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c0715fb4951df46b963a08ad18ee7ef7d6c85e6e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to make Photoshop use multiple windows? I'm starting to use Photoshop CS 6, coming from CS 3. The older version has an option to use multiple windows (one per document) with floating palettes. Is this arrangement available in Photoshop CS 6?
A: Go to the Window menu and un-check the Application Frame menu item. The palettes will pop to the edges of your screen and the documents will turn into floating windows.
| Q: How to make Photoshop use multiple windows? I'm starting to use Photoshop CS 6, coming from CS 3. The older version has an option to use multiple windows (one per document) with floating palettes. Is this arrangement available in Photoshop CS 6?
A: Go to the Window menu and un-check the Application Frame menu item. The palettes will pop to the edges of your screen and the documents will turn into floating windows.
A: You can right click on the file tab and select Move to New Window individually. Or in Preferences > Interface, deselect Open Documents as Tabs to stop the tab behavior.
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2c20f97b80d4867ef86a8deff48233b276853037 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: This symbol has a square in the middle, triangles on the sides, and arrows in the corners. What does it mean? My Apple Remote was not working with my iMac which is running 10.7.4.
When I attempted to pair the remote to the computer, by holding down the menu and the next track buttons, the following symbol appears in the center of my screen.
After resetting the SMC, the Apple remote is working as usual. In particular, holding down the menu and the next track buttons displays the "linked chain" icon, indicating that the remote has been paired to the computer.
But I am still curious, what does the image mean?
A: Since no-one has a good guess, here is how I would try to track it down.
*
*Turn off Time Machine
*Reboot the mac
*open terminal
*run this command sudo fs_usage -w
*let fs_usage run for a bit and make sure all disk access is to a minimum,
*repeat the steps to make that icon appear - noting the time to the second
*press ⌃-C to kill the fs_usage dump and scroll back to see what application or files were being read when the icon appeared.
| Q: This symbol has a square in the middle, triangles on the sides, and arrows in the corners. What does it mean? My Apple Remote was not working with my iMac which is running 10.7.4.
When I attempted to pair the remote to the computer, by holding down the menu and the next track buttons, the following symbol appears in the center of my screen.
After resetting the SMC, the Apple remote is working as usual. In particular, holding down the menu and the next track buttons displays the "linked chain" icon, indicating that the remote has been paired to the computer.
But I am still curious, what does the image mean?
A: Since no-one has a good guess, here is how I would try to track it down.
*
*Turn off Time Machine
*Reboot the mac
*open terminal
*run this command sudo fs_usage -w
*let fs_usage run for a bit and make sure all disk access is to a minimum,
*repeat the steps to make that icon appear - noting the time to the second
*press ⌃-C to kill the fs_usage dump and scroll back to see what application or files were being read when the icon appeared.
A: Posting a guess in case it helps someone else figure out the answer.
I've now looked at nearly every icon on my Lion MacBook Pro, and a lot of the PNG's too. I have found most of what I expected to find but still not this symbol.
My guess is that your icon is related to the iMac going into or coming out of target display mode. Perhaps it was trying to go into target display mode but you didn't have anything connected and this was how it was complaining about there being no signal. It is a known problem with iMacs that they can erratically go into target display mode when the SMC is having problems.
So far, the closest I have found is
which is obviously different, but close. It is for changing a slide show to fit-to-screen mode.
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4ccc9b898b7f9a1926f8291c2e9fef5e9feb1a45 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I delete an iCal event without sending notifications? If I try to delete an event on iCal, it offers me these options:
*
*Cancel
*Delete and Notify
What if I want to delete without notifying?
I'm running iCal 5.0.2 on OS X 10.7.3 using an Exchange account.
Edit: Using an Exchange account.
A: You can move the event to a local calendar. When deleting you will then get the additional option "Delete & do not notify".
| Q: How do I delete an iCal event without sending notifications? If I try to delete an event on iCal, it offers me these options:
*
*Cancel
*Delete and Notify
What if I want to delete without notifying?
I'm running iCal 5.0.2 on OS X 10.7.3 using an Exchange account.
Edit: Using an Exchange account.
A: You can move the event to a local calendar. When deleting you will then get the additional option "Delete & do not notify".
A: In the end, I created a new calendar specifically to move event invites to, which I don't want to see anymore. Then I hide that calendar.
A: As Feuermurmel says, you can create a new calendar and move it there. But instead of hiding the new calendar, you can just delete the calendar. Worked well for me; the event is gone with no notifications.
A: I ended up doing the following:
*
*create a new iCloud calendar
*select the invite, and chose the new calendar in the calendar drop down on the info pane on the right
*select and right-click the calendar on the calendars pane on the left and chose delete
*pick the option delete and do not notify
I hope this helps.
A: If you use iCloud the Calendar App will not allow you to create local calendars.
The following answer helps.
A: A couple of years ago I wrote a script to do this. It's all at http://thefragens.com/blog/2010/04/dont-send-ical-replies/
The gist of it is the script will automatically alter an AppleScript inside the iCal package. It does not effect the code signing. The script also has a method of reverting itself. You'll likely have to install the changes each time iCal is updated.
NB: It won't work with Exchange accounts.
The zip file has the install bash script, a modified and an unmodified AppleScript.
A: Instead of deleting, cut the event and it will be gone:)
A: If your calendar provider has a web interface, you can instead delete it there. Eg. in Google Calendar you can right click on event and "Mark as Spam".
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3b24c42a4f714252bd3c2971e4288e9b18cf69ae | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I add a flag to an alias? Is it possible to add a flag to a bash alias you create yourself? e.g.
con -a = 'ssh [email protected]'
con -b = 'ssh [email protected]'
A: Or, use a function instead of an alias:
con() {
local OPTIND svr
while getopts ":ab" option; do
case $option in
a) svr=server1 ;;
b) svr=server2 ;;
?) echo "invalid option: $OPTARG"; return 1 ;;
esac
done
ssh username@${svr}.domain.com
}
con -a
| Q: How do I add a flag to an alias? Is it possible to add a flag to a bash alias you create yourself? e.g.
con -a = 'ssh [email protected]'
con -b = 'ssh [email protected]'
A: Or, use a function instead of an alias:
con() {
local OPTIND svr
while getopts ":ab" option; do
case $option in
a) svr=server1 ;;
b) svr=server2 ;;
?) echo "invalid option: $OPTARG"; return 1 ;;
esac
done
ssh username@${svr}.domain.com
}
con -a
A: Nope – aliases are simple text substitutions. Use different alias names instead:
alias cona='ssh [email protected]'
alias conb='ssh [email protected]'
EDIT if absolutely must have flags, a function will serve better than an alias – see @glenn-jackmann’s answer.
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b7850ea4c096fe97b1f2e726f4cdf4e3d22d3982 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: access iCloud backup app data How can I access the iCloud backup app data, i.e. the app data from my iPhone? E.g., I would like to make a local copy of it on my computer (without accessing the iPhone directly, i.e. really just the iCloud backup app data).
A: I don't believe there's an interface to the iCloud backup data that will let you pull it down to a computer. An alternative, if you're after a local backup in addition to iCloud, is to plug your iPhone in and use iTunes to explicitly back up the device (right-click the iPhone in the left-hand pane and select Back Up...
I have iTunes set not to sync with my phone, as I normally backup to the cloud, but I'll occasionally do an explicit iTunes backup for redundancy's sake.
| Q: access iCloud backup app data How can I access the iCloud backup app data, i.e. the app data from my iPhone? E.g., I would like to make a local copy of it on my computer (without accessing the iPhone directly, i.e. really just the iCloud backup app data).
A: I don't believe there's an interface to the iCloud backup data that will let you pull it down to a computer. An alternative, if you're after a local backup in addition to iCloud, is to plug your iPhone in and use iTunes to explicitly back up the device (right-click the iPhone in the left-hand pane and select Back Up...
I have iTunes set not to sync with my phone, as I normally backup to the cloud, but I'll occasionally do an explicit iTunes backup for redundancy's sake.
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bebbcdee6030b8f2aa32ea33090198f554497ae1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the difference between .bash_profile and .bashrc? To make an alias for the Terminal in OS X, you can either put the aliases in .bash_profile or .bashrc. What is the difference between the two and why would I choose to put aliases in one and not the other?
A: X11 will look at your .bashrc while a "regular" Terminal will look at .bash_profile
However, if you add the following to your .bash_profile, you can then move everything into your .bashrc file so as to consolidate everything into one place instead of two:
if [ -f $HOME/.bashrc ]; then
source $HOME/.bashrc
fi
| Q: What is the difference between .bash_profile and .bashrc? To make an alias for the Terminal in OS X, you can either put the aliases in .bash_profile or .bashrc. What is the difference between the two and why would I choose to put aliases in one and not the other?
A: X11 will look at your .bashrc while a "regular" Terminal will look at .bash_profile
However, if you add the following to your .bash_profile, you can then move everything into your .bashrc file so as to consolidate everything into one place instead of two:
if [ -f $HOME/.bashrc ]; then
source $HOME/.bashrc
fi
A: .bash_profile is executed for login shells, while .bashrc is executed for interactive non-login shells.
When you login (type username and password) via console, either sitting at the machine, or remotely via ssh: .bash_profile is executed to configure your shell before the initial command prompt.
But, if you’ve already logged into your machine and open a new terminal window (xterm) then .bashrc is executed before the window command prompt. .bashrc is also run when you start a new bash instance by typing /bin/bash in a terminal.
On OS X, Terminal by default runs a login shell every time, so this is a little different to most other systems, but you can configure that in the preferences.
A: For macOS, the code to put into .bash_profile to consolidate everything into .bashrc is the following:
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
source ~/.bashrc
fi
This is more specific for Mac terminal user.
A: TLDR; use .bash_profile for your aliases.
The way the different initialisation files work together is a bit more complicated, and there are some important special cases in OSX. Here are the highlights:
*
*Bash, on any platform, executes one of several different files depending on how it is invoked. The details are here.
*OSX's Terminal App does something non-standard: it creates every new tab or window as if it were a login shell, which means that .bash_profile is called. Thus the TLDR advice above.
*.bashrc is also an option, but that will be called every time you create a subshell (i.e., invoke bash), which can create inefficiency if you update a variable within it (e.g., PATH=/bin/foo:$PATH)
*Other apps that have embedded terminals can choose to follow Terminal App's convention or not. Notably, Visual Studio Code, by default, does not.
*Apps invoked via the GUI are not spawned from a shell. Thus, there are several competing mechanisms for setting environment variables for them to see, which have changed over the years.
*Snippets that call .bashrc from .bash_profile are quite common.
A: For ubuntu/debain I add this code at the end of .bashrc:
if [ -f ~/.bash_profile ]; then
source ~/.bash_profile
fi
Now my aliases take effect in all new opened terminals(or tabs)
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639f6924ea1a1bb9300f3b6bf212337841ffe0c7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Vector dot product and scalar multiplication in Grapher.app I'm trying to play around with vectors in Grapher.app, but I'm getting an error when I try to A: multiply two vectors (specified as a vertical matrix) together, and B: multiply a vector by a scalar value. Here's my dilemma in picture form:
Any ideas?
A: If you want to multiply two column vectors don't you have to transpose one of them? I got the transpose operator by typing ^T. (That's caret + T, not Ctrl+T)
I was able to multiply a vector by a scalar.
In your screenshot, the subscripts aren't consistent. Maybe it's part of your problem or maybe it's just some math I don't understand. This is all on the edge of my math knowledge.
Epilogue
For those who are interested, here is bjz's screenshot of his working version:
| Q: Vector dot product and scalar multiplication in Grapher.app I'm trying to play around with vectors in Grapher.app, but I'm getting an error when I try to A: multiply two vectors (specified as a vertical matrix) together, and B: multiply a vector by a scalar value. Here's my dilemma in picture form:
Any ideas?
A: If you want to multiply two column vectors don't you have to transpose one of them? I got the transpose operator by typing ^T. (That's caret + T, not Ctrl+T)
I was able to multiply a vector by a scalar.
In your screenshot, the subscripts aren't consistent. Maybe it's part of your problem or maybe it's just some math I don't understand. This is all on the edge of my math knowledge.
Epilogue
For those who are interested, here is bjz's screenshot of his working version:
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c06d04973529e8a8f96aef660ec84a1cc89bfbf0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: New MacBook Pro graphics card? When I have a monitor plugged in at work (dual monitor) and I go to About this Mac -> More Info it says Graphics Radeon HD6770. But when I unplug the monitor and just use the laptop display (17") It says Intel graphics. Is this normal? This is a brand new machine.
A: Yes this is normal. Both the 15" and the 17" MacBook Pro have two graphic cards and use the Intel HD graphics for normal function and switch to the ATI Radeon when a more graphically demanding application is being run. Also when you connect the external display the ATI card kicks in in order to drive both of your screens. This is why you get the blue screen flash when you connect and disconnect an external monitor (the graphics source is being switched)
| Q: New MacBook Pro graphics card? When I have a monitor plugged in at work (dual monitor) and I go to About this Mac -> More Info it says Graphics Radeon HD6770. But when I unplug the monitor and just use the laptop display (17") It says Intel graphics. Is this normal? This is a brand new machine.
A: Yes this is normal. Both the 15" and the 17" MacBook Pro have two graphic cards and use the Intel HD graphics for normal function and switch to the ATI Radeon when a more graphically demanding application is being run. Also when you connect the external display the ATI card kicks in in order to drive both of your screens. This is why you get the blue screen flash when you connect and disconnect an external monitor (the graphics source is being switched)
A: Yes, this is exactly how it is supposed to work. The MBP models have both a discrete and integrated graphics card. You can even disable or enable the Automatic graphics switching in System Prefs - Energy saver - Automatic graphics switching.
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cc9cbe07f2ee7b9459a4d6654f5701ff6e3b666f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I hide my texts when my screen is locked? I had that option before and the recent update messed all my settings up:( now I can't hide my texts. I don't want people at work seeing my texts. I have my phone locked but everyone still can read them. I also don't have the option hide preview which was there before!
A: In iOS 5, go to Settings > Notifications > Messages. Turn off 'View in Lock Screen'. It makes it so that iMessage/text message notifications don't show up on the lock screen.
| Q: How can I hide my texts when my screen is locked? I had that option before and the recent update messed all my settings up:( now I can't hide my texts. I don't want people at work seeing my texts. I have my phone locked but everyone still can read them. I also don't have the option hide preview which was there before!
A: In iOS 5, go to Settings > Notifications > Messages. Turn off 'View in Lock Screen'. It makes it so that iMessage/text message notifications don't show up on the lock screen.
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b8fdf1ca01e5438e0741081601ea9d372a7f3363 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I see what custom URI schemes are registered? One of the neat things about OmniFocus is that you can add tasks to it by calling omnifocus:///add?name={query} from a browser, or launcher (like Alfred or LaunchBar). I'd like to know what other functions there are to call for it, and other apps as well.
I poked through the info.plist of Package Contents of the app, but it only detailed that omnifocus:// was indeed registered as a custom scheme. And I couldn't find any reference to it on Omni's site as well.
A: I like to use RCDefaultApp to manage handlers for protocols and URIs. There may be a better way to do it programmatically, but Rubicode's RCDefaultApp is very useful for a lot of other reasons too.
When you dump the launch services database does it show up there?
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -h
| Q: How can I see what custom URI schemes are registered? One of the neat things about OmniFocus is that you can add tasks to it by calling omnifocus:///add?name={query} from a browser, or launcher (like Alfred or LaunchBar). I'd like to know what other functions there are to call for it, and other apps as well.
I poked through the info.plist of Package Contents of the app, but it only detailed that omnifocus:// was indeed registered as a custom scheme. And I couldn't find any reference to it on Omni's site as well.
A: I like to use RCDefaultApp to manage handlers for protocols and URIs. There may be a better way to do it programmatically, but Rubicode's RCDefaultApp is very useful for a lot of other reasons too.
When you dump the launch services database does it show up there?
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -h
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c58b280341d2c91287dbed37abd305af4d5f357b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac cannot delete file The item image212_tmp1987326278 can’t be moved to the Trash because it can’t be deleted.
I don't know how that file appeared on my desktop but as I try to delete it I get the above error. Does not let me rename, move it or use "Get info" either.
A: I recently had the same problem, and fixed it by opening Terminal.app and entering killall Finder. This effectively resets the desktop icons.
| Q: Mac cannot delete file The item image212_tmp1987326278 can’t be moved to the Trash because it can’t be deleted.
I don't know how that file appeared on my desktop but as I try to delete it I get the above error. Does not let me rename, move it or use "Get info" either.
A: I recently had the same problem, and fixed it by opening Terminal.app and entering killall Finder. This effectively resets the desktop icons.
A: There are 2 common reasons for this sort of thing:
*
*The file is locked by another process, common if say you have a graphics file that is currently being edited, for example
*The file permissions do not allow you to change it in any way, because it is owned by another user, or has specific ACL (advanced permissions) set.
You can test for the first by either identifying the program that has the file open, or just rebooting, which should clear the lock flag on the assumption that you do not let it re-open all your application windows on reboot.
If it's still there, and you cannot delete it after a reboot, then ensure you are logged in as an administrator and try again. If this fails, you can start to remove at a command line level but it shouldn;t need to go this far - if it is unable to be removed, I can expand the answer with command line options for removal.
A: Sometimes it helps to log the user out, log back in, and retry the operation.
A: *
*Press Command ⌘, Option ⌥, and Escape ⎋
*A small window will open
*Highlight Finder in the window
*Press Force Quit
*This will cause the Finder to restart and will remove any "stuck" icons that no longer have a file attached to them.
A: hold command then right click on trash then secure empty trash
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dfa49b545ec732f0d731748d0d37039ac7d8089e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Checking apps for a "GateKeeper" Developer ID? Is there any way for a Mac user currently running Snow Leopard or Lion to check, maybe from the Terminal command-line, whether some application downloaded from the net was digitally signed with an Apple issued Developer ID?
If so, what might be the benefits for a Mac user to do such checking now?
Apple has been encouraging Mac developers to digitally sign their Mac applications with an Apple issued Developer ID, which Apple announced will be used by the Mac OS at some point in the future.
A: If you have the developer tools installed, you can view the signing information for a binary using this command:
codesign -dvvv <path to app.app>
The output looks like this:
Executable=/Volumes/Big Disk/F376/Projects/<My App>
Identifier=<My Bundle ID>
Format=bundle with Mach-O thin (x86_64)
CodeDirectory v=20100 size=3958 flags=0x0(none) hashes=189+5 location=embedded
Hash type=sha1 size=20
CDHash=761b0d1XXXXXXXXXX0dc8dd42e38eb445fb5341f
Signature size=8504
Authority=Developer ID Application: XXXXXX
Authority=Developer ID Certification Authority
Authority=Apple Root CA
Timestamp=May 7, 2013 3:07:59 PM
Info.plist entries=30
Sealed Resources rules=4 files=128
Internal requirements count=1 size=224
| Q: Checking apps for a "GateKeeper" Developer ID? Is there any way for a Mac user currently running Snow Leopard or Lion to check, maybe from the Terminal command-line, whether some application downloaded from the net was digitally signed with an Apple issued Developer ID?
If so, what might be the benefits for a Mac user to do such checking now?
Apple has been encouraging Mac developers to digitally sign their Mac applications with an Apple issued Developer ID, which Apple announced will be used by the Mac OS at some point in the future.
A: If you have the developer tools installed, you can view the signing information for a binary using this command:
codesign -dvvv <path to app.app>
The output looks like this:
Executable=/Volumes/Big Disk/F376/Projects/<My App>
Identifier=<My Bundle ID>
Format=bundle with Mach-O thin (x86_64)
CodeDirectory v=20100 size=3958 flags=0x0(none) hashes=189+5 location=embedded
Hash type=sha1 size=20
CDHash=761b0d1XXXXXXXXXX0dc8dd42e38eb445fb5341f
Signature size=8504
Authority=Developer ID Application: XXXXXX
Authority=Developer ID Certification Authority
Authority=Apple Root CA
Timestamp=May 7, 2013 3:07:59 PM
Info.plist entries=30
Sealed Resources rules=4 files=128
Internal requirements count=1 size=224
A: Without getting too far off topic, you can check whether any binary has been signed in preparation for Gatekeeper by using the otool or pagestuff command line tools that Xcode will install as part of the optional downloads.
If you don't want to install these, you can also use xcode-select and xcrun to run these tools from where they sit within the Xcode app that is downloaded into /Applications.
Here is an app that appears to be signed and ready to go for Gatekeeper - MarsEdit
mac:Applications me$ xcrun otool -l /Applications/MarsEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/MarsEdit |grep LC_CODE_SIGNATURE
cmd LC_CODE_SIGNATURE
mac:Applications me$ xcrun pagestuff /Applications/MarsEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/MarsEdit -a | grep signature
File Page 241 contains data of code signature (x86_64)
File Page 242 contains data of code signature (x86_64)
File Page 243 contains data of code signature (x86_64)
File Page 423 contains data of code signature (i386)
File Page 424 contains data of code signature (i386)
File Page 425 contains data of code signature (i386)
File Page 426 contains data of code signature (i386)
Now, this doesn't even start to tell you if the key is valid when checked against your keychain. That requires the developer to use a key that Apple has signed and Apple to have sent to your mac the appropriate signing key to verify that the developer key is "trusted".
Since this is quite complicated, you could just turn on the checking (please save all critical work and PLEASE BACK UP YOUR MAC BEFORE DOING THIS) on 10.7.3:
*
*sudo spctl --enable #if you don't know what sudo is you should skip this until you understand the wrong command could erase your system or your files. All of them, totally gone.
It looks like spctl is enhanced for 10.7.4 but I haven't explored it more than reading the man page for the tool. It clearly will be the way to check if a specific app is cleared or not as well as to perform lower level enabling / disabling of various rules and checks that will be support the marketing term of Gatekeeper.
As for why you might check, it would only be for idle curiosity or some sort of bragging rights if you are not actually a developer that needs to test this and be sure your code runs on both OS (Mountain Lion and Lion).
For most people, knowing what Gatekeeper is would be good enough. For the curious - here is a nice reading list:
*
*About Gatekeeper - from the desk of Steven Frank at Panic
*Turning on Gatekeeper in Lion 10.7.3
*Detailed Gatekeeper engineering documentation - an ideal sleep aid, perhaps?
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6e0811dcff1f878079a9607a321a2a91c2c27ad3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Link information between spreadsheets in iPad using Numbers Could you link to data in one spreadsheet from another using Numbers for iPad?
A: No - there isn't an URL scheme or addressing scheme to make that sort of link.
This isn't something that even works on the Mac version of Numbers so at least there is parity across the OS in this case.
| Q: Link information between spreadsheets in iPad using Numbers Could you link to data in one spreadsheet from another using Numbers for iPad?
A: No - there isn't an URL scheme or addressing scheme to make that sort of link.
This isn't something that even works on the Mac version of Numbers so at least there is parity across the OS in this case.
A: Just digging into Numbers on iPad myself. A very useful way spreadsheets can be linked is via cell references. Perhaps this answers your question.
I see the following in the Numbers documentation, in the section Data and functions: Types of arguments and values:
"If a reference is to a cell in another table, the reference must contain the name of the table... For example, [in Table 1 a cell could have a formula] =Table 2::B2.
"If the reference is to a cell in a table in another sheet, the sheet name must also be included ... =SUM(Sheet 2::Table1::C2:G2. ... Note the double colons."
This is familiar to users of Excel, as far as it goes; I see now that it only works within files and not between them.
HTH
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93dee397e1b5faee644cb88d0f5bcdfb0ce207bf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's the maximum pid for Mac OS X? The Mac OS X Internals book states that the maximum process identifier is 30,000 and after that the kernel will start re-using pids. But checking on my own system, via:
ps a | grep ps | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'
I can see that I have pids that go higher. Does anyone know if there is a pid_max explicitly set somewhere, like in Linux?
A: Kyle's answer is still valid as of today. In case you want to verify that, here is a shell script:
#!/bin/bash
pid=0
for i in {1..100000}; do
: &
if [ $! -lt $pid ]; then
echo "Min pid: $!"
echo "Max pid: $pid"
break
fi
pid=$!
done
This prints:
Min pid: 100
Max pid: 99998
| Q: What's the maximum pid for Mac OS X? The Mac OS X Internals book states that the maximum process identifier is 30,000 and after that the kernel will start re-using pids. But checking on my own system, via:
ps a | grep ps | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'
I can see that I have pids that go higher. Does anyone know if there is a pid_max explicitly set somewhere, like in Linux?
A: Kyle's answer is still valid as of today. In case you want to verify that, here is a shell script:
#!/bin/bash
pid=0
for i in {1..100000}; do
: &
if [ $! -lt $pid ]; then
echo "Min pid: $!"
echo "Max pid: $pid"
break
fi
pid=$!
done
This prints:
Min pid: 100
Max pid: 99998
A: Looking at sys/proc_internal.h in xnu-1699.24.23, I find that PID_MAX is 99999. The value is used in kern_fork.c in the function forkproc. Looking at that function, process IDs are not assigned equal to PID_MAX, so the highest possible pid is 99998.
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c2695309eff5b97834d548131627784cc2df6ae7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Never allow speakers sound during specific hours I don't want my computer play any sound through it's own speaker during work hours in weekdays. But I want to be able to listen to music using my headphones.
I guess something can be done with Automator to schedule a bunch of commands in order to do this.
A: You could try using breakaway and set up a simple applescript set volume output volume 0 to trigger when the headphones are unplugged. (And of course, you could set up another trigger to turn the volume back up when the headphones are plugged in again.)
| Q: Never allow speakers sound during specific hours I don't want my computer play any sound through it's own speaker during work hours in weekdays. But I want to be able to listen to music using my headphones.
I guess something can be done with Automator to schedule a bunch of commands in order to do this.
A: You could try using breakaway and set up a simple applescript set volume output volume 0 to trigger when the headphones are unplugged. (And of course, you could set up another trigger to turn the volume back up when the headphones are plugged in again.)
A: The simple solution would to always leave your headphones connected and lower the volume should you have music leaking from the headphones when they rest on the desk as opposed to on your head.
A: Breakaway is no longer maintained on its website, but it can still be downloaded from Sourceforge. I've associated it with the following two AppleScripts to mute the speaker and pause Spotify when the jack is disconnected, and to play Spotify when the jack is connected. Follow the instructions on makeuseof to see how to author AppleScript and connect it to Breakaway.
jack-disconnected.scpt
set volume output volume 0
tell application "System Events"
set MyList to (name of every process)
end tell
if (MyList contains "Spotify") is true then
tell application "Spotify" to pause
end if
jack-connected.scpt
tell application "System Events"
set MyList to (name of every process)
end tell
if (MyList contains "Spotify") is true then
tell application "Spotify"
if player state is paused then play
end tell
end if
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ccfafdeb9a829577d388b1944132fd26eb5b0052 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I change the lock screen background image in Lion 10.7.4? With Lion, I know that, in order to change the lock screen background image, I have to change
/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/Resources/NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png
In particular, I used an image with the same size as the resolution of my MacBook screen (1440x900).
So far so good, but after the update to Lion 10.7.4, the lock screen background switched back to the gray texture. I thought that the upgrade overwrote my custom image, but it didn't. I tried overwriting my image, but again, nothing changed.
Now I'm stuck with that dull texture. Can someone help me please?
Note: Please note that I'm not trying to change the login screen background, there are plenty of answers related to that problem.
A: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/LoginUIKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Log inUICore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/appleLinen.png
This is the new location to change the login screen wallpaper but im still figuring out how to put it to the fullscreen.
| Q: How can I change the lock screen background image in Lion 10.7.4? With Lion, I know that, in order to change the lock screen background image, I have to change
/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/Resources/NSTexturedFullScreenBackgroundColor.png
In particular, I used an image with the same size as the resolution of my MacBook screen (1440x900).
So far so good, but after the update to Lion 10.7.4, the lock screen background switched back to the gray texture. I thought that the upgrade overwrote my custom image, but it didn't. I tried overwriting my image, but again, nothing changed.
Now I'm stuck with that dull texture. Can someone help me please?
Note: Please note that I'm not trying to change the login screen background, there are plenty of answers related to that problem.
A: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/LoginUIKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/Log inUICore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/appleLinen.png
This is the new location to change the login screen wallpaper but im still figuring out how to put it to the fullscreen.
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3b16eed1d58a840d4b5cb92f582a78e68a52d2d6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Compressed archive in Lion creates a root-level "Archive" folder in .zip file I'm trying to compress 5 files into an Archive.zip
Selecting the 5 files and using Finder's built in Compress feature, the resulting Archive.zip contains a root level folder name "Archive", which in turn contains those 5 files.
How do I create an Archive.zip that unzips those 5 files without any containing folder?
A: The resulting Archive.zip does not contain a root level folder name "Archive". It's only when you uncompress it by double-clicking that this folder is created. To confirm, try unzip -tv Archive.zip. So it's Archive Utility that is creating this folder when you uncompress.
| Q: Compressed archive in Lion creates a root-level "Archive" folder in .zip file I'm trying to compress 5 files into an Archive.zip
Selecting the 5 files and using Finder's built in Compress feature, the resulting Archive.zip contains a root level folder name "Archive", which in turn contains those 5 files.
How do I create an Archive.zip that unzips those 5 files without any containing folder?
A: The resulting Archive.zip does not contain a root level folder name "Archive". It's only when you uncompress it by double-clicking that this folder is created. To confirm, try unzip -tv Archive.zip. So it's Archive Utility that is creating this folder when you uncompress.
A: EDIT: The process that you are talking about would appear to be new, since I know it worked as I described it in the last 2 years. So I'm guessing it changed either in Lion or Snow Leopard, Lion if I were to hazard a guess.
I don't have a workaround as yet but I have replicated that functionality.
~~~~~~~~~~~
The built in Compress feature will add All Folders and Files from the selection downwards, including the first selected item, even it it is a folder.
Two options:
*
*Don't use the built in functionality and use a 3rd party archiving tool that has more control
*Select the five files inside the folder (but not the folder itself), then ctrl+click (right click) and then select Compress
A: I have some software loaded on sites where they upload a zip file. The software unzips the individual files to its generated directory and points the image compression and resizing to that new directory. It worked great till recently when all of a sudden when we compressed files the zip extracted to an archive folder on the server, the software doesn't work on folders it works on image files.
I tried everything and numerous archive apps, I then tried Hamster Archiver. It worked for me, no more does it extract to a new folder. It might help you.
Good luck
A: The Apple GUI method is clean and neat for most folks to use, and the enclosing Archive folder prevents the inadvertent overwriting of files. In your case, you'll have to use the command line in Terminal to do what you want using the commands zip and unzip.
Read the man pages for zip and unzip for a fuller appreciation of what is possible.
Step 1: zip up the files
• Run Terminal
• execute: zip /path/out_filename /path/in_filename
You can select multiple files (from different directories & disks, too) and drag from the Finder GUI into the Terminal window. Terminal will expand /path/ for you in this case.
Ex: zip ~/Desktop/all_zipped_up ~/Desktop/zip_me_up.txt ~/Documents/zip_me_up2.txt
This creates all_zipped_up.zip to the Desktop in this example.
Step 2: unzip the files
The key to unzipping without creating an enclosing folder is to use the -j switch:
• Run Terminal
• execute: unzip -j /path/out_filename
• The expanded file(s) will appear at the same path as the source .zip file. You can also use the -d switch to expand into another path. According to the man page, the -d switch can go almost anywhere in the command line. I put it at the end because it is a logical place to put it.
Example to expand to same path as the original archive:
unzip -j ~/Desktop/all_zipped_up.zip
Example to expand to alternate path:
unzip -j ~/Desktop/all_zipped_up.zip -d ~/Desktop/New_Folder
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2f1fd42c694fa0bd9d8ea75ff6e7d8186a529b2d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Copy new files only - is this possible? Basically want to merge two folders I have a folder on Drive 1 called Music, and it is 100GB. I have a folder on Drive 2 called Music, and it is 116GB. It's the most updated version. How do I copy the Music folder from Drive 2 to Drive 1 without having to rewrite every single file?
A: The merge option will only show up if you are copying (rather than moving) the folder. Make sure you hold option while you drag the new folder to the location of the old folder. Alternatively, using ⌘+c to copy the new folder and ⌘+v to paste over the old folder should give you the option to merge the files.
| Q: Copy new files only - is this possible? Basically want to merge two folders I have a folder on Drive 1 called Music, and it is 100GB. I have a folder on Drive 2 called Music, and it is 116GB. It's the most updated version. How do I copy the Music folder from Drive 2 to Drive 1 without having to rewrite every single file?
A: The merge option will only show up if you are copying (rather than moving) the folder. Make sure you hold option while you drag the new folder to the location of the old folder. Alternatively, using ⌘+c to copy the new folder and ⌘+v to paste over the old folder should give you the option to merge the files.
A:
UPDATE
First install coreutils first. Run brew install coreutils. If you don't have brew installed... switch back to windows!
Check that cp --version outputs version cp (GNU coreutils) 8.^^
Then you will have the correct cp version and the -u flag will work.
Check the cp command. Use man cp and read the options.
You can do something like:
cp -r -u ~/source ~/destination
-R, -r, --recursive : copy directories recursively
-u, --update : copy only when the SOURCE file is newer than the destination file or when the destination file is missing
-p same as --preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps
-v --verbose : explain what is being done
So if you want to copy files from you Downloads/music folder to say your Music/new folder you would do something as:
cp -ruvp ~/Downloads/music/* ~/Music/new/
This would merge the contents of these two folders and if two files with the same name and path exist it would keep the newest one based on the timestamp.
A: This is a classic use case for rsync:
rsync -av /source-path/source-dir /destination-path
rsync will copy only new and changed files to the new location.
It is important to understand how a trailing slash on the source argument functions. If there is a trailing slash then the contents of /source-path/source-dir will be copied to destination-path. If there is no trailing slash then source-dir itself will be copied to the destination and its contents will be another level down in the destination hierarchy.
So if you want to replicate one path to another include the trailing slash as follows:
rsync -av /sourcepath/sourcedir/ /duplicatpath/sourcedir/
A: Not sure why the default Lion Merge button doesn't show up for me. But I ended up using ditto. Found here: https://superuser.com/a/221599/102789
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7f3b60aaae2ffee4edd05460e834d3639ce31ee6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Assign a key to switch to fullscreen instance of MacVim I have MacVim running full screen in Mac OS X Lion, and I want to switch to the MacVim screen when I hit e.g. F15.
Is there a way to accomplish this?
A: I can't think of any way to do it with AppleScript. It doesn't really support full screen windows or Mission Control.
One workaround would be to disable Lion's full screen in MacVim's preferences and assign it to for example the second space in the Dock. Then ⌃2 would usually select the space it's on.
A similar question at Super User: https://superuser.com/questions/423240/shortcut-to-full-screen-app-in-lion
| Q: Assign a key to switch to fullscreen instance of MacVim I have MacVim running full screen in Mac OS X Lion, and I want to switch to the MacVim screen when I hit e.g. F15.
Is there a way to accomplish this?
A: I can't think of any way to do it with AppleScript. It doesn't really support full screen windows or Mission Control.
One workaround would be to disable Lion's full screen in MacVim's preferences and assign it to for example the second space in the Dock. Then ⌃2 would usually select the space it's on.
A similar question at Super User: https://superuser.com/questions/423240/shortcut-to-full-screen-app-in-lion
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1c4cce1cb598f8a181fbbc47ab3fc5997a984ad9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I replace Finder with Path Finder in OS X Lion? I downloaded Path Finder and like it a lot, but Finder still takes over some functionality that I'd prefer Path Finder to do. For instance, if I open a folder on my desktop it opens in Finder, and when I mount disk images, they open in Finder. Is there a way (short of going in low-level and replacing Finder stuff with Path Finder stuff, which I don't really want to do) to make Path Finder do everything that Finder does by default?
A: According to the Path Finder Support Forums, it is not possible to completely replace Finder with Path Finder. For more information see "Can I replace OS X's Finder with Path Finder?"
| Q: How can I replace Finder with Path Finder in OS X Lion? I downloaded Path Finder and like it a lot, but Finder still takes over some functionality that I'd prefer Path Finder to do. For instance, if I open a folder on my desktop it opens in Finder, and when I mount disk images, they open in Finder. Is there a way (short of going in low-level and replacing Finder stuff with Path Finder stuff, which I don't really want to do) to make Path Finder do everything that Finder does by default?
A: According to the Path Finder Support Forums, it is not possible to completely replace Finder with Path Finder. For more information see "Can I replace OS X's Finder with Path Finder?"
A: These days (2016) Path Finder is much better integrated already from the start.
Often not having Finder running is a good prerequisite for having Path Finder take its place, but this is not always necessary. You can make Finder quit when Path Finder starts in the preferences (See the Finder tab) and you can quit Finder from there as well.
Quit Finder
A convenient way to quit Finder is also adding a quit command to its Archive menu by typing this into Terminal defaults write com.apple.Finder QuitMenuItem 1, then press return.
The following two techniques should make Path Finder take the view calls from third party applications, but "Show in Finder" when selected from the Dock will probably not work.
Setup Path Finder to intercept Finder calls
*
*Control-Click (Right-Click) on Path Finder and select "Show Package Contents." Go inside the sub-folder "Contents"
*Double click on the document named "PkgInfo" and replace the "APPLPFdR" with "FNDRMACS"
*Save and close the document.
*Log out and in again
Make Path Finder default file viewer
*
*Go into terminal and type defaults write -g NSFileViewer -string com.cocoatech.PathFinder and press return. If this is not preferred later or isn't working you can undo with defaults delete -g NSFileViewer and return.
*Reboot
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bce23d3d4fafd8d78d875c45654f4f7988ee569b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Generating a monochrome PDF file from a color PDF file How can I generate a monochrome pdf file from a color pdf file?
I have tried ImageMagick's convert, but with bad results.
A direct conversion
convert -monochrome file.pdf file-bw.pdf
produces dithered images.
Going through png
convert -monochrome -background white -geometry 2048 file.pdf file-bw.png
stubbornly keeps the background to some shade of gray.
A: You can do this easily in Preview:
*
*Open the PDF in Preview.
*Go to File > Export...
*From the Quartz Filter drop-down box, select Black & White.
*Save and you're done.
| Q: Generating a monochrome PDF file from a color PDF file How can I generate a monochrome pdf file from a color pdf file?
I have tried ImageMagick's convert, but with bad results.
A direct conversion
convert -monochrome file.pdf file-bw.pdf
produces dithered images.
Going through png
convert -monochrome -background white -geometry 2048 file.pdf file-bw.png
stubbornly keeps the background to some shade of gray.
A: You can do this easily in Preview:
*
*Open the PDF in Preview.
*Go to File > Export...
*From the Quartz Filter drop-down box, select Black & White.
*Save and you're done.
A: You can also use Ghostscript to transform color into grayscale PDFs. The most recent version is v. 9.05, which is the recommended one for this task.
Commandline:
gs \
-o grayscale.pdf \
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
-dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress \
-sColorConversionStrategy=Gray \
-sColorConversionStrategyForImages=Gray \
-sProcessColorModel=DeviceGray \
-dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 \
/path/to/input.pdf
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33f0e7688ecce4264cd73779ef95c0be6eb0b0cb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Alternative activity monitors for OS X? I’m a bit intrigued by the new detailed activity monitors and progress indicators in Windows 8 (copying files, the task monitor, network activity, etc.) It got me thinking: surely there must be some better alternatives to the built-in Activity Monitor.app?
“Better” as in more detailed and nicer graphs. Specifically, it would be interested and see percentage disk I/O (out of disk capacity), memory usage, and CPU usage in the same nice way as Windows 8 presents it.
The Building windows blog has an article detailing the new Task Manager in Windows 8.
I just think that OS X’s task manager — which I have always found superior — just doesn’t cut it anymore compared to what is coming in Windows 8.
A: Strictly for monitoring RAM use, FreeMemory works well. It sits in the menu bar.
| Q: Alternative activity monitors for OS X? I’m a bit intrigued by the new detailed activity monitors and progress indicators in Windows 8 (copying files, the task monitor, network activity, etc.) It got me thinking: surely there must be some better alternatives to the built-in Activity Monitor.app?
“Better” as in more detailed and nicer graphs. Specifically, it would be interested and see percentage disk I/O (out of disk capacity), memory usage, and CPU usage in the same nice way as Windows 8 presents it.
The Building windows blog has an article detailing the new Task Manager in Windows 8.
I just think that OS X’s task manager — which I have always found superior — just doesn’t cut it anymore compared to what is coming in Windows 8.
A: Strictly for monitoring RAM use, FreeMemory works well. It sits in the menu bar.
A: I've been using MenuMeters for many revisions of OSX, it is similar to iStat Menus. I use it to keep an eye at real time performance like network and CPU.
A: atMonitor presents itself as “the most advanced monitoring tool for Mac OS X that displays system activity in real-time”, and is intended as an Activity Monitor replacement.
A: iStat Menus and its free Dashboard widget version iStat Pro can show you a good broad overview of your Mac's systems, but I'm afraid I don't know of any monitoring utilities that show individual application processes (ie Finder activity copying files) other than shell tools like lsof or top.
edit I had forgotten about good old fseventer - last updated in 2010 but still working on 10.6.8.
A: I'd also like to recommend MenuMeters. I always install it first-thing on any Mac i need to do serious stuff on for longer than 15 min.
But another monitor i sometimes use when i need more info/details is XRG.
Nice and clean, feature-rich and completely customizable. And as a bonus it is alot less CPU-hogging than Activity Monitor, which can use over 25% of CPU, even on the fastest machines…
A: You can use Stater. It's only a dock icon with CPU, memory, drive space usage. Processes list and numerical data lives in dock menu. The application feature is "no redundant information, but everything you need for everyday use".
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eb2abb1e9bd23fcde680a5ed42952e402013d1bb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Lost username and password to new Mac Got Mac mini 2011 Lion Server today. Fitted extra RAM. Started up fine. Put in first bits of info. Then it does the restart and duh! Didn't write down user name and password. Did connect to internet via LAN Ethernet but cannot use wireless as needs the MAC number for to use as I setup router this way.
I am not a techie and have no idea what to do. Lion came pre-installed so no install disk and no drive anyway.
When I start up asks for username and password and of course in my haste never wrote a blasted thing down. Anyone suggest anyway out of this impasse?
A: Boot the mini while holding down the Option (Alt) key. It should give you a menu where you can select the Lion Recovery partition. From there, you can reset the passwords or (if needed) reinstall the OS.
| Q: Lost username and password to new Mac Got Mac mini 2011 Lion Server today. Fitted extra RAM. Started up fine. Put in first bits of info. Then it does the restart and duh! Didn't write down user name and password. Did connect to internet via LAN Ethernet but cannot use wireless as needs the MAC number for to use as I setup router this way.
I am not a techie and have no idea what to do. Lion came pre-installed so no install disk and no drive anyway.
When I start up asks for username and password and of course in my haste never wrote a blasted thing down. Anyone suggest anyway out of this impasse?
A: Boot the mini while holding down the Option (Alt) key. It should give you a menu where you can select the Lion Recovery partition. From there, you can reset the passwords or (if needed) reinstall the OS.
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607deb9e472fc2bb9335633329f3c435403717c8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I add text in Final Cut Pro X? One thing I really hate about Final Cut Pro X is the inability to add basic text, like you could on all previous versions of Final Cut Pro. It seems all text has to be entered as "titles" - and although you can edit these titles to look like basic text, it really isn't the same thing.
Is there any way to get basic text in Final Cut Pro X?
A: You could doit with Control-T to add the basic text title.
| Q: How can I add text in Final Cut Pro X? One thing I really hate about Final Cut Pro X is the inability to add basic text, like you could on all previous versions of Final Cut Pro. It seems all text has to be entered as "titles" - and although you can edit these titles to look like basic text, it really isn't the same thing.
Is there any way to get basic text in Final Cut Pro X?
A: You could doit with Control-T to add the basic text title.
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e238e386cb06589fa6cbbab7596505faff1ad505 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to get the Dock to open the Documents and Download folder in Finder? When I click on the Documents or Downloads folder in the Dock, a Grid comes up. Is there a way to get it to just open in the Finder? Instead of having to click on Documents and then click on Open in Finder.
A: In MacOs High Sierra, you can just option+command+click the Documents folder in the Dock to open its content directly.
| Q: How to get the Dock to open the Documents and Download folder in Finder? When I click on the Documents or Downloads folder in the Dock, a Grid comes up. Is there a way to get it to just open in the Finder? Instead of having to click on Documents and then click on Open in Finder.
A: In MacOs High Sierra, you can just option+command+click the Documents folder in the Dock to open its content directly.
A: *
*Hold CMD while clicking the Documents or Download folder on your dock. It will open up your home directory with Documents or Download folder highlighted.
*Press CMD + O to open.
Or right click on the folder on dock, select "Open Documents"
A: You can do it in a single key command from Finder.
Cmd ⌘ Opt ⌥ L
alternatively, it's in the Go menu if you want to keep your hand on mouse/trackpad.
Answered here as it's linked as a dupe from How can I open my Downloads folder in one click? which asks for an alternative keyboard shortcut.
A: Right-click or Control+click on the Documents folder in the Finder, and click 'Make Alias'.
You probably want to move the alias somewhere else and rename it "Documents". Then, drag the Documents alias into the Dock.
Voíla, a link to the Documents folder instead of a Documents folder stack.
A: A slightly quicker way would be right-click or control-click on the dock icon and select "Open 'folder name'".
I do wish "Open in Finder" was at the beginning of the stack/fan for easy access though.
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c05353ec460d55048b46b882a36591ea0ad610f7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I use a keyboard shortcut to go to my Dropbox folder How can I change the Finder keyboard shortcut command + shift + D to open my Dropbox folder instead of the Desktop folder.
A: System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > select Application Shortcuts in the left column > click the "+" button > Application = Finder, Menu Title = Dropbox, Keyboard Shortcut = whatever you like > click Add
test it out. worked great for me from Finder
Note that this uses the Finder's "Go to > Recent Folders" Submenu. If the Folder isn´t in the List (and there's no way to keep it there), you won't be able to jump to it.
| Q: How can I use a keyboard shortcut to go to my Dropbox folder How can I change the Finder keyboard shortcut command + shift + D to open my Dropbox folder instead of the Desktop folder.
A: System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > select Application Shortcuts in the left column > click the "+" button > Application = Finder, Menu Title = Dropbox, Keyboard Shortcut = whatever you like > click Add
test it out. worked great for me from Finder
Note that this uses the Finder's "Go to > Recent Folders" Submenu. If the Folder isn´t in the List (and there's no way to keep it there), you won't be able to jump to it.
A: I can get you most of the way there, but I'm going to say straight off that I don't know how to hijack the shift-cmd-D shortcut. However, if you're willing to settle for a different shortcut...
*
*Open Automator
*Create a new Service
*Change the service to receive "no input" in "Finder"
*Drag in the "Get Specified Finder Items" action
*Add a new path to your Dropbox folder in this action
*Drag in the "Open Finder Items" action
*Save as something like "Open Dropbox"
It should look like this:
*
*Open System Preferences
*Select "Keyboard"
*Select "Keyboard Shortcuts"
*Select "Services"
*Scroll down to the bottom and select your "Open Dropbox" service
*Click the "add shortcut" button to specify a new shortcut
I tried to come up with a way to override the shortcut for the Desktop menu item, but I was unable to do so.
So this will get you a hotkey to open your Dropbox folder when you're in the Finder, but it won't be via shift-cmd-D.
A: here's a method that I implemented that allowed opening the Dropbox folder from within any application (well, it gets called by a Terminal session from the Finder).
This does not however, automatically switch to the Dropbox folder while in the middle of a application dialog box; it simply opens up the Dropbox folder in the event you need to look into or open something within the Dropbox folder. To access the Dropbox folder from an application dialog box, you can drag the Dropbox folder into the "Favorites" section of the application save/open dialog box to access it within one click.
Ok, if you're still interested in a hot-key anyway to access the dropbox folder,
here's how to do it:
*
*Open Automator: Cmd-Spacebar, type in Automator.
*Select Service, click Choose
*Modify "Service receives selected [text] in [any application]" to: "Service receives [no input] in [any application]"
*Select the action "Run Shell Script" under Utilities, drag it over to the right pane.
*Change the "cat" command to "open ~/Dropbox". If your Dropbox folder is located somewhere else, please modify the pah accordingly.
*Save as "Open Dropbox Folder"
*Open System Preferences: Cmd-Spacebar, type in System Preferences
*Navigate to Keyboard -> Shortcuts
*Scroll down to General
*Ensure the checkbox for "Open Dropbox Folder" is checked (enabled).
*Choose the Keystroke combination to open the Dropbox folder.
NOTE: If you choose Option-Cmd-D, you may need to disable "Turn Dock Hiding On/Off" in the Launchpad & Dock section.
Enjoy!
A: Use Spark to run an AppleScript:
tell application "Finder"
open ((home as text) & "Dropbox")
end tell
In Spark, go to File>New Hotkey>AppleScript and set your settings as such:
(You can also use Spark to run a shell script, but I'd recommend using this method, as a shell script is a bit more complicated)
A: Lazier-than-creating-an-Automator-service solution:
1) Open "System Preferences / General", under "Recent items", choose anything other than "None".
2) Open "System Prefs / Keyboard / Shortcuts / App Shortcuts", click "+", choose "Application: Finder", enter "Menu Title: Dropbox", and "Keyboard Shortcut: [whatever key combination you like here, I typed commandshiftx]".
3) Open Finder, visit your Dropbox folder. Your folder and its new shortcut are now listed in Finder's menubar under "Go / Recent Folders".
Assuming you visit your Dropbox folder frequently enough, this will work in Finder navigation. It doesn't work within other app's "Save" or "Open" dialogs, unfortunately.
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9bfcbf11fe68957052abfb232c78a85b80dd9ce3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Reading List in other browsers? Is there a Reading List extension for Chrome? I have a deep, dark hatred of Safari, but Reading List seems more convenient than Pocket of Readability. Or, is there a way to access it by any non-safari means at all?
A: On a Mac the reading list is stored in /Users/notjonathan/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist so potentially there is a tool out there to read them automatically. The actual syncing is done by Safari. It doesn't just watch the file for changes and upload the changes. You actually have to make the changes from within Safari.
So what you're "stuck" with using services like Pocket, which although slightly less convenient in iOS safari, is imo better. Especailly as other apps, e.g. Tweetbot can integrate with Pocket, but not Safari Reading List.
There is bookmarklet for Pocket available, which you can use in iOS Safari to quickly add pages, with just a few more presses than pressing Add To Reading List.
| Q: Reading List in other browsers? Is there a Reading List extension for Chrome? I have a deep, dark hatred of Safari, but Reading List seems more convenient than Pocket of Readability. Or, is there a way to access it by any non-safari means at all?
A: On a Mac the reading list is stored in /Users/notjonathan/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist so potentially there is a tool out there to read them automatically. The actual syncing is done by Safari. It doesn't just watch the file for changes and upload the changes. You actually have to make the changes from within Safari.
So what you're "stuck" with using services like Pocket, which although slightly less convenient in iOS safari, is imo better. Especailly as other apps, e.g. Tweetbot can integrate with Pocket, but not Safari Reading List.
There is bookmarklet for Pocket available, which you can use in iOS Safari to quickly add pages, with just a few more presses than pressing Add To Reading List.
A: All reading list is a simple wrapper around bookmarks, that allows you quick access to both add and remove entries. It's usefulness stops there really, and the matter of convenience boils down to what you want to use the stored pages for, and how you wish to access them. If you are just using the same computer and will always have a net connection, then yes it's very convenient, but if you want to have them stored offline and synced to multiple devices, then it's not so useful.
I don't use Chrome, but I would probably look to get an extension for either Pocket/Readability/Instapaper to mimic the reading list feature, by making your recently stored pages available from a toolbar button rather than having to login to the respective sites. This gives you all the added benefits of using a proper 'service', with the instant nature of a quick bookmark system. A quick search for "instapaper" yielded 50 results on the Chrome extension store thing
A: To add the active tab in Google Chrome to Safari's reading list:
Adapted from a comment by tzarskyz on: Add a URL from Chrome to Safari's reading list
tell application "Google Chrome"
set pageUrl to get URL of active tab of first window
end tell
tell application "Safari" to add reading list item pageUrl
display notification pageUrl with title "Added to Reading List"
Open AppleScript Editor and save the above code as a new script. From that point on, you can run this script to add the active tab in Google Chrome to Safari's reading list. You can trigger this action via Terminal (osascript), by double-clicking the script (in Terminal or on your desktop), via an app launcher like Quicksilver, via Fastscripts, etc.
Enjoy your reading! :)
Update: I've since found a better way to accomplish this, without requiring something like Fastscripts. Simply use OS X's built-in application, Automator. You can adapt the steps outlined at the following link to run the AppleScript I included above: Global HotKey for Pause/Play,Next Song, etc.
A: You can add things with AppleScript according to this: http://jga.me/blog/2011/10/18/applescript-readinglist
So it should be easy to cook up a Firefox extension to call that bit of AppleScript, you can call it form the shell like:
osascript -e 'tell application "Safari" to add reading list item "http://totl.net/"'
Which will cause Safari to generate the preview and send it to iCloud, or wherever it goes to.
A: I've made a fork of CloudyTabs with Reading list support, clone it at https://github.com/cl3m/CloudyTabs
A: There's a built-in Service to add a URL to the Reading List. Just select the URL by clicking on the address bar, then menu > Firefox > Services > Add to Reading List.
It's possible to add a global keyboard shortcut for the Service: System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Select the service in the list and add a key combo.
A: Just a quick addition here. I love the small menu application called PopClip. It enables many different functions to be peformed on highlighted text. One such add-on function is: "Add to reading list." Worked like a charm for me (and is system wide- so even links within e-mails can be added). Apple AppStore app maker's page: https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/
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6e217a44f26568b9575f817b06b48ccb08fad506 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Error with MATLAB I regularly use MATLAB from the command-line instead of launching the full graphical user interface. Ever since I made the last update of OS from 10.7.3 -> 10.7.4, I started getting the following errors, whenever I would launch something with a graphical interface within MATLAB:
May 17 10:35:40 HOST_NAME MATLAB_maci64[549] <Error>: CGContextGetCTM: invalid context 0x0
May 17 10:35:40 HOST_NAME MATLAB_maci64[549] <Error>: CGContextSetBaseCTM: invalid context 0x0
May 17 10:35:40 HOST_NAME MATLAB_maci64[549] <Error>: CGContextGetCTM: invalid context 0x0
May 17 10:35:40 HOST_NAME MATLAB_maci64[549] <Error>: CGContextSetBaseCTM: invalid context 0x0
This is how I usually launch MATLAB from the command line:
matlab -nodesktop -nosplash
Recently, I've read of other Java based applications with GUIs having the same problem. Just wondering if there is a quick fix for this.
** This is becoming really annoying, I can't seem to find a solution, I'm using 2011a is anyone seeing this with a more recent version?
A: I can confirm having this problem with Matlab 2011a on Lion 10.7.4. But fortunately it seems to be fixed in Matlab 2011b -- no more annoying CGContext errors.
So it's definitely worth it to grab a more recent version of Matlab.
| Q: Error with MATLAB I regularly use MATLAB from the command-line instead of launching the full graphical user interface. Ever since I made the last update of OS from 10.7.3 -> 10.7.4, I started getting the following errors, whenever I would launch something with a graphical interface within MATLAB:
May 17 10:35:40 HOST_NAME MATLAB_maci64[549] <Error>: CGContextGetCTM: invalid context 0x0
May 17 10:35:40 HOST_NAME MATLAB_maci64[549] <Error>: CGContextSetBaseCTM: invalid context 0x0
May 17 10:35:40 HOST_NAME MATLAB_maci64[549] <Error>: CGContextGetCTM: invalid context 0x0
May 17 10:35:40 HOST_NAME MATLAB_maci64[549] <Error>: CGContextSetBaseCTM: invalid context 0x0
This is how I usually launch MATLAB from the command line:
matlab -nodesktop -nosplash
Recently, I've read of other Java based applications with GUIs having the same problem. Just wondering if there is a quick fix for this.
** This is becoming really annoying, I can't seem to find a solution, I'm using 2011a is anyone seeing this with a more recent version?
A: I can confirm having this problem with Matlab 2011a on Lion 10.7.4. But fortunately it seems to be fixed in Matlab 2011b -- no more annoying CGContext errors.
So it's definitely worth it to grab a more recent version of Matlab.
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78c3ca4fb632513841224260ede6df59e6fd8fef | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iTunes app on iPhone won't download podcasts If I browse podcasts in iTunes on my (iOS 5.1.1) iPhone 4, most listings of episodes don't even fully load, with the download buttons (or sometimes the entire listing) failing to render. The exact same podcasts on my wife's iPhone 4S on the same wifi network work perfectly.
There's almost 20 GB of space available in my iPhone, and I've tried ending all apps & rebooting the phone multiple times.
A: I feel like I helped my brother through something VERY similar involving downloaded/purchased music -- and the only thing we found that fixed it was a complete restore from his most recent backup. I surmised that it was something related to a horked cache file or setting at the OS level.
The other thing that it might have been related to was wifi syncing/backup; we also turned that off, if I recall, and it wasn't until it was turned off that things returned to copacetic.
This is all fuzzy memory from months ago, though, so YMMV.
| Q: iTunes app on iPhone won't download podcasts If I browse podcasts in iTunes on my (iOS 5.1.1) iPhone 4, most listings of episodes don't even fully load, with the download buttons (or sometimes the entire listing) failing to render. The exact same podcasts on my wife's iPhone 4S on the same wifi network work perfectly.
There's almost 20 GB of space available in my iPhone, and I've tried ending all apps & rebooting the phone multiple times.
A: I feel like I helped my brother through something VERY similar involving downloaded/purchased music -- and the only thing we found that fixed it was a complete restore from his most recent backup. I surmised that it was something related to a horked cache file or setting at the OS level.
The other thing that it might have been related to was wifi syncing/backup; we also turned that off, if I recall, and it wasn't until it was turned off that things returned to copacetic.
This is all fuzzy memory from months ago, though, so YMMV.
A: I had a similar experience and decided that Apple wasn't resolving the post-iOS 5 & iCloud issues with podcast support as quickly as I hoped. I did some research, and switched to Instacast on my iPhone for audio podcasts, and Instacast HD on my iPad for video podcasts.
This switch addressed all of my issues and created very few. The cost was minimal and I got several additional features that I consider useful.
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cfd8f8e593d946319c0d9c036e0474d22320ca08 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to automount SMB share in OS X I am running OS X Lion. I have the following line in my /etc/fstab:
//darren:q@acid/home /acid smbfs nodev,nosuid,auto
If I run mount -a, the share mounts correctly, but if I just reboot the computer, the drive does not mount.
The drive in question is an Ubuntu SMB share.
Can anyone advise?
A: I ran across this today which is one way to do it.
In summary for Mountain Lion:
*
*Edit the file /etc/auto_master
*Within add /- auto_smb
*Create /etc/auto_smb
*Within add /Volumes/mount_point -fstype=smbfs,soft ://user:pass@smbserver/share
The author goes onto mention a second method using the vifs command, but I've never tried that one and it seems to do something of a pre-mount at bootup. You still have to touch the Volume for it to completely mount.
Lastly, the author states that "soft" should be used in step 4 above because failures to mount will cause the bootup to hang.
| Q: How to automount SMB share in OS X I am running OS X Lion. I have the following line in my /etc/fstab:
//darren:q@acid/home /acid smbfs nodev,nosuid,auto
If I run mount -a, the share mounts correctly, but if I just reboot the computer, the drive does not mount.
The drive in question is an Ubuntu SMB share.
Can anyone advise?
A: I ran across this today which is one way to do it.
In summary for Mountain Lion:
*
*Edit the file /etc/auto_master
*Within add /- auto_smb
*Create /etc/auto_smb
*Within add /Volumes/mount_point -fstype=smbfs,soft ://user:pass@smbserver/share
The author goes onto mention a second method using the vifs command, but I've never tried that one and it seems to do something of a pre-mount at bootup. You still have to touch the Volume for it to completely mount.
Lastly, the author states that "soft" should be used in step 4 above because failures to mount will cause the bootup to hang.
A: You need to mount the drive once, then go to Settings Panel and Users & Groups. There you can add it. If you hide it, it will mount but don't open the finder screen upon logging in.
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62a2b3c00fda1ad325f62b0043b8d78a9ba07a60 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Synchronize USB hard drive between Mac and PC I have a large (750GB) FAT32 formatted USB hard drive and two computers - a MacBook and a PC - and I want to keep synched and duplicate versions of my work folders (images, word documents, videos etc) on each device: the hard drive, Mac and PC.
To achieve this I imagine a folder synchronization software running on both Mac and PC (ideally the same software) which would sync selected folders between the computer and hard drive.
Does anyone know of such a piece of software?
Many thanks!
A: Yeah, it's new and it's call BitTorrent Sync, just came out of Alpha. It uses a 32 character code you create to create folder based sharepoints...on any computer on your network, without futzing with Preferences. Bittorent does all the work, and you essentially can create your own cloud at will, with any internal or external hdd's.
| Q: Synchronize USB hard drive between Mac and PC I have a large (750GB) FAT32 formatted USB hard drive and two computers - a MacBook and a PC - and I want to keep synched and duplicate versions of my work folders (images, word documents, videos etc) on each device: the hard drive, Mac and PC.
To achieve this I imagine a folder synchronization software running on both Mac and PC (ideally the same software) which would sync selected folders between the computer and hard drive.
Does anyone know of such a piece of software?
Many thanks!
A: Yeah, it's new and it's call BitTorrent Sync, just came out of Alpha. It uses a 32 character code you create to create folder based sharepoints...on any computer on your network, without futzing with Preferences. Bittorent does all the work, and you essentially can create your own cloud at will, with any internal or external hdd's.
A: I suppose you could find folder sync software for both platforms and do this manually, but really those solutions are starting to wither in favor of cloud based sync solutions.
Does what you're looking for, just over the internet (with a persistent cache on your local machine in case you're not online). I've used dropbox to do this exact task for a couple years now, and couldn't imaging going back to a more manual/client based solution.
There are numerous services that offer this, with more storage than you need (5GB is typical). The most well known are DropBox, Google Drive, Box.net and SugarSync. I would highly recommend you look at these before investing in client software to do this.
edit: I just happened to run into a New York Times article that discussed this very issue. See A User’s Guide to Finding Storage Space in the Cloud
A: You might want to take a look at using FreeFileSync to sync between the PC and the hard drive and then using Carbon Copy Cloner to sync between the Mac and the hard drive.
However, a better solution would be to create a "cloud" with your own external drive. If you have a spare machine lying around that you could convert to a Linux server, you could create your own cloud server for free using ownCloud or Tonido, both of which offer sync clients for Mac and PC. If you don't have a spare machine or want a simpler way to do this, you can buy a PogoPlug or TonidoPlug which essentially turn any USB drive into a NAS (Network Attached Storage). PogoPlug offers an easier to use interface, but TonidoPlug is more extensible. Both of these offer sync applications as well.
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3f38dd9873578cbade0acd565b407d2f9da6e735 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to set PATH for Finder-launched applications Apps launched via Finder seem to not respect the PATH as set in .bash_profile. So when I try to run code from an IDE (Intellij) I no longer have access to programs in /usr/local/bin, which is normally added to my path in the Terminal.
Apparently .MacOSX/environment.plist used to be the way to do this, but it no longer works in Lion.
How can I set the PATH for Finder-launched applications?
A: If you are on 10.7 and not 10.8, the solution below works well:
I had the same problem with eclipse, but now I've added e.g. the following to my .bash_profile and then it worked.
export PATH=some_path:another_path
launchctl setenv PATH $PATH
In case you want to leave the original path intact use
p=$(launchctl getenv PATH)
launchctl setenv PATH /my/new/path:$p
instead (or just launchctl setenv PATH /my/new/path:$(launchctl getenv PATH)).
Note: Changing the launchctl PATH will not take effect until the Dock is "restarted". A new Dock process will automatically start after the current one is killed with the command:
killall Dock
| Q: How to set PATH for Finder-launched applications Apps launched via Finder seem to not respect the PATH as set in .bash_profile. So when I try to run code from an IDE (Intellij) I no longer have access to programs in /usr/local/bin, which is normally added to my path in the Terminal.
Apparently .MacOSX/environment.plist used to be the way to do this, but it no longer works in Lion.
How can I set the PATH for Finder-launched applications?
A: If you are on 10.7 and not 10.8, the solution below works well:
I had the same problem with eclipse, but now I've added e.g. the following to my .bash_profile and then it worked.
export PATH=some_path:another_path
launchctl setenv PATH $PATH
In case you want to leave the original path intact use
p=$(launchctl getenv PATH)
launchctl setenv PATH /my/new/path:$p
instead (or just launchctl setenv PATH /my/new/path:$(launchctl getenv PATH)).
Note: Changing the launchctl PATH will not take effect until the Dock is "restarted". A new Dock process will automatically start after the current one is killed with the command:
killall Dock
A: On OS X 10.10 Yosemite, I used this command:
sudo launchctl config user path <my path setting>
Be aware that his sets the launchtl PATH for all users. This worked well for my use case. Note that you'll be asked to reboot your machine for the effects to take hold.
You must restart all applications for this to have effect. (It doesn't apply to applications that are reopened at login after rebooting.) (Thanks @Brecht Machiels.)
A: To answer you question to your 'new' problem, I've decided to write another answer - because it is easier to explain with samples.
One way to load the environment variables on startup of your tool (IDE) of choice is like it can be done with eclipse - I think there must be a similar structure in your tool (IDE) too.
How it can be done in eclipse - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/829749/launch-mac-eclipse-with-environment-variables-set
(slightly re-written about the environment variables)
Create an empty text file called "eclipse.sh" in the Eclipse application bundle directory /Applications/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS
Open the eclipse.sh in a text editor and enter the following contents:
#!/bin/sh
. ~/.bash_profile
logger "$(dirname \"$0\")/eclipse"
exec "$(dirname \"$0\")/eclipse" "$@"
In the Terminal set the executable flag of the shell script eclipse.sh, i.e.:
chmod +x /Applications/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse.sh
Open the Eclipse.app Info.plist and change the value for the key CFBundleExecutable from eclipse to eclipse.sh.
MacOS X does not automatically detect that the Eclipse.app's Info.plist has changed. Therefore you need to force update the LaunchService database in the Terminal by using the lsregister command:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -v -f /Applications/Eclipse.app
The next time you launch Eclipse.app from the Dock or from the Finder the environment variables should be set.
A: On Mountain Lion (10.8.4), $PATH is treated specially somehow. launchctl setenv PATH /your/path:/here does not have any effect on the $PATH in Terminal.app or Emacs.app instances subsequently launched from the Dock or from the Finder (whereas launchctl setenv SPONG foo works fine). Also $HOME/.launchd.conf doesn't work. /etc/launchd.conf is the only way I have found to get PATH set correctly everywhere. Unfortunately, one cannot use envars such as $HOME there, so all the users on my laptop have /Users/nb/bin on their $PATH. That's only me, so I don't care.
A: On Mountain Lion all the /etc/paths and /etc/launchd.conf editing doesn't take any effect!
Apple's Developer Forums say:
"Change the Info.plist of the .app itself to contain an "LSEnvironment"
dictionary with the environment variables you want.
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist is no longer supported."
So I directly edited the app's Info.plist (right click on "AppName.app" (in this case SourceTree) and then "Show package contents")
and added a new key/dict pair called:
<key>LSEnvironment</key>
<dict>
<key>PATH</key>
<string>/Users/flori/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362/bin:/Users/flori/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p362@global/bin:/Users/flori/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p326/bin:/Users/flori/.rvm/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:</string>
</dict>
(see: LaunchServicesKeys Documentation at Apple)
now the App (in my case SourceTree) uses the given path and works with git 1.9.3 :-)
PS: Of course you have to adjust the Path entry to your specific path needs.
A: Inspired by the answer of @brki I wrote this script.
It takes the contents of /etc/paths and uses it to reconstruct the original path (and /usr/local/bin), then adds ~/bin and /some/other to it.
if [ -f /etc/paths ]; then
ETC_PATHS=$(while read line; do
echo -n "${line}:"
done < /etc/paths)
PATH_OVERRIDE=${ETC_PATHS}${HOME}/bin:/some/other
echo "overriding original path /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin with ${PATH_OVERRIDE} so that gpg and node will be on path for spotlight launched programs"
sudo launchctl config user path $PATH_OVERRIDE
fi
I have verified that this works on macOS Catalina 10.15.1
A: On Mac OS X 10.8.4, Mountain Lion, the path environment incorporates the paths listed in this file:
/etc/paths
You can edit this file using a command line tool, such as vim using the following command:
sudo vim /etc/paths
A: Try setting path in your ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zprofile (for zsh). This worked for me with VimR -- it wasn't reading the PATH when launched from the dock, but it worked when launched from the terminal. I was running on OSX 10.11 by the way.
I don't have a good enough handle on this to give you a great explanation of why it works, there are plenty of explanations online about the different config files and what they do:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/415403/whats-the-difference-between-bashrc-bash-profile-and-environment
Also, see a similar discussion here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3344704/path-variable-not-properly-set-in-gvim-macvim-when-it-is-opened-from-the-finder/24542893#24542893
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10449cd21d39a8a215db8c9fee7b03b6be8a1b1c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I prevent the iPad 2 from playing music in my rucksack? I have an iPad 2.
Sometimes, after I stow it away into my bag, it will start playing music (using the music app) at the most inappropriate times: during class, in meetings... This behaviour seems to be connected to the screen saver feature, but I can't seem to find a way to turn it off!
Is there a way to turn this off, or to at least make it respect the volume setting? The music is audible even with the iPad muted otherwise.
Or am I just too dumb to find the right setting? I'm not excluding that possibility.
Edit: I have a passcode set.
A: Arrrgh.
I found the reason, my own stupidity. :) I use a Bluetooth keyboard whose keys are extremely sensitive to pressure when it's stowed in the backpack. It usually goes to sleep when not used, but wakes up when you press a key. The "play" key on that keyboard was what made the iPad blare away.
| Q: How can I prevent the iPad 2 from playing music in my rucksack? I have an iPad 2.
Sometimes, after I stow it away into my bag, it will start playing music (using the music app) at the most inappropriate times: during class, in meetings... This behaviour seems to be connected to the screen saver feature, but I can't seem to find a way to turn it off!
Is there a way to turn this off, or to at least make it respect the volume setting? The music is audible even with the iPad muted otherwise.
Or am I just too dumb to find the right setting? I'm not excluding that possibility.
Edit: I have a passcode set.
A: Arrrgh.
I found the reason, my own stupidity. :) I use a Bluetooth keyboard whose keys are extremely sensitive to pressure when it's stowed in the backpack. It usually goes to sleep when not used, but wakes up when you press a key. The "play" key on that keyboard was what made the iPad blare away.
A: A friend of mine recently had the same complaint. I couldn't find a solution online, but came up with this workaround:
Go to your Settings, General, Restrictions. Enable restrictions, set a passcode and disable iTunes.
It's a bit of a nuisance if you regularly use your iPad to listen to music, but most people with iPads have an iPhone or iPod for that.
Good luck!
A: Got a few suggestions tough I'm not an iPad owner but it works for an iPhone.
1) how about turing the iPad completely off? ( by holding the power button, en slide to power off )
2) play some music and turn the volume down with the volume buttons this volume setting will be respected.
3) plug in head phones sound will be played trough the headphones so it won't be hearable.
But I find it really odd that it starts playing music in the first place, maybe your leather case does interact with the screen. After all leather is an animal skin.
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798f7a55ac4dfd151a811dabdf99c8a8002bce7f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPad doesn't rotate anymore My iPad won't rotate the screen anymore when I turn it. It just happend (like all problems of course) without any cause.
I've done everything I can think of.
*
*Double tap on the Home button, swipe left and toggle the switch
*Toggle the switch on the left side of the iPad with 'rotation lock' set to on
*Reboot the iPad
*Restore the iPad
I'm out of options... Anyone with more options? Or is it hardware to blame?
A: Since you've restored the iPad I would say that you've got some issue with the Hardware. If possible, Take it to an Apple Store for a Hardware test.
Using an app which requires the use of the Accelerometer may test it too.
EDITED: Its not the Gyroscope what tells the position of the device but the Accelerometer.
| Q: iPad doesn't rotate anymore My iPad won't rotate the screen anymore when I turn it. It just happend (like all problems of course) without any cause.
I've done everything I can think of.
*
*Double tap on the Home button, swipe left and toggle the switch
*Toggle the switch on the left side of the iPad with 'rotation lock' set to on
*Reboot the iPad
*Restore the iPad
I'm out of options... Anyone with more options? Or is it hardware to blame?
A: Since you've restored the iPad I would say that you've got some issue with the Hardware. If possible, Take it to an Apple Store for a Hardware test.
Using an app which requires the use of the Accelerometer may test it too.
EDITED: Its not the Gyroscope what tells the position of the device but the Accelerometer.
A: I had same problem and after a lot of other things thought I'd try one more thing, I ran the battery completely and let it sit for a day. Recharged it and its now working fine.
MY theory is that perhaps the accelerometer can become magnetized and running the battery out and allowing it to sit, dissipated the energy. Just a though, but it worked.
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87a35092c1a30f124cac17448bc6ab34653ed1af | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why do Apple's 2012 MacBook Pros cap the RAM limit at 8GB? According to apple's latest documentation (at the time of writing), the cap on the 2012 MacBook Pros is 8GB RAM.
The Mac Pros, however, can take up to 32GB RAM.
So, why do the MacBooks have this cap? Is it a hardware issue, because I don't think it's a software one.
The OS X that runs on the Mac Pros is the same that runs on the MacBook Pros. Being 64-bit software on top of a 64-bit Architecture (both the MacBooks and the Mac Pros), it's obvious that the OS can use as much as 32 GB of RAM.
Is it simply because manufactures don't make RAM sticks larger than 4GB for laptops?
A: Anyone who knows isn't saying. But apparently they can use up to 16GB. Other World Computing tests various machines for their actual (not specified) maximum useable memory and sells a 16GB memory kit for the current MacBook Pro.
| Q: Why do Apple's 2012 MacBook Pros cap the RAM limit at 8GB? According to apple's latest documentation (at the time of writing), the cap on the 2012 MacBook Pros is 8GB RAM.
The Mac Pros, however, can take up to 32GB RAM.
So, why do the MacBooks have this cap? Is it a hardware issue, because I don't think it's a software one.
The OS X that runs on the Mac Pros is the same that runs on the MacBook Pros. Being 64-bit software on top of a 64-bit Architecture (both the MacBooks and the Mac Pros), it's obvious that the OS can use as much as 32 GB of RAM.
Is it simply because manufactures don't make RAM sticks larger than 4GB for laptops?
A: Anyone who knows isn't saying. But apparently they can use up to 16GB. Other World Computing tests various machines for their actual (not specified) maximum useable memory and sells a 16GB memory kit for the current MacBook Pro.
A: The limitation imposed is based on the chipsets used on the computer's motherboard. For example, the noted Apple maximums you mentioned for the MacBook Pro and the Mac Pro, are smaller than the maximums that those machines can address in practice. The MacBook Pro tested maximum is 16 GB according to EveryMac's MacBook Pro max RAM listing. And as for the Mac Pro, its maximum is 128 GB according to EveryMac's Mac Pro max RAM listing.
As noted on Intel's Specs, the CPU supports a different maximum than the chipset on the motherboard does. The Xeon X5670 used in the Mac Pro supports up to 288 GB.
And as for the i7s e.g. a i7-2860QM used in the MacBook Pros, it supports up to 32 GB.
So these limitations come from engineering decisions made by Apple based on what kinds of chipsets are selected to be installed on the motherboard and what those chips support is what enforces the maximum amount of RAM that a particular Mac can address at or below what the CPU can actually address.
As for why Apple underrates their maximum numbers for RAM on some Macs, that's for Apple to know and for us to wonder. However, admittedly it is a nice practice to under promise and over deliver for whatever reason Apple has. Although, the Mac Pro supports more RAM than Mac OS X can address, according to OWC's testing on Mac Pros, where they discovered Mac OS X unofficially will not address more than 96GB of RAM, but other 64-bit operating system can get to the full 128GB.
A: The Apple specs are never updated. For the MacbookPro 2012 it was 8GB of Ram. Later it has been tested by many many users to be max 16GB. Mine has 18GB from the beginning even (1 week after I bought it in 2012). The only point that you must "obey" is that the Ram has the exact specs as prescribed by Apple specs. There are many producers of Ram for mac.
If you want the modern or updated limits, download Mactracker from http://mactracker.ca/ or from the AppStore
A: Because they want to make more money by having you pay for more ram. I work with windows all the time. I have a dual boot on my mac. The mac end only sees 8gb of ram installed but windows utilizes all 16. hardware that meets the specifications required will work in the hardware world. It is the software that determines how it's utilized. Trust me I build gaming rigs all the time.
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5eccfcc9cad456dfdc0563030b1c81590045239f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I restore itunes library onto another computer I followed all the steps as suggested for backing up and restore iTunes library in the apple support website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751 but I have problems with the 'choose library' part in the last step. I clicked it and located my iTunes Media folder but all that happened was that it just opened the folder and showed me what I have inside and not restore it.
A: I'm just echoing the Apple KB article for anyone else who comes across this answer. I have used this process many times when moving or reformatting my computer:
Process for restoring an iTunes library:
*
*Quit iTunes.
*Copy your iTunes folder from your external hard drive to whatever location you desire on your internal hard drive.
*Open iTunes while holding down the Option key (Mac) or Shift key (Windows).
*In the resulting dialog, click the Choose Library button.
*Navigate to the new iTunes folder you just copied and locate the iTunes Library.itl file
*Click Choose (Mac OS X) or Open (Windows)
*iTunes will open and your iTunes Library will be restored.
| Q: How do I restore itunes library onto another computer I followed all the steps as suggested for backing up and restore iTunes library in the apple support website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751 but I have problems with the 'choose library' part in the last step. I clicked it and located my iTunes Media folder but all that happened was that it just opened the folder and showed me what I have inside and not restore it.
A: I'm just echoing the Apple KB article for anyone else who comes across this answer. I have used this process many times when moving or reformatting my computer:
Process for restoring an iTunes library:
*
*Quit iTunes.
*Copy your iTunes folder from your external hard drive to whatever location you desire on your internal hard drive.
*Open iTunes while holding down the Option key (Mac) or Shift key (Windows).
*In the resulting dialog, click the Choose Library button.
*Navigate to the new iTunes folder you just copied and locate the iTunes Library.itl file
*Click Choose (Mac OS X) or Open (Windows)
*iTunes will open and your iTunes Library will be restored.
A: You have to select the iTunes folder you just moved to the internal hard drive, not the iTunes folder currently on your computer.
If you were backing up to a disc, you have to follow these instructions.
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32f2b998f29445c0073f4723cc11a6f10a7813fe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac spontaneously restarts I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I leave my machine for an hour. When I return the machine is asleep and all the applications have been shut down. It is almost as if it has spontaneously restarted.
Any ideas what could be causing this?
A: I'm not sure what is causing it, but it sounds like a hardware issue, or that the power outlet the machine is plugged into may be faulty.
You can try going to the Energy Saver preference pane and unchecking Start up automatically after a power failure. If the computer really is shutting down and restarting this may help you find out.
If it is shutting down, it may be:
*
*Faulty power supply
*Faulty power outlet or another electronic device complicating power in that outlet
*Overheating
| Q: Mac spontaneously restarts I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I leave my machine for an hour. When I return the machine is asleep and all the applications have been shut down. It is almost as if it has spontaneously restarted.
Any ideas what could be causing this?
A: I'm not sure what is causing it, but it sounds like a hardware issue, or that the power outlet the machine is plugged into may be faulty.
You can try going to the Energy Saver preference pane and unchecking Start up automatically after a power failure. If the computer really is shutting down and restarting this may help you find out.
If it is shutting down, it may be:
*
*Faulty power supply
*Faulty power outlet or another electronic device complicating power in that outlet
*Overheating
A: If you are running Lion, you may be seeing the effects of Lion's auto kill feature. This feature automatically quits any applications that are open if they haven't been used in awhile. Try disabling it as such by typing this in Terminal:
defaults write -g NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool yes
To turn it back on:
defaults write -g NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool no
From this answer.
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69592a168a46896d90f35aa09dc40baec70f9c60 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: QuickLook HTML plugin? I'm looking for a plugin that will display me the text of HTML files in QuickLook rather than a preview of the rendered HTML.
Does anyone know of such a plugin?
A: You are looking for qlcolorcode. qlcolorcode allows you to have syntax highlighting in your quicklook preview:
| Q: QuickLook HTML plugin? I'm looking for a plugin that will display me the text of HTML files in QuickLook rather than a preview of the rendered HTML.
Does anyone know of such a plugin?
A: You are looking for qlcolorcode. qlcolorcode allows you to have syntax highlighting in your quicklook preview:
A: qlcolorcode didn't display HTML files by default on my installation of 10.8. I could get it to display them by adding public.html and public.xhtml to CFBundleDocumentTypes:LSItemContentTypes in ~/Library/QuickLook/QLColorCode.qlgenerator/Contents/Info.plist and logging out and back in.
You could also remove /System/Library/QuickLook/Web.qlgenerator/, but it also handles webarchive and svg files. Removing the entries for public.html and public.xhtml from the Info.plist didn't seem to work.
A: I had to get rid of the Web.qlgenerator to make this work, using either the QLColorCode or the QLStephen plugins, in OSX Mavericks.
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ed756091c38f07beb728c84a3f1a5268d4b949ed | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to automatically start a VirtualBox VM in OS X Lion? I have a VirtualBox VM set up on OS X Lion. How do I have it automatically start when I log into my account?
A: Add the .VDI file for the VM you wish to auto run to your System Preferences > Users > Login Item. You can find the .VDI file in the folder of the VM. The default name of the folder VirtualBox saves these to is called VirtualBox VMs.
| Q: How to automatically start a VirtualBox VM in OS X Lion? I have a VirtualBox VM set up on OS X Lion. How do I have it automatically start when I log into my account?
A: Add the .VDI file for the VM you wish to auto run to your System Preferences > Users > Login Item. You can find the .VDI file in the folder of the VM. The default name of the folder VirtualBox saves these to is called VirtualBox VMs.
A: You have to add the .vbox file to the startup items rather than the .vdi like dennis.hempler said. The .vbox is specially designed for booting VMs without opening the app.
A: I added terminal to open at login from the dock, added Virtualbox to also open at login at startup.
Put a shell command to start up my VM. You can set that in Terminal app preferences under shell tab, there is a startup command you can enter.
The following is mine.
VBoxManage startvm VirtualBox --type headless
Where VirtualBox is your box name whatever that may be. Headless means it doesn't launch a window from VB.
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568e63dbceecfcd4cba203659cddc97dbad551dc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Guide on removing unused Agents and Daemons to speed up MacOS Can you point me to a good guide on spotting and getting rid of running Agents, Daemons and Processes that aren't useful to me anyway and are taking up memory and CPU cycles?
| Q: Guide on removing unused Agents and Daemons to speed up MacOS Can you point me to a good guide on spotting and getting rid of running Agents, Daemons and Processes that aren't useful to me anyway and are taking up memory and CPU cycles?
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a6835beac78319209ebfb90f89e4f06e6610e6b0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: can you take out the iPhone's sim card and use wifi outside of america? I'm traveling overseas and I wish I had a regular iPod touch so that I can just use WiFi to check emails without paying a roaming fee. I have an iPhone with an AT&T sim card. I was wondering if I could remove the sim card and turn it into an iPod touch without having to pay a roaming fee? Does the phone still know it belongs to me even without the sim card?
A: gentmatt's answer is correct, however if you don't need to make phone calls at all you can also just turn on airplane mode. I have done this many times abroad. Turn on airplane mode in settings, then turn wifi back on. Your cellular signal stays off.
| Q: can you take out the iPhone's sim card and use wifi outside of america? I'm traveling overseas and I wish I had a regular iPod touch so that I can just use WiFi to check emails without paying a roaming fee. I have an iPhone with an AT&T sim card. I was wondering if I could remove the sim card and turn it into an iPod touch without having to pay a roaming fee? Does the phone still know it belongs to me even without the sim card?
A: gentmatt's answer is correct, however if you don't need to make phone calls at all you can also just turn on airplane mode. I have done this many times abroad. Turn on airplane mode in settings, then turn wifi back on. Your cellular signal stays off.
A: Yes.
You can use your iPhone's Wi-Fi without a SIM card, no matter where you are.
If you still want to be able to make calls, but avoid celluar data (data roaming) you can choose to disable just this feature.
You can get further information from Apple's support website at iPhone and iPad: Using cellular networks while in another country.
If you do not have an international data plan, turn off Cellular Data and/or Data Roaming to avoid data roaming charges:
*
*iPhone: Tap Settings > General > Network
*iPad: Tap Settings > Cellular Data
When data roaming and cellular data are off, you should not see a cellular-network indicator in the status bar.
A: Yes, you aren't able to text or talk though. Also, you will have the phone on Airplane mode so you don't get any roaming charges.But you are able to use camera and stuff, if you take it off airplane mode then you can connect to wifi.
A: The answer is Yes and No. Yes because WI-Fi can be used without SIM card where there is no authentication reqd. and NO because to use Wi-Fi at airports, railway stations you require authentication where they send one time password(OTP) to start using the Wi-Fi services available.
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99afaa9a966748392d2b6190434939006717e5b4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: what is "translate" and why does it want access to my keychain? I use Entourage for my email accounts but I keep getting a pop up saying
"translate wants to use your confidential information stored in "[my email account]" in your keychain. Do you want to allow access to this item?"
By always allowing I found the location through keychain - /usr/libexec/oah/translate but I can't locate it through finder.
I am worried that this might be malware, does anyone know what it is?
A: It looks like /usr/libexec/oah/translate is Rosetta, an Apple program to allow programs developed for PowerPC architecture to run on the newest Intel Mac.
So I don't think it's a malware, just Mac OS using Rosetta to run Entourage.
| Q: what is "translate" and why does it want access to my keychain? I use Entourage for my email accounts but I keep getting a pop up saying
"translate wants to use your confidential information stored in "[my email account]" in your keychain. Do you want to allow access to this item?"
By always allowing I found the location through keychain - /usr/libexec/oah/translate but I can't locate it through finder.
I am worried that this might be malware, does anyone know what it is?
A: It looks like /usr/libexec/oah/translate is Rosetta, an Apple program to allow programs developed for PowerPC architecture to run on the newest Intel Mac.
So I don't think it's a malware, just Mac OS using Rosetta to run Entourage.
A: /usr is a hidden folder, so that's why you normally can't see it. I use iTweaX to show these, but I'm sure there are other methods.
I just today got this same thing in Entourage, so I scanned the libexec subfolder with ClamXav, just to be careful. It showed no viruses. After I did a hard restart of the Mac, all seems to be back to normal in Entourage. Unfortunately, I still have no idea what suddenly caused these keychain requests to appear, after years of using Entourage.
I also just ran across this in Apple Support Communities: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2123451?tstart=0
FWIW, I'm running MacOS 10.6.8, and Entourage 2004 11.4.0, on a 2007 MacBook.
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888ec891b46079d8aa6f26d948757f962e100688 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to scroll the toolbar icons of an application? On a 24" display, there is enough space to display all the toolbar icons of my applications.
But on the MacBook 13" display some of them are not displayed.
Is there a way to scroll the tools bar in order to see the entire set of icons?
A: I use AccessMenubarApps which works on the basic principle of temporarily replacing the current menubar with a shorter one to allow all the menubar icons to be visible. It can be accessed by clicking on the icon, via mouse gestures, or a configurable hotkey.
| Q: Is there a way to scroll the toolbar icons of an application? On a 24" display, there is enough space to display all the toolbar icons of my applications.
But on the MacBook 13" display some of them are not displayed.
Is there a way to scroll the tools bar in order to see the entire set of icons?
A: I use AccessMenubarApps which works on the basic principle of temporarily replacing the current menubar with a shorter one to allow all the menubar icons to be visible. It can be accessed by clicking on the icon, via mouse gestures, or a configurable hotkey.
A: Not exactly what you are looking for (not a scrolling solution), but you could have a look at Bartender. By putting the least important icons in there, and leaving the most important ones in place, you could have 2 levels of icons, hopefully giving enough real estate to display all of them in your 13" display.
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9c75a0a761375163bcba2864c65a6b287faad13e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Simplest way to get youtube videos to be saved locally on an iPad When coming across certain youtube videos (on a Mac) I don't have time to watch at the moment, I wish I could get them saved for later offline viewing on my iPad.
Is there some simple setup I could make that with just 1-3 clicks the video will get saved to the iPad?
A: You don't specify what web browser you use, but if you use FireFox a simple plugin like Easy You Tube Video Downloader may be just what you are looking for.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/easy-youtube-video-downl-10137/
For Chrome you can use the following:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-your-videos/pipiejpiplliidbnncmckaljhhchoihc
*
*Step 1: Find YouTube Video
*Step 2 (Click 1): Click "Download" button
*Step 3 (Click 2): Drag Downloaded video into iTunes, dropping on iPad icon
*Step 4 (Click 3): Click "Sync" can be via USB or via WiFi
*Step 5: Watch videos in the Videos app on iPad
| Q: Simplest way to get youtube videos to be saved locally on an iPad When coming across certain youtube videos (on a Mac) I don't have time to watch at the moment, I wish I could get them saved for later offline viewing on my iPad.
Is there some simple setup I could make that with just 1-3 clicks the video will get saved to the iPad?
A: You don't specify what web browser you use, but if you use FireFox a simple plugin like Easy You Tube Video Downloader may be just what you are looking for.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/easy-youtube-video-downl-10137/
For Chrome you can use the following:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-your-videos/pipiejpiplliidbnncmckaljhhchoihc
*
*Step 1: Find YouTube Video
*Step 2 (Click 1): Click "Download" button
*Step 3 (Click 2): Drag Downloaded video into iTunes, dropping on iPad icon
*Step 4 (Click 3): Click "Sync" can be via USB or via WiFi
*Step 5: Watch videos in the Videos app on iPad
A: The latest version of Free Video Converter by Freemake now supports direct downloading of Youtube Videos. I have used previous versions of this software and it is excellent.
http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/
You can download any video to iTunes and then convert them directly to your iPad (aswell as other iOS devices). Its provides the easiest way (so they claim) to transfer Youtube to iTunes fast and free
http://www.freemake.com/how_to/how_to_download_youtube_video_to_itunes
I find it an invaluable tool for my other downloads (although have not used it in the above regard)
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961f509c18ef018c50d945dabe5925c7d119ed6f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a dock available that can dock an iPhone (with bumper) The Apple dock cannot take the bumper, you need to take off the bumper.
I need a dock for work and at work where I can just slip my phone in (bumper and all).
Any ideas?
A: Amazon sells a dock from Oriongadget which will allow you to dock an iPhone with his bumper. It will cost you $23.00.
| Q: Is there a dock available that can dock an iPhone (with bumper) The Apple dock cannot take the bumper, you need to take off the bumper.
I need a dock for work and at work where I can just slip my phone in (bumper and all).
Any ideas?
A: Amazon sells a dock from Oriongadget which will allow you to dock an iPhone with his bumper. It will cost you $23.00.
A: Probably, not due to the large variation possible with iPhone cases it would be difficult for a exact fit to a specific dock you would almost nead a special dock for each case out there.
The good news is that there is a very good compromise solution and that is a dock connector extension that will allow the iPhone and case to be raised out of the dock and clear most obstructions with most cases and iPhone / iPod docks. Something such as the Dock Extender by SendStation should do what you want.
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6fd2a933bbf5ea82aeda184b6baf4c9dce3f699b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Skype on iPad won't stay online The Skype app requires me to constantly launch it if I want to receive any messages on my iPad. Switch away, and a couple of hours later it goes offline and stops receiving messages/calls. There is of course no indication whatsoever of whether it's still running in the background.
Is there a fix for this? Is this a bug in Skype that can only be fixed by Skype developers, or is there something I can do about this? Like some sort of a setting to allow Skype to stay open in the background.
A: Took me a lot of time to discover you have an option in iPhone (iPad) Settings app, you scroll down until you find Skype, and there you have the option to go offline automatically. Make sure this is set appropriately (e.g. to Never).
I'm running last version available today, 23rd of may 2012, both IOS and Skype.
Solved my problem few weeks ago.
| Q: Skype on iPad won't stay online The Skype app requires me to constantly launch it if I want to receive any messages on my iPad. Switch away, and a couple of hours later it goes offline and stops receiving messages/calls. There is of course no indication whatsoever of whether it's still running in the background.
Is there a fix for this? Is this a bug in Skype that can only be fixed by Skype developers, or is there something I can do about this? Like some sort of a setting to allow Skype to stay open in the background.
A: Took me a lot of time to discover you have an option in iPhone (iPad) Settings app, you scroll down until you find Skype, and there you have the option to go offline automatically. Make sure this is set appropriately (e.g. to Never).
I'm running last version available today, 23rd of may 2012, both IOS and Skype.
Solved my problem few weeks ago.
A: Hello to all and namaste, I had this same problem I could not get my skype online ie it had a permanent cross, I did a lot thing on Ipad 4.
This what I did on setting,
Go to setting
On the alert style I changed to ALERT a few day ago without any joy,
Today on ALERT
Below in SHOW IN NOTIFICATION CENTER I turned it off and I was online, I then turned it on and was still online
I am now waiting for someone to call me, hope his helps
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fa93e88eabb8f05a6ae5e708bf7ea1c03a7fca35 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to close application completely when clicking red button on any app? I'm a long time windows/Ubutnu user who have recently migrated to Mac OS X and running 10.7.4. One thing which i'm unable to get used to is that while the red button closes a window, the program will remain open until you quit the application using the Menu Bar. One option to bypass it is use the key combination Command+Q but by doing that all the instances of that program opens up the next time I open that application. Is there a way out?
A: You can't close the application by clicking on the red button, as you said it is meant to close the window...
Using cmd-q is not a bypass but the shortcut to close the application. And the windows are not instances of the application, they are in the same instance...
What bothers you is the "resume" functionality that restores the state of an application -- e.g. all open windows -- when you restart it.
Look here or here to see how you can tune or disable this "resume" feature.
| Q: How to close application completely when clicking red button on any app? I'm a long time windows/Ubutnu user who have recently migrated to Mac OS X and running 10.7.4. One thing which i'm unable to get used to is that while the red button closes a window, the program will remain open until you quit the application using the Menu Bar. One option to bypass it is use the key combination Command+Q but by doing that all the instances of that program opens up the next time I open that application. Is there a way out?
A: You can't close the application by clicking on the red button, as you said it is meant to close the window...
Using cmd-q is not a bypass but the shortcut to close the application. And the windows are not instances of the application, they are in the same instance...
What bothers you is the "resume" functionality that restores the state of an application -- e.g. all open windows -- when you restart it.
Look here or here to see how you can tune or disable this "resume" feature.
A: What you need is RedQuits. It allows to do exactly what you explained in your post.
I just arrived on Mac OS world two days ago, and I have been pretty confused about this functionality of Mac OS. Fortunately, there is a software to get around of this "issue".
It works nicely on 10.10.4.
A: Indeed, there are some applications which will close completly when hitting the red button, while others will just close a window. I'm afraid you can't do nothing about it, as it's a developers choice.
What you can do is disable the Auto-Open, so the Command+Q shortcut will do exactly what you want.
To do so, just go to System Preferences > General and uncheck "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps".
A: To do so, just go to System Preferences > General and uncheck "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps".
This solved my problem!
A: Do u want to say 'cmd+Q'instead of ctrl-q.
& are u sure about your stmt "When I press all the instances of that program opens up the next time I open that application".
As far as i know, if you quit application it will not open your last opened docs. It will just remain in "Open recent" option from File menu
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c2ebca107cf8667cc80691cb86779af46ae08f8d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I remove original music file after imported into iTunes w/ copy enabled I've been putting all my music into a folder 'Music' then going to itunes and importing into library. The copy to itunes/media setting is enabled.
Does that mean after the music is copied I can delete the original? So all it needs is the music files it copies into home > music > itunes > itunesmedia > music. Or are they still used?
A: Yes - unless there is something wrong with iTunes and it didn't copy the song, you can delete these second copies of songs.
I would use spotlight to check before you delete things until you gain confidence that the copy is working as designed. In the long run, it will be faster to let iTunes move the files so you don't need to clean things up.
Also, a good Time Machine backup can help if you accidentally delete too much.
| Q: Can I remove original music file after imported into iTunes w/ copy enabled I've been putting all my music into a folder 'Music' then going to itunes and importing into library. The copy to itunes/media setting is enabled.
Does that mean after the music is copied I can delete the original? So all it needs is the music files it copies into home > music > itunes > itunesmedia > music. Or are they still used?
A: Yes - unless there is something wrong with iTunes and it didn't copy the song, you can delete these second copies of songs.
I would use spotlight to check before you delete things until you gain confidence that the copy is working as designed. In the long run, it will be faster to let iTunes move the files so you don't need to clean things up.
Also, a good Time Machine backup can help if you accidentally delete too much.
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28a004b1c038cef56927c5c506cecd073a774efe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iOS Updating: OTA vs iTunes Is there a difference between updating iOS via OTA or iTunes? I have done some pretty good mucking around with my iPhone 4S's filesystem (e.g. deleting my Music folder). I have an inkling that the iTunes update is more thorough, and will reformat my entire filesystem, while I'm not so sure about the OTA update.
Does anyone have any in-depth knowledge they'd like to share on the matter?
Edit: I'll be going from 5.0.1 to 5.1.1
A: As @bmike notes, the processes are similar for OTA or iTunes. The OTA updates supply the deltas while the iTunes updates the whole build. The iTunes update also seems to run faster from my experience (purely anecdotal).
One big difference from my standpoint is the mandatory backup that occurs if you back up over iTunes - you can also transfer purchases and do any other management activities before the update. You can backup via Wifi with the OTA method as well, but that's a separate step that you'll need to explicitly kick off.
| Q: iOS Updating: OTA vs iTunes Is there a difference between updating iOS via OTA or iTunes? I have done some pretty good mucking around with my iPhone 4S's filesystem (e.g. deleting my Music folder). I have an inkling that the iTunes update is more thorough, and will reformat my entire filesystem, while I'm not so sure about the OTA update.
Does anyone have any in-depth knowledge they'd like to share on the matter?
Edit: I'll be going from 5.0.1 to 5.1.1
A: As @bmike notes, the processes are similar for OTA or iTunes. The OTA updates supply the deltas while the iTunes updates the whole build. The iTunes update also seems to run faster from my experience (purely anecdotal).
One big difference from my standpoint is the mandatory backup that occurs if you back up over iTunes - you can also transfer purchases and do any other management activities before the update. You can backup via Wifi with the OTA method as well, but that's a separate step that you'll need to explicitly kick off.
A: My understanding is that the update process is the same for both methods.
With the exceptions that iTunes downloads a several hundred megabyte IPSW file that can be used to do a more complete "restore" if needed. It is the "restore" that will reformat the filesystem etc.
A: Yes at first approximation they are the same, but the mechanism of the update is different since one can be a delta and self-applied update and the other installs a complete build rather than patching the OS.
Digging deeper, the OTA update implies the OS and device is working properly, so Finder or iTunes is a good bet if you really want to ensure the update goes well or want to put the device into recovery mode to ensure the new OS and only the new OS is written. Obviously, if the device is having problems, you may opt for a computer to control the update rather than hoping the device stages, installs and executed cleanup of the patch properly.
Assuming your device is working well, you can safely update OTA and in many cases - the download is a delta update that is smaller than the entire image if you are doing an update that isn't a major version (4.0 or 5.0 which started the OTA capabilities and presumably 6.0 when it ships).
Using Finder or iTunes also gives you a chance to transfer purchases and reduce the number of apps you will have to re-download after a major update. Again, not an issue on incremental updates like 5.1.1 update from 5.1.
*
*iOS version history on wikipedia
*About iOS 5.1.1
In practice, this even has been called out as a deciding factor for the jailbreak that was first released for iOS 7 where the notes said the exploit won't work against an OTA iOS 7 device, and only against a cleanly restored device. I don't know if that has to do with the signing key or an actual difference in the two images, but it shows that the processes are indeed different in some respects.
A: If you want to jailbreak later like for ios 7.1.4 or lower so update it on itunes not OTA
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674d56b0f3e4682454eb2266a7ee5223d8c0d110 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does my Terminal command line screw up like this? (bash's fault?) When I use the command line history ( CtrlR , CtrlP )
The command line screws up like this:
The cursor is supposedly located at the end of the line ( just pressed CtrlE )
If I press enter, just source ~/.bash_profile is executed, the rest is just rubbish on the screen.
Although it works as it should, I'd like the terminal to not be visually broken.
edit:
This is my PS1:
PS1="\033[0;31m[mac] \033[0;37m\w\033[1;36m> \033[1;0m"
A: It's most likely an issue with what you've set your PS1 to in your .bashrc or .bash_profile. Specifically, I'd expect it's related to incorrect escape sequences.
Here is a link with more information. It's hard to tell exactly without seeing what your PS1 is set to.
| Q: Why does my Terminal command line screw up like this? (bash's fault?) When I use the command line history ( CtrlR , CtrlP )
The command line screws up like this:
The cursor is supposedly located at the end of the line ( just pressed CtrlE )
If I press enter, just source ~/.bash_profile is executed, the rest is just rubbish on the screen.
Although it works as it should, I'd like the terminal to not be visually broken.
edit:
This is my PS1:
PS1="\033[0;31m[mac] \033[0;37m\w\033[1;36m> \033[1;0m"
A: It's most likely an issue with what you've set your PS1 to in your .bashrc or .bash_profile. Specifically, I'd expect it's related to incorrect escape sequences.
Here is a link with more information. It's hard to tell exactly without seeing what your PS1 is set to.
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a81d7b47de414fb05a9471d7d3b0d9d0427dafc9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: The system preference panes will not load When I open System Preferences and click on an item it says 'Loading Users & Groups' at the top of the window, but will not load the pane.
I've tried deleting the property list file:
/library/preferences/com.apple.systempreference.plist
I also tried clearing the PRAM and booting in Safe Mode.
A: Have you looked in the console? Maybe you'll find some error messages there which can narrow the problem down.
You can view log files in Console, located in /Applications/Utilities.
Have you tried to check (and maybe repair) the file rights. You can do this with disk utility.
About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature
| Q: The system preference panes will not load When I open System Preferences and click on an item it says 'Loading Users & Groups' at the top of the window, but will not load the pane.
I've tried deleting the property list file:
/library/preferences/com.apple.systempreference.plist
I also tried clearing the PRAM and booting in Safe Mode.
A: Have you looked in the console? Maybe you'll find some error messages there which can narrow the problem down.
You can view log files in Console, located in /Applications/Utilities.
Have you tried to check (and maybe repair) the file rights. You can do this with disk utility.
About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature
A: Boot in single user mode (Hold down SHIFT key right after hitting the power button until the Apple Logo appears), Login, Launch System Preferences, Load the Preferences Pane that is not working, Restart Mac OS X. That worked for me when nothing else did.
A: Sometimes it's just enough to quit the System Preferences app. Check if the process was ended well, i.e. use Activity Monitor (also to quit "System Preferences" app). In my recent case it was not necessary to force quit, just select the process and quit was enough.
Alternatively Force Quit if System Preferences is open and in the Doc, just do a secondary click on the System Preferences icon, hit [alt] key "Quit" will change got "Force Quit" and click that.
After restarting the app the preference pane (in my case time machine pane) could be loaded as expected.
Lately it happened, that the described method didn't work, after force quit I still couldn't open the preference pane. I found that waiting a little (few minutes) before reopening helped, because when I was not able to reopen the pane I searched for a different solution, coming back to System Preferences – without doing anything else – was able to open the desired pane.
A: What I've done is just simply open every pane from the left upper corner to the right lower corner. After that, the "security and privacy" pane resume normal.
No need for even a reboot.
A: Restart, Hold Shift key right after your screen shut down to run safe mode, go to display preferences again to check if is can be opened, and then restart -> Done, I tried and it worked on OS 10.12.3.
p/s: I found out this solution of Claeton in this post. Thanks a lot!
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d5133837473eed4d8f499b609a258e97fe3835da | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to only import JPG on iPad when shooting in RAW+JPEG I shoot in RAW+JPEG mode. When I import photo to the iPad using the camera connection kit, it imports both versions of each file. Is there a way to only import the JPG version?
| Q: How to only import JPG on iPad when shooting in RAW+JPEG I shoot in RAW+JPEG mode. When I import photo to the iPad using the camera connection kit, it imports both versions of each file. Is there a way to only import the JPG version?
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f4c009dc28618bcf9ce835660d64541babbc124e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I rename the columns in Numbers? I'm working with a language file, with columns for different languages. My first row is the language names.
Is it possible to have the "A", "B", "C", etc as language names instead. That way, when I scroll I can still identify each column.
A: As often happens, a couple of minutes after posting the question, I found a way to do this.
In the Inspector, (opt-cmd-i), in the Table Inspector tab click on the middle button of Headers and Footers. Select the option Freeze Header Rows and the first row will stick to the top.
| Q: How can I rename the columns in Numbers? I'm working with a language file, with columns for different languages. My first row is the language names.
Is it possible to have the "A", "B", "C", etc as language names instead. That way, when I scroll I can still identify each column.
A: As often happens, a couple of minutes after posting the question, I found a way to do this.
In the Inspector, (opt-cmd-i), in the Table Inspector tab click on the middle button of Headers and Footers. Select the option Freeze Header Rows and the first row will stick to the top.
A: I would think it would be better to freeze the first row and by so, it will be visible all over the document when you scroll. But unfortunately, this function isn't wasn't available in Numbers.
You might try editing the document in Print View. The columns and rows are repeated as you scroll, which allows you to see what column/row you are on. Numbers does allow editing in print view. It's not exactly what you are looking for, but it's a solution.
Edit: And as you've answered your own question, it looks like this function is available at this moment.
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22b6d0bf4e128745335410b08b71c8bff857bf8a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Word 2011: Keyboard shortcuts for accepting/rejecting a tracked change AND moving to the next change Is there such a built-in shortcut for doing such action pairs? (e.g. accept+move to next, using a single shortcut)
If not, how can I define such a custom shortcut?
A: This is actually quite easy to do, once you know where to look. (Unfortunately for me I didn't know about this until my thesis was done. Not that I'm bitter or anything.)
1) In MSWord, go to the Tools Menu and then choose "Customize Keyboard"
2) Under "Categories" choose "All Commands" and then look for "AcceptChangesAndAdvance". Select it, then click in the box next to "Press new keyboard shortcut" as shown here:
3) Enter an unused keyboard combination (I chose ⌘ + ⌥ + Y for "Yes I want this change"). Note that the "Assign" button is now activated. Use it. Then click "OK".
That should be all you need to do.
| Q: Word 2011: Keyboard shortcuts for accepting/rejecting a tracked change AND moving to the next change Is there such a built-in shortcut for doing such action pairs? (e.g. accept+move to next, using a single shortcut)
If not, how can I define such a custom shortcut?
A: This is actually quite easy to do, once you know where to look. (Unfortunately for me I didn't know about this until my thesis was done. Not that I'm bitter or anything.)
1) In MSWord, go to the Tools Menu and then choose "Customize Keyboard"
2) Under "Categories" choose "All Commands" and then look for "AcceptChangesAndAdvance". Select it, then click in the box next to "Press new keyboard shortcut" as shown here:
3) Enter an unused keyboard combination (I chose ⌘ + ⌥ + Y for "Yes I want this change"). Note that the "Assign" button is now activated. Use it. Then click "OK".
That should be all you need to do.
A: There are good help pages direct in the application or online.
Word keyboard shortcuts
There are some for reviewing documents, but not for what you search.
But you should create your own: Create or delete a keyboard shortcut
A: *
*Save the document as Word 98/2000 .doc format
*Open in Word 98
*Tools/track changes/accept or reject changes
*Find next
*Either click accept or reject, which will do so and automatically find next, or "find next" which will leave the tracked change and find next
A: In office 2007 you can set a custom shortkey at "File -> Options -> Customize Ribbon"
There set a nice key, like ctrl-shift-Arrow :)
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345b22d572e81211dfa887c784c543f050a00218 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: how to find out the start time of last sleep Is there a command to find the date and time at which a Macintosh computer last entered the sleep mode?
A: You can use the pmset command to obtain this information. The following command obtains a log of the sleep/wake entries then restricts this to the last entry in the list which should be the most recent sleep:
pmset -g log | grep sleep | tail -n 1
You can obviously play around with anything after pmset -g log to give you what you need.
| Q: how to find out the start time of last sleep Is there a command to find the date and time at which a Macintosh computer last entered the sleep mode?
A: You can use the pmset command to obtain this information. The following command obtains a log of the sleep/wake entries then restricts this to the last entry in the list which should be the most recent sleep:
pmset -g log | grep sleep | tail -n 1
You can obviously play around with anything after pmset -g log to give you what you need.
A: There may be a more efficient way to get the exact last time, but on lion you can search for powerd entries in /private/var/log/system.log
If you like terminal, something like grep powerd /private/var/log/system.log works well. The Console app also has a nice search ability to filter these logs.
If there was no sleep event since the last time the the log file rolled over, you can use Console or bzgrep instead of grep to search the system.log.*.bz2 files.
A: You can also use pmset -g log | grep LidOpen if you want to know when the lid of your MacBook was opened.
A: Actually, something like
pmset -g log|grep -e " Sleep " -e " Wake "
is what really gives me a clean timeline of sleep/wake events on 10.8.2. powerd does not log anything about it, at least on my system (10.8.2, MacBook Pro Retina 15).
02/03/13 19:48:37 GMT-03 Sleep Maintenance Sleep Sleep: Using AC (Charge:99%) 26 secs
02/03/13 19:49:03 GMT-03 Sleep Maintenance Sleep Sleep: Using AC (Charge:99%) 27 secs
02/03/13 19:49:30 GMT-03 Sleep Maintenance Sleep Sleep: Using AC (Charge:99%) 26 secs
02/03/13 19:49:56 GMT-03 Sleep Maintenance Sleep Sleep: Using AC (Charge:99%) 26 secs
02/03/13 19:50:22 GMT-03 Sleep Maintenance Sleep Sleep: Using AC (Charge:99%) 26 secs
02/03/13 19:50:48 GMT-03 Sleep Maintenance Sleep Sleep: Using AC (Charge:99%) 26 secs
02/03/13 19:51:14 GMT-03 Sleep Maintenance Sleep Sleep: Using AC (Charge:100%) 1802 secs
02/03/13 20:39:17 GMT-03 Sleep Maintenance Sleep Sleep: Using BATT (Charge:100%) 244 secs
02/03/13 20:43:21 GMT-03 Sleep Maintenance Sleep Sleep: Using AC (Charge:100%) 51 secs
02/03/13 21:07:17 GMT-03 Sleep Maintenance Sleep Sleep: Using BATT (Charge:100%) 242 secs
02/03/13 21:11:19 GMT-03 Sleep Maintenance Sleep Sleep: Using AC (Charge:100%) 1103 secs
02/03/13 21:29:42 GMT-03 Wake Wake due to EC.LidOpen/Lid Open: Using AC (Charge:100%)
03/03/13 00:00:26 GMT-03 Sleep Idle Sleep Sleep: Using BATT (Charge:85%) 96 secs
03/03/13 00:02:02 GMT-03 Sleep Maintenance Sleep Sleep: Using AC (Charge:85%) 38 secs
03/03/13 00:02:40 GMT-03 Wake Wake due to EHC1/HID Activity: Using AC (Charge:85%) 4338 secs
03/03/13 01:14:58 GMT-03 Sleep Clamshell Sleep to DarkWake: Using AC (Charge:100%) 48382 secs
03/03/13 14:41:20 GMT-03 Wake DarkWake to FullWake due to HID Activity: Using AC (Charge:100%) 728 secs
03/03/13 14:53:28 GMT-03 Sleep Clamshell Sleep to DarkWake: Using AC (Charge:100%) 415 secs
03/03/13 15:00:23 GMT-03 Wake DarkWake to FullWake due to HID Activity: Using AC (Charge:100%) 718 secs
03/03/13 15:12:21 GMT-03 Sleep Clamshell Sleep to DarkWake: Using AC (Charge:100%) 156 secs
03/03/13 15:14:57 GMT-03 Wake DarkWake to FullWake due to HID Activity: Using AC (Charge:100%) 834 secs
03/03/13 15:28:51 GMT-03 Sleep Clamshell Sleep to DarkWake: Using AC (Charge:100%) 378 secs
03/03/13 15:35:09 GMT-03 Wake DarkWake to FullWake due to HID Activity: Using AC (Charge:100%)
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533ce2232b952cfa513e5f203ee719ae9f8321dc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a GUI SSH client for OS X? I know that SSH from the command line is easy enough, but would like to give my students that use OS X a GUI option.
Is there a PuTTY equivalent for the Mac?
A: You could also take a look as ZOC6 seems pretty cool.
ZOC6 product page
| Q: Is there a GUI SSH client for OS X? I know that SSH from the command line is easy enough, but would like to give my students that use OS X a GUI option.
Is there a PuTTY equivalent for the Mac?
A: You could also take a look as ZOC6 seems pretty cool.
ZOC6 product page
A: The best GUI application for SSH (and everything else you can do on the command line) is iTerm 2. While the original iTerm had a tabbed interface before Terminal did, iTerm 2 again eclipses Terminal by adding:
*
*Support for 256 colors (you'll never go back to 16 colors after using 256)
*Split panes (the sort of thing you can do in GNU screen or tmux, but at the level of the terminal emulator rather than in a program running on the server)
*Special provision for integrating with tmux (an alternative to GNU screen, and which most people regard as better & faster than screen)
*Terminal-level auto-completion (I don't use this feature so I can't detail how it has advantages over shell-level autocompletion: especially if you use the fish shell or zsh, then it may not be better)
*Growl support
*an Exposé-like view of your tabs
*a full-screen view (and you can choose from either its own or OS X's built-in full-screen mode; I greatly prefer iTerm's own full-screen mode, since it doesn't force you to move to a new 'Space', thus allowing Command-Tab to still work properly)
*paste history (a good complement to the shells' command histories)
*Search
*Instant Replay
and a lot more. Some are mentioned here but some are not, such as co-processes, triggers,smart selection, semantic history, and so on. Development is pretty active, but documentation seems to lag behind. I highly recommend it. I've been using it for years now and have never missed Terminal.
(It's possible Terminal does some of the things I mention here--it's been so long since I've used it that I don't recall, but when I switched I paid close attention to the differences and there were lots of advantages to iTerm. And it keeps getting better every few weeks or months.)
A: Fugu is what you are looking for.
A: Configure ssh options and connect to ssh hosts manually always make me feel bored and have a lot of trouble. At Codinn we made a couple of GUI tools to make using ssh effortless. Those tools helped ourselves, and may also help you.
Core Shell is a PuTTY alike tool with lots of extra features:
*
*Full-featured terminal, supports 24bit true color.
*Support everything in OpenSSH, agent forwarding, certificates, proxy jump, etc.
*Can read your existing ssh_config file as the source of advanced options, especially helpful for experienced users.
*Also included advanced options editor, a handy way to tune per-host advanced options.
*Tightly integrated with macOS Keychain, don't have to enter passwords or passphrases repeatedly.
*Always tries to restore your connections after network failure or waking up from sleep.
A: If you are looking for something that keeps track of servers/connections via a GUI, Terminal.app will already do that for you. Launch it and then from the menu select Shell > New Remote Connection. This will give you a connections manager window.
A: You could try SecureCRT and SecureFX from VanDyke Software.
A: I'm getting along well with Royal TSX.
This is useful for SSH, RDP and VNC based terminals or web-based interfaces.
It has a built-in credential management and team-sharing features.
A: You need to try Termius (available also as mobile app)
A: vSSH is actually an ssh client based on putty. I got it from the app store for about $10.00, so it's a great deal compared to ZOC.
A: Just download Wine and download PuTTy.exe and right click and run through wine and when wine opens hit enter (application support) and give it a second and it will open, just make sure you have a server
A: If you want to start a gui program from ssh, you can use x11 and relay it with xeyes.
See https://dyhr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-enable-x11-forwarding-with-ssh-on-mac-os-x-leopard/
A: CyberDuck is a great option. I used it this semester in complement with Terminal. (CyberDuck is fully functional, we just coded in VI, so using the Terminal for SSH worked better for me.)
You can get CyberDuck for free online, or at a cost on the App Store.
Another option is FileZilla. I used it on Windows for FTP, but I believe that it supports SSH as well. It definitely runs on Mac as well as Windows, so it's another option. FileZilla is also free.
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fba1497f2d745c1c04be004b1201f2ff8a3d9514 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I get iTunes to just play one album? I'm new to iTunes and I was wondering how I get it to play just one album? At present I have "Grid" view enabled. I select the artist I feel like listening to, and it switches to Album by Artist view (songs and artwork).
I double click on the album and it plays through, but then it continues down and plays the next album by the artist... Quite annoying!
How can I get iTunes to just play the album I've told it to?
A: You can go to the menu bar and select View » Column Browser » Show Column Browser. Then you can pick an Album in the third column, and only songs on that album will appear in the iTunes window. Note that this will switch you from the Grid view to the List view.
| Q: How do I get iTunes to just play one album? I'm new to iTunes and I was wondering how I get it to play just one album? At present I have "Grid" view enabled. I select the artist I feel like listening to, and it switches to Album by Artist view (songs and artwork).
I double click on the album and it plays through, but then it continues down and plays the next album by the artist... Quite annoying!
How can I get iTunes to just play the album I've told it to?
A: You can go to the menu bar and select View » Column Browser » Show Column Browser. Then you can pick an Album in the third column, and only songs on that album will appear in the iTunes window. Note that this will switch you from the Grid view to the List view.
A: It's rather easier than these solutions. Click the icon view beside the search and select the Albums tab at the top so the icons show albums rather than Artists or Composers. Then when you hover over an album you can click "Play Album" to play it. You can also double click the album to see all the songs making sure they are ordered by song number (if necessary).
This way you can also by command or shift clicking select multiple albums.
Or you can show with the second icon ordered by album by artist. In this view an artist search will help:
A: While in List view you could:
*
*If using Play Random Song, just search for the name of the album, and play. Unless you clear the search box, the played songs will be the ones from the search.
*If you're not using it, just order the list by Album and play the first song. The rest of the album will play afterwards.
You could, too, create a new PlayList, drag all the songs from that album, and play.
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bd53907379540a3cb5c15ab263591e6e62312beb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it safe to delete the contents of Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup if using iCloud? My /Users/{username}/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup is 5GB and I'd really like to reclaim that space if I can.
I back up my iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch to iCloud, so is there any reason not to simply delete the 9000+ legacy backups in this folder?
A: Added macOS Catalina 10.15 update below for delete backup instructions
*
*Connect the device
*On a Mac with macOS Catalina 10.15 or later, open the Finder. On a Mac with macOS Mojave 10.14 or earlier, or on a PC, open iTunes. Click your device.
*In Finder, under the General tab, click Manage Backups to see a list of your backups. From here, you can right-click on the backup that you want, then select Delete or Archive. In iTunes, choose Preferences, then click Devices. From here, you can right-click on the backup that you want, then choose Delete or Archive. Click OK when you're finished.
*Click Delete Backup, then confirm.
Official documentation: https://support.apple.com/en-hk/HT204215#deleteiTunes
| Q: Is it safe to delete the contents of Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup if using iCloud? My /Users/{username}/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup is 5GB and I'd really like to reclaim that space if I can.
I back up my iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch to iCloud, so is there any reason not to simply delete the 9000+ legacy backups in this folder?
A: Added macOS Catalina 10.15 update below for delete backup instructions
*
*Connect the device
*On a Mac with macOS Catalina 10.15 or later, open the Finder. On a Mac with macOS Mojave 10.14 or earlier, or on a PC, open iTunes. Click your device.
*In Finder, under the General tab, click Manage Backups to see a list of your backups. From here, you can right-click on the backup that you want, then select Delete or Archive. In iTunes, choose Preferences, then click Devices. From here, you can right-click on the backup that you want, then choose Delete or Archive. Click OK when you're finished.
*Click Delete Backup, then confirm.
Official documentation: https://support.apple.com/en-hk/HT204215#deleteiTunes
A: Yes, it is safe to delete it, if you are sure you want to lose those backups.
To do so, in a more elegant way, just:
*
*Open iTunes Preferences
*Click Devices
*Locate the backup for the iOS device you want to delete, select it, and click Delete Backup.
*Confirm you wish to remove the selected backup by clicking Delete Backup.
*Click OK to close the iTunes Preferences Window.
Extracted from Apple's support document about iOs backups.
Confirmed: Deleting through iTunes will delete all the backUp files of the selected device.
A: it is absolutely safe if you do not require them.
to delete the backups on mac with osx 13+ you shall need to go to finder.
there find your drive and select manage storage,
finally there you will find your ios backups
to see your drive you need to enable it in finder sidebar
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5f6447b5b511897a4b7826288869ce9a9b6a13e7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Apple Wi-Fi Dropping at Random Times I'm sure that my Wi-Fi router is fine because my MacBook is the only one with this issue. I see this happen especially when I use Skype, FaceTime, etc. This has been going on for a month and can't really find a fix.
I did see that OS X 10.7 Lion has some connectivity issue but don't think it has been solved. I have tried many tips told by other users. I hope someone from here can help me.
I get an error saying "Connection Timeout".
Thank You
| Q: Apple Wi-Fi Dropping at Random Times I'm sure that my Wi-Fi router is fine because my MacBook is the only one with this issue. I see this happen especially when I use Skype, FaceTime, etc. This has been going on for a month and can't really find a fix.
I did see that OS X 10.7 Lion has some connectivity issue but don't think it has been solved. I have tried many tips told by other users. I hope someone from here can help me.
I get an error saying "Connection Timeout".
Thank You
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5c50bba68cf9196a8d7f9d7d85bc8f446db1c563 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Audio meter tool? I'm looking for an audio meter tool that will attach to any input or output on my Mac and show me the audio levels on that channel. I need it to show me independent levels for stereo sources so I can tell if a source is playing only audio on one channel or another.
Does anything like this exist?
A: I'd start with Piezo and move up to Audio Hijack Pro if needed.
It's small, gorgeous, and minimal and you get some nice old school VU meters showing the left and right channels.
| Q: Audio meter tool? I'm looking for an audio meter tool that will attach to any input or output on my Mac and show me the audio levels on that channel. I need it to show me independent levels for stereo sources so I can tell if a source is playing only audio on one channel or another.
Does anything like this exist?
A: I'd start with Piezo and move up to Audio Hijack Pro if needed.
It's small, gorgeous, and minimal and you get some nice old school VU meters showing the left and right channels.
A: I'm on 10.10 and the Orban Loudness Meter no longer works properly (it's unreadable).
Audio Hijack lets you set up three style of meters: Peak/RMS, VU meters, and menubar meters. You don't have to be recording. It costs $50 but will work for 10 minutes each session before inserting static into the audio.
A: Another tool is audacity. It has a stereo level monitor.
See http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity is free and open source, but it's a recorder and editor, which may be more than you want.
A: Update: I've talked with Orban about updating this metering tool for OS X 10.10 and beyond and unfortunately they're not interested in doing this work nor did they want to release the code as open source for others to achieve it. I highly recommend looking at one of the other answers if you're on El Capitan or newer.
For the past 8 months or so I've been using the free Orban Loudness Meter to do metering on arbitrary audio signals on my Mac. It has pretty good support for snooping on the real audio interfaces I have connected to my machine. And when its built-in snooping doesn't work, I'll route audio through it using SoundFlower.
The UI isn't pretty but it is by far and away the best loudness meter I've used, including paid options. It's meant for professional metering with an audience of radio and television post-production audio professionals.
It implements some of the new weighted average standards in metering that are designed to get The Loudness Wars under control -- they're weighted such that maximal limiting of the signal ends up showing an overall lower output average power. It encourages mixing for dynamics instead of mixing for loud.
Their Mac 2.0.6 version has been running just fine for me on OS X 10.9.x Mavericks.
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2e4bc6e687d7b69016ff7636c42cbdcb10c00c79 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Setting the default calendar in iOS? In the calendar app (iCal?) in iOS, is it possible to set a default calendar? Every time I go to add a scheduled event when I am at work, it picks the wrong calendar to add it to, and if I could just set a default I could save alot of time on that.
A: Settings -> Mail Contacts Calendars - > Calender -> Defaultcalendar
| Q: Setting the default calendar in iOS? In the calendar app (iCal?) in iOS, is it possible to set a default calendar? Every time I go to add a scheduled event when I am at work, it picks the wrong calendar to add it to, and if I could just set a default I could save alot of time on that.
A: Settings -> Mail Contacts Calendars - > Calender -> Defaultcalendar
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3263e50481ca74a94765a21d7b3f1d883705a232 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Control arrow key to jump to the next word I have OS X 10.6.8 and I run MS Word:Mac 2011. I programmed the keyboard to allow me to jump from word to word in a document by hitting Control + Arrow key. This makes word processing much faster. However, I lost this ability after an update some time ago. Now, when I hit Control + Arrow key OS X cycles through what I believe are Spaces on my desktop.
This is hugely annoying and I have no interest in using Spaces. I am perfectly happy to switch between apps using Alt + Tab. How do I go back to being able to use Control + Arrow key to navigate in a document in MS Word?
Thanks!
A: To disable the shortcut for switching to spaces go to the keyboard shortcuts tab of the keyboard preferences pane. Select Mission Control on the left and then un-check the 'Move left/right a space' options.
| Q: Control arrow key to jump to the next word I have OS X 10.6.8 and I run MS Word:Mac 2011. I programmed the keyboard to allow me to jump from word to word in a document by hitting Control + Arrow key. This makes word processing much faster. However, I lost this ability after an update some time ago. Now, when I hit Control + Arrow key OS X cycles through what I believe are Spaces on my desktop.
This is hugely annoying and I have no interest in using Spaces. I am perfectly happy to switch between apps using Alt + Tab. How do I go back to being able to use Control + Arrow key to navigate in a document in MS Word?
Thanks!
A: To disable the shortcut for switching to spaces go to the keyboard shortcuts tab of the keyboard preferences pane. Select Mission Control on the left and then un-check the 'Move left/right a space' options.
A: To move from word to word, you must use Option + arrow keys
A: It seems like OS X automatically re-assigns ⌥→ and ⌥← to jump one word forward/backward, as soon as you disable the 'switching space' shortcuts in the Mission Control.
System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts and uncheck the Mission Control shortcuts
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f0263e283c5d125b822c0799da02056168bcc691 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I do a pivot table in Numbers? I can't find any equivalent of the Excel Pivot Table or Open Office Data Table features. I'd like to sum up my data grouped by values in various columns.
For example, if I have
A B C
red left 2
red left 3
green left 4
green right 4
I want to be able to get
red green all
left 5 4 9
right 0 4 4
all 5 8 13
A: Assuming the tables are named Original and Pivot,
the cells in Pivot are filled using this formula:
=SUMIFS(Original::$C, Original::$A, "="& $A2, Original::$B, "="& B$1)
i.e. sum values in Original::$C if
*
*corresponding value in Original::$A = value in first column of Pivot
*corresponding value in Original::$B = value in first row of Pivot
The 'all' values are just simple sums of those rows or columns.
| Q: How do I do a pivot table in Numbers? I can't find any equivalent of the Excel Pivot Table or Open Office Data Table features. I'd like to sum up my data grouped by values in various columns.
For example, if I have
A B C
red left 2
red left 3
green left 4
green right 4
I want to be able to get
red green all
left 5 4 9
right 0 4 4
all 5 8 13
A: Assuming the tables are named Original and Pivot,
the cells in Pivot are filled using this formula:
=SUMIFS(Original::$C, Original::$A, "="& $A2, Original::$B, "="& B$1)
i.e. sum values in Original::$C if
*
*corresponding value in Original::$A = value in first column of Pivot
*corresponding value in Original::$B = value in first row of Pivot
The 'all' values are just simple sums of those rows or columns.
A: Pivot table simply do not exist in Numbers and as far as I know they have never existed. In previous versions however there was a feature called "Categories" which used to serve almost the same purpose, but unfortunately in the more recent versions many of the features has been removed and "Categories" is one of them. The only possible way I have found to emulate a pivot table was to use formulas to categorize different values and run an aggregate on the them. This technique is explained here in the following blog post:
How to mimic pivot tables in Numbers 3
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7bd569e9b3b58eecc4761ec377fb6d640a017eef | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to use iPhone camera as MacBook Pro iSight? Is there any software available which would allow me to use an iPhone 4S' camera as my MacBook Pro's iSight camera? I am specifically looking for something that would allow me to use my iPhone as New Movie Recording via QuickTime Player. Anything would be appreciated, really. Thanks!
A: There was once a project called iPhoneCam which allowed you to stream your iPhone video over WiFi to your Mac, but it seems like this project never got released.
However, there is an app called Peephole ($0,99) which, according to their support pages, will do the following:
Peephole for the iPhone is a unique iPhone application that lets you
use your iPhone as a wireless remote webcam
I haven't tested it myself, so I don't know for sure if it will work. But it should do the trick according to the developers.
| Q: How to use iPhone camera as MacBook Pro iSight? Is there any software available which would allow me to use an iPhone 4S' camera as my MacBook Pro's iSight camera? I am specifically looking for something that would allow me to use my iPhone as New Movie Recording via QuickTime Player. Anything would be appreciated, really. Thanks!
A: There was once a project called iPhoneCam which allowed you to stream your iPhone video over WiFi to your Mac, but it seems like this project never got released.
However, there is an app called Peephole ($0,99) which, according to their support pages, will do the following:
Peephole for the iPhone is a unique iPhone application that lets you
use your iPhone as a wireless remote webcam
I haven't tested it myself, so I don't know for sure if it will work. But it should do the trick according to the developers.
A: I don't like to disappoint you, but I think the chances are small.
These kind of camera follows a hardware protocol, and it will take a incredible amount of code to make it work.
Possible, but difficult. Plus, 1080p or even 720p from iPhone to MacBook Pro, I think the quality will be relatively poor.
A real web camera with support up to 1080p won't set you back a lot, take a look at some. I think they might be better at stability and stuff, after all that's what they're made for.
EDIT:
If you don't want to use it as iSight, just a video recording device that records directly to you Mac, here's a way.
AirPlay mirroring can mirror your iPhone display to Mac (actually Apple TV, but there's an app for that), and then record that. An app called Reflector (https://www.reflectorapp.com) made it really simple with built-in recording feature. You can show the camera app and record that. Of course that comes with a cost of ugly camera bar. I think you can find an app that shows camera without any distraction. And the end result is pretty outstanding considering it's over WiFi and
There is another way, video call to your Mac, and record that. But that's way too complicated.
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1be9dfdd88ead30691a7ebb05f076a8ea8b8d653 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to get Photo Booth not to flash when it takes a photo? Is there a way to get Photo Booth not to flash when it takes a photo?
It washes out every picture I take.
A: Your answer is Hold down Shift and click the red *button*
| Q: Is there a way to get Photo Booth not to flash when it takes a photo? Is there a way to get Photo Booth not to flash when it takes a photo?
It washes out every picture I take.
A: Your answer is Hold down Shift and click the red *button*
A: Hold down the shift key while taking the photo.
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d4b752d410dd6629ec104d5a5d5dc9de5393e149 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I hot-plug a DVI monitor in a Mac Pro? I have a Mac Pro with a DVI display, and I got a new DVI display for it.
I want to unplug the (only) display, and plug in the new display to that DVI port. And/or, unplug the existing display, and plug it into a DVI port on another (slower) graphics card. (Does that make sense?)
I've hot-swapped DVI displays on Mac laptops for years, but I've never done it with a Mac desktop. Will a Mac be cool with temporarily having zero displays?
A: Absolutely! At work we have multiple Mac Pro's that have 1 monitor between them hot-swapped and while there's up to 5 seconds of delay for the video to come through, it works great.
You can hot-swap displays, but not video cards - if that makes sense.
| Q: Can I hot-plug a DVI monitor in a Mac Pro? I have a Mac Pro with a DVI display, and I got a new DVI display for it.
I want to unplug the (only) display, and plug in the new display to that DVI port. And/or, unplug the existing display, and plug it into a DVI port on another (slower) graphics card. (Does that make sense?)
I've hot-swapped DVI displays on Mac laptops for years, but I've never done it with a Mac desktop. Will a Mac be cool with temporarily having zero displays?
A: Absolutely! At work we have multiple Mac Pro's that have 1 monitor between them hot-swapped and while there's up to 5 seconds of delay for the video to come through, it works great.
You can hot-swap displays, but not video cards - if that makes sense.
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0d963040cdbc871789f81d9fb62e0037e3e467b4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to memorize the Option key ⌥? I wonder if there is a good way to memorize the Option key ⌥. I almost always think of it as the Shift key, because it looks like a lower level and a higher level (the small hyphen elevated).
Or maybe a way to memorize it better is, what is the shape of this symbol for? I mean, what does it represent symbol wise?
A: The easiest way is this:
There is only one key on the entire bottom row of the keyboard with two items stacked on top of each other -- just like the ⌥ in question. I think this is a much simpler visual-mental association to remember.
| Q: How to memorize the Option key ⌥? I wonder if there is a good way to memorize the Option key ⌥. I almost always think of it as the Shift key, because it looks like a lower level and a higher level (the small hyphen elevated).
Or maybe a way to memorize it better is, what is the shape of this symbol for? I mean, what does it represent symbol wise?
A: The easiest way is this:
There is only one key on the entire bottom row of the keyboard with two items stacked on top of each other -- just like the ⌥ in question. I think this is a much simpler visual-mental association to remember.
A: I don't have an answer to the question, but I can suggest a solution to the problem. The two unlabeled modifier keys on the wireless & Macbook Pro keyboards are ⌥ and ^, for "option" and "control," respectively. If you imagine that the ^ symbol is sort of a sideways "C," you can remember that's control. Since ⌥ isn't "Control," it must be the "option" key.
Not a perfect solution by any means, but it's a workaround until they start printing the symbols on the keys again.
A: Weird/cool question!
I think I went through a similar thought process at one point: the way I think of it is like a set of train tracks. The train enters at the left and reaches a fork or split, giving it the option of the upper or lower path to the right. In the glyph, the tracks are set for the lower option.
Shift does have its own glyph: ⇧, which can be remembered as pushing the case of the typed letter up.
A: It's been suggested that the origin of the option key symbol lies in the symbols used in electrical diagrams to indicate a switch [1,2], allowing the electrical current to either go through the bottom or top route:
See also the section switches on the Wikipedia article “Electronic symbol”.
I remember reading that this isn't just a suggestion, but is the actual origin of the symbol but I can't find an authoritative source on that at the moment.
*
*http://www.quora.com/Keyboards-computer/What-is-the-origin-of-the-Macs-option-key-symbol-%E2%8C%A5
*https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1864469
A: There is a slash, so you have the option of the side with the hyphen and the side without.
A: All of the European Apple keyboards show, on the keys themselves, the icon for not just option, but shift, caps lock, command, tab, delete, and return. Check out the different languages they have available.
The Japanese Apple keyboards, like the American ones, don't have any of these icons, so they can commiserate with us.
I really have no clue why they don't do this for the American (and Japanese) keyboards, since it's so ridiculously useful.
The good news is that they seem to sell these keyboards in America now, and "standard shipping" is free, so if you can deal with some of the keys being slightly different (like "return" being double-tall), you can order yourself a nice new Belgian keyboard and sell your old American keyboard on craigslist!
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6875978cea47d3c4f568a261600e83f56a536faf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Fluid: when I try to login, my Fluid App launches the default browser instead I've created a Fluid App for my favorite website.
But there's a problem when I try to login to the website in the Fluid App I created: my default web browser (in my case, Safari) launches instead.
Why can't I login? Why does my Fluid App defer browsing to my default browser when I try to login to the website?
A: Todd's answer is correct, however, Google has since updated their URLs slightly, so...
instead of:
*google.com*/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth*
use:
*google.com*/ServiceLoginAuth*
PS I don't have enough rep to post this as a comment on the original answer :/
| Q: Fluid: when I try to login, my Fluid App launches the default browser instead I've created a Fluid App for my favorite website.
But there's a problem when I try to login to the website in the Fluid App I created: my default web browser (in my case, Safari) launches instead.
Why can't I login? Why does my Fluid App defer browsing to my default browser when I try to login to the website?
A: Todd's answer is correct, however, Google has since updated their URLs slightly, so...
instead of:
*google.com*/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth*
use:
*google.com*/ServiceLoginAuth*
PS I don't have enough rep to post this as a comment on the original answer :/
A: Fluid Apps try to keep your browsing limited to the website or webapp you chose when you created the Fluid App. Therefore, any Fluid App will send you to your system default web browser (like Safari or Firefox) if you browse to a URL "outside" that website.
Now, determining what constitutes a "website" is more black art than exact science. "Website" is in scare quotes because a website is a rather vague idea that may include documents and resources that are located on different servers... and therefore located in different URL domains.
Also, the login flow for many websites often quickly and quietly redirects you thru several URLs that may or may not look anything like the home URL you provided. This will cause Fluid to defer browsing to the system default browser.
Your Fluid App looks at any URL it is asked to display and tries to guess whether the resource at that URL is part of the same "website" as the home URL you provided. This is a tricky guessing game, and Fluid can never be 100% accurate out of the box.
The good news is that Fluid has a whitelist/blacklist feature for allowing/disallowing browsing to any URL pattern you choose. Basically, you need to define what constitutes your Fluid App's "website" to control what your Fluid App is allowed to do.
To configure this feature, go to your Fluid App's Application Menu (to the right of the Apple menu):
Preferences > Whitelist Preference Pane
In the Whitelist Prefpane, you can add/edit/remove URL patterns that will keep your Fluid App browsing only to URLs you would like. Select the "Allow browsing to URLs matching these patterns:" radio button.
In the "Pattern" table below, you should add a Wildcard Pattern for any URL which you want to your Fluid App to visit. Star ("*") is a special Wildcard character in this table. Star means "match anything here", and is a powerful way to easily include or exclude very large groups of URL patterns.
Alternatively, you can use full Regular Expressions instead of Wildcard Patterns by wrapping your URL pattern in forward slashes / like: /http:\/\/google\.com\/.+/. If you don't know what Regular Expressions are, forget I mentioned them. They're much more complicated, and Wildcard Patterns can almost always get the job done more easily.
If you find that your Fluid App is unnecessarily kicking you out to your default browser (say, Safari) you should try to determine the first URL that is loaded in Safari. This first URL is the one that Fluid thinks is not part of your "website". After determining that URL, you should add a pattern to the table described above to match that URL. I suggest applying stars liberally to the pattern so that Fluid will be more accepting of browsing to a similar URL.
Fluid also ships with a fair amount of "special case" code by default for some of the more well-known webapps. Basically, this means that Fluid has a collection of URL patterns that are known to work for some of the more popular webapps (especially ones that quickly redirect you to URLs that don't match the common home URLs), and Fluid will automatically insert these patterns on first launch. Gmail is a good example and the default patterns for Gmail are shown in the screenshot above.
A: If you're trying to do this with a local file, add the pattern file://* and everything works fine.
A: Once I opened the Gmail Calendar in the browser and copied the FULL URL, I was able to use that URL in the Fluid app to create a standalone app that was my Google Calendar. Previously I had only entered a shortened URL and was probably why a blank browser window was opening.
My advice is to go the the website first in your browser, then copy the URL for creating a new Fluid app.
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3e75b93a006cf4b98e19159825a6c325ef9cb461 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can't see new SSD when connected via internal SATA port I just bought a new Samsung SSD 830 and installed it my 13" MacBook Pro (Mid 2010) in the hard disk bay, replacing the drive that was there (I actually have a second drive in the optical drive's slot). Unfortunately, when I started up my computer (from the other drive I have), I can't see the SSD in System Information (formerly Profiler) or Disk Utility.
However, I see the drive fine when using a SATA-to-USB adapter and I also am able to see the old hard disk when it is connected via the internal SATA, so the internal wiring seems to be fine. Thus:
*
*HDD via USB: works
*SSD via USB: works
*HDD via internal SATA: works
*SSD via internal SATA: completely broken
Anyone have ideas for a fix?
A: It turned out that the hard drive cable was broken. Replacing it fixed the problem completely.
| Q: Can't see new SSD when connected via internal SATA port I just bought a new Samsung SSD 830 and installed it my 13" MacBook Pro (Mid 2010) in the hard disk bay, replacing the drive that was there (I actually have a second drive in the optical drive's slot). Unfortunately, when I started up my computer (from the other drive I have), I can't see the SSD in System Information (formerly Profiler) or Disk Utility.
However, I see the drive fine when using a SATA-to-USB adapter and I also am able to see the old hard disk when it is connected via the internal SATA, so the internal wiring seems to be fine. Thus:
*
*HDD via USB: works
*SSD via USB: works
*HDD via internal SATA: works
*SSD via internal SATA: completely broken
Anyone have ideas for a fix?
A: It turned out that the hard drive cable was broken. Replacing it fixed the problem completely.
A: If you have a windows computer around you might try updating the firmware. Also I'm curious about what happens if you start the computer from the recovery disk. It's not the drive and it's not the cable. I suppose you can try really make sure the cable is seated well. Alternatively, if it isn't too much of a hassle what happens when you take the extra drive in the optical bay out?
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0d4eba582c5899177da9bdd647b767ff2204901e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is Bluetooth battery information readable in Windows on Boot Camp? Is there any way to see the battery level of a Bluetooth device (e.g. magic mouse) in Windows with Boot Camp?
A: There is an application for Windows called "Bluetooth Battery Monitor." It is in beta right now, but I use it for my Ghostek SoDrop 2.0 headphones, and it works well.
You can download the beta at: https://www.bluetoothgoodies.com/
I don't think that BootCamp per se would make a difference as to whether the Windows program would work or not, or any program at all, for that matter.
| Q: Is Bluetooth battery information readable in Windows on Boot Camp? Is there any way to see the battery level of a Bluetooth device (e.g. magic mouse) in Windows with Boot Camp?
A: There is an application for Windows called "Bluetooth Battery Monitor." It is in beta right now, but I use it for my Ghostek SoDrop 2.0 headphones, and it works well.
You can download the beta at: https://www.bluetoothgoodies.com/
I don't think that BootCamp per se would make a difference as to whether the Windows program would work or not, or any program at all, for that matter.
A: Our software Magic Utilities can read the battery state of all Apple Bluetooth devices.
Besides this, we offer much better multi-touch and keyboard support than BootCamp and run on any Windows computer.
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b4f67c11110ab5381374b0bce7c44391505c0552 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Preview: Remove all annotations Is it possible, using Preview (or maybe some other tool if not doable with Preview, but Preview preferably) to remove all annotations from a PDF file, without manually deleting every annotation?
A: In the "Tools menu", choose "show inspector". In the inspector, select "Annotations inspector".
Press CMD+A to select all annotations, then click backspace to delete them.
| Q: Preview: Remove all annotations Is it possible, using Preview (or maybe some other tool if not doable with Preview, but Preview preferably) to remove all annotations from a PDF file, without manually deleting every annotation?
A: In the "Tools menu", choose "show inspector". In the inspector, select "Annotations inspector".
Press CMD+A to select all annotations, then click backspace to delete them.
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ab765190643804c3f13e34ee02d521ec8c4b31ee | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a shortcut to get to the bottom of a long email on iPad or iPhone? I get some long emails in which the important stuff is at the bottom after many pages. It is tedious to scroll down. Is there a way to get to the bottom quickly? Either for iPhone iPad or both.
A: I'm afraid no such shortcut exists.
| Q: Is there a shortcut to get to the bottom of a long email on iPad or iPhone? I get some long emails in which the important stuff is at the bottom after many pages. It is tedious to scroll down. Is there a way to get to the bottom quickly? Either for iPhone iPad or both.
A: I'm afraid no such shortcut exists.
A: You can create the following bookmark which will scroll you to the bottom of the page:
javascript:scroll(0,document.getElementsByTagName( %22body%22)%5B0%5D.scrollHeight);
Source: http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-help/69590-quickly-go-bottom-page.html
A: iOS does not provide a shortcut for skipping directly to the bottom of documents, but there is a reasonable alternative, if you're not already aware of it: scrolling views in iOS respond to swipe frequency, scrolling more quickly the more quickly and frequently you swipe the screen.
While swiping a long document, email, or webpage, try several long, quick swipes in rapid succession: you should notice the scrolling speed accelerate accordingly. This isn't nearly as elegant as a tap shortcut, but does let you quickly skip to the bottom of a long view.
A: Here's a workaround I just figured out: Just make a comment at the top and bottom of the document. When you view the top comment, you can then use the < in the comment navigation to quickly go to the bottom comment. As mentioned before, you can quickly navigate to the top at any time by tapping the clock in the topbar. Even if you make a lot of comments, you can always navigate < from the top to the very last comment. You can also make comments as chapter, indexing, or placeholding markers and quickly navigate large documents. Hope this helps!
A: Try double tapping at either side of the screen at the edge
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4b46fc957e2e2cfa4cf034e5a9199874f94ce19c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Are all eBooks in the iBookstore DRM protected? A few weeks ago I bought a book in the iBookstore. The title of this book is "Der Aurora Effekt" (German). Then a few weeks later I bought the book "The Tributes of Panem" (German version).
The first title I can copy to my Kobo eBook reader and read the book. But "The Tributes of Panem" was not readable!
Is it possible that not all books are DRM protected?
A: Yes.
(Not all books are DRM protected.)
Per the official iBooks FAQ...
How can I determine which books are copy-protected (DRM) versus those that are DRM-free?
iTunes can show you the kind of book you have by selecting the book and then choosing File > Get Info.
*
*If the Kind is marked as Book, this is a book you downloaded from the Internet.
*If it is listed as Purchased Book, it is a DRM-free book downloaded from the iBookstore.
*If it is listed as Protected Book, it is a copy-protected book from the iBookstore.
Only "protected books" have DRM protection.
| Q: Are all eBooks in the iBookstore DRM protected? A few weeks ago I bought a book in the iBookstore. The title of this book is "Der Aurora Effekt" (German). Then a few weeks later I bought the book "The Tributes of Panem" (German version).
The first title I can copy to my Kobo eBook reader and read the book. But "The Tributes of Panem" was not readable!
Is it possible that not all books are DRM protected?
A: Yes.
(Not all books are DRM protected.)
Per the official iBooks FAQ...
How can I determine which books are copy-protected (DRM) versus those that are DRM-free?
iTunes can show you the kind of book you have by selecting the book and then choosing File > Get Info.
*
*If the Kind is marked as Book, this is a book you downloaded from the Internet.
*If it is listed as Purchased Book, it is a DRM-free book downloaded from the iBookstore.
*If it is listed as Protected Book, it is a copy-protected book from the iBookstore.
Only "protected books" have DRM protection.
A: Whether a book in the iBookstore has DRM is up to the publisher. Two publishers I know of never do DRM, O'Reilly and Take Control, and there are others too.
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948819a4452e0f440d3f38d00f5a2add70bab844 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Getting Apple Cinema HD Display working in Windows 7 x64 Does anyone have any experience trying to get an Apple Cinema HD Display working in Windows 7 x64? Note: This isn't for a Bootcamped Mac, it's for a Dell XPS Laptop.
Is this even possible?
Thanks a lot.
A: This question is old, but in case anyone is still looking, a driver that works is here:
http://www.holstschumacher.dk/p/brightness-controller.html
Look for the link to Beta Versions and Old Releases for the latest.
The beta version works with Windows 10 Creators update as of 12/25/2017.
| Q: Getting Apple Cinema HD Display working in Windows 7 x64 Does anyone have any experience trying to get an Apple Cinema HD Display working in Windows 7 x64? Note: This isn't for a Bootcamped Mac, it's for a Dell XPS Laptop.
Is this even possible?
Thanks a lot.
A: This question is old, but in case anyone is still looking, a driver that works is here:
http://www.holstschumacher.dk/p/brightness-controller.html
Look for the link to Beta Versions and Old Releases for the latest.
The beta version works with Windows 10 Creators update as of 12/25/2017.
A: This article over on the Apple KB has links to some driver/software updates for Windows 7, but the drivers are from Bootcamp 3.2
This is the direct link to the Bootcamp drivers for x64.
Even though you are not running a Mac, the Bootcamp drivers will install regardless.
Bootcamp 4 is however available for download (for OSX users only)
You should be able to extract the drivers and install them separately, 7-Zip will allow you to extract from DMGs and PKGs
Note, the display should be detected on all machines, however you may have issues with brigthness controls, or using the built in audio without using the Apple drivers.
A: I use the WinACD drivers from sourceforge.net for my dell laptop connected to my apple cinema display. http://sourceforge.net/projects/winacd/files/WinACD/WinACD-0.4/
A: Update 2021
*
*Boot Camp drivers
*
*The official Apple BootCamp 5 (Windows 7/8) Drivers are here:
*
*https://support.apple.com/downloads/bootcamp-windows-10 \
*The Boot Camp 6 (Windows 10) Drivers are mirrored here:
*
*https://download.digiex.net/Drivers/Bootcamp/AppleBcUpdate6.0.6171-01.April.2016.zip
*Get the latest version (probably still 5.1.5769 since it hasn't been updated since 2015).
*Extract the files to C:\Drivers or some such
*Search PowerShell in the Windows Bar and alt-click to reveal Run as Administrator
*Go into the Drivers directory, probably something like
pushd C:\Drivers\bootcamp5.1.5769\BootCamp\Drivers\Apple\
*Install BootCamp:
msiexec /install BootCamp.msi
*Reboot
*Reboot again
*Pray
*Maybe it works now, if you've got the right chipsets and fully supported motherboard, etc.
(but it probably still won't work because USB 3 and Thunderbolt 1/2/3 etc have really bad cross device and cross platform compatibility - because reasons)
A: Here are my experiences with using a Cinema HD on a non apple system. Not a full solution but it is something.
An Apple Cinema HD display should work on any system that has a DVI-D port. For the 30" and the 27" you will need a dual-link DVI-D port to be able to use the full resolution. I have had mine (a 30") on several systems without problems.
Without drivers, brightness controls on the screen, usb hub and firewire hub should all work. Can only confirm working of brightness and usb-hub myself as I have never had it connected to a PC with firewire. Caveat with brightness is that you won't get the nice brightness setting overlay as this is done in software by OSX.
If you want to have a brightness overlay, you will need a bootcamp CD and don't forget to connect the USB connector of your screen to your system as the brightness controls go over USB.
The drivers are in:
32-bit: D:\Drivers\Apple\AppleDisplayInstaller.exe
64-bit: D:\Drivers\Apple\x64\AppleDisplayInstaller.exe
This driver will give you a HID driver for the display which is only half of what you need. You also need to install the bootcamp utility:
32-bit: D:\Drivers\Apple\BootCamp.msi
64-bit: D:\Drivers\Apple\BootCamp64.msi
After installation and reboot you will get a bootcamp icon in your tray. When you change the brightness of the screen using the controls on the screen your system should now display an overlay. Unfortunatly I haven't succeeded yet in getting into the configuration of the bootcamp utility because it complaints about the startup disk.
There are some settings you could try to tinker with in the registry at
\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Apple Inc.\CinemaDisplay
\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Apple Inc.\Brightness
A: Here's how I got the brighness controls to work, in 2018, on an Apple Cinema Display.
The existing guides on this page were a little aged (doing this in 2018), so I looked elsewhere (blog post from 2014).
Installed BootCamp 5.0.5033 using those instructions, but seems also 5.1.5769 is available. Note: No macOS device was needed to fetch the packages.
Notes:
*
*Installation reset my PC's Clock for some reason (messed the timezones); easy to fix manually, though
*Installation reset my PC's C:\ drive name to "BOOTCAMP". I changed it back.
The diamond Bootcamp control did not show up immediately. I ran Apple Software Update just in case. Rebooted. Still nothing. An extra reboot after that seemed to do the trick.. I.e. if you don't see it, reboot one more time. :)
Would I recommend this? Maybe not.
Following those instructions (msiexec /i BootCamp.msi) installs so much Apple ware on the PC that I might try to get them out. Also changing the brightness via the diamond is clumsy (Fn+F1, Fn+F2 don't seem to work).
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dde8517a9956ce2c5158803559ac380bb18e33a6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Script to move files under their first letter name i've a lot of files (1000+) in a single directory, and i would like to organize them into sub directories, according to their first letter.
So i've 200 files starting with A, and i would like to move them into subdirectory "A", then all "B" files etc. etc.
How to do ?
A: In a terminal: cd into the directory in question, then
for x in `ls -1 | sed -e 's/^\(.\).*/\1/' | sort -u`; do
mkdir $x && mv -i ${x}?* $x
done
This assumes that no files have a single character name before you start. If they do, you might move them aside before you run the above procedure:
mkdir singles && mv ? singles
and then move them to their appropriate destinations aftwards.
Edit: See the comments below for some caveats. If you run into problems with too long command lines, you could replace the second line by
mkdir $x && find . -maxdepth 1 -name "${x}?*" -exec mv -i {} $x \;
| Q: Script to move files under their first letter name i've a lot of files (1000+) in a single directory, and i would like to organize them into sub directories, according to their first letter.
So i've 200 files starting with A, and i would like to move them into subdirectory "A", then all "B" files etc. etc.
How to do ?
A: In a terminal: cd into the directory in question, then
for x in `ls -1 | sed -e 's/^\(.\).*/\1/' | sort -u`; do
mkdir $x && mv -i ${x}?* $x
done
This assumes that no files have a single character name before you start. If they do, you might move them aside before you run the above procedure:
mkdir singles && mv ? singles
and then move them to their appropriate destinations aftwards.
Edit: See the comments below for some caveats. If you run into problems with too long command lines, you could replace the second line by
mkdir $x && find . -maxdepth 1 -name "${x}?*" -exec mv -i {} $x \;
A: Here's a Ruby one-liner:
ruby -e 'require "FileUtils"; Dir["*"].each { |f| next if File.directory?(f); d = f[0]; Dir.mkdir d rescue nil; FileUtils.mv(f,d) }'
It basically iterates over all files, creates the directories if possible and moves the files to it afterwards.
Just execute this line from the directory.
A: This would also work if the filenames start with multibyte characters (like Ä or あ):
ls | iconv -f utf8-mac -t utf-8 | LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 cut -c1 | uniq | while IFS= read -r l; do
f=("$l"*)
mkdir -- "$l"
mv -- "${f[@]}" "$l"
done
iconv -f utf8-mac -t utf-8 converts text from a partially decomposed form used by HFS+ to precomposed form. See Text Encodings in VFS or this question. LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 makes cut -c1 consider multibyte characters as single characters.
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a37673c5a5fcd52213523e8ed094ba1f284b1599 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to fix iMac losing Wi-Fi connection again and again? My iMac loses its Wifi connection from minute to minute. To make it active again, I have to run "Assist Me..." from the Network preferences panel.
This is really, really annoying.
Does anyone know what's going on?
I'm running Mac Os 10.7.4.
A: You may find that another device is causing interference such as a cordless phone or microwave, or even a neighbour's wifi device. Try changing the channel on your wifi router.
It may be worth using the "alt-trick" to check what's going on with your wifi - when your wifi is connected, mouse over the wifi icon in your system tray, hold down the alt key then click on it. You should see some additional info, like the following:
Keep an eye on the Transmit Rate and RSSI; if they're poor it could be a sign that you need to change the wifi channel.
You can also use Lion's hidden diagnostic app to see what could be causing problems for your wifi.
| Q: How to fix iMac losing Wi-Fi connection again and again? My iMac loses its Wifi connection from minute to minute. To make it active again, I have to run "Assist Me..." from the Network preferences panel.
This is really, really annoying.
Does anyone know what's going on?
I'm running Mac Os 10.7.4.
A: You may find that another device is causing interference such as a cordless phone or microwave, or even a neighbour's wifi device. Try changing the channel on your wifi router.
It may be worth using the "alt-trick" to check what's going on with your wifi - when your wifi is connected, mouse over the wifi icon in your system tray, hold down the alt key then click on it. You should see some additional info, like the following:
Keep an eye on the Transmit Rate and RSSI; if they're poor it could be a sign that you need to change the wifi channel.
You can also use Lion's hidden diagnostic app to see what could be causing problems for your wifi.
A: My router settings were causing the problems for me.
The router was set to 11/B/G/N Mixed mode, and as a result I had constant WiFi dropping. I then set the router to 11/G/N and I have not had a single drop.
A: Perfect fix, just turn off IPv6. That was all my router connection needed!
A: This happened recently to me (after an OS upgrade to 10.15.6). I also suspect that this is because somehow the OS starts to treat the network differently as before. Anyhow, what worked is just removing the network from the list of known networks and reconnecting.
A: Change your OS to either 10.6.8 or to 10.8.4
It will help
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fc24c16e9d39369475d23784b85b43831cd77b62 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to transfer a file from iPhone to computer when there is no Internet? I have a word doc saved as an attachment in my inbox. I can read it using my iPhone 4S, but I can't edit it, and anyway, I want to edit it on my MacBook Pro. But there is (was) no Internet where I was, and so I couldn't access the file on my computer. Is there any way to transfer the file from my phone to computer using USB?
A: If you can transfer the document to a general-purpose app that "knows" about files (like GoodReader, Air Sharing, or iBooks), you should be able to access it from the file-handling dialog from within iTunes.
Most computers can create an ad-hoc WiFi network; using this, you'd use a network-sharing app (like Air Sharing) to mount a disk from your iPhone and transfer the files to your computer.
| Q: How to transfer a file from iPhone to computer when there is no Internet? I have a word doc saved as an attachment in my inbox. I can read it using my iPhone 4S, but I can't edit it, and anyway, I want to edit it on my MacBook Pro. But there is (was) no Internet where I was, and so I couldn't access the file on my computer. Is there any way to transfer the file from my phone to computer using USB?
A: If you can transfer the document to a general-purpose app that "knows" about files (like GoodReader, Air Sharing, or iBooks), you should be able to access it from the file-handling dialog from within iTunes.
Most computers can create an ad-hoc WiFi network; using this, you'd use a network-sharing app (like Air Sharing) to mount a disk from your iPhone and transfer the files to your computer.
A: The PhoneView program can read files from iOS devices through USB and get them to your mac in most cases.
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afffd507c42c8e982e33e75c98295c6388af0336 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Headphone play/pause button controls iTunes only Finally upgraded my MacBook Pro (Unibody late 2008) from leopard to snow leopard, with a view to go to Lion when it finishes downloading. I've now noticed that hitting the single button on my Etymotic HF-2's no longer play/pauses the media in the active player but launches iTunes if it's not running, and play/pauses iTunes content if iTunes is running. Historically on Leopard, pressing this button would cause the active player to play/pause, be it Spotify, VLC or any other media player (Though spotify and VLC are my most used players)
Anyone know how to return to this behavior?
A: You can do this with ControllerMate:
And a little little AppleScript (each line for each function):
tell application "Spotify" to playpause
tell application "Spotify" to next track
tell application "Spotify" to previous track
If you open QuickTime Player it will silently ignore the play/pause button and prevent iTunes from being opened, if you don't iTunes will still try to play something.
Another solution to prevent iTunes from starting is to disable the 'Remote Control Daemon', how to do this is explained in detail on superuser.
| Q: Headphone play/pause button controls iTunes only Finally upgraded my MacBook Pro (Unibody late 2008) from leopard to snow leopard, with a view to go to Lion when it finishes downloading. I've now noticed that hitting the single button on my Etymotic HF-2's no longer play/pauses the media in the active player but launches iTunes if it's not running, and play/pauses iTunes content if iTunes is running. Historically on Leopard, pressing this button would cause the active player to play/pause, be it Spotify, VLC or any other media player (Though spotify and VLC are my most used players)
Anyone know how to return to this behavior?
A: You can do this with ControllerMate:
And a little little AppleScript (each line for each function):
tell application "Spotify" to playpause
tell application "Spotify" to next track
tell application "Spotify" to previous track
If you open QuickTime Player it will silently ignore the play/pause button and prevent iTunes from being opened, if you don't iTunes will still try to play something.
Another solution to prevent iTunes from starting is to disable the 'Remote Control Daemon', how to do this is explained in detail on superuser.
A: You have to combine both answers posted here.
Configure ControllerMate as described by Luke for your program of choice
and apply the Play Button iTunes Patch mentioned by Stephen.
Then you can control your app of choice by using a headphone remote control without starting iTunes.
A: I believe this will fix your problem MMFix. Let me know if it works!
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8b356027bbc740b0fd042456f77344a60093c9b5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to determine original location of file that is currently in the Trash? Suppose some file "Any File.pdf" is in the Trash (aka ~/.Trash).
How can I determine its original location?
By "original location" I mean the folder where that file would be moved to if one were to apply the "Put Back" command to it (but without actually doing so)? (See figure below.)
(I had hoped that this information would be available through running "Get Info" on the file, but I did not find it there.)
A: Data containing a file's original location before being placed in the Trash is keep in the .DS_Store file in the ~/.Trash folder.
Since the trash folder is hidden it can not normally be found using the finder application. The easiest way to find this file is by using the Terminal and entering the following commands.
$cd ~/.Trash
$open -e .DS_Store
This will open the file in TextEdit. From there you should be able to quickly search for the file by its name and its original path.
Its seems that files in .DS_Store follow the pattern of:
FILE_NAME ptbLustr ORIGINAL_PATH_TO_FILE
Note spaces are added just for readability.
| Q: How to determine original location of file that is currently in the Trash? Suppose some file "Any File.pdf" is in the Trash (aka ~/.Trash).
How can I determine its original location?
By "original location" I mean the folder where that file would be moved to if one were to apply the "Put Back" command to it (but without actually doing so)? (See figure below.)
(I had hoped that this information would be available through running "Get Info" on the file, but I did not find it there.)
A: Data containing a file's original location before being placed in the Trash is keep in the .DS_Store file in the ~/.Trash folder.
Since the trash folder is hidden it can not normally be found using the finder application. The easiest way to find this file is by using the Terminal and entering the following commands.
$cd ~/.Trash
$open -e .DS_Store
This will open the file in TextEdit. From there you should be able to quickly search for the file by its name and its original path.
Its seems that files in .DS_Store follow the pattern of:
FILE_NAME ptbLustr ORIGINAL_PATH_TO_FILE
Note spaces are added just for readability.
A: The information about the original location is stored within DS_Store file. In older version of OS X it was stored in plain text, and now in binary format. These formats aren't documented by Apple, however, there is a tool created by Wim L which can read it.
The tool is written in Perl, Mac::Finder::DSStore project provides routines for reading and writing the .DS_Store files generated by the macOS.
As per initial commit, the above tool is based on Mark Mitrovai's work plus author own investigation.
Using examples/dsstore_dump.pl would attempt to dump a store file's records in a more human-readable format.
Example usage:
$ perl dsstore_dump.pl ~/.Trash/.DS_Store
&makeEntries("foo.png",
ptbL => "Users/username/Desktop/",
ptbN => "foo.png"
),
See: dsstore repo at hhhh.org and older repo at GitHub.
A: There is a great write up and some easier solutions posted at http://ponderthebits.com/2017/01/mac-dumpster-diving-identifying-deleted-file-references-in-the-trash-ds_store-files-part-1/
Including this Terminal one-liner to convert a .DS_Store file to (mostly) text:
xxd -p <path/to/.DS_Store> | sed 's/00//g' | tr -d '\n' | sed 's/\([0-9A-F]\{2\}\)/0x\1 /g' | xxd -r -p | strings | sed 's/ptb[LN]ustr//g'
A: 'Put Back' the File, Use the search function to search for the file, When you find your file, Right-Click it and select "Open Enclosing Folder"
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e14007475497bced673671c53af6c6a30237e18a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Make the Stock Widget display percentage change Is there a way to make the Stock Widget in iOS's Notification Center to display percentage change instead of price change? Any Cydia tweak?
In the Stocks.app you can switch between those and market cap by pressing the price change tile on the right.
A: Sorry, the answer is no, you cannot.
The only configuration available for the Stocks Notification Centre widget is Enabled/Disabled.
Other apps that provide Stocks reporting may have been updated to provide more configurable notifications, however the stock (sic) app does not.
| Q: Make the Stock Widget display percentage change Is there a way to make the Stock Widget in iOS's Notification Center to display percentage change instead of price change? Any Cydia tweak?
In the Stocks.app you can switch between those and market cap by pressing the price change tile on the right.
A: Sorry, the answer is no, you cannot.
The only configuration available for the Stocks Notification Centre widget is Enabled/Disabled.
Other apps that provide Stocks reporting may have been updated to provide more configurable notifications, however the stock (sic) app does not.
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e8a388ea58308294f0d2ad19e8b8b7a22dcfb065 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Need to move child onto their own Apple ID My child has been sharing my Apple ID for years in order to buy music for her iPod (now iPhone and iPad). For years, we had our separate devices and PCs where our music libraries resided. However, recently, I activated iCloud for my new iPhone and iPad and now all of our data has meshed. I have her contacts, she has my contacts, music, etc. My question is how can I set up a distinct Apple ID for her but not have her lose her contacts, music, settings, etc.?
A: If you set up a new AppleID account you will not have access to items bought from the iTunes store. But iCloud accounts are separate from AppleID accounts; she can have a unique iCloud account with her own contacts, email, and other settings, but will need to use the shared AppleID to have access to the apps, music, books, movies, etc... bought from iTunes.
There are some ugly hackish ways to get around this, but they sound like a waste of time and very sketchy to me.
| Q: Need to move child onto their own Apple ID My child has been sharing my Apple ID for years in order to buy music for her iPod (now iPhone and iPad). For years, we had our separate devices and PCs where our music libraries resided. However, recently, I activated iCloud for my new iPhone and iPad and now all of our data has meshed. I have her contacts, she has my contacts, music, etc. My question is how can I set up a distinct Apple ID for her but not have her lose her contacts, music, settings, etc.?
A: If you set up a new AppleID account you will not have access to items bought from the iTunes store. But iCloud accounts are separate from AppleID accounts; she can have a unique iCloud account with her own contacts, email, and other settings, but will need to use the shared AppleID to have access to the apps, music, books, movies, etc... bought from iTunes.
There are some ugly hackish ways to get around this, but they sound like a waste of time and very sketchy to me.
A: If you don't have too much music (you were talking about 25%), you could search for a tool called iRip. Put your music on an iPod /iPhone, plug it into your pc and use iRip on it. I think they have a trial version for free that should do the work for this one session.
A: The easiest way is to use a backup and an iCloud removal to transfer all the contacts from the cloud to local contacts.
*
*Open iCloud settings and turn off each bin of data, one by one. For each choose to delete things you don't want transferring to your child and and keep on the phone the things you want them to have.
*Make a full backup of the phone (perhaps two - one to iTunes and another to iCloud after turning that one item on again).
*Erase all content and settings on the phone and sign the child up for a free Apple ID as part of the new user enrollment (look up Apple's KB article - the steps to do that are very picky, you have to say no to a lot of prompts and then set up an account as part of a "free purchase").
*Once the child has their AppleID, erase the device again and restore from the backup. Clean out any contacts that don't belong to the child (same for calendars).
*Only then sign in to iCloud on that device and put the child's contacts in to their cloud account.
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8ea60fe309a02eb20e008c9b6d6297aa99fdddfe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: When do iTunes Connect Stats update? I've read in quite a few places that sales trend reports update anywhere between 3AM - 5AM Cupertino time once a day.
But what about other stats?
*
*When do app ratings update?
*When do customer reviews update?
A: Both of those usually update almost instantly. Sometimes it may take a few minutes, but I've experienced instant results from people posting ratings and reviews.
Thanks!
| Q: When do iTunes Connect Stats update? I've read in quite a few places that sales trend reports update anywhere between 3AM - 5AM Cupertino time once a day.
But what about other stats?
*
*When do app ratings update?
*When do customer reviews update?
A: Both of those usually update almost instantly. Sometimes it may take a few minutes, but I've experienced instant results from people posting ratings and reviews.
Thanks!
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4744349b18ce7f7e0418891ffb0b2af40dc50e65 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Rules for from account in Apple Mail I happily use mail with several accounts. When I send a new email I often forget to choose the correct 'From' account. Is there a mail plugin that allows to set the default 'From' account using some rules.
One example could be: if the recipient ends in '@example.com' use the work account.
Or as an alternative is there a way to change the 'From' dropdown menu using a key combination? (this would not solve the case when I forget to set it but would at least speed up the process)
A: If you use the unified inbox then this can be a problem. If you expand the mailboxes and read them from those, then you can set-up Mail to send using the account for that mailbox.
I suppose this may require remembering to select the correct mailbox in a similar way to remembering to select the from account though.
| Q: Rules for from account in Apple Mail I happily use mail with several accounts. When I send a new email I often forget to choose the correct 'From' account. Is there a mail plugin that allows to set the default 'From' account using some rules.
One example could be: if the recipient ends in '@example.com' use the work account.
Or as an alternative is there a way to change the 'From' dropdown menu using a key combination? (this would not solve the case when I forget to set it but would at least speed up the process)
A: If you use the unified inbox then this can be a problem. If you expand the mailboxes and read them from those, then you can set-up Mail to send using the account for that mailbox.
I suppose this may require remembering to select the correct mailbox in a similar way to remembering to select the from account though.
A: I struggle with the same problems. The answer is that there currently unfortunately is neither a plugin nor a hook for manually solving this problem.
For details look here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/67082/93032
Some workarounds for the problem can be found here: Mail.app extension to avoid sending email from the wrong account?
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6cfd7c1f3ad0ba88dcbad61e1b8faa5f580f4e97 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Circuit Simulator for iPad What is the best electronics circuit simulator app for iPad where I can draw a circuit and monitor its behaviour?
A: There are a few, if you are a Spice fanatic then I'd give this one a try first:
Spicy Schematics Free is a trial version of the full iPad app, Spicy Schematics
Circuit Lab HD and DCircuit Lab HD are two fully featured node analysis simulators, the first is an analog simulator in the Spice mould, the second purely for Digital gate and logic combinatory analysis.
| Q: Circuit Simulator for iPad What is the best electronics circuit simulator app for iPad where I can draw a circuit and monitor its behaviour?
A: There are a few, if you are a Spice fanatic then I'd give this one a try first:
Spicy Schematics Free is a trial version of the full iPad app, Spicy Schematics
Circuit Lab HD and DCircuit Lab HD are two fully featured node analysis simulators, the first is an analog simulator in the Spice mould, the second purely for Digital gate and logic combinatory analysis.
A: Although I personally haven't used it the iCircuit app seems to provide everything you are looking for.
A: Disclosure: I am affiliated with the company that makes and sells this app.
The paid version of our iPad app named Spicy Schematics would be best as it has more features of the original SPICE circuit emulation software, but you can also try the free version if you are not ready to buy.
Lastly, we also have PC, Mac and Web app versions of the tool, so that may sway your decision to use our iPad version. We hope to have syncing approved by Apple so that your iPad and web simulations can be synchronized, but this feature is not reviewed yet.
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525ad970f14d58609b6b4f70f030b31951320e0a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Terminal move cursor with mouse in any way? Is there any way at all to use the mouse cursor to move the cursor in terminal, like click where you want it and press a key to move it there?
This is one of the most annoying things I've ever found using the terminal
I know Ctrl+A will move to the beginning of the line but sometimes these commands are so long
A: Try option-click, that is, click with option pressed.
This works on the command line and also in screen editors, such as vi and nano.
option-click just sends the appropriate escape sequences to move the cursor to anywhere in the terminal screen. (To see this working, try it with cat.)
| Q: Terminal move cursor with mouse in any way? Is there any way at all to use the mouse cursor to move the cursor in terminal, like click where you want it and press a key to move it there?
This is one of the most annoying things I've ever found using the terminal
I know Ctrl+A will move to the beginning of the line but sometimes these commands are so long
A: Try option-click, that is, click with option pressed.
This works on the command line and also in screen editors, such as vi and nano.
option-click just sends the appropriate escape sequences to move the cursor to anywhere in the terminal screen. (To see this working, try it with cat.)
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4227d4160335e44921d32a7031157d07bcd977d1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does Skype running in the background use more battery life than other background running iPhone apps? I have noticed that I can receive skype calls and messages on my iPhone for a while now. Does Skype simply stay sign-ed in until I restart my iPhone and does it use the same amount of battery as other apps with notifications WHEN running in the background.
i.e. if I have Facebook with notifications and Skype with notifications running in the background, do these apps/notifications use the same amount of battery?
A: Apple limits what can run in the background to ensure battery life is not dramatically reduced. Skype will be constrained to the same restrictions that all other App Store apps must follow.
Given this, it is fair to assume Skype uses no more than any other Internet telephony app running in the background on your iPhone.
Fraser Speirs's article may be helpful in better understanding how background processes work on your iPhone.
| Q: Does Skype running in the background use more battery life than other background running iPhone apps? I have noticed that I can receive skype calls and messages on my iPhone for a while now. Does Skype simply stay sign-ed in until I restart my iPhone and does it use the same amount of battery as other apps with notifications WHEN running in the background.
i.e. if I have Facebook with notifications and Skype with notifications running in the background, do these apps/notifications use the same amount of battery?
A: Apple limits what can run in the background to ensure battery life is not dramatically reduced. Skype will be constrained to the same restrictions that all other App Store apps must follow.
Given this, it is fair to assume Skype uses no more than any other Internet telephony app running in the background on your iPhone.
Fraser Speirs's article may be helpful in better understanding how background processes work on your iPhone.
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27028672ca79b06eca0fb38b9c11ddf4547cd0f6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to have bash escape spaces in pwd? I'd like to copy the current directory to the clipboard, something like: pwd | pbcopy. However, pwd does not escape the space, so something in "Application Support", for example, doesn't copy correctly. I don't seem to remember this always being the case, so I could have boffed something. Using iTerm2.
Is there bash setting to escape everything? having trouble searching, too many questions/topics about Spaces.app or esc.
Current:
$ pwd
/Library/Application Support/Google Earth/
Preferred:
$ pwd
/Library/Application\ Support/Google\ Earth/
Already seen posts: Copying the current directory's path to the clipboard and How to cd to a directory with a name containing spaces in bash?, which do not address this. I would have made a comment in the former, but I don't have the privileges.
A: pwd | sed 's/ /\\ /g'
But I'm not sure this will ultimately fix your issue. pbcopy is copying exactly what it receives on stdin.
| Q: Is it possible to have bash escape spaces in pwd? I'd like to copy the current directory to the clipboard, something like: pwd | pbcopy. However, pwd does not escape the space, so something in "Application Support", for example, doesn't copy correctly. I don't seem to remember this always being the case, so I could have boffed something. Using iTerm2.
Is there bash setting to escape everything? having trouble searching, too many questions/topics about Spaces.app or esc.
Current:
$ pwd
/Library/Application Support/Google Earth/
Preferred:
$ pwd
/Library/Application\ Support/Google\ Earth/
Already seen posts: Copying the current directory's path to the clipboard and How to cd to a directory with a name containing spaces in bash?, which do not address this. I would have made a comment in the former, but I don't have the privileges.
A: pwd | sed 's/ /\\ /g'
But I'm not sure this will ultimately fix your issue. pbcopy is copying exactly what it receives on stdin.
A: This command will escape spaces properly:
printf "%q\n" "$(pwd)" | pbcopy
You can alias it using something with history like cwd if you don't mind re-defining a different cwd
alias cwd='printf "%q\n" "$(pwd)" | pbcopy'
Ditch the pipe to pbcopy if you want it to work more like pwd and just print out the escaped path.
Or, to print the pwd while also copying it to the clipboard, use tee and an output process substitution:
alias cwd='printf "%q\n" "$(pwd)" | tee >(pbcopy)'
A: There is no built-in way to make pwd output escaped file paths, as this is generally not useful.
It does not make sense for pwd or pbcopy to be adding backslashes to what is copied. If you wanted to copy the path into a text file or web post, you would not want a backslash inserted into it.
Probably what you want to do is create as separate alias, like qwd, to print the quoted form of the current directory, or just escape the output of pbpaste, which is as easy as putting it in double-quotes:
bash-3.2$ pwd
/Users/user
bash-3.2$ cd test\ dir/untitled\ \"folder/
bash-3.2$ pwd
/Users/user/test dir/untitled "folder
bash-3.2$ pwd | pbcopy
bash-3.2$ echo "`pbpaste`"
/Users/user/test dir/untitled "folder
bash-3.2$ cd
bash-3.2$ pwd
/Users/user
bash-3.2$ cd `pbpaste`
bash: cd: /Users/user/test: No such file or directory
bash-3.2$ cd "`pbpaste`"
bash-3.2$ pwd
/Users/user/test dir/untitled "folder
Note that it is not just spaces that need escaping. Forward and backward slashes, star, question mark, ampersand, semi-colon, and other characters need escaping, too. Safest is just to use double-quotes as in the example, which will work even if the path includes double-quotes in it.
If you want to be perverse about it, you could make AppleScript quote the current directory for you:
bash-3.2$ alias qwd="osascript -e 'return quoted form of POSIX path of (POSIX file \"./\" as alias)'"
bash-3.2$ qwd
'/Users/user/test dir/untitled "folder'
Otherwise I mostly agree with Glenn, except, as above, I would alias the quoted form to qwd so as not to interfere with the normal pwd:
alias qwd='printf "%q\n" "$(pwd)"'
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34c4897f63b11ce8cea5357d07fcdf8852af1dd2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to save and exit "nano .bash_profile" in Terminal? I need to add some line to nano .bash_profile in Terminal. Then:
1) I enter with this command line: nano .bash_profile
2) Add the line I need
3) now I don't know how to Save and Exit
I thought it is :w + enter. If this is correct I need some direction to use it.
A: No, :w is a /usr/bin/vi command. Use the combination control+x to exit. You will be prompted to save the file if you have made unsaved changes.
Nano is intended to be a bit friendlier / simpler to new users than vi/vim or emacs which both cater to more power users that have spent time learning how to use them effectively.
To get started in nano - look for commands along the bottom of the window when nano is open. (^ stands for the control key)
^X (F2) Close the current file buffer / Exit from nano
^O (F3) Write the current file to disk
| Q: How to save and exit "nano .bash_profile" in Terminal? I need to add some line to nano .bash_profile in Terminal. Then:
1) I enter with this command line: nano .bash_profile
2) Add the line I need
3) now I don't know how to Save and Exit
I thought it is :w + enter. If this is correct I need some direction to use it.
A: No, :w is a /usr/bin/vi command. Use the combination control+x to exit. You will be prompted to save the file if you have made unsaved changes.
Nano is intended to be a bit friendlier / simpler to new users than vi/vim or emacs which both cater to more power users that have spent time learning how to use them effectively.
To get started in nano - look for commands along the bottom of the window when nano is open. (^ stands for the control key)
^X (F2) Close the current file buffer / Exit from nano
^O (F3) Write the current file to disk
A: If you want to save the changes you've made, press Control+ O. To exit nano, type Control+ X. If you ask nano to exit from a modified file, it will ask you if you want to save it. Just press N in case you don't, or Y in case you do. It will then ask you for a filename. Just type it in and press Enter.
If you accidentally confirmed that you want to save the file but you actually don't, you can always cancel by pressing Control+ Cwhen you're prompted for a filename.
A: I just have the same question.
after a lot of trail and error i learned that Nano is asking you to write the name of the "new conf file".
Since you do not want a new file just hit enter indicating to nano that you want to keep the same name.
Basically you change the conf file, pres Ctrl + x and finally hit Enter (to indicate the same name).
Good luck
A: Per Apple's Support Article:
*To save the file, press Control-O.
*At the filename prompt, press Enter.
*To exit, press Control-X.
A: *
*Enter nano .bash_profile (It will open the .bash_profile file in
the nano editor)
*After making changes to the file use ControlX (to "exit")
*Then it asks for the changes to be made permanently and gives two options:
Yes (or) No
*Press Y and press Enter to save the file
A: Try
sudo nano .bash_profile
To open your file instead. This will create your file if it doesn't exist, or open it for editing.
A: Hey I got something for you guys
just enter ctrl + x
and when it says to save press 'Y' if you want to save
Then just press enter button
Hope it works :)
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ad0903395b1a699bf448d9cfbfd8a0b260ba2cee | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Internet Sharing on Mac via LAN
Possible Duplicate:
Internet Sharing is grey out
My Mac is connected to internet using WiFi and its working fine. I want to share the internet connection via LAN but I am unable to select the port (Ethernet) to be used for sharing in the internet sharing menu. Please see the screenshot attached.
Any solution to this problem?
| Q: Internet Sharing on Mac via LAN
Possible Duplicate:
Internet Sharing is grey out
My Mac is connected to internet using WiFi and its working fine. I want to share the internet connection via LAN but I am unable to select the port (Ethernet) to be used for sharing in the internet sharing menu. Please see the screenshot attached.
Any solution to this problem?
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4fcfe565e00b1097a7de2d3d5e7d3959cba76df5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I make a bootable Windows 7 USB in OS X Lion? I want to make a bootable Windows 7 USB in OS X Lion. How can I do that?
A: You need a install ISO image downloaded from Microsoft and a USB flash drive with 4GB or more.
Per the offical Bootcamp Guide for Lion by Apple (see page 4):
You may be able to install Windows 7 with a USB flash drive that contains a Windows 7 ISO image downloaded from Microsoft. To check whether you can do so, open Boot Camp Assistant, click Continue, and see if the option “Create a Windows 7 install disk” is available. To install Windows 7 with a USB flash drive, you need the following:
*
*An ISO image of Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate downloaded from Microsoft.
*A USB flash drive with 4 GB or more.
Boot Camp Assistant erases the flash drive, and copies to it the Windows 7 ISO
image and software drivers that let Windows work with your Mac hardware.
To see how much free space you need on your disk for Windows, refer to the documentation that came with Windows.
| Q: How can I make a bootable Windows 7 USB in OS X Lion? I want to make a bootable Windows 7 USB in OS X Lion. How can I do that?
A: You need a install ISO image downloaded from Microsoft and a USB flash drive with 4GB or more.
Per the offical Bootcamp Guide for Lion by Apple (see page 4):
You may be able to install Windows 7 with a USB flash drive that contains a Windows 7 ISO image downloaded from Microsoft. To check whether you can do so, open Boot Camp Assistant, click Continue, and see if the option “Create a Windows 7 install disk” is available. To install Windows 7 with a USB flash drive, you need the following:
*
*An ISO image of Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate downloaded from Microsoft.
*A USB flash drive with 4 GB or more.
Boot Camp Assistant erases the flash drive, and copies to it the Windows 7 ISO
image and software drivers that let Windows work with your Mac hardware.
To see how much free space you need on your disk for Windows, refer to the documentation that came with Windows.
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3f1e52be887b787b62d4ac549e90d5ef90832bef | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Where can I find an explained list of emoji (emoticons) used in iOS? Where can I find an explained list of emoji (emoticons) used in iOS for use on Mac OS X?
Some of them are not quite clear and I would like to see their base meaning (I know that you are free to use them, still as the glyphs they should have an Unicode name).
A: There's also a list on my web site, that I just made. The list is viewable using a browser with emoji font support; this includes Safari.
| Q: Where can I find an explained list of emoji (emoticons) used in iOS? Where can I find an explained list of emoji (emoticons) used in iOS for use on Mac OS X?
Some of them are not quite clear and I would like to see their base meaning (I know that you are free to use them, still as the glyphs they should have an Unicode name).
A: There's also a list on my web site, that I just made. The list is viewable using a browser with emoji font support; this includes Safari.
A: When you're in iOS, you can also turn on VoiceOver and it'll read the names of the Emoji as you move around the keyboard.
A: First, in System Preferences, under the Keyboard tab of the Keyboard Preference Pane, be sure Show Keyboard and Character Viewers in menu bar is checked.
Then, from the Keyboard menu in the menu bar, select Show Character Viewer. In the Character viewer pane, select Emoji. When you select an Emoji, on the right side of the pane, you get a large graphic of the Emoji and a text explanation of the shape.
A: Wikipedia has a series of tables at w:Emoji. Additionally, they also organize it by what platform supports what character as well.
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9aacd92c2675c37ec1a0891a4eb802d8ab10384c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Remove Jailbreak and restore to factory settings without iTunes A friend has an iPhone and they need to wipe it and remove the jailbreak on it. They don't need a backup.
The problem is they don't have access to a computer with iTunes on it to do this.
Can this be done without iTunes? Will doing an 'erase all content and settings' lock the phone? Some posts I have read suggest if you do this the phone will get bricked.
A: I believe all of the current jailbreak solutions work by modifying an IPSW file for the device, and flashing that back on to it. To remove it, you would need a clean IPSW and to do that you need to restore it through iTunes. If you don't back it up first (wether that be on iCloud or iTunes), then obviously you'll lose all of the settings, apps, and app data on the phone as well.
| Q: Remove Jailbreak and restore to factory settings without iTunes A friend has an iPhone and they need to wipe it and remove the jailbreak on it. They don't need a backup.
The problem is they don't have access to a computer with iTunes on it to do this.
Can this be done without iTunes? Will doing an 'erase all content and settings' lock the phone? Some posts I have read suggest if you do this the phone will get bricked.
A: I believe all of the current jailbreak solutions work by modifying an IPSW file for the device, and flashing that back on to it. To remove it, you would need a clean IPSW and to do that you need to restore it through iTunes. If you don't back it up first (wether that be on iCloud or iTunes), then obviously you'll lose all of the settings, apps, and app data on the phone as well.
A: You've heard correctly - tapping "Erase All Content and Settings" on a jailbroken device will just cause it to get stuck on the Apple logo while booting until you restore it with iTunes (because the filesystems of jailbroken devices are slightly rearranged).
The only way to remove the jailbreak from a jailbroken device is to restore it with iTunes on a computer.
(If your device is stuck on the Apple logo and you want to restore it, you may have to put the device into DFU mode before iTunes can read it. You can do this by plugging your device into a computer that has iTunes installed, holding the power (lock) button and home button for 10 seconds, then releasing the power button while you keep holding the home button for another 15 seconds. Then iTunes should recognize it and allow you to restore it.)
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ff948d0666aee7b1b39aaad32303c04e3f53e4ad | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable Self Control application? I use SelfControl quite frequently for completing homework and such, but at school, while I was away from my keyboard at the white board, my friend thought it would be funny to set the timer to 10 hours. I am currently using a proxy to ask this question. Is there any way to disable this useful, but inflexible application?
A: I had to remove the lines in /etc/hosts, change the date in /etc/SelfControl.lock, and reopen the SelfControl application:
sudo sed -i '' '/# BEGIN SELFCONTROL/,/# END SELFCONTROL/d' /etc/hosts
sudo sed -i '' 's|<date>.*|<date>2010-01-01T01:01:01Z</date>|' /etc/SelfControl.lock
killall SelfControl; open -a SelfControl
Just deleting /etc/SelfControl.lock didn't work. If you have removed SelfControl.app, download it again first.
| Q: How to disable Self Control application? I use SelfControl quite frequently for completing homework and such, but at school, while I was away from my keyboard at the white board, my friend thought it would be funny to set the timer to 10 hours. I am currently using a proxy to ask this question. Is there any way to disable this useful, but inflexible application?
A: I had to remove the lines in /etc/hosts, change the date in /etc/SelfControl.lock, and reopen the SelfControl application:
sudo sed -i '' '/# BEGIN SELFCONTROL/,/# END SELFCONTROL/d' /etc/hosts
sudo sed -i '' 's|<date>.*|<date>2010-01-01T01:01:01Z</date>|' /etc/SelfControl.lock
killall SelfControl; open -a SelfControl
Just deleting /etc/SelfControl.lock didn't work. If you have removed SelfControl.app, download it again first.
A: It's simple, just open preferences, and change the date to the next day!
A: Update: This still works in 2021
Quit SelfControl.
Open System Preferences > Date and Time > Change the day 1 day in the future.
Launch SelfControl again. Quit SelfControl and then change the date back.
This works because SelfControl checks the date and time, sees that you are past the blocking period, and removes the host file additions.
A: Have you tried opening Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal) and using the commands:
killall SelfControl
or
sudo killall SelfControl
As it is not working try the hosts file:
sudo nano /etc/hosts
And look for something like this
# BEGIN SELFCONTROL BLOCK
127.0.0.1 www.nasa.gov
127.0.0.1 nasa.gov
# END SELFCONTROL BLOCK
delete the entire block and hit CTRL + O to save the file and CTRL + X to exit.
Everything you put at hosts file like:
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 nasa.gov
127.0.0.1 stackoverflow.com
Those addresses will be blocked, you will not be able to access them while they are inside the hosts file
To stop and delete SelfControl running as a background process:
sudo su -
cd /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/
rm org.eyebeam.SelfControl
To delete the firewall rules that have been introduced by SelfControl, read this blog article by Joshua Kehn:
http://joshuakehn.com/2010/10/25/Defeating-SelfControl.html
A: Sometimes deleting what's between the # BEGIN SELFCONTROL and # END SELFCONTROL doesn't work.
On the other side, changing the Date or Time worked perfectly for me! All you gotta do is change your date to something in the future, for example if today is Sep 4 you can change your system date to something like Sep 5 !
*
*You open Preferences Open Date & Time
*Change the date to something like Sep 5 or any date in the future.
*Open SelfControl, the countdown will be gone now.
Try opening a website that you blocked with selfControl! if it does work! then it's all you gotta do ... otherwise try changing the date back to the original date (Sept 4) for example, and try again opening the website that you blocked with SelfControl!
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8665cf5805a924c9a7b119f44ac71b4871394557 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I increase my font sizes without decreasing my resolution? I have a 24" iMac at home which at the max resolution (1920 x 1200) is very comfortable for me to see my desktop and read text.
Now at work I have a 27" iMac with a max resolution of 2560 x 1440 which with my poor eyesight makes text extremely tiny and hard to read.
If I decrease my resolution to 1920 x 1080 it's back to being very easy to read, though it makes text in some instances (most notably in terminal) quite blurry and hard to read.
So, how can I increase font sizes for all applications without decreasing my resolution?
A: Apple doesn't have an option for you to do that. However, you can try TinkerTool. You can download it at no cost.
Screenshot taken from TinkerTool website.
| Q: How can I increase my font sizes without decreasing my resolution? I have a 24" iMac at home which at the max resolution (1920 x 1200) is very comfortable for me to see my desktop and read text.
Now at work I have a 27" iMac with a max resolution of 2560 x 1440 which with my poor eyesight makes text extremely tiny and hard to read.
If I decrease my resolution to 1920 x 1080 it's back to being very easy to read, though it makes text in some instances (most notably in terminal) quite blurry and hard to read.
So, how can I increase font sizes for all applications without decreasing my resolution?
A: Apple doesn't have an option for you to do that. However, you can try TinkerTool. You can download it at no cost.
Screenshot taken from TinkerTool website.
A: Unfortunately, there is no system-wide way to make the content fonts larger across all applications without changing the resolution.
It is possible to change the fonts used by the system, as the other answer points out so well. You may find Tinker Tool to be enough of a solution for your problem.
This question attempts to step through how to make individual programs increase their font size, but it focuses on Lion, not Snow Leopard. Still, you may find some helpful tips there.
A: I believe that this can be done with either Tinker Tool System or Mac Pilot, but not with Mountain Lion Cache Cleaner or Cocktail.
A: The best way to make text easier to read on your Mac is to adjust it within each app you're using.
For example, to make email text larger and easier to read in Mail, go to Mail > Preferences, choose Fonts & Colors, choose Select next to Message font, and then select a font size.
In Messages, go to Messages > Preferences > General, and then move the Text size slider to the right.
You can also change the font size for desktop icons by right-clicking the desktop and choosing Show View Options. Move the Icon size slider to the right, and choose Text size to pick a different text size.
To increase the size of items in the Finder and Mail sidebars, go to the Apple menu and choose System Preferences > General, select Sidebar icon size, and then choose Large.
There's also a zoom tool built-in to macOS
A: From the age of this post, your 27" iMac is a pre-Retina model, with a pixel density of only 109 ppi (compared to a Retina display at twice that - 218 ppi).
Using a display resolution of 1920 x 1080 is using a scaling factor of 1.3 pixels, in order to map to the full size of the display. This, combined with the low pixel density means that text and images will be blurry.
Your best option is to set the display to full size, 2560 x 1440, and then display each window at a larger zoom factor or size where possible.
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b2a63024420bcadb36a2d7e4d07227a2e321e2e0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I get S.M.A.R.T. support on external hard drives? Disk Utility reports the S.M.A.R.T. Status as not verified for external disks, and by default Mac OS X only seems able to access S.M.A.R.T. information on internal hard drives.
Is there a way to get SMART information on external USB or Firewire hard disk?
A: Yes (maybe).
There's an open-source kernel driver OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver for Mac OS X that will work for some USB and Firewire enclosures. It uses SAT (SCSI ATA Translation) to pass the SMART commands through to the hard drive, so only works if your enclosure supports SAT.
SAT isn't something enclosures seem to advertise support for, but the one I use (WD MyBook Studio Edition) happens to support it, so it works for me. It'll probably be quicker to test the software with your drive/enclosure, than to find out if SAT is supported in the specs.
| Q: Can I get S.M.A.R.T. support on external hard drives? Disk Utility reports the S.M.A.R.T. Status as not verified for external disks, and by default Mac OS X only seems able to access S.M.A.R.T. information on internal hard drives.
Is there a way to get SMART information on external USB or Firewire hard disk?
A: Yes (maybe).
There's an open-source kernel driver OS-X-SAT-SMART-Driver for Mac OS X that will work for some USB and Firewire enclosures. It uses SAT (SCSI ATA Translation) to pass the SMART commands through to the hard drive, so only works if your enclosure supports SAT.
SAT isn't something enclosures seem to advertise support for, but the one I use (WD MyBook Studio Edition) happens to support it, so it works for me. It'll probably be quicker to test the software with your drive/enclosure, than to find out if SAT is supported in the specs.
A: There are satsmart drivers on github that work perfectly well for most (usb) disks.
Disconnect all external disks;
Install the satsmart driver;
restart the mac, connect the disks.
See and download from here: https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx/usb-drive-support
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4a8e889a8f6696931bea32813de87e7a25129fc3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I show typing keyboard in record screen When I record the screen on a Mac, how can I show keyboard typing in the same image (as shown below)?
Is there particular screen recording software or settings that will do this?
A: I also use Screenflow, but there are also a few standalone apps for that like Keycastr and Mouseposé.
| Q: How can I show typing keyboard in record screen When I record the screen on a Mac, how can I show keyboard typing in the same image (as shown below)?
Is there particular screen recording software or settings that will do this?
A: I also use Screenflow, but there are also a few standalone apps for that like Keycastr and Mouseposé.
A: I believe this is a part of Screenflow, which costs $99, but does have a trial available.
OS X does have a limited ability to do this, but it only shows modifier keys, like Shift, Ctrl, Command, etc. If you're interested in that, it's in System Preferences > Universal Access, under the Keyboard tab. Turn sticky keys on, and then push "Display pressed keys on screen". I don't think that's what you want, but you can check that out as well.
A: You could try showing the on-screen keyboard:
This is obviously a very different aesthetic than shown the OP's screenshot, but if it meets your needs, here's how you do it:
Instructions for macOS High Sierra (and probably others)
*
*Menu > System Preferences… > Keyboard
*☑️Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar
*If you don't see a flag in your menu bar yet:
*
*Switch to the Input Sources tab
*☑️Show input menu in menu bar
*Click on the input menu & select Show Keyboard Viewer
A: I’m recording lots of tutorial videos / screencasts for my YouTube channel and was very unhappy with existing solutions for displaying keystrokes on macOS. So I’ve made my own keystroke app:
Download: https://ixeau.com/keystroke-pro/
Video: https://youtu.be/3koqaw99uKA (30 seconds)
Features:
*
*Animated keystrokes look gorgeous in light and dark
*Works great with macOS Mojave
*Individual designed keys for common ISO and ANSI keyboard layouts
*Localized for 23 languages
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7c40c2d2ebc06ea371d7772c71f3380ff21e0709 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Enter "vertical bar" (or "pipe symbol") in Windows I have my MacBook late 2008 sometimes running Windows 7 via BootCamp. The keyboard has a German layout. Pretty much like the Wikimedia image below except that the blue symbols in the lowest line are not accessible.
How could I enter the vertical bar | via my keyboard?
Unfortunately Right Alt + < does not seem to work. (However, I can enter @ with Right Alt + Q et al. as I can do on external keyboards.)
Update2: From what I can tell from the languages settings, the Windows layout is missing the <-key between Left Shift and Y. What layout would provide it?
Update 3: On a co-workers current MacBook Pro its working as expected.
I'd also be happy with some comments suggesting ways to have it entered. I'm tiered of copying it from Wikipedia every time.
A: My US English Qwerty keyboard has it as Shift-\, with the \ key right above the Return key.
| Q: Enter "vertical bar" (or "pipe symbol") in Windows I have my MacBook late 2008 sometimes running Windows 7 via BootCamp. The keyboard has a German layout. Pretty much like the Wikimedia image below except that the blue symbols in the lowest line are not accessible.
How could I enter the vertical bar | via my keyboard?
Unfortunately Right Alt + < does not seem to work. (However, I can enter @ with Right Alt + Q et al. as I can do on external keyboards.)
Update2: From what I can tell from the languages settings, the Windows layout is missing the <-key between Left Shift and Y. What layout would provide it?
Update 3: On a co-workers current MacBook Pro its working as expected.
I'd also be happy with some comments suggesting ways to have it entered. I'm tiered of copying it from Wikipedia every time.
A: My US English Qwerty keyboard has it as Shift-\, with the \ key right above the Return key.
A: I had the same problem with the German keyboard. Press the key <>| and Alt and Strg key together. It works!
You see, there is already the vertical line sign on the double arrow key if you notice clearly.
A: Try
cmd + Shift + <
Re-reading your question, I looked at some standard German Keyboard layouts and you have the <>| key in the bottom left hand corner of the layout.
The only issue you have is the right hand Alt (cmd) doesn't do anything different than the left one!
See the image to show where the keyboard is defined in Windows 7:
Edit: added screenshot of which keyboard layout (in English unfortuantely)
A: You can get the | symbol by pressing Alt Gr+7 on a german keyboard layout.
A: To get the pipe symbol(|) on UK keyboard with US input, press Alt key to the right of space bar + shift + backslash().
A: I think everyone's experience varies..on a us-keyboard on en-gb system:
right alt-key + '~' worked
A: I just had a similar problem with VirtualBox running Ubuntu and Right Alt+7 worked - whereas Left Alt+7 didn't.
A: I have a HP laptop from the UK, after trying several combinations I finally found that alt gr + shift + | (pipe) worked. No idea why it won't work normally in Linux!
A: On my QWERTZ keyboard, it's the combo alt gr + w to get the |
A: I'm using a Mac Book Pro German keyboard via Microsoft Remote Desktop, and have just discovered you MUST use the right hand Command + option keys to get the equivalent Windows AltGr key!
↓
(This is why it has never worked for me for the last 20 years!)
Note: It helps if you turn on the on screen keyboard on the remote machine and then experiment pressing various modifier keys: The on screen keyboard shows you exactly the keys you'll get.
A: I was working on Linux Mint Live on a USB I found out that its default keyboard was different when piping commands in terminal. I could guess that the tilde sign on UK qwerty keyboard is alternative for that (shift and hash sign next to ENTER key)
A: my answer is alt+186 code or shift+(press key)
A: Try this in Windows: Alt + 124.
To clarify, press and hold the Alt key and then in turn press the 1, 2 and 4 keys one by one. This should produce the | (pipe symbol) you're after.
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113ffcef836a63776aec23bcb2e2da600d8739bb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Any way to make nicknames appear rather than full names? When creating contacts, you can enter nicknames. Is there a way to make these nicknames appear when your contacts call/text you as opposed to their full names?
Thanks.
A: Unfortunately, Apple hasn't given us that feature. As you probably already noticed the only place it displays is in the contact listing itself.
| Q: Any way to make nicknames appear rather than full names? When creating contacts, you can enter nicknames. Is there a way to make these nicknames appear when your contacts call/text you as opposed to their full names?
Thanks.
A: Unfortunately, Apple hasn't given us that feature. As you probably already noticed the only place it displays is in the contact listing itself.
A: Jailbroken users can opt to install Nickname from Cydia.
A: Enter their nickname in the company space. Then list them as a company. It will bold the name in your contacts list. From then on they will show up as their nickname.
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bcc2e9bb08bd82e2d183516da478b8f923b5bd9d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I use iPhone GPS and share it with an OS X application to get live position on Mac? How can I use iPhone GPS and share it with an OS X application to get live position on Mac?
Note: I am looking for a way of seeing current location, live, in Google Earth, Google maps or something similar.
I assumed a configuration where I share my internet connection from iPhone and I connect a mac to it. I know that at least the iPad can get the location when it is connected to an iPhone.
A: I think he's asking about actually using an iPhone as a GPS module for a laptop, rather than sending a location which can be viewed on a laptop.
This functionality isn't available unless you jailbreak your iPhone, then you can use xGPS or any of the similar apps on Cydia which can turn your iPhone into a bluetooth GPS module.
| Q: How can I use iPhone GPS and share it with an OS X application to get live position on Mac? How can I use iPhone GPS and share it with an OS X application to get live position on Mac?
Note: I am looking for a way of seeing current location, live, in Google Earth, Google maps or something similar.
I assumed a configuration where I share my internet connection from iPhone and I connect a mac to it. I know that at least the iPad can get the location when it is connected to an iPhone.
A: I think he's asking about actually using an iPhone as a GPS module for a laptop, rather than sending a location which can be viewed on a laptop.
This functionality isn't available unless you jailbreak your iPhone, then you can use xGPS or any of the similar apps on Cydia which can turn your iPhone into a bluetooth GPS module.
A: Your question is weird, iPhones and iPads can find their GPS position using 3G antenna as GPS signal receiver, and by triangulation of cellphone towers position.
Also, any device with an enabled wi-fi antenna (even if it's not connected to a network) can know its location based on some Apple internet database of known wi-fi station locations.
Answer:
All you have to do is log in to iCloud.com, or to the iOS app called "find my iPhone" or "find my iPad", et voila!
A: If you are an enrolled iOS developer, you could write a fairly simple iOS app that takes a GPS location and either sends this data to a server, or act as a web server itself. Then the Mac app can get the data from that server.
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513683c8fc90a2b237f89e17518bbe4a3088bd37 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Automating terminals at startup Is there any way to automate a bunch of terminals starting up at once. I find myself opening several windows and running the same sequence of commands in various tabs. I'd like to stick all this in a single shell file (so I could keep it in version control, share it, etc) rather than have to add it all to a GUI.
Ideally with iTerm, but automating with any terminal program would be interesting to hear about.
A: You could run your shell script from ~/.bashrc. Then no matter which client you use it will be executed when you open a new shell.
| Q: Automating terminals at startup Is there any way to automate a bunch of terminals starting up at once. I find myself opening several windows and running the same sequence of commands in various tabs. I'd like to stick all this in a single shell file (so I could keep it in version control, share it, etc) rather than have to add it all to a GUI.
Ideally with iTerm, but automating with any terminal program would be interesting to hear about.
A: You could run your shell script from ~/.bashrc. Then no matter which client you use it will be executed when you open a new shell.
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