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2e1626cf6fc11a8cc75e91f9ae4bc7bbd1ba0de9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Read from MS Duo memory sticks with iPad 4 (Lightning connector) I have an iPad retina and would like to load data from a MS Duo memory card (the proprietary format for Sony digital cameras). What are my options?
Unfortunately, using the USB port of the digital camera is not an option as my camera does not have one.
EDIT
According to several forums, using a USB memory card reader with the camera connection kit used to work, but recent CCKs apparently do not supply the necessary power for USB memory card readers anymore, so a normal reader might not work.
A: *
*Buy a USB memory card reader that supports MS Duo cards. Make sure that it is compatible with OS X.
*Attach the card reader to a powered USB hub and connect that to the USB port of your Camera Connection Kit. Insert the card in the reader. Attach the kit to the iPad.
| Q: Read from MS Duo memory sticks with iPad 4 (Lightning connector) I have an iPad retina and would like to load data from a MS Duo memory card (the proprietary format for Sony digital cameras). What are my options?
Unfortunately, using the USB port of the digital camera is not an option as my camera does not have one.
EDIT
According to several forums, using a USB memory card reader with the camera connection kit used to work, but recent CCKs apparently do not supply the necessary power for USB memory card readers anymore, so a normal reader might not work.
A: *
*Buy a USB memory card reader that supports MS Duo cards. Make sure that it is compatible with OS X.
*Attach the card reader to a powered USB hub and connect that to the USB port of your Camera Connection Kit. Insert the card in the reader. Attach the kit to the iPad.
A: One option is to put a MS Duo to MicroSD card adapter in your camera, then put the MicroSD card in the Camera Connection Kit's SD Card reader (via a MicroSD to SD card adapter).
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f66d7a05c4f060213bd3a142487c2bc728696ede | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mountain Lion always switches to previous application at wake up Since upgrading to Mountain Lion (from Snow Leopard), I have noticed that always when I wake up my MacBook Pro, a window from the previously active application is moved to the front.
What causes this?
Can I turn this "feature" off?
A: Thanks Daniel Lawson for pointing to the solution:
The issue is cause by the 'require password after sleep or screen saver begins' option in the system security settings. If you turn this off, the issue disappears.
| Q: Mountain Lion always switches to previous application at wake up Since upgrading to Mountain Lion (from Snow Leopard), I have noticed that always when I wake up my MacBook Pro, a window from the previously active application is moved to the front.
What causes this?
Can I turn this "feature" off?
A: Thanks Daniel Lawson for pointing to the solution:
The issue is cause by the 'require password after sleep or screen saver begins' option in the system security settings. If you turn this off, the issue disappears.
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437c603d9980e433663e1a30dc4848419f9a5de0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Isolate OSX Dock per Space How can I make it so that each space has its own isolated dock?
Basically what I'm looking for is:
*
*The dock in one space should not show the icon of an app that was open in another space.
*If I have the same program open in two different spaces, clicking on the icon in one space should not go to the app in the other space.
Is this possible natively, or with a third party program?
A: As mentioned in the Independent docks across displays thread, you can't do it with the native Dock system. You will need a third party utility like DockSpaces.
| Q: Isolate OSX Dock per Space How can I make it so that each space has its own isolated dock?
Basically what I'm looking for is:
*
*The dock in one space should not show the icon of an app that was open in another space.
*If I have the same program open in two different spaces, clicking on the icon in one space should not go to the app in the other space.
Is this possible natively, or with a third party program?
A: As mentioned in the Independent docks across displays thread, you can't do it with the native Dock system. You will need a third party utility like DockSpaces.
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6af23e8598ce04a6aa224e4a098902603759b728 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Remove application from App Store's Update section I've got an application in my Updates list which I never installed. It doesn't appear under Purchases nor Hidden Purchases. I can't hide it by right-clicking on it. When I click "Update" it asks me for some different Apple ID I've never heard of.
How can I get rid of the update showing up?
A: I had the exact same problem and this solved it:
All app downloaded from Mac AppStore(MAS) contain a receipt inside
their app bundle (example: appname.app/Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt).
MAS will scan this file to check whether the new version is available.
You can use this application (Find Any File) to search any receipt on
your drive: http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/
*
*Launch 'Find Any File' and search for: _MASReceipt
*Go through each result that you think could be the culprit, copy the receipt to your desktop as a backup, and after that delete the
receipt inside
_MASReceipt folder.
*Open MAS and let it scan for software update. If it's still showing the wrong ID, it means that you've deleted the wrong receipt.
Restore the receipt backup from your desktop to it's previous
location.
*Repeat the process until you've found the problem receipt.
| Q: Remove application from App Store's Update section I've got an application in my Updates list which I never installed. It doesn't appear under Purchases nor Hidden Purchases. I can't hide it by right-clicking on it. When I click "Update" it asks me for some different Apple ID I've never heard of.
How can I get rid of the update showing up?
A: I had the exact same problem and this solved it:
All app downloaded from Mac AppStore(MAS) contain a receipt inside
their app bundle (example: appname.app/Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt).
MAS will scan this file to check whether the new version is available.
You can use this application (Find Any File) to search any receipt on
your drive: http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/
*
*Launch 'Find Any File' and search for: _MASReceipt
*Go through each result that you think could be the culprit, copy the receipt to your desktop as a backup, and after that delete the
receipt inside
_MASReceipt folder.
*Open MAS and let it scan for software update. If it's still showing the wrong ID, it means that you've deleted the wrong receipt.
Restore the receipt backup from your desktop to it's previous
location.
*Repeat the process until you've found the problem receipt.
A: In Terminal type:
cd /Applications
then type:
grep -r "EnsenaSoft"
This will deep search your applications folder for any sign of that application or it's receipt. It could take a while; if any results show up make a note of the path and then you can trash/delete the app.
Hit Control-C anytime during the grep search to cancel it.
A: Or download EasyFind -- free from the Mac App Store -- which will quickly and easily find anything anywhere and belongs in every Mac's dock.
It might help you find the erenasoft related files that the command line answers suggest without needing shell skills.
A: You have the game 'Galaxy on Fire 2' installed. Remove it from all drives, even external drives. Empty trash, reboot, and go back to app store update, the update will then stop showing.
A: The grep -r "EnsensaSoft" will not work. It should be:
cd /Applications
and then
ls -ltr | grep -ir EnsensaSoft
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6bcb2b832c06c6a0c5186acd9583de4ab9bade1e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Sharing iTunes account with separate game center accounts We have a family iTunes account. My son wants to have his own Clash of Clans game on his iPod, so we created his own Apple ID and he logged into Game Center from his iPod with the new ID to download the game. However, it automatically reverts back to my husband’s game and the family account.
How do we get it to download under his new ID?
A: You will need to check the settings app and sign out of the App Store for the account you don't want to purchase things. There are about 5 places you can enter an Apple ID in the settings so that you can mix one app for music and apps, another for home sharing, another for iMessage, another for iCloud and another for Game Center.
| Q: Sharing iTunes account with separate game center accounts We have a family iTunes account. My son wants to have his own Clash of Clans game on his iPod, so we created his own Apple ID and he logged into Game Center from his iPod with the new ID to download the game. However, it automatically reverts back to my husband’s game and the family account.
How do we get it to download under his new ID?
A: You will need to check the settings app and sign out of the App Store for the account you don't want to purchase things. There are about 5 places you can enter an Apple ID in the settings so that you can mix one app for music and apps, another for home sharing, another for iMessage, another for iCloud and another for Game Center.
A: As bmike mentioned, there are multiple places to enter an AppleID to be used with the various Apple services. Some apps use the main iCloud account where others can be configured to a different ID.
If the iPod is primarily for your son, or anyone else, I would recommend setting up the iDevice under his Apple ID then log into the family account for other services. I do this for my family and with a few minor issues, it works out very well.
In the Settings, scroll down to the iCloud option. That is the primary account for the device. Configure it to your son's account. (I use the naming scheme of iPerson, like iJason, so when I configure other accounts, I know this one is the iCloud entry) Enable the apps that will be unique to him (ie Contacts, Reminders, etc). However, turn off "Find my iPhone" here as we will enable it later.
FYI: All apps will use this account by default, including saving app preferences via the Documents and Data setting. This will allow each family member to play the same game but each have their own saved preferences (if the app uses iCloud for preferences). If all the devices were set up under Dad's ID, the preferences could be changed by the wrong family member.
Now go back to the main Settings and just below the iCloud option is "Mail, Contacts, Calendars". Select this and add a new iCloud account entering your family account info. (I use the nickname of iFamily). In here, enable the apps that will be common between all family members. For example, I use Contacts, Reminders, and Find My iPhone for all family members. Configuring all your devices to use the same account for Find My iPhone allows you to log into the icloud.com site and see all the devices at once.
You can now go back to the main Settings screen and set up the Apple ID for other services to use the iFamily account or each iUser account.
*
*Messages: iUser
*FaceTime: iUser
*iTunes & App Stores: iFamily so that any purchase is available to all devices but I recommend you turn off the Automatic Downloads or everyone will get the new item pushed whenever someone else makes a purchase.
*Music: Home Sharing - iFamily
*Videos: Home Sharing - iFamily
*Photos & Camera: iUser but turn on Shared Photo Streams and set up a shared folder for the iFamily account (done in the Photos app).
Game Center doesn't (yet) have a Settings entry so you will need to set the Apple ID from within the Game Center app. Click on the Me tab and scroll down to the Account banner. If it isn't set to the primary iCloud account already, click the banner and log out/log in to the proper account.
Not exactly related to Apple ID but still a per user setting is the Twitter and Facebook settings. You will probably want to set these to the primary device user if they use these services.
I hope this helps. While looking up some details to post, I came across this Gigaom.com article which has a nice table laying out each app setting.
A: If nothing else works, try deleting the game and reinstalling it.
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19b8b97b02a14ba09e77620a02ebb49ad7f4c95f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Create AirPort network from the command line? Is it possible to put my AirPort in access point mode, so it creates an infrastructure (ie, non-ad-hoc) network from the command line on OS X?
Similar to using System Preferences -> Sharing -> Internet -> Share from … to computers using WiFi.
A: After some hours of digging through the internet, it seems that the only way to put an airport in HostAP ("software base station") mode in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is to programatically call a the internal, undocumented, startHostAPModeWithSSID method.
I've updated the one example I could find online, and it does seem to work, with the one caveat that only WEP, not WPA, can be used: https://gist.github.com/4418079
| Q: Create AirPort network from the command line? Is it possible to put my AirPort in access point mode, so it creates an infrastructure (ie, non-ad-hoc) network from the command line on OS X?
Similar to using System Preferences -> Sharing -> Internet -> Share from … to computers using WiFi.
A: After some hours of digging through the internet, it seems that the only way to put an airport in HostAP ("software base station") mode in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is to programatically call a the internal, undocumented, startHostAPModeWithSSID method.
I've updated the one example I could find online, and it does seem to work, with the one caveat that only WEP, not WPA, can be used: https://gist.github.com/4418079
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68228b3c8ea39800f5642c4e35a39ec51676a062 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Open .pdf's inside chrome using SKIM The built in pdf viewer of chrome is rather nice, but I like (and more used to) skim. My ultimate goal would be to click on a pdf file and to have it opened in the tab (within chrome) using skim as the backbone.
I managed to disable the built in viewer (chrome://plugins/); then, clicking on a pdf simply downloads it, and I can open it with skim. This is cumbersome, and the file is saved locally on my ~/Downloads. Is there a way to make it flow nicer? Is there a way to automatically open the file once downloaded (skim is my default viewer anyway)?
A: If you download a pdf then click on the arrow on the downloaded file button at the bottom of the browser window and select "Always open files of this type", then pdf files will be automatically opened by the default application on download - in your case skim.
They will still be in the download folder however.
To undo this behaviour go into chrome advanced settings and under Download click "Clear auto-opening sett
| Q: Open .pdf's inside chrome using SKIM The built in pdf viewer of chrome is rather nice, but I like (and more used to) skim. My ultimate goal would be to click on a pdf file and to have it opened in the tab (within chrome) using skim as the backbone.
I managed to disable the built in viewer (chrome://plugins/); then, clicking on a pdf simply downloads it, and I can open it with skim. This is cumbersome, and the file is saved locally on my ~/Downloads. Is there a way to make it flow nicer? Is there a way to automatically open the file once downloaded (skim is my default viewer anyway)?
A: If you download a pdf then click on the arrow on the downloaded file button at the bottom of the browser window and select "Always open files of this type", then pdf files will be automatically opened by the default application on download - in your case skim.
They will still be in the download folder however.
To undo this behaviour go into chrome advanced settings and under Download click "Clear auto-opening sett
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f0e195e8718b7d3b94443fa6efb2d7996df45317 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Spotlight search iTunes Match Back before I used iTunes Match, I enjoyed being able to search my library via spotlight. Now it seems that this doesn't work anymore. I guess this is because the music is not stored locally, but certainly there has to be a way to duplicate this functionality.
Basically, I want to hit a hot key (ie. Command+Space) then type a song title, then hit enter to play. I tried quicksilver, but it doesn't appear to support iTunes Match either. Alfred requires use of their "miniplayer" that needs more keystrokes to work with (plus it costs monies). Does anyone have an idea?
A: Create a Automator service like the first answer in this page
Put this text in the "Run AppleScript" action.
activate
set tString to text returned of (display dialog "Type a song title to >search via iTunes" default answer "")
tell application "iTunes" to tell (first playlist whose special kind is Music)
tell (search for tString only songs) to if it is not {} then play item 1
end tell
Save the worflow.
To create a keyboard shortcut to this service: go into System Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts, select 'Services' on left panel
| Q: Spotlight search iTunes Match Back before I used iTunes Match, I enjoyed being able to search my library via spotlight. Now it seems that this doesn't work anymore. I guess this is because the music is not stored locally, but certainly there has to be a way to duplicate this functionality.
Basically, I want to hit a hot key (ie. Command+Space) then type a song title, then hit enter to play. I tried quicksilver, but it doesn't appear to support iTunes Match either. Alfred requires use of their "miniplayer" that needs more keystrokes to work with (plus it costs monies). Does anyone have an idea?
A: Create a Automator service like the first answer in this page
Put this text in the "Run AppleScript" action.
activate
set tString to text returned of (display dialog "Type a song title to >search via iTunes" default answer "")
tell application "iTunes" to tell (first playlist whose special kind is Music)
tell (search for tString only songs) to if it is not {} then play item 1
end tell
Save the worflow.
To create a keyboard shortcut to this service: go into System Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts, select 'Services' on left panel
A: An alternative thought:
I've had good luck with using a supplementary quick search like Google Quick Search. I have it load on boot and it quietly runs in the background (with optional icon up top), and assigned it to Option+Space (a built in feature) so it has the same feel as Spotlight.
When I use this to search for a song name that is in my iTunes Match, but not stored locally, it will still find it and open the song in iTunes.
http://www.google.com/quicksearchbox/
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3b2674613b6a08de14d08c90174419c6c049c368 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I convert .CR2 to .jpg? Is there a simple tool that will convert .cr2 files (Canon RAW) to .jpg?
I know Preview does it well but I'm looking for something directly accessible from the contextual menu.
A: You can make a custom workflow to do this as a Finder (or even system wide) service using Automator.
Look for the Change Type of Images action under Photos and then you just need to decide on your workflow - whether you save this as a service that can be activated by the contextual menu or perhaps make it into a drop folder so you can automate the next step of the process as well.
| Q: How can I convert .CR2 to .jpg? Is there a simple tool that will convert .cr2 files (Canon RAW) to .jpg?
I know Preview does it well but I'm looking for something directly accessible from the contextual menu.
A: You can make a custom workflow to do this as a Finder (or even system wide) service using Automator.
Look for the Change Type of Images action under Photos and then you just need to decide on your workflow - whether you save this as a service that can be activated by the contextual menu or perhaps make it into a drop folder so you can automate the next step of the process as well.
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c0cbf23523de42cbabdaa45b423b6e3aaba62de5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I tell if I'm viewing a secure page in Safari (6.0.2)? Safari hides the http: or https:, so how can I tell if I'm viewing a page over SSL? Some pages show issuer information in the URL bar, but not all of them. So the ones that show issuer info are secure, but I'd rather not have to reload the other pages in Chrome just to determine whether I have a secure connection to it.
A: Some pages will display the lock icon during loading, then it will disappear. This is because there is some insecure content on the page, for example Google AdSense ads on a secure page can cause this.
| Q: How can I tell if I'm viewing a secure page in Safari (6.0.2)? Safari hides the http: or https:, so how can I tell if I'm viewing a page over SSL? Some pages show issuer information in the URL bar, but not all of them. So the ones that show issuer info are secure, but I'd rather not have to reload the other pages in Chrome just to determine whether I have a secure connection to it.
A: Some pages will display the lock icon during loading, then it will disappear. This is because there is some insecure content on the page, for example Google AdSense ads on a secure page can cause this.
A: As a follow up to the answer by @chrisg I recently noticed that some Safari Extensions will also hide the lock icon, presumably because they send or receive information over http. So if you are having problems when no site will show the padlock, lock through your Extensions...
(I know this question is a bit old, but I thought this might be valuable information)
A: On safari open Inspector->Resource Tab-> on right hand panel you can see Scheme: will be HTTPS if https or HTTP if secure.
A: On HTTPS pages Safari shows a small padlock.
(screen made with Safari 6.0.2)
You can see this a little easier in these larger snaps - one of a site where the SSL certificate was not trusted implicitly (signed or otherwise trusted by your Mac) and another where the certificate was valid and signed up the chain by the Mac and shown in green.
A: In response to Matthieu post, the https or EV Disclosure is only visible when the page initially loads, once finished it hides it again which is really annoying. The only way to show it i've found so far is Lauri answer by pressing ⌘LCV which is nuts. If im paying for an EV I want my customers to see it!
A: Addendum to @Fredrik -- the lack of an encryption button (padlock icon) on a site accessed using HTTPS may indicate that one or more extensions are out of date (check Safari->Preferences->Extensions).
A: Or, just tap the address bar and the whole address is shown.
Including the https:
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27e7c455666cf0cc716e58b4ea83a0462c0c23d1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Resize Boot Camp partition I installed Windows 8 on my MacBook Pro using Boot Camp. Now I've figured out I should have made the Windows 8 partition bigger. Is this safe to attempt using Disk Utility? If not, how do I go about accomplishing this?
A: Though grgarside's answer was the correct & only correct answer at the time, iPartition is no longer the 'go to' app for this kind of task. It has unfortunately been left to languish & can't handle CoreStorage volumes at all.
The only replacement - & actually improvement - on iPartition is now Paragon Hard Disk Manager
It can not only resize Bootcamp partitions, it can fix them & even back up or move them to a new drive without breaking anything else in the process.
Full feature list here - https://www.paragon-software.com/home/hdm-mac/features.html
no affiliation, merely a satisfied user.
| Q: Resize Boot Camp partition I installed Windows 8 on my MacBook Pro using Boot Camp. Now I've figured out I should have made the Windows 8 partition bigger. Is this safe to attempt using Disk Utility? If not, how do I go about accomplishing this?
A: Though grgarside's answer was the correct & only correct answer at the time, iPartition is no longer the 'go to' app for this kind of task. It has unfortunately been left to languish & can't handle CoreStorage volumes at all.
The only replacement - & actually improvement - on iPartition is now Paragon Hard Disk Manager
It can not only resize Bootcamp partitions, it can fix them & even back up or move them to a new drive without breaking anything else in the process.
Full feature list here - https://www.paragon-software.com/home/hdm-mac/features.html
no affiliation, merely a satisfied user.
A: For all my partitioning, I use and recommend iPartition.
You can use iPartition on drives that contain Boot Camp volumes; in fact, you can even resize your Windows partitions, and let iPartition take care of reconfiguring the Windows boot process for you.
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d527c7d2508761b5d2d1f81db94abefcda9c6a3d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it safe to use the 12W iPad 4th gen power adapter for earlier iPads and iPhones? The older iPads have 10W power adapter (charger), and the iPhones supposed use only 5W chargers.
But the iPad 4th gen, probably due to the larger power consumption, uses a 12W power adapter / charger.
Is this charger safe to use with the older iPads and iPhones. Will it overcharge or overheat or damage the battery? A more serious worry is that if it overheats, then can the battery explode?
A: Yes. The wattage ratings are maximum and all iOS devices will only pull the current they need to charge.
Should a device or an adapter get too hot to operate safely, they will shut off.
| Q: Is it safe to use the 12W iPad 4th gen power adapter for earlier iPads and iPhones? The older iPads have 10W power adapter (charger), and the iPhones supposed use only 5W chargers.
But the iPad 4th gen, probably due to the larger power consumption, uses a 12W power adapter / charger.
Is this charger safe to use with the older iPads and iPhones. Will it overcharge or overheat or damage the battery? A more serious worry is that if it overheats, then can the battery explode?
A: Yes. The wattage ratings are maximum and all iOS devices will only pull the current they need to charge.
Should a device or an adapter get too hot to operate safely, they will shut off.
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5ca5e6d5ff609b1eca3405eb646a99f089f8b50c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I create a fusion drive with an HDD that already has a boot camp partition? I'm planning to replace the optical drive in my MacBook Pro 9,1 (mid-2012, non-retina) with an SSD and make the two internal drives into a fusion drive, and I know that creating a boot camp partition on a Mac without an optical drive can be a challenge. So I want to create my boot camp partition before I create my fusion drive.
I couldn't find an answer to this in my googling. I know that you can create a Boot Camp partition if you already have a fusion drive.
Can I create a fusion drive using an HDD that already has a boot camp partition on it?
A: From my hands-on experience, I'd have to say, "negative".
I've created a couple of fusion drives on a 2008 Mac Pro from devices with preexisting partitions. Building the fusion in Core Storage destroyed all partitions on the media.
| Q: Can I create a fusion drive with an HDD that already has a boot camp partition? I'm planning to replace the optical drive in my MacBook Pro 9,1 (mid-2012, non-retina) with an SSD and make the two internal drives into a fusion drive, and I know that creating a boot camp partition on a Mac without an optical drive can be a challenge. So I want to create my boot camp partition before I create my fusion drive.
I couldn't find an answer to this in my googling. I know that you can create a Boot Camp partition if you already have a fusion drive.
Can I create a fusion drive using an HDD that already has a boot camp partition on it?
A: From my hands-on experience, I'd have to say, "negative".
I've created a couple of fusion drives on a 2008 Mac Pro from devices with preexisting partitions. Building the fusion in Core Storage destroyed all partitions on the media.
A: With trepidation, and after a full backup, I specified two arbitrary slices from two already-partitioned hard drives:
diskutil cs create <myTestVolumeName> disk0s2 disk1s4
Because I picked two partitions I could sacrifice, the HD partition (20GB) was quite small compared to the SSD partition (115GB) which isn't at all the normal use case, but added an extra wrinkle for testing.
To my surprise, and supporting what Bbh noted previously, it would seem you can specify slices for not just one, but both parameters.
I have a working ‘Fusion Drive’ and still have my other ‘stock’ partitions and recovery drives intact. I restored a system to the wee beastie to see if <myTestVolumeName> would boot my MBP5,4 (mid-2009)… It does; this bodes well.
So the answer AFAIK is Yes, as to preparing/preserving Boot Camp and exising partitions, at least on my setup. YMMV.
A: I just did this yesterday.
I was having difficulty with Bootcamp getting stuck at partitioning with my 2011 iMac with a DIY fusion 2TB+256GB. So, I disabled fusion, installed OS X on my HDD, ran Bootcamp and set up a partition for Windows on the HDD, installed Windows 8, booted from OS X thumb drive and then created a fusion drive with just the slices I wanted to use, leaving the recovery and Windows slices alone.
The Windows and recovery partitions are not visible at Option-boot until after I installed OS X again on the fusion drive.
A: I think you can. In creating the Logical Volume Group, I read of a fellow who preserved both his Bootcamp and Recovery partitions by the simple act of specifying the SLICE that contained most of the HDD data. Forexample,
Diskutil cs create yourdisk d1 d2s2 where d2 is the HDD that contains the major data at d2s2 and Boorcamp at d2s3 and the recovery partition at d2s4, or some similar setup.
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d86e0c370d38b1896512df1aeb7c82f674b5b684 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to backup Evernote to Dropbox? I'd like to be able to use a little bit of the space in my Dropbox account to create a backup of Evernote. This way if anything happens to Evernote cloud service I'd still have access to the Dropbox backup. Any ideas?
A: My article at wn7ant.com explains how to do this using the App store version of Evernote:
*
*Move ~/Library/Containers/com.evernote.Evernote/Data/Library/Application Support/Evernote to /Users/my_user_on_the_system/Dropbox.
*Create an alias of /Users/my_user_on_the_system/Dropbox/Evernote.
*Move the alias of /Evernote back to ~/Library/Containers/com.evernote.Evernote/Data/Library/Application Support/
| Q: Is there a way to backup Evernote to Dropbox? I'd like to be able to use a little bit of the space in my Dropbox account to create a backup of Evernote. This way if anything happens to Evernote cloud service I'd still have access to the Dropbox backup. Any ideas?
A: My article at wn7ant.com explains how to do this using the App store version of Evernote:
*
*Move ~/Library/Containers/com.evernote.Evernote/Data/Library/Application Support/Evernote to /Users/my_user_on_the_system/Dropbox.
*Create an alias of /Users/my_user_on_the_system/Dropbox/Evernote.
*Move the alias of /Evernote back to ~/Library/Containers/com.evernote.Evernote/Data/Library/Application Support/
A: Using the ifttt.com service you can automate your evernote activity to dropbox.
Here is a recipe to use: https://ifttt.com/recipes/58926-evernotes
A: One other way to achieve this is to use cloudHQ: http://cloudHQ.net service meant to replicate and synchronize data.
*
*So cloudHQ can basically sync and replicate all your Evernote notes with Dropbox, GDrive or some other cloud services (we also support also Basecamp, Salesforce).
*cloudHQ will export all you notes into TXT, ENEX, PDF, OpenOffice, and/or MS Word.
Since our sync is continuous any change in Evernote will be immediately sync'd to Dropbox (or GDrive, Box, SugarSync, etc.)
*You can do two-sync: so any change from GDrive/Dropbox will be automatically uploaded into Evernote
*Even if you change Evernote via mobile or via web interface changes will be backed up immediately.
A: Rich, the founder of Revert here. We provide free automatic daily backup for Evernote and a growing selection of other apps including Dropbox. Using Revert for backup takes the fuss out of the backup process and makes restoring notes or notebooks fast and easy.
We were reviewed recently on The Next Web.
Give it a try and if you have any questions feel free to ask a follow on question here.
A: There is a product called Revert.io , it creates a backup for evernote, dropbox and some other cloud product and allows you to not only search across all of them but also restore. I think it is free for evernote users.
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8630c12b81a9a37a04eb7ed1af1d74b22f35ddf1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iOS 6 activation error on iPhone 3GS without SIM card I recently got an iPhone 3GS without a SIM card. I upgraded it to iOS 6 from 5.1.1.
However, the phone is stuck on "Activation error" after successfully connecting to my WiFi. The screen says:
Activation request could not be completed. If the problem persists,
please contact customer care.
If connected to iTunes 11, iTunes says:
We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this
time.
Resetting the phone doesn't work. Anybody has any ideas, besides contacting customer care?
Edit: The problem was solved by inserting a valid SIM card.
A: I had a similar error once, and if I remember correctly, it was that the time on the iPhone was wrong (months or years, I think). Setting the time correctly allowed it to go through.
| Q: iOS 6 activation error on iPhone 3GS without SIM card I recently got an iPhone 3GS without a SIM card. I upgraded it to iOS 6 from 5.1.1.
However, the phone is stuck on "Activation error" after successfully connecting to my WiFi. The screen says:
Activation request could not be completed. If the problem persists,
please contact customer care.
If connected to iTunes 11, iTunes says:
We're sorry, we are unable to continue with your activation at this
time.
Resetting the phone doesn't work. Anybody has any ideas, besides contacting customer care?
Edit: The problem was solved by inserting a valid SIM card.
A: I had a similar error once, and if I remember correctly, it was that the time on the iPhone was wrong (months or years, I think). Setting the time correctly allowed it to go through.
A: The message you describe is what happens when a locked phone is restored by iTunes without a SIM present from the carrier that the phone should be locked.
You could use any of the IME I look up tools on the Internet- some are free and some are paid and all make me worry they are harvesting databases of IMEI/serial number/other data in exchange for providing you a service by looking up your phone in the carrier database.
Of course, you can always contact the carrier in question to see what is needed to get service or a Sim card for that device.
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870620e4844ef39dedb995ffec899ee0a015704b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Find original filename after Data Rescue recovery Recently, I lost 1,7TB on videofiles on my external hard drive. A terrible loss since it took me many evenings categorising all this data.
With a deep-scan with DataRescue 3, I was able to recover most of it, but they all have the same awful filename "M00001.avi", "M00002.avi",...
First question, is there any way to improve this results? Meaning to retrieve the file including the proper naming?
A: Data rescue is fairly sophisticated program on the Mac. If there were any traces the filename in the filesystem, that software puts the file name back when it performs a simple undelete. What you are seeing are video fragments of files that were found on the filesystem totally detached from a directory entry.
In short you're not going to be able to get the file names back without a backup or other source of the file names.
Hopefully, those AVI files are actually complete files and not just fragments of video content that it managed patch together with a proper header and a sequentially made-up filename.
| Q: Find original filename after Data Rescue recovery Recently, I lost 1,7TB on videofiles on my external hard drive. A terrible loss since it took me many evenings categorising all this data.
With a deep-scan with DataRescue 3, I was able to recover most of it, but they all have the same awful filename "M00001.avi", "M00002.avi",...
First question, is there any way to improve this results? Meaning to retrieve the file including the proper naming?
A: Data rescue is fairly sophisticated program on the Mac. If there were any traces the filename in the filesystem, that software puts the file name back when it performs a simple undelete. What you are seeing are video fragments of files that were found on the filesystem totally detached from a directory entry.
In short you're not going to be able to get the file names back without a backup or other source of the file names.
Hopefully, those AVI files are actually complete files and not just fragments of video content that it managed patch together with a proper header and a sequentially made-up filename.
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de6b3bf09851f2341c799a336a7b2fed642dfb20 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I correct wrong iTunes play counts? The play count in my iTunes library has somehow become incorrect. It shows some songs as never been played while I know that I have played them many times before. These songs do still have a "last played" date though.
Also, some songs are being listed as only played once, while I know they have been played multiple times.
I have an iPhone 4S, with iOS 6.0.1, iTunes 11. My PC is a VAIO running on Windows 7. I have a backup of my iTunes account. I think the problem started after I updated my iTunes account to version 11.
What I need is to get my original play count data back. Can anyone help me with this?
A: There's a bug in iTunes 11 where the play count isn't updated if you have crossfading of tracks turned on in the playback settings. This might account for some of it.
| Q: How do I correct wrong iTunes play counts? The play count in my iTunes library has somehow become incorrect. It shows some songs as never been played while I know that I have played them many times before. These songs do still have a "last played" date though.
Also, some songs are being listed as only played once, while I know they have been played multiple times.
I have an iPhone 4S, with iOS 6.0.1, iTunes 11. My PC is a VAIO running on Windows 7. I have a backup of my iTunes account. I think the problem started after I updated my iTunes account to version 11.
What I need is to get my original play count data back. Can anyone help me with this?
A: There's a bug in iTunes 11 where the play count isn't updated if you have crossfading of tracks turned on in the playback settings. This might account for some of it.
A: Here's the real, heavy duty power solution:
Use Notepad to create a new file named: iTunes_SetPlayCount.VBS
Use this script:
Dim iTunesApp, selectedTracks, newPlayCount
Dim prompt, title, defaultValue
Set iTunesApp = WScript.CreateObject("iTunes.Application")
Set selectedTracks = iTunesApp.SelectedTracks
prompt = "New playcount:"
For Each IITTrack In selectedTracks
title = IITTrack.Artist & " - " & IITTrack.Name
defaultValue = IITTrack.PlayedCount
newPlayCount = InputBox (prompt, title, defaultValue)
'MsgBox("NewPlayCount = " & newPlayCount)
If Len(newPlayCount) > 0 Then
If IsNumeric(newPlayCount) Then
If newPlayCount >= 0 Then
IITTrack.PlayedCount = newPlayCount
End If
End If
Else
Exit For
End If
Next
KaaBAM!
A: For minor play count screwups, I use a little AppleScript to set the count:
tell application "iTunes"
activate
set played count of track named "Vaseline Machine Gun" to 16
return
end tell
Obviously this can be elaborated to handle more complicated situations involving multiple tracks and playlists.
A: Summary
If you quit iTunes and empty the contents of your iTunes Library.itl file, then iTunes will rebuild your library from the contents of iTunes Media Library.xml. Make sure it's up to date by exporting your library and copying the file, and then edit the play counts inside. When you restart iTunes, it will use the XML file and your edited information will be accepted.
Step-by-step
Retrieve previous information:
If you have backups of your iTunes library, find the most recent version of iTunes Media Library.xml from before the problem. Within this file, search for the songs whose play counts you want to restore. You'll be looking for this:
<key>Play Count</key><integer>1337</integer>
Now you know what the accurate play counts were. Copy and paste them into a text file or something so you can put them in your current library next.
Modify current library:
This is the tricky part, so back up your files before editing them.
*
*Use File > Library > Export Library… to get an up-to-date XML representation of your library. I'll refer to this file as Library.xml.
*Exit iTunes and use the Task Manager to make sure it (and the iTunes Helper) are well and truly dead.
*Navigate to your iTunes folder. Replace the contents of iTunes Media Library.xml and iTunes Library.xml with your newly created Library.xml. This will ensure that they're up to date.
*Change the play counts in the iTunes Media Library.xml file. This file is about to become the basis for your library's metadata.
*Remove the contents of your iTunes Library.itl file. The file itself needs to exist, but it must be empty so that iTunes will fall back to iTunes Media Library.xml. (more info) If everything works, you will not need the old contents of this file.
*Restart iTunes. It will report that your library is corrupted, so it will fall back to the XML file that you've edited and rebuild the .itl file. After it's finished, you'll see the play counts from iTunes Media Library.xml.
I haven't verified that there's absolutely no data loss with this method, but my library appeared fully intact when I tested it with iTunes 11 on OS X 10.8. Always back up your files before tweaking. Enjoy!
A: One way to correct the wrong playcount is to open a previous Itunes library and adjust the playcounts manually.
You could load the old library (which in my case is pretty similar to the new one, since it is only 1 month old) and manually adjust the playcounts (by playing the songs an extra number of times) and also manually adjust newly added songs etc. Of course, you could also just use the old library to identify wrong play counts and adjust them in the new library.
How to load the old library? Hold down SHIFT while you open Itunes (first press SHIFT, keep holding it down, then open Itunes). Itunes will ask you which Itunes library you want to open, click “Choose Library”, then click the folder “Previous Itunes Libraries”. Within that folder you will find a number of old ITL files (ITL stands for Itunes Library File, these files contain metadata like playcount etc.), choose the one with the date before you updated your Itunes to version 11 (in my case the name of the file was “iTunes Library 2012-12-02”). Itunes will now open the old library with the old playcounts, song names, last played etc. You can go back to the new library with the same SHIFT procedure but then choose "iTunes Library" in the "iTunes" folder.
Comparing the playcounts of the old and new library can( for example) be done in Excel. Simply select all the songs in Itunes (CTRL A, CTRL C) and paste them in Excel (CTRL V), don’t forget to sort by name first.
Hope this helps.
Ciao, Raphie
A: Ultraduty super power solution;
Set play time to one second, click play in itunes on the the file as many times as needed.
WhaBAM.
A: For Windows you can either use the scripts from http://liquidparallax.com/2007/06/09/windows-itunes-scripts-downloads/
Or I wrote an updated version with a dialogue box available at http://zagz.com/update-play-count-itunes-windows/ Chrome won't let you download the script as it is a zipped windows script file so use Firefox or something else to get it.
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e2701dbc84502e148a23e50d62fa8c08176390a6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Work offline in Google Drive on iPad Is there a way to work offline on a Google Drive document on an iPad?
I'm aware it's possible on a desktop or laptop when using Chrome, but I can't seem to see an option for such a functionality in the Google Drive app.
You can make a file available offline, but you can only view it if you do that. I can't seem to be able to edit it though.
I was reading an article on the Google Docs blog, but it doesn't seem clear to me whether offline editing is one thing and the app is another, or if offline editing is a feature of the app.
A: There is a link in the article you mentioned where it says the following:
"The Google Drive app for iPhone and iPad lets you view items you've stored in Google Drive with your device even when it isn't connected to the Internet or a mobile network. Offline editing isn’t currently supported."
Emphasis added
http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=107975
| Q: Work offline in Google Drive on iPad Is there a way to work offline on a Google Drive document on an iPad?
I'm aware it's possible on a desktop or laptop when using Chrome, but I can't seem to see an option for such a functionality in the Google Drive app.
You can make a file available offline, but you can only view it if you do that. I can't seem to be able to edit it though.
I was reading an article on the Google Docs blog, but it doesn't seem clear to me whether offline editing is one thing and the app is another, or if offline editing is a feature of the app.
A: There is a link in the article you mentioned where it says the following:
"The Google Drive app for iPhone and iPad lets you view items you've stored in Google Drive with your device even when it isn't connected to the Internet or a mobile network. Offline editing isn’t currently supported."
Emphasis added
http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=107975
A: Google Docs for iPad now supports off line editing: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-docs/id842842640?mt=8
Under the listed features:
Get stuff done anytime -- even without an internet connection
I have just tested it out on my iPad mini, and it worked fine off line, syncing and updating the shared document once I connected again.
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ace07e253dd077b8132796f4873024a4ec7909ab | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can't access /etc folder in OS X Mountain Lion In OS X Mountain Lion's Finder, I can see a grayed-out /etc folder, but cannot see inside. Using Terminal's ls command, I can see the existence of a file that one of my programs is trying to find (Free Pascal's fpc program has a fpc.cfg file in /etc).
How can I change parameters for this folder to enable more open access?
A: Hit ⌘+⇧+G (or select Go - Go to Folder... from the Finder menu bar) and enter /etc or any existing and readable path as the target location to browse it.
Given you enabled showing of hidden files, while double-clicking etc from Finder does not work, you can still right-click it and choose Open from the context menu.
The system-wide configuration files in /etc are best to be treated with caution just as all the other hidden system files and therefor I'd certainly not recommend changing permissions for them, but if you do need to view or edit them I would suggest doing it from the Terminal. This will also make it easier to gain the necessary root privileges for changing them by using the sudo command.
| Q: Can't access /etc folder in OS X Mountain Lion In OS X Mountain Lion's Finder, I can see a grayed-out /etc folder, but cannot see inside. Using Terminal's ls command, I can see the existence of a file that one of my programs is trying to find (Free Pascal's fpc program has a fpc.cfg file in /etc).
How can I change parameters for this folder to enable more open access?
A: Hit ⌘+⇧+G (or select Go - Go to Folder... from the Finder menu bar) and enter /etc or any existing and readable path as the target location to browse it.
Given you enabled showing of hidden files, while double-clicking etc from Finder does not work, you can still right-click it and choose Open from the context menu.
The system-wide configuration files in /etc are best to be treated with caution just as all the other hidden system files and therefor I'd certainly not recommend changing permissions for them, but if you do need to view or edit them I would suggest doing it from the Terminal. This will also make it easier to gain the necessary root privileges for changing them by using the sudo command.
A: lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 11 Oct 19 16:00 etc -> private/etc
the folder owner is root. if your program need to access it, you can run it under root account.
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873ffda929ede4bbae5d98861f0f381aff25eb1c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to make Finder always expand to "Show All" by default in "Icon View"? Is there a way to make Finder always expand to "Show All" by default in "Icon View"?
I am referring to this situation where the "Show All" is collapsed by default:
A: I have a two-part answer for you. The short answer is no, you cannot "Show All" by default in the Icon view you are using.
The good news, and second part of the answer, is that you can change the folder View settings to eliminate this completely.
*
*Open one of the folders with which you are having an issue.
*Select Show View Options from the View menu.
*Change the Arranged By setting to Name or None.
*Then Select Sort By to whatever way you prefer. Kind will be the secondary arrangement.
*You may also wish to check the box, Always open in Icon view.
Once this is set the way you wish, you can also click the Use as Default button at the bottom of the View options window.
| Q: Is there a way to make Finder always expand to "Show All" by default in "Icon View"? Is there a way to make Finder always expand to "Show All" by default in "Icon View"?
I am referring to this situation where the "Show All" is collapsed by default:
A: I have a two-part answer for you. The short answer is no, you cannot "Show All" by default in the Icon view you are using.
The good news, and second part of the answer, is that you can change the folder View settings to eliminate this completely.
*
*Open one of the folders with which you are having an issue.
*Select Show View Options from the View menu.
*Change the Arranged By setting to Name or None.
*Then Select Sort By to whatever way you prefer. Kind will be the secondary arrangement.
*You may also wish to check the box, Always open in Icon view.
Once this is set the way you wish, you can also click the Use as Default button at the bottom of the View options window.
A: On closer inspection this appears to be a bug. If you populate a folder with only sub-folders (no other file types) then the 'show all' remains the default when you leave and re-enter the folder. Also, I mysteriously have one folder on my mac with multiple file types where the 'show all' option appears to be the default. Definitely a bug.
A: Update: like Alex said - but you need to click the "Help" option and type "Sort By" in order to get the menu to give you a sort-by option - it does not show up by default, but the "help" option somehow activates it to show.
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757bdffdf44467cdd284bba2e1904eae9d7430d6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I create a custom colored icon font? How can I create custom colored icon font as Apple did for emoticons?
I'd also need a font making tool that imports .svg images.
A: For font making the common OS X tools are FontLab, FontForge, and Glyphs.
I understand the Color Emoji font uses png color bitmaps in two sizes in a proprietary “sbix” table, but have not yet seen info on how to make that table.
| Q: How can I create a custom colored icon font? How can I create custom colored icon font as Apple did for emoticons?
I'd also need a font making tool that imports .svg images.
A: For font making the common OS X tools are FontLab, FontForge, and Glyphs.
I understand the Color Emoji font uses png color bitmaps in two sizes in a proprietary “sbix” table, but have not yet seen info on how to make that table.
A: This link explains how to make a custom color font.
http://www.pixelambacht.nl/2014/compyx-a-multicolor-8bit-font/
hope that helps!
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4b06c9697197dbde9045c08f295097d1512b1985 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iTerm2 save window/tabs on exit? I tried to save a window arrangement but when I open iTerm it opens two windows:
*
*one with my saved arrangement
*one with no arrangements
How can I make iTerm2 remember my Window/tabs layout?
A: This was answered on superuser by another user and the solution worked for me.
Turn off prefs>general>open default window arrangement, and turn off system prefs>general>close windows when quitting an application.
| Q: iTerm2 save window/tabs on exit? I tried to save a window arrangement but when I open iTerm it opens two windows:
*
*one with my saved arrangement
*one with no arrangements
How can I make iTerm2 remember my Window/tabs layout?
A: This was answered on superuser by another user and the solution worked for me.
Turn off prefs>general>open default window arrangement, and turn off system prefs>general>close windows when quitting an application.
A: First create some profiles and then use Command - Option/Alt - Shift H (H is for horizontal split; or swap in V for vertical split). It will show you a list of your profiles and you can then add those to your split. This short video shows how: iterm2 Profiles and Window Arrangements.
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"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/76665"
} |
030ed349455c8841cf9f9aba5c554e3b81f1cd49 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iMessage on Mountain Lion disconnecting AIM and GTalk I'm not sure what the cause is, but I never had this issue until I installed Mountain Lion. I had the iMessage Beta prior to installing Mountain Lion and I did not uninstall it after. However, I get disconnected constantly and its been going on and off. I have a lot of difficulty connecting to AIM, but GTalk is disconnecting frequently. I am not sure where to start.
A: I have been having this pesky problem as well. Mine was solved by reseting the password with the provider.
I found a post that stated that someone solved this by logging into AIM.com website and reseting their password. I tried this and found that since my AIM account was set up through another provider (Apple) that I needed to go to Apple and change my password. I did this and it resolved my issue. (I needed to change the Apple password anyway for good security in that I had not changed it in YEARS).
| Q: iMessage on Mountain Lion disconnecting AIM and GTalk I'm not sure what the cause is, but I never had this issue until I installed Mountain Lion. I had the iMessage Beta prior to installing Mountain Lion and I did not uninstall it after. However, I get disconnected constantly and its been going on and off. I have a lot of difficulty connecting to AIM, but GTalk is disconnecting frequently. I am not sure where to start.
A: I have been having this pesky problem as well. Mine was solved by reseting the password with the provider.
I found a post that stated that someone solved this by logging into AIM.com website and reseting their password. I tried this and found that since my AIM account was set up through another provider (Apple) that I needed to go to Apple and change my password. I did this and it resolved my issue. (I needed to change the Apple password anyway for good security in that I had not changed it in YEARS).
A: My aim account somehow disappeared from ichat. I had to added it as "other message account" not AOL. Then under preferences->general, I selected "all in one list". Changing the aim password online also helped. Thanks everyone.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 209,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:22043",
"question_score": "4",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/76729"
} |
47ea1b77d4e8de0bcc8da738fe6d5118a12de9ef | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Unable to install software packages using Home Brew I am unable to install any software packages using homebrew. I get the following error when I try to install any softwares.
Rahuls-iMac:local rahuljeevanandam$ brew install mysql
==> Installing mysql dependency: cmake
==> Downloading https://downloads.sf.net/project/machomebrew/Bottles/cmake-2.8.1
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/cmake-2.8.10.1.lion.bottle.tar.gz
Error: SHA1 mismatch
Expected: 31856bbd662ca47c325761fc7040e43f9a635c64
Actual: 4b2ea1d2785009c32d85d1d0e0c7dc4cd68322b7
Archive: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/cmake-2.8.10.1.lion.bottle.tar.gz
(To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.)
Rahuls-iMac:local rahuljeevanandam$ brew install wget
==> Downloading http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/wget/wget-1.14.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
Error: SHA1 mismatch
Expected: c487bce740b3a1847a35fb29b5c6700c46f639b8
Actual: ca98a1bf07f850bc23731fd15d869d1b73ef8c84
Archive: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/wget-1.14.tar.gz
(To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.)
A: Type
brew cleanup
follow by
brew update
then try again!
| Q: Unable to install software packages using Home Brew I am unable to install any software packages using homebrew. I get the following error when I try to install any softwares.
Rahuls-iMac:local rahuljeevanandam$ brew install mysql
==> Installing mysql dependency: cmake
==> Downloading https://downloads.sf.net/project/machomebrew/Bottles/cmake-2.8.1
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/cmake-2.8.10.1.lion.bottle.tar.gz
Error: SHA1 mismatch
Expected: 31856bbd662ca47c325761fc7040e43f9a635c64
Actual: 4b2ea1d2785009c32d85d1d0e0c7dc4cd68322b7
Archive: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/cmake-2.8.10.1.lion.bottle.tar.gz
(To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.)
Rahuls-iMac:local rahuljeevanandam$ brew install wget
==> Downloading http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/wget/wget-1.14.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
Error: SHA1 mismatch
Expected: c487bce740b3a1847a35fb29b5c6700c46f639b8
Actual: ca98a1bf07f850bc23731fd15d869d1b73ef8c84
Archive: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/wget-1.14.tar.gz
(To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.)
A: Type
brew cleanup
follow by
brew update
then try again!
A: Remove the previously downloaded files:
cd /Library/Caches/Homebrew/
rm cmake-2.8.10.1.lion.bottle.tar.gz wget-1.14.tar.gz
You may need to do the above as sudo. Then try the install again:
brew install mysql wget
A: This error indicates that the files being downloaded are corrupt or not the expected files. What is your internet connection like? Try downloading these URLs directly from your browser. (If your router or ISP is inserting ads or a login page, you may be downloading this instead of the actual file.)
A: As of now(Aug 2013) the URL given downloads a Html file that includes
The document has moved here
so it looks like Homebrew is pointing to the wrong place and they need to alter the brew file
A: I was trying to install sdl_image on OS X (brew install sdl_image).
brew install sdl_image
==> Downloading http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/release/SDL_image-1.2.1
######################################################################## 100.0%
Error: SHA1 mismatch
Expected: e3dbbb034dd458fdb4e258439e532d18319569f9
Actual: 215e64541e50a2f09fdc77a2563e6c810fc54d4f
Archive: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/sdl_image-1.2.12.tar.gz
(To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.)
One of the reasons was that the file was corrupt. This was because I was behind a server that blocks/does not allow a given size of downloads. I got frustrated for days until I moved to another network when it successfully downloaded it, though there was still that problem of SHA1 mismatch when I try to install. But it was giving the error with the actual SHA of the correct download (I was getting this SHA on expected for the corrupted files).
To fix this I run brew edit sdl_image and copied the actual to the SHA in this document.
| apple | {
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"length": 362,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:22044",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/76733"
} |
8bd24e4e2eb5aecceecd2a6777fa8ec553ac3f1c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Vim/Emacs keybinding for `Preview.app` Does anybody have ideas about using emacs/ vim key binding for Preview.app to browser pdf files and how?
A: As @tty suggested, using Karabiner is brilliant. I made some extra rules.
You can navigate using HJKL and zoom using FDER. Read the file for more information.
Here is my private.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<appdef>
<appname>PREVIEW</appname>
<equal>com.apple.Preview</equal>
</appdef>
<item>
<name>Vi Navigation in Preview</name>
<identifier>private.preview.vinav</identifier>
<only>PREVIEW</only>
<uielementrole_not>AXTextField, AXTextArea</uielementrole_not>
<modifier_only>
ModifierFlag::NONE,
ModifierFlag::SHIFT_L | ModifierFlag::NONE,
ModifierFlag::SHIFT_R | ModifierFlag::NONE,
</modifier_only>
<appendix>Navigate using the HJKL keys</appendix>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::J, KeyCode::CURSOR_DOWN</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::K, KeyCode::CURSOR_UP</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::H, KeyCode::CURSOR_LEFT</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::L, KeyCode::CURSOR_RIGHT</autogen>
</item>
<item>
<name>Vi Zoom in Preview</name>
<identifier>private.preview.vizoom</identifier>
<only>PREVIEW</only>
<uielementrole_not>AXTextField, AXTextArea</uielementrole_not>
<modifier_only>
ModifierFlag::NONE,
ModifierFlag::SHIFT_L | ModifierFlag::NONE,
ModifierFlag::SHIFT_R | ModifierFlag::NONE,
</modifier_only>
<appendix>Zoom using E/R: out/in</appendix>
<appendix>Zoom to fit: F</appendix>
<appendix>Zoom to 100%: D</appendix>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F, KeyCode::KEYPAD_9, VK_COMMAND</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::D, KeyCode::KEYPAD_0, VK_COMMAND</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::R, KeyCode::KEYPAD_PLUS, VK_COMMAND</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::E, KeyCode::KEYPAD_MINUS, VK_COMMAND</autogen>
</item>
</root>
| Q: Vim/Emacs keybinding for `Preview.app` Does anybody have ideas about using emacs/ vim key binding for Preview.app to browser pdf files and how?
A: As @tty suggested, using Karabiner is brilliant. I made some extra rules.
You can navigate using HJKL and zoom using FDER. Read the file for more information.
Here is my private.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<appdef>
<appname>PREVIEW</appname>
<equal>com.apple.Preview</equal>
</appdef>
<item>
<name>Vi Navigation in Preview</name>
<identifier>private.preview.vinav</identifier>
<only>PREVIEW</only>
<uielementrole_not>AXTextField, AXTextArea</uielementrole_not>
<modifier_only>
ModifierFlag::NONE,
ModifierFlag::SHIFT_L | ModifierFlag::NONE,
ModifierFlag::SHIFT_R | ModifierFlag::NONE,
</modifier_only>
<appendix>Navigate using the HJKL keys</appendix>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::J, KeyCode::CURSOR_DOWN</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::K, KeyCode::CURSOR_UP</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::H, KeyCode::CURSOR_LEFT</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::L, KeyCode::CURSOR_RIGHT</autogen>
</item>
<item>
<name>Vi Zoom in Preview</name>
<identifier>private.preview.vizoom</identifier>
<only>PREVIEW</only>
<uielementrole_not>AXTextField, AXTextArea</uielementrole_not>
<modifier_only>
ModifierFlag::NONE,
ModifierFlag::SHIFT_L | ModifierFlag::NONE,
ModifierFlag::SHIFT_R | ModifierFlag::NONE,
</modifier_only>
<appendix>Zoom using E/R: out/in</appendix>
<appendix>Zoom to fit: F</appendix>
<appendix>Zoom to 100%: D</appendix>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F, KeyCode::KEYPAD_9, VK_COMMAND</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::D, KeyCode::KEYPAD_0, VK_COMMAND</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::R, KeyCode::KEYPAD_PLUS, VK_COMMAND</autogen>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::E, KeyCode::KEYPAD_MINUS, VK_COMMAND</autogen>
</item>
</root>
A: You can edit the "Up" and "Down" keyboard shortcuts by going to System Preferences / Keyboard / Application Shortcuts, add a new shortcut for Preview.app. I've mapped Option-J to down, Option-K to up. It won't let you map just J and K, for some reason. But at least you can now browse a PDF without leaving the home row.
A: Use this
Very excellent!!!
I found it recently.
https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/index.html.en
A: Self-plug – I’ve made a Karabiner rule that adds vim jk bindings to Preview. I didn’t want to use the other Karabiner rules that added systemwide vim bindings.
https://github.com/xrisk/preview-vim
To use: copy the preview-vim.json file from the repository (or take the copy from below), paste it in your ~/.config/karabiner/assets/complex_modifications, and then enable the rule from Karabiner.
{
"title": "Map jk in Preview",
"rules": [
{
"description": "map jk",
"manipulators": [
{
"type": "basic",
"from": {
"key_code": "j"
},
"to": [
{
"key_code": "down_arrow"
}
],
"conditions": [
{
"type": "frontmost_application_if",
"bundle_identifiers": ["^com.apple.Preview$"]
}
]
},
{
"type": "basic",
"from": {
"key_code": "k"
},
"to": [
{
"key_code": "up_arrow"
}
],
"conditions": [
{
"type": "frontmost_application_if",
"bundle_identifiers": ["^com.apple.Preview$"]
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
Contributions are welcome!
Also sidenote: you might want to look into using zathura; it might fit your use-case.
| apple | {
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"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:22045",
"question_score": "9",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/76739"
} |
9da3ca6a55eba1aeea0bd4e33203f70c84b849b6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does anyone know of a Crystal Reports viewer app for iPad? Right now I am using Logicity on my PC. I would like to know if there is a way to see Crystal Reports files on iPad.
While there are ways to boot into windows and then run my file (use iTap / TeamViewer to log in to Windows and then run Logicity), I would like to know if there are any native apps, web services, which would make the process of running this .rpt file easier.
A: Check out Report Runner Web Portal. It's a customizable web interface to run Crystal Reports. Very affordable and user friendly. The company provides excellent technical support, too.
http://www.reportrunner.com
| Q: Does anyone know of a Crystal Reports viewer app for iPad? Right now I am using Logicity on my PC. I would like to know if there is a way to see Crystal Reports files on iPad.
While there are ways to boot into windows and then run my file (use iTap / TeamViewer to log in to Windows and then run Logicity), I would like to know if there are any native apps, web services, which would make the process of running this .rpt file easier.
A: Check out Report Runner Web Portal. It's a customizable web interface to run Crystal Reports. Very affordable and user friendly. The company provides excellent technical support, too.
http://www.reportrunner.com
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 117,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:22054",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/76765"
} |
65fd516f05541df65caa0b5f582cd57827e8f4a1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Sorting iPhone/iPad Apps based on usage?
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to sort the apps by usage frequncy?
Is there a way to have the Apps on my iPhone sorted based on usage frequency? I found another thread, but it appeared to be focused on the MAC OS platform, not iOS. In simple terms, I want the apps that I use all the time to be auto-sorted to the front.
| Q: Sorting iPhone/iPad Apps based on usage?
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to sort the apps by usage frequncy?
Is there a way to have the Apps on my iPhone sorted based on usage frequency? I found another thread, but it appeared to be focused on the MAC OS platform, not iOS. In simple terms, I want the apps that I use all the time to be auto-sorted to the front.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 72,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:22058",
"question_score": "4",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/76782"
} |
b9652b534953891f56af56b8936f3f187c777944 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable thumbnails icon preview only for video files in Finder? I hate my finder opening slow because of loading all those icons for video files. While I still want thumbnails for PDFs, documents, music, I don't want previews for video files because they're useless anyway (most of them are simply black but take time to load).
I managed to do it on previous OS X versions but on my Mountain Lion I can not locate /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Resources/Generators/ folder where I was able to delete generator for video files in the past.
How to turn video icons preview thumbnails off?
A: The Mountain Lion default QuickLook generators can be found in the folder /System/Library/QuickLook/ .
| Q: How to disable thumbnails icon preview only for video files in Finder? I hate my finder opening slow because of loading all those icons for video files. While I still want thumbnails for PDFs, documents, music, I don't want previews for video files because they're useless anyway (most of them are simply black but take time to load).
I managed to do it on previous OS X versions but on my Mountain Lion I can not locate /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Resources/Generators/ folder where I was able to delete generator for video files in the past.
How to turn video icons preview thumbnails off?
A: The Mountain Lion default QuickLook generators can be found in the folder /System/Library/QuickLook/ .
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 116,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:22070",
"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/76832"
} |
952040f39665916af6ec19a7a084ae8f4938ada9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I Force Google Maps Links to Open the Google Maps App on iOS6? In the past (iOS5 and earlier) clicking on a link for directions within a website opened the separate maps app and provided directions. How do I force links in websites, that would normally open a google maps link in a "desktop" web browser, to open the new external google maps app? I do not find the current google maps website adequate (can't figure out how it would provide dynamic (voice) directions) and the new apple maps app is not opened by those links.
A: As Matthieu Riegler said, when you go to the Google maps site you will be prompted to launch the app. Unfortunately, there is no way to do this automatically.
| Q: How do I Force Google Maps Links to Open the Google Maps App on iOS6? In the past (iOS5 and earlier) clicking on a link for directions within a website opened the separate maps app and provided directions. How do I force links in websites, that would normally open a google maps link in a "desktop" web browser, to open the new external google maps app? I do not find the current google maps website adequate (can't figure out how it would provide dynamic (voice) directions) and the new apple maps app is not opened by those links.
A: As Matthieu Riegler said, when you go to the Google maps site you will be prompted to launch the app. Unfortunately, there is no way to do this automatically.
A: I believe at this point, Google Maps correctly implements deep links. So if you open a maps.google.com link, like this one it'll open directly in Google Maps, if you have it installed. It even works with Google Maps shortlinks, (the ones starting with https://goo.gl/ like this. This all works in both Chrome and Safari.
| apple | {
"language": "en",
"length": 184,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:22078",
"question_score": "5",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/76863"
} |
a39c92709de275285d44a3af74f1696c08c73386 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the easiest (fastest) way to get direct link to MP4 video on YouTube? My Mac is rather old and has issues (many dropped frames) with playing YouTube videos in HD on fullscreen, whether in Flash or HTML5.
However, playing them in VLC makes no drops whatsoever, and what is even better, it plays them fluently even remotely, so I don't need to download those videos. All I need to do is open network file in VLC and paste here link to YouTube .mp4 or .flv file. Works like a charm.
Right now I get links by copying them and letting jDownloader pars YouTube urls. This gives me direct links to all available formats and sizes. Here I pick one I prefer, copy url and paste it to VLC.
Is there any faster way to parse those urls without the need of 3rd app like jDownloader? I tried some Safari plugins but none of them gave desirable results to me.
A: I don't think it's much faster. I use youtube-dl from MacPorts or Homebrew.
> youtube-dl -g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkmyLTPh3UY
http://r7---sn-nfpnnjvh-1gil.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?itag=34&expire=1357448601&source=youtube&factor=1.25&sver=3&ip=178.193.24.93&algorithm=throttle-factor&ms=au&key=yt1&mv=m&upn=tGspI9WJELc&burst=40&id=3249b22d33e1dd46&mt=1357423931&cp=U0hUTFRPVl9FS0NONF9MSVpHOlp2Yi1jNlUyeUdG&fexp=914501%2C919358%2C910207%2C929206%2C916611%2C920704%2C912806%2C928001%2C922403%2C922405%2C929901%2C913605%2C929104%2C929109%2C929110%2C913546%2C913556%2C908496%2C920201%2C913302%2C919009%2C911116%2C901451%2C902556&ipbits=8&gcr=ch&sparams=algorithm%2Cburst%2Ccp%2Cfactor%2Cgcr%2Cid%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&signature=910FFEBF23CC5F88185DB98028C346DF76EF83C3.2B57D82069876F73C1E8F886AEFFDF2F2039F7F5
You can copy this URL automatically to the clipboard with | pbcopy. See osxdaily.com for details.
| Q: What is the easiest (fastest) way to get direct link to MP4 video on YouTube? My Mac is rather old and has issues (many dropped frames) with playing YouTube videos in HD on fullscreen, whether in Flash or HTML5.
However, playing them in VLC makes no drops whatsoever, and what is even better, it plays them fluently even remotely, so I don't need to download those videos. All I need to do is open network file in VLC and paste here link to YouTube .mp4 or .flv file. Works like a charm.
Right now I get links by copying them and letting jDownloader pars YouTube urls. This gives me direct links to all available formats and sizes. Here I pick one I prefer, copy url and paste it to VLC.
Is there any faster way to parse those urls without the need of 3rd app like jDownloader? I tried some Safari plugins but none of them gave desirable results to me.
A: I don't think it's much faster. I use youtube-dl from MacPorts or Homebrew.
> youtube-dl -g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkmyLTPh3UY
http://r7---sn-nfpnnjvh-1gil.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?itag=34&expire=1357448601&source=youtube&factor=1.25&sver=3&ip=178.193.24.93&algorithm=throttle-factor&ms=au&key=yt1&mv=m&upn=tGspI9WJELc&burst=40&id=3249b22d33e1dd46&mt=1357423931&cp=U0hUTFRPVl9FS0NONF9MSVpHOlp2Yi1jNlUyeUdG&fexp=914501%2C919358%2C910207%2C929206%2C916611%2C920704%2C912806%2C928001%2C922403%2C922405%2C929901%2C913605%2C929104%2C929109%2C929110%2C913546%2C913556%2C908496%2C920201%2C913302%2C919009%2C911116%2C901451%2C902556&ipbits=8&gcr=ch&sparams=algorithm%2Cburst%2Ccp%2Cfactor%2Cgcr%2Cid%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&signature=910FFEBF23CC5F88185DB98028C346DF76EF83C3.2B57D82069876F73C1E8F886AEFFDF2F2039F7F5
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A: Install the ClickToFlash extension in Safari. With the extension enabled you can right-click on any video in YouTube and choose "Download File", which downloads the underlying MP4 file.
The plugin also has the side benefit of blocking Flash content by default, but if you don't want this functionality this plugin might not be for you.
A: I personally use Chrome, and there is a great (unofficial) extension, which allows you to set both the default size/resolution to use for downloads, but also gives you a choice for a different resolution for each video you visit. Extremely handy.
I also use the YouTube Options Chrome extension to disable the initial buffering (so videos don't buffer until I click play). I know your original post was looking for a Safari solution, but this combination works great so I thought I would share.
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"length": 338,
"provenance": "stackexchange_00000.jsonl.gz:22090",
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"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
"url": "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/76908"
} |
86f70a70f188ea732ca99c0290a35cc06f51edd6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Text Expander on Mac OS X OS X Mountain Lion comes with Text Expander as an option, but it only seems to work in Safari and not in iMessage and other applications.
Is there any way to enable Text Expander throughout the entire OS?
A: I'm assuming you're talking about the Language & Text > Use symbol and text substitution option found in the System Preferences.
Per comment on Tuaw: Set up Mountain Lion's text expansion options
It does work - at least in most native applications - but you need to turn it on in each application. Per Apple Support: Turn on text substitution features in an applications. Control-click and choose Substitutions > Show Substitutions. (In some applications, you can also choose Edit > Substitutions > Show Substitutions.) In the Substitutions window, select the text substitution features you want to turn on.
| Q: Text Expander on Mac OS X OS X Mountain Lion comes with Text Expander as an option, but it only seems to work in Safari and not in iMessage and other applications.
Is there any way to enable Text Expander throughout the entire OS?
A: I'm assuming you're talking about the Language & Text > Use symbol and text substitution option found in the System Preferences.
Per comment on Tuaw: Set up Mountain Lion's text expansion options
It does work - at least in most native applications - but you need to turn it on in each application. Per Apple Support: Turn on text substitution features in an applications. Control-click and choose Substitutions > Show Substitutions. (In some applications, you can also choose Edit > Substitutions > Show Substitutions.) In the Substitutions window, select the text substitution features you want to turn on.
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53dccbd11d77bf852dcddb6e3430d97e80a5f014 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to play music from iPad on Yamaha amplifier without AirPlay, but wirelessly? I have a Yamaha amplifier 473 series and an iPad 1 with 5.1 iOS. There is no internet connection nearby, so have to use aux but want it wirelessly through the iPad. There are av, aux and usb inputs in the front of the amplifier. How do I connect the 2 devices to play music wirelessly without AirPlay?
A: Just buy 2 of this (or somthing doing the same job). It will transform any speaker to bluetooth speakers, so you will be able to connect any bluetooth using device to your speakers and get the sound wirelessly. You should buy one for each device you want to connect. You then can connect the two bluetooth adapter using this (not sure what it is called). If your aux uses RSA, you can find the equivalent for RCA connections.
| Q: How to play music from iPad on Yamaha amplifier without AirPlay, but wirelessly? I have a Yamaha amplifier 473 series and an iPad 1 with 5.1 iOS. There is no internet connection nearby, so have to use aux but want it wirelessly through the iPad. There are av, aux and usb inputs in the front of the amplifier. How do I connect the 2 devices to play music wirelessly without AirPlay?
A: Just buy 2 of this (or somthing doing the same job). It will transform any speaker to bluetooth speakers, so you will be able to connect any bluetooth using device to your speakers and get the sound wirelessly. You should buy one for each device you want to connect. You then can connect the two bluetooth adapter using this (not sure what it is called). If your aux uses RSA, you can find the equivalent for RCA connections.
A: If you don't mind about quality and cost, you can have a pair of wireless a/v transmitter and receiver. It converts 3.5mm audio output to infra red or radio frequency and back to aux.
As Matthieu Riegler said Airport expression is another option.
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85712015fdc8ff731324ff66a8453d7da40134a1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Force USB to accept a large file? I have a 64GB USB (3.0) drive that is "compatible" with Mac OS. I can copy files from/to the disk at will. However, I want to move a file that is about 6GB to the disk. To my surprise, an error message appears saying that the file is too large for the volume's format !!
Now I know I have 50GB left on the disk, so can someone tell me a way that can just force the file into the disk and ignore the warning message ?
A: If the USB stick is formatted as FAT32, the maximum file size is limited to 4,294,967,295 bytes (~4 GB). This limit is a consequence of the file length entry in the directory table and would also affect huge FAT32 partitions with a sufficient sector size.
If so, try to format USB thumb with exFAT it will increase the maximum file size to 16 EiB :)
| Q: Force USB to accept a large file? I have a 64GB USB (3.0) drive that is "compatible" with Mac OS. I can copy files from/to the disk at will. However, I want to move a file that is about 6GB to the disk. To my surprise, an error message appears saying that the file is too large for the volume's format !!
Now I know I have 50GB left on the disk, so can someone tell me a way that can just force the file into the disk and ignore the warning message ?
A: If the USB stick is formatted as FAT32, the maximum file size is limited to 4,294,967,295 bytes (~4 GB). This limit is a consequence of the file length entry in the directory table and would also affect huge FAT32 partitions with a sufficient sector size.
If so, try to format USB thumb with exFAT it will increase the maximum file size to 16 EiB :)
A: The only point to add to xalexownzx's answer regards the partition style.
For compatibility with Windows, all FAT32 partitions are MS-DOS style.
Use the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format if you don't care about accessing the drive from a Windows machine.
If you might want to be able to boot a Mac sometime in the future with this drive without having to reformat it again you will need to format it with a GUID partition map. You can select this with the options button in Disk Utility.
A: In your case, the problem is the file system on the drive as opposed to how it is connected to your Mac.
The drive is most likely formatted as FAT32 system. This is a typical partitioning format that is supported by practically all computers (windows, linux and mac os). FAT32 limits file sizes to 4GB and device sizes to 2TB (or 16 TB for 4 KB sectors). For you to be able to store a file greater than 4GB in size, you'd need to reformat the drive to either ExFAT (file size is limited to 16EB, or 16 BILLION TB) or a MacOS partition format (called HFS plus, file size limited to 8EB, or 8 BILLION TB). I'd recommend the MacOS partition format for it's reliability, but only if you're working in a strictly Mac OS environment. HFS plus is NOT supported by Windows. If you need to transfer files between computers of various OSs, I'd recommend ExFAT.
Note: Changing partition formats WILL DELETE ALL DATA ON THE DRIVE, so make sure you back up all the data on the drive before you start.
*
*Back up all your files on the USB drive onto a secure location on your Mac.
*Open Disk Utility by searching it in spot light or opening it from /Applications/Utilities
*Select your desired drive on the left side.
*Go to the "Erase" tab.
*Choose your desired partition format from the drop down menu, and name your drive as you please.
*Click "erase"
*Restore the files back to the drive.
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1e56a1ddc40b6ec177f0796209cd6e520fe6cdfb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to manage my own reviews and ratings in Mac App Store? Is there such an option in Mac App Store? I know in iTunes Store we can manage reviews and ratings in personal account.
A: Open the Mac App Store. On the Featured tab, in the right sidebar, there is a link called Account. Under Settings > Reviews and Ratings, click Manage. You can edit / delete your reviews there.
| Q: How to manage my own reviews and ratings in Mac App Store? Is there such an option in Mac App Store? I know in iTunes Store we can manage reviews and ratings in personal account.
A: Open the Mac App Store. On the Featured tab, in the right sidebar, there is a link called Account. Under Settings > Reviews and Ratings, click Manage. You can edit / delete your reviews there.
A: On macOS Mojave and later this is managed in the Account area that can be accessed at the bottom of the left sidebar. Once in the Account area, click on View Information and under Manage > Reviews and Ratings there will be a Manage link button.
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3a47622a3ae7df4a122b956647acdd2ed9e39746 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How I can unminimize windows from an application using a key combination? Coming from the Windows world, I was initially used to using Cmd-Tab to switch between open windows. On OS X this switches between applications, so I had to learn to use Ctrl-` to switch between windows in an application. However, even this doesn't seem to switch to minimized windows and (for better or worse) I am in the habit of minimizing windows. The only way I have found to unminimize them is to long-click on the icon in the dock and select the window I want, which is annoying. Is there a key combination I can use which will switch between windows and unminimize them at the same time, or any related keys which would help?
I am using OS X 10.8.
A: Take a look at tip #10 on http://www.macworld.com/article/2048857/10-tips-for-managing-minimized-windows.html -- that did it for me.
Essentially, you use ⌘ Cmd+Tab/~ as usual, and for minimized windows, hold down the ⌥ Opt key before releasing the ⌘ Cmd key, and the application opens as you last minimized it.
| Q: How I can unminimize windows from an application using a key combination? Coming from the Windows world, I was initially used to using Cmd-Tab to switch between open windows. On OS X this switches between applications, so I had to learn to use Ctrl-` to switch between windows in an application. However, even this doesn't seem to switch to minimized windows and (for better or worse) I am in the habit of minimizing windows. The only way I have found to unminimize them is to long-click on the icon in the dock and select the window I want, which is annoying. Is there a key combination I can use which will switch between windows and unminimize them at the same time, or any related keys which would help?
I am using OS X 10.8.
A: Take a look at tip #10 on http://www.macworld.com/article/2048857/10-tips-for-managing-minimized-windows.html -- that did it for me.
Essentially, you use ⌘ Cmd+Tab/~ as usual, and for minimized windows, hold down the ⌥ Opt key before releasing the ⌘ Cmd key, and the application opens as you last minimized it.
A: If you want to unminimize ALL windows (not just from one application), you can create the following Automator service and assign it a hot key.
In Automator, create new service
Give it one action: Run Shell Script
The shell script is this:
killall -HUP Dock
This will kill the Dock process (which will then respawn), in the process liberating all windows that have been minimized into the Dock.
Save the service, then use System Preferences to assign a shortcut key to the service.
A: I'm from the same boat;
the best native keyboard-only I've found is
*
*CTRL-DOWN-Arrow; (you enter app expose)
*DOWN-arrow; (if there are any minimized windows, this'll put a cursor on one)
*LEFT-arrow/RIGHT-arrow (to select from multiple minimized windows) or hold OPT if you want all of them restored.
*RETURN
alternative step1: getting into app expose before you've alt-cmd'ed to an app:
with CMD still held down, (the task switcher is visible)
tap DOWN, or UP, or 1 (now in app expose)
The above shows only one app's minimized windows at a time; for selecting from any minimized window regardless of app, CTRL-F3 moves focus to the dock, and you can arrow left to get to the minimized list.
if your CTRL-F3 instead shows you the app-expose, try FN-CTRL-F3. (In my settings/keyboard, I've flagged "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys")
Some apps have specific alternatives; I use Terminal's CMD-window_number, which unminimizes and focuses that window.
A: Witch includes minimized windows by default. You can also assign shortcuts for showing only minimized windows and unminimizing windows.
You could also assign a shortcut to a script like this:
tell application (path to frontmost application as text)
try
set miniaturized of windows to false -- most applications
end try
try
set collapsed of windows to false -- at least Finder
end try
end tell
If minimizing windows to application icons is not enabled, this clicks the icon for the last minimized window in the Dock:
try
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Dock"
click (last UI element of list 1 where role description is "minimized window dock item")
end tell
end try
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2ab8792b17a1abe5eb1439c272c2c174434542cd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Bootcamp: is there an advantage of 64-bit vs 32-bit Windows? I've got the new MabookPro retina. I want to install a dual boot Windows OS.
I have the option from MSDN to either install a 64-bit or a 32-bit. Is there a performance advantage? Other advantages?
A: According to the store pages, it looks like all the retina models have 8GB memory, with option for more, and as such you should choose the 64-bit version to make sure you can take advantage of all that memory in Windows.
A 32-bit Windows installation would only be able to use 2GB/3GB of the available memory.
| Q: Bootcamp: is there an advantage of 64-bit vs 32-bit Windows? I've got the new MabookPro retina. I want to install a dual boot Windows OS.
I have the option from MSDN to either install a 64-bit or a 32-bit. Is there a performance advantage? Other advantages?
A: According to the store pages, it looks like all the retina models have 8GB memory, with option for more, and as such you should choose the 64-bit version to make sure you can take advantage of all that memory in Windows.
A 32-bit Windows installation would only be able to use 2GB/3GB of the available memory.
A: Also the bootcamp drivers for certain Mac models are only compatible with 64 bits versions of Windows, so first check the bootcamp drivers versions!
To do that, go into the drivers folder of the bootcamp package, then open each sub-folder and check the naming of the files: if they all end with 64 then they can only be run on 64 bits versions of Windows.
A: you should get 64 bit its easy to install and fast my game dirt 3 runs on utra settings on bootcamp at 56fps. you should get 64 bit instead of 32 bit
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7a5ccc88e512b20157f8be19c75d97dca1397c7e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to determine when an iOS upgrade was installed? Is there any way within iOS, or via iTunes on a computer, to see the date when a particular iOS upgrade was installed on my device (iPhone/iPad)? Not the date the upgrade was released, but the date that it was actually installed.
A: If you have updated iOS through iTunes, you can look in your iTunes data folder, on a Windows machine that will be:
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPhone Software Updates\
Then check out the timestamp on the iPhone..._Restore.ipsw file. That will be the date you upgraded (or downloaded) our latest iOS update.
If you updated it directly on the device, I don't think it is possible to retrieve its date.
| Q: Is there a way to determine when an iOS upgrade was installed? Is there any way within iOS, or via iTunes on a computer, to see the date when a particular iOS upgrade was installed on my device (iPhone/iPad)? Not the date the upgrade was released, but the date that it was actually installed.
A: If you have updated iOS through iTunes, you can look in your iTunes data folder, on a Windows machine that will be:
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPhone Software Updates\
Then check out the timestamp on the iPhone..._Restore.ipsw file. That will be the date you upgraded (or downloaded) our latest iOS update.
If you updated it directly on the device, I don't think it is possible to retrieve its date.
A: On the Mac managing your iPhone, go to the iPhone software updates directory:
cd /Users/`id -u -n`/Library/iTunes/iPhone\ Software\ Updates
There check for the modification times of the iPhone*_Restore.ipsw which are the downloaded images:
ls -lT iPhone*_Restore.ipsw
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a4576d3f541df8fa226f4bd409614d06bd7c26c1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can OS X automate creating a reminders from a page in a web browser? I enjoy the feature of creating reminders from a web page with one click. similar to how Omnifocus does this.
Can Apple's Reminders do the same by apple scripting or other addition/short cut?
A: If you want to add a selected text as a reminder
*
*Open Automator
*Create a new service
*Service receives selected text in any application
*Add a Run ApplScript Action
*Add the following script
*Save it
the script :
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Reminders"
set theReminder to (make new reminder with properties {name:input})
activate
end tell
return input
end run
Now when selecting text, you can with a right clic add it as a reminder. If you want that only in Safari. Replace the any application with Safari at the top of the Automator window.
And if you don't want to show the Application Reminders when adding a new one, just remove the line activate in the script.
| Q: Can OS X automate creating a reminders from a page in a web browser? I enjoy the feature of creating reminders from a web page with one click. similar to how Omnifocus does this.
Can Apple's Reminders do the same by apple scripting or other addition/short cut?
A: If you want to add a selected text as a reminder
*
*Open Automator
*Create a new service
*Service receives selected text in any application
*Add a Run ApplScript Action
*Add the following script
*Save it
the script :
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Reminders"
set theReminder to (make new reminder with properties {name:input})
activate
end tell
return input
end run
Now when selecting text, you can with a right clic add it as a reminder. If you want that only in Safari. Replace the any application with Safari at the top of the Automator window.
And if you don't want to show the Application Reminders when adding a new one, just remove the line activate in the script.
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c6ccac60de64c3b8da36cbec1bc30ae42444ce94 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I download updates for another computer? I have a Mac Pro that needs a lot of updates, but my home internet is very slow. I have a laptop, however, with access to better internet.
Is it possible for me to access the updates on my laptop, download them, and then move them over to my Mac Pro and install them? If so, how?
A: A lot of software updates (particularly OS, driver and firmware updates) can be found on Apple's Support Downloads page. You can download them like any other file and just transfer them to your Mac Pro at your convenience.
For software on the Mac App Store (including bundled apps like iPhoto), there aren't separate downloads. You could try downloading the full apps on your MacBook then copying the application bundle over.
For third party software, there are often separate patches available for download from the developer's site.
| Q: Can I download updates for another computer? I have a Mac Pro that needs a lot of updates, but my home internet is very slow. I have a laptop, however, with access to better internet.
Is it possible for me to access the updates on my laptop, download them, and then move them over to my Mac Pro and install them? If so, how?
A: A lot of software updates (particularly OS, driver and firmware updates) can be found on Apple's Support Downloads page. You can download them like any other file and just transfer them to your Mac Pro at your convenience.
For software on the Mac App Store (including bundled apps like iPhoto), there aren't separate downloads. You could try downloading the full apps on your MacBook then copying the application bundle over.
For third party software, there are often separate patches available for download from the developer's site.
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cc383e747349bb736736b2777a24d01597a7c88f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Keynote '09 can't play slideshow again unless restarted I am running Keynote '09 (5.0) on Mac OS X 10.6.8 on a mid-2010 MacBook Pro. Everything was fine until yesterday.
The problem is that I can play a slideshow after opening it with Keynote, but if I try to play it again, I get an ambiguous error saying: "Keynote cannot play your slideshow because an error occurred."
I would have to restart Keynote to make the exact same slideshow playable again. This happens to other slideshows I've made, too.
How should I troubleshoot this problem???? I have to make a major/high-stakes presentation in a couple days and can't afford any hiccups.
Thanks for your help.
A: The only solution I found so far (by experimentation and searching the web) is to set the display mode to mirroring instead of presenting on a separate display. It will then let me play and replay the presentation without the error message or requiring a restart of keynote.
(Mac OS X 10.6.8 and Keynote 5.0).
| Q: Keynote '09 can't play slideshow again unless restarted I am running Keynote '09 (5.0) on Mac OS X 10.6.8 on a mid-2010 MacBook Pro. Everything was fine until yesterday.
The problem is that I can play a slideshow after opening it with Keynote, but if I try to play it again, I get an ambiguous error saying: "Keynote cannot play your slideshow because an error occurred."
I would have to restart Keynote to make the exact same slideshow playable again. This happens to other slideshows I've made, too.
How should I troubleshoot this problem???? I have to make a major/high-stakes presentation in a couple days and can't afford any hiccups.
Thanks for your help.
A: The only solution I found so far (by experimentation and searching the web) is to set the display mode to mirroring instead of presenting on a separate display. It will then let me play and replay the presentation without the error message or requiring a restart of keynote.
(Mac OS X 10.6.8 and Keynote 5.0).
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2c67378b03be87a0c804b2a1e43b3751aba432d0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to get iMessages to sync across an iPhone, iPad and Mac automatically? One of the new features of Mountain Lion is the fact that one can sync iMessages across iOS and OSX devices.
I would really like to have a thread that I start on my iPhone automatically sync to my Mac and iPad so I can reply easily from either device. I do understand that SMS text messages will not sync, and only iMessages.
This question applies to iOS 6 and Mountain Lion devices as I am running an iPhone 4S and 3rd Gen iPad with iOS 6 and a Macbook Pro with Mountain Lion (OSX 10.8).
How can I enable this feature so that my iMessages stay in sync across all my devices?
A: I am on iOS 10.3.1 and macOS Sierra 10.12.3. I need to setup Messages in macOS using https://support.apple.com/kb/HT202549. In iPhone, the settings that allowed me to sync is in Settings > Messages > Send & Receive. I have to login my Apple ID here.
| Q: How to get iMessages to sync across an iPhone, iPad and Mac automatically? One of the new features of Mountain Lion is the fact that one can sync iMessages across iOS and OSX devices.
I would really like to have a thread that I start on my iPhone automatically sync to my Mac and iPad so I can reply easily from either device. I do understand that SMS text messages will not sync, and only iMessages.
This question applies to iOS 6 and Mountain Lion devices as I am running an iPhone 4S and 3rd Gen iPad with iOS 6 and a Macbook Pro with Mountain Lion (OSX 10.8).
How can I enable this feature so that my iMessages stay in sync across all my devices?
A: I am on iOS 10.3.1 and macOS Sierra 10.12.3. I need to setup Messages in macOS using https://support.apple.com/kb/HT202549. In iPhone, the settings that allowed me to sync is in Settings > Messages > Send & Receive. I have to login my Apple ID here.
A: iOS (6 and later) combines your phone number with your Apple ID email address, which makes it possible for others to iMessage your phone number and have those Messages sync across your devices.
First, you need to make sure all your devices are on the same Apple ID.
On each iOS device (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, iPad Mini):
*
*Open Settings.app
*Go to "Messages" and make sure iMessage is On.
*If iMessage is on, "Send & Receive" will appear below it. Tap on it.
*Make note of the Apple ID at the top of the page.
*Select your phone number and email address(es) that you want to sync to that device.
On each Mac: (Mountain Lion or later)
*
*Open Messages
*Click Messages -> Preferences
*Click the "Accounts" tab in the top.
*Select your iMessage/Apple ID account, and make sure "Enable this account" is checked.
*Select your phone number and any email address(es) that you would like synced.
The most important part is that everything is consistent across all devices that are necessary.
Message History
The steps described previously will not automatically cause old iMessages to sync across all devices. However, iOS and macOS now support "Messages in iCloud": Apple Support Document. Enabling Messages in iCloud will sync historical messages across all of your devices. Make sure you are running the latest version of macOS or iOS.
To turn on Messages in iCloud on your iOS device:
*
*Open Settings app.
*Tap your Apple ID profile at the top of the list.
*Select iCloud.
*Enable Messages.
To enable on your Mac:
*
*Open the Messages app.
*In the menu bar, select Messages -> Preferences.
*Open the iMessage tab.
*Select the checkbox to Enable Messages in iCloud.
Additional Troubleshooting steps
If you are still having trouble getting new iMessages to sync across the devices try:
*
*Disabling then re-enabling iMessage on each device that isn't being synced to.
*Delete all your previous conversations: Some people have reported that they had to delete all of their conversations before things would sync up.
*Make sure you have your phone number added to your Apple ID account online.
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227545b4e4e3e8a2995b32da6ff30f6e1c3d25b0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Numbers: Can I highlight the row and column of the selected cell? When reading larger spreadsheets, it would be helpful to highlight the row and column that the currently selected cell is in. I'm not talking about conditional formatting or anything in the spreadsheet itself, I'm just talking about a viewing option. I couldn't find a similar option anywhere.
A: If I understand your question, Numbers does this by default - note the darkened row and column identifiers in the image below at AK50.
Edit: ah, I see.. okay, I found an inconvenient hack:
*
*Select the Column containing your target cell
*Cmd click the cell above (or the Cmd Click the row index of the cell above)
*Cmd click the Row containing your target cell
*Cmd click to reselect the cell above your target
Like so:
Maybe you could use automator to make this less painful?
| Q: Numbers: Can I highlight the row and column of the selected cell? When reading larger spreadsheets, it would be helpful to highlight the row and column that the currently selected cell is in. I'm not talking about conditional formatting or anything in the spreadsheet itself, I'm just talking about a viewing option. I couldn't find a similar option anywhere.
A: If I understand your question, Numbers does this by default - note the darkened row and column identifiers in the image below at AK50.
Edit: ah, I see.. okay, I found an inconvenient hack:
*
*Select the Column containing your target cell
*Cmd click the cell above (or the Cmd Click the row index of the cell above)
*Cmd click the Row containing your target cell
*Cmd click to reselect the cell above your target
Like so:
Maybe you could use automator to make this less painful?
A: It is not exactly what you asked for, but holding ⌥ option for a second will highlight the row and column of the cell underneath the cursor. Moving the cursor will update the highlight.
I stumbled upon this by accident, and I don't know when this feature was introduced. For reference, I use Numbers version 12.1.
Apple does mention the shortcut on their user guide for Numbers: "Highlight the row and column for a cell: Press Option as you move over a cell". It also works for tables in Keynote and Pages.
A: Another method, useful for selecting a range of rows in a column, is to click on the uppermost cell you want to select, scroll down to the bottom of the range, shift-click on that cell. All rows between will be selected (in addition to the two you clicked on).
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8fbb5df869d15874a079d8795e26c25bb4d016ce | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Safari wants to access my keychain doesn't offer "always deny"... How can I implement this? The only choice Safari asks me w.r.t keychain access is "deny" or "allow" or "always allow".
Why doesn't Safari offer me an "always deny" option in Safari? How can I make the system "always deny"?
Will the "always allow" or always deny apply to the computer or to a specific website?
A: There is not an always deny functionality in keychain. Put another way, there is a white list but not a black list.
A somewhat elegant workaround is to turn off AutoFill of passwords in Safari's preferences and you won't even get the request to access the keychain in the first place.
| Q: Safari wants to access my keychain doesn't offer "always deny"... How can I implement this? The only choice Safari asks me w.r.t keychain access is "deny" or "allow" or "always allow".
Why doesn't Safari offer me an "always deny" option in Safari? How can I make the system "always deny"?
Will the "always allow" or always deny apply to the computer or to a specific website?
A: There is not an always deny functionality in keychain. Put another way, there is a white list but not a black list.
A somewhat elegant workaround is to turn off AutoFill of passwords in Safari's preferences and you won't even get the request to access the keychain in the first place.
A: If you don't need the keychain items, you can also delete them from Keychain Access.
Always allow adds Safari to this list:
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42838b8521c030f403179859509114ed3774b131 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there a way to force iTunes 11 to update tags? Is there any way to force iTunes 11 to rescan the music library and update the information for any tags that have been changed outside of iTunes? I know that selecting a single track and then 'Get Info" will force an update for that track, but it doesn't seem to work with multiple tracks.
A: You can go to iTunes->Preferences->Advanced, uncheck Keep iTunes Media folder organized, OK, then go back and check the option again. It will rescan all track after you click OK.
| Q: Is there a way to force iTunes 11 to update tags? Is there any way to force iTunes 11 to rescan the music library and update the information for any tags that have been changed outside of iTunes? I know that selecting a single track and then 'Get Info" will force an update for that track, but it doesn't seem to work with multiple tracks.
A: You can go to iTunes->Preferences->Advanced, uncheck Keep iTunes Media folder organized, OK, then go back and check the option again. It will rescan all track after you click OK.
A: From the MusicBrainz iTunes Guide:
Updating Library in iTunes
Brute force method (full library re-scan)
This method works best if
- you've re-tagged a whole lot of your files and don't remember which files/albums
- or there are far too many for the first approach
- or you've moved/renamed files and iTunes has lost them
Ready?
*
*Go to File > Add Folder to Library
*Point it at the top of your iTunes directory ("My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Music" on Windows, by default).
*iTunes will rescan your music, but recognize it's already imported, so you shouldn't end up with duplicate files (unless you have moved/renamed files)
You can also refresh a selection of songs by following the AppleScript based solution (on the same page linked above):
Mac-only advanced method
This method is a bit more complicated to set up, but easy to use.
Fire up Script Editor (which is under Applications/AppleScript, but it will work with TextEdit). Paste the following code, then save as a Script called /Library/iTunes/Scripts/Refresh.scpt (create the Scripts directory if it doesn't already exist).
tell application "iTunes"
refresh selection
end tell
Now, inside iTunes, you should see a Scripts menu (an icon of a scroll, just left of Help). The "Refresh" item on that menu will force it to re-read the tags for all tracks that you have selected.
A: Building on M K's answer, the following script won't stop the first time it hits a file which can't be found:
tell application "Music"
repeat with aTrack in selection
try
refresh aTrack
end try
end repeat
end tell
Edit: in MacOS older than Catalina, change "Music" to "iTunes" for this to work.
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60a0bdefd73666aaed299adcbea47aba2289854f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Efficient creation of filtering rules in Mail.app I have selected a received email in Mail.app and would like to create a rule to redirect all emails from the same sender to a specific folder. I know how to create such rules manually from the preferences menu. However, I wonder if there is any way to do this more efficiently by having some information from the selected email being filled in automatically? I checked the menus and in-app help, but couldn't find anything in this direction.
A: Select the email then using preferences->rules will fill in the values from theemail in the selections e.g. if you choose From it will show who the email is from.
| Q: Efficient creation of filtering rules in Mail.app I have selected a received email in Mail.app and would like to create a rule to redirect all emails from the same sender to a specific folder. I know how to create such rules manually from the preferences menu. However, I wonder if there is any way to do this more efficiently by having some information from the selected email being filled in automatically? I checked the menus and in-app help, but couldn't find anything in this direction.
A: Select the email then using preferences->rules will fill in the values from theemail in the selections e.g. if you choose From it will show who the email is from.
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e6e2865f8a1d470cadb8cc1d6b2bf86854ec112a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Remove notifications for one specific email account on Mountain Lion's Mac Mail Is it possible to set or disabled Mail notifications on a per-account basis on Mountain Lion's notification center?
I have shared an email address that gets a lot of emails that I only need to check once in a while and it would be great if I could disable notification for this email. I can't find any settings to do this on Mail preferences or Notifications preferences.
A: Actually, it is possible - here's how:
*
*Create a smart mailbox ( Menubar > Mailbox > New Smart Mailbox ) which shows the content of all the mailboxes that you would like to get notifications for, and give it a nice name (for example, 'Notifications'). In my case the only rule in this mailbox is a 'Message is in Mailbox' - but you can be creative!
*Go to the General section in Mail preferences ( Menubar > Mail > Preferences ) or press ⌘ + ,. About half way down you'll see the setting 'New message notifications' - open the drop-down and select the smart mailbox created under step #1.
| Q: Remove notifications for one specific email account on Mountain Lion's Mac Mail Is it possible to set or disabled Mail notifications on a per-account basis on Mountain Lion's notification center?
I have shared an email address that gets a lot of emails that I only need to check once in a while and it would be great if I could disable notification for this email. I can't find any settings to do this on Mail preferences or Notifications preferences.
A: Actually, it is possible - here's how:
*
*Create a smart mailbox ( Menubar > Mailbox > New Smart Mailbox ) which shows the content of all the mailboxes that you would like to get notifications for, and give it a nice name (for example, 'Notifications'). In my case the only rule in this mailbox is a 'Message is in Mailbox' - but you can be creative!
*Go to the General section in Mail preferences ( Menubar > Mail > Preferences ) or press ⌘ + ,. About half way down you'll see the setting 'New message notifications' - open the drop-down and select the smart mailbox created under step #1.
A: This worked for me in OS 10.8.3:
In System Preferences > Notifications, disable all Notifications from Mail.
Then in Mail > Preferences > Rules, add a rule the enables notifications for the specific account:
If [any] of the following conditions are met:
[Account] [name of the account you want notifications from]
Perform the following actions:
[Send Notification]
A: EDIT: it is possible
See @Erwin Wessel's reply below.
Deprecated:
Unfortunately, this is something that is currently not possible in the standard UI in Mountain Lion/Mail.app or System Preferences. As you are aware, the only choice you get is all or nothing.
Some thoughts regarding work-arounds:
Because it is a shared account, you are limited in what you can do with the message - unless it is POP3. If it was your account, you could create a folder, and a rule, that would cause all the mail to redirect into, skipping the inbox. Again, if this is an IMAP configuration, this wouldn't be desirable as colleagues may not desire all the mail to disappear into some folder.
You end up with one main option, if Mail notifications are important on all your other accounts - which it obviously is.
The main option would be to simply open Mail Preferences and select the shared account and deselect "Enable this Account". Then you would open Preferences and check that box when you want to view the account.
Caveat: it must be a IMAP setup for that option to work.
Your second option would be to try using Herald for Mac. (CNET download). However, I have not used it personally and don't know if it would do what you desire, but it looked like there was a chance you could control which Mailboxes received Notifications.
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2ce5a1c3b0bf2c3816bac5d94c257b6545a180c5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can you send calendar invites on iPhone 5 without using iCloud? How can you send out calendar invites in the iPhone 5 Calendar app? I have synced my phone calendar with one Gmail account and Outlook.
How can I create an entry on my phone and invite attendees without using iCloud?
A: If you invite someone from the Gmail calendar, it should send invites to persons via Google's Service.
| Q: How can you send calendar invites on iPhone 5 without using iCloud? How can you send out calendar invites in the iPhone 5 Calendar app? I have synced my phone calendar with one Gmail account and Outlook.
How can I create an entry on my phone and invite attendees without using iCloud?
A: If you invite someone from the Gmail calendar, it should send invites to persons via Google's Service.
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eed6577b1360f9256c253b0b402dd2170e3e84e2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPad mail shows a copy of sent mail in inbox My sent emails show in my inbox on my iPad. I have looked but "always bcc myself" is not checked. This problem has started only recently, but I am not aware of anything I may have done to start it.
It doesn't happen when I send emails from my Mac computer using the same account.
A: Are you sending yourelf a bcc: of all mail?
Check your: settings > mail, contacts, calendar > always bcc myself
See if that slider is turned on.
| Q: iPad mail shows a copy of sent mail in inbox My sent emails show in my inbox on my iPad. I have looked but "always bcc myself" is not checked. This problem has started only recently, but I am not aware of anything I may have done to start it.
It doesn't happen when I send emails from my Mac computer using the same account.
A: Are you sending yourelf a bcc: of all mail?
Check your: settings > mail, contacts, calendar > always bcc myself
See if that slider is turned on.
A: If you're using imap, you might be storing sent mail on the server.
If you uncheck that, you won't see the emails on your other devices, because you won't be keeping a copy on the server. (You will have the copy on your local machine)
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408962fc7c9bbe80f49d3e9b5b5be68b25beafd1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the dotted blue underlining when I use dictation on OS X? When I use the dictation feature in OS X, sometimes some of my text has got dotted blue underlining below it after entry:
What does this mean? Am I able to use it to correct the mistakes in the text more easily?
I am using OS X 10.8.
A: This highlighting "hyperlinks" the text, if the system is unsure of what you said. It will typically take a couple of best guesses, and display them as options from which you can choose from. You can see the suggestions by right-clicking the word or control clicking it.
It also selects the text when you click on it, which allows you to simply type a replacement if the options provided aren't correct.
This article may provide helpful information on dictation.
| Q: What is the dotted blue underlining when I use dictation on OS X? When I use the dictation feature in OS X, sometimes some of my text has got dotted blue underlining below it after entry:
What does this mean? Am I able to use it to correct the mistakes in the text more easily?
I am using OS X 10.8.
A: This highlighting "hyperlinks" the text, if the system is unsure of what you said. It will typically take a couple of best guesses, and display them as options from which you can choose from. You can see the suggestions by right-clicking the word or control clicking it.
It also selects the text when you click on it, which allows you to simply type a replacement if the options provided aren't correct.
This article may provide helpful information on dictation.
A: The blue underline allows you to control click and select from alternate transcriptions of the sounds for that phrase.
The blue underline is similar to the red underline that appears when the system detects alternate suggestions for a typed word.
In this case, it might have a high confidence that you could have said one of several phrases and offers you both an indication that there is some doubt about that dictation as well as a shortcut to choose from an alternate word choice.
Oddly, this isn't covered in the Mac Basics: Dictation article that does have a helpful list of editing tips and punctuation words that are supported.
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512c616ccdf0108f95b62a0735b2c99dc9c704d9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to avoid auto starting playback when importing playlist in iTunes library Whenever i import a large folder into iTunes i have the problem that if in one of the subfolders there is a playlist, it will auto start playing. How can i prevent this?
A: I just delete the m3u and pls files:
find ~/Music -iname '*.m3u' -o -iname '*.pls' -delete
| Q: How to avoid auto starting playback when importing playlist in iTunes library Whenever i import a large folder into iTunes i have the problem that if in one of the subfolders there is a playlist, it will auto start playing. How can i prevent this?
A: I just delete the m3u and pls files:
find ~/Music -iname '*.m3u' -o -iname '*.pls' -delete
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3cfaa65000db6b218d5c1c613856801a06309772 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Prevent application from displaying badge icon in Dock Any Spotify desktop user has likely noticed their pervasive notifications: whenever "one of our friends" joins Spotify, there's both an in-app notification as well as a red badge that appears on Spotify's icon in the Dock.
Is there a way to disable an application's ability to show a badge on its Dock icon?
I'm using Lion (10.7.8), and therefore don't have the 'Notifications' prefpane that was introduced in Mountain Lion.
I tried digging around in the app's resources and .plist file to see if there was a setting to enable/disable this... to no avail.
A: No - the normal path is to use the Notifications prefpane to turn off notifications, but this would not help, since Spotify is not listed there.
I'm also very annoyed by Spotify's constant flood of notifications. I wonder if there was a way to drop all the social-related network traffic that goes into Spotify and somehow nip these notifications at the bud.
| Q: Prevent application from displaying badge icon in Dock Any Spotify desktop user has likely noticed their pervasive notifications: whenever "one of our friends" joins Spotify, there's both an in-app notification as well as a red badge that appears on Spotify's icon in the Dock.
Is there a way to disable an application's ability to show a badge on its Dock icon?
I'm using Lion (10.7.8), and therefore don't have the 'Notifications' prefpane that was introduced in Mountain Lion.
I tried digging around in the app's resources and .plist file to see if there was a setting to enable/disable this... to no avail.
A: No - the normal path is to use the Notifications prefpane to turn off notifications, but this would not help, since Spotify is not listed there.
I'm also very annoyed by Spotify's constant flood of notifications. I wonder if there was a way to drop all the social-related network traffic that goes into Spotify and somehow nip these notifications at the bud.
A: Answer here solves your problem:
# "Usernoted" seems to be the "user notifications daemon", so get it's PID.
pid=$(ps aux | grep -i [u]sernoted | awk '{print $2}')
# Find the sqlite3 database that this program has open. It's in a "private" folder (app sandboxing).
db="$(lsof -p $pid | grep com.apple.notificationcenter/db/db\$ | awk '{print $9}')"
# I got the bundleid from Spotify.app/Contents/Info.plist
bundleid="com.spotify.client"
# I use 0 as the flags because you can change all the settings in System Preferences
# 5 seems to be the default for show_count
# Grab the next-highest sort order
sql="INSERT INTO app_info (bundleid, flags, show_count, sort_order) VALUES ( '$bundleid', 0, 5, (SELECT MAX(sort_order) + 1 FROM app_info) );"
# Run the command
sqlite3 "$db" "$sql"
# Restart usernoted to make the changes take effect
killall user noted
Then you can see Spotify in System Preferences -> Notifications, and can disable its notifications.
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cc44f829bb93aac5611b035ac0c94c4a04455655 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I monitor the total physical and virtual memory usage of a process and all of its descendants? From the command line, how would I get the total physical and virtual memory usage of a process and all of its descendants (not just 1st-level children)?
This is useful when you want to monitor the memory usage of applications that are not monolithic. For instance, Google Chrome spawns a whole bunch of workers and renderers, even though to the user, it's all in only one GUI window. Another example is Firefox, which has separate processes for its plugins.
The Activity Monitor application can display the processes in a hierarchy. But I find it not good enough, for two reasons:
*
*It's not command-line;
*It doesn't sum the numbers for me.
A: If using third-party applications is a possibility, I would suggest that you install the htop process monitor, perhaps from Macports. This tool extends top with a nice layout, and most relevant for your use case, it has an arbitrarily deep thread tree view that can be turned on with the F5 key.
| Q: How do I monitor the total physical and virtual memory usage of a process and all of its descendants? From the command line, how would I get the total physical and virtual memory usage of a process and all of its descendants (not just 1st-level children)?
This is useful when you want to monitor the memory usage of applications that are not monolithic. For instance, Google Chrome spawns a whole bunch of workers and renderers, even though to the user, it's all in only one GUI window. Another example is Firefox, which has separate processes for its plugins.
The Activity Monitor application can display the processes in a hierarchy. But I find it not good enough, for two reasons:
*
*It's not command-line;
*It doesn't sum the numbers for me.
A: If using third-party applications is a possibility, I would suggest that you install the htop process monitor, perhaps from Macports. This tool extends top with a nice layout, and most relevant for your use case, it has an arbitrarily deep thread tree view that can be turned on with the F5 key.
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4274edb433ebfd33d291d06df3d483eb4b955247 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Keyboard shortcut for current window position I am looking for the keyboard shortcut to place the current window in half of the screen, either to the left or right. This functionality is performed in windows by typing the windows button plus left or right.
How is this done on Mac OSX?
A: Slate is an extremely customizable keyboard window management tool. It can take a while to get setup (although there are some example configs) but it's totally worth it.
Edit:
Slate has seemly abandoned at this point. I have switched to Phoenix which is very similar and more actively developed.
| Q: Keyboard shortcut for current window position I am looking for the keyboard shortcut to place the current window in half of the screen, either to the left or right. This functionality is performed in windows by typing the windows button plus left or right.
How is this done on Mac OSX?
A: Slate is an extremely customizable keyboard window management tool. It can take a while to get setup (although there are some example configs) but it's totally worth it.
Edit:
Slate has seemly abandoned at this point. I have switched to Phoenix which is very similar and more actively developed.
A: I use Divvy to perform keyboard manipulation of window size. There is a free demo so you can try before you buy.
A: If you want to build your own keyboard shortcut here is how you do it:
*
*Open Automator (Applications > Automator)
*Make a new Service
*In the search pane on the right search for "Applescript"
*Drag "Run Applescript" into the right Pane
*In the Text Box that is presented enter the following code:
on run
set theApp to ((path to frontmost application) as text)
tell application theApp
activate
set the bounds of the first window to {0, 0, 1280, 800}
end tell
end run
*At the top of the right pane make it so that the service receives no input
*Save the service as "Maximise Window"
*Duplicate the Service (Command + Shift + S)
*Change the {0, 0, 1280, 800} to {0, 0, 640, 800}
*Save the service as "Move Window Left"
*Duplicate the Service (Command + Shift + S)
*Change the {0, 0, 640, 800} to {640, 0, 1280, 800}
*Save the service as "Move Window Right"
*Go to System Preferences (Applications > System Preferences) and select "Keyboard" then "Shortcuts"
*Scroll down in the list to "General"
*You services should be saved there. Hover over them then add your own shortcuts.
And Done!
A: As far as I know, this is not built into Mac OS X. But there are many third-party utilities such as Moom which can do it.
A: I would also add BetterTouchTool to those presented already - it gives you window snapping plus the ability to add all sorts of custom gestures and shortcuts to your environment
A: I tried ShiftIt it worked perfect and it's Open Source.
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fe588d91e7f38ad348b2ba3af4862c3df7f61a09 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Macbook Pro wont open apps or download content due to Error Code: -50. My Macbook Pro ran into a problem and reported Error: -50. I cannot open applications such as Chrome, Word, and others. I cannot download content or move content to the trash because it says the disk is full, even though it still shows 80Gb of free storage. The Ram is free and I cannot run ClamXav to see if it is a virus. Disk Utility verifies the disk but the permissions have all changed and cannot be repaired. Some permissions errors include "user differs on private/var/at, should be 0 user is 1"as well as various others. I cant even see/open external drives I connect. Any idea how to solve this problem?
A: -50 is a file system error: "Error in user parameter list" (see https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1618)
What OS X version are you on? https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718 or Will reinstalling Lion erase all my documents and applications? maybe helpful.
| Q: Macbook Pro wont open apps or download content due to Error Code: -50. My Macbook Pro ran into a problem and reported Error: -50. I cannot open applications such as Chrome, Word, and others. I cannot download content or move content to the trash because it says the disk is full, even though it still shows 80Gb of free storage. The Ram is free and I cannot run ClamXav to see if it is a virus. Disk Utility verifies the disk but the permissions have all changed and cannot be repaired. Some permissions errors include "user differs on private/var/at, should be 0 user is 1"as well as various others. I cant even see/open external drives I connect. Any idea how to solve this problem?
A: -50 is a file system error: "Error in user parameter list" (see https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1618)
What OS X version are you on? https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718 or Will reinstalling Lion erase all my documents and applications? maybe helpful.
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1afa03b3ea69eea88fedceaf71fe8be3a5a61f8d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Prevent Adium logout when locking screen on OSX 10.8.2 Since upgrading to OSX 10.8.2 from 10.6.x I find that when I lock the screen Adium logs out. Upon unlocking screen Adium logs back in.
It used to just set to away when screen locked and I have pushover scripts that rely on this.
How can I get it to behave the way it did before I upgraded?
A: That behavior is determined by the settings in the Status pane of Adium preferences. Specifically, it's determined by the "When Screen Saver is activated, set:" preference. Check to make sure that's not set to "Offline".
| Q: Prevent Adium logout when locking screen on OSX 10.8.2 Since upgrading to OSX 10.8.2 from 10.6.x I find that when I lock the screen Adium logs out. Upon unlocking screen Adium logs back in.
It used to just set to away when screen locked and I have pushover scripts that rely on this.
How can I get it to behave the way it did before I upgraded?
A: That behavior is determined by the settings in the Status pane of Adium preferences. Specifically, it's determined by the "When Screen Saver is activated, set:" preference. Check to make sure that's not set to "Offline".
A: I believe this is because of "Wake on Demand" feature in OSX 10.8. Details here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3774
To disable:
Go to System Prefs -> Energy Saver, on the 'Power Adapter' page, uncheck the 'Wake for network access' box.
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7870dfa616ea76f0582ee1966ddd4d191c13b7c9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: In iTunes 11, is it possible to show the genre of an album in Artist view? In iTunes 11 I use the artist view. In artist view, I see the artists on the very left, then the album covers and the track multi-columned at the right side of the cover. Is it possible to also show the genre of the album?
The only way I know to access the genre is to right-click the cover or a track, open "information" and look at "Genre".
A: Short answer: NO
Apple has custom view options screens for Artist, Albums, Genres views and therefore you cannot change the columns beyond what they allow. It seems it is only available in song and playlist view.
I am guessing the reason for this is that the artist view is meant to group and display a specific set of data. I would suspect in future versions they may introduce the ability to do this, however for the moment it is not possible.
Sidenote: The View Options screen has been drastically modified for the song view compared to the previous version.
| Q: In iTunes 11, is it possible to show the genre of an album in Artist view? In iTunes 11 I use the artist view. In artist view, I see the artists on the very left, then the album covers and the track multi-columned at the right side of the cover. Is it possible to also show the genre of the album?
The only way I know to access the genre is to right-click the cover or a track, open "information" and look at "Genre".
A: Short answer: NO
Apple has custom view options screens for Artist, Albums, Genres views and therefore you cannot change the columns beyond what they allow. It seems it is only available in song and playlist view.
I am guessing the reason for this is that the artist view is meant to group and display a specific set of data. I would suspect in future versions they may introduce the ability to do this, however for the moment it is not possible.
Sidenote: The View Options screen has been drastically modified for the song view compared to the previous version.
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0298551b395ff0bcb95b7aac6fa6ef27ed5cf114 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: After a iPhone is stolen, can that device's iCloud backup be accessed? I had an iPhone 4 stolen from me and there is an associated iCloud backup with tons of data I want. Is there any possible way to access this without the iPhone 4?
I also got an iPhone 5 recently but don't think the restore will work (but haven't tried).
A: Apple doesn't expose iCloud backups directly to end users via computer or web interface, but you can restore that backup onto pretty much any other iOS device.
The new iPhone (or any iOS device for that matter) has iOS version the same or newer than the version backed up from the stolen phone. Simply erase all content on the current device (losing everything in it) and restore your old backup onto the device.
Hopefully, have not "created" much new data on your new phone and don't have to write down many new contacts or items or export any documents before you erase it. However, you could always back that device up to the same or different iCloud account or to iTunes and restore that once you've gotten your data to a more portable form.
| Q: After a iPhone is stolen, can that device's iCloud backup be accessed? I had an iPhone 4 stolen from me and there is an associated iCloud backup with tons of data I want. Is there any possible way to access this without the iPhone 4?
I also got an iPhone 5 recently but don't think the restore will work (but haven't tried).
A: Apple doesn't expose iCloud backups directly to end users via computer or web interface, but you can restore that backup onto pretty much any other iOS device.
The new iPhone (or any iOS device for that matter) has iOS version the same or newer than the version backed up from the stolen phone. Simply erase all content on the current device (losing everything in it) and restore your old backup onto the device.
Hopefully, have not "created" much new data on your new phone and don't have to write down many new contacts or items or export any documents before you erase it. However, you could always back that device up to the same or different iCloud account or to iTunes and restore that once you've gotten your data to a more portable form.
A: The prior answer isn't true. Elcomsoft have a forensic app called EPBB that enables you to access your data in icloud. It unfortunately costs $200!
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2889918f062b620e0eb772a5b045e3d3eb60143e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Sublime Text 2 in OSX: all fonts are bold regardless of theme or font I have a weird problem on mac (OSX 10.7): any theme or font I choose - all fonts appear in bold. I sync all settings with Dropbox and on Windows 7 and Ubuntu the fonts are normal.
Don't know if it's an OSX problem or sublime, but did anyone run into this issue?
A: Uncheck "Use LCD font smoothing when available" in System Preferences > General then restart Sublime Text.
| Q: Sublime Text 2 in OSX: all fonts are bold regardless of theme or font I have a weird problem on mac (OSX 10.7): any theme or font I choose - all fonts appear in bold. I sync all settings with Dropbox and on Windows 7 and Ubuntu the fonts are normal.
Don't know if it's an OSX problem or sublime, but did anyone run into this issue?
A: Uncheck "Use LCD font smoothing when available" in System Preferences > General then restart Sublime Text.
A: on retina screen, i was used "font_options": ["gray_antialias"] and got perfect result
A: I haven't expereinced this issue but it looks like in your sublime preferences you can define font options in which you can say no_bold
{
// Valid options are "no_bold", "no_italic", "no_antialias", "gray_antialias",
// "subpixel_antialias" and "no_round" (OS X only)
"font_options": ["no_bold"]
}
From StackOverflow
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2de068d37fb4ac8b153b334e9c209a9648170d06 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Time Machine — ‘Sparsebundle already in use’ error A few days ago, Time Machine on my Mac reported an error: ‘Sparsebundle already in use’. Manual unmount of the Time Capsule didn't help, nor a reboot of my machine. Removing and re-selecting my Time Capsule from the Time Machine Preferences window didn't help either.
A: After some research, I found the answer was pretty straightforward, though not obvious. As the error message hints, the problem is that the disk mount utility believes that there is already a user connected to the disk. To solve that, you can use a handy function present in Airport Utility 5.6 (but not in Airport Utility 6.1), named ‘disconnect all users’:
*
*Open the Time Capsule pane by double-clicking on the Time Capsule item in the left list.
*Select the ‘Disks’ tab.
*Press the button ‘Disconnect all users…’
If you don't have the Airport Utility 5.6, you can either download it from Apple's KB (if you're on Mountain Lion you'll also need the Pacifist app to extract the app from the package) or just use your Airport Utility 6.1 to reboot the device.
| Q: Time Machine — ‘Sparsebundle already in use’ error A few days ago, Time Machine on my Mac reported an error: ‘Sparsebundle already in use’. Manual unmount of the Time Capsule didn't help, nor a reboot of my machine. Removing and re-selecting my Time Capsule from the Time Machine Preferences window didn't help either.
A: After some research, I found the answer was pretty straightforward, though not obvious. As the error message hints, the problem is that the disk mount utility believes that there is already a user connected to the disk. To solve that, you can use a handy function present in Airport Utility 5.6 (but not in Airport Utility 6.1), named ‘disconnect all users’:
*
*Open the Time Capsule pane by double-clicking on the Time Capsule item in the left list.
*Select the ‘Disks’ tab.
*Press the button ‘Disconnect all users…’
If you don't have the Airport Utility 5.6, you can either download it from Apple's KB (if you're on Mountain Lion you'll also need the Pacifist app to extract the app from the package) or just use your Airport Utility 6.1 to reboot the device.
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56de35849d16f9e0a5b5a88b99d3652418023981 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How secure are password protected PDFs that are created with Preview? I use 1Password1 to store not only my own information, but also my sisters home Wi-Fi information.
Since she does not have a 1Password licence, I printed out the information for her to store in a safe place. Now, I was just thinking of using the printing dialog (under "Security Options...") to create a "password protected" PDF.
But what does that actually mean and how secure is it?
*
*Does this encrypt the whole PDF?
*What encryption is used?
*Is it compatible with Windows and Ubuntu?
There does not2 seem to be a knowledge-base article on support.apple.com. The info dialog in Finder merely says that the PDF is "Password Encrypted".
A: The last Time I checked a 128 bit RC4 encryption of the whole document was used. Also, compatability should be vested.
Here's a screenshot of the output of GuaPDF:
| Q: How secure are password protected PDFs that are created with Preview? I use 1Password1 to store not only my own information, but also my sisters home Wi-Fi information.
Since she does not have a 1Password licence, I printed out the information for her to store in a safe place. Now, I was just thinking of using the printing dialog (under "Security Options...") to create a "password protected" PDF.
But what does that actually mean and how secure is it?
*
*Does this encrypt the whole PDF?
*What encryption is used?
*Is it compatible with Windows and Ubuntu?
There does not2 seem to be a knowledge-base article on support.apple.com. The info dialog in Finder merely says that the PDF is "Password Encrypted".
A: The last Time I checked a 128 bit RC4 encryption of the whole document was used. Also, compatability should be vested.
Here's a screenshot of the output of GuaPDF:
A:
But what does that actually mean and how secure is it?
Does this encrypt the whole PDF?
Is it compatible with Windows and Ubuntu?
Part of the PDF specification describes the encryption of PDF data, and Preview produces a 'to-spec' encrypted PDF.
Encrypted PDFs made by Preview are valid PDFs that can be opened (when the password is provided) by any PDF app that follows the spec on any platform.
The level of encryption depends on the PDF version.
Early versions of MacOS saved with PDF v1.4, giving RCA-128bit encryptions. Newer versions save as PDF v1.6, giving AES-128 encryption. You can see the version level of the PDF document in Get Info.
A: Another method, guaranteeing 256-bit AES encryption, is to use Disk Utility to create an encrypted disk image of a folder containing the PDF, or just a text file for that matter. One cannot create a disk image of a file - it must be a folder.
Steps:
*
*Create a folder, place file(s) to encrypt within
*Open Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app
*Menu item File > New > Disk Image from Folder
*Choose folder to encrypt
*Click the Image button
*Select .dmg save location, read-only and 256-bit AES Encryption:
*Click the Save button, then enter a password of your choosing or use the 'Password Assistant' which can generate a password for you of several types and lengths. You are also able to store this password in your Keychain.
Naturally, the encrypted .dmg file can only be opened on a Macintosh.
This technique is handy for encrypting anything that can be put in a folder.
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de56d2c8ad771862fa2834ef370900b3c74e940c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Editing system keyboard layout I wonder how to edit the following two files, so that I can change the system keyboard layout. It seems they are binary resource files, but I'm not sure.
/System/Library/Keyboard\ Layouts/AppleKeyboardLayouts.bundle/Contents/Resources/AppleKeyboardLayouts-B.dat
/System/Library/Keyboard\ Layouts/AppleKeyboardLayouts.bundle/Contents/Resources/AppleKeyboardLayouts-L.dat
I could use Ukelele to create a custom layout, but I would like to know how Ukelele reads the current layouts, and more over whether it is posible to edit the system layout directly.
A: As far as I know, nobody has found a way to edit the system layouts directly. Making a custom layout via Ukelele is the way to go.
| Q: Editing system keyboard layout I wonder how to edit the following two files, so that I can change the system keyboard layout. It seems they are binary resource files, but I'm not sure.
/System/Library/Keyboard\ Layouts/AppleKeyboardLayouts.bundle/Contents/Resources/AppleKeyboardLayouts-B.dat
/System/Library/Keyboard\ Layouts/AppleKeyboardLayouts.bundle/Contents/Resources/AppleKeyboardLayouts-L.dat
I could use Ukelele to create a custom layout, but I would like to know how Ukelele reads the current layouts, and more over whether it is posible to edit the system layout directly.
A: As far as I know, nobody has found a way to edit the system layouts directly. Making a custom layout via Ukelele is the way to go.
A: I have been able to customise a flag without using Ukelele.
I have just extracted all the flags icns with this script : github.com/phible/scripts
Then, locate the icns in the AppleKeyboardLayouts-L.dat file comparing with the beginning and the end of the hexa code of the .icns, delete the code and replace it with the one of my customised icns. Log out of user session, log back in, done ;)
Here is the result with my black theme :
I highly recommend to use Icon Composer 2x to create the new .ICNS before integrating it into the .DAT. See here.
WARNING : DO NOT EVER DELETE THE .DAT IN THE KEYBOARD BUNDLE, ALWAYS OVERWRITE IT, OTHERWISE YOU KEYBOARD WILL BE STUCK AND YOU WONT BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING !
(ALWAYS KEEP A BOOTABLE MAC OS X INSTALLER IN SENSITIVE CASES LIKE THIS TO REPAIR THINGS REINSTALLING MAC OS X ENTIRELY OR JUST FIX IT WITH TERMINAL)
A: Although I prefer to just make my own maps, it seems that a lot of the files for the default keyboards are stored in /opt/X11/share/X11/xkb/keymap
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38c83677d344259c108e829124665c46579109e8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Create a default folder structure & insert current Date in Terminal by single command? I often find myself creating the same structure by hand in finder for new projects, how can I quicken this process with a single Terminal Command?
Example of structure & command:
Terminal
$ cf Project_Name //cf for CreateFolder
Creates a folder in the current Path with current Date -> YYMMDD Project_Name
In that folder a custom structure:
_CI
_layout
_layout/_screens
_material
A: Something like
mkdir -p "`date "+%Y%m%d"` Project_Name"/_layout/_screens
should do the trick. It is plain vanilla unix.
| Q: Create a default folder structure & insert current Date in Terminal by single command? I often find myself creating the same structure by hand in finder for new projects, how can I quicken this process with a single Terminal Command?
Example of structure & command:
Terminal
$ cf Project_Name //cf for CreateFolder
Creates a folder in the current Path with current Date -> YYMMDD Project_Name
In that folder a custom structure:
_CI
_layout
_layout/_screens
_material
A: Something like
mkdir -p "`date "+%Y%m%d"` Project_Name"/_layout/_screens
should do the trick. It is plain vanilla unix.
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1f3c8d3d1361e92cd4061d3a35dfa5a4a35252b2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I browse photos on iPhone in Mac OSX? Previously, on Windows, an iPhone was recognized as a camera and I could browse the image folder with Explorer without a need to import/download/transfer photo files to the computer.
Is there a way to do the same on macOS? All approaches I have ever read about are somehow connected to import procedure (iPhoto, Preview, iTunes, etc.) or to hacking the iPhone and installing some apps that will allow to mount the phone as storage drive work.
What is the easiest and most straightforward way to view that files without transferring them to a computer?
A: use ibrowse its free and quite straight forward
http://www.ibrowseapp.com/
navigate to the Media\DCIM\10*APPLE folders to find the camera roll photos
| Q: How can I browse photos on iPhone in Mac OSX? Previously, on Windows, an iPhone was recognized as a camera and I could browse the image folder with Explorer without a need to import/download/transfer photo files to the computer.
Is there a way to do the same on macOS? All approaches I have ever read about are somehow connected to import procedure (iPhoto, Preview, iTunes, etc.) or to hacking the iPhone and installing some apps that will allow to mount the phone as storage drive work.
What is the easiest and most straightforward way to view that files without transferring them to a computer?
A: use ibrowse its free and quite straight forward
http://www.ibrowseapp.com/
navigate to the Media\DCIM\10*APPLE folders to find the camera roll photos
A: iPhoto will show you a preview of the photos on your phone, and you can view the photos without importing/downloading/transferring/etc.
A: I found a solution here: Basically, with Photostream activated, you can set up a search criteria in Finder to quickly access photos you've take on your iPhone without having to do much work (ie, importing with a separate app, hooking up your device to your computer via usb, etc.)
Locate the Photo Stream in the Finder
Since the user’s Library folder is now hidden by default, I can’t just give you the file path. In the Finder, option-click on the Go menu and hit “Library.” Then navigate to Application Support > iLifeAssetManagement > assets > sub. In the search filed, type “png”; then select “Portable Network Graphics image” from the popup.
Save the Search
Click the Save button under the search field. Give the saved search a name like “Screenshots.” Leave “Add to Sidebar” checked.
This ought to be the end, but it’s not. For some reason, this particular saved search acts up when accessed from the Finder sidebar (at least on my version of OS X). Sometimes it works, sometimes it returns zero results. The fix for this is to add it to the Dock instead. Hit up the contextual menu and do that.
A: The Image Capture app allows you to browse the iPhone's photos, albeit not at full size or resolution, without first downloading the image files to your computer. Image Capture also gives you the tools to download all or selected subranges of the photos on your iPhone, as well as deletion.
A: Open the "Preview"-App, select "File-Import from (your iphone)"
and you can manage your photos as you want.
To me the most straightforward way.
A: This isn't as direct as just plugging your iPhone into a computer, but it's possible to browse your iPhone photos via dropbox instead.
Just install Dropbox (via ** www.dropbox.com/) , and use the "Enable Dropbox Camera Import" preference setting.
** Updated : just search for "dropbox" on the app store, it's free. **
Now, every time that your iPhone (or any iDevice setup this way) is connected to the USB charging cable that is connected to your computer, all of your new photos and videos are automatically imported into your Dropbox folder.
ALSO worth noting : Just by using this feature, you can earn more FREE Dropbox space.
A: The only way that I know of to view full-size content on an iPhone…
*
*On a device other than said iPhone, and
*Without transferring the content onto said other device
…is to use AirPlay. You can use an Apple TV to view your photos on your television, or use a third-party app such as Reflector App (no affiliation) to turn your Mac into an AirPlay receiver.
While I can't test this method myself, it should allow you to wirelessly view (but not edit or transfer) photos on your iPhone using your Mac. I would imagine that you could preview photos with AirPlay while simultaneously using Image Capture to select photos for transferring.
A: All answers here are about viewing previews or recommending legacy solutions.
I recommend using the shareware application Imazing to view full size photos and HDR+ videos from iPhone without being imported for versions up to iOS 15.5 and above.
A: You can open the Photos app on your Mac, then on the left side bar you'll see your iPhone icon. If you click on it you can see all your pictures, just like when you open it on Windows Explorer!
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26689a8565f8886c749fcaf477bccf6d596a0b41 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPad maps: hide location circle Is ther a way to hide the blue location circle on the iPad maps? I know I could disable wifi, but I still want to be able to access the maps. What I am trying to do is to zoom all the way out in satellite mode and see if I can find things without any labels.
A: (For iOS 6)
*
*Open Settings.app
*Tap "Privacy"
*Tap "Location Services"
*Scroll down until you see the "Maps" app
*Turn the switch "Off"
This will effectively disable the the blue dot. If you have Google Maps or Google Earth installed, you can also disable the location services for those apps as well. You will find each app that uses location services listed under the main on/off switch.
| Q: iPad maps: hide location circle Is ther a way to hide the blue location circle on the iPad maps? I know I could disable wifi, but I still want to be able to access the maps. What I am trying to do is to zoom all the way out in satellite mode and see if I can find things without any labels.
A: (For iOS 6)
*
*Open Settings.app
*Tap "Privacy"
*Tap "Location Services"
*Scroll down until you see the "Maps" app
*Turn the switch "Off"
This will effectively disable the the blue dot. If you have Google Maps or Google Earth installed, you can also disable the location services for those apps as well. You will find each app that uses location services listed under the main on/off switch.
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e7d1155aa350d1829cbf21a6f251cf87d722af98 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Are there keyboard mappings to make Ubuntu more like MacOS? While there is a similar question how to make Mac keyboard like Ubuntu, I would like to raise the reverse question: How to make Ubuntu keyboard like Mac?
I like for instance cmd ⌘ to work as ctrl (i.e. To press cmd ⌘+C for copy in Ubuntu). This makes the life easier when using an Ubuntu virtual machine on Mac, no need anymore to think if you are doing on Mac or virtual Ubuntu. Since my brain works out of OS X all day long and I'm running ubuntu and other OS inside virtualization (like virtual box), making these guest OS run more like my host OS would save me confusion.
How to make Ubuntu's mapping of my Mac's keyboard be more Mac-like?
A: I found my answer on the link below:
Copy-paste with ⌘-c and ⌘-v in ubuntu running in virtualbox (on an OSX host)
| Q: Are there keyboard mappings to make Ubuntu more like MacOS? While there is a similar question how to make Mac keyboard like Ubuntu, I would like to raise the reverse question: How to make Ubuntu keyboard like Mac?
I like for instance cmd ⌘ to work as ctrl (i.e. To press cmd ⌘+C for copy in Ubuntu). This makes the life easier when using an Ubuntu virtual machine on Mac, no need anymore to think if you are doing on Mac or virtual Ubuntu. Since my brain works out of OS X all day long and I'm running ubuntu and other OS inside virtualization (like virtual box), making these guest OS run more like my host OS would save me confusion.
How to make Ubuntu's mapping of my Mac's keyboard be more Mac-like?
A: I found my answer on the link below:
Copy-paste with ⌘-c and ⌘-v in ubuntu running in virtualbox (on an OSX host)
A: Update 02/03/2020
Kinto - Type in Linux like it's a Mac.
Kinto has now been rewritten in C for Ubuntu/Debian systems using x11. It also uses json config files, making it easier to manage and extend to other applications than just terminals. The app no longer maps to Super in the Terminal apps, it will now properly map to Ctrl+Shift to create the exact same feel as having a Cmd key.
Please checkout the latest release.
https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto
The main change to allow for the Super = Ctrl+Shift change is in this symbols file.
default partial xkb_symbols "mac_levelssym" {
key <LWIN> {
repeat= no,
type= "ONE_LEVEL",
symbols[Group1]= [ Hyper_L ],
actions[group1]=[ SetMods(modifiers=Shift+Control) ]
};
key <RWIN> {
repeat= no,
type= "ONE_LEVEL",
symbols[Group1]= [ Hyper_R ],
actions[group1]=[ SetMods(modifiers=Shift+Control) ]
};
};
You may find Kinto to be useful. It's a project I recently created, after a few years of tackling this problem a few different ways and I just now feel like it's solid enough to share.
The Kinto installer simply uses python to do the initial install, after that it's just a systemd service, bash, xprop, setxkbmap and xkbcomp. As far as I am concerned it is the fastest and most native solution to this problem that you are going to find.
https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto
https://medium.com/@benreaves/kinto-a-mac-inspired-keyboard-mapping-for-linux-58f731817c0
Here's a Gist as well, if you just want to see what is at the heart of it all, it will not alternate your keymap when needed though. The Gist also does not include custom xkb keymap files that setup macOS style cursors/word-wise manipulations that use Cmd and the arrow keys.
https://gist.github.com/rbreaves/f4cf8a991eaeea893999964f5e83eebb
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4673eb9326eb11e2b2affc550416a66bdab14920 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Terminal Actived Push Notification Utility for OS X and iOS? I am basically wondering if there is any tool(s) that can generate a push notifications on OS X and/or iOS from terminal entries. Idea here is you could connect via SSH and make a custom push notification like "WiFi is turning off in 5 Minutes" or "Go to bed!" (lol) appear. Anyone have ideas? My iOS device is jailbroken, hence OpenSSH is installed.
A: OS X Server integrates nicely for push notifications using APNS, but it's more focused on mail and chat notifications as opposed to sending generic notifications like a turn based game server.
It would get your Apple ID approved and be a very nice first step towards getting APNS to be ready to listen to commands from a Mac.
Here is a nice step by step article on setting up push notifications:
*
*http://krypted.com/mac-os-x/enable-push-notifications-in-os-x-mountain-lion-server/
From there, you could use a chat hosted from your Mac as opposed to using iMessage (messages app on iOS to get messages sent with push notifications).
| Q: Terminal Actived Push Notification Utility for OS X and iOS? I am basically wondering if there is any tool(s) that can generate a push notifications on OS X and/or iOS from terminal entries. Idea here is you could connect via SSH and make a custom push notification like "WiFi is turning off in 5 Minutes" or "Go to bed!" (lol) appear. Anyone have ideas? My iOS device is jailbroken, hence OpenSSH is installed.
A: OS X Server integrates nicely for push notifications using APNS, but it's more focused on mail and chat notifications as opposed to sending generic notifications like a turn based game server.
It would get your Apple ID approved and be a very nice first step towards getting APNS to be ready to listen to commands from a Mac.
Here is a nice step by step article on setting up push notifications:
*
*http://krypted.com/mac-os-x/enable-push-notifications-in-os-x-mountain-lion-server/
From there, you could use a chat hosted from your Mac as opposed to using iMessage (messages app on iOS to get messages sent with push notifications).
A: If you do not mind a small one-time entry fee ($5) then there are two apps for iOS that provide you with push notifications.
Push4
Pushover
Both provide a simple http API so you can send yourself push notifications from the terminal. Pushover also has IFTTT channel.
A: https://github.com/nomad/houston
It supports simple command line interface too. Very useful and free.
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78eeea18a6d7a5770fbcfa1d2b9065ac755a54b3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Airdrop Alternative for Windows/Mac/Linux? I am looking for something that does the same thing as Airdrop that would work on Windows/Mac/Linux. Because of hardware it would most likely have to be LAN-based, but I am perfectly fine with that. Anyone know of such a program? Thanks :)
A: Have a look at Transfer on Lan - it's not as full of hardware encrypted, peer to peer mesh network goodness as AirDrop, but it's the closest stand in for AirDrop that I've seen in a cross-platform client.
http://code.google.com/p/transfer-on-lan/
It uses a normal network as opposed to building up a secure temporary network, but other than needing java, it's pretty easy to implement.
| Q: Airdrop Alternative for Windows/Mac/Linux? I am looking for something that does the same thing as Airdrop that would work on Windows/Mac/Linux. Because of hardware it would most likely have to be LAN-based, but I am perfectly fine with that. Anyone know of such a program? Thanks :)
A: Have a look at Transfer on Lan - it's not as full of hardware encrypted, peer to peer mesh network goodness as AirDrop, but it's the closest stand in for AirDrop that I've seen in a cross-platform client.
http://code.google.com/p/transfer-on-lan/
It uses a normal network as opposed to building up a secure temporary network, but other than needing java, it's pretty easy to implement.
A: Though it's a bit different of an approach, Dropbox is an excellent solution to this problem.
A: If the computers you're moving data between are next to each other, you might like Share Mouse. Share Mouse actually let's you drag and drop files and folders between computers as if the other computer were just a secondary display.
http://www.keyboard-and-mouse-sharing.com/
I'm using it personally because I have my MacBook next to a Windows computer and the drag and drop functionality comes in handy multiple times a day. There's also clipboard sharing support.
A: You can also use FileDropMe which is an app that works similar to AirDrop across several platforms (including smartphones).
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2cd19c380ec0a33ea5c98f1f35d9aa1314e7339c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Trying to delete a program that's not open, but says it is? I've recently become nigh on obsessive with cleaning out extra space on my hard drive, and I'm trying to delete a program called "Rowmote Helper." Whenever I try to delete it, it says it can't be deleted because it is open. But when I open the "force quit applications" window, it's not running. What can I do to quit the program if it's running, or force delete it anyway? How do you force-delete an application that says that its running, but when you try to force quit it, it doesn't show up?
A: Go to Applications > Utilities and open up Activity Monitor. Scroll down until you find your application. Highlight it and click the "Quit Process" button in the upper left. Now it is no longer running and can be deleted from your computer.
| Q: Trying to delete a program that's not open, but says it is? I've recently become nigh on obsessive with cleaning out extra space on my hard drive, and I'm trying to delete a program called "Rowmote Helper." Whenever I try to delete it, it says it can't be deleted because it is open. But when I open the "force quit applications" window, it's not running. What can I do to quit the program if it's running, or force delete it anyway? How do you force-delete an application that says that its running, but when you try to force quit it, it doesn't show up?
A: Go to Applications > Utilities and open up Activity Monitor. Scroll down until you find your application. Highlight it and click the "Quit Process" button in the upper left. Now it is no longer running and can be deleted from your computer.
A: If it's not listed in Activity Monitor, you can probably delete it using Terminal.
Open Applications -> Terminal.
First type:
rm -rf
Note there must be a "space" typed after the "-rf". But don't panic if you miss it, because rm will just complain about "illegal option" and you can try again.
Then drag the file from the Finder window into Terminal, that will make Terminal insert the full path to that file for you.
Press Enter and the file should be deleted.
If it still refuses to delete (not likely), then try restarting the machine before retrying this.
A: On Microsoft Windows 7 just type %appdata% in the Start Menu and find the program. Delete it from there and it will be gone.
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5739e6ae073a26ed8f41e82263d39ec6eaecb292 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: I got an image on terminal from the output of homebrew package manager I got a strange image from the output of brew like this . I'm curious about this behaviour. Is this a feature of brew or the image comes from some special character set? If a character in some character set, I think it can be employed to customise the terminal (prompt, etc.).
Thanks and Best Regards!
A: That would be an emoji. You can insert them anywhere by clicking Edit > Special Characters > Emoji. The beer one is under the Objects subcategory.
| Q: I got an image on terminal from the output of homebrew package manager I got a strange image from the output of brew like this . I'm curious about this behaviour. Is this a feature of brew or the image comes from some special character set? If a character in some character set, I think it can be employed to customise the terminal (prompt, etc.).
Thanks and Best Regards!
A: That would be an emoji. You can insert them anywhere by clicking Edit > Special Characters > Emoji. The beer one is under the Objects subcategory.
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aa8f9030f29b09ff969d1089530ca39bcbdadd20 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What program can print source code well on OS X? I am looking for an OS X application to nicely format and print source code from a variety of programming languages.
*
*Line numbers would be nice
*Constant width font
*Printing the contents of the clipboard would be a real plus
Does something like this exist (besides the obvious programmers' editors), free or reasonably priced?
A: You will find a nice answer over at sister site superuser. It involves a terminal program called enscript which comes with lot's of options and I know at least of one support file for extending its capabilities to print Ruby code.
EDIT:
I just noticed the "clipboard" part of the question. The clipboard content can be accessed from the command line and fed to enscript using pbpaste as mentioned in Matteo answer.
| Q: What program can print source code well on OS X? I am looking for an OS X application to nicely format and print source code from a variety of programming languages.
*
*Line numbers would be nice
*Constant width font
*Printing the contents of the clipboard would be a real plus
Does something like this exist (besides the obvious programmers' editors), free or reasonably priced?
A: You will find a nice answer over at sister site superuser. It involves a terminal program called enscript which comes with lot's of options and I know at least of one support file for extending its capabilities to print Ruby code.
EDIT:
I just noticed the "clipboard" part of the question. The clipboard content can be accessed from the command line and fed to enscript using pbpaste as mentioned in Matteo answer.
A: If you don't want to use the terminal for this task and want a mac 'application' you should look at 'Text Wrangler' by Bare Bones Software. It is freeware, which fits your 'low price' request ;)
I use it to print out smaller runs of text, and use it specifically for the line number feature.
A: If you are familiar with the command line you could use a2ps (free and open source) which can be installed via MacPorts (install MacPorts and then sudo port install a2ps) or Homebrew (install Homebrew and then brew install a2ps).
For example:
a2ps -1 --line-numbers=5 -g source.c
will print source.c with syntax highlighting (-g) and line numbers each 5 pages. See the manual page for additional options. It supports a wide variety of source formats.
To print the content of the clipboard:
pbpaste | a2ps -1 --line-numbers=5
pbpaste prints the content of the clipboard to standard output which is read by a2ps.
A: See also GNU Source-highlight, which supports many input languages and several output formats.
A: Do it online on https://carbon.now.sh/ or on https://github.com/jaredpetersen/codeprinter. The latter can be run locally too.
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b87096e03e7e628a715b79a4c38bbac8bb70ea66 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: ECDSA ssh key on 10.8.2 I used ssh-keygen -t ecdsa to generate an ECDSA key, but I got the error
unknown key type ecdsa.
man ssh-keygen says:
-t type
Specifies the type of key to create. The possible values are ``rsa1''
for protocol version 1 and ``dsa'', ``ecdsa'' or ``rsa'' for
protocol version 2.
Does anyone have any insight on this?
A: There are potential patent issues with Elliptic Curve crypto so a lot of vendors chicken out on supporting it for now. It appears to be available in the OSX OpenSSL installation, though, so you'll just need to compile OpenSSH on your own.
| Q: ECDSA ssh key on 10.8.2 I used ssh-keygen -t ecdsa to generate an ECDSA key, but I got the error
unknown key type ecdsa.
man ssh-keygen says:
-t type
Specifies the type of key to create. The possible values are ``rsa1''
for protocol version 1 and ``dsa'', ``ecdsa'' or ``rsa'' for
protocol version 2.
Does anyone have any insight on this?
A: There are potential patent issues with Elliptic Curve crypto so a lot of vendors chicken out on supporting it for now. It appears to be available in the OSX OpenSSL installation, though, so you'll just need to compile OpenSSH on your own.
A: The manpage describes the ability to generate ECC keys because the version of OpenSSH 5.9p1 (the version that comes with Mountain Lion) can potentially support ECC. However, the actual build of OpenSSH that came bundled with Mountain Lion appears to lack ECC support1. The manpages are not modified when ECC support is not included in the compiled binaries.
If you want or need ECC support, you could use MacPorts (or probably Homebrew) to install a build of OpenSSH that does support ECC. You might run into some incompatibilities though:
*
*the bundled ssh-agent (started automatically by launchd) will not be able to handle any ECC keys (you would have to start your own instance of the “custom”-built agent, or type your password each time you use an ECC key with the “custom”-built ssh), and
*the “custom”-built tools will not have Apple’s patched-in Keychain integration.
1 OpenSSH’s configure script does some checks to make sure that the available OpenSSL library is new enough and includes various bits of ECC functionality; the bundled version of OpenSSL seems to satisfy these requirements. I am not sure why the bundled version of OpenSSH was built without ECC support.
A: Supported from osx 10.10.{0,1} (not sure which one)
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ff9e8d84855fe5ce821c5d4469af6c7c6674c81d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Gibberish volume in finder which is inaccessible and un-deletable I'm not sure when it got there, but there is what looks like the icon for a time machine volume in my favorites sidebar for finder, but its name is gibberish : "_fTz328nSUG4ZgV4k5KaRm." If I click on it the name flashes the top of the finder window with the body blank then goes back to whatever the window was displaying before. I can't right click it. I can't drag it into the trash, although I can drag it around the favorites bar. I don't know where it came from, but I would like to get rid of it so I don't have to look at it any more. I am running OSX 10.7.5 on an early 2008 Macbook Pro.
A: Drag it off the Favorites bar?
You didn't give enough details, so I'm not sure you can do this, but hold down the ⌘Command button and drag it off the Favorites bar (anywhere on the screen).
You will see a cloud-like animation beneath the pointer.
Then, release it.
POOF! It is out of the Favorites bar and your hair. :)
| Q: Gibberish volume in finder which is inaccessible and un-deletable I'm not sure when it got there, but there is what looks like the icon for a time machine volume in my favorites sidebar for finder, but its name is gibberish : "_fTz328nSUG4ZgV4k5KaRm." If I click on it the name flashes the top of the finder window with the body blank then goes back to whatever the window was displaying before. I can't right click it. I can't drag it into the trash, although I can drag it around the favorites bar. I don't know where it came from, but I would like to get rid of it so I don't have to look at it any more. I am running OSX 10.7.5 on an early 2008 Macbook Pro.
A: Drag it off the Favorites bar?
You didn't give enough details, so I'm not sure you can do this, but hold down the ⌘Command button and drag it off the Favorites bar (anywhere on the screen).
You will see a cloud-like animation beneath the pointer.
Then, release it.
POOF! It is out of the Favorites bar and your hair. :)
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e73f674f1cd51192d49d0cac16e79eb0182d914c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mountain Lion, Tap to Click and Two Finger Scroll Problems I'm using a macbook air with mountain lion 10.8.2. An interesting problem has recently started occurring with using the built in trackpad.
If I use two finger scrolls 9/10 times it sees this as a right-click and bring up the context menu, occasionally when I have just one finger resting on the trackpad it treats this as a single left-click. Tap to click is disabled within the System Preferences.
Has anyone encountered this problem before or knows of a solution?
Thank
A: This seems to be an issue with your trackpad not registering everything correctly, or a very slow computer. A way to fix this, but you would have to change the way you bring up the context menu, is to open System Preferences, navigate to Trackpad > Point & Click. Next, you can either disable it by clicking the checkbox next to it, which means you would then have to Control+Click for the context menu. You can also click on the down arrow next to "Click or tap with two fingers" and select one of the other options. Sorry there's no real solution to your problem.
| Q: Mountain Lion, Tap to Click and Two Finger Scroll Problems I'm using a macbook air with mountain lion 10.8.2. An interesting problem has recently started occurring with using the built in trackpad.
If I use two finger scrolls 9/10 times it sees this as a right-click and bring up the context menu, occasionally when I have just one finger resting on the trackpad it treats this as a single left-click. Tap to click is disabled within the System Preferences.
Has anyone encountered this problem before or knows of a solution?
Thank
A: This seems to be an issue with your trackpad not registering everything correctly, or a very slow computer. A way to fix this, but you would have to change the way you bring up the context menu, is to open System Preferences, navigate to Trackpad > Point & Click. Next, you can either disable it by clicking the checkbox next to it, which means you would then have to Control+Click for the context menu. You can also click on the down arrow next to "Click or tap with two fingers" and select one of the other options. Sorry there's no real solution to your problem.
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b0924e64f56ae5f5dc729c082f2b88453736d656 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What are the sector sizes on Mac OS X? I read on the HFS Plus Wikipedia page that the default sector size on a Mac is 512 b. However, I also read that Macs support 4kb sectors. How can I determine which I have, 512 b or 4 kb sectors? I think 512 is the right answer, but I would like to be sure.
A: The OS X device block size can be determined by executing the following command from a Terminal window prompt:
diskutil info / | grep "Block Size"
Which will output the following information:
Device Block Size: 512 Bytes
The file system block size can be determined by using the stat utility:
stat -f %k .
Which will show you the Optimal file system I/O operation block size in bytes:
4096
| Q: What are the sector sizes on Mac OS X? I read on the HFS Plus Wikipedia page that the default sector size on a Mac is 512 b. However, I also read that Macs support 4kb sectors. How can I determine which I have, 512 b or 4 kb sectors? I think 512 is the right answer, but I would like to be sure.
A: The OS X device block size can be determined by executing the following command from a Terminal window prompt:
diskutil info / | grep "Block Size"
Which will output the following information:
Device Block Size: 512 Bytes
The file system block size can be determined by using the stat utility:
stat -f %k .
Which will show you the Optimal file system I/O operation block size in bytes:
4096
A: With the older HFS file system, Apple's second attempt at a file system for the Macintosh, there could only be up to 65,535 allocation blocks on a disk. The block size was a function of the disk size in bytes divided by the maximum number of allocation blocks, 65,535. For small disks this was fine, but when disk sizes started to approach 1GB in size the minimum allocation block size was 16 KB (1073741824 / 65535) = 16384.25, but you need to truncate to 16384.
What this means is that a 1 byte file on a 1GB HFS disk required 16,384 bytes to store on the hard drive, so there was too much wasted space. So Apple created the HFS+ wrapper to reduce the wasted space.
There may be a way to set the block size higher, but why would you want to?
Here is a quick bash script that will list all of the diskinfo output for all of your currently connected disks.
#!/bin/bash
for disk in /dev/disk*s*
do
diskutil info $disk
echo "**************************************************************************************"
echo " "
done
A: In terminal, you can use diskutil to get information about the drive, including the device block size:
$ diskutil info / | grep "Block Size"
Device Block Size: 512 Bytes
A: First, note that Device Block Size is different from the block size in use by the filesystem. The former value as reported by diskutil refers to the raw block size used by the hardware. I haven't found an easy way to check the latter value by the command line, but you can just create a zero-byte file then do Get Info from the Finder. It will say 0 bytes, but 4k used on disk.
Second, you can create an HFS+ filesystem with larger than 4k block sizes using the command line program newfs_hfs. The easiest way is to use Disk Utility to partition the drive and create a partition with the default formatting, then use /bin/df to determine the block device (an example only: /dev/disk0s2). Then unmount that partition (using umount /dev/diskXXX or Disk Utility), and to reformat as HFS+ with 64k blocks do:
newfs_hfs -v VolumeName -b 65536 /dev/disk0s2
Use the Get Info tip above to verify that a small file now occupies 64k on disk (it may say 65k for powers-of-10 units).
Performance is the main reason you might want to do this, if most of the data to be stored are large files (such as MP3s, photo, video, .zip files, etc), and it also helps with keeping disk fragmentation low. Obviously don't bother if you plan on storing mostly small files.
I have found that on large drives (> 1 TB) formatted as HFS with the default 4k block size, when the drive nears capacity, write performance degrades terribly. I'm guessing that is due to the partition being fragmented and having to hunt and peck for free blocks in order to write out the last 1% of data. I'm hoping that larger block sizes will alleviate this problem somewhat.
A: Looks like the device block size is now 4096 bytes in the 2017 iMacs (iMac18,1), causing problems for people using ntfsprogs.
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c321fa76002b0198fb76a0067e43e2dcee37f69a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Chromium builds for Mac OS X What is the proper way to install Chromium (not chrome!) on Mac OS X?
Stable builds are a must, beta builds or nightlies are nice to have.
A: Currently recommended method (05-2017):
*
*Install HomeBrew
*brew tap domt4/chromium
*brew cask install mac-chromium
*brew tap buo/cask-upgrade
(click here for cask-upgrade info/source)
To upgrade Chromium, run:
*
*brew cu
or
*
*brew cu -y -a
This was the original posted answer:
*
*Install HomeBrew
*Install HomeBrew Casks: brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask <- this is now obsolete
*Install Chromium: brew cask install chromium
Or, an alternative
is this method which uses this script, and has a more up to date version as the one above (and also verifies the Chromium checksum), and provides updates:
*
*Install HomeBrew
*brew tap domt4/chromium
*brew install domt4/chromium/chromium
*brew linkapps chromium
updating is as simple as:
*
*brew update; brew upgrade
If you want to automatically upgrade daily in the background you can use this (note that this also upgrades your other HomeBrew packages if you have any):
*
*brew tap domt4/autoupdate
*brew autoupdate --start --upgrade
| Q: Chromium builds for Mac OS X What is the proper way to install Chromium (not chrome!) on Mac OS X?
Stable builds are a must, beta builds or nightlies are nice to have.
A: Currently recommended method (05-2017):
*
*Install HomeBrew
*brew tap domt4/chromium
*brew cask install mac-chromium
*brew tap buo/cask-upgrade
(click here for cask-upgrade info/source)
To upgrade Chromium, run:
*
*brew cu
or
*
*brew cu -y -a
This was the original posted answer:
*
*Install HomeBrew
*Install HomeBrew Casks: brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask <- this is now obsolete
*Install Chromium: brew cask install chromium
Or, an alternative
is this method which uses this script, and has a more up to date version as the one above (and also verifies the Chromium checksum), and provides updates:
*
*Install HomeBrew
*brew tap domt4/chromium
*brew install domt4/chromium/chromium
*brew linkapps chromium
updating is as simple as:
*
*brew update; brew upgrade
If you want to automatically upgrade daily in the background you can use this (note that this also upgrades your other HomeBrew packages if you have any):
*
*brew tap domt4/autoupdate
*brew autoupdate --start --upgrade
A: The proper way is kind of convoluted and unnecessarily difficult. However, in my recent struggles to find the answer myself, I want to let everyone here know what I did to arrive where I am at now.
*
*Go to https://omahaproxy.appspot.com/ to find what "branch_base_position" number you will need to find for retrieving the Chromium.application zip file.
*Find you "os" (mac) and "channel": stable, beta, dev, or canary.
*Once you have identified which oc and channel that you want to use/download, copy the "branch_base_position" number and head here: https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?prefix=Mac/
*At the time of this post: May 17, 2019 and 2:05pm EST, the latest stable version for mac was 74.0.3729.157 with a "branch_base_position" number of 638880, so the link to the latest stable built mac application is: https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?prefix=Mac/638880/
*Additionally, the latest dev build was 76.0.3788.1 with a "branch_base_position" number of 657589, so the link to the latest dev built mac application is: https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?prefix=Mac/657589/
*The latest revision of beta was 75.0.3770.38, but I could not find a built package for it so I will not provide it here.
*Once you have downloaded and unzipped the version you have chosen, simply drag the Chromium.app from wherever you unpacked it to, into the Applications folder.
Note
In steps 4 and 5, the file that you will need to download is chrome-mac.zip
Note 2
From what I can tell, the install requirements for mac are OS X Yosemite 10.10 or later taken from https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7100626?hl=en
Note 3
All this information was found from going to https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium in the section titled "Downloading old builds of Chrome / Chromium"
Edit 12/14/2021
This method is still valid, but I personally use the Woolyss builds.
A: You can install it with Homebrew. The cask is included by default.
brew install --cask chromium
In case you don't have Homebrew installed already, you can install it with this command.
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
A: The Chromium Project1 does not seem to provide compiled builds for the OS X or Windows platform. If you run Ubuntu, you can use the Software Center to install Chromium just like you would with the Mac App Store.
Therefore, under OS X you would have to download the source code and build the application yourself which requires the use of the free Development Software Xcode2.
You can follow the official Mac build instructions to help you get started:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/mac_build_instructions.md
Ewh! I don't want to go through all this trouble, follow the advice below. BUT, Before proceeding with these instructions, please note the the freesmug.org website has discontinued its builds for Chromium on MacOS and it recommends just using firefox or safari (both for privacy), instead. Freesmug.org builds of chromium are no longer under active development and you will not be able to get the latest versions. Proceed cautiously.
The Free OpenSource Mac User Group hosts a site that has the latest3 compiled build. According to their website:
*
*...the download is compiled following the official Mac Build Instructions (link above).
*...they integrated the Sparkle4 update framework to offer a simple update procedure since Chromium does not have the auto-update feature of Google Chrome.
Their download is a simple .dmg which you install via drag-and-drop, just like Chrome.
While they do provide a MD5 hash, the Chromium Project does not provide MD5 hashes of the compiled builds. So you have to trust this website's integrity when using their downloads.
Other than no auto-update integration, Chromium has some more differences from Google Chrome which you can read in the following Wikipedia article on Chromium (web browser).
A: Stable build from FreeSMUG (Free Software Mac User Group are here:
http://www.freesmug.org/chromium
A: Try
http://download-chromium.appspot.com
Nice and easy, just download.
A: Get on the bleeding edge of the web with Google Chrome's nightly builds called Chrome Canary. This should work for you. Good luck!
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67567ad4ad52435a3de1b021fe4dfed473d4ad4d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I deinstall Drive Genius? I had installed a trial version of Drive Genius. Now I want to delete it.
I go to Applications list, it is not there. I search its name in SpotLight, it is not there either. But it keeps attaching its self to the menu bar at the top.
How can I deinstall Drive Genius?
A: From the Drive Genius 3 User Guide:
To completely remove Drive Genius 3 and its utilities from your hard disk, click on Uninstall from the Drive Genius 3 menu. A prompt will appear to confirm you want to uninstall the application and will require administrator authentication to complete the process:
*
*Uninstall: Drive Genius 3 will remove only its support files from the operating system, but will leave the application and registration in its folders for future references.
*Uninstall All: Drive Genius 3 will remove all its files, including the support files, registration files and move the application to the trash can.
In case you've already deleted parts of the installation, you may need to re-download/install the Demo version first (direct download link).
| Q: How can I deinstall Drive Genius? I had installed a trial version of Drive Genius. Now I want to delete it.
I go to Applications list, it is not there. I search its name in SpotLight, it is not there either. But it keeps attaching its self to the menu bar at the top.
How can I deinstall Drive Genius?
A: From the Drive Genius 3 User Guide:
To completely remove Drive Genius 3 and its utilities from your hard disk, click on Uninstall from the Drive Genius 3 menu. A prompt will appear to confirm you want to uninstall the application and will require administrator authentication to complete the process:
*
*Uninstall: Drive Genius 3 will remove only its support files from the operating system, but will leave the application and registration in its folders for future references.
*Uninstall All: Drive Genius 3 will remove all its files, including the support files, registration files and move the application to the trash can.
In case you've already deleted parts of the installation, you may need to re-download/install the Demo version first (direct download link).
A: In order to properly uninstall the demo of Drive Genius 3, you will need to manually uninstall it.
To manually uninstall Drive Genius 3 delete the following files and folders at the end of the paths listed below. Double click on your "Mac HD" drive to start the path.
/Library/Application Support/DriveGenius (folder)
/Applications/Drive Genius 3.app (icon)
If you are running OS X Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks the last three files/folders are located in the user's Library folder which is hidden by the operating system. You can temporarily access this folder by opening a Finder window and pressing Command+Shift+G. This will bring up "Go to the folder", enter ~/Library and click go.
/Users/Library/Application Support/DriveGenius (folder) /Users/Library/Preferences/com.prosofteng.DriveGenius2.plist (file)
/Users/Library/Preferences/com.prosofteng.DGAgent.plist (file)
Now you will need to restart your computer.
You can contact Drive Genius support at (877)477-6763 [press 2 for support].
A: If you're only looking to disable DrivePulse, but not get rid of the Drive Genius app (it's really a great app overall) then launch Drive Genius, select Preferences from the Drive Genius menu and then click on the button "Disable DrivePulse."
Then you can simply launch Drive Genius for basic maintenance and repair whenever you need it (some of the extended features are not available without DrivePulse running - but most of the Apps within the program run just fine).
A: To uninstall DrivePulse, delete the following files, substituting "username" with your user name:
/Library/Application\ Support/DriveGenius/com.prosofteng.DGMonitor.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.prosofteng.DriveGenius.locum.plist
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.prosofteng.DriveGenius.locum
/Users/username/Library/LaunchAgents/com.prosofteng.DGMonitor.plist
/Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.prosofteng.DGAgent.plist
Then restart the mac.
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07754d1c4b0ca445bb2d71245532283a12860aa8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Looking for a GTD tool with synchronisation capability There are a lot of Getting Things Done (GTD) tools out there I can use to manage my tasks. Additionally, most of them include synchronisation capabilities I can use to synchronize my iPad, MacBook etc. There is only one problem: they all use the Amazon Cloud/a Cloud located not in Europe... But I'm only allowed to use a Cloud that is located in Europe (data privacy aspects etc... this is a constraint of my employer). Does anybody know a GTD tool that is hosted on an "European Cloud" or that can be installed on my private cloud?
A: OmniFocus is able to sync between instances (OS X and iOS)
*
*locally via Bonjour
*via a shared directory
*via any WebDAV server
| Q: Looking for a GTD tool with synchronisation capability There are a lot of Getting Things Done (GTD) tools out there I can use to manage my tasks. Additionally, most of them include synchronisation capabilities I can use to synchronize my iPad, MacBook etc. There is only one problem: they all use the Amazon Cloud/a Cloud located not in Europe... But I'm only allowed to use a Cloud that is located in Europe (data privacy aspects etc... this is a constraint of my employer). Does anybody know a GTD tool that is hosted on an "European Cloud" or that can be installed on my private cloud?
A: OmniFocus is able to sync between instances (OS X and iOS)
*
*locally via Bonjour
*via a shared directory
*via any WebDAV server
A: I use Things by Cultured Code. It has been fantastic. It syncs with all my iOS devices. I believe they are based Germany, so you may be in luck with your cloud requirements.
A: Appigo's ToDo and ToodleDo both have the GTD structure built into the core. the UX for ToDo is much better than ToodleDo. Price is competitive as well.
A: 6wunderkinder's Wunderlist is a great GTD tool with synchronization across all major platforms (web, ios, android, mac, pc). The team itself is based in Berlin, though I'm not sure if that meets your cloud requirement.
A: I would recommend checking out http://www.Gtdagenda.com for an online GTD manager.
You can use it to manage your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, and a calendar.
Syncs with Evernote, and also comes with mobile-web version, and Android and iPhone apps.
A: If you're using Lion or later, the Reminders app that comes with the OS is pretty good and it auto syncs with your iOS devices.
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3b61b865eeb62fc8cc5e59d5bc04dcaa9f07a8e7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to fix iCloud Outlook calendar pasting? I have a client that has Outlook 2007 on Windows 7. He's unable to right click and paste into the notes section of an appointment (the contextual menu doesn't even appear). I've seen other people having this issue on the Apple support forums and the Microsoft support forums, but no one has posted a resolution. Does anyone know how to fix this?
A: Drag the appointment into the My Calendars folder, then edit it and add notes, etc. Then drag it back to the icloud folder. Additions will be there.
| Q: How to fix iCloud Outlook calendar pasting? I have a client that has Outlook 2007 on Windows 7. He's unable to right click and paste into the notes section of an appointment (the contextual menu doesn't even appear). I've seen other people having this issue on the Apple support forums and the Microsoft support forums, but no one has posted a resolution. Does anyone know how to fix this?
A: Drag the appointment into the My Calendars folder, then edit it and add notes, etc. Then drag it back to the icloud folder. Additions will be there.
A: Apparently Apple made al meetings read-only to prevent iCloud from resending meeting invitations. Doing Control+V should paste, though.
There is, too, a Wibbly-Wobbly workaround for meetings:
*
*On the meeting, click Forward and Forward (from the displayed menu). Outlook will then tell you that you can't forward the item and will offer to make a copy in your default calendar.
*Choose Yes and A new message with the appointed attached notes.
*Close the forward message without sending.
*Click on the Move to iCloud. Doing this will create a duplicate but editable appointment in the iCloud folder.
*Delete the original appointment.
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e1b8cc66c940a347479d65c615507364180f12b4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Retina Macbook Pro BootCamp vs Parallells Performance I'm thinking of getting rid of my old gaming PC and just bootcamping / virtualizing on my Retina Macbook Pro.
I've tried using a VM (VMWare Fusion) and the performance there was pretty awful, has anyone tried both Virtualization (either VMWare or Parallels) and BootCamp?
How much better is BootCamp performance on the Retina Macbook Pro compared to VMWare or Parallels? Will it be able to handle most PC games?
Thanks.
A: BootCamp is usually between 3 and 4 times faster than either VMWare or Parallels. Bootcamp is the actual OS running on real hardware, where the other choices are running inside the constraints of the host OS and must share resources (memory, cpu, etc...) with the host OS. BootCamp has full control of all of the system's resources.
It should be able to handle PC Games, although I'm not sure what screen resolution will be reported or what graphics card will be used. If the screen resolution is reported as the actual number of screen pixels, some of the in game text may be difficult to read.
| Q: Retina Macbook Pro BootCamp vs Parallells Performance I'm thinking of getting rid of my old gaming PC and just bootcamping / virtualizing on my Retina Macbook Pro.
I've tried using a VM (VMWare Fusion) and the performance there was pretty awful, has anyone tried both Virtualization (either VMWare or Parallels) and BootCamp?
How much better is BootCamp performance on the Retina Macbook Pro compared to VMWare or Parallels? Will it be able to handle most PC games?
Thanks.
A: BootCamp is usually between 3 and 4 times faster than either VMWare or Parallels. Bootcamp is the actual OS running on real hardware, where the other choices are running inside the constraints of the host OS and must share resources (memory, cpu, etc...) with the host OS. BootCamp has full control of all of the system's resources.
It should be able to handle PC Games, although I'm not sure what screen resolution will be reported or what graphics card will be used. If the screen resolution is reported as the actual number of screen pixels, some of the in game text may be difficult to read.
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34a4b14a43f46506eb50be8e8d8cf0ef31829a64 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there any way to disable Mac OS X global search string propagation? Mac OS X has a feature where if you use any search box in any app, it automatically overwrites every other search box with the text you searched.
I find this rarely useful and it often interferes with any workflow where I expect an individual app to stay pre-filled with what I last searched in that app. Is there any way to disable it?
(I've also never seen anyone discuss this feature anywhere. When was it introduced? Does it have a name? Is it mentioned anywhere in the documentation on developer.apple.com?)
A: It's usually called the find pasteboard or find clipboard, and I think it has been around since before OS X.
I tried using strings to search in frameworks, but I didn't find any hidden preferences for making it application-specific.
| Q: Is there any way to disable Mac OS X global search string propagation? Mac OS X has a feature where if you use any search box in any app, it automatically overwrites every other search box with the text you searched.
I find this rarely useful and it often interferes with any workflow where I expect an individual app to stay pre-filled with what I last searched in that app. Is there any way to disable it?
(I've also never seen anyone discuss this feature anywhere. When was it introduced? Does it have a name? Is it mentioned anywhere in the documentation on developer.apple.com?)
A: It's usually called the find pasteboard or find clipboard, and I think it has been around since before OS X.
I tried using strings to search in frameworks, but I didn't find any hidden preferences for making it application-specific.
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ab907899a436497431ee5a217b1aaae971c61297 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Choosing hexadecimal web colours How can I choose hexadecimal web colours (like #000000 and #fffff) to use in system and third party apps? (e.g. an image editor like GraphicConverter)
A: Skala Color is another solution, that works very well in the latest versions of Mac OSX.
You can select HEX to appear in place of the RGB code, which appears in the above picture.
I used Hex Color Picker for a long time but finally got tired of it trying to be smarter than me. Frequently I would type a single character and it filled in all 6 values for that same number; other times I would get through 2 characters and Hex Color Picker would repeat that. For whatever reason, I had to constantly copy/paste values into the picker, because it kept thinking it knew what I wanted (it didn't).
| Q: Choosing hexadecimal web colours How can I choose hexadecimal web colours (like #000000 and #fffff) to use in system and third party apps? (e.g. an image editor like GraphicConverter)
A: Skala Color is another solution, that works very well in the latest versions of Mac OSX.
You can select HEX to appear in place of the RGB code, which appears in the above picture.
I used Hex Color Picker for a long time but finally got tired of it trying to be smarter than me. Frequently I would type a single character and it filled in all 6 values for that same number; other times I would get through 2 characters and Hex Color Picker would repeat that. For whatever reason, I had to constantly copy/paste values into the picker, because it kept thinking it knew what I wanted (it didn't).
A: In newer versions of the stock OS X Colors utility: Select sliders from the toolbar and then "RGB Sliders" in the drop down - this will allow you to both read and enter RGB values hex:
Not sure in which version of OS X this was introduced, but it's relatively newish.
A: Use Hex Color Picker:
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7e862c9855b2b02d03c2638046897a4863897021 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I lock iPhone 5 in landscape mode? How do I lock iPhone 5 in landscape mode? I see how to lock it in portrait mode, and I've tried locking it in landscape mode using the assistive touch feature, but that isn't working for me.
A: Apparently you can!
If you want to try this out for yourself, here is the navigation to get to the setting:
*
*Enabling AssistiveTouch:
*Settings App>General>Scroll Down to Accessibility>Scroll Down to AssistiveTouch '
*Toggle on AssistiveTouch.
Switching to Landscape:
*
*Lock the device in portrait mode
*Press Floating Square>Device>Rotate Screen>Left/Right
http://www.todaysiphone.com/2011/10/tips-tricks-lock-iphone-orientation-in-landscape/ ......................
| Q: How do I lock iPhone 5 in landscape mode? How do I lock iPhone 5 in landscape mode? I see how to lock it in portrait mode, and I've tried locking it in landscape mode using the assistive touch feature, but that isn't working for me.
A: Apparently you can!
If you want to try this out for yourself, here is the navigation to get to the setting:
*
*Enabling AssistiveTouch:
*Settings App>General>Scroll Down to Accessibility>Scroll Down to AssistiveTouch '
*Toggle on AssistiveTouch.
Switching to Landscape:
*
*Lock the device in portrait mode
*Press Floating Square>Device>Rotate Screen>Left/Right
http://www.todaysiphone.com/2011/10/tips-tricks-lock-iphone-orientation-in-landscape/ ......................
A: You cannot. The iPhone is not like the iPad, which truly and fully supports the two modes (even SpringBoard rotates). The iPhone doesn't technically have a true landscape mode. At best, most apps support the orientation but that's as far as it goes. Rotation Lock on the iPhone locks the device in portrait mode. You can test this yourself by going into Mail, turning the device sideways (landscape) and then engaging the orientation lock. You'll see that Mail will orient to portrait.
A: As the other people have said, it is impossible to truly lock your phone in landscape mode. I do not know exactly why you want to do that, but I'm going to guess it is so that the screen does not flip back to the standard orientation when you are trying to read or watch something while lying down your side.
If that is the case, there is another solution: Orient the phone so that it is perpendicular to the ground until it jumps into landscape mode, then simply turn the phone so that the home button is at the top and the camera is on the bottom. The screen should remain in landscape mode and you may browse in comfort.
If my guess was off, perhaps you could further explain why you'd like to lock the phone in a landscape position and perhaps there is an alternative means to your intended result.
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40ebcccda6ec3eeb2e9e34e13f8b25f25759c38a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Blackboard theme for iPad Keynote I'm creating a presentation with my MacBook Pro and Keynote.
I'm using the theme Blackboard which uses the font Chalkboard.
When I import the presentation on my iPad Mini via iCloud the default font becomes Chalkduster and the presentation is messed up.
I noticed that the font Chalkboard is present in the iPad, however it would take a lot to change all the text fonts manually.
Why does the iPad Keynote change the font? Is there a way to prevent it?
A: Actually my problem was that Blackboard on OSx uses Chalkboard while on iOS use Chalkboard SE.
So I had to change all the fonts form Chalkboard to Chalkboard SE.
| Q: Blackboard theme for iPad Keynote I'm creating a presentation with my MacBook Pro and Keynote.
I'm using the theme Blackboard which uses the font Chalkboard.
When I import the presentation on my iPad Mini via iCloud the default font becomes Chalkduster and the presentation is messed up.
I noticed that the font Chalkboard is present in the iPad, however it would take a lot to change all the text fonts manually.
Why does the iPad Keynote change the font? Is there a way to prevent it?
A: Actually my problem was that Blackboard on OSx uses Chalkboard while on iOS use Chalkboard SE.
So I had to change all the fonts form Chalkboard to Chalkboard SE.
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fc8c60938da3681892ccbd8ce378a83230736384 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Hide windows in current desktop (Lion) I'd like to make a keyboard shortcut that hides all windows on the current desktop, while ignoring windows on other desktops. Is this possible using Applescript?
A: Here is a suggestion (Works on OSX 10.8)
Using Automator :
*
*Create a new Service with automator
*Select Service receives selected no input in any application
*Add a Run AppleScript action
Copy this script :
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "System Events"
set processList to (every application process whose visible is true)
repeat with appProc in processList
set windowList to every window of appProc
repeat with aWindow in windowList
click (third button of aWindow)
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
end run
*
*Save your new service
*In System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services add a keyboard shortcut to your news ervice
Edit :
Other script :
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Finder"
set visible of every process whose visible is true and name is not "Finder" to false
close every window
end tell
end run
It hides all apps but it closes all finder windows.
| Q: Hide windows in current desktop (Lion) I'd like to make a keyboard shortcut that hides all windows on the current desktop, while ignoring windows on other desktops. Is this possible using Applescript?
A: Here is a suggestion (Works on OSX 10.8)
Using Automator :
*
*Create a new Service with automator
*Select Service receives selected no input in any application
*Add a Run AppleScript action
Copy this script :
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "System Events"
set processList to (every application process whose visible is true)
repeat with appProc in processList
set windowList to every window of appProc
repeat with aWindow in windowList
click (third button of aWindow)
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
end run
*
*Save your new service
*In System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services add a keyboard shortcut to your news ervice
Edit :
Other script :
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Finder"
set visible of every process whose visible is true and name is not "Finder" to false
close every window
end tell
end run
It hides all apps but it closes all finder windows.
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e44a2f3f8f9719d64f23c1242588732f0075ca66 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable expanding scroll bars in Mountain Lion How can I stop the scroll bars in Mountain Lion from expanding when I move my curser over them?
Sometimes when I try to click on the bottom item in a finder window the scroll bar expands, covering the item, and not allowing the item to be clicked. I have to move the curser away, wait a couple seconds for the scroll bars to hide, then click the item.
A: In "System Preferences > General" There are three options for "Showing scroll bars". From your description, it sounds like you have the default settings of "Automatically based on mouse or trackpad"
You may find "When Scrolling" or "Always" more to your liking. I'm an old school Mac user, so I have it set to always. That setting solves this problem and other scrolling problems.
If scroll bars were meant to be hidden, then Andy Hertzfeld would have written them that way in the first place.
| Q: Disable expanding scroll bars in Mountain Lion How can I stop the scroll bars in Mountain Lion from expanding when I move my curser over them?
Sometimes when I try to click on the bottom item in a finder window the scroll bar expands, covering the item, and not allowing the item to be clicked. I have to move the curser away, wait a couple seconds for the scroll bars to hide, then click the item.
A: In "System Preferences > General" There are three options for "Showing scroll bars". From your description, it sounds like you have the default settings of "Automatically based on mouse or trackpad"
You may find "When Scrolling" or "Always" more to your liking. I'm an old school Mac user, so I have it set to always. That setting solves this problem and other scrolling problems.
If scroll bars were meant to be hidden, then Andy Hertzfeld would have written them that way in the first place.
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0fecaca153894c430c81e3d4ad68d7ff40169692 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I turn a folder into a .jar file? I currently have modified a program that is a .jar file. I had unarchived it and turned the .jar file into a folder so that I could edit it. Now all I need to do is change the folder back into a .jar file so that it is not accessible like a folder. How would I do this?
A: Jar files are almost zip files in most cases, but I would use the jar cf command for best results.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/jar/build.html
You could just use OS X compression and then rename the zip file as .jar - but then you might not have a correct manifest file. It's hard to tell without the exact files in hand.
| Q: How do I turn a folder into a .jar file? I currently have modified a program that is a .jar file. I had unarchived it and turned the .jar file into a folder so that I could edit it. Now all I need to do is change the folder back into a .jar file so that it is not accessible like a folder. How would I do this?
A: Jar files are almost zip files in most cases, but I would use the jar cf command for best results.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/jar/build.html
You could just use OS X compression and then rename the zip file as .jar - but then you might not have a correct manifest file. It's hard to tell without the exact files in hand.
A: umm i tried several videos and they all said rename the file
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4712d45a95614c608494df194cd265bc9e9a64f0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to download contacts from iPhone to Mac? I was able to do a backup of the phone using iTunes, but how do I see and access the contacts?
Do I need to import them into Address Book?
Is there a better way to download contacts from iPhone to Mac?
A: The best solution *IS* iCloud sync.
Simple and without any fuss
But a simple syncing over USB or Wifi to iTunes should ask you if you want to merge your contacts when contacts syncing is enabled (iTunes>iPhone>Info>Sync Contacts)
| Q: How to download contacts from iPhone to Mac? I was able to do a backup of the phone using iTunes, but how do I see and access the contacts?
Do I need to import them into Address Book?
Is there a better way to download contacts from iPhone to Mac?
A: The best solution *IS* iCloud sync.
Simple and without any fuss
But a simple syncing over USB or Wifi to iTunes should ask you if you want to merge your contacts when contacts syncing is enabled (iTunes>iPhone>Info>Sync Contacts)
A: The best way is to use the Apple supplied sync options - either over USB/WiFi local sync to the Contacts app (Address Book on Lion and earlier) using iTunes or using iCloud.
From there, you can backup / export them as vCard or inject them into Exchange, LDAP or other services. This way the contacts are in a standard / text format as opposed to the internal storage form for iOS or OS X contacts app.
To get started in syncing Contacts between iTunes and an iOS device, get your USB cable and open iTunes. From there - type sync contacts into the help menu search field and iTunes help will walk you through the setup. With a few clicks, you should be at a window like this and can turn on the sync for that device.
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446910743a9dda1e8dade510e8d6a0a1e1c26cb3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I download all pictures on a page? Is there a way I can run a script with a certain web page as the argument that will download all the images from there?
A: wget -nd -r -l1 -p -np -A jpg,jpeg,png,svg,gif -e robots=off http://www.apple.com/itunes/
*
*-nd (no directories) downloads all files to the current directory
*-r -l1 (recursive level 1) downloads linked pages and resources on the first page
*-p (page requisites) also includes resources on linked pages
*-np (no parent) doesn't follow links to parent directories
*-A (accept) only downloads or keeps files with the specified extensions
*-e robots=off ignores robots.txt and doesn't download a robots.txt to the current directory
If the images are on a different host or subdomain, you have to add -H to span hosts:
wget -nd -H -p -A jpg,jpeg,png,gif -e robots=off http://example.tumblr.com/page/{1..2}
You can also use curl:
cd ~/Desktop/; IFS=$'\n'; for u in $(curl -Ls http://example.tumblr.com/page/{1..2} | sed -En 's/.*src="([^"]+\.(jpe?g|png))".*/\1/p' | sort -u); do curl -s "$u" -O; done
-L follows location headers (redirects). -O outputs files to the current directory with the same names.
| Q: Can I download all pictures on a page? Is there a way I can run a script with a certain web page as the argument that will download all the images from there?
A: wget -nd -r -l1 -p -np -A jpg,jpeg,png,svg,gif -e robots=off http://www.apple.com/itunes/
*
*-nd (no directories) downloads all files to the current directory
*-r -l1 (recursive level 1) downloads linked pages and resources on the first page
*-p (page requisites) also includes resources on linked pages
*-np (no parent) doesn't follow links to parent directories
*-A (accept) only downloads or keeps files with the specified extensions
*-e robots=off ignores robots.txt and doesn't download a robots.txt to the current directory
If the images are on a different host or subdomain, you have to add -H to span hosts:
wget -nd -H -p -A jpg,jpeg,png,gif -e robots=off http://example.tumblr.com/page/{1..2}
You can also use curl:
cd ~/Desktop/; IFS=$'\n'; for u in $(curl -Ls http://example.tumblr.com/page/{1..2} | sed -En 's/.*src="([^"]+\.(jpe?g|png))".*/\1/p' | sort -u); do curl -s "$u" -O; done
-L follows location headers (redirects). -O outputs files to the current directory with the same names.
A: You can use an Automator workflow to download images embedded in a web page, or images linked from a web page. A good starting point for a workflow is:
*
*Get Current Webpage from Safari
*Get Image URLs from Webpage
*Download URLs
You can change the workflow to use a list of web pages to fetch from.
Automator is included with Mac OS X in the Applications > Utilities folder.
A: Here is a hacky solution (but it works). Hope someone can find a better one.
*
*In Terminal, use wget --page-requisites http://example.com/. This will download the webpage at example.com and all of the resources linked from it (such as images, stylesheets, and scripts). More info on --page-requisites. Note: You can add many URLs separated by spaces to download lots of them at once. If many are from the same server, you should use something like wget --wait=2 to avoid slurping down files too fast.
*Open the folder you downloaded those files to and use Spotlight to separate the images from the other files. I'm going to assume you have Mountain Lion. Type "Image" into the search field and select Kinds > Image.
A: If you know the pattern in the url, you could use the *ix solution with Curl: Use curl to download images from website using wildcard?
A: Check out the Automator Space on MyAppleSpace
http://www.myapplespace.com/pages/view/14664/automator-script-library
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4ff4c84fb2380a6c85d9228eca7d5337ce7eb659 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What does "brew --HEAD" mean? I've seen it mentioned several times to fix issues with some packages, that it installs newer versions of packages somehow. But I've been unable to find a clear explanation of what that option really does, when to use it, why some packages have a --HEAD version to install and why its necessary.
A: I found some information in the Homebrew docs.
Quoting from under the "Advanced Formula Tricks" section:
Unstable versions (HEAD, devel)
Formulae can specify alternate downloads for the upstream project’s devel release (unstable but not trunk) or HEAD
(master/trunk).
HEAD URLs (activated by passing --HEAD) build the development cutting
edge.
Hopefully this helps with the what. I can't help with the why.
| Q: What does "brew --HEAD" mean? I've seen it mentioned several times to fix issues with some packages, that it installs newer versions of packages somehow. But I've been unable to find a clear explanation of what that option really does, when to use it, why some packages have a --HEAD version to install and why its necessary.
A: I found some information in the Homebrew docs.
Quoting from under the "Advanced Formula Tricks" section:
Unstable versions (HEAD, devel)
Formulae can specify alternate downloads for the upstream project’s devel release (unstable but not trunk) or HEAD
(master/trunk).
HEAD URLs (activated by passing --HEAD) build the development cutting
edge.
Hopefully this helps with the what. I can't help with the why.
A: In git using the --HEAD will grab all of the latest commits from the source repo. The problem with this is sometimes the latest revision will be in an inconsistant or unbuildable state, so use at your own risk.
When you sync from other tags that are published as "known stable" releases then the developer is saying that the files as they existed at that point will build and has passed all if its tests.
Running from head can be risky.
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7837bd0626c0e949ae25e590740d1eb7ae247e25 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to stop Gmail app checking emails in background? Is it possible to stop Gmail iOS app checking email without me asking for it?
I don't need the phone to check for emails while I'm in from of my computer.
A: As the GMail app is a third party app not built by Apple, it is not allowed to run in the background to check for mails. So closing the app stops it from checking for mails.
However, it probably will still get notifications about new mails pushed from Google's server. But this notification is not initiated from your phone.
You can switch off notifications for the gmail app in the iPhones settings.app under notifications.
| Q: How to stop Gmail app checking emails in background? Is it possible to stop Gmail iOS app checking email without me asking for it?
I don't need the phone to check for emails while I'm in from of my computer.
A: As the GMail app is a third party app not built by Apple, it is not allowed to run in the background to check for mails. So closing the app stops it from checking for mails.
However, it probably will still get notifications about new mails pushed from Google's server. But this notification is not initiated from your phone.
You can switch off notifications for the gmail app in the iPhones settings.app under notifications.
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40d0f7fdc332ae18350479305c4025d1542fb558 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does anybody know an email client for iOS that is password protected? I am looking for an email client, that when opened, asks for a password before showing email messages. Is there such an app available for iOS?
A: I haven't seen an app like that, but if you have a Gmail account you can use 1Password (App Store Link) to access the web interface. The 1Password app is locked by default. This would work with any email account with a webmail interface.
| Q: Does anybody know an email client for iOS that is password protected? I am looking for an email client, that when opened, asks for a password before showing email messages. Is there such an app available for iOS?
A: I haven't seen an app like that, but if you have a Gmail account you can use 1Password (App Store Link) to access the web interface. The 1Password app is locked by default. This would work with any email account with a webmail interface.
A: Spark client for iOS has ability to set passcode or use FaceID/TouchID.
Check Hamburger Menu->Settings->Security
Link to App Store
A: What kind of server are you accessing? If you use Exchange, check out Mail+ for Outlook. They have an easy to set passcode option which prompts you for a pin each time the app is launched. If you do not successfully provide the passcode within 5 attempts, your credentials and all emails are erased.
If you are using ActiveSync (or have ActiveSync for Gmail), check out their other version. It uses similar technology.
A: Boxer does this. There is a free and a paid version.
Unfortunatley it is, in my experience, buggy, and it doesn't support text expander touch. I'm still on the lookout for the perfect mail app.
A: If you are using Exchange ActiveSync - check out NitroDesk Touchdown for iOS. I've a feeling that has a passcode screen on launch/switch.
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f3bd374bd351c3f1212bcffa35f3de2903bf6b37 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to increase the Apple Dictation timeout? When using dictation on OS X 10.8, if I speak for too long (approx 20 seconds+), the dictation times out and switches off. Worse, it loses (i.e. doesn't "type") all the things I've said so far. This is obviously irritating - I have to judge when to stop speaking, hit "Fn", let dictation type the text, and start again.
Is there a way to increase or turn off this timeout?
A: The official answer (which clearly isn't the one you want based on how the question is phrased) is no for OS X 10.8 and earlier. For the initial implementation, dictation on OS X was limited to 30 seconds of audio per transcription event.
*
*Mac Basics: Dictation - HT5449
Hopefully this helps others that are looking for an official answer or explanation. On OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), offline dictation and longer dictation are allowed and you can enable it by answering yes when asked if you want enhanced dictation. You can also control it by going to the Dictation tab of the Speech & Dictation system preference pane:
| Q: How to increase the Apple Dictation timeout? When using dictation on OS X 10.8, if I speak for too long (approx 20 seconds+), the dictation times out and switches off. Worse, it loses (i.e. doesn't "type") all the things I've said so far. This is obviously irritating - I have to judge when to stop speaking, hit "Fn", let dictation type the text, and start again.
Is there a way to increase or turn off this timeout?
A: The official answer (which clearly isn't the one you want based on how the question is phrased) is no for OS X 10.8 and earlier. For the initial implementation, dictation on OS X was limited to 30 seconds of audio per transcription event.
*
*Mac Basics: Dictation - HT5449
Hopefully this helps others that are looking for an official answer or explanation. On OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), offline dictation and longer dictation are allowed and you can enable it by answering yes when asked if you want enhanced dictation. You can also control it by going to the Dictation tab of the Speech & Dictation system preference pane:
A: You need to enable enhanced dictation in the dictation area of settings. Your mac will then download a fairly hefty (750MB ish) file. This will allow you to dictate off line, and to keep talking to your mac indefinately. You will need additional downloads for thinks like Australian English. It works OK, but it messes up quite a few words on my Aussie/kiwi/English mongrel accent!
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7dd475053f087479769fcfebb1c05a1905340f90 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What is the keyboard shortcut to insert a comment during track changes in Word? When I am editing a Word document using track changes it would be nice not to have to got to the mouse to insert a comment at the cursor (since this is most of what my editing consists of).
What is the keyboard shortcut to insert a comment at the cursor in MS Word on a Mac when using track changes?
I am running Word 14.2.5 and OS X 10.5.8
A: Insert a comment
⌘+OPTION+A
Turn track changes on or off
⌘+SHIFT+E
From here
| Q: What is the keyboard shortcut to insert a comment during track changes in Word? When I am editing a Word document using track changes it would be nice not to have to got to the mouse to insert a comment at the cursor (since this is most of what my editing consists of).
What is the keyboard shortcut to insert a comment at the cursor in MS Word on a Mac when using track changes?
I am running Word 14.2.5 and OS X 10.5.8
A: Insert a comment
⌘+OPTION+A
Turn track changes on or off
⌘+SHIFT+E
From here
A: They actually do post it: They won't let me post without 30 characters, otherwise this would just be the link:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/mac-word-help/word-keyboard-shortcuts-HA102929541.aspx
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cd6a2e9604c65b906ea699bb961d7da33f66282a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I un-claim a Time Machine backup? I recently wiped my Time Capsule and started a new set of backups. After a couple of weeks, Time Machine reported that “to improve reliability”, it needed to start over—again. My understanding is that this is caused by a filesystem error so bad it can't be identified, let alone fixed, so one would have to start anew.
This is all very well, but there doesn't seem to be an option to start backing up again without erasing the existing backup image. I'd like to keep it around for a while.
Is there any way to un-claim a Time Machine backup?
A: I had this a long time ago, so I am not 100% sure that I remember the solution correctly, but I think it was rather simple:
Rename the existing backup image or tuck it away in a folder.
| Q: How do I un-claim a Time Machine backup? I recently wiped my Time Capsule and started a new set of backups. After a couple of weeks, Time Machine reported that “to improve reliability”, it needed to start over—again. My understanding is that this is caused by a filesystem error so bad it can't be identified, let alone fixed, so one would have to start anew.
This is all very well, but there doesn't seem to be an option to start backing up again without erasing the existing backup image. I'd like to keep it around for a while.
Is there any way to un-claim a Time Machine backup?
A: I had this a long time ago, so I am not 100% sure that I remember the solution correctly, but I think it was rather simple:
Rename the existing backup image or tuck it away in a folder.
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44e43ef13e19f10221704ae98e4601aea1f2d519 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: "Re"-download 10.8 After Purchase of a New Mac I recently purchased a new Macbook Air which obviously came with Mountain Lion. I am wondering if there is a way to download the installer for free onto another computer I have to create a re-install disk from, without having to pay the $20 to download from the Mac App Store.
A: You can download Apple's official OSX Recovery Disk assistant to create a flash drive with the capability to re-install OSX on an eligible Apple computer. A flash drive (it must be larger then 1GB) also enables you to easily re-install OSX on products such as the MacBook Air which don't have optical drives.
There is also a support document about the Recovery Disk Assistant.
| Q: "Re"-download 10.8 After Purchase of a New Mac I recently purchased a new Macbook Air which obviously came with Mountain Lion. I am wondering if there is a way to download the installer for free onto another computer I have to create a re-install disk from, without having to pay the $20 to download from the Mac App Store.
A: You can download Apple's official OSX Recovery Disk assistant to create a flash drive with the capability to re-install OSX on an eligible Apple computer. A flash drive (it must be larger then 1GB) also enables you to easily re-install OSX on products such as the MacBook Air which don't have optical drives.
There is also a support document about the Recovery Disk Assistant.
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f568a9ae11cf34fad16f7cc0893aec11709d42bb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Cmd + Tab showing different windows from a single app? Is there a way for Cmd+Tab to display all of the instances/windows of an app?
An excellent example is here:
Notice how it shows the available instances of that application? That's what I'm looking for.
A: If you don't care about seeing the window thumbnails, ⌘ - ` (the key above the Tab key) switches between open instances of an app.
| Q: Cmd + Tab showing different windows from a single app? Is there a way for Cmd+Tab to display all of the instances/windows of an app?
An excellent example is here:
Notice how it shows the available instances of that application? That's what I'm looking for.
A: If you don't care about seeing the window thumbnails, ⌘ - ` (the key above the Tab key) switches between open instances of an app.
A: Witch does exactly that, with a ton of configuration options. It can also use the default Cmd - Tab shortcut.
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9725a6fab0caea9544776f85069806f0c416eb73 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Get iPad serial number on iCloud My girlfriend and I have traveled to Singapore and her iPad has gotten stolen.
We can't seem to find her iPad serial number anywhere (she never plugged it into her computers as it was backed up through iCloud and it charged faster through the socket), and she's binned the box it came in from.
Apple's support website doesn't show it under her Apple ID either. We've also tried going through other possible emails, but there's only the one.
It does, however, show under Find my iPhone on the iCloud website. Is there a way to retrieve the serial number through here?
We need it so that the police here can match it to a database of lost and found devices.
A: I've found how you do it.
With Xcode installed, open your terminal and run:
open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iPod.plist
This will open the property list editor.
Navigate down to Root -> Devices and look under each device to recognise the one you're looking for. There are 2 identifying factors: DeviceClass (which can be iPod, iPhone or iPad) and Firmware Version String. Through those two I was able to get the serial number I needed.
| Q: Get iPad serial number on iCloud My girlfriend and I have traveled to Singapore and her iPad has gotten stolen.
We can't seem to find her iPad serial number anywhere (she never plugged it into her computers as it was backed up through iCloud and it charged faster through the socket), and she's binned the box it came in from.
Apple's support website doesn't show it under her Apple ID either. We've also tried going through other possible emails, but there's only the one.
It does, however, show under Find my iPhone on the iCloud website. Is there a way to retrieve the serial number through here?
We need it so that the police here can match it to a database of lost and found devices.
A: I've found how you do it.
With Xcode installed, open your terminal and run:
open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iPod.plist
This will open the property list editor.
Navigate down to Root -> Devices and look under each device to recognise the one you're looking for. There are 2 identifying factors: DeviceClass (which can be iPod, iPhone or iPad) and Firmware Version String. Through those two I was able to get the serial number I needed.
A: This will NOT work if you never registered and created an Apple ID!
*
*Login to icloud.com.
*At the top right you will see your little avatar (it's a circle and your name/Username will be next to it; click the name.
*At the bottom of the next page there will be listed all devices you have on that account.
*Select the appropriate one and the Serial number will come up and look like this, but with bullets: SERIAL *******KRTR4 (7 unseen characters) and the IMEI number will be below it with 10 unseen characters and 5 numbers, like this: IMEI **********68453.
Once you have completed this process above:
*
*Click manage at the top of this screen
*Reenter your account information
*Scroll down to device's then click view details
*Answer security questions
*Now your full serial number will be listed there.
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f1a865299cd54a02c3746caf4eb80adce25f9d7b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Editing war file with Midnight Commander I'm trying to edit the contents of a war file on midnight commander (Mac OSX). With a normal zip file, this works fine. However, when I try to open a war file, I get an error message:
gzip: stdin has more than one entry--rest ignored
Cannot open tar archive
filepath/ugz://
This is probably some kind of configuration issue with mc. Any ideas how to resolve this?
A: Midnight commander tries to open war files as tgz files. Is should open them as zip files instead.
To fix this open "Edit extension file" in "Command" menue (F9, C, e). Search for ".war" and delete it from the listings. The modified listing should look like:
# .tgz, .tpz, .tar.gz, .tar.z, .tar.Z, .ipk, .gem
regex/\.t([gp]?z|ar\.g?[zZ])$|\.ipk$|\.gem$
<------>Open=%cd %p/utar://
<------>View=%view{ascii} /usr/local/Cellar/midnight-commander/4.8.7/libexec/mc/ext.d/archive.sh view tar.gz
Then add the following snippet somewhere in the file:
# .war
regex/\.war$
<------>Open=%cd %p/uzip://
<------>View=%view{ascii} /usr/local/Cellar/midnight-commander/4.8.7/libexec/mc/ext.d/archive.sh view zip
| Q: Editing war file with Midnight Commander I'm trying to edit the contents of a war file on midnight commander (Mac OSX). With a normal zip file, this works fine. However, when I try to open a war file, I get an error message:
gzip: stdin has more than one entry--rest ignored
Cannot open tar archive
filepath/ugz://
This is probably some kind of configuration issue with mc. Any ideas how to resolve this?
A: Midnight commander tries to open war files as tgz files. Is should open them as zip files instead.
To fix this open "Edit extension file" in "Command" menue (F9, C, e). Search for ".war" and delete it from the listings. The modified listing should look like:
# .tgz, .tpz, .tar.gz, .tar.z, .tar.Z, .ipk, .gem
regex/\.t([gp]?z|ar\.g?[zZ])$|\.ipk$|\.gem$
<------>Open=%cd %p/utar://
<------>View=%view{ascii} /usr/local/Cellar/midnight-commander/4.8.7/libexec/mc/ext.d/archive.sh view tar.gz
Then add the following snippet somewhere in the file:
# .war
regex/\.war$
<------>Open=%cd %p/uzip://
<------>View=%view{ascii} /usr/local/Cellar/midnight-commander/4.8.7/libexec/mc/ext.d/archive.sh view zip
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a74534ccc031da00dc526771803f744a7038a1c4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to reset $PATH? I was trying to add something to $PATH and it went totally wrong. I now can't run any commands such as ls. I've looked at this answer and used the following lines:
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin
PATH=$PATH:~/bin
These lines fix the problem temorarily; however, when I restart terminal it seems to forget these changes.
How do I permanently reset my $PATH?
I'm running the most recent version of Mountain Lion.
A: Remove the your bash profile to restore the default $PATH. Enter the following command into Terminal.app:
/bin/rm ~/.bash_profile
The change will take place with the next shell or terminal session.
| Q: How to reset $PATH? I was trying to add something to $PATH and it went totally wrong. I now can't run any commands such as ls. I've looked at this answer and used the following lines:
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin
PATH=$PATH:~/bin
These lines fix the problem temorarily; however, when I restart terminal it seems to forget these changes.
How do I permanently reset my $PATH?
I'm running the most recent version of Mountain Lion.
A: Remove the your bash profile to restore the default $PATH. Enter the following command into Terminal.app:
/bin/rm ~/.bash_profile
The change will take place with the next shell or terminal session.
A: OSX's default $PATH is generated from the contents of the /etc/paths file, it's fairly straight-forward to modify.
A: The suggested answer of removing .bash_profile is not a good idea in general. There are other things that can be set in that file besides PATH definitions.
If you want to undo the effects of your experimentation, just remove or comment out that PATH line with a #.
You don't want to edit the PATH from scratch, but append to it, as you did with your second line. The preferred method of adding something to your path would be:
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
EDIT
Since your PATH is messed up, you don't have access to the usual commands to make these changes. As a temporary fix, you can define a new minimal path in a Terminal window (not in your .bash_profile) by typing:
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
This will temporarily give you access to nano ls mv vi cat and rm -- the basic tools to check and edit your .bash_profile and fix your problem...
Repeat, do not put this PATH definition anywhere except for the duration of the session while you make your fixes.
A: I recommend:
source /etc/profile
This is what Mac uses to set the initial path, and it will put everything back in place excepting the items that you are adding for your user.
I do a decent amount of path modification in my ~/.bash_profile, and I've placed this at the top of the file because I was having issues with reloading my profile while I'm working after I tweak an alias in there or something, and it was adding duplicate references to my path. Instead of checking to see if it's already added, I just reset my path to the scratch version and re-append the items I want.
UPDATE: When switching to zsh, I changed my .bash_profile to .zshrc and then changed my reload profile alias to source the /etc/zprofile, which resets the path to scratch as described earlier for bash. Here's the alias I have defined so that I can quickly reload my profile:
alias reloadprofile='source /etc/zprofile && source ~/.zshrc'
I believe you can accomplish the same thing by calling exec zsh, which replaces the current instance with a new one and reloads the .zshrc file, but I haven't experimented enough with it to be completely sure.
A: These methods are great! If you have this problem with zsh, remove ~/.zshrc This will get rid of your zsh settings though.
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0fd66d1314121e77c767119762cb43572fe1f99d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to set two-sided printing as default in Mountain Lion Preview? Every time I print from Preview app I need to manually click on "Two-sided" checkbox. This is annoying when I have a bunch of documents to print. Is there any way to set "two-sided" as default?
A: In the print dialog you should save a new preset. Below you can find the steps to do so.
*
*Open the Print dialog. It will look something like this:
*Check the Two-Sided box.
*Go to the Presets drop down list and click Save As...
*Type a name for the preset in the dialog and choose if you want this preset available for all your installed printers or just this one.
*Now choose that preset in the dropdown list. The next time you will print something the preset will be automatically active, so it will print two-sided as default.
| Q: How to set two-sided printing as default in Mountain Lion Preview? Every time I print from Preview app I need to manually click on "Two-sided" checkbox. This is annoying when I have a bunch of documents to print. Is there any way to set "two-sided" as default?
A: In the print dialog you should save a new preset. Below you can find the steps to do so.
*
*Open the Print dialog. It will look something like this:
*Check the Two-Sided box.
*Go to the Presets drop down list and click Save As...
*Type a name for the preset in the dialog and choose if you want this preset available for all your installed printers or just this one.
*Now choose that preset in the dropdown list. The next time you will print something the preset will be automatically active, so it will print two-sided as default.
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"length": 148,
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"question_score": "3",
"source": "stackexchange",
"timestamp": "2023-03-29T00:00:00",
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} |
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