a database to identify the location. The more access points are found, the more precise the localization.
Unlike GPS (Global Positioning System) or cell-tower triangulation (together called Assisted-GPS), the Wi-Fi based localization works well inside buildings.
There are different databases which collect wireless access points:
*
*commercial: Google, Navizon and Skyhook Wireless
*open: OpenWLANMap (GNU Free Documentation Licence)
A: SIMPLE ANSWER:
mac laptops don't have a GPS chip. They can be located through wifi networks.
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446f2fbca7a998cce98d577743c2369d412d8ca5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Recommendation for genealogy software for OS X? I primarily work with gedcom files for my genealogy. What software is available for the mac which allows me to view and edit gedcom genealogy files?
If there are several options, I'd like one that interfaces with ancestry.com and/or other similar sites so I don't have to quite as much work managing searches and downloads of gedcom files.
Icing on the cake would include apps that have ipad counterparts so I can take it on the go for at least viewing, and hopefully editing.
I'm fine with apps that have their own database or file format as long as they import and export gedcom as well.
A: I haven’t found one that interfaces with the website you mentioned, but here’s a good overview of genealogy software for OS X: http://www.macgenealogy.org/mac-genealogy-software/
MacFamilyTree 6 is actively developed (it was just updated a few days ago), is fully GEDCOM-compatible, and it has an iOS version too!
It doesn’t export to ancestry.com but it can interface with a custom-built website called MacFamilyTree.com.
| Q: Recommendation for genealogy software for OS X? I primarily work with gedcom files for my genealogy. What software is available for the mac which allows me to view and edit gedcom genealogy files?
If there are several options, I'd like one that interfaces with ancestry.com and/or other similar sites so I don't have to quite as much work managing searches and downloads of gedcom files.
Icing on the cake would include apps that have ipad counterparts so I can take it on the go for at least viewing, and hopefully editing.
I'm fine with apps that have their own database or file format as long as they import and export gedcom as well.
A: I haven’t found one that interfaces with the website you mentioned, but here’s a good overview of genealogy software for OS X: http://www.macgenealogy.org/mac-genealogy-software/
MacFamilyTree 6 is actively developed (it was just updated a few days ago), is fully GEDCOM-compatible, and it has an iOS version too!
It doesn’t export to ancestry.com but it can interface with a custom-built website called MacFamilyTree.com.
A: I have tried many, and my favourite is iFamily, which is weirdly called iFamily for Leopard as it's full name, but it works fine in Lion.
It had full GEDCOM support, and the only demo limitation is the lack of export to GEDCOM, so you can try it in full more or less without buying.
A: You can try 'Reunion', which has GEDCOM import/export and is available for iPad and iPhone too.
A: GenealogyJ is cross-platform (jar executable) and fully free.
As the accepted answer mentioned, MacFamilyTree is beautiful. Also MyHeritage Family Tree Builder has its uses (specifically exporting nice fan charts).
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432dc265d5f89e58443748cfda15693c7b122403 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iTunes-cover screensaver not showing Today I tried to use the iTunes-cover screensaver (for the first time), but my screen (and the preview area in the system preferences) simply stays black, nothing else happens.
Has anybody experienced this too or has an idea what to do?
A: Try the following:
*
*Restarting iTunes
*Restarting the Mac
*Quitting iTunes and relaunching it while holding down the ⌥ key (to designate a different library), then quitting and relaunching it and re-pointing it at your real library
*Selecting a completely different screensaver, then reselecting the iTunes Artwork screensaver.
*Repair disk permissions
| Q: iTunes-cover screensaver not showing Today I tried to use the iTunes-cover screensaver (for the first time), but my screen (and the preview area in the system preferences) simply stays black, nothing else happens.
Has anybody experienced this too or has an idea what to do?
A: Try the following:
*
*Restarting iTunes
*Restarting the Mac
*Quitting iTunes and relaunching it while holding down the ⌥ key (to designate a different library), then quitting and relaunching it and re-pointing it at your real library
*Selecting a completely different screensaver, then reselecting the iTunes Artwork screensaver.
*Repair disk permissions
A: Re-creating my iTunes library worked for me.
The procedure consists in moving the iTunes Music Library.xml to a different location, removing the iTunes Library.itl file and then importing the xml file to re-build the library.
The details are explained in this article on the Apple support site: iTunes: How to re-create your iTunes library and playlists
A: For me it was just that I use iTunes match an none of my music was downloaded local to my computer, simple fix on one of my computers I wanted to save space on my HD so I just downloaded one of my playlists and on another I downloaded the whole library and as soon as it was done it was all there.
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bb2948b78b1fa5315be9a718e148420fa64968e5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: TextMate 2 Bundle creation In TextMate 2, how can I create a new Bundle?
I´m using a programming language which so far doesn't have a bundle (so no syntax highlighting, snippets and so on). TextMate 1 used to have a Bundle Editor, but where do I get started in TextMate 2?
A: As of this writing, the beginning steps are:
*
*Go to Bundles (menu) > Edit Bundles…
*Press ⌘N to create a new bundle.
*The bundle gets saved in ~/Library/Application\ Support/Avian/Bundles; you may wish to right-click on the saved bundle and choose Show Package Contents to see what's inside your bundle.
Further info can be found e.g. here and here.
| Q: TextMate 2 Bundle creation In TextMate 2, how can I create a new Bundle?
I´m using a programming language which so far doesn't have a bundle (so no syntax highlighting, snippets and so on). TextMate 1 used to have a Bundle Editor, but where do I get started in TextMate 2?
A: As of this writing, the beginning steps are:
*
*Go to Bundles (menu) > Edit Bundles…
*Press ⌘N to create a new bundle.
*The bundle gets saved in ~/Library/Application\ Support/Avian/Bundles; you may wish to right-click on the saved bundle and choose Show Package Contents to see what's inside your bundle.
Further info can be found e.g. here and here.
A: The easiest way to do it is to copy an existing bundle, rename it, and edit it.
Here’s the official manual on that: TextMate Manual → Bundles.
5.2 Editing Default Bundles / Items
Some of the default items may not be to your exact liking, for example
the coding style in snippets may differ from yours, so you may want
other tab triggers, key equivalents, or similar modifications.
If you edit a default item the difference will be stored in
~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles. These are then merged
with the default version so your changes will be effective even after
upgrading TextMate. All new items you create also end up in this
location.
Bundles or bundle items which you install by dragging them to TextMate
or double clicking will be installed in ~/Library/Application
Support/TextMate/Pristine Copy/Bundles. Editing these will also result
in only the differences being stored in ~/Library/Application
Support/TextMate/Bundles, meaning that if you later get a new version
of this third party bundle, you can safely install this one on top of
the old one (by dragging it to TextMate) and again your changes will
be preserved.
If you want to discard local changes then currently the only option is
to delete these from ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles.
Alternatively, here’s a more visual guide (lots of screenshots): How to create a TextMate bundle.
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c4d16d90d5203ff9e4ea5e6beb09d8a5df9f1b4e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Xcode 4 and Snow Leopard This is the thing :
*
*I have Xcode 4.3 on my MacBook Pro (running Lion)
*I am stuck with 4.0.2 on my iMac (running Snow Leopard)
Given that I would really like to retain a SnowLeopard-running machine (for development purposes), is there any way I could get anything 4.1 or above, to run on my iMac?
A: If you have registered for the paid iOS developer program, you should be able to see Xcode 4.2 for Snow Leopard available in the iOS Dev Center.
Here's what I see from a paid account:
Here's what I see from a non-paid account (there's no Xcode 4.x for Snow Leopard):
This also explains why Xcode is a paid download in the Snow Leopard App Store, but is free in the Lion App Store.
| Q: Xcode 4 and Snow Leopard This is the thing :
*
*I have Xcode 4.3 on my MacBook Pro (running Lion)
*I am stuck with 4.0.2 on my iMac (running Snow Leopard)
Given that I would really like to retain a SnowLeopard-running machine (for development purposes), is there any way I could get anything 4.1 or above, to run on my iMac?
A: If you have registered for the paid iOS developer program, you should be able to see Xcode 4.2 for Snow Leopard available in the iOS Dev Center.
Here's what I see from a paid account:
Here's what I see from a non-paid account (there's no Xcode 4.x for Snow Leopard):
This also explains why Xcode is a paid download in the Snow Leopard App Store, but is free in the Lion App Store.
A: If you don’t really need Xcode, but all you need are the Xcode command line tools, here’s how to install them on Snow Leopard.
Simply download the “Command Line Tools” package from Apple Developer (free account required; you can use your Apple ID). As of this writing, the package is named “Command Line Tools for Xcode - Late March 2012”. It’s a 171.70 MB disk image, which pales in contrast to the 4+ GB full Xcode download.
Note that, if you’ve already installed Xcode, you’ll want to uninstall it before installing the Command Line Tools.
Once you’ve downloaded the package, launch Terminal.app and type:
cd
mkdir osx-gcc
cd /Volumes/Command\ Line\ Tools
cp -r * ~/osx-gcc
cd ~/osx-gcc
mkdir pkg
mv Command\ Line\ Tools.mpkg pkg/install.mpkg
cd pkg
xar -xvf install.mpkg
Note: It’s important that you use cp -r, rather than simply cp; the former will copy all hidden installation files to the ~/osx-gcc directory. The Command Line Tools.mpkg file is merely a 512 KB descriptor that contains the installation instructions; the actual packages are located in the hidden, aptly-named Packages directory.
Next, open the Distribution file with your favorite text editor. I prefer TextMate (mate Distribution), but you can use vi, emacs, BBEdit, TextWrangler, or even TextEdit (open -a TextEdit Distribution). On the tenth line, you should see the following:
var majorOSVersion = '10.7';
This specifies the minimum operating system requirement — OS X 10.7 Lion, in this case. Change '10.7' to '10.6', save the file, and close your text editor. You’ve now modified the package so that it will install successfully on Snow Leopard; the final step is to recreate the package file so that it can be read by the installer app:
rm install.mpkg
xar -c . -vf ../install.mpkg
cd ..
open install.mpkg
A: After logging into the mac dev center, the "OS X Lion" homepage has a link near the bottom "Additional Downloads" with the description "Find additional pre-release software, previous versions of Mac OS X, and hardware driver downloads in the Apple Developer Downloads site."
Clicking the View All Downloads link takes me to a list of >150 downloads, sorted by date, and a category search.
In the Developer Tools category, click the "next page" link until you get to Xcode for Snow Leopard.
Note I found it in the Mac Dev Center, I didn't check the iOS Dev Center, though I suspect the download might be there as well.
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1dac2014a63b097ed99864fe0748427403dfa642 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Use FaceTime with the same Apple ID? I and my wife own three Apple devices. MacBook Pro, iPad 2 (only Wi-Fi) and iPhone 4S. All of these are registered with the same Apple ID and Gmail account. With FaceTime I can call to IPhone, but I cannot call from my iPhone. Probably because iPad or MacBook do not have a unique id. How can this be fixed so I can use FaceTime in any direction? I do not want more than one Apple ID as it makes trouble in App Store and iCloud.
A: You can add another email address for FaceTime in your iPad:
This will allow you to call your iPad uniquely with this id.
Similarly, you can add another email address to your MacBook Pro's Facetime:
| Q: Use FaceTime with the same Apple ID? I and my wife own three Apple devices. MacBook Pro, iPad 2 (only Wi-Fi) and iPhone 4S. All of these are registered with the same Apple ID and Gmail account. With FaceTime I can call to IPhone, but I cannot call from my iPhone. Probably because iPad or MacBook do not have a unique id. How can this be fixed so I can use FaceTime in any direction? I do not want more than one Apple ID as it makes trouble in App Store and iCloud.
A: You can add another email address for FaceTime in your iPad:
This will allow you to call your iPad uniquely with this id.
Similarly, you can add another email address to your MacBook Pro's Facetime:
A: You have only on apple id, but do you have several emails ?
In this case, you can add on your Macbook or your iPad another email address on which you will be call on Facetime.
For example :
Your apple id account : [email protected]
To call to your iPhone, use your phone number.
To call to your iPad, use your apple id email.
To call to your Macbook add a new adress in FaceTime preferences :
Hope this helps !
A: FaceTime, the App Store, and iCloud can all use separate Apple ID's for this reason.
Your iPhone will also register its phone number with Apple's servers, so it can be reached there as well.
In your case, I would recommend making a new ID either for each device, or each person, and only use this ID for FaceTime for now. A limitation to this is that while you can add multiple ID's for FaceTime to recognize, these emails can not be used for another Apple ID. If you make one for each device, you will not have to worry about this limitation.
For example, my Apple ID is tied to iCloud and FaceTime and all my devices. I have a separate account for iTunes. I can not set up FaceTime to use the iCloud account and the iTunes account.
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45ae912019426f3b4d6f5af691585b7df68eb952 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Understanding iPhone Provisioning Portal and how it works? The process of provisioning portal, certificates, provisioning profiles, etc are still confusing me. I read apple's documentations and googled a lot about it.. Nothing helped me..
I have a Mac and an iPhone. How can I install the application which I developed in Xcode in my device?
Could anyone give a simple steps to understand the work flow of Provisioning Portal process?
Thanks
A: I faced the same problem too when I started out.
For my first app, the steps at Provisioning unveiled worked perfectly for me.
The next thing you could try out is distributing your app wirelessly (along with the provisioning profile), which gets very exciting :)
| Q: Understanding iPhone Provisioning Portal and how it works? The process of provisioning portal, certificates, provisioning profiles, etc are still confusing me. I read apple's documentations and googled a lot about it.. Nothing helped me..
I have a Mac and an iPhone. How can I install the application which I developed in Xcode in my device?
Could anyone give a simple steps to understand the work flow of Provisioning Portal process?
Thanks
A: I faced the same problem too when I started out.
For my first app, the steps at Provisioning unveiled worked perfectly for me.
The next thing you could try out is distributing your app wirelessly (along with the provisioning profile), which gets very exciting :)
A: The tutorial linked by Hippo in his answer looks perfectly fine, however it doesn't mention a small detail that Apple does. When you're in the step:
Time to request your certificate. Open Spotlight and enter Keychain. Create a new certificate request.
Before you do the "Create a new certificate request", you should go to Keychain's preferences and in the Certificates Tab, turn off both OCSP and CRL.
After that, you can safely go to Request a Certificate from a Certificate Authority.
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6f4e54cf33ca018e8f6c844f8c6f345c08a1d3d9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there software to mirror a Windows PC via AirPlay? I would like to mirror my Windows PC to my Apple TV via AirPlay. I've found a few options which enable Windows Media Player to receive video via AirPlay. I've also found an application named Airfoil which allows you to stream audio from Windows. I know that the beta of Mountain Lion supports AirPlay mirroring, but is there a Windows option?
A: You can achieve this indirectly if you have an iPad.
Install remote control software on the iPad (e.g. Teamviewer) that controls your PC and then use airplay mirroring to display the iPad's screen onto your apple tv.
How effective this is will depend upon the type of content you wish to mirror, video is not going to work but static content may be OK.
| Q: Is there software to mirror a Windows PC via AirPlay? I would like to mirror my Windows PC to my Apple TV via AirPlay. I've found a few options which enable Windows Media Player to receive video via AirPlay. I've also found an application named Airfoil which allows you to stream audio from Windows. I know that the beta of Mountain Lion supports AirPlay mirroring, but is there a Windows option?
A: You can achieve this indirectly if you have an iPad.
Install remote control software on the iPad (e.g. Teamviewer) that controls your PC and then use airplay mirroring to display the iPad's screen onto your apple tv.
How effective this is will depend upon the type of content you wish to mirror, video is not going to work but static content may be OK.
A: I use a program called AirParrot to mirror my Windows PC to my Apple TV (third generation). There is also a version that works on Macs.
Note that the ability to mirror a Mac to an AppleTV is a new feature of OS X Mountain Lion.
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bda8166d2de6e96d48af0c37510577402a245bd0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Skype way too quiet. How to get louder Skype audio output on my MacBook Pro? My girlfriend and I are getting really irritated with how quiet Skype is on my new MacBook Pro. Even with the volume turned up to the max, I can still barely hear her even with my air conditioning and fan off.
At first, I thought about buying a pair of speakers, but even the small USB ones would be irritating to have to have around all the time. Then I thought of buying a new sound card, but then I realized that iTunes with the preamp in the equalizer set to 12 is actually more than loud enough.
Is there a way that I could connect to that and make Skype that loud? Or is there any other way to make it louder?
On a smaller note, I've been having the same issue with movies played in Google Chrome.
A: Did you check the settings in the app "Audio MIDI Setup"?
It's in /Applications/Utilities.
Sometimes the settings there can get out of whack.
| Q: Skype way too quiet. How to get louder Skype audio output on my MacBook Pro? My girlfriend and I are getting really irritated with how quiet Skype is on my new MacBook Pro. Even with the volume turned up to the max, I can still barely hear her even with my air conditioning and fan off.
At first, I thought about buying a pair of speakers, but even the small USB ones would be irritating to have to have around all the time. Then I thought of buying a new sound card, but then I realized that iTunes with the preamp in the equalizer set to 12 is actually more than loud enough.
Is there a way that I could connect to that and make Skype that loud? Or is there any other way to make it louder?
On a smaller note, I've been having the same issue with movies played in Google Chrome.
A: Did you check the settings in the app "Audio MIDI Setup"?
It's in /Applications/Utilities.
Sometimes the settings there can get out of whack.
A: Try the Boom system-wide volume booster tool. While it's not free, it is cheap: $6.99. See reviews here, here, and here. Below is the description from the product page, and a screenshot:
Boom is a simple volume booster and system-wide equalizer that lets
you boost the volume of your Mac and your music files.
Using Boom is simple. You know the ways to change the volume of your
Mac. Boom provides the same easy access to boost sound.
From the videos on YouTube, Hulu, your favorite music playing on
iTunes, to voice applications like Skype, iChat and your favorite
Games, Boom can boost them all. [...]
(emphasis above is mine)
I use Boom on my own MacBook Air and it does a reasonable job of increasing the internal speaker volume beyond what I was getting with the built-in volume controls at maximum. The graphic equalizer is an added bonus, letting me tweak the sound I get from these tiny speakers so it sounds a bit better for music.
A: Did you check your overall sound mixer settings? You can adjust this so that Skype is the loudest thing playing on your computer.
A: In Skype itself, there is a whole bunch of settings called (i don't know the exact english term for them) call/chatquality-quidelines, they are found when clicking on the bars, looking like Wifi-signal. These bars are signals from Skype telling you something about some problems with microphone, speakers and webcam. If you click on these bars, a window posp out, having some tabs there like microphone and speakers. On both, you can adjust the volume skype-internally, both microphone and speakers have a checkbox for automatic adjustment and a manual adjustment bar. try to set them both to manual and maximum on both participating computers.
Since this is mostly out of memory, excuse me for being incorrect! Someone has to find the right english terms...
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882e9e264142082ce9185f92a57f2aa2b5257504 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to change network connection order? I have multiple network access in the same area.
How can I reorder the priority to which the connections are made ?
A: Go to System Preferences>Network>Advanced>Wi-Fi:
As you can see, you can drag the networks into the order you prefer.
| Q: How to change network connection order? I have multiple network access in the same area.
How can I reorder the priority to which the connections are made ?
A: Go to System Preferences>Network>Advanced>Wi-Fi:
As you can see, you can drag the networks into the order you prefer.
A: Open System Preferences, and select the Network preference pane. Once opened, select the Advanced button.
From within the resulting sheet, you can drag the order of your networks around to fit your needs.
Once done, make sure you hit Apply on the bottom right of the Network pane to save the changes.
A: Go to your System Preferences → Network.
Alternatively, you could click the WiFi icon in the menu bar, then choose Open Network Preferences.
In the preference pane, you can make your Mac prefer Ethernet connections over WiFi, for example, or the other way around.
If you click the “settings” symbol next to the + and - buttons, you’ll be able to select “Set Service Order”:
If you continue to WiFi → Advanced you can set the order of WiFi networks specifically by dragging them around:
A: System Preferences → Network → Wi-Fi → Advanced
A: Once you've accessed the Network>Advanced pane that allows you to reorder the priority of your network list as described in this thread, then drag your desired network connections to the top of the list to give them priority over others.
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cab177203f6f3ac33b8dbf9c168a85b47c829d56 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does iChat block content in China? It's relatively common knowledge that the Chinese government blocks certain content in China. Most of this won't affect Chinese users. But does iChat censor messages with said content in them?
This Yahoo Answers question says that the content won't be blocked unless it's pornographic or politically extremist. However, I'm not sure if Apple lets China access their messages, so I'm not sure if the Chinese government could do this.
Unfortunately, I don't have a way to test this myself. I've done some research, and I haven't been able to find a definitive answer, thanks to the fact that I can't read Chinese.
Example: I send a message to person 1 in China saying 'Down with the government! Tank Man! Tibet! Liu Xiaobo! Tiananmen Square protests of 1989!' Does Person 1 get the message or not?
A: No - iChat has no provision for blocking or filtering what you do.
It does rely on DNS and thus is easily blocked by any network operator that chooses to do so. It is vulnerable to blocking of the major chat servers that let people know who else is online.
| Q: Does iChat block content in China? It's relatively common knowledge that the Chinese government blocks certain content in China. Most of this won't affect Chinese users. But does iChat censor messages with said content in them?
This Yahoo Answers question says that the content won't be blocked unless it's pornographic or politically extremist. However, I'm not sure if Apple lets China access their messages, so I'm not sure if the Chinese government could do this.
Unfortunately, I don't have a way to test this myself. I've done some research, and I haven't been able to find a definitive answer, thanks to the fact that I can't read Chinese.
Example: I send a message to person 1 in China saying 'Down with the government! Tank Man! Tibet! Liu Xiaobo! Tiananmen Square protests of 1989!' Does Person 1 get the message or not?
A: No - iChat has no provision for blocking or filtering what you do.
It does rely on DNS and thus is easily blocked by any network operator that chooses to do so. It is vulnerable to blocking of the major chat servers that let people know who else is online.
A: iChat doesn't block anything. On the other hand the Great Firewall of China might block packets containing censored content or trigger alerts to act against users exchanging the data.
iChat had a an option to encrypt communications between users which allowed to keep the communications private as long as the certificates used were not intercepted. But it was removed in Lion and the iCloud transition.
iMessage will probably replace iChat and it is supposed to use an encryption scheme.
Due to its P2P nature Skype uses an end to end encryption system to avoid intermediate nodes eavesdropping on communications.
A: I did my internship in China and I suffered a lot from the censor. And since I needed unrestricted access to IM's and other information, I bought myself a VPN.
The software will fool the blocking process and pretend to be in an other country. It's how I was sure nothing was blocked and I would get access to the needed sources (Google.com, Facebook.com, YouTube.com,...)
A good overview of some VPN's can be found here.
A: In any case, I would suggest using the Internet in China only behind a VPN located in Hong Kong. This way no one can stop you from doing nothing online and your speed won't be affected.
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f18fea483499e40400e1828873399fd1aec57e37 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to increase the size of the OS X user interface without lowering the resolution? I can adjust a few things, such as the Dock, but I don't see a way to say, "I want 1080p resolution, but I'm sitting 5 feet away and want bigger menus, fonts, etc across the entire system."
This is for a computer to be used as an entertainment center, mac mini 2007 running OS X 10.6.8.
I can upgrade to Lion if that provides a useful solution.
How do I increase the sizes of everything system wide so it's readable from a distance, while keeping the high resolution I desire for movies and games?
A: Better yet, open a terminal and type:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver DisplayResolutionEnabled -bool YES
(enter the admin password).
Log out and back in, and Bob's yer uncle.
| Q: How to increase the size of the OS X user interface without lowering the resolution? I can adjust a few things, such as the Dock, but I don't see a way to say, "I want 1080p resolution, but I'm sitting 5 feet away and want bigger menus, fonts, etc across the entire system."
This is for a computer to be used as an entertainment center, mac mini 2007 running OS X 10.6.8.
I can upgrade to Lion if that provides a useful solution.
How do I increase the sizes of everything system wide so it's readable from a distance, while keeping the high resolution I desire for movies and games?
A: Better yet, open a terminal and type:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver DisplayResolutionEnabled -bool YES
(enter the admin password).
Log out and back in, and Bob's yer uncle.
A: As of Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8), the HiDPI feature is no longer experimental. It's available in standard installs of the OS, without messing around with developer tools. But it still doesn't work as well as I'd like for this purpose, because if you're using a TV at the normal full HD resolution (1080P, or 1920x1080), the HiDPI resolution of 960x540 is too small for a lot of apps. iTunes, the Mac App Store, and even the Mountain Lion installer and welcome screens either force scrollbars on all screens (annoying) or truncate content without letting you scroll to see it (even worse).
HiDPI is probably the only answer to this problem we're going to get from Apple, but it's really not the right one. It would be nice if people would design their apps to run well at 960x540, but I'm not betting on it.
A: There is a feature that's currently experimental called HiDPI that may do what you want. Like the retina displays on the iPhone and iPad, HiDPI mode creates a "logical" resolution that's half the current resolution on your display but uses all the physical pixels to keep the image sharp. This results in all the user interface elements appearing much larger, but with no lack in clarity. For example, if you're outputting to a 1080p TV with a resolution of 1920x1080, the HiDPI resolution would be 960x540, and all the elements on the screen would be the same size as if you were outputting that physical resolution.
To enable HiDPI mode in Mac OS X Lion:
*
*Download the "Graphics Tools for Xcode" download from Apple. This download requires you to enter an Apple ID, which you most likely have and can get for free.
*Mount the DMG
*Open the "Quartz Debug" app
*In the menu bar, select "Window", then "UI Resolution"
*Check "Enable HiDPI display modes"
*You'll be prompted to log out and log back in. If multiple accounts are logged in, they must all log out for the change to work.
*Once you log back in, go to System Preferences, then Displays. You will see the new HiDPI modes there.
*For your 1080p TV, select "960x540 (HiDPI)"
P.S. If you're curious what HiDPI mode looks like, the screenshots I've taken are both in HiDPI. Click on them to see them full sized.
A: You can also enable the HiDPI modes without Quartz Debug by changing DisplayResolutionDisabled to DisplayResolutionEnabled in /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist and logging out and back in.
The maximum effective resolutions are half of the native resolutions.
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108981d7c397b2de0c54513849d39d1c8e5b9df0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Any performance gains when disabling secure virtual memory? To disable secure virtual memory in 10.7, one does the following:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.virtualMemory DisableEncryptedSwap -boolean yes
However, are there any benefits to disabling secure system memory? I'm not concerned with security as much as I 'm concerned about system speed.
A: According to MacWorld, the advantage of disabling encrypted swaps should be “just a slightly less overhead on the page in & out process”.
So yes, there is a minor performance gain, but it won’t be a huge performance boost. To me, it’s not worth the security risk (of potentially having unencrypted passwords and other sensitive data in swap memory).
You’d get a much bigger performance boost if you’d disable virtual memory completely:
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
To re-enable it:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
| Q: Any performance gains when disabling secure virtual memory? To disable secure virtual memory in 10.7, one does the following:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.virtualMemory DisableEncryptedSwap -boolean yes
However, are there any benefits to disabling secure system memory? I'm not concerned with security as much as I 'm concerned about system speed.
A: According to MacWorld, the advantage of disabling encrypted swaps should be “just a slightly less overhead on the page in & out process”.
So yes, there is a minor performance gain, but it won’t be a huge performance boost. To me, it’s not worth the security risk (of potentially having unencrypted passwords and other sensitive data in swap memory).
You’d get a much bigger performance boost if you’d disable virtual memory completely:
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
To re-enable it:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist
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2387f17f6d92ca52ea14176b2710f9d8d846bf56 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can sudo use my existing aliases? How can I let sudo use my existing aliases in my .bash_profile (or .bashrc, .profile …)?
For example I want to be able to use ll instead of ls -laGF as sudo.
A: alias sudo='sudo su -i ENV=/home/myuser/.profile'
| Q: Can sudo use my existing aliases? How can I let sudo use my existing aliases in my .bash_profile (or .bashrc, .profile …)?
For example I want to be able to use ll instead of ls -laGF as sudo.
A: alias sudo='sudo su -i ENV=/home/myuser/.profile'
A: No. Sudo draws from the root account and won't consult your user's ~/.bash_profile.
But you can workaround this problem by adding the following alias to your profile:
alias sudo='sudo '
*Note the space after the command. From then on, sudo will work normally and you'll be able to use your user's aliases without issue (both normally and with root privileges).
Explanation: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Aliases says:
If the last character of the alias value is a space or tab character, then the next command word following the alias is also checked for alias expansion.
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b742752cd209e32cc0502ec555c33da2677d13a1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPhone save PDF file and view it I have a PDF file on my Mac and I want to copy it into my iPhone and then read it.
How can I do that?
I already tried to plug the iPhone cable into my Mac, but it seems Finder doesn't let me save a file onto it. Before I had an iPhone, I used a Windows phone and could simply transfer my file to the phone and view it.
Do I need additional software? I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 5.1.
A: You need to use iTunes to transfer it to the app on your iPhone that will take ownership of it. The simplest solution is to use iBooks, which you can find in the App Store on your iPhone if you haven't downloaded it already:
*
*Drag the PDF into iTunes
*Select your device on in the left hand pane, then select "Books" on the top.
*Make sure "Sync Books" is checked, and if you're syncing selected books, check the check box by the PDF you just added.
*Hit Apply
The PDF should now be in iBooks on your iPhone.
| Q: iPhone save PDF file and view it I have a PDF file on my Mac and I want to copy it into my iPhone and then read it.
How can I do that?
I already tried to plug the iPhone cable into my Mac, but it seems Finder doesn't let me save a file onto it. Before I had an iPhone, I used a Windows phone and could simply transfer my file to the phone and view it.
Do I need additional software? I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 5.1.
A: You need to use iTunes to transfer it to the app on your iPhone that will take ownership of it. The simplest solution is to use iBooks, which you can find in the App Store on your iPhone if you haven't downloaded it already:
*
*Drag the PDF into iTunes
*Select your device on in the left hand pane, then select "Books" on the top.
*Make sure "Sync Books" is checked, and if you're syncing selected books, check the check box by the PDF you just added.
*Hit Apply
The PDF should now be in iBooks on your iPhone.
A: If you use Dropbox, you could save the PDF file from your Mac, and (after Dropbox syncs) read that PDF file from the Dropbox app on your iPhone.
Provided you have internet connection, the pros:
*
*you only need one copy of the file (at Dropbox) without creating
duplicates and using up memory.
*you can replace a PDF with an updated PDF and let Dropbox takes
care of sync'ing it to your other devices.
*Dropbox is free
*iTunes not needed (and if you set iTunes to backup the device on your Mac's hard disk, then the PDF file(s) will use up hard disk space).
The cons are:
*
*Dropbox does have a limit to how much storage it allows for free
*you need internet connection and will incur telco's data charges unless you use WiFi.
A: You don't need any extra software.
The best way to do this would just be to email yourself the PDF. The iPhone can open the PDF in the email, and display it.
You can also use apps like GoodReader to open it as well, so that you can somewhat store it on the phone. If you have that app (or some others) installed on your phone, you can hold down on the PDF icon in the email to save it and open it in one of those apps. If you have one of these apps installed too, you can drag the PDF to the app in iTunes when syncing your phone (although, this is much more complicated than it needs to be).
iBooks also lets you save and read PDF's. You do the same as above, either hold down on the PDF icon, or when its open, click the share (looks like an arrow coming out of a box) button to open in another app. (Its the icon in the bottom left of this picture)
As for where you note that you don't see the iPhone drive, iOS doesn't do this like Windows and Android phones do. You may be able to enable the iPhone as a drive, but it can't access that data, without possibly jailbreaking or the like.
A: Just to add on, some apps which allow PDF viewing for iPhones ( eg: GoodReader, USBdisk, FileApp ) also have an option to transfer files via FTP, which is essentially keying in a specific IP address shown in the app into your browser and then browsing for the file you want to transfer.
This eliminates the need for the cumbersome iTunes just for a PDF transfer =)
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37ae002d7cb5a8b30581c830e267c28c4efceffc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How does iTunes make its decision as to what artwork to provide? I'm trying to download Album Art by right-clicking a track in iTunes and choosing Get Album Artwork. Sometimes this works fine, but sometimes iTunes finds the wrong Album.
As an example, I have A Taste Of Things To Come from the Mortal Kombat Soundtrack.:
But this is the only track on that same album with Album Art, so I ask iTunes to Get Album Art for the second track. This is what it finds:
The Quigley soundtrack, starring Gary Busey and Oz Perkins.
How does iTunes make its decision as to what artwork to provide for any given track? And ideally, how can I encourage iTunes to make better choices?
I'm running iTunes 10.6.0.40 on a Windows 7 PC.
A: iTunes uses an external site to search for album art. I don't remember exactly which site it is, but I do remember that it was crowdsourced, so there's a high likelihood that, especially with relatively rare music, it will get the wrong thing.
| Q: How does iTunes make its decision as to what artwork to provide? I'm trying to download Album Art by right-clicking a track in iTunes and choosing Get Album Artwork. Sometimes this works fine, but sometimes iTunes finds the wrong Album.
As an example, I have A Taste Of Things To Come from the Mortal Kombat Soundtrack.:
But this is the only track on that same album with Album Art, so I ask iTunes to Get Album Art for the second track. This is what it finds:
The Quigley soundtrack, starring Gary Busey and Oz Perkins.
How does iTunes make its decision as to what artwork to provide for any given track? And ideally, how can I encourage iTunes to make better choices?
I'm running iTunes 10.6.0.40 on a Windows 7 PC.
A: iTunes uses an external site to search for album art. I don't remember exactly which site it is, but I do remember that it was crowdsourced, so there's a high likelihood that, especially with relatively rare music, it will get the wrong thing.
A: This seems to be an ongoing problem with iTunes and MP3s. It'll get better for awhile, then suddenly a ton of threads on it will pop up on apple's support boards. It might improve a little, but many will still report problems.
Even when the ID3 tags match exactly with the information for the same album in the iTunes store people indicate they are still getting mismatches or missing artwork. Others have complained that after going through and painstakingly attaching artwork manually to all the songs that had missing artwork, a later iTunes upgrade has removed some or all of the artwork they added.
The problem is so pervasive that there are apparently several programs intended to do the work that iTunes should be doing itself:
http://www.rinsemymusic.com/
http://www.tuneupmedia.com/
Others
I suspect that you won't find an easy solution to this problem with songs not purchased from Apple.
A: Unfortunately, when iTunes doesn't do it right, you have to reside to third-party apps to do the dirty work. I have found this a useful piece of advice regarding missing iTunes artwork.
This only proves that no artwork-finder app is perfect and applies data 100% correctly, especially iTunes. In my case, iTunes did not find more than 100 of my album artworks:
A: Yes, it could be a problem for songs not puchased from the Store. I advise to store a covers with all full albums / compilations you have. I do so and haven't these situations because I add the covers when I edit meta info of the files (using The Tagger utility).
A: Clearly, the database being polled either has errors or the mix of the data used to determine the track listing isn't uniquely specified which leads to the errors.
Here is what you have in your control:
*
*Manually override these artworks by hand or by using a competing service. There are many and I've never found them to be worthwhile for the music I have issues with. YMMV of course and I know several people really love these iTunes add-on programs and cleaners.
*The metadata - you can edit the title or the author or any of the other music tag information on the problematic tracks to better match what Apple sells the music. If you have a Jimmy Buffet album labeled "stoner rock" for genre - perhaps changing it to "Rock" would be the difference in retrieving the correct artwork.
As you can see, the details aren't public, so some trial and error may be needed. If you have the actual CD and can re-encode them, usually this gets the data correct for matching with artwork.
A: itunes just gets confused sometimes i guess, an easy solution is to go to google, copy the album art you want and go to the album you want to change in itunes. click on advanced and add album art (top left hand corner). then you go to album art i believe and control and copy/paste the picture into the album art space. this allows you to get custom art work!
-:) iph4u on Youtube!
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9fc61a2c7de1cb2a069d8972a9edde015ac90592 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Do I really need Bonjour on Windows? One of my least favorite things that Apple does to every Windows computer during an installation of iTunes is that it installs Bonjour. On almost every Windows machine I've installed iTunes on, Bonjour has caused an error of some sort.
As far as I can remember, I've removed Bonjour by deleting the folder it's in. Most of the time, this has not caused any major problems. However, I have a new installation of iTunes and I'm wondering if once again I should delete Bonjour.
Are there any issues caused by deleting Bonjour? Would I lose any functionality?
A: You don't need it, about the only thing I have ever actually used it for in a Windows machine is to enable printing to a printer attached to my Airport Extreme. In fact because of the unusual port range it uses, I have actually encountered issues with VPNs that have refused to work properly until it is uninstalled, so I actually remove is as a matter of course.
Of course if you do magically require it later down the line, you can always install it as an individual package.
| Q: Do I really need Bonjour on Windows? One of my least favorite things that Apple does to every Windows computer during an installation of iTunes is that it installs Bonjour. On almost every Windows machine I've installed iTunes on, Bonjour has caused an error of some sort.
As far as I can remember, I've removed Bonjour by deleting the folder it's in. Most of the time, this has not caused any major problems. However, I have a new installation of iTunes and I'm wondering if once again I should delete Bonjour.
Are there any issues caused by deleting Bonjour? Would I lose any functionality?
A: You don't need it, about the only thing I have ever actually used it for in a Windows machine is to enable printing to a printer attached to my Airport Extreme. In fact because of the unusual port range it uses, I have actually encountered issues with VPNs that have refused to work properly until it is uninstalled, so I actually remove is as a matter of course.
Of course if you do magically require it later down the line, you can always install it as an individual package.
A: From Apple's knowledge base article about Bonjour on Windows (my emphasis):
*
*iTunes uses Bonjour to find shared music libraries, to find AirPort Express devices for streaming music to, and to find Apple TVs.
*Safari uses Bonjour to find devices advertising web pages on your network. Many of today's network printers, network cameras, and wireless gateways provide a web interface for status and configuration, and many of these devices (especially network printers) now advertise those web pages using Bonjour, to make them easily discoverable in Safari.
*Internet Explorer, via the Bonjour toolbar plugin, also provides easy discovery of Bonjour-advertised web pages.
*The Bonjour Printer Setup Wizard uses Bonjour to discover and set up Bonjour-advertised network printers.
*Adobe's Creative Suite 3 applications use Bonjour to discover digital asset management services.
If you don't use any features, then removing Bonjour won't cause you any trouble (except perhaps Apple Software Update might offer to install it again...)
Furthermore, this page has some instructions for more throughly uninstalling Bonjour.
A: You are able to use "[computer name].local" domains all over your network. This also applies to Apple mobile devices and other hardware (I have: Mac Mini, Western Digital NAS, HP printer and Linux laptop -- it has its own Bonjour called Avahi).
Please support adoption of the Zeroconf protocol and report bugs to Apple, because they give us an opportonity to drop the horrible NetBIOS technology and to connect across different platforms.
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065afd4b723aceb7746299c36de2f03aab7b1bd4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I figure out which tab in Safari is using CPU? I usually have several tabs open in Safari in the background, and sometimes I see it taking up an unusual amount of CPU (PluginProcess or WebProcess).
How can I figure out which tab (or tabs) is causing this? If there are no easy GUI solutions, I'm also open to Terminal-based techniques for finding the culprit. I hope not to have to do this very often.
(Note: I realize this is similar to an old question, but Safari has been updated since then and perhaps there are new techniques available.)
A: The Activity Monitor app provides entries for individual Safari tabs. You can search for “Safari” in it to see just Safari-related processes, including all its tabs, and sort by CPU percentage to see which ones are active.
Unfortunately, each process name only includes the domain of the URL, rather than the full URL, so it can be a bit tricky to work out which tab it is if, like me, you have lots of pages open from the same domain.
(I’m on macOS Sierra 10.12.6 and Safari 10.1.2; I’m not sure when this was introduced.)
| Q: How can I figure out which tab in Safari is using CPU? I usually have several tabs open in Safari in the background, and sometimes I see it taking up an unusual amount of CPU (PluginProcess or WebProcess).
How can I figure out which tab (or tabs) is causing this? If there are no easy GUI solutions, I'm also open to Terminal-based techniques for finding the culprit. I hope not to have to do this very often.
(Note: I realize this is similar to an old question, but Safari has been updated since then and perhaps there are new techniques available.)
A: The Activity Monitor app provides entries for individual Safari tabs. You can search for “Safari” in it to see just Safari-related processes, including all its tabs, and sort by CPU percentage to see which ones are active.
Unfortunately, each process name only includes the domain of the URL, rather than the full URL, so it can be a bit tricky to work out which tab it is if, like me, you have lots of pages open from the same domain.
(I’m on macOS Sierra 10.12.6 and Safari 10.1.2; I’m not sure when this was introduced.)
A: For what it’s worth, I’ve checked both the Develop menu and the Debug menu in the latest Safari.app (Version 5.1.4 / 7534.54.16), and couldn’t find any helpful features.
Develop menu:
Debug menu:
The debug menu can be enabled using the following command:
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu -bool true
A: cmd ⌘+alt ⌥+A ⇔ Window > Activity may help you to identify which tab is the heaviest in activity if it is lasting long enough.
I must admit that all my tests where failure, but I'm mostly using web servers which are fast.
I also tested Debug > Show Frame Rate Meter (see Mathias Debug dropdown menu) which is a partial answer to the original question. You have to test it by reloading every tab and compare the output of the 3 meters to see who is the hog.
A: *
*You need Safari 6.1 or newer
*Enable Debug menu.
Update: For Mac OS Mojave and newer, go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk Access and add Terminal before entering the command.
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu -bool true
*Set "Use Per-tab web processes" and "Show Web process IDs in page titles" to on.
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a77c267f760c4fcf46e22aeca749dc467682466d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to kill stuck Screen sharing authentication dialogue? Sometimes when connecting to a screen sharing machine in Finder, the authentication dialogue hangs indefinitely. The only way I've been able to get rid of it is log out.
So far I've tried killing a number of processes including:
*
*Screen Sharing
*Finder
*Dock
*SystemUIServer
To no avail. Any idea what process this UI is attached to?
A: Yes, it's called NetAuthAgent.
You can tell I've had this problem before! :(
| Q: How to kill stuck Screen sharing authentication dialogue? Sometimes when connecting to a screen sharing machine in Finder, the authentication dialogue hangs indefinitely. The only way I've been able to get rid of it is log out.
So far I've tried killing a number of processes including:
*
*Screen Sharing
*Finder
*Dock
*SystemUIServer
To no avail. Any idea what process this UI is attached to?
A: Yes, it's called NetAuthAgent.
You can tell I've had this problem before! :(
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14deaf11a1adf426bdfe6fb6df94eb5fa5e464f1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is the gloss on iOS icons automatically applied? Clearly it isn't completely automatic, as many icons don't have a reflection, but is there some sort of checkbox when creating an app to determine whether the gloss is applied?
A: Yes, it is automatically applied by iOS.
There is an option for iOS application developers to turn this off, called UIPrerenderedIcon. This is a value in the Applications Info.plist, that can be turned on and off (checking it would note that this is a pre-rendered icon, and to not apply the gloss).
You can read more details in the iOS Human Interface Guidelines.
Web Applications (as noted in Mathias's answer) also do have this reflection applied to them. You can override this by naming your file apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png. More information is also provided in the HIG for web clip icons.
| Q: Is the gloss on iOS icons automatically applied? Clearly it isn't completely automatic, as many icons don't have a reflection, but is there some sort of checkbox when creating an app to determine whether the gloss is applied?
A: Yes, it is automatically applied by iOS.
There is an option for iOS application developers to turn this off, called UIPrerenderedIcon. This is a value in the Applications Info.plist, that can be turned on and off (checking it would note that this is a pre-rendered icon, and to not apply the gloss).
You can read more details in the iOS Human Interface Guidelines.
Web Applications (as noted in Mathias's answer) also do have this reflection applied to them. You can override this by naming your file apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png. More information is also provided in the HIG for web clip icons.
A: jmlumpkin’s excellent answer is about native app icons. For the sake of completeness, it should be noted that there’s another type of “app” that can have home screen icons.
It’s a different story for web apps (which can also have touch icons when added to the home screen).
A web developer can add a touch icon to his website as follows:
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="apple-touch-icon.png">
iOS then automatically adds some visual effects to your icon so that it coordinates with the built-in icons on the Home screen (as it does with application icons). Specifically, iOS adds:
*
*Rounded corners
*Drop shadow
*Reflective shine
As of iOS 2.0, you can prevent the addition of these effects by using the precomposed keyword:
<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png">
This is described in the Web Clip Icons section in the iOS HIG. There are some other gotchas that I documented in this write-up, but that’s the gist of it.
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56d9f74a341003bd0b8b202a7c9d6f5da2ba4034 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Wobbly Macbook Pro I bought a MacBook Pro yesterday, and it's "wobbly". My front-right leg is about 1 mm or so shorter than my back-left leg.
Is there a quick fix for this (I was thinking of just making it bigger by myself) or should I send it back to Apple?
A: Most times I have seen this, the table is the thing not level. Does closing the lid and rotating it ninety degrees with the apple logo staying over the same spot actually move the short peg or is the table the issue?
| Q: Wobbly Macbook Pro I bought a MacBook Pro yesterday, and it's "wobbly". My front-right leg is about 1 mm or so shorter than my back-left leg.
Is there a quick fix for this (I was thinking of just making it bigger by myself) or should I send it back to Apple?
A: Most times I have seen this, the table is the thing not level. Does closing the lid and rotating it ninety degrees with the apple logo staying over the same spot actually move the short peg or is the table the issue?
A: I suggest taking it back. I suspect that the bottom plate with the legs on it wasn't attached properly (it can flex a bit), but if it's a brand new device it's easier just to get it replaced than to try to fix it yourself.
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97f694b8d3f9fa6756a256626e2778ac8e733163 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Set ForkLift as default file viewer Is there a way to set ForkLift as the default file viewer, to a degree? PathFinder somehow does this, see http://cocoatech.com/faqs#3, but how does it do this and could that option be set to redirect to ForkLift instead of PathFinder?
A: Now as the ForkLift V3 came out, the new command should be:
defaults write -g NSFileViewer -string com.binarynights.ForkLift-3
At the same time, if you like to restore Finder to be the default file manager again, use:
defaults delete -g NSFileViewer
| Q: Set ForkLift as default file viewer Is there a way to set ForkLift as the default file viewer, to a degree? PathFinder somehow does this, see http://cocoatech.com/faqs#3, but how does it do this and could that option be set to redirect to ForkLift instead of PathFinder?
A: Now as the ForkLift V3 came out, the new command should be:
defaults write -g NSFileViewer -string com.binarynights.ForkLift-3
At the same time, if you like to restore Finder to be the default file manager again, use:
defaults delete -g NSFileViewer
A: From Forklift official documentation:
If you are using ForkLift from Setapp, paste this command instead:
defaults write -g NSFileViewer -string com.binarynights.forklift-setapp;
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure LSHandlers -array-add '{LSHandlerContentType="public.folder";LSHandlerRoleAll="com.binarynights.ForkLift-3";}'
A: Path Finder looks like it's modifying the "NSFileViewer" preference. You can set this manually from Terminal to point to ForkLift (I tried this, and it seems to work):
defaults write -g NSFileViewer -string com.binarynights.ForkLift2
(The -g sets this preference globally for all applications.)
However, be warned that the Path Finder website lists some applications that don't respect this setting, such as the Dock and Firefox.
A: You can change default file manager like this, but ForkLift or Transmit not work as expected, only Path Finder are
#!/usr/bin/python2.6
from LaunchServices import LSSetDefaultRoleHandlerForContentType, kLSRolesViewer, LSSetDefaultHandlerForURLScheme
from CoreFoundation import CFPreferencesCopyApplicationList, kCFPreferencesCurrentUser, kCFPreferencesAnyHost, CFPreferencesSetAppValue, CFPreferencesAppSynchronize
applicationBundleIdentifier = "com.cocoatech.PathFinder" #"com.panic.Transmit" #"com.binarynights.forklift2"
LSSetDefaultRoleHandlerForContentType("public.folder", kLSRolesViewer, applicationBundleIdentifier)
LSSetDefaultHandlerForURLScheme("file:///", applicationBundleIdentifier)
applicationIDs = CFPreferencesCopyApplicationList(kCFPreferencesCurrentUser, kCFPreferencesAnyHost)
for app_id in applicationIDs:
CFPreferencesSetAppValue("NSFileViewer", applicationBundleIdentifier, app_id);
CFPreferencesAppSynchronize(app_id);
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cf2a79768a6552a49f9dd25021ae34c3849b30f6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I use iMovie to edit a .mov file without altering the aspect ratio? I created a screencast using Snapz Pro X that gets saved in .mov format (H.264, AAC). I want to just cut a few seconds off the end of that file. The only video editor I know of that's installed on my Lion machine is iMovie '11. Can I use iMovie to remove part of the end of the video, but maintain the same dimensions (1146x1057)?
I tried to import the movie, create a project with just the parts I wanted, and then export via "Share -> Export Movie", but this:
*
*makes the resolution worse
*alters the aspect ratio
*increases the file size
A: Open the video file in Quicktime player and then go edit > Trim or command + T and you can trim the video in the editor.
Save the video and you're good to go.
| Q: Can I use iMovie to edit a .mov file without altering the aspect ratio? I created a screencast using Snapz Pro X that gets saved in .mov format (H.264, AAC). I want to just cut a few seconds off the end of that file. The only video editor I know of that's installed on my Lion machine is iMovie '11. Can I use iMovie to remove part of the end of the video, but maintain the same dimensions (1146x1057)?
I tried to import the movie, create a project with just the parts I wanted, and then export via "Share -> Export Movie", but this:
*
*makes the resolution worse
*alters the aspect ratio
*increases the file size
A: Open the video file in Quicktime player and then go edit > Trim or command + T and you can trim the video in the editor.
Save the video and you're good to go.
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ede0c285084894a0b7a1818b61bb9ee621cd63d5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Xcode 4.2 Snow Leopard Doesn't Install My mac crashed and I am trying to install Xcode 4.2 again, but it doesn't work.
The GUI shows an 'The Installation Failed' error.
In the console a few messages stick out to me. They are:
The domain/default pair of (com.apple.iPhoneSDKInstaller, showAdvancedInstaller) does not exist
The Package "OtherDevDocumentation,pkg" is untrusted. CSSMERR_TP_CERT_EXPIRED
Sometimes it says it can't find the developer tools as well.
When I press Get Info on the Xcode.mpkg inside the DMG file, It says it is only 520KB. Is that supposed to happen?
Can anyone help me fix this issue?
Thanks,
Ashley
A: Just change date to January 2012 or something, it will install just fine. The certificate expired in March.
Updated, steps:
*
*turn off automatic synchronization of date & time
*change actual date of the system to 01.01.2012 (for example, prior to
26.03.2012)
*install the Xcode
*turn the automatic synchronization back on.
| Q: Xcode 4.2 Snow Leopard Doesn't Install My mac crashed and I am trying to install Xcode 4.2 again, but it doesn't work.
The GUI shows an 'The Installation Failed' error.
In the console a few messages stick out to me. They are:
The domain/default pair of (com.apple.iPhoneSDKInstaller, showAdvancedInstaller) does not exist
The Package "OtherDevDocumentation,pkg" is untrusted. CSSMERR_TP_CERT_EXPIRED
Sometimes it says it can't find the developer tools as well.
When I press Get Info on the Xcode.mpkg inside the DMG file, It says it is only 520KB. Is that supposed to happen?
Can anyone help me fix this issue?
Thanks,
Ashley
A: Just change date to January 2012 or something, it will install just fine. The certificate expired in March.
Updated, steps:
*
*turn off automatic synchronization of date & time
*change actual date of the system to 01.01.2012 (for example, prior to
26.03.2012)
*install the Xcode
*turn the automatic synchronization back on.
A: got similar problem here with 10.6 + combo update installed.
after runing software update and installing something called "apple installer update" (com.apple.pkg.update.softwareinstallerupdate.1.0), xcode installer works just fine.
A: There's a couple things you could try. I had this error when Xcode 4 was first released.
First of all, have you tried rebooting? That solved the problem for me.
Also, in case rebooting doesn't work, just redownload the SDK. It might have gotten corrupted during download.
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8819296f11e72ec71354f8484adec32185e19bc7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: stop iTunes from auto-playing after import I drag a movie onto the iTunes icon. iTunes imports the movie, and then begins playing it for me automatically.
How do I stop it from playing the movie automatically?
A: according to this macworld article, do the following in Terminal, quit & relaunch iTunes
defaults write com.apple.iTunes play-songs-while-importing -bool FALSE
| Q: stop iTunes from auto-playing after import I drag a movie onto the iTunes icon. iTunes imports the movie, and then begins playing it for me automatically.
How do I stop it from playing the movie automatically?
A: according to this macworld article, do the following in Terminal, quit & relaunch iTunes
defaults write com.apple.iTunes play-songs-while-importing -bool FALSE
A: Use cmd+O inside iTunes instead of drag and drop, at least that worked for me!
A: There is a thread here on the Apple Support forums that mentions your problem. Here's what you can try:
The most consistent way I've found to solve this is to drop your files
into the "Automatically add to iTunes folder." How I do it on a Mac:
Navigate to Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/ Seconday click on
"Automatically Add to iTunes" Select "create alias." - this makes a
shortcut, for those who didn't know Click and drag the new shortcut
you just made to your desktop or launchbar or somewhere else where it
is more convenient for you. Drag any new files that you want to add to
iTunes onto that from now on, if you don't want them to autoplay.
Another user suggests that you can use the shortcut of ⌘-O, or just use the open dialog to open your media.
A: Another way is to drag the movie or song to their respective folders in your library, and then use the file - import method in itunes to add it to your library without having it play when it's done importing.
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a6d0d4b29e22f3c170c9e56a6a8ce7bf34507232 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to clean off keyboard marks on screen? On the screen on my MacBook Air, there are some little square marks from the keyboard.
Are they permanent, or can I clean them off? How can I prevent this from happening in the first place?
A: The MacBook Air keyboard shouldn't be touching the screen when it's normally closed. This only happens when you've put the computer under pressure when it's closed. For example, maybe you put it in a backpack with heavy books surrounding it and putting pressure on it.
About whether they're permanent, it depends on how "etched" they are. If you try a moist, soft cloth and rub the screen gently for about a minute, and they don't come off, then unfortunately they most likely will not ever come off. If you're still under AppleCare, they might fix this for you.
You can prevent this from happening in the future by putting a very thin cloth between the keyboard and the screen when you sleep it. Also, try not to put pressure on the computer, then it won't happen in the first place.
| Q: How to clean off keyboard marks on screen? On the screen on my MacBook Air, there are some little square marks from the keyboard.
Are they permanent, or can I clean them off? How can I prevent this from happening in the first place?
A: The MacBook Air keyboard shouldn't be touching the screen when it's normally closed. This only happens when you've put the computer under pressure when it's closed. For example, maybe you put it in a backpack with heavy books surrounding it and putting pressure on it.
About whether they're permanent, it depends on how "etched" they are. If you try a moist, soft cloth and rub the screen gently for about a minute, and they don't come off, then unfortunately they most likely will not ever come off. If you're still under AppleCare, they might fix this for you.
You can prevent this from happening in the future by putting a very thin cloth between the keyboard and the screen when you sleep it. Also, try not to put pressure on the computer, then it won't happen in the first place.
A: If you are very lucky it is just dirt and can be wiped off but usually it is permanent and there isn't much way to avoid them. I have seen it happen even when a soft cloth is used to cover the keys when the lid is closed. In fact that may even make it worse as the cloth adds thickness to the sandwich and may make the contact between the high points of the screen and the keys firmer. The screen surface of an anti-glare display just isn't very hard - glossy glass is harder but can still be marked.
Using a quality micro fibre cloth with a 70% water/30% isopropyl alcohol solution is a good way to clean the marks off if they are not permanent. I have been using the cleaning solution provided by my optician for my glasses for years with no ill effects, and I love the iKlear blue microfibre cloths (for both glasses and displays). They call it "terry" as opposed to their "chamois" cloth.
A: I have MBP 2017 without touch bar. I usually cary it with Thule case which I am sure it does’t put pressure on my MBP. I have tried many solution to wipe the marks off still having marks of the keyboard’s edge on my screen and it seems permanent.
A: The short answer is you can't prevent these marks.
It's a design flaw. The screen doesn't have enough clearance, is in contact with the keyboard when closed, and gets marked.
My current laptop is a MacBook Pro 16 I bought in May, about four months ago, and noticed key marks on the screen straight away. I bought screen cleaner and a microfibre wipe, and with prompt cleaning can see marks appearing regularly.
I have a (Bellroy) sleeve to protect the laptop, and transport it in a dedicated bag that is very lightly loaded; just an A5 notepad, water bottle, and small zip case for cables.
The good news is that this is a known issue at Apple. I opened a support request yesterday, during which the rep acknowledged Apple recognizes this problem, and was offered service.
My previous laptop was a MacBook Pro 13, which I kept for five years due to waiting out the the butterfly switch fiasco.
The 13 inch laptop had the same issue, and over time the key marks became permanent, as sweat, debris, oils, etc on my hands would have degraded the screen coating over time.
My 16 inch has the extended warranty, and I am going to just use as normal keeping the screen and keys as clean as possible. I'll take it in for service & get a new screen just before the warranty expires. Hopefully I can avoid any permanent marks in the interim.
You can leave feedback for Apple here https://www.apple.com/feedback/ but be aware you don't get a response.
A: The Mac Book screen usually doesn't get marks, but if you put pressure on the mac, it will get marks. Since I go to school,I have layers of books along with my laptop, so it get marks. In order to get rid of it, just get a cloth and put Little water as possible. Then let it dry naturally, and it should be fine unless you got some water on the screen.
A: I had keyboard prints on my 16 inch and have tried Windex. But it didn't work at all. Guess what works? Glass cleaner from a Dollar store. I spent 15 mins wiping it off with Bounty kitchen towel soaked in the cleaner, and voila, it came out good as new! The glass cleaner is called "First Force, No Streak Glass Clear". I've installed a screen protector so that I don't have to go through this again.
A: I know this is old thread but I had to sign in to point one thing that no one here is sharing that for future references instead of going for a thin cloth or smth lol simply apply screen protector and I bet it won't ruin your panel it would only if you have a titanium key cap keyboard or smth lol
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86accabba233df8e8e12250daeb86d335e2d1ee7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What kind of SSD is compatible with the 2010 Unibody MacBook? I'm considering buying a solid state drive for my Unibody White MacBook 2010. The trouble is, I have no idea what to look for. What kind of connector am I looking for? (SATA?) What size? I'm told to get the kind that Apple uses so that I don't void my AppleCare warranty. What model/brand(s) would that be?
A: You're looking for any 2.5" SATA drive. I'm not sure if the MacBooks came with SATA 3 (6 Gb/s) or SATA 2 (3 Gb/s), so you should match whichever the installed drive is. (There's no harm in putting a SATA 3 drive in a machine that only supports SATA 2, you just won't get the speed and you'll pay more.) You should be careful of 12.5mm height drives - they won't fit in some Macs. Anything smaller should be fine.
Some references:
*
*mid-2010 MacBook manual – look in Chapter 3 for specifics on hard drive replacement
*iFixit's MacBook repair guide – has better pictures than Apple's manual (I think this is the right one)
| Q: What kind of SSD is compatible with the 2010 Unibody MacBook? I'm considering buying a solid state drive for my Unibody White MacBook 2010. The trouble is, I have no idea what to look for. What kind of connector am I looking for? (SATA?) What size? I'm told to get the kind that Apple uses so that I don't void my AppleCare warranty. What model/brand(s) would that be?
A: You're looking for any 2.5" SATA drive. I'm not sure if the MacBooks came with SATA 3 (6 Gb/s) or SATA 2 (3 Gb/s), so you should match whichever the installed drive is. (There's no harm in putting a SATA 3 drive in a machine that only supports SATA 2, you just won't get the speed and you'll pay more.) You should be careful of 12.5mm height drives - they won't fit in some Macs. Anything smaller should be fine.
Some references:
*
*mid-2010 MacBook manual – look in Chapter 3 for specifics on hard drive replacement
*iFixit's MacBook repair guide – has better pictures than Apple's manual (I think this is the right one)
A: Moshe, If you can find one instance of AppleCare being refused for a simple HD swap I'll be amazed. In fact I was surprised to find that it is not specifically allowed by AppleCare terms (linked below) as I had heard it was for Unibody models onwards.
Having said that, I don't think you can buy an Apple OEM drive anyway.
I have had a horrible experience with "iRam" drives - installed fully on two of them, after sleep both came up completely blank! But this is not an isolated experience. Many SSDs will work at first and fail quickly. In my office we have had bad Kingston, OCZ and other brands.
The only one that I have found good so far (fingers crossed) is the OWC Extreme 6G series, and even then only after getting a bad one first and having to exchange. The new one from OWC bears a different label so I would say direct from OWC is the way to go, not from a reseller who may have older stock.
Current Intel drives are highly regarded but I have not used one personally.
I had started by saying that the AppleCare plan specifically allows you to change the hard drive as a user-serviceable part. But it doesn't. Then I interpreted
The Plan does not cover:
a Installation, removal, or disposal of the Covered Equipment, or installation, removal,
repair, or maintenance of non-Covered Equipment (including accessories, attachments, or other devices such as external modems) or electrical service external to the Covered Equipment;
b Damage due to accident, abuse, neglect, misuse (including faulty installation, repair, or maintenance by anyone other than Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider),
To mean that you can't do it - but that could mean you only have a problem if you cause damage while doing it. And the limitation of warranty for performing an operation like that might be illegal depending on the laws of where you live anyway.
Bottom line is I would (and do) do it, and Apple do treat such altered machines as covered. The inclusion of instructionsto do so in the manual is a pretty strong hint that it's OK.
A: Your Macbook will accept any standard 2.5" SATA drive including the 240GB or 256GB models.
There's no limitation or compatibility issues with the size being 240GB, your Mac will recognize it and macOS will format and utilize the space just fine. Since this model has the space for a spinning hard drive, pretty much anything that's physically the same or smaller than the OEM drive will work.
I just recently upgraded the drive in a 2007 White MacBook with a Kingston SSD Now 120GB with no issues. It's a standard SATA I interface and while the drive is SATA III, it is backward compatible. The interface on the 2010 is SATA II (if memory serves) and will also be compatible with a SATA III drive.
The best piece of advice I can give is to use a drive from a brand that you trust. Avoid no-name or generic brands. Kingston, Samsung, PNY, and Crucial are all good, reliable brands to consider.
A: Any SATA SSD up to 2TBs will work (2TBs + 16GBs RAM IF you've got your white 2010 Macbook's firmware upgraded to the latest version from Apple). The white Macbook's HDD bus speed is limited to 3GBs/sec, but I've run 6GBs/sec SSDs in my own white Macbook just fine, though the 6GBs/sec data transfer speed is limited by, and maxes out to, the white 2010 Macbook's 3GBs/sec capability.
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e29b56873e4dc2e19649eb938d66cdfe4ebe2857 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I prevent certain tracks from going to iPod? I manually put music onto my iPod by dragging albums over from the library in iTunes. For some albums, I don't want all of the tracks to copy over to the iPod - for example, audio commentaries and dialog tracks. Short of deleting these tracks from my iTunes library, how can I prevent specific tracks from being copied over to the iPod when I place albums?
A: I love the setting where you can only sync songs with the checkbox to one or more iOS devices.
Simple deselect the songs by plalist, genre, or as you find them and even if they are in a playlist or genius mix that would normally install the song on your device during a sync, iTunes will suppress those songs that are not check marked.
| Q: How can I prevent certain tracks from going to iPod? I manually put music onto my iPod by dragging albums over from the library in iTunes. For some albums, I don't want all of the tracks to copy over to the iPod - for example, audio commentaries and dialog tracks. Short of deleting these tracks from my iTunes library, how can I prevent specific tracks from being copied over to the iPod when I place albums?
A: I love the setting where you can only sync songs with the checkbox to one or more iOS devices.
Simple deselect the songs by plalist, genre, or as you find them and even if they are in a playlist or genius mix that would normally install the song on your device during a sync, iTunes will suppress those songs that are not check marked.
A: bmike's answer is correct; alternatively, you could select the album and hold ⌘ cmd while clicking the tracks you don't wish to copy. Then, drag the still-selected ones to the iPod.
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4c9ad9d58be3cb4ecdcddd893b39b51dcfd4314c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Simulate touchpad or gestures on iMac I recently started using a MacBook Air and find some of the gestures such as the double click zoom in Safari extremely useful, I'm aware I can zoom normally using cmd - (+) but find the gesture zoom much better. Can I simulate the touchpad or another way to do this on my iMac.
A: You can use a Magic Trackpad with your iMac - that will let you perform all the same gestures as you use on your MacBook Air.
There are even neat accessories to make it one unit with your Apple Wireless Keyboard. The ones I know about are the Twelve South "Magic Wand" and the Henge "Clique".
| Q: Simulate touchpad or gestures on iMac I recently started using a MacBook Air and find some of the gestures such as the double click zoom in Safari extremely useful, I'm aware I can zoom normally using cmd - (+) but find the gesture zoom much better. Can I simulate the touchpad or another way to do this on my iMac.
A: You can use a Magic Trackpad with your iMac - that will let you perform all the same gestures as you use on your MacBook Air.
There are even neat accessories to make it one unit with your Apple Wireless Keyboard. The ones I know about are the Twelve South "Magic Wand" and the Henge "Clique".
A: BetterTouchTool does exactly what I was after, you can set keyboard and mouse shortcuts to emulate gestures and a bunch of other stuff. You will also need SteerMouse if you want to map the buttons on your mouse to keystrokes then assign them inside BetterTouchTool to gestures etc.
After some testing it's more of just a zoom not smart zoom but still works quite well; I'm happy enough with it.
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987b66973ce55725ca47c92dc097f905145f06be | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I get persistent Dictionary popups to go away? In some applications, such as nvAlt, the Dictionary popup (accessed by double-tapping with three fingers or by using the Look Up command in the context menu) won't go away once called. The only solution I've found to make it close is to quit the program. Is there any way I can do it without quitting the application?
A: This popover is built into the NSView class (showDefinitionForAttributedString:atPoint:). Since (as far as I can tell) it isn't controlled or powered by a distinct system process, it is completely owned by the app that owns the view where the popover was triggered.
In short, since the popover is owned solely by whatever app triggered it, there's no way to get rid of a stuck one without killing its parent app.
FYI, if the popover isn't dismissed with the escape key or by clicking outside of its body, something has gone wrong. I would file a bug report with the developers of the app where this happens.
| Q: How can I get persistent Dictionary popups to go away? In some applications, such as nvAlt, the Dictionary popup (accessed by double-tapping with three fingers or by using the Look Up command in the context menu) won't go away once called. The only solution I've found to make it close is to quit the program. Is there any way I can do it without quitting the application?
A: This popover is built into the NSView class (showDefinitionForAttributedString:atPoint:). Since (as far as I can tell) it isn't controlled or powered by a distinct system process, it is completely owned by the app that owns the view where the popover was triggered.
In short, since the popover is owned solely by whatever app triggered it, there's no way to get rid of a stuck one without killing its parent app.
FYI, if the popover isn't dismissed with the escape key or by clicking outside of its body, something has gone wrong. I would file a bug report with the developers of the app where this happens.
A: In my case the popup came from hovering over a spotlight result and became stuck. Running
killall SystemUIServer
restarted my menu bar and cleared the popup.
A: Go to Safari--> Preferences --> Notifications --> Remove
Quick easy fix
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328f7531daf52e0fcc3a9792a04cbcbe235819c7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Getting started with jailbroken iOS development? What do I need to code on a jailbroken iOS device?
I think I've already got all of the programs that I need - Xcode 4.3 (and iOSOpenDev), the iOS 5 SDK, theos, ldid and dpkg.
A: The Cydia FAQ is probably the best source of information on this topic. See http://cydia.saurik.com/faq/developing.html. Here’s an excerpt:
Q: Where do I get started with developing for jailbroken iOS? | Q: Getting started with jailbroken iOS development? What do I need to code on a jailbroken iOS device?
I think I've already got all of the programs that I need - Xcode 4.3 (and iOSOpenDev), the iOS 5 SDK, theos, ldid and dpkg.
A: The Cydia FAQ is probably the best source of information on this topic. See http://cydia.saurik.com/faq/developing.html. Here’s an excerpt:
Q: Where do I get started with developing for jailbroken iOS?
A: It helps to know something about developing for normal iOS. You might also check out the iPhone Dev Wiki.
The wiki it points to has several “Quick Start” articles: http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/Main_Page#Quick_start
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7994a13af0efa8c3b31a13475b9657737d359c04 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I use multiple browser versions at one time? On Windows I can use Utilu Firefox collection (there also ie collection on his site).
How can I use multiple browser versions to see how my website works in different versions of different browsers in OS X?
For example I want to install browsers with biggest market share:
*
*Internet Explorer
*Firefox 3.6, latest and previous
*Google Chrome latest and previous
*Safari (any older versions possible)
*Opera
A: MultiFirefox supports what you need, and seems to have good reviews. A drawback with it is that it doesn't support keeping multiple versions open simultaneously.
| Q: How can I use multiple browser versions at one time? On Windows I can use Utilu Firefox collection (there also ie collection on his site).
How can I use multiple browser versions to see how my website works in different versions of different browsers in OS X?
For example I want to install browsers with biggest market share:
*
*Internet Explorer
*Firefox 3.6, latest and previous
*Google Chrome latest and previous
*Safari (any older versions possible)
*Opera
A: MultiFirefox supports what you need, and seems to have good reviews. A drawback with it is that it doesn't support keeping multiple versions open simultaneously.
A: Internet Explorer
Of course there is Internet Explorer for Mac (PPC) but it's not very useful because it's based on different rendering engine (Tasman). It will run on OSX versions with Rosetta support. It can be downloaded from Internet Archive.
Some Windows Internet Explorer versions do work in wine (winetricks helps a lot):
Safari
There is multi-safari project. There are 1.x - 4.x versions and they may work or not depending on your OSX version (look at compatibility grid on his site).
Firefox
I've found, that it's enough just to rename .app and then run it with different Firefox profiles.
*
*download all required version
*copy .apk`s in temporary place an rename them so you can distinguish one version from another
*put all renamed version to /Applications folder
*run needed firefox with -ProfileManager option and make a profile for each firefox (just in case)
A: While not actually on your machine, you can also use a web application like BrowserShots.org to deliver you screenshots of the page rendered in a multitude of browsers or something like Adobe's BrowserLab.
A: Firefox
Firefoxes is a shell scripts that will install all major versions of Firefox on OS X, and set up separate profiles so you can use them simultaneously. Currently it installs:
*
*Firefox 2.0.0.20
*Firefox 3.0.19
*Firefox 3.5.9
*Firefox 3.6.28
*Firefox 4.0.1
*Firefox 5.0.1
*Firefox 6.0.1
*Firefox 7.0.1
*Firefox 8.0.1
*Firefox 9.0.1
*Firefox 10.0.2
*Firefox 11.0
*Firefox Beta
*Firefox Aurora
*Firefox Nightly
*Firefox UX Nightly
You can set it up so it only installs the specific versions you want.
Optionally, the script can install Firebug for each version of Firefox too.
It will also set icons that contain the version number:
Safari
For Safari, check out Multi-Safari.
Chrome/Chromium
For Chrome/Chromium, install any version you want, change the app name from Chromium.app to e.g. Chromium 19.app for clarity, then disable auto-updates for that version.
Opera
Download old Opera versions here: ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/mac/
IE
Get VirtualBox and then run this ievms script. It will automatically download legal Windows images for testing purposes and set up virtual machines for every IE version you need.
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68f41074df8d508b6b0d9f437c77eb9f932b4b70 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: MacBook Air wrong fan reading My Macbook Air (Summer 2011, i7) tends to think it's running way hotter than it is, and permanently ramps up the fan. Closing the computer and reopening resets the mistaken sensor, but I'd rather not have to do this half the time after I open the computer.
I'm using Fan Control for the temperature reading.
A: The system management controller (SMC) is responsible for controlling fan speeds. This support document describes increased fan speeds as a symptom of SMC problems and how to reset the SMC
| Q: MacBook Air wrong fan reading My Macbook Air (Summer 2011, i7) tends to think it's running way hotter than it is, and permanently ramps up the fan. Closing the computer and reopening resets the mistaken sensor, but I'd rather not have to do this half the time after I open the computer.
I'm using Fan Control for the temperature reading.
A: The system management controller (SMC) is responsible for controlling fan speeds. This support document describes increased fan speeds as a symptom of SMC problems and how to reset the SMC
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