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76f0be0a9efeff676c40dc5f9b8bf6db3838cd9e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPhone app to download/upload files How can I upload/download files from/on to a jailbroken iPhone 3G?
Are there any apps that allow me to do this?
A: http://www.dropbox.com/iphoneapp
2 Gb free account. No jailbreak needed.
Uploaded files can be private or be made public (accessible via http link).
| Q: iPhone app to download/upload files How can I upload/download files from/on to a jailbroken iPhone 3G?
Are there any apps that allow me to do this?
A: http://www.dropbox.com/iphoneapp
2 Gb free account. No jailbreak needed.
Uploaded files can be private or be made public (accessible via http link).
A: Diskaid will let you manage the contents of the filesystem from your Computer.
iPhoneBrowser will as well, but the interface is much cruder. It is free, though (DiskAid is $10).
i-FunBox is another free option (though not open source). I have no experience with it.
On the iPhone, you can get SafariDownloadManager to download files. It's $5, unfortunately.
Once you've downloaded the files, it's likely you will need to move them to whatever application you want to consume them with, so a local filemanager is probably needed.
iFile is a really nice file manager, and is good for moving data files between apps (books, etc...). It's a few dollars, though.
I believe there are a few free filemanagers on cydia. I'm not familiar with them, though.
A: Install OpenSSH on Cydia (remember to change from the default password somehow - can also be done through ssh of course) and use your favorite SSH client. Here's a little how to suggesting WinSCP. On Mac you can use ssh with Terminal.app or even AFP directly with Finder.app with Cydia's netatalk.
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5282b15b08fe7862fcfa8193a919cf7bc885929b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: One message that cannot be deleted on iPhone 4 I have a single message in Mail on my iPhone 4 that just cannot be deleted. I get a popup saying Unable to move message - The message could not be moved to the trash folder.
I'm using the latest version of iOS. The account is an Exchange Active Sync account and deleting other messages is not a problem. I also use the same Exchange account from Outlook on my desktop and the message in question does not exist in Outlook. It only shows in Mail on iPhone.
I also have an another IMAP account on my iPhone and deleting isn't a problem on that account.
How can I remove this rogue message?
A: You could try removing the Exchange account completely and setting it up again. Maybe this also deletes the message.
| Q: One message that cannot be deleted on iPhone 4 I have a single message in Mail on my iPhone 4 that just cannot be deleted. I get a popup saying Unable to move message - The message could not be moved to the trash folder.
I'm using the latest version of iOS. The account is an Exchange Active Sync account and deleting other messages is not a problem. I also use the same Exchange account from Outlook on my desktop and the message in question does not exist in Outlook. It only shows in Mail on iPhone.
I also have an another IMAP account on my iPhone and deleting isn't a problem on that account.
How can I remove this rogue message?
A: You could try removing the Exchange account completely and setting it up again. Maybe this also deletes the message.
A: It sounds like Mail got a bit out of sync and it can't move the message because it doesn't exist. Here are a few things you can do to get it to resync.
*
*'Quit' the Mail app - from the home screen, double 'click' the home button to show the list of recent apps. Press and hold the Mail app icon until it shakes and displays a red icon. Tap the red icon.
*Restart your phone - always a good thing to try with software and caching problems.
*Re-configure your mail account - this is a bit of a pain, but you should won't lose any messages because they are all on the server.
A: I found that after a month the undeletable email would disappear from the mail app. This I can live with because I don't like the other option of setting up the Exchange account all over again.
A: I had the same problem occur recently with iPhone 5. After several days of trying everything under the sun I deleted the account and set it up from scratch. Not really a solution cause I'll be upset if I have to do this frequently.
A: I found a quick way that worked.
*
*Go to the mail setting
*Unselect mail (checkbox) leave the others as they were.
This takes a minute or so and the corrupt e-mail go. Then reselect mail and the correct ones appear.
A: Try this link. there are several options to try.
http://appletoolbox.com/2014/03/ios-unable-to-move-message-fix/
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be4fab798c1e84a3cd035bf2916100a9fce9178e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I download a song twice without paying a second time in iTunes? If I've previously bought a song in iTunes, can I download it again on another computer without paying for it a second time? Both computers are authorized to the same account.
A: If you log in to the iTunes Store with the same Apple ID, you can. Go to the Purchased section (located in the sidebar on the main page) and re-download any songs you wish.
| Q: Can I download a song twice without paying a second time in iTunes? If I've previously bought a song in iTunes, can I download it again on another computer without paying for it a second time? Both computers are authorized to the same account.
A: If you log in to the iTunes Store with the same Apple ID, you can. Go to the Purchased section (located in the sidebar on the main page) and re-download any songs you wish.
A: No, that is not possible. That is described on that apple support page.
A: You will be able to copy it yourself, with a USB stick etc, or if you are running the latest version of iTunes and both machines are on the same network you will be able to use Home Sharing to identify which tracks are in one library but not the other, then copy them across. You can even set Home Sharing to automatically sync new iTunes purchases.
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7f0192ad02e929e89f0c3755a6bbbe9e276da07e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I delete an app purchased through the Mac App Store? I notice that apps downloaded through the Mac App Store are placed in the /Applications folder on my Mac. Is there any special procedure to delete them, or can I just drag them to the trash like I can with other apps?
A: There's no delete mechanism in the App Store. You can use a normal app-removal procedure to get rid of it. Apps leave config information and what not lying around that's outside of the .app container, so just dragging the .app container to the trash doesn't uninstall it completely. An uninstaller app like TrashMe will find and remove most of the little bits apps strew about your profile.
| Q: How do I delete an app purchased through the Mac App Store? I notice that apps downloaded through the Mac App Store are placed in the /Applications folder on my Mac. Is there any special procedure to delete them, or can I just drag them to the trash like I can with other apps?
A: There's no delete mechanism in the App Store. You can use a normal app-removal procedure to get rid of it. Apps leave config information and what not lying around that's outside of the .app container, so just dragging the .app container to the trash doesn't uninstall it completely. An uninstaller app like TrashMe will find and remove most of the little bits apps strew about your profile.
A: If you have Lion, then you can also hold down the option key in Launchpad; the icons will start to wiggle and show little x's on all the App Store installed apps very much like iOS does. Click the x and confirm the deletion and it will be the equivalent of dragging it to the trash from Finder; which means supporting preference files, etc. still remain, but for most users that should be of no concern.
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4e6d0586e0c26ba4af7b6f0cb819f73142941247 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: If I delete a paid app purchased through the Mac App Store, can I redownload without paying? If I delete an app purchased through the Mac App Store, can I download it again without paying for it again like I can with iOS? In the event of an app restore, does the app retain settings, saved progress, etc from the previous installation?
A: Yes. Just go to the "Purchases" tab and click "Install" by the app you wish to reinstall:
Well-behaved apps should retain settings, etc upon reinstall, as merely deleting the app from /Applications is not sufficient to remove that information from your system. This may not be the case if an app cleaner is used.
| Q: If I delete a paid app purchased through the Mac App Store, can I redownload without paying? If I delete an app purchased through the Mac App Store, can I download it again without paying for it again like I can with iOS? In the event of an app restore, does the app retain settings, saved progress, etc from the previous installation?
A: Yes. Just go to the "Purchases" tab and click "Install" by the app you wish to reinstall:
Well-behaved apps should retain settings, etc upon reinstall, as merely deleting the app from /Applications is not sufficient to remove that information from your system. This may not be the case if an app cleaner is used.
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a9ab535e6bfa07ba7bb2ddbe1cfab55f6369fb50 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Change background based on location/wifi? Does anyone know if an application that can change the background of the desktop to a different set of images based on your location?
I am thinking about writing an AppleScript to do this, but if someone knows an application / script that already does this that would be great?
I want it to check every time I login to the computer and it would be great if it could do the 1 hour rotation that I currently have, but otherwise a random image from a folder each time I login would be fine too.
A: Anything involving location-aware contexts can be done with Marco Polo.
| Q: Change background based on location/wifi? Does anyone know if an application that can change the background of the desktop to a different set of images based on your location?
I am thinking about writing an AppleScript to do this, but if someone knows an application / script that already does this that would be great?
I want it to check every time I login to the computer and it would be great if it could do the 1 hour rotation that I currently have, but otherwise a random image from a folder each time I login would be fine too.
A: Anything involving location-aware contexts can be done with Marco Polo.
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3bf1d3d599bdf5d5e6eccf83d5f073e5693ef549 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad on Windows-7 I am using Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad on Windows 7 and its numeric pad is not working on windows 7, it was working OK on windows XP, what I can do to make it work on it too?
A: Hah! I actually use a mac keyboard as the normal keyboard on my windows boxes. I like the laptop-feel and the aluminium.
This is easy to fix.
Push "Clear".
The "Clear" key on the numberpad gets mapped to the "NumLock" key on windows.
If you want to fix the swapping of the alt and "Command" keys, KeyTweak works well.
It can also let you set the additional F-keys (e.g. F13-F19, which are not real F-keys) to be whatever you want. I have them mapped as media keys (next-track, pause, etc...)
| Q: Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad on Windows-7 I am using Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad on Windows 7 and its numeric pad is not working on windows 7, it was working OK on windows XP, what I can do to make it work on it too?
A: Hah! I actually use a mac keyboard as the normal keyboard on my windows boxes. I like the laptop-feel and the aluminium.
This is easy to fix.
Push "Clear".
The "Clear" key on the numberpad gets mapped to the "NumLock" key on windows.
If you want to fix the swapping of the alt and "Command" keys, KeyTweak works well.
It can also let you set the additional F-keys (e.g. F13-F19, which are not real F-keys) to be whatever you want. I have them mapped as media keys (next-track, pause, etc...)
A: Press and hold "clear" key for three seconds. It will work as NUMLOCK in windows. You can shift to numerics and the "<-- -->" kind of finctions.
Hope it will help.
A: Took me a while to figure out the "Clear" key (which acts as NumLock on long-press, in Windows) is the square with the "x" inside, on the upper left corner of the numpad, on my Apple keyboard.
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dd7245b1955d32d71f60f9439e1a7a42e051cdfe | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Do I need to have system administrator permissions to install from the Mac App Store? Where does the Mac App Store install its applications to? Is this a system-wide location, or somewhere inside my Home directory? Is it possible to use the App Store on machines where I am not a System Administrator (just like I can currently install almost all applications I manually download by putting them in ~/Applications instead of /Applications)?
A: Yes.
Apps are installed to the usual /Applications folder. Non-admin users can browse the store, but they will need an admin username/password to install apps. Source: Help menu of App Store/Purchase Applications/Buy, download, and install applications/To buy, download, and install an application:/Step 4.
| Q: Do I need to have system administrator permissions to install from the Mac App Store? Where does the Mac App Store install its applications to? Is this a system-wide location, or somewhere inside my Home directory? Is it possible to use the App Store on machines where I am not a System Administrator (just like I can currently install almost all applications I manually download by putting them in ~/Applications instead of /Applications)?
A: Yes.
Apps are installed to the usual /Applications folder. Non-admin users can browse the store, but they will need an admin username/password to install apps. Source: Help menu of App Store/Purchase Applications/Buy, download, and install applications/To buy, download, and install an application:/Step 4.
A: Non-administrators can be added to the _appstore group:
http://darenhunter.com/how-to-allow-non-admin-mac-user-to-use-app-store/
A: On OS X Lion and above, you no longer need an administrator's username and password to install applications from the Mac App Store. However, you cannot delete them without an administrator's username and password.
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ed04e7ddd23ed3486fcc5a2c9ceae7b360d59c55 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I browse the Mac App Store without Snow Leopard? I understand that Snow Leopard is required to install the Mac App Store and actually install apps. But is it possible to browse the store on the web the way you can with the iTunes Store?
A: It is not possible to browse the App Store. But if you have a link, such as this one, then you can view the app description in your browser.
| Q: Can I browse the Mac App Store without Snow Leopard? I understand that Snow Leopard is required to install the Mac App Store and actually install apps. But is it possible to browse the store on the web the way you can with the iTunes Store?
A: It is not possible to browse the App Store. But if you have a link, such as this one, then you can view the app description in your browser.
A: The need of 10.6 is clearly stated on Apple website here. Click then on Get the Mac App Store. See How button.
You then see "The Mac App Store is available as a free software update for Mac computers running Mac OS X v10.6 or later. If you have an earlier version of Mac OS X, you will need to upgrade to Mac OS X Snow Leopard."
A: It's possible to browse the Mac App Store in your browser. Here is the link to do so:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/mac/id39?mt=12
A: You can effectively search the App Store by using the Google site keyword:
Examples:
*
*https://www.google.com/search?q=site:itunes.apple.com+ssh
*https://www.google.com/search?q=site:itunes.apple.com+ebooks
*https://www.google.com/search?q=site:itunes.apple.com+sync
If you use Fetch search and enter the command "app query", Fetch will return results from the App Store.
A: It is possible to browse the Mac App Store, although not directly.
A number of sites scrape Mac App Store data and provide a way to search and go through app descriptions via a web browser. Some examples are:
*
*AppShopper
*App Annie – free registration required.
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fd276a0e0c116a5181f6ba9638fbd7baac41d0a2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I use the iPhone 4's camera via my Mac? I'd like to record some video on my MacBook Pro, which I could do using the built-in iSight except I'd like to record in HD. Rather than go out and buy a new HD video camera, is there any way of getting the Mac to recognise the iPhone 4's HD camera as an input?
Yes I know that I could just use the iPhone on its own and then transfer the video over, but I'd like to be able to see what I'm recording (without using mirrors). Have done a bit of Googling and can't see anything, so just thought I'd ask!
A: I've tried this, but unfortunately it doesn't work with iChat and PhotoBooth but works perfectly with Skype and other communications tools :
iWebcamera iPhone App ($4.99)
| Q: Can I use the iPhone 4's camera via my Mac? I'd like to record some video on my MacBook Pro, which I could do using the built-in iSight except I'd like to record in HD. Rather than go out and buy a new HD video camera, is there any way of getting the Mac to recognise the iPhone 4's HD camera as an input?
Yes I know that I could just use the iPhone on its own and then transfer the video over, but I'd like to be able to see what I'm recording (without using mirrors). Have done a bit of Googling and can't see anything, so just thought I'd ask!
A: I've tried this, but unfortunately it doesn't work with iChat and PhotoBooth but works perfectly with Skype and other communications tools :
iWebcamera iPhone App ($4.99)
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2dbf7aa0807811a70528c9e93671886ae05d6e35 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I show the battery as a percentage on my iPod Touch? On the iPhone, to show the percentage of battery left, I can go into Settings > General > Usage and toggle "Battery Percentage" on.
My daughter's iPod touch doesn't have a Usage category. Is there a way on the iPod touch to display the battery percentage?
A: If jailbroken, SBSettings has a toggle for this.
| Q: How can I show the battery as a percentage on my iPod Touch? On the iPhone, to show the percentage of battery left, I can go into Settings > General > Usage and toggle "Battery Percentage" on.
My daughter's iPod touch doesn't have a Usage category. Is there a way on the iPod touch to display the battery percentage?
A: If jailbroken, SBSettings has a toggle for this.
A: No iPod Touches can show the battery percentage at the top of the screen (unless you jailbreak them). There are apps in the App Store that will show the battery percentage when you run them, but obviously not all the time.
There's a discussion thread here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1013295
A: If you would like your your iPod to tell you your battery level as a percentage go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Triple-click Home, and select "Toggle VoiceOver". After you are done, go to your home screen and triple click the home button. VoiceOver will activate. Then tap the battery icon. VoiceOver will say the battery percentage aloud. To turn VoiceOver off, triple click the home button again.
This will only work on 3rd-gen or newer iPod touches and iPhone 3GS or newer.
A: If your charging an iPod Touch the lock screen will show the current battery percentage briefly when turned on while charging.
Connect working charger percentage should show on screen.
Press power button to lock
Press home or power button once
Watch for battery percentage to show under large current time.
Pretty lame would be nice if Apple could be consistent across all the iDevices for things like this including battery health and a calculator too.
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15617cb97d0abec7954880ca044063e515cb106a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable “not ejected properly” warning (as only charging and not writing data)
Possible Duplicate:
Disable “the disk was not ejected properly” message
Per this blog post (not my blog post) how would you go about disabling the warning popup given that I know I'm not writing data so can't suffer any data loss?
I'd be satisfied with an answer that just disabled this warning across the board, but a more specific solution that could blacklist specific devices, or even better a "smart" way of only showing the popup if data has been written.
| Q: Disable “not ejected properly” warning (as only charging and not writing data)
Possible Duplicate:
Disable “the disk was not ejected properly” message
Per this blog post (not my blog post) how would you go about disabling the warning popup given that I know I'm not writing data so can't suffer any data loss?
I'd be satisfied with an answer that just disabled this warning across the board, but a more specific solution that could blacklist specific devices, or even better a "smart" way of only showing the popup if data has been written.
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843765343a6e5c5a9c0d36abcd9a879601c50e55 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Disable File System Cache for USB Devices?
Possible Duplicate:
Disable “the disk was not ejected properly” message
When I have a USB Device like a SD Card, USB Drive or external hard drive, I always need to unmount it, otherwise OS X complains about the device not being ejected properly.
On Windows, the solution to this is trivial: Disable the File System Cache for USB Drives, so that they can be immediately and safely removed.
Does OS X have a way to disable the cache?
A: On SuperUser Q&A another user asked a similar question. The solution is a little bit tricky/efforty:
This should be possible by manually mounting the drive via the terminal. You'll have to eject the drive when you plug it in and then remount it in the terminal using the noasync option.
The best way to go about this would be to run mount in the terminal and take down the device so you know what to remount. Then umount /dev/disk1s1 (where disk1s1 is the device name) then mount -o noasync /dev/disk1s1. This method would also apply to most linux distros.
As you can see, it's easier to just remember to eject.
| Q: Disable File System Cache for USB Devices?
Possible Duplicate:
Disable “the disk was not ejected properly” message
When I have a USB Device like a SD Card, USB Drive or external hard drive, I always need to unmount it, otherwise OS X complains about the device not being ejected properly.
On Windows, the solution to this is trivial: Disable the File System Cache for USB Drives, so that they can be immediately and safely removed.
Does OS X have a way to disable the cache?
A: On SuperUser Q&A another user asked a similar question. The solution is a little bit tricky/efforty:
This should be possible by manually mounting the drive via the terminal. You'll have to eject the drive when you plug it in and then remount it in the terminal using the noasync option.
The best way to go about this would be to run mount in the terminal and take down the device so you know what to remount. Then umount /dev/disk1s1 (where disk1s1 is the device name) then mount -o noasync /dev/disk1s1. This method would also apply to most linux distros.
As you can see, it's easier to just remember to eject.
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ab6e78b564439bee8ff78627fd9a46a7200a3170 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to have GPL software in the Mac App Store? Can you have GPL software in Mac App Store?
I know this is not possible in the iPhone App Store, but is it the same situation in Mac App Store?
NOTE: None of the answers below should be considered legal advice. If you require a legal answer to this question, consult a lawyer.
A: I think the primary sticking point with the iOS App Store was the fact that even if you had the source code it wasn't possible to modify and redistribute an application to iOS devices without agreeing to Apple's iOS App Store terms, as that is the only way to get apps on the device.
The same is not true, however, with the Mac App Store - you could easily provide the source that people can use to modify and distribute the application outside of the Mac App Store, so I think there is no problem with GPL'd apps in the Mac App Store.
| Q: Is it possible to have GPL software in the Mac App Store? Can you have GPL software in Mac App Store?
I know this is not possible in the iPhone App Store, but is it the same situation in Mac App Store?
NOTE: None of the answers below should be considered legal advice. If you require a legal answer to this question, consult a lawyer.
A: I think the primary sticking point with the iOS App Store was the fact that even if you had the source code it wasn't possible to modify and redistribute an application to iOS devices without agreeing to Apple's iOS App Store terms, as that is the only way to get apps on the device.
The same is not true, however, with the Mac App Store - you could easily provide the source that people can use to modify and distribute the application outside of the Mac App Store, so I think there is no problem with GPL'd apps in the Mac App Store.
A: We have a GPL project which we'd like to distribute on the MAS. In my (non-lawyer) opinion it's probably OK to distribute on the MAS, but we may not take the risk with our project. It's a decade old project with none of the early developers involved anymore, so we need to be careful about perfectly following the GPL.
I think the primary sticking point with the iOS App Store was the fact that even if you had the source code it wasn't possible to modify and redistribute an application to iOS devices without agreeing to Apple's iOS App Store terms, as that is the only way to get apps on the device.
If you have Xcode, or if your device is jail broken, then you do not have to agree to the iOS App Store terms to distribute and install open source software. How does this not satisfy the GPL?
I realise you have to agree to a license to install Xcode, and many users are unwilling to jail break their device (I wont do it). But GPL doesn't require your software to be installable by everyone who downloads it. How is that any different from, say, distributing software that only runs on windows, which cannot be used by linux users unless they purchase a windows pc and agree to the included EULA?
The same is not true, however, with the Mac App Store - you could easily provide the source that people can use to modify and distribute the application outside of the Mac App Store, so I think there is no problem with GPL'd apps in the Mac App Store.
What exactly would the requirements be? Do you have to distribute both binary and source code outside the app store, or is just source code enough? Seems like you should be able to have a binary-only distribution on the app store, and a code-only distribution on your website (eg: google code).
Avoiding a second binary distribution would be nice, our team doesn't do binary releases as often as we should — simply because of all the work involved.
This mess is one more reason to change to MIT or BSD, a process we had already begun for other reasons, and are soon to complete. We should be fixing bugs, not discussing the legal restrictions dictating precisely how we give our work to the whole world.
A: If you mean taking software that you do not hold copyright to, and which you are only allowed to use and copy because it was licensed under the GNU GPL, then no.
The FSF spells it out here: section 6 of the GPL says "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein", and the Mac App Store Terms of Service explicitly add other restrictions.
The Software Freedom Law Center's legal representative confirmed this: the App Store agreements, on all platforms, are incompatible with the GNU GPL.
Apple seems to be disallowing GPL programs in the App Store as a matter of policy, but if you managed to sneak one through, then the author of the program could go after you for violating their copyright.
A completely different case is where you hold the copyright to a piece of software. In that case, you are welcome to distribute it under more than one license. (For example, Firefox was for a while licensed under the MPL, GPL, and LGPL. MySQL is licensed under the GPL and also a proprietary license.) So if you sell a program through the Mac App Store, you can also release it under the GPL -- assuming you are allowed to do each of these things independently.
(If you wanted to use somebody else's GNU GPL-licensed code in one of the App Stores, you could write to the copyright holder and see if they're willing to sell you an alternative license to their software. They're under absolutely no obligation to do this, of course.)
VLC ran into trouble (I think) because copyright for the software was held by many different people, and the whole program was only allowed to be distributed under the GPL. Some programs sidestep such issues by requiring contributors to assign copyright to them, but most don't.
A: I am going to disagree with the sentiment that GPL code cannot be included in either App Store. (as well as stir the pot a bit with no offense to anyone who has answered this so far in good faith!)
Of course anyone CAN take code that is GPL and send it to the app store. Apple has no way to know what code you used unless you somehow embed the license file in the binary. You or someone else has to call their attention to that fact.
Apple's license linked from the Mac App store currently runs 16.7k words in length and allows for a third party license to be different and bind you in addition to their licenses.
The GPLv3 currently runs 5.2k words - many of which are openly intended to combat DRM and adding restrictions not expressly already a part of GPL (say like an N-device limitation)
It's clear that both the license that Apple attaches to Mac App store and iTunes App store isn't any version of GPL. It's also clear both are intended to be binding legal documents.
So a simple "can you have..." question boils down to several implied questions:
*
*Do Apple's terms and conditions for App Store distribution preclude you from using code obtained under a GPL license?
*Does GPL prevent you from distribution channels that use DRM or don't include verbatim (and solely) GPL licensing in the terms of sale / use.
*Is it probable that:
*
*That they are in some (or any) way compatible?
*That it will get caught?
*That there will be repercussions for going down that path?
All the non-lawyers here (me included) are barking at the moon, dancing around questions of the legality of very specific licenses governing intellectual property and copyright. The barking is intelligent and well-meant, but barking nonetheless.
Pretending that GPL is a free ride and comes with no restrictions is naive - it is intended as a legal document with real teeth. I don't intend to insult anyone - just point out how inadequate even a good faith attempt at trying to answer this question will be.
A: You clearly and evidently can have GPL software in the iOS App Store — WordPress being one of the more prominent examples (1). It also wasn't Apple who objected to VLC in the iOS App Store; it was one of VLC's developers (and there was a heavy debate on the mailing list about whether his interpretation was correct).
For the Mac App Store, I'll lean even closer to it not being an issue. Unlike on iOS, anyone can inspect, modify, compile and run your GPL'd code for free on a Mac; there is no need to pay $99/yr, or to agree to Apple's ADC policies.
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ca044086080c09a052577cb6094ee653d3653b59 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Controlling a Mac remotely Is it possible to control the Mac remotely?
My parents live in different country other than where I'm living now, I think about giving one of my Mac to my parents to use iChat. As my parents are not good at using computers, I need to control the Mac remotely.
Is there any software tool for it?
A: There are a lot!
LogMeIn is one of them, which has the benefit to have a web interface and doesn't need your parents computer to have a fixed IP. You install the client on their computer, register it and then you'll be able to control it via your interface.
Give it a look, it's quite good. The free version doesn't have all advanced features (obviously) but it's quite enough for remote help of parents' computers (I use it for this same purpose and I also do it for computers in Canada while I'm in Europe!)
| Q: Controlling a Mac remotely Is it possible to control the Mac remotely?
My parents live in different country other than where I'm living now, I think about giving one of my Mac to my parents to use iChat. As my parents are not good at using computers, I need to control the Mac remotely.
Is there any software tool for it?
A: There are a lot!
LogMeIn is one of them, which has the benefit to have a web interface and doesn't need your parents computer to have a fixed IP. You install the client on their computer, register it and then you'll be able to control it via your interface.
Give it a look, it's quite good. The free version doesn't have all advanced features (obviously) but it's quite enough for remote help of parents' computers (I use it for this same purpose and I also do it for computers in Canada while I'm in Europe!)
A: A number of good solutions have been posted.
For completeness sake, I want to mention something that easily lets you see, if not control, the remote computer. Skype lets you "share the desktop", which sends an image of the user's computer over as if it were a video chat.
It's not as good as actual control, I will agree, but it's cross-platform and can help out a lot in a pinch.
A: The Mac comes with the server part of the software built-in for "Apple Remote Desktop"; They can be viewed and managed remotely if you have the client software. For most of us that's too expensive a solution, so an alternate is to use VNC. Check out JollysFastVNC and Chicken of the VNC.
Also, iChat, which comes with the Macs, can do screen sharing, which might be all you need. Check out "Share and share alike." from Apple's iChat site and "Sharing your screen with a buddy".
A: I have used logmein, teamviewer, ichat and teamviewer emerged winner due to its simplicity and availability of a free iPhone app as a bonus! Try them all, simple and easy.
A: Here's a step by step (the free, reliable route):
*
*Download "Vine server" and install it on your mac.
*Go to dyndns.org (dynamic DNS), register, and create a free domain name pointer for yourself. This will create a hostname that points to your house's ip address all the time (ie bill.dyndns.org --> 123.123.123.123).
*Once you get a dyndns domain name, login to your router and put your login information in for the domain name you just got from dyndns. Look around, there should be a page for DDNS. If there's not, then grab the dyndns software.
*While in your router, open up a port for vnc. The default for VNC is 5900.
*Restart VNC server.
*Now, from outside of the mac's house, grab a vnc client... there are many. A good one for PC is vncviewer, tightvnc, others. Just google PC or MAC free VNC client.
*Open the client vnc, put in your dyndns hostname as the IP, and the port is 5900.
A: (I'm going to mention this for completeness rather than because I think you'd actually use it).
There's a product called Timbuktu which is a bit more hard-core than LogMeIn, VNC and Remote Desktop, but really it does something very similar.
It's a paid-for program (and not really that cheap, to be fair) but it does work BRILLIANTLY, it's fast, you can get compatible Windows versions (so Mac-Mac, Mac-Windows, Windows-Windows etc) and it makes a decent job of useful things like file transfers, clipboard syncing and handling different screen resolutions etc.
I've used Timbuktu to remotely control my office Mac from my laptop for a couple of years now and I'm a very happy customer.
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a19d73ee8bbd21c2ba1a950f340222c0a508832d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I stop OS X from switching Spaces when the mouse cursor is at the edge of the screen? Mac OS X Spaces change when I hold the mouse at the edge of the screen. Is there an application or 'defaults' command to disable this?
Warp looks like it might help, but hasn't changed the behavior for me, even though I tried turning it off, or setting a modifier key.
A: I found a solution. The following sets the delay to 1 minute.
defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-edge-delay -float 60 && killall Dock
source: Leopard: Lower the window drag delay between spaces
| Q: How can I stop OS X from switching Spaces when the mouse cursor is at the edge of the screen? Mac OS X Spaces change when I hold the mouse at the edge of the screen. Is there an application or 'defaults' command to disable this?
Warp looks like it might help, but hasn't changed the behavior for me, even though I tried turning it off, or setting a modifier key.
A: I found a solution. The following sets the delay to 1 minute.
defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-edge-delay -float 60 && killall Dock
source: Leopard: Lower the window drag delay between spaces
A: OS X - Snow Leopard seems to have two states when it comes to the switching behavior. Dragging a window or not dragging a window. If you are not dragging a window, it ignores your mouse hovering at a side. This makes sense, or the dock and hot corners would be very hard to use. When you are dragging a window, it auto-switches workspaces if you hang around at a side. This also makes sense.
Sometimes though, it seems to get confused about if you're dragging a window or not. When this happens, even if you aren't dragging a window, it still flips workspaces if you hover the mouse on a side, thereby making the dock and hot corners very hard to use.
In order to reset this state, I figured out that you can pick up a window, drag it around a bit, then let go. This seems to reset its "you're currently dragging a window" state with respect to workspace switching.
A: It only switches when you're actively dragging something and linger on the edge of the screen for several seconds. Simply hovering shouldn't change anything.
A: I am using Warp successfully to do that. I've checked "Enable Warp" and "Click screen edge to Warp". When I touch an edge, I get a small window surrounding the cursor that either shows a tiny view of the adjacent space and its windows, or says "No windows" -- is that what you're seeing? At that point, clicking will change spaces, or you can back away from the edge to remain in the same space.
Edit: Oops - I have to backtrack. My answer applies to just the mouse cursor, not to dragging a window. I see the same behavior you describe if I drag a window to the edge and hover there holding it: Spaces will switch repeatedly until I back the cursor off of the edge.
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d5afe1c582341a569ee610a2faf786bddbf6f0dc | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What's a good iTunes alternative to use with my iPod nano 6g? I'm looking for an iTunes alternative for my new iPod nano 6g.
I've used sharepod before but it doesn't work with the nano 6g—I can upload songs but they're not being recognized by the iPod database.
Any ideas on alternatives that work with the nano 6g?
A: Mediamonkey is a good alternative on Windows, the nano 6th gen is present in the list of compatible devices.
| Q: What's a good iTunes alternative to use with my iPod nano 6g? I'm looking for an iTunes alternative for my new iPod nano 6g.
I've used sharepod before but it doesn't work with the nano 6g—I can upload songs but they're not being recognized by the iPod database.
Any ideas on alternatives that work with the nano 6g?
A: Mediamonkey is a good alternative on Windows, the nano 6th gen is present in the list of compatible devices.
A: If you're using Windows, try DoubleTwist. (Not sure if it supports Apple products on OS X yet.)
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0bec73720f34a40819c4d8123c6c6d39bb5c102e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I get the load average (and only the load average) on Mac OS X? On all linux boxes /proc/loadavg contains the raw load for 1, 5, and 15 minutes. Nothing extra. On OS X machines this file does not exist.
Is there a file or a terminal command which will give me the 1, 5 and 15 minute load averages under OS X, similar to /proc/loadavg on Linux? I know top and w display the load averages but they have a lot more information too. I want just the load averages.
A: You can also use this sysctl:
sysctl -n vm.loadavg
| Q: How can I get the load average (and only the load average) on Mac OS X? On all linux boxes /proc/loadavg contains the raw load for 1, 5, and 15 minutes. Nothing extra. On OS X machines this file does not exist.
Is there a file or a terminal command which will give me the 1, 5 and 15 minute load averages under OS X, similar to /proc/loadavg on Linux? I know top and w display the load averages but they have a lot more information too. I want just the load averages.
A: You can also use this sysctl:
sysctl -n vm.loadavg
A: Take the commands you know (top, uptime, w, etc.) and use other tools to reduce to just the data you want.
An example for w:
w | head -n1 | cut -d":" -f4
An example for uptime:
uptime | cut -d":" -f4- | sed s/,//g
An example of loads.d:
sudo loads.d | awk '/./ { printf "%.2f %.2f %.2f\n", $7, $8, $9 }'
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cf16e97798496f857799fe21a1a300946f0d4bad | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I play audio from my iPhone on my Mac? Can I attach my iPhone 3GS to my Mac Pro so that the iPhone's audio plays through the Mac Pro's speakers?
I can easily attach my Bose headphones so that the music from the iPhone plays through them… that's cool… but I want others to hear the music through my Mac Pro's speaker system.
A: You can play your iPhone's music out your mac via iTunes. You don't even have to be in sync with that iTunes library, just plug it in, navigate to your music, and press play.
If you're talking about like game audio coming out your mac's speakers... I'd take your speakers and plug them straight into the phone. There's no way I know of to use the mac as an audio route from the phone.
| Q: Can I play audio from my iPhone on my Mac? Can I attach my iPhone 3GS to my Mac Pro so that the iPhone's audio plays through the Mac Pro's speakers?
I can easily attach my Bose headphones so that the music from the iPhone plays through them… that's cool… but I want others to hear the music through my Mac Pro's speaker system.
A: You can play your iPhone's music out your mac via iTunes. You don't even have to be in sync with that iTunes library, just plug it in, navigate to your music, and press play.
If you're talking about like game audio coming out your mac's speakers... I'd take your speakers and plug them straight into the phone. There's no way I know of to use the mac as an audio route from the phone.
A: The LineIn free app worked great.
The Rogue Amoeba product LineIn is an excellent free utility for listening to external audio.
Advantages over QuickTime Player
LineIn has several advantages:
*
*LineIn has lower (nearly none!) audio lag, whereas QuickTime Player has about ~500ms of increased audio latency.
*Does not shift to the wrong speed/pitch issue; this is a problem that sometimes manifests with QuickTime Player.
*Does not replace the top bar with 9:41 AM and 100% Battery.
How To
*
*After plugging the iPhone on your Mac (via Lightning/USB), enable the audio device in Audio Midi Setup.app:
*Launch the LineIn.app, and select iPhone as the input source:
*Hit Play Thru and you're done!
Notes
*
*Make sure the iPhone is not muted.
*Step one will need to be done again once the iPhone is unplugged and plugged back in.
A: Run Airfoil Speakers on your mac..it'll then allow you to airplay just like you would to an apple TV or airport express. You do have to be on the same wifi network for this to work.
A: Simple, and simply surprising:
*
*First, check that you have enabled the iPhone/iPad as an audio input device in Audio Midi Setup.app:
*Plug in your iPhone to your Mac using your Lightning Cable (doesn't work with 30 pin iPhones, sorry. [Yes I know you said 3GS])
*Launch QuickTime Player
*Choose File> New Audio Recording
*Click the hard-to-see down arrow next to the Record 'button', choose iPhone under 'Microphone'
*Play your music, game whatever on your iPhone, sound will come thru your Mac.
No need to hit record, the sound will play even if you don't record. Just turn up the volume.
Note: for those who want a louder volume, go to the system preferences on your Mac. Then go to the sound settings and you can increase the output volume so it is louder.
A: If your iPhone is running (I think) 4.0 or above, I think most machines should be able to mount the phone and play the music through iTunes.
A: The solution is to use Miccuss or some other Bluetooth audio receiver to receive the audio via Bluetooth and pass the signal via cable to the Mac's audio input.
Miccuss works perfectly, the sound is pristine.
I am not sure why Apple can't (or won't) enable Mac's to receive audio from Bluetooth devices even when the service seem to be available in the Bluetooth profile (handsfree gateway). MS Windows Bluetooth support handsfree gateway in a hassle free way which gives it a versatility score in this area over Mac.
A: To Play Music
*
*Plug in iPhone to computer via USB
*Open iTunes
*Click iPhone button in iTunes near the the top left
*Under Settings on the left there is On My Device
*Click Music, you should see all the music on your phone on the right.
*Play that funky music.
A: I tried all recommended with no sound output on a macbook pro. What worked for me is to use VLC player on the mac as follows:
*
*Enable iPhone in the Audio MIDI Setup (see "Utilities" folder in Finder)
*Open VLC Player:
File -> “Open Capture Device”
Click Audio and select iPhone from the dropdown list
Start playing on iPhone and listen on your mac! :)
A: Sound from Apps
There are probably multiple ways to do this. Perhaps some could use the existing iPhone connector. But certainly if you get a male to male headphone adapter, you could take the audio out of the iPhone and into the audio input (mic) on the desktop, then use Audacity or another program to play the sound from the mic input
Music from iPhone
In iTunes, select your iPhone on the left column. Select music. Play.
A: I know where this question is coming from. I sometimes like to plug my iPhone into the USB cable so it keeps being charged while I also like to play some type of videos like Periscope on the phone at all time. This leads to a problem that the AUX output from the iPhone will have background hiss noise because the USB port being plugged in.
So having the phone playing audio via the USB is the only method that can give you high quality audio output.
But unfortunately there is no commercially available method to create a USB audio receiver on OSX. But, there is an alternative. First, you must enable the iPhone's hotspot via USB. This can be done through purchasing hotspot plan from your wireless carrier or other illegal methods. Second, you must install a wireless audio receiver software like airfoil or airserver on your OSX. Third, you must enable the USB connection on your OSX's system setting under network. The name of such connection can be vary and unpredictable. Take your best guest. Fourth, enabling the audio playback on your iPhone via airplay. If you don't see the airplay, it means the connection isn't established successfully. Repeat the entire process until it does. It might never run successfully because of a number of reasons that can only be explained through a very long essay, of which I would not replicate here and now, and the connection may break after being established.
Note this method will slow down your OSX sometimes quite dramatically.
A: Turn a MacBook into an AirPlay receiver w/ macOS Monterey
Fortunately, there is now a better way. Installing MacOS Monterey
(launching today) adds a feature dubbed ‘AirPlay to Mac’ which turns
any MacBook or iMac into an AirPlay receiver. To activate ‘AirPlay to
Mac’, simply check the tickbox in the ‘Sharing’ preferences pane: the
MacBook/iMac will now accept AirPlay audio streams from any iPhone or
iPad running iOS 15 or iPadOS 15 (or later). ‘AirPlay to Mac’ also
works with video content.
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286379bd9aa2cfc2722aff5b6212500ba0973400 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I switch option (alt) and command (windows) keys for Windows 7 in Boot Camp? Installed Windows 7 via Bootcamp for some work-related projects. I've also installed the Apple Bootcamp drivers from the OS X install disk and updated to the latest version. It mapped all my keys just fine, but I was surprised it does not offer an option to switch the mappings of Alt and Windows keys; ie. Alt is left of Spacebar, Windows key is left of Alt.
The current way directly maps to the physical keyboard layout, but not to the way people are used to working: e.g. OS X's Command+Tab for window switching is equivelant to Alt+Tab not Windows+Tab. I keep hitting the wrong keys because of muscle memory. :)
Is there a built-in way to remap Windows and Alt keys? If not, what 3rd party app is the best way to do this?
A: Here is a script file for the Apple keyboard with F hotkeys and CMD hotkeys too.
https://github.com/stroebjo/autohotkey-windows-mac-keyboard
| Q: How can I switch option (alt) and command (windows) keys for Windows 7 in Boot Camp? Installed Windows 7 via Bootcamp for some work-related projects. I've also installed the Apple Bootcamp drivers from the OS X install disk and updated to the latest version. It mapped all my keys just fine, but I was surprised it does not offer an option to switch the mappings of Alt and Windows keys; ie. Alt is left of Spacebar, Windows key is left of Alt.
The current way directly maps to the physical keyboard layout, but not to the way people are used to working: e.g. OS X's Command+Tab for window switching is equivelant to Alt+Tab not Windows+Tab. I keep hitting the wrong keys because of muscle memory. :)
Is there a built-in way to remap Windows and Alt keys? If not, what 3rd party app is the best way to do this?
A: Here is a script file for the Apple keyboard with F hotkeys and CMD hotkeys too.
https://github.com/stroebjo/autohotkey-windows-mac-keyboard
A: I didn't like Sharp Keys because it requires a restart to swap mappings. Other AutoHotKey scripts here had too much extra stuff for my needs. This AutoHotKey script is only the win key swap, plus a hotkey to turn it off (ctrl+F6) if you also occasionally use a Windows keyboard.
A: I had this issue. Resolved it using Sharp Keys (free).
*
*http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/map-any-key-to-any-key-on-windows-xp-vista/
A: I've been using AutoHotKey for about a year on Win7 Ultimate x64. Works great.
In addition to swapping the left Command and Option keys, I've remapped the right Command to forward delete, and right Option to "AppsKey" (aka, context menu) which helps in Visual Studio and other apps.
If you want function keys to work as, well, function keys (without having to hold down Fn), you can set that in the Bootcamp application via the system tray icon.
Here's a script just for swapping left Option (alt) and Command (Windows):
RAlt::AppsKey ; right-Option to context menu
RWin::Del ; right command to forward delete
LWin::LAlt ; left command to alt
LAlt::LWin ; left alt to command (windows key)
You may also consider remapping Caps Lock if you need an additional key since, really, how often do any of us use Caps Lock?
A: I would like to share a trick that you can remap some less used keys to keys you prefer. E.g. I map right CMD to DEL and right ALT to menu('application'), using Sharpkeys
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43e2b8c933bd442b8ff201268292c2b2b533be03 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: File location of kernel extensions? Is there an easy way to make the mapping from kernel extension to the file it came from?
I can get the list of currently loaded kernel extension via kextstat. This gives me the bundle names, like com.AmbrosiaSW.AudioSupport or jp.plentycom.driver.SteerMouse. But how can I then find the actual file locations of these bundles? For example, the Ambrosia bundle is AmbrosiaAudioSupport.kext, and I can only find the bundle name in the Info.plist inside that bundle. I could grep the /System/Library/Extensions/ directory, but this does not necessarily contain extensions loaded after booting, and I assume there is a better way to do it?
A: You can use kextfind -b <bundlename> to find the file defining a kext you only know the bundle name of.
EDIT: newer versions of kextfind need a -print predicate to show output. Example updated below.
For example:
kextfind -b com.AmbrosiaSW.AudioSupport -print
| Q: File location of kernel extensions? Is there an easy way to make the mapping from kernel extension to the file it came from?
I can get the list of currently loaded kernel extension via kextstat. This gives me the bundle names, like com.AmbrosiaSW.AudioSupport or jp.plentycom.driver.SteerMouse. But how can I then find the actual file locations of these bundles? For example, the Ambrosia bundle is AmbrosiaAudioSupport.kext, and I can only find the bundle name in the Info.plist inside that bundle. I could grep the /System/Library/Extensions/ directory, but this does not necessarily contain extensions loaded after booting, and I assume there is a better way to do it?
A: You can use kextfind -b <bundlename> to find the file defining a kext you only know the bundle name of.
EDIT: newer versions of kextfind need a -print predicate to show output. Example updated below.
For example:
kextfind -b com.AmbrosiaSW.AudioSupport -print
A: See kextfind
A: Try About this mac -> System report -> Software section -> Extensions.
It shows the filepath upon selecting an extension.
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bc13e094d3b382f5505984839281c5f0817b7118 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I set an external display (monitor) as the primary one? Currently the MacBook's display works as primary, so every application I open gets open on the 13" and I have to drag it to the 24". I also don't have access to the dock on my 24".
Is is possible to turn off the MacBook screen and use only the one attached via DVI?
(I've just connected my 24" HP LP2475w via Mini DisplayPort to DVI to my MacBook Pro 13", which works great except for this one thing.)
A: Under your System Preferences > Display, you've got this
Just drag the white bar to the other screen to set it as the main screen.
You might have to do that every time you reboot / reconnect the external screen.
| Q: How can I set an external display (monitor) as the primary one? Currently the MacBook's display works as primary, so every application I open gets open on the 13" and I have to drag it to the 24". I also don't have access to the dock on my 24".
Is is possible to turn off the MacBook screen and use only the one attached via DVI?
(I've just connected my 24" HP LP2475w via Mini DisplayPort to DVI to my MacBook Pro 13", which works great except for this one thing.)
A: Under your System Preferences > Display, you've got this
Just drag the white bar to the other screen to set it as the main screen.
You might have to do that every time you reboot / reconnect the external screen.
A: While running a dual-display setup, you can easily adjust the primary display monitor in Mac OS X. Before beginning, have both displays turned on, and the external display already connected to the Mac:
*
*Go to System Preferences -> Displays
*Choose the ‘Arrangement’ tab
*Click and hold on the white bar at the top of the current primary display
*Drag the white bar across to the other monitor you want to
set as the new primary display
*After you release the white bar, both screens will flicker briefly and adjust to accommodate new settings
Whatever monitor is set as primary it will become the default display for applications launching, in addition to holding the system menubar, containing all the default desktop icons and the Dock.
Note that if the secondary display will be detached, the primary screen will revert back to a built-in display on any portable Mac.
Here is the link to the original post about it.
A: Loïc answered for the main monitor question.
For closing the lid of your MacBook, it's what is called to use it in clamshell mode. As you will have to have an external mouse and keyboard connected to your laptop, you have to boot, close your lid (your mac will turn to sleep) and then use your mouse or keyboard to wake it from sleep mode.
If you have a bluetooth mouse and/or keyboard, you have to go in the bluetooth prefpane, and, in Advanced settings, check the Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer.
By the way, in this situation, no need anymore for a main and secondary monitor :)
When you open your lid while using only the external monitor, the macbook screen will stay black. If you want to use again both screens, you have to go to the Displays prefpane and click on Detect displays. Or, like me, check the Show displays in menu barand use the menubar instead to detect the displays.
A: Related;
Secondbar adds a second menu bar
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33264/secondbar
A: Want o work on your external monitor while mac latop lid is closed? Plug your laptop your charger and close the lid and it will not sleep. Thats the trick
A: For me with just two screens. The above mentioned solutions didn't work as the new apps would open in the laptop itself. What worked is moving dock to right.
Also I had to do this https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251274566
*
*Go to mission control
*Add a new desktop
*Right click on the app in dock
*Delect options and select the display
A: MBP 13" Oct 2010
Plug in external monitor and close the mbp's lid
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d141e5af153f3d30232a9839ddd1d3eaef9c2fa3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I type or input Unicode characters using a code point on the iPhone? I'm aware of the ability to use accented characters by holding down a key until they appear (ie. á ü etc.); however, I'm curious as to how, if possible, one might enter a code point in hexadecimal format or otherwise to output the corresponding character?
A: UniK - Unicode & navigation Keyboard extension seems to be the closest to a character map and it also functions as a keyboard extension. You actually have to type hexadecimal code points in this app.
| Q: How can I type or input Unicode characters using a code point on the iPhone? I'm aware of the ability to use accented characters by holding down a key until they appear (ie. á ü etc.); however, I'm curious as to how, if possible, one might enter a code point in hexadecimal format or otherwise to output the corresponding character?
A: UniK - Unicode & navigation Keyboard extension seems to be the closest to a character map and it also functions as a keyboard extension. You actually have to type hexadecimal code points in this app.
A: There are applications in the App Store that display all of the characters allowed in the Unicode set that you can copy and paste into other applications like Mail and the like. Searching "unicode" in the App Store brings up a whole slew of them, both free and paid.
There is also Glyphboard (visit with your iOS device) that you can save as a bookmark on your iOS device for an easy interface to some of the more popular ones. This is very lightweight and changes every so often.
A: I wonder if you ever found a way to enter Unicode characters directly on the ipad?
It's 2017.09 and the closest I've found is the app Unichar. Can't enter (uni)codes directly, but it has 18 unicode pages avaible (in the paid version, 8 in the free version.) Interesting is that it installs as an app that you can open, but also has a keyboard with the same level of features as the app and similar interface
This is as close of an answer as I've found to the same question. It's odd apple resists users' interest for so long.
A: I have been looking for similar and the best third party app I've found for arbitrary unicode input is called UnicodeLab.
It allows you to input any unicode in decimal or hex, view it in multiple fonts, and copy it to the clipboard. You can also cycle through neighboring character codes easily.
It is free.
A: I think IOS don't provide unicode Hex Input because it could impact the performance. East-Asia input consumes CPU/memory 100 times more than Latin input from my experiences.
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93affb1822498a6b8f29b500e30034928be472f7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I transfer large files from Linux to iPad over a cable or wifi? I am looking for a way to transfer large files to the iPad without using iTunes or pushing to and pulling from a remote server.
I run an Ubuntu laptop as my only OS at the moment and want to be able to transfer movies to my iPad. I currently transfer most of my files by way of the dropbox app which works well for small files but is quite slow for larger files and eats up my bandwidth. Ideally I'd like to be able to transfer over a cable or through WiFi.
Thanks for any tips.
A: Since iOS 13, you are able to access SMB shares with the Files app. Just set up your share in the Linux system (I recommend usershares), create the user on samba (while samba allows you to have the same Linux user, it requires that you use samba specific utilities to set up the password) and use "Connect to Server" within Files on your iOS device.
| Q: How can I transfer large files from Linux to iPad over a cable or wifi? I am looking for a way to transfer large files to the iPad without using iTunes or pushing to and pulling from a remote server.
I run an Ubuntu laptop as my only OS at the moment and want to be able to transfer movies to my iPad. I currently transfer most of my files by way of the dropbox app which works well for small files but is quite slow for larger files and eats up my bandwidth. Ideally I'd like to be able to transfer over a cable or through WiFi.
Thanks for any tips.
A: Since iOS 13, you are able to access SMB shares with the Files app. Just set up your share in the Linux system (I recommend usershares), create the user on samba (while samba allows you to have the same Linux user, it requires that you use samba specific utilities to set up the password) and use "Connect to Server" within Files on your iOS device.
A: Look at the iOS app GoodReader. GoodReader is a $5 app that allows you to transfer files from Windows, Mac OS X & Linux via WiFi to your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. You can then open the files in other apps based on the filetype.
A: Simply install VLC app from the app store and use its wifi transfer feature (in the sidebar of vlc app) to transfer videos(in all formats recognizable by vlc) into your vlc library....
UPDATE: This method not only works for audio/video formats but pretty much all file formats. Ofcourse, VLC won't show these files but one could access them using any decent File manager app such as Document.
A: Yes! You can transfer files to / from the iPad from Ubuntu via USB.
*
*You can always transfer files via SSH / a Samba share / etc.
*However that would be over Wifi, which is nowhere near as fast as USB connectivity.
*Via USB you can only access /var/root/Media on the ipad. Useful to put movies onto it - you will need to find a way to make these visible within iPad - I think you need to create some playlist?
*
*I use FileBrowser on the iPad and since my iPad is jailbroken, I ssh in and mv the transferred files from /var/root/Media to /var/mobile/Applications/[app-ID]/.data/Movies/. It is then visible within FileBrowser and Movies can be played there.
Steps
Install additional PPA repository
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmcenery/ppa
sudo apt-get update
Install libimobiledevice-utils
sudo apt-get install libimobiledevice-utils
Plug in the iPad / iPod / iPhone. It is visible as a removable drive!
A: For me on Ubuntu 18 all I had to do was install libimobiledevice-utils with
sudo apt-get install libimobiledevice-utils
and then reconnected the iPad, I can now browse my dam file and grab em just like normal folders thats just wonderful!!!
A: Not sure if this will work for everybody, but I can get movies (mp4, didn't try any other format) onto the ipad through the 'Documents' app from the app store. When I connect the iPad to my comp with usb it brings up a folder called "Documents on YOUR NAME's iPad". In this I can open the Document app's folder and just drag and drop. The files appear in the app then....magic!
A: *
*Install Zip & RAR File Extractor in your iPad
*Create a zip folder in your Linux machine of the files which you want to transfer.
*Open the Zip extractor app on your iPad, then go to Wi-Fi Transfer. It will show a web address. Write that address into your Linux web browser. There is an option of "Upload files", just click and upload the zip file and then transfer.
*Open iPad files, go to "On My iPad" and then go to the "Zip Extractor folder". You can see that the file has been transferred. Touch on that zip file, and you will see the file has been extracted.
A: FileBrowser is very good for transferring files.
A: I used to transfer by uploading to dropbox and downloading files on the dropbox app on my ipad.
There is another way which doesn't need internet which is using the app called "wireless drive". With this basically you connect your ipad with your laptop by creating wifi hotspot and transfer the files. But my ipad is unable to connect the wifi created by my new laptop. (wifi connection problem for unknown reason) ..... what do I do? I dont have internet right now.
You do following (after installing the app):
*
*just connect ipad to laptop using usb cable.
*You see "documents on the ipad" as a usb drive (as the external-pen drive)
*open the documents on the ipad > you see different apps you have on the ipad
*You will see "wireless drive" in the list, open it by double-clicking.
*You will see folder "documents", open it.
*You will see folder is empty, if it's used for the first time.
Just simply copy whatever you want to copy to your ipad in this folder and that's it!!
Now, just open the "wireless drive" app on your ipad, and you see the files you have transferred. Tap on any of the document, you will be asked which app to be used to open/run the file, select appropriate app and you can use the file on your ipad.
A: Download Folder Lock for your iPad and enjoy its WiFi File Transfer feature.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apple-store/id372925917?pt=329691&ct=fa&mt=8
A: Install Phone Drive Free from the app store. You don't need to jailbreak your idevice.
Phone Drive Free will tell you the device address. Enter this into your web browser. The browser will give you an interface to drag n drop your files.
A: I just connected my iPad 2021 to Ubuntu 22.04 and I got access to Clips, GarageBand and several other folders. As soon as I copied files to GarageBand I could see them on the iPad.
A: Install Apache on your Linux machine:
sudo apt install apache2
And copy your files to /var/www/html. Remove /var/www/html/index.html so you can browse the directory. Then just point the web browser on your iPad to your Linux machine.
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ca231b5821f1d3b70ede8b16c1a976f32469f933 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can you change the mouse cursor in OS X? I can't find many solutions for changing the mouse cursor on OS X 10.6
I've seen http://unsanity.com/haxies/mightymouse but it does not support 10.6 at the moment.
Any hints or tricks to change the cursor? Specifically, I need to modify the text selection cursor as it is almost invisible when using a grey background in my IDE.
Thanks!
A: There are a couple options:
In System Preferences > Universal Access > Mouse pane, there is a control to change the size of the cursor.
Mouseposé is an application that supports Snow Leopard used mostly for presentations and recording demos. You can set up a hotkey that dims the screen puts a spotlight on the current cursor position so you can find it quickly.
| Q: How can you change the mouse cursor in OS X? I can't find many solutions for changing the mouse cursor on OS X 10.6
I've seen http://unsanity.com/haxies/mightymouse but it does not support 10.6 at the moment.
Any hints or tricks to change the cursor? Specifically, I need to modify the text selection cursor as it is almost invisible when using a grey background in my IDE.
Thanks!
A: There are a couple options:
In System Preferences > Universal Access > Mouse pane, there is a control to change the size of the cursor.
Mouseposé is an application that supports Snow Leopard used mostly for presentations and recording demos. You can set up a hotkey that dims the screen puts a spotlight on the current cursor position so you can find it quickly.
A: Mousecape does a great job. It is almost completely undocumented, sub-1.0 release, and doesn't really come with any cursors. Still worth a look!
A: Sorry, Apple doesn't allow people to change the mouse cursor anymore.
A: Use Mousecape. I'm currently using version 0.0.5.
*
*Download the program (version 0.0.5)
*Double-click the program
*Make a new mouse cape (cmd + n or by menus)
*Drag image files on to each new pointer, choose what type of pointer
*Move the Hot Spot to correctly register clicks
I suggest getting images from free icon libraries. Google search or something. I downloaded some free icons and edited them.
You can use custom capes that others have made but the only one I've found is the one included in the source code. To get it, download the source and find the .cape file in it. Simple drag and drop the file into the program.
You can download the source code, etc, on github.
A: You could use Mouse Locator and leave it on or turn it on via a hotkey when you need to find your cursor.
A: The way you do this is "System Preferences" -> "Accessibility" -> "Display" -> "Cursor".
Inside the cursor tab you are table to change the size. You can't do any other customization than size but its a good start.
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0fee280228b175f5f32c676989ef21e7a3171653 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What are the differences between the AT&T and Verizon versions of iPhone 4? Besides working on their respective carriers, what are the similarities and differences between the AT&T iPhone 4 and Verizon iPhone 4?
A: Due to the differences between CDMA and GSM, the antenna notches have been moved around. There are also 4 now instead of 3, and as a result of adding a notch on the left side of the phone, the mute switch is slightly lower on the Verizon iPhone 4 than the AT&T iPhone 4, which could cause cases made for the AT&T iPhone 4 to not fit the Verizon iPhone 4 properly:
Though this may change in a future version of iOS, right now the Verizon iPhone 4 has a "Personal Hotspot" feature to share the data connection with up to 5 devices. In contrast, the AT&T iPhone 4 supports tethering through USB or Bluetooth only, and only to 1 device:
Finally, because the Verizon iPhone 4 runs on Verizon's CDMA, it does not support simultaneous data and voice, unlike the AT&T iPhone 4 which does over 3G.
| Q: What are the differences between the AT&T and Verizon versions of iPhone 4? Besides working on their respective carriers, what are the similarities and differences between the AT&T iPhone 4 and Verizon iPhone 4?
A: Due to the differences between CDMA and GSM, the antenna notches have been moved around. There are also 4 now instead of 3, and as a result of adding a notch on the left side of the phone, the mute switch is slightly lower on the Verizon iPhone 4 than the AT&T iPhone 4, which could cause cases made for the AT&T iPhone 4 to not fit the Verizon iPhone 4 properly:
Though this may change in a future version of iOS, right now the Verizon iPhone 4 has a "Personal Hotspot" feature to share the data connection with up to 5 devices. In contrast, the AT&T iPhone 4 supports tethering through USB or Bluetooth only, and only to 1 device:
Finally, because the Verizon iPhone 4 runs on Verizon's CDMA, it does not support simultaneous data and voice, unlike the AT&T iPhone 4 which does over 3G.
A: Engadget summarized the differences...
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/11/atandt-iphone-4-vs-verizon-iphone-4-whats-changed/
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56833940c95ba2de0da6732e4a8606cb486f575d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is the Verizon iPhone 4 susceptible to the 'grip of death'? Of course, it's possible to get any phone to lose a bit of signal if you cover the antenna with your hands, but I'm wondering if the Verizon iPhone 4 also suffers from the attenuation issues that the AT&T iPhone 4 famously suffered from last summer:
A: ArsTechnica notes that there is no noticeable signal loss when gripping it with the 'death grip'. Though due to the way smart phone antennas are designed, it still may be possible
| Q: Is the Verizon iPhone 4 susceptible to the 'grip of death'? Of course, it's possible to get any phone to lose a bit of signal if you cover the antenna with your hands, but I'm wondering if the Verizon iPhone 4 also suffers from the attenuation issues that the AT&T iPhone 4 famously suffered from last summer:
A: ArsTechnica notes that there is no noticeable signal loss when gripping it with the 'death grip'. Though due to the way smart phone antennas are designed, it still may be possible
A: As an add-on to the Ars report: photos of the adjustment of button locations also show differing locations of the breaks in the metal band around the device, so it's quite possible there was a real hardware change.
Other pictures show different breaks near the bottom of the phone, too.
A: The flaw is in the iPhone 4's antenna design, not the network or carrier. So, I would say yes. The software "fix" they released is supposed to make the bars depict signal quality more accurately, so you may find that while on Verizon, "the death grip" doesn't affect signal quality at all or as much.. but that doesn't negate that the antenna design itself is flawed physically, and that's why "the death grip" has any affect on signal quality.
A: Slashgear confirms that the Verizon iPhone 4 does not suffer from the death grip:
We put our hand in the standard “death
grip” location, making sure that we
covered up all of the right spots, and
held onto the device for up to a
minute. When we started the test, the
device was at four bars. It should be
noted that full service is represented
on the iPhone 4 with 5 bars. So, the
test started with only four bars being
shown. As we held the device, and we
timed it at a minute, we watched as
only one bar disappeared.
We then put our fingers over certain
points on the device. Making sure to
cover up the “new” top portion of the
antenna, and we still couldn’t
reproduce the “death grip” symptoms
that plagued the initial launch of the
iPhone 4. You can check out the images
from our test below, but it looks like
Verizon’s confidence in the iPhone 4
on their network seem to be pretty
sound.
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d9591082c834f27eb1e3af467efe66a39db9e078 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I diagnose a superdrive that won't read disks? My MacBook (Snow Leopard) seems to be unable to read DVDs and CDs. When I insert a disk (DVD or CD, I've tried a couple of each), the drive spins up, and (it sounds like) moves the laser back and forth a few times, then ejects the disk. I haven't tried blank media.
I've searched around the nets, and it looks like I may be experiencing a relatively common problem, but I don't want to jump to conclusions. Unfortunately, all the threads I've found are filled with "me too, me too", and not a lot in terms of actual help.
What tools can I use, or tests can I run, to try to diagnose (and perhaps even solve) the problem myself before I give up and replace the drive?
A: Try running the Apple Hardware Test. If I remember right, reboot holding D. If that doesn't work, reboot while holding D, with an OS X disk in. Of course you'll need to have an external DVD drive for that to work.
| Q: How can I diagnose a superdrive that won't read disks? My MacBook (Snow Leopard) seems to be unable to read DVDs and CDs. When I insert a disk (DVD or CD, I've tried a couple of each), the drive spins up, and (it sounds like) moves the laser back and forth a few times, then ejects the disk. I haven't tried blank media.
I've searched around the nets, and it looks like I may be experiencing a relatively common problem, but I don't want to jump to conclusions. Unfortunately, all the threads I've found are filled with "me too, me too", and not a lot in terms of actual help.
What tools can I use, or tests can I run, to try to diagnose (and perhaps even solve) the problem myself before I give up and replace the drive?
A: Try running the Apple Hardware Test. If I remember right, reboot holding D. If that doesn't work, reboot while holding D, with an OS X disk in. Of course you'll need to have an external DVD drive for that to work.
A: It would depend first on what it means to not read the discs. Does the disc insert and then eject, or simply not show up in the Finder? Does it mount and not burn properly? etc.
You can check for the optical drive in your System Profiler to see if the hardware is present (see: Disc Burning).
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62a921e95655ec276e8fa590bd46b0b241004d93 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Multiple users on one machine and Dropbox If UserA logs in to an OS X machine (at the GUI) and starts Dropbox, UserB logs in via ssh and adds a file to their Dropbox, will Dropbox work for UserB? Or does UserB need to log in via the GUI also, and then "switch" (not log out) to UserA?
A: DropBox does not support not-logged-in users. The solution seems to be the following:
Log in and start Dropbox from the command line:
alias dropbox='/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox &'
dropbox # start it.
ps aux | grep -i dropbox # shows multiple instances running
The above technique seems to work. Error messages are sent when the second Dropbox launches:
already someone listening at socket
RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO establish the default connection to the WindowServer, _CGSDefaultConnection() is NULL.
But everything appears to work.
| Q: Multiple users on one machine and Dropbox If UserA logs in to an OS X machine (at the GUI) and starts Dropbox, UserB logs in via ssh and adds a file to their Dropbox, will Dropbox work for UserB? Or does UserB need to log in via the GUI also, and then "switch" (not log out) to UserA?
A: DropBox does not support not-logged-in users. The solution seems to be the following:
Log in and start Dropbox from the command line:
alias dropbox='/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox &'
dropbox # start it.
ps aux | grep -i dropbox # shows multiple instances running
The above technique seems to work. Error messages are sent when the second Dropbox launches:
already someone listening at socket
RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO establish the default connection to the WindowServer, _CGSDefaultConnection() is NULL.
But everything appears to work.
A: The Dropbox app runs as the logged-in user, and uses user-specific preferences to determine which Dropbox it's associated with and where the local Dropbox folder is located, so I'd assume that means that it only works for the logged-in user. There's only one way to find out for sure though - try it and see! :)
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561b2b24ad63c6811aff987e4eac947473765093 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Will Swype ever be available for iPhone? Swype has been rumored to one day become available for iPhone. Does anyone know of any concrete plans?
A: Update 2019-09-20
iOS 13 now has swype-like support built in.
Pre iOS 13...
I have been following Swype for some time, and the only thing they have officially said was one little peep in Reuters back in June about looking towards iPhone development. In the article they alluded towards a developer running Swype on his iPhone, however no releases or leaks are anywhere to be found.
My guess... just a guess... is that they are trying to work around the need to jailbreak your iPhone in order to run it.
If you follow the Engadget blog, you'll be among the first to know.
| Q: Will Swype ever be available for iPhone? Swype has been rumored to one day become available for iPhone. Does anyone know of any concrete plans?
A: Update 2019-09-20
iOS 13 now has swype-like support built in.
Pre iOS 13...
I have been following Swype for some time, and the only thing they have officially said was one little peep in Reuters back in June about looking towards iPhone development. In the article they alluded towards a developer running Swype on his iPhone, however no releases or leaks are anywhere to be found.
My guess... just a guess... is that they are trying to work around the need to jailbreak your iPhone in order to run it.
If you follow the Engadget blog, you'll be among the first to know.
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c65abbd51735e4182fde73e12b02404439911679 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Convert from OpenOffice to Pages Does anybody has experience in how to best convert OpenOffice.org documents to pages documents.
Obviously, it can be read in a Text Editor.
A: The way I do it is I export the OpenOffice document to Microsoft Word DOC format, then use Pages to convert that into a Pages document. There may be some formatting loss, but I'm not aware of a way to convert directly from one format to the other.
| Q: Convert from OpenOffice to Pages Does anybody has experience in how to best convert OpenOffice.org documents to pages documents.
Obviously, it can be read in a Text Editor.
A: The way I do it is I export the OpenOffice document to Microsoft Word DOC format, then use Pages to convert that into a Pages document. There may be some formatting loss, but I'm not aware of a way to convert directly from one format to the other.
A: I would suggest saving in RTF format instead of Word format as OS X has a very competent RFT engine as used by TextEdit and, I would guess, Pages. This avoids the conversion in and out of a poorly defined format with no public specification.
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00e12f5f8c64df5c8c9fb46d5e6b7a88fe4c7ec6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I install apps bought on the Mac App Store on multiple computers? If I buy an app on through the Mac App Store, can I install it on both of my Macs?
I use the same iTunes account on both of them.
A: There is no numerical limit, and you don't need to run App Store on every Mac. The App Store's own online Help document explains all this -- from App Store, open Help, then select Purchase Applications>Use Applications on Multiple Macs for details.
The only restriction on this is if your purchase was for commercial use and more than one person uses the apps. In that case the language of the license asks for one purchase per user or one purchase per computer.
| Q: Can I install apps bought on the Mac App Store on multiple computers? If I buy an app on through the Mac App Store, can I install it on both of my Macs?
I use the same iTunes account on both of them.
A: There is no numerical limit, and you don't need to run App Store on every Mac. The App Store's own online Help document explains all this -- from App Store, open Help, then select Purchase Applications>Use Applications on Multiple Macs for details.
The only restriction on this is if your purchase was for commercial use and more than one person uses the apps. In that case the language of the license asks for one purchase per user or one purchase per computer.
A: Yes. Just run the App Store app on the second Mac and go to the Purchases tab. You'll see a list of the apps you've already purchased, with an Install button next to each one - click the button to install on the second Mac.
A: You can in fact do this. There may be a limit to the number of devices similar to how iTunes limits you to 5 "authorized" computers. I'm not sure though. The concept is that the computers you install them on are supposed to be your own, but the truth is there is not literally any verification process to determine this. Fortunately, Apple never makes you jump through annoying anti-piracy hoops. I know this because I have Mac App Store apps on 2 computers in my house.
A: Yes, you can install apps bought from the Mac App Store on any and every Mac that you personally own and use.
I suggest you read this article about mac app-store
Licenses and copy protection
Can I buy an app on one Mac for use on all my computers?
Yes, you can install apps bought from the Mac App Store on any and
every Mac that you personally own and use.
What about the five-Mac restriction that I have with videos I bought
from iTunes? Does that work for Apps too?
No. Apps don't check to see if you've using an iTunes-authorized Mac.
They can ask you to verify your Apple ID and password, but that's a
single check and it's just to verify you are who you say you are. Once
your identity is verified, that's it. There's no authorizing or
deauthorizing or counting of different Macs.
Does that mean I could buy one copy of an app and install it on every
Mac in my business?
No, the license you agree to when you enter the Mac App Store says
that app downloads are for Macs that you personally own, and that's a
license for personal use. Apps that are intended for professional use
are licensed for you or for a single computer used by several people.
While there's no technical impediment to you installing them on
multiple Macs at work, you'll be violating the license agreement. It's
the same scenario as if you buy a single-user copy of iWork and
install it on ten Macs at work—you can do it, but you're violating the
license agreement, making the act ethically questionable.
A: Apple's rules: If you buy the app for private use, then you are allowed to run the app on up to six computers that you own and control. If you buy the app for commercial use, then you are allowed to either run it on any number of computers used by the same person, or on one computer used by any number of persons.
And none of these is checked by Apple.
A: No, you cannot. According to my research in the field, it is not allowed, except in North Korea.
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aa87234bc69bd7591ac6c837e44291d7f478a78d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I rotate a video? I just recorded a video on my phone, but when I play it on my Mac it's in the wrong orientation.
How can I rotate the video by 90 degrees so that I can upload it to youtube?
Free solutions are preferred.
I just found out how to do it using YouTube's Video Editor which has rotate left/right buttons.
But this is not an answer how to rotate on Mac.
A: Use QuickTime to Rotate Videos
You don't need to use any 3rd party tools to do this. It's built right in to QuickTime Player.
Any file that can be opened in QuickTime can be rotated by choosing Edit > Rotate Left (or Right) or by typing Command-Shift-L / R.
If you alter a movie file in this way and attempt to close the file (Command-W) you will be prompted to save your changes. Save them to a new file and you will have a newly rotated video.
Share your Video on YouTube with QuickTime
QuickTime also has a built-in way to share your video on YouTube. With the video open (and correctly rotated now) select Share > YouTube...
| Q: How can I rotate a video? I just recorded a video on my phone, but when I play it on my Mac it's in the wrong orientation.
How can I rotate the video by 90 degrees so that I can upload it to youtube?
Free solutions are preferred.
I just found out how to do it using YouTube's Video Editor which has rotate left/right buttons.
But this is not an answer how to rotate on Mac.
A: Use QuickTime to Rotate Videos
You don't need to use any 3rd party tools to do this. It's built right in to QuickTime Player.
Any file that can be opened in QuickTime can be rotated by choosing Edit > Rotate Left (or Right) or by typing Command-Shift-L / R.
If you alter a movie file in this way and attempt to close the file (Command-W) you will be prompted to save your changes. Save them to a new file and you will have a newly rotated video.
Share your Video on YouTube with QuickTime
QuickTime also has a built-in way to share your video on YouTube. With the video open (and correctly rotated now) select Share > YouTube...
A: Using ffmpeg you have a few techniques:
For newer versions of ffmpeg use:
ffmpeg -i in.avi -vf "transpose=1" out.avi
For older versions of ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -vfilters "rotate=90" -i input.mp4 output.mp4
Using mencoder:
mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -vf rotate=1 original.mp4 -o 90_CW_rotated.mp4
mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -vf rotate=2 original.mp4 -o 90_CCW_rotated.mp4
Sources: ffmpeg, mencoder
A: You can use MPEG Stream Clip: http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
Simply open the file and choose to export it from the file menu in a format of your choosing, selecting the appropriate rotation in the selection box.
You can find out the current format of the video by choosing File > Show Stream Info as to match the export to the input settings if required.
A: If you are willing to trust a web-based solution you can do the following:
*
*Go to video.online-convert.com.
*From left menu, choose what is your desired file format (select avi or mp4 if you don’t know much about this)
*Choose your file, it can be of any size and format
*Without changing or entering any settings, just choose to which angle you want to rotate your video
*Press “Convert button” and wait for the file to upload and convert.
*Converted file will be automatically downloaded
Source
A: Use the ⌘ Cmd+Shift+L, R, etc. when you open the video in Quicktime. That should do the trick.
A: Just open QT and it automatically rotates it. Then simply export it.
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428147c92cefdde3888fdefd925a86febfeceb92 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Preview an animated GIF image? How can I preview an animated GIF? When I double-click it, it opens in Preview and is not animated, showing each frame as a separate image instead of playing the animation. As an example, here is the image I was trying to preview (so you can try it yourself).
Is there some way to get Preview to play the animated GIF, or if not, what's the best app to imitate Preview in this one instance? (i.e. something that will quickly open and play the GIF, I don't care about editing and whatnot)
A: You can also preview in Terminal qlmanage -p awesomegif.gif
| Q: Preview an animated GIF image? How can I preview an animated GIF? When I double-click it, it opens in Preview and is not animated, showing each frame as a separate image instead of playing the animation. As an example, here is the image I was trying to preview (so you can try it yourself).
Is there some way to get Preview to play the animated GIF, or if not, what's the best app to imitate Preview in this one instance? (i.e. something that will quickly open and play the GIF, I don't care about editing and whatnot)
A: You can also preview in Terminal qlmanage -p awesomegif.gif
A: I'm using the animgifqlgen QuickLook plugin:
Animated GIF QuickLook plugin
This is a QuickLook plugin for MacOS-X 10.5/10.6 that allows QuickLook preview of Animated GIFs. The current GIF support in the Finder doesn't show animations. This plugin extends the Finder to allow QuickLook to display the GIF in its animated form.
A: In Mountain Lion and Mavericks, Mac's own Quick Look has GIF support, so clicking space or ⌘+Y while the GIF is selected will play it. It might take a second or two to load though, depending on the size of the GIF.
A: Right-click it, go to the Open With menu, and choose Safari (or your other favorite Web browser).
It should open quickly, and will play the animation.
No internet connection is required if you have a local copy of the image.
A: Answering the question, you go to your gif file, select it and press your space bar on your keyboard, to open a window that shows the animation of your gif.
I had installed the QuickLook plugging, thinking that will be better and easier to view, maybe in the same window of finder, but i was wrong. Instead of this, it only crashed the original configuration, so i wasted the rest of day, searching a fix solution.
How became after install the plugin:
i installed this and now when i hit space bar, i only view a black window instead of my animated gif (before, it was possible)!!! i want to fix it!!!! NOW! this shit doesn't have itself unistaller!
i thought that this pluging were allow me to preview gifs in the same window of finder (like the windows 7 does)!!!
After a long day searching for a solution, i find this tip:
I found a good soul that shared the solution on a forum website, here is what his said:
"To UNINSTALL this plugin, go to the /library folder and open the QuickLook folder. This is NOT the MacOS Harddisk/library or System/library folder. It’s a HIDDEN folder in your own directory. To access it, click the GO menu in the Finder menu (top bar) and press and hold the Option key. Select the “Library” directory that appears there. Inside the Quicklook folder, you’ll see the actual AnimatedGIF_QL.qlgenerator plugin file. DELETE it and you’ll immediately have your native GIF support working again."
And its working!!! :D yey!
hope this help someone!
A: Select the GIF (single click) in the Finder, then hit the space bar to bring up the GIF in Quick Look, which enables the animation.
A: In OSX 10.9, you can drag and drop it into a keynote slide. and then play it there.
A: A solution which bases on the accepted answer but is slightly easier in the long run would be to select a gif file and press ⌘+I to open the file properties panel. Look for Open with and choose Safari or your favourite browser. Click the now activated Change all button right underneath the App selector and from now on GIFs will always open in the selected browser and play the animation right away.
Maybe the button is not exactly labeled Change all as my system is German and I just translated my label for this answer. Please feel free to edit my answer if your system language is English and you can confirm/correct my translation.
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f3bef80178611878ad06c416be5506bdfe5ceadf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Infinite Safari history on iPad? I really don't like to bookmark things (on iPad or other platforms) but just type a few relevent letters that bring the right site from browser history as a suggestion. However, on iPad I noticed that when I haven't visited a site for a while, Safari no longer suggests sites it previously did.
So, it seems that the browsing history is limited, by days or by size, am I right? I tried to stop Safari automatically deleting page history or at least increase the history size but there's nothing relevant in Settings for Safari.
Is adding a bookmark for every site I want to be suggested for sure the only option? Are there any restrictions for amount of bookmarks?
A: The iPad seems to limit its history to a week, which is presumably an acknowledgement of the limited RAM and storage in comparison to a traditional computer.
Adding bookmarks for desired/frequent sites is the only way to make sure they come up easily. There is no practical limit to the number of bookmarks, and you could easily shove all of those bookmarks in a folder you never visit directly.
| Q: Infinite Safari history on iPad? I really don't like to bookmark things (on iPad or other platforms) but just type a few relevent letters that bring the right site from browser history as a suggestion. However, on iPad I noticed that when I haven't visited a site for a while, Safari no longer suggests sites it previously did.
So, it seems that the browsing history is limited, by days or by size, am I right? I tried to stop Safari automatically deleting page history or at least increase the history size but there's nothing relevant in Settings for Safari.
Is adding a bookmark for every site I want to be suggested for sure the only option? Are there any restrictions for amount of bookmarks?
A: The iPad seems to limit its history to a week, which is presumably an acknowledgement of the limited RAM and storage in comparison to a traditional computer.
Adding bookmarks for desired/frequent sites is the only way to make sure they come up easily. There is no practical limit to the number of bookmarks, and you could easily shove all of those bookmarks in a folder you never visit directly.
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6e56fbd4fc8157e7d1bdff2d29e39206150c081b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Safari keywords? I'm looking to imitate the functionality of Firefox's keywords in Safari. That is, I want to be able to type wp Apple in the address bar, and Safari should go to the Wikipedia article on Apple. I found a Sourceforge project, SafariKeywords, which does just this, but it was last updated in 2004 and doesn't work on Intel-based Macs.
Does the latest version of Safari have this functionality built in and I just didn't find it, or is there something like SafariKeywords I can use, or is this just a feature I'll have to live without?
A: I understand this is an older thread, but for the next person who comes along, I recommend taking a look at Safari Keyword Search. It is a Safari extension that adds exactly what you are looking for.
| Q: Safari keywords? I'm looking to imitate the functionality of Firefox's keywords in Safari. That is, I want to be able to type wp Apple in the address bar, and Safari should go to the Wikipedia article on Apple. I found a Sourceforge project, SafariKeywords, which does just this, but it was last updated in 2004 and doesn't work on Intel-based Macs.
Does the latest version of Safari have this functionality built in and I just didn't find it, or is there something like SafariKeywords I can use, or is this just a feature I'll have to live without?
A: I understand this is an older thread, but for the next person who comes along, I recommend taking a look at Safari Keyword Search. It is a Safari extension that adds exactly what you are looking for.
A: I don't know if this is what you're looking, but this feature exists on Alfred. It's also on the Mac App Store. And did I mention it's free?
It's basically a spotlight replacement with a few twists. With it, you can set custom searches for any site you want:
The main advantage is that you can search from anywhere you want, you don't have to be on Safari.
A: Alfred, or another app launcher is a great option.
However, if you want to do this without hopping to another application, you can use a text expansion utility. That way, you type wp and it converts to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=. Then, you just have to type in your query and hit enter. This can be done with 10.6's built-in text replacement tool.
Go to the Language and Text System Preferences pane. Choose the Text tab. Click the plus button to create your new substitution rule.
A: SafariStand is a SIMBL plugin has this feature. They call it QuickSearch.
For your Wikipedia example (which I also use) you would add this search:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/@key
A: Omnikey, an extension for Safari does exactly this.
A: I ended up installing Alfred as was suggested, and I've come to like it! But I completely understand those of you who don't want to install a Spotlight alternative. I found a Safari plugin called Keywurl which I think is exactly what I was looking for. I have not given it a try but the description fits the bill perfectly.
Also, if you give Keywurl a try with the latest Safari 5, you may have problems which this blog post has addressed.
A: There is also an ad-blocking proxy called GlimmerBlocker that I have used to do this. However, while this gives you "two plugins in one", GlimmerBlocker occasionally has problems with new versions of Safari on Snow Leopard.
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60be0bd76377c4d0f52d3d258b46f7bd1c5e6323 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Shortcuts & gestures you can't live without What are some gestures or shortcuts you use on a daily basis that you can't live without?
I've found the BetterTouchTool preference pane add on to be great for creating custom gestures on a per app or universal basis
A: ⌘ + ~ to move between open windows in the current application
| Q: Shortcuts & gestures you can't live without What are some gestures or shortcuts you use on a daily basis that you can't live without?
I've found the BetterTouchTool preference pane add on to be great for creating custom gestures on a per app or universal basis
A: ⌘ + ~ to move between open windows in the current application
A: ⌥+⌘+⇧+V to PASTE AND MATCH STYLE
(paste plain text, maintaining formatting of document you are pasting into) - if supported by the program
A: With Quicksilver, I added a ton of keyboard shortcuts for programs and folders, such as:
*
*⌘+⇧+P - Pictures
*⌘+⇧+D - Documents
*⌘+⇧+C - Google Chrome
*⌘+⇧+T - Terminal
*⌘+⇧+H - Current work folder
*⌘+⇧+E - Root of drive
*⌘+⇧+M - Movies
Ones I use most that are native to Mac:
*
*⌘+⇧+⌥+esc - Force kill app
*⌘+⇧+4 - Screenshot with saved jpeg on desktop
*⌘+I - Get info on file
*⌘+[ - Back
*⌘+] - Forward
*⌘+↓ - Go into folder
*⌘+↑ - Go out of folder
*⏎ on file - rename file
A: Three finger swipe left or right to move between tabs in my browsers.
Configured this universally through BetterTouchTool - it simply activates the appropriate keyboard shortcut
A: ⌘ + ⇧ + ⌫ = Empty trash.
There's something satisfying about hearing that trash emptying sound : )
A: Capture Screen shot:
⌘+⇧+3 (captures entire screen immediately)
⌘+⇧+4 (draw a rectangle to capture)
⌘+⇧+4, then space (click a window to capture)
Add ctrl to any of the above to copy to clipboard, rather than saving a PNG to the Desktop.
A: Sleep all displays:
ctrl+⇧+⏏
A: Do it and don't ever tell the victim how to undo:
ctrl+⌥+⌘+8 (only until Lion) (spoilers)
Couldn't possibly live without it, above all. It was fun while it was default... :-(
So, I'll add a handful of spoilers below on how it could still be done.
Unfortunately it now comes disabled. To re-enable it, find Keyboard Shortcuts Accessibility.
Or, after OS X 7, it won't be as smooth (even if you do practice positioning the mouse):
⌥+⌘+F5 then select Invert Display colors (apple article)
A: Seems like a silly question for Stack Exchange, but here goes. And I'll be more realistic than most folks.
*
*Two finger scroll
*⌘+Q (quits app)
*⌘+W (closes document/window)
*space for Quick Look in Finder
*space for play/pause in most media players
*⌘+C (copy)
*⌘+V (paste)
A: Hot corners
*
*Upper left - show all apps
*Lower left - show frontmost app
*Upper right - show dashboard
*Lower right - show spaces
Track pad gestures
*
*Two-finger scroll
*Four swipe up - show desktop
*Three-finger swipe down in Google Chrome - show tab exposé
3rd party system
*
*⌥+⇥ - cycle through frontmost applications windows (using Witch)
*⌘+§ - show my Finder visor (using Total Finder)
Misc Apple
*
*ctrl+⌘+K - switch keyboard layout (I regularly switch between Swedish and American)
*⌥+⇧+volume button - raise/lower volume using 1/4 increments
*⌘+P - set in Keyboard Shortcuts to "Save as PDF..." which allows you to press cmd-p followed by cmd-p when using e.g. a web browser to print to PDF.
*⌥+←/→ - move caret back/forward one word
*⌘+←/→ - move caret to beginning/end of line
Misc Applications
*
*⇧+⌘+T - undo close tab in Chrome
*⌘+space - Launch Bar
A: These are my current BetterTouchTool settings:
A: ⌘ + , to open the current application's preferences. Works in practically every OS X app that has a preference pane.
By comparison, in Windows preferences don't have a common shortcut and the menu entry, typically labelled either "Preferences" or "Options", can be found pretty much anywhere in the menu hierarchy (although often it's in one of Edit, Tools or View). Command-comma was one of the things I really loved when I switched to OS X.
A: ⌘ + ⇥ to switch between open applications
A: Let's see...
*
*⌘ + space for bringing up Alfred
*⌘ + ⇥ for switching between open applications
*⌘ + T to open a new tab in Safari
*⌘ + ⇧ + 3 to take a screenshot
A: Safari or Chrome
*
*⌘ + ⇧ + I : Send email containing current page's url + title as subject
BetterTouchTool
*
*Three finger click : middle click (the most useful)
*Three finger swipe left : ⌘ + ⇧ + [
*Three finger swipe right : ⌘ + ⇧ + ]
The three finger swipes, work in most apps which have tabs or tab-like interface i.e. Web Browsers, Terminal, iChat, etc
A: Safari/Chrome/Firefox:
three-finger-click: ⌘+W
two-finger-swipe-up: ⌘+⇧+T
This makes closing and reopening tabs super easy. With a three-finger click I can close a tab, and a two finger swipe up I can reopen it. Quick access to tab history is great when you've got lots of projects happening in lots of windows.
A: Safari
*
*Rotate Right - ⌘+⇧+]
*Rotate Left - ⌘+⇧+[
*Threefinger Click - MiddleClick
The rotate right/left gesture is kind of like your twisting a bottle-cap on and off. I use this to switch between tabs if I'm just browsing the web.
A: I'd rather use KeyCue from Ergonis Software which helps me find all the shortcuts and gestures an app can have. Check it out here!
But my favorite commands remain ⌘ + ⇧ + F in the finder to create smart folders.
A: There are only a few I couldn't live without…
⌘+\ <- Using visor, I've got terminal set to drop down from the top half of the screen. I use it very, very often
⌘+ctrl+D <- Dictionary - works most of the places I need it to.
⌘+space <- Spotlight - Invaluable.
I may be moving away from terminal, and towards iTerm2. iTerm2 has the same functionality built into it.
A: No one seems to have mentioned the ⌥ keymodifier very much!
⌘ +W Closes a window
⌘+M Minimises a window
Throw ⌥ in with these and it will apply the command to all windows in that application!
⌘+⌥+W Closes all windows in current app
⌘+⌥+M Minimises all windows in current app
Bonus tip: Hold ⇧ to slow down practically all window animations (minimise, Exposé, etc).
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def5e136e40aeb2ec1aa0235774e071aefaa6966 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Control draft saving in Apple Mail? Is it at all possible to change the time for saving drafts in Apple Mail? I use MobileMe and whenever I send an email, the draft doesn't get deleted automatically. I don't want to switch off saving of drafts, but would like to increase the time between saves. Since I don't need to save drafts for short emails.
A: If you go into Preferences, Accounts, select your account, then select the "Mailbox Behaviors" tab, there's an option to disable saving drafts on the server. I know you said you didn't want to disable saving of drafts, but this option will still save the draft on your computer, yet it won't mess up Mobile Me.
| Q: Control draft saving in Apple Mail? Is it at all possible to change the time for saving drafts in Apple Mail? I use MobileMe and whenever I send an email, the draft doesn't get deleted automatically. I don't want to switch off saving of drafts, but would like to increase the time between saves. Since I don't need to save drafts for short emails.
A: If you go into Preferences, Accounts, select your account, then select the "Mailbox Behaviors" tab, there's an option to disable saving drafts on the server. I know you said you didn't want to disable saving of drafts, but this option will still save the draft on your computer, yet it won't mess up Mobile Me.
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175f586d9d7d5b99d6f6b68929dfb030813eba4f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I disable the Screen Saver on the login window? How can I disable the Screen Saver on the login window?
A: You can edit the .plist file at /Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver either using a text editor, Plist Editor (requires the OS X Developer Tools) or the defaults command in Terminal to remove the screensaver at login window.
Like this:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver loginWindowIdleTime 0
| Q: How can I disable the Screen Saver on the login window? How can I disable the Screen Saver on the login window?
A: You can edit the .plist file at /Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver either using a text editor, Plist Editor (requires the OS X Developer Tools) or the defaults command in Terminal to remove the screensaver at login window.
Like this:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver loginWindowIdleTime 0
A: It isn't possible to disable the login screensaver in Mountain Lion due to a bug. According to https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4540671?start=0&tstart=0 the best you can do is log into root's screensaver settings and change it to Message which uses less resources.
See https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/16515/21181 for how to do that.
A: I believe this does the trick (at least it seems to have worked for mefor several hours now):
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver loginWindowIdleTime 0
This disables the screensaver in the loginwindow.
A: For some reason I don't understand yet, the solution in the accepted answer didn't work for me. Below is an alternative method that actually did work for me.
Before doing anything, i noticed that a file called com.apple.screensaver.plist did not yet exist in /Library/Preferences/. But issuing the defaults -command as mentioned in the accepted answer created this file with correct loginWindowIdleTime-entry just fine. This was confirmed both with defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver as well as by manually confirming the files' existence and inspecting its' contents.
However, it didn't seem to have any effect on the screensaver-behaviour in the Login Screen whatsoever.
I then used a different approach that actually did work:
*
*I opened a command-prompt (Terminal window)
*First I issued $ > sudo -s to become root
*Then, as root, I started System Preferences: # > /Applications/System\ Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System\ Preferences
*And finally I went into the Desktop and Screen Savers Preference-Pane to use the regular GUI to disable the screensaver timeout.
This did the trick for me.
I'm wondering though, if the defaults-command perhaps did actually work fine already, just the changed plist-value wasn't picked-up (synced) yet by the (still running?) screensaver process…
A: The problem is that the login screen is not the result of the screen saver, I lock my Mac when I go out. The screen saver appears by itself, even if it is disabled from SysPref.
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a251cefe0e5a89db12706dc7935689cfd0c70230 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I stop iTunes from automatically backing up the iPad? I'm trying to move some pictures from my laptop to my iPad, but every time the first thing iTunes starts doing is making a backup of the iPad.
But since I already keep a backup at my desktop, I want iTunes to back off and just let me move the pictures!
So how can I prevent iTunes from making automatic backups?
I'm using Windows 7. But feel free to leave OS X solutions as well.
A: Mac Answer:
You can disable device backups with this terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true
More info here.
| Q: How do I stop iTunes from automatically backing up the iPad? I'm trying to move some pictures from my laptop to my iPad, but every time the first thing iTunes starts doing is making a backup of the iPad.
But since I already keep a backup at my desktop, I want iTunes to back off and just let me move the pictures!
So how can I prevent iTunes from making automatic backups?
I'm using Windows 7. But feel free to leave OS X solutions as well.
A: Mac Answer:
You can disable device backups with this terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true
More info here.
A: Go to iTunes and open its Preferences window (Command ⌘+,). Select Devices from the toolbar and check the "Prevent iPads, iPods from syncing automatically" option.
A: This worked for me on Windows 7.
First make sure iTunes is closed, then follow these steps:
*
*Open the command window (Start > Run > Cmd)
*Go to the iTunes folder using either cd C:\Program Files\iTunes or cd C:\Program Files(x86)\iTunes depending on where iTunes is installed on your PC
*Type this command: iTunes /setPrefInt AutomaticDeviceBackupsDisabled 1
Voila! Your iLife just got better.
A: PC Answer:
You can edit the iTunesPrefs.xml file to disable backups on Windows.This article has directions.
A: With iOS 5, it is possible to back up to iCloud. You can use this to your advantage in this situation if you tell your iPad to back up to iCloud. It will then no longer back up to your computer.
This can be done either from iTunes or on your iPad itself Here's a screenshot in the General tab, visible when a device is selected.
A: There is a curved arrow with a dot near to it in the middle of top bar. Click on it once to stop the back up. Then only the sync will continue.
A: When I change the setting "Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically" in the interface the setting that gets updated in the defaults is dontAutomaticallySyncIPods.
Use the following commands to read/write this setting in the terminal:
defaults read com.apple.iTunes dontAutomaticallySyncIPods
defaults write com.apple.iTunes dontAutomaticallySyncIPods -bool true
The weird thing is when I open iTunes it changes this setting back to false unless I set it through the interface.
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681c01bd1e95dcfdeff4eb3ddf67f4f6d9aedec1 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Connect to VNC from Windows I'm trying to connect to a mac screen sharing from a windows machine using tightvnc
I'm getting the error
"Server did not offer supported security type"
Any ideas on how to fix this ?
A: If you use Vine Server VNC as the server on the mac and open up port 5900, and VNC Viewer on the PC (or any other vnc viewer) you'll be fine. Its not native, but its more flexible.
This, of course, is a free solution.
See this thread on mac screen sharing:
*
*Controlling a Mac remotely
Vine Server here:
*
*http://sourceforge.net/projects/osxvnc/
UltraVNC (client viewer only):
*
*http://www.uvnc.com/download/1082/1082viewer.html
| Q: Connect to VNC from Windows I'm trying to connect to a mac screen sharing from a windows machine using tightvnc
I'm getting the error
"Server did not offer supported security type"
Any ideas on how to fix this ?
A: If you use Vine Server VNC as the server on the mac and open up port 5900, and VNC Viewer on the PC (or any other vnc viewer) you'll be fine. Its not native, but its more flexible.
This, of course, is a free solution.
See this thread on mac screen sharing:
*
*Controlling a Mac remotely
Vine Server here:
*
*http://sourceforge.net/projects/osxvnc/
UltraVNC (client viewer only):
*
*http://www.uvnc.com/download/1082/1082viewer.html
A: I think the solution is shared here - http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=380251 (its someways in the middle of the thread). Do give it a whirl.
A: I've gotten this error too, from all the free VNC clients I've tried on Windows. None of them are able to authenticate the way the Mac wants; you will probably have to buy the more advanced version for it to work. TightVNC doesn't appear to be offered for money (just one free version), but RealVNC does and will probably work.
You could also figure out how to configure the security on the Mac so the free Windows client will work, but that's a.) probably a very techie thing to do and b.) dangerous because you're exposing your machine to control for anybody with network access to it.
A: Make sure that;
in System Preferences, Sharing, Screen Sharing, Computer Settings:
you have "VNC viewers may control screen with password:" checked. And a password filled in.
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962586bfe7abb123a95de42707dcd9d550979299 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Apple Sudden Motion Sensor and Hard Drive Upgrade I'm looking to upgrade a notebook hard drive and wanted to use the Hitachi Travelstar 5K750. Will it work with the Apple Sudden Motion Sensor? Do I have any way of identifying drives that will play nice with this technology? I've heard of problems in the past, should I be concerned?
I'm running a Macbook Pro 13" (2009). Thanks!
A: As long as the drive doesn't have a sensor itself, there will be no problem.
If the drive has an acelerometer for detecting movement, them you must disable Apple's Sudden Motion Sensor, as described here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1934
| Q: Apple Sudden Motion Sensor and Hard Drive Upgrade I'm looking to upgrade a notebook hard drive and wanted to use the Hitachi Travelstar 5K750. Will it work with the Apple Sudden Motion Sensor? Do I have any way of identifying drives that will play nice with this technology? I've heard of problems in the past, should I be concerned?
I'm running a Macbook Pro 13" (2009). Thanks!
A: As long as the drive doesn't have a sensor itself, there will be no problem.
If the drive has an acelerometer for detecting movement, them you must disable Apple's Sudden Motion Sensor, as described here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1934
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3864ebc76e884455093c0ed743aa3305f157d8e2 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Update iPod touch OS remotely I currently live in an area that has very poor internet connection. I can log in to iTunes but it would cost a fortune to download the updates to the OS. Is there a way I can have somebody bring the OS update on a thumb drive and load it from there?
A: When you plug in the iPod touch, Alt- or Option ⌥-click the device's "Restore" button in iTunes. This will allow you to choose the appropriate ipsw file to load on the device.
Have someone download the appropriate firmware for your device. Below are links to Apple's downloads of the 4.2.1 firmware.
*
*iPod touch 2G firmware 4.2.1
*iPod touch 3G firmware 4.2.1
*iPod touch 4G firmware 4.2.1
| Q: Update iPod touch OS remotely I currently live in an area that has very poor internet connection. I can log in to iTunes but it would cost a fortune to download the updates to the OS. Is there a way I can have somebody bring the OS update on a thumb drive and load it from there?
A: When you plug in the iPod touch, Alt- or Option ⌥-click the device's "Restore" button in iTunes. This will allow you to choose the appropriate ipsw file to load on the device.
Have someone download the appropriate firmware for your device. Below are links to Apple's downloads of the 4.2.1 firmware.
*
*iPod touch 2G firmware 4.2.1
*iPod touch 3G firmware 4.2.1
*iPod touch 4G firmware 4.2.1
A: Option ⌥-click (or Alt-click if using Windows) the restore button on the iPod screen, then navigate to the IPSW file you want to use to restore.
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b3515f5337879fe78e167c9c6905e4b36a7ade22 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Missing advanced network settings for iPhone USB/Bluetooth tethering My iPhone is tethered to my Mac laptop via Bluetooth or USB.
I want to set up a proxy on my Mac for use with the iPhone network interface, but unfortunately in Mac OS X 10.6, under System Preferences -> Network, the iPhone Bluetooth and iPhone USB network interfaces lack the standard options under the Advanced… tab. These Advanced… options are available in other interfaces (e.g., Airport, Ethernet, etc.).
I want to use the polipo caching proxy for tethered browsing, but I am unable to define an HTTP Proxy in the GUI, since these options are missing.
The prefpane windows for my tethered iPhone's network interfaces (Bluetooth & USB) is missing the normal options for network interfaces.
Does anyone know a command line workaround for setting up an HTTP proxy, or some way of modifying the prefpane settings for the iPhone network interfaces?
A: You can use the networksetup command. For example:
sudo networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxy "iPhone USB" localhost 8888
Take a look at http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/networksetup.8.html
| Q: Missing advanced network settings for iPhone USB/Bluetooth tethering My iPhone is tethered to my Mac laptop via Bluetooth or USB.
I want to set up a proxy on my Mac for use with the iPhone network interface, but unfortunately in Mac OS X 10.6, under System Preferences -> Network, the iPhone Bluetooth and iPhone USB network interfaces lack the standard options under the Advanced… tab. These Advanced… options are available in other interfaces (e.g., Airport, Ethernet, etc.).
I want to use the polipo caching proxy for tethered browsing, but I am unable to define an HTTP Proxy in the GUI, since these options are missing.
The prefpane windows for my tethered iPhone's network interfaces (Bluetooth & USB) is missing the normal options for network interfaces.
Does anyone know a command line workaround for setting up an HTTP proxy, or some way of modifying the prefpane settings for the iPhone network interfaces?
A: You can use the networksetup command. For example:
sudo networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxy "iPhone USB" localhost 8888
Take a look at http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/networksetup.8.html
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7dadfe93fa9062d1ec3b4ab1280d95f51d561dda | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to set up a default program opening an unknown file extension? I tried to open a file with an extension name of adb in Finder (to be precise, PathFinder).
When I clicked the file, vi editor is activated to open the adb file. I didn't do anything with the adb file, so my guess is that vi editor changed the system setup to open it whenever unknown file format is opened.
How can I change this behavior? I want to open TextMate as a default.
A: Finder Directions:
Click a file of that type. Press cmd-i. Reveal the Open With: tab of the Get Info window that appears. Select the app you want. Click the Change All button below that menu.
Now, all files of the type you opened will open with the application you selected.
| Q: How to set up a default program opening an unknown file extension? I tried to open a file with an extension name of adb in Finder (to be precise, PathFinder).
When I clicked the file, vi editor is activated to open the adb file. I didn't do anything with the adb file, so my guess is that vi editor changed the system setup to open it whenever unknown file format is opened.
How can I change this behavior? I want to open TextMate as a default.
A: Finder Directions:
Click a file of that type. Press cmd-i. Reveal the Open With: tab of the Get Info window that appears. Select the app you want. Click the Change All button below that menu.
Now, all files of the type you opened will open with the application you selected.
A: Check this answer which points you to RCDefaultApp so you can toy with extensions and default apps.
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8855603e83f4b6d4788972679fc93dd390db4a0b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Always Asked to Configure Firewall for iTunes Whenever I open iTunes, I get the standard OS X dialog, Do you want the application "iTunes.app" to accept incoming network connections?
Every time I click allow, but I am asked the same thing without fail the next time I open iTunes.
In the Advanced section of the Firewall tab of the Security System Preferences pane, I see that iTunes is in fact set to allow. Changing the firewall settings makes no difference.
Any ideas for how to get this setting to stick?
A: I looked at Am1rr3za's article, and eventually it just said to reinstall iTunes, which I did.
That worked.
Am1rr3za, post as an answer if you want the points. Otherwise, I'll accept this one.
| Q: Always Asked to Configure Firewall for iTunes Whenever I open iTunes, I get the standard OS X dialog, Do you want the application "iTunes.app" to accept incoming network connections?
Every time I click allow, but I am asked the same thing without fail the next time I open iTunes.
In the Advanced section of the Firewall tab of the Security System Preferences pane, I see that iTunes is in fact set to allow. Changing the firewall settings makes no difference.
Any ideas for how to get this setting to stick?
A: I looked at Am1rr3za's article, and eventually it just said to reinstall iTunes, which I did.
That worked.
Am1rr3za, post as an answer if you want the points. Otherwise, I'll accept this one.
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5843d7bbd0837a671bec90351eb672f97036fb8e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I remove ads from Cydia? The ads from Cydia are really intrusive and slows down the application a lot. How do I remove them?
A: One solutios is to edit /etc/hosts file and add:
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 media.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 cpxinteractive.com
127.0.0.1 adserving.cpxinteractive.com
If you know more addresses let me know.
| Q: How do I remove ads from Cydia? The ads from Cydia are really intrusive and slows down the application a lot. How do I remove them?
A: One solutios is to edit /etc/hosts file and add:
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 media.fastclick.net
127.0.0.1 cpxinteractive.com
127.0.0.1 adserving.cpxinteractive.com
If you know more addresses let me know.
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f6ba081cf59df3357b66163f4690f17ed34a4b39 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I read .CHM files in OS X? What software do I need to open and read a .chm document in OS X?
A: One of the best apps I've found is iChm. It has a Spotlight importer as well as the app itself.* It's free as well as being open source.
Only issue I've had with it is that sometimes long "m dashes", like —, will not be present, and instead the two words will be run together. (Though, I've looked at the source code myself, and it appears to actually be a problem with libchm, the open source library that iChm relies on).
*NOTE: the version of iChm in the link above (1.4.2) does not have a Spotlight importer, but I've forked this project on GitHub and added a Spotlight importer in version 1.5. You can download 1.5 at http://www.markdouma.com/developer/iChm.zip.
The GitHub project is at https://github.com/NSGod/ichm (it may be a day or so before I've pushed all of the changes).
| Q: How do I read .CHM files in OS X? What software do I need to open and read a .chm document in OS X?
A: One of the best apps I've found is iChm. It has a Spotlight importer as well as the app itself.* It's free as well as being open source.
Only issue I've had with it is that sometimes long "m dashes", like —, will not be present, and instead the two words will be run together. (Though, I've looked at the source code myself, and it appears to actually be a problem with libchm, the open source library that iChm relies on).
*NOTE: the version of iChm in the link above (1.4.2) does not have a Spotlight importer, but I've forked this project on GitHub and added a Spotlight importer in version 1.5. You can download 1.5 at http://www.markdouma.com/developer/iChm.zip.
The GitHub project is at https://github.com/NSGod/ichm (it may be a day or so before I've pushed all of the changes).
A: A little bit googled and find this.
http://chmox.sourceforge.net/
Hope it helps...
A: There are multiple viewers available. This article lists five.
I've never used any of these myself, but many are free or shareware. Give them a try.
A: While installing iChm on El Capitan, it was showing me a security warning. So, instead of changing my security settings, I gave CHM Reader from App Store a try. Works well for me.
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545aa1531b2474c513e1eb82e21420c452c3dd8b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: View Image Full Screen On occasion I need to look at an image at fullscreen so it doesn't have anything else around it to distract me. Is there a way to do that? I can't seem to find a way to do it with preview.
A: You can use View -> Slideshow to do this in Preview
| Q: View Image Full Screen On occasion I need to look at an image at fullscreen so it doesn't have anything else around it to distract me. Is there a way to do that? I can't seem to find a way to do it with preview.
A: You can use View -> Slideshow to do this in Preview
A: Additionally you can use QuickLook (spacebar) and click the FullScreen button :)
A: ⌥␣ in Finder opens QuickLook directly in full screen. There's also Sequential, a small app basically meant for viewing folders of images in full screen.
A: *
*Go to a folder with pictures
*Press Command + A to select all pictures
*Press Option + Space bar to view all images in full
screen
*Press Arrow keys to view next/previous picture
Note: Do NOT press Command + Backspace because It deletes all selected pictures!
Tested on macOS Big Sur 11.2
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9f1daf28be5d9e98492f0a79470267c653825477 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Sharing music in the iTunes library with multiple accounts and iOS devices My wife and I both have iOS devices (some iPods, an iPhone, soon an iPad), which means that both our iTunes libraries have not only music, but also apps, podcasts, iTunes U stuff, etc.
How could we manage to share just the music in one single location, and still keep our apps/podcasts/etc separated from each other?
A: Would iTunes Home Sharing work for you?
Basically, one of you would have all your music, but every device would have access to it.
| Q: Sharing music in the iTunes library with multiple accounts and iOS devices My wife and I both have iOS devices (some iPods, an iPhone, soon an iPad), which means that both our iTunes libraries have not only music, but also apps, podcasts, iTunes U stuff, etc.
How could we manage to share just the music in one single location, and still keep our apps/podcasts/etc separated from each other?
A: Would iTunes Home Sharing work for you?
Basically, one of you would have all your music, but every device would have access to it.
A: When the iTunes Store music was DRM'ed, this was a problem. But these days, your problem boils down to sharing the raw files for the music, and adding the directory containing those files to iTunes. Probably you're interested in the functionality of iTunes so that it can automatically "discover" music that has been added to a directory. I think that exists, but I haven't used it do far, so I don't know the details.
If some of your music is older and has access restrictions on it, then you have a bigger issue to work around. You can try to remove the protection. But otherwise, I don't a way to share protected music files and sync them together.
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559ec6709c31c5571f62bffa27a6aa95872152af | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac Pro 2007/2008 fresh Snow Leopard install with GT120 graphics card? I have a Mac Pro from late 2007, early 2008 and I want to perform a clean install but nothing comes up on my monitor. The graphics card is an NVIDIA GT 120 and the hard drive is an Intel SSD. I am assuming the graphics card is the problem but all comments point to it being supported.
How do I do a clean Snow Leopard install with the given hardware?
A: The Apple NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Graphics card is not compatible with the 2007/2008 Mac Pro, so in order to do the fresh install you will want to remove the GT 120 and re-install a compatible graphics card that will work with the 2007 / 2008 generation of Mac Pro.
As noted on Amazon the following system requirements are noted for the Apple NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Graphics card.
Product Features
*
*Requires Mac Pro (Early 2009 with 1066MHz DDR3 memory) with PCI Express 2.0 slot
*Requires Mac OS X v10.5.6 or later
| Q: Mac Pro 2007/2008 fresh Snow Leopard install with GT120 graphics card? I have a Mac Pro from late 2007, early 2008 and I want to perform a clean install but nothing comes up on my monitor. The graphics card is an NVIDIA GT 120 and the hard drive is an Intel SSD. I am assuming the graphics card is the problem but all comments point to it being supported.
How do I do a clean Snow Leopard install with the given hardware?
A: The Apple NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Graphics card is not compatible with the 2007/2008 Mac Pro, so in order to do the fresh install you will want to remove the GT 120 and re-install a compatible graphics card that will work with the 2007 / 2008 generation of Mac Pro.
As noted on Amazon the following system requirements are noted for the Apple NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 Graphics card.
Product Features
*
*Requires Mac Pro (Early 2009 with 1066MHz DDR3 memory) with PCI Express 2.0 slot
*Requires Mac OS X v10.5.6 or later
A: You have to keep the stock video card in the first slot, and the new one in the second slot, then OS X should boot because it senses the EFI patched video card and allows you to see it.
A: If you have reset the NVRAM to clear the device tree and let the mac have the best chance to run the installer, you still have some options to resolve this.
*
*A newer retail OS X DVD should
have the original and updated
drivers to drive that monitor
(making a failure more likely
hardware and less of a driver
question) than the DVD that originally shipped with that model.
*Taking the drive (or the whole Mac) to a shop that has all the boot images and several retail OS DVD on hand might be needed.
DeployStudio running on another mac has saved my day more times than I can count. Their boot loader is quite up to date - the closest to a universal image as I have seen. If that fails, you may have to resort to installing an OS to the drive connected to another mac in target mode or by a dongle for SATA drives.
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504c013fd117e7789e852ad84c323dd6c26e5572 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Emptying trash of the USB drive I have a USB drive plugged into my Mac. What I found was .Trashes was not emptied when the emptying trash (right click the Trash icon and run "Empty Trash") for the USB drive
What might be wrong? Is there any other way to empty trash the USB drive?
A: I don't know wether it's the best answer, but at least it's working answer.
Open the command line, cd to the USB volume (/Volumes/USB for my case), and type:
/bin/rm -rf ./Trashes/* works fine with me.
| Q: Emptying trash of the USB drive I have a USB drive plugged into my Mac. What I found was .Trashes was not emptied when the emptying trash (right click the Trash icon and run "Empty Trash") for the USB drive
What might be wrong? Is there any other way to empty trash the USB drive?
A: I don't know wether it's the best answer, but at least it's working answer.
Open the command line, cd to the USB volume (/Volumes/USB for my case), and type:
/bin/rm -rf ./Trashes/* works fine with me.
A: It's possible that there are files in some other user's trash. The .Trashes folder at the top of each volume has subfolders for each different user, by user ID number (e.g. user 502's trash is in .Trashes/502).
You can see if it for yourself using a command like this (replace VolumeName with your drive name):
ls -la /Volumes/VolumeName/.Trashes/
total 0
d-wx-wx-wt@ 3 _unknown _unknown 102 10 Feb 18:15 .
drwxrwxrwx@ 21 root wheel 782 13 Feb 14:17 ..
drwx------@ 35 _unknown _unknown 1190 13 Feb 14:18 502
Note: you might get a permissions error from this command, either because the .Trashes folder doesn't allow read access (solve this by adding sudo, e.g. sudo ls -ls ..., and entering your admin password when requested); and/or because of the privacy protections in macOS Mojave (10.14) and later (solve this by granting the Terminal access in System Preferences > Security & Privacy pane > Privacy tab > Full Disk Access category, see here for more details).
As you can see, on my USB disk .Trashes folder there's a sub foder called 502, owned by user ID 502 (for reference, my current user ID is 501). Since this user doesn't exist on my system, I see it as _unknown, and my user can't look inside of it, neither delete it. To look inside that folder we need to do it as administrator (i.e. use sudo).
If you are sure that you want to, you can delete everyone's trash by deleting the entire .Trashes folder with a command like:
sudo rm -R /Volumes/volumeName/.Trashes
Warning: as with anything involving sudo ("do as super user", i.e. system administrator) and rm -R, use this carefully. If you type it wrong, it could have ... unpleasant consequences.
A: 2 Solutions. 1 using Bash the other using Bash wrapped in AppleScript.
Solution #1
*
*Create a new AppleScript with /Applications/Utilities/AppleScript Editor
*Type the following code:
do shell script "rm -rf /Volumes/*/.Trashes/*" with administrator privileges
*Save the file to somewhere convenient and run it whenever you need to clear the USB Trash
*This can be executed by double-clicking on it
NOTE: This will empty the Trash for all connected volumes including your internal hard disk. If you have connected 5 USB drives and a Firewire hard disk, it will empty the trash for all of them.
Solution #2
*
*Fire up your favourite text editor (mine is nano)
*Paste the following code into your text editor and save the file
#!/bin/bash
sudo rm -rf /Volumes/*/.Trashes/*
*Save the file to somewhere convenient with the extension .sh and then make it executable with chmod +x {filename}.sh from Terminal
*Run that with ./{filename}.sh
NOTE: Same note as above. This is executable from Terminal.
A: I use this script AppleScript, save it as Application :
on open these_volumes
set t_id to user ID of (system info)
repeat with i in these_volumes
if (kind of (info for i without size)) is "Volume" then
set tPath to (POSIX path of i) & ".Trashes/" & t_id
do shell script "/bin/rm -Rf " & (quoted form of tPath) & "/*"
end if
end repeat
end open
Drag/Drop Volume(s) on the application.
This script removes the items from your trash (user ID) folder on the volume.
if other users use the volume this script will not delete the items from their trash folder, otherwise the script would need an administrator password to do that.
If you want to eject the volume after emptying the trash, use this script.
on open these_volumes
set t_id to user ID of (system info)
set volToEject to {}
repeat with i in these_volumes
if (kind of (info for i without size)) is "Volume" then
set tPath to (POSIX path of i) & ".Trashes/" & t_id
do shell script "/bin/rm -Rf " & (quoted form of tPath) & "/*"
set end of volToEject to contents of i
end if
end repeat
if volToEject is not {} then tell application "Finder" to eject volToEject
end open
A: Usual behavior:
When you delete something off a USB drive, it is moved to a .Trashes folder on that volume. When plugged into your computer, deleted items will appear in your trash bin with everything else.
When you unplug it, items that you've deleted from that drive will no longer show up in your trash UNTIL you plug it in again. Then, you can empty the trash. It will really delete them from that drive.
If that isn't happening for you, here's my suggestion:
*
*Select the drive in your Finder sidebar.
*Without selecting anything else, press cmd-i (or use menu item File → Get Info).
*Use the Sharing and Permissions section of that window to give Everyone the permissions to Read and Write.
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41176a19685ddbfda5ad9209869d39a404650e26 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I tell when Safari on iPad is using HTTPS Safari hides the protocol part of the URL (HTTP or HTTPS) in the address bar.
When I'm purchasing something on the Internet, I like to check that I'm using HTTPS when entering credit card details or entering a username and password.
I don't seem to be able to do this when using Safari on my iPad.
A: There should be a padlock before the page title at the top of the screen when you're on an https page.
| Q: How can I tell when Safari on iPad is using HTTPS Safari hides the protocol part of the URL (HTTP or HTTPS) in the address bar.
When I'm purchasing something on the Internet, I like to check that I'm using HTTPS when entering credit card details or entering a username and password.
I don't seem to be able to do this when using Safari on my iPad.
A: There should be a padlock before the page title at the top of the screen when you're on an https page.
A: On iPad 3 I touch the address bar to select then touch and hold to bring up the magnifying glass. Move your finger to the left all the way past the www. To reveal https:// or http://
A: you should see a locked lock near the type address, it shows that you are on https connection
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0aa28865c481419e72218a8ee1c1fa916f700d12 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does my Exchange account work on my iPhone, but not Mail.app? I can set up my work Exchange account just fine on my iPhone, but I can't get it to work on Mail.app under Snow Leopard.
I have read some forums and understand that mobile devices use ActiveSync in order to access Exchange mail and I thought Snow Leopard introduced this feature to Mail, but I can't seem to get it working.
I have tried just about every combination of settings I can think of.
My iPhone asks for a domain, but I can't find a similar setting in Mail. I have tried entering my username as domain/username to no avail.
Has anyone had experience/similar problems with this?
A: Most likely because your corporate exchange server is running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. Snow Leopard now only connects to Exchange 2007 (See http://www.apple.com/macosx/exchange/) whereas Leopard used to connect to Exchange 2003 using the OWA mechanism.
iPhone supports both Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010 it seems (See iPhone User Guide , page 2);
| Q: Why does my Exchange account work on my iPhone, but not Mail.app? I can set up my work Exchange account just fine on my iPhone, but I can't get it to work on Mail.app under Snow Leopard.
I have read some forums and understand that mobile devices use ActiveSync in order to access Exchange mail and I thought Snow Leopard introduced this feature to Mail, but I can't seem to get it working.
I have tried just about every combination of settings I can think of.
My iPhone asks for a domain, but I can't find a similar setting in Mail. I have tried entering my username as domain/username to no avail.
Has anyone had experience/similar problems with this?
A: Most likely because your corporate exchange server is running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. Snow Leopard now only connects to Exchange 2007 (See http://www.apple.com/macosx/exchange/) whereas Leopard used to connect to Exchange 2003 using the OWA mechanism.
iPhone supports both Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010 it seems (See iPhone User Guide , page 2);
A: I'd been struggling with the same issue for over a year. Finally I installed DavMail Gateway which is free.
It provides support for Exchange 2003 ( using OWA ). Using it you can even get support for LDAP directory services & even events in iCal!!
See page for details. Step-by-step instructions on:
Setting up DavMail on OS X
IMAP Mail setup
A: Have you tried everything listed in this Apple doc?
A: Try domain\username. I've never seen a forward slash work to indicate a domain. Then again, I've never tried. Do you get any error messages?
A: I've been having this problem with Exchange Server 2003 and Mail under Snow Leopard, and it's because the IMAP process on the server periodically dies. This affects the Mail app on the computer and not the iPhone because, as another answer here mentions, the iPhone uses ActiveSync, while the Mail app on the computer relies on IMAP if it's not Exchange 2007 or newer. Someone needs to log into the server and restart it.
One possible fix is here.
A: AFAIK: Snow Leopard supports Exchange via Web Services (new in Exchange 2007). All mobile devices use ActiveSync (which is basically XML over long lived HTTPS sessions).
Using IMAP to check email on Exchange is fine (if enabled on server) but you lose calendar and contacts sync.
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9e2734b94a299f60ee774afa4e7579fd26291383 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I get vim to work at 256 colors in iTerm? I just got a new iMac, and installed iTerm (0.10).
On my last laptop 256 color mode worked fine, but I'm having trouble getting this to work on my new Mac.
I copied over all the settings, set $TERM to xterm-256color, but no dice.
I changed my .vimrc to the absolute minimum to try this out:
set t_Co=256
syntax on
Tried multiple colorschemes, too.
A: OK, so...
I just started vim again, and colors where there. Since then I did make a changehowever, I installed XCode. This is the only thing I did change, so there must be something in there that fixes this.
Thanks for the effort!
| Q: How do I get vim to work at 256 colors in iTerm? I just got a new iMac, and installed iTerm (0.10).
On my last laptop 256 color mode worked fine, but I'm having trouble getting this to work on my new Mac.
I copied over all the settings, set $TERM to xterm-256color, but no dice.
I changed my .vimrc to the absolute minimum to try this out:
set t_Co=256
syntax on
Tried multiple colorschemes, too.
A: OK, so...
I just started vim again, and colors where there. Since then I did make a changehowever, I installed XCode. This is the only thing I did change, so there must be something in there that fixes this.
Thanks for the effort!
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589046afa17e336c425831716310b5fef098cb22 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Synchronizing Gmail Contacts to my Mac How do I sync GMail contacts into my Mac?
A: If you are using Mac OS X 10.5 or later, it's just a matter of enabling in in your Address Book:
*
*Address Book --> Preferences --> Accounts --> Synchronize with Google
| Q: Synchronizing Gmail Contacts to my Mac How do I sync GMail contacts into my Mac?
A: If you are using Mac OS X 10.5 or later, it's just a matter of enabling in in your Address Book:
*
*Address Book --> Preferences --> Accounts --> Synchronize with Google
A: On most modern Macs (Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard) you simply open the Address Book (-,), click on Accounts tab, and then under the left column, select "On My Mac (Local)".
Then click on the "Synchronize with Google" checkbox and enter your Google credentials, and voila! note that synchronising may have deleterious effects because of inherent problems with most sync systems. To be safe, I would back up either (or both) your Gmail and Address Book contants before proceeding.
To back-up your Address Book contacts go to File menu > Export… > Address Book Archive…
Your Gmail contacts can be backed up in this way.
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8944bb10ddffab94f52a8ccab1d18d84af8016fd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it really true that the iPhone doesn't have turn-by-turn navigation? I'm looking into getting a new Verizon smartphone. I like many things about the iPhone, but I'm concerned that I'll have to give up a feature I really like about my current phone--turn-by-turn navigation. According to this skattertech chart, the iPhone lacks this feature. Is there really not an "app for that"? (And if not, why? The phone has GPS, so what gives?)
A: There are plenty of apps for that, especially in the US (where I'm not). There are the apps that mankoff suggests (I use TomTom here in NZ), but I think he left out the best value option: MotionX GPS Drive - they actually do a bunch of different applications, and all great value. Check them out.
BTW, what phone are you using at the moment? What app are you most familiar with?
| Q: Is it really true that the iPhone doesn't have turn-by-turn navigation? I'm looking into getting a new Verizon smartphone. I like many things about the iPhone, but I'm concerned that I'll have to give up a feature I really like about my current phone--turn-by-turn navigation. According to this skattertech chart, the iPhone lacks this feature. Is there really not an "app for that"? (And if not, why? The phone has GPS, so what gives?)
A: There are plenty of apps for that, especially in the US (where I'm not). There are the apps that mankoff suggests (I use TomTom here in NZ), but I think he left out the best value option: MotionX GPS Drive - they actually do a bunch of different applications, and all great value. Check them out.
BTW, what phone are you using at the moment? What app are you most familiar with?
A: There is an app for that. Look in the App Store. I think the going rate for the GPS apps (Navigon, TomTom, etc.) is about $50 USD.
The built-in Google Maps app does have turn-by-turn (it lists the turns you need to take), but it does not have a voice, and it does not recognize when you have deviated from the suggested route and then re-program itself.
A: The thing is that the built-in Maps app uses Google Maps for the maps, and the Google Maps license doesn't allow a third-party to implement voice navigation using it.
So, Apple's Maps isn't allowed to implement voice navigation, but any other GPS software provider can offer the feature along with their own maps.
Here is a nice review of some of the GPS software available for the iPhone: http://www.macworld.com/article/156720/2011/01/gps.html
Also, that situation could change, since Apple purchased a maps company a few years ago.
A: The $50+ GPS apps usually include the maps in the download while the free/cheap ones download pieces of the map as required. This is an issue if you are going to drive in areas with poor data coverage. It's not a happy moment when your GSP doesn't have the necessary map section nd there's no reception to get it. On the other hand, apps like TomTom (which I use) are huge (1.2GB) since they include the map so it takes up a pretty big chunk of space on your phone.
Waze is a pretty fun app but is intended to help with local driving more than trip-based navigation. Map accuracy is crowd-sourced so the quality is wildly variable and the routing software isn't designed for long-trips. But it's a lot of fun to use.
Live traffic usually requires a fee but it varies from product to product.
All the apps suck your battery dry at an alarming rate. Power in the car is an absolute necessity.
A: Yes its true no turn by turn navigation from Apple on the iPhone, etc. However, there are many good free solutions out there and paid as well. One free solution that work currently best for local area navigation is the free Waze gps app. Works good for local under 1 hour trips and provides free traffic re routing too. Has an interesting community aka social networking aspect to it as well. Just note that with this app you are best off copying address from the maps app to Waze to best begin navigation.
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b8a92bdc922a9509963b14fd86924ed4bd94b8ba | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Transfer video from iPhone to Mac without cable? I'm at my job and I have no cable, so connecting my iPhone with my computer is not possible.
I have tried emailing the video, but the iPhone is compressing the video. It is not jailbroken.
Is it possible to transfer the original video?
A: Emailing full resolution photos or videos
On your iPhone open your camera roll and navigate to the overview screen where all your recent captures are shown via small square icons. Press and hold on the icon for the video you wish to move to your computer and select copy from the pop-up menu that appears.
Still on your iPhone open Mail and create a new message. In the body of the message, press and hold the cursor, and select paste from the pop-up menu. The message you send will now have the full, unadulterated video attached which you can download on your desktop.
Note: on my iPhone 4 I created a 4 second clip with very little motion and it used 6 MB. You may hit your attachment limit very quickly depending on length and resolution.
| Q: Transfer video from iPhone to Mac without cable? I'm at my job and I have no cable, so connecting my iPhone with my computer is not possible.
I have tried emailing the video, but the iPhone is compressing the video. It is not jailbroken.
Is it possible to transfer the original video?
A: Emailing full resolution photos or videos
On your iPhone open your camera roll and navigate to the overview screen where all your recent captures are shown via small square icons. Press and hold on the icon for the video you wish to move to your computer and select copy from the pop-up menu that appears.
Still on your iPhone open Mail and create a new message. In the body of the message, press and hold the cursor, and select paste from the pop-up menu. The message you send will now have the full, unadulterated video attached which you can download on your desktop.
Note: on my iPhone 4 I created a 4 second clip with very little motion and it used 6 MB. You may hit your attachment limit very quickly depending on length and resolution.
A: Use the Dropbox app. This lets you sync a large video wirelessly without worrying about file-size limits imposed by other messaging techniques (like email).
A: You can transfer video from iPhone to Mac in 3 different ways:
1. transfer over cloud servers
2. transfer over LAN
3. transfer over WiFi
This iPhone file manager app can help you transfer files from iPhone to Mac by using above 3 ways easily: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ifile-pocket/id690442933?mt=8
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16b22f23c46c517fcd7f54d71fe1d0ca54fdb34e | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do split panes in Terminal work? I tried to open a split pane to run another command but instead it displays the same in both panes and I can only interact with one of them. I thought it would split the view so I could use the two panes independently like two windows.
I have the Visor installed but I don't think it would interfere.
Terminal - version 2.1.1
Visor custom (84d1873) based on 1.5
A: It's meant to be like that. See this Super User answer:
You're misinterpreting the feature. It's not meant for two separate
terminals. It's intended to allow a
user to see two different view points
in the same terminal. For instance, if
you have 3000 files in a directory,
and you perform an ls command, that
output is going to be very long.
If you use the split pane, you can
scroll through that long output
without having to flip back and forth,
possibly losing your place along the
way.
If you want two terminals, use tabs,
or separate windows.
I would add that, for two separate terminals, you can use separate tabs as well.
| Q: How do split panes in Terminal work? I tried to open a split pane to run another command but instead it displays the same in both panes and I can only interact with one of them. I thought it would split the view so I could use the two panes independently like two windows.
I have the Visor installed but I don't think it would interfere.
Terminal - version 2.1.1
Visor custom (84d1873) based on 1.5
A: It's meant to be like that. See this Super User answer:
You're misinterpreting the feature. It's not meant for two separate
terminals. It's intended to allow a
user to see two different view points
in the same terminal. For instance, if
you have 3000 files in a directory,
and you perform an ls command, that
output is going to be very long.
If you use the split pane, you can
scroll through that long output
without having to flip back and forth,
possibly losing your place along the
way.
If you want two terminals, use tabs,
or separate windows.
I would add that, for two separate terminals, you can use separate tabs as well.
A: You should really have a look at screen (that´s an already installed command line tool, not a separate application), which gives you the ability to split your Terminal into two (or more) separate ones. I use that with Visor and it works like a charm. Have a look around here, there are quite a few tips on how to use "screen" on a Mac.
A: Also don't over look tmux. Its like screen but more features I believe.
A: iTerm 2 supports split panes with independent shells in each pane, not one linked shell.
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2117c11b3d3130d2ff04a4f0471617206e0ccb66 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How do I tell what processes are driving I/O loads? Something is driving a lot of Disk I/O on my system lately. I can see in ActivityMonitor that there are huge volumes of reads and writes every second. But none of the "normal" suspects are active when this is happening. (i.e. it's not time machine.) and I have plenty of free memory (800MB to 1.3GB out of 6GB total) so it shouldn't be paging. I don't see any apps in top that are blocked on I/O when this starts. (once it's going then I see things start to pile up... but everything I see in there appears to be victim.)
What tools can I use to get a sense for what process is causing the disk io?
I think it started with 10.6.6. :( I don't recall ever hitting this with 10.6.5.
A: Try sudo iosnoop; it shows I/O as it happens, including the process ID and process name doing the I/O, as well as data size, file path, etc. There are options to restrict it to only show a certain device, mount point, process, etc.
| Q: How do I tell what processes are driving I/O loads? Something is driving a lot of Disk I/O on my system lately. I can see in ActivityMonitor that there are huge volumes of reads and writes every second. But none of the "normal" suspects are active when this is happening. (i.e. it's not time machine.) and I have plenty of free memory (800MB to 1.3GB out of 6GB total) so it shouldn't be paging. I don't see any apps in top that are blocked on I/O when this starts. (once it's going then I see things start to pile up... but everything I see in there appears to be victim.)
What tools can I use to get a sense for what process is causing the disk io?
I think it started with 10.6.6. :( I don't recall ever hitting this with 10.6.5.
A: Try sudo iosnoop; it shows I/O as it happens, including the process ID and process name doing the I/O, as well as data size, file path, etc. There are options to restrict it to only show a certain device, mount point, process, etc.
A: On *nix systems lsof is used for checking to see what app has what file open. It's a good starting point for digging around.
Type man lsof at the commend line to see if its description sounds useful.
Also, open the "console" app, or tail -f some of the /var/log files that show a lot of activity, and see if something is broken or complaining.
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41f4a5d712ff07c44f8974f38e74034d895cd54a | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can anyone recommend a programmers' editor? I'm looking for a programmers' editor. I know Xcode and I use it for application programming but I'm looking for something that will:
*
*Syntax highlight PHP, SQL, Javascript (including jQuery) and CSS not required but would be nice; also Lua, Python, and Perl
*IntelliSense type stuff, start typing and get all the functions/objects/variables it could be and any parameters. Xcode does this well for C/C++/Objective-C but looking for languages that are listed above.
*Would be nice if it worked with projects and not just files
*Integrated with SVN, CVS, or GIT
*Had upload-to-server functionality built in
I am aware of Coda but am looking for other options before I drop 100 bucks.
A: Eclipse has addins for those languages and does all of the things you mention
| Q: Can anyone recommend a programmers' editor? I'm looking for a programmers' editor. I know Xcode and I use it for application programming but I'm looking for something that will:
*
*Syntax highlight PHP, SQL, Javascript (including jQuery) and CSS not required but would be nice; also Lua, Python, and Perl
*IntelliSense type stuff, start typing and get all the functions/objects/variables it could be and any parameters. Xcode does this well for C/C++/Objective-C but looking for languages that are listed above.
*Would be nice if it worked with projects and not just files
*Integrated with SVN, CVS, or GIT
*Had upload-to-server functionality built in
I am aware of Coda but am looking for other options before I drop 100 bucks.
A: Eclipse has addins for those languages and does all of the things you mention
A: One more thing.
Sublime Text 2
A: Smultron is one of my favorites, along with TextWrangelr. Both are free.
A: Espresso is nice. Similar to Coda.
A: ActiveState's Komodo is an excellent cross-platform IDE (it's based on Gecko, so feels as native to OS X as Firefox does).
It includes all of the features you mention. There's also a free, open-source, version, Komodo Edit that includes nearly all the features (e.g., no source code repository integration).
A: NetBeans is my development environment of choice. While it's not my text editor for regular files - I'm using TextWrangler or vim on the shell for that - it is the most usable IDE I've come across so far.
It has great code completion, supports various languages, has a great formatting engine, extremely well done and easy to configure debugging functionalities and a very good SVN integration.
A: TextMate
Doesn't address all of your needs but I think it's pretty snaz.
A: BBEdit by Bare Bones fulfills all of your requirements. Pricey but 100% worth it.
A: jEdit do some of your requests, but not all of them, and it's also free.
You can read here its feature and languages that it supports.
A: Ultraedit is now available for MacOS X. I haven't tried it yet. But if it comes with the same features as the Windows version (which I use on a daily basis as part of my job) it is absolutely a good recommendation.
It can do all the stuff you are asking for with the exception of providing an integration with software configuration management. Man, would I love to see this implemented.
A: An editor that gets overlooked a lot is MacVim. It's based on the venerable vim editor, from *nix, and can do everything you asked via plugins.
I show it supports 176-ish different languages, including all the ones you mentioned.
I regularly do lookups of existing methods, variables, random text phrases via a CNTRL_N or CNTRL_P mapping which searches all the open files and pops up a list of the hits.
Vim calls its projects "sessions", which stores all the files, window settings, macros, etc., for later reloading. From vim's "direct" mode, :mksession path/to/sessionfile will create it. Sourcing it later from the command-line is simple: vim -S path/to/sessionfile.
There's a great plugin called VCS, that handles my SVN stuff:
...CVS, SVN, SVK, git, bzr, and hg within VIM, including committing changes and performing diffs...
Upload to server functionality is handled by the netrw plugin.
vim does have a steep learning curve, the vimtutor, which comes with the app, can help jump-start you. Also, there are active users here and on SO's sister sites, plus on the vim IRC node on freenode.net.
Probably the most awesome thing about vim, is its available in an interfaced version on Mac OS as MacVim, on Linux using gvim, on Windows, and from the command-line of any of those OSes. vim on any of them will use the same commands, same plugins, same themes, etc., within the limitations of those environments. I bounce back and forth from Mac to Linux all day long and have at least one vim window open somewhere.
And, lest anyone think I'm not familiar with the Mac-only alternatives, I own all my copies of Coda, BBEdit and TextMate, and use them. I go way back with BBEdit, and actually used to occasionally demo it at MacWorld. It's great, but I use vim with the same settings everywhere, and none of the other editors can do that. So, if you need that cross-platform compatibility, look into it.
A: i'd go with Fraise, which used to be Smultron. works with very many languages and has a minimalist interface. syntax highlighting.
A: Beyond up-voting @philip's BBedit recommendation, I am compelled to emphatically endorse BBEIT: BBEdit Simply the best coding editor I've used PC or Mac. I've not used VIM but I've been coding since before DOS existed, so I understand the speed of all-keyboard-all-the-time editing. I'll give you that and yet stand by my BBEdit endorsement.
P.S. Did I mention I like BBEdit?
A: I'd second the recommendations for Sublime Text and the JetBrains products (I use WebStorm extensively in my job). If you want something free, atom is well worth a look. It's fairly bare-bones, but has a wide selection of plugins that should encompass what you need.
A: It has been mentioned, but only in passing:
Atom (https://atom.io/) is open source and developed by GitHub. Integration with github is superb and it is particularly interesting these days since there is a lot of development with new features and new ideas regularly. I think it will cover your whole list of requirements through extensions (packages - https://atom.io/packages).
A: For me Jetbrains PHP-Storm is simply the best & most complete IDE!
It has a lot of good and usefull features though it stays simple to handle and setup.
It's available for Linux, OSX and Windows. .
Pros:
*
*PhP 5.x
*Javascript (JSLint, JSHint code hints)
*HTML/CSS/SCSS/SASS
*Lua, Perl and Python plugins do exist. (checked at JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA plugin Repository)
*Intelligent and configurable code completion in all languages mentioned:
*
*Object calls
*chaining methods
*method list on objects
*namespace proposition when typing or creating
*all kind of syntax errors
*Intelligent searching & replacing in files and directories, also with regular expresions
*etc...
*Project based
*FTP/SFTP
- Automatic upload when saving or when leaving the window (when Alt+Tabing to the browser)
- Upload external changes, coming from the terminal/console, SCSS/SASS compiler, etc.
- Remote/local file comparison by timestamp or content with the option to merge
*GIT, Mercury and CVS fully integrated. For SVN at least one plugin exists at the JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA plugin Repository...
*Local files comparison & merging, (2 files)
*Console/Terminal
*Debugging
*Editor code style settings
*etc
Cons:
*
*About 100 $ for a personal licence.
installable on several machines, but usable only by one machine at the time in an internal network.
*It's written in Java, so it needs quite a lot of memory and CPU.
PhpStorm 9.0.0 system requirements:
The absolute minimum!!!
Intel Pentium III/800 MHz or higher (or compatible)
512 MB RAM minimum, 2 GB RAM recommended
1024x768 minimum screen resolution
A 24 inch late 2009 iMAC with a 2.66 Ghz Core Duo, 4 GB RAM and Mavericks installed is definitively too slow to get the work done in time!
I'd recommend as a minimum 8GB RAM on a OSX Mavericks and 16GB on a windows machine. Linux should stand with whatever you have ;-)
A: These are some of my favorites from a front end designer's standpoint:
*
*Coda
*Espresso
*Sublime Text
*TextMate
*Atom (my personal choice currently)
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571935336c3361a7510acdf2533a898c1398f6ba | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I disable the iPhone's auto-rotation to landscape mode? I can't stand iPhone's auto-rotation feature, e.g. rotate your phone just past some threshold, and the screen rotates from portrait to landscape.
This is always tripping me up, especially when I'm lying down and simply want to read my iPhone in portrait mode.
Is there a way to just disable the feature altogether?
A: No, there is no way to disable the accelerometer on an official iPhone.
Apparently for Jailbroken iPhones, there is a Cydia app called 'Rotation Inhibitor' (thanks JeffP) that lets you disable tilting for Safari and music mode. Info is here, but I have no experience with it.
| Q: Can I disable the iPhone's auto-rotation to landscape mode? I can't stand iPhone's auto-rotation feature, e.g. rotate your phone just past some threshold, and the screen rotates from portrait to landscape.
This is always tripping me up, especially when I'm lying down and simply want to read my iPhone in portrait mode.
Is there a way to just disable the feature altogether?
A: No, there is no way to disable the accelerometer on an official iPhone.
Apparently for Jailbroken iPhones, there is a Cydia app called 'Rotation Inhibitor' (thanks JeffP) that lets you disable tilting for Safari and music mode. Info is here, but I have no experience with it.
A: Before iOS 4 - jailbreak software changes could do this.
For iOS 4 and later, the lock function easily sets a portrait mode for all apps that run in both portrait and landscape.
You can lock the screen rotation on the iPhone 3GS and 4, running iOS 4, to portrait only by double pressing the Home button (bringing up the task switcher), swiping right to show the media controls and pressing the left most icon (looks like a refresh button), the rotation lock. When locked you will see a padlock in the icon and a new status bar icon of the same design.
Note: this does not affect applications which only run in landscape mode, such as most games.
Edit: Video of how to do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYkUzYXtZT0
A: On iOS 7+:
*
*Slide your finger from the bottom of the screen upwards. A menu called Control Center should appear.
*
*Click on the lock icon.
A: With the advent of the iOS 6+ Accessibility feature "Guided Access", there is a workaround for this. It limits a few things but it completely works if you really need a solution.
*
*To enable the feature you will use, navigate to Settings > General > Accessibility > Guided Access and flip the toggle to ON. Set a passcode.
*Navigate to the app you wish to lock rotation in, and rotate the device to a landscape orientation.
*Triple-click the Home button. Depending on how other Accessibility options are set, you may need to then select Guided Access from a popup that appears.
*Select Options and disable Motion. Press Done, followed by Start.
This will now lock the rotation in a lanscape orientation! Unfortunately it also disables all hardware buttons, so you will be unable to switch apps, lock the device, or adjust the volume until you triple-click the Home button again to disable Guided Access.
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d31b7453ce69f3524a33bd52d2688258723c5576 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to make preview jump to a specific line on startup I am using TexLipse for working with latex, producing pdfs as output. I have configured it to use preview as viewer using this command line:
open -a "/Applications/Preview.app" %fullfile
Where %fullfile is the name of the file to be opened. TexLipse supports the adding of a %line argument, that can be passed to the viewer to make it jump to the position where the cursor in the editor is at. However, I could not find a way or any documentation on how to pass that argument to preview. Can anyone explain how to achieve this? Is it even possible?
A: If you are working with LaTeX, you should use Skim.app not Preview.app
Skim has support for moving bi-directionally between LaTeX source and the PDF, to a specific line in either the source or PDF file.
| Q: How to make preview jump to a specific line on startup I am using TexLipse for working with latex, producing pdfs as output. I have configured it to use preview as viewer using this command line:
open -a "/Applications/Preview.app" %fullfile
Where %fullfile is the name of the file to be opened. TexLipse supports the adding of a %line argument, that can be passed to the viewer to make it jump to the position where the cursor in the editor is at. However, I could not find a way or any documentation on how to pass that argument to preview. Can anyone explain how to achieve this? Is it even possible?
A: If you are working with LaTeX, you should use Skim.app not Preview.app
Skim has support for moving bi-directionally between LaTeX source and the PDF, to a specific line in either the source or PDF file.
A: Not possible with Preview. It can go to a specific page, but that's as close as you can get. And I doubt that's baked into the CL access.
You can get the free Adobe Reader for Mac here. It must be able to do this...
A: It is possible with Preview.app but it wasn't designed for this so it is a bit of a hack.
Turn on GUI scripting, then make a script that simulates pressing the down arrow, then call that script n times.
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0adbbdc48fa77d01e336e3964d80289b752ce371 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What command combo at terminal will output a list of directories with human-readable sizes? I'd like to open Terminal.app and enter a command like:
my-macbook-pro:~ my-username$ ls -lh
Instead of seeing the size of the folders in bytes that are in my current working directory, I'd like to see size of the folders, including all of their contents like so:
drwxr-xr-x 7 my-username staff 100Gi Dec 20 19:38 my-huge-project-folder
drwxr-xr-x 3 my-username staff 80Gi Dec 27 14:15 my-slightly-smaller-project-folder
Is there a command I can type that will yield similar output above?
A: In order to see a list of folders with sizes you can use the du command.
To make the sizes human readable use the -h option
To make sum the size of child folders use the -s option (may take some time to run depending on the contents).
du -hs *
Here is an (uninteresting) example of the output.
0B Desktop
632K Documents
356K Downloads
76M Library
0B Movies
0B Music
4.0K Pictures
0B Public
40K Sites
| Q: What command combo at terminal will output a list of directories with human-readable sizes? I'd like to open Terminal.app and enter a command like:
my-macbook-pro:~ my-username$ ls -lh
Instead of seeing the size of the folders in bytes that are in my current working directory, I'd like to see size of the folders, including all of their contents like so:
drwxr-xr-x 7 my-username staff 100Gi Dec 20 19:38 my-huge-project-folder
drwxr-xr-x 3 my-username staff 80Gi Dec 27 14:15 my-slightly-smaller-project-folder
Is there a command I can type that will yield similar output above?
A: In order to see a list of folders with sizes you can use the du command.
To make the sizes human readable use the -h option
To make sum the size of child folders use the -s option (may take some time to run depending on the contents).
du -hs *
Here is an (uninteresting) example of the output.
0B Desktop
632K Documents
356K Downloads
76M Library
0B Movies
0B Music
4.0K Pictures
0B Public
40K Sites
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6c57610dfbb4334e0ff215ea678122130164fc77 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: When plugged in, does the iPhone use the battery or the external source during heavy use? I love to play games and do other tasks that quickly drain the iPhone's battery. Sometimes I'll use the phone while plugged into a power supply. Does the iPhone still use the battery when performing these high-performance tasks while connected to the power source?
A: When you're plugged in to a power source, the iPhone will not use the battery unless for some reason you are using more power than the charging source can provide.
Normally, unless some process is hitting the CPU and GPU and all radios (such as a GPS mapping app), even a computer USB port at 500 mA will both power your games/apps and charge your battery at the same time.
Even if your game takes more current than the charge is providing, using all the wall power will reduce the amount of battery being consumed which will certainly save your battery.
Of course, you should expect hundreds of full charge/discharges and as long as you are one a month draining the battery, you don't need to keep the electrons moving otherwise for good battery lifespan and health.
| Q: When plugged in, does the iPhone use the battery or the external source during heavy use? I love to play games and do other tasks that quickly drain the iPhone's battery. Sometimes I'll use the phone while plugged into a power supply. Does the iPhone still use the battery when performing these high-performance tasks while connected to the power source?
A: When you're plugged in to a power source, the iPhone will not use the battery unless for some reason you are using more power than the charging source can provide.
Normally, unless some process is hitting the CPU and GPU and all radios (such as a GPS mapping app), even a computer USB port at 500 mA will both power your games/apps and charge your battery at the same time.
Even if your game takes more current than the charge is providing, using all the wall power will reduce the amount of battery being consumed which will certainly save your battery.
Of course, you should expect hundreds of full charge/discharges and as long as you are one a month draining the battery, you don't need to keep the electrons moving otherwise for good battery lifespan and health.
A: Although Nathan has a valid point for wall charging, from personal experience it is possible to discharge the battery while it is plugged into a powered USB port.
Even though my iPod Touch 2nd Gen was plugged into my MacBook, playing Need for Speed Undercover was sufficient to cause the device to power down due to low battery. It seems that a powered USB doesn't provide sufficient charge to offset the drain caused by a graphically intensive game.
To sum up: if you are worried about exhausting the battery while charging, use a wall charger.
A: nonsense , the icon means nothing , i have my phone at 100% with the plugged in icon , i use it for awhile it goes back to lightning icon , i use r more it goes down to 99% , at 96% now having used it plugged in since 100% watching stuff in YouTube multitasking iPod etc
it shows Apple electronics suck that they are clever enough to implement this - or they prefer batteries have shorter life , to charge you more money
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4c41a287354fb97128b830cb363a34221005736f | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Mac starts up as administrator I just got a new Mac Air for my wife. Every time she starts it up (after installing software, crashes, whatever), it starts up logged in as administrator. This confuses my wife no end (where did all my stuff go?)
How can I make it just go to the login screen?
A: You can disable automiatic login by going into System Preferences, Accounts, then selecting "Login Options" and changing "Automatic login" to "Off":
| Q: Mac starts up as administrator I just got a new Mac Air for my wife. Every time she starts it up (after installing software, crashes, whatever), it starts up logged in as administrator. This confuses my wife no end (where did all my stuff go?)
How can I make it just go to the login screen?
A: You can disable automiatic login by going into System Preferences, Accounts, then selecting "Login Options" and changing "Automatic login" to "Off":
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ab33e33a000ebd2f3d1073801d22f7a79470a80c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does OS X file organization works like Ubuntu's? I mean, does mac have a "home" folder, and if I want to format and reinstall the system, it'll not affect my home folder? And the Desktop is a folder within the home folder?
A: OS X does indeed have a home folder, in /Users/<username> with a hierarchy of folders, including one for Desktop, in this location - similar to Ubuntu.
On most Linux distributions the /home is a different partition on the drive and formatting the primary OS partition would not erase your data. This is not the case with OS X and (unless you've made a concerted effort to the contrary) erasing the OS X drive will erase your data.
| Q: Does OS X file organization works like Ubuntu's? I mean, does mac have a "home" folder, and if I want to format and reinstall the system, it'll not affect my home folder? And the Desktop is a folder within the home folder?
A: OS X does indeed have a home folder, in /Users/<username> with a hierarchy of folders, including one for Desktop, in this location - similar to Ubuntu.
On most Linux distributions the /home is a different partition on the drive and formatting the primary OS partition would not erase your data. This is not the case with OS X and (unless you've made a concerted effort to the contrary) erasing the OS X drive will erase your data.
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266e27cdc74277bd937df6cdbf01796fba711bbd | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is the white MacBook suitable for software development? I'd like to know if you think the white MacBook (2.26ghz, 2gig ram) is sufficient for software development (using Xcode, Interface Builder etc...)
A: To elaborate on @Martín's answer, a MacBook is perfectly fine for development, I use one myself and never had issues.
But you could improve it. Switching to 4GB of RAM would be first thing on the list. Using a second screen could also vastly improve this setup. Another (bigger) investment would be to buy a SSD.
| Q: Is the white MacBook suitable for software development? I'd like to know if you think the white MacBook (2.26ghz, 2gig ram) is sufficient for software development (using Xcode, Interface Builder etc...)
A: To elaborate on @Martín's answer, a MacBook is perfectly fine for development, I use one myself and never had issues.
But you could improve it. Switching to 4GB of RAM would be first thing on the list. Using a second screen could also vastly improve this setup. Another (bigger) investment would be to buy a SSD.
A: XCode 3.x (and possibly 4.x when it's released) will definitely work on that Macbook. I have an old white Macbook 2.4 Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM and it works. Compared to the 8 Core Mac Pro, it's really slow, but it's fast enough to use it and do things with it.
If you want to compile a big and complex project, it will of course take longer, but other than that, the hardware is perfectly capable of running Xcode and its surrounding tools.
The projects will take longer to load after a cold boot, and the whole machine is naturally more limited in terms of absolutely everything (compared to a regular Mac Pro, iMac or even a newer Macbook/Pro), but if you need a light and loyal machine, this will definitely serve you.
I'm using mine with Mac OS X 10.6.6. I remember even playing World of Warcraft on that machine a year ago.
A: I'm using an old White Macbook with 4gb of RAM and it runs perfectly.
Specifications:
*
*Processor: 2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
*Memory: 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
*OS: Snow Leopard
A: I own a white MacBook (MacBook4,1) with the 13" screen. I got the RAM upgraded to 4GB right when I bought it, so I unfortunately cannot say whether 2GB would be sufficient for iOS development. However, with 4GB, I run a low-profile Linux VMware Fusion VM for development, and also XCode and IB, and my system runs fine for the most part. Over the years, it has become a bit slower, though.
I'd like to point out that the 13" screen may cause problems. While it is an amazing screen in terms of display quality, it is sadly pretty small for most development stuff. I am not saying you cannot get anything done. You can. I did for over two years. But it cuts down on your productivity. In the case of Interface Builder, you will quickly feel the constraint as Interface Builder is fond of spewing countless Windows all over the place. A second display is going to help a lot, but you may probably not be able to get exactly the same quality of display on the external as you would on the laptop screen. It is something that gets to me from time to time.
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00f617330ea69c7d835df90392fb851529dad44c | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Checking for folder/file changes using Automator? Is there there a way to check a folder/file for changes (includes adding files, deleting files, changes in files,...). The 'Folder action' in Automator is only checking if any files are newly added.
A: You can add a "Run Shell Script" action with the command:
find <directory> -newermm <reference_file>
This will give you all files and directories inside <directory> that have changed since the last change of <reference_file>. Just make sure you modify the <reference_file> each time you run the Automator script.
Also give a look to the find manual page (enter man find in the terminal) for more options. Find is very powerful and further refining your search is usually a matter of a couple of additional options. E.g. to search only for directories modified after <reference_file>:
find <directory> -type d -newermm <reference_file>
If the version that ships with OSX is not enough, you can also try the version that comes with findutils (brew, macports etc) which should have slightly more features.
| Q: Checking for folder/file changes using Automator? Is there there a way to check a folder/file for changes (includes adding files, deleting files, changes in files,...). The 'Folder action' in Automator is only checking if any files are newly added.
A: You can add a "Run Shell Script" action with the command:
find <directory> -newermm <reference_file>
This will give you all files and directories inside <directory> that have changed since the last change of <reference_file>. Just make sure you modify the <reference_file> each time you run the Automator script.
Also give a look to the find manual page (enter man find in the terminal) for more options. Find is very powerful and further refining your search is usually a matter of a couple of additional options. E.g. to search only for directories modified after <reference_file>:
find <directory> -type d -newermm <reference_file>
If the version that ships with OSX is not enough, you can also try the version that comes with findutils (brew, macports etc) which should have slightly more features.
A: I don't know of a way to do this with Automator, but there is an app in the App Store called Folder Watch that may do what you're asking.
A: So last time I checked, Automater is using Applescript in the background to script your actions. Applescript does not have much depth to it. While it can get the list of files in a directory (and so therefore you could find out when something gets deleted), I don't believe it can calculate changes to a file.
What you really need to harness is file system notifications. And since that's a beast, I would take kraymer's advice and use launchd. It has hooks to execute anytime the contents of a folder is changed. Lingon (see also its outdated SourceForge page) is a great application for helping people jump into launchd. You can write your automator script/application to do whatever you were planning to do when your directory was modified and just have the launchd task call that.
A: You can check at an earlier answer of mine, but it sounds like you want
fs_usage -f filesys
Launchd is not the way to go for file changes, fs_usage uses the underlying machine that powers spotlight.
EDIT: I'm utterly wrong here. Launchd has exactly that functionality required, ie: do something on a file or directory change.
You make a .plist file.
Scream "XML SUX FOR CONF FILES!" ( It really does. )
and you'll want to use one or both of the keys below in your launchd job.
WatchPaths <array of strings>
This optional key causes the job to be started if any one of the listed
paths are modified.
QueueDirectories <array of strings>
Much like the WatchPaths option, this key will watch the paths for modi-
fications. The difference being that the job will only be started if the
path is a directory and the directory is not empty.
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92d8a8c8b2e79ec64c676d62e289dc633677da72 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What does "plays" really count in iTunes? iTunes displays the number of "plays" for each track. What exactly does this mean?
For example, playing a little bit of a track does not seem to increment the number. But playing most, but not all, of a track seems to.
Does playing n seconds trigger the increment? n percent of the track? Or something else?
I have a 4GB iPod Mini, if that matters.
The motivation is, I have iTunes set to automatically delete podcasts after they're played, and I don't want to accidentally trigger a deletion.
A: I believe that you just have to listen to the last few seconds of a song. You can skip all of the beginning part, and it will increment the Plays if you listen to the end.
| Q: What does "plays" really count in iTunes? iTunes displays the number of "plays" for each track. What exactly does this mean?
For example, playing a little bit of a track does not seem to increment the number. But playing most, but not all, of a track seems to.
Does playing n seconds trigger the increment? n percent of the track? Or something else?
I have a 4GB iPod Mini, if that matters.
The motivation is, I have iTunes set to automatically delete podcasts after they're played, and I don't want to accidentally trigger a deletion.
A: I believe that you just have to listen to the last few seconds of a song. You can skip all of the beginning part, and it will increment the Plays if you listen to the end.
A: In the behavior I have seen in the 5+ years of podcast listening. iTunes marks it as played based on a percentage listened. My guess is that would be about 98-99% listened. A 5 minute show would basically be the end. An hour and a half show would be just the last few seconds.
A: In case Nathan G's answer wasn't super-clear: play count == number of times the file played right to the very end. That means you need to let an audio file play right to completion - either until the next track starts to play, or you are returned back to the song list (if it is the last track in the list).
A: Nathan G. answer was right but I want to add some other info, if you let iTunes play last second of your song and go to another song it ++ your plays of that song, but if you click other song to play and the remaining time of current song is <5s still iTunes ++ play for that song.
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Q: How to disable Finder's "is available on your computer" message I've set up an SSH tunnel to SMB on a remote Windows server, and want to access it using the Finder. I set up the tunnel using the command:
ssh [email protected] -p 3484 -L 1445:windowsserver:445
(445 is the default Windows file sharing port, which I haven't changed. My SSH server is configured to use port 3484 instead of 22).
The tunnel sets up all fine and dandy. Then, in Finder, I click "Go -> Connect to Server," enter "smb://localhost:1445" and hit return. I immediately get the error "The server 'localhost' is available on your computer. Access the volumes and files locally." Except, of course, that's a dirty lie, since localhost:1445 is a tunnel, not the ultimate destination.
Is there any way to suppress this behavior and force Finder to actually connect to the tunnel despite the fact that it has "localhost" in the name?
A: You should be able to mount the server from the command line with mount_smb:
mkdir /Volumes/sharename
mount_smbfs //smbusername@localhost:1445/sharename /Volumes/sharename
| Q: How to disable Finder's "is available on your computer" message I've set up an SSH tunnel to SMB on a remote Windows server, and want to access it using the Finder. I set up the tunnel using the command:
ssh [email protected] -p 3484 -L 1445:windowsserver:445
(445 is the default Windows file sharing port, which I haven't changed. My SSH server is configured to use port 3484 instead of 22).
The tunnel sets up all fine and dandy. Then, in Finder, I click "Go -> Connect to Server," enter "smb://localhost:1445" and hit return. I immediately get the error "The server 'localhost' is available on your computer. Access the volumes and files locally." Except, of course, that's a dirty lie, since localhost:1445 is a tunnel, not the ultimate destination.
Is there any way to suppress this behavior and force Finder to actually connect to the tunnel despite the fact that it has "localhost" in the name?
A: You should be able to mount the server from the command line with mount_smb:
mkdir /Volumes/sharename
mount_smbfs //smbusername@localhost:1445/sharename /Volumes/sharename
A: I'd make a symlink for this. Link the smb:// address to a local folder, so you can go into that folder and see what's on the share. I haven't used symlinks for this specific purpose, but I think they should work. Interested in hearing if they do.
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e14441157da853e9bc23318a99b1d3d8b43d21e8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Monitoring and limiting internet usage I am currently having to access the internet through a wireless dongle which is giving me a 2gb per month download allowance. I need to be really cautious about my internet usage.
Just this afternoon I ran out due to some process downloading 600mb of something. I have no idea what it was (although I suspect iTunes) or why it would need to download so much.
Is there anyway I can monitor which processes are using the network, or failing that set up a firewall that only allows the apps I choose to have access?
A: If you install Little Snitch you can monitor which application using internet. Every time any application wants to use internet you must accept or deny it, but it doesn't have an ability to measure bandwidth usage of each application.
You can see its demo here.
| Q: Monitoring and limiting internet usage I am currently having to access the internet through a wireless dongle which is giving me a 2gb per month download allowance. I need to be really cautious about my internet usage.
Just this afternoon I ran out due to some process downloading 600mb of something. I have no idea what it was (although I suspect iTunes) or why it would need to download so much.
Is there anyway I can monitor which processes are using the network, or failing that set up a firewall that only allows the apps I choose to have access?
A: If you install Little Snitch you can monitor which application using internet. Every time any application wants to use internet you must accept or deny it, but it doesn't have an ability to measure bandwidth usage of each application.
You can see its demo here.
A: 600 MB doesn't sound like iTunes, unless you told it to do it.
I'd look into "Software Update...", which, in its case, can have its automated run turned off so you can run it manually.
A: HandsOff! (trial available)
is a very feature rich firewall for MacOSX. The features included which you need are:
*
*prompts you when a process/applications tries to connect to the internet
*monitoring network connections
*settings rules for application's network connections
The total bandwith you see in the monitor is only since last boot.
A: I found SurplusMeter to be very effective while using my 3G USB Stick.
Here's also a tutorial.
A: You might try NetUse, $8 at the App Store.
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Q: How to stop OS X from writing Spotlight and Trash files to memory cards and USB sticks? When plugging a USB stick into a Mac, OS X creates a number of hidden files on the stick, including a Spotlight index and Trash folder.
Example from the terminal for a USB stick "Untitled":
$ ls -a /Volumes/Untitled
.Spotlight-V100
.Trashes
._.Trashes
.disk
.fseventsd
It even does this on the xD memory card for my camera, so after having copied my pictures and deleted them from the card, the card is still full.
Is it possible to turn this off for USB and memory cards, so OS X either writes these files to the primary disk or doesn't write them at all?
A: MacOS now provides this direct flag that you can toggle from Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteUSBStores -bool true
| Q: How to stop OS X from writing Spotlight and Trash files to memory cards and USB sticks? When plugging a USB stick into a Mac, OS X creates a number of hidden files on the stick, including a Spotlight index and Trash folder.
Example from the terminal for a USB stick "Untitled":
$ ls -a /Volumes/Untitled
.Spotlight-V100
.Trashes
._.Trashes
.disk
.fseventsd
It even does this on the xD memory card for my camera, so after having copied my pictures and deleted them from the card, the card is still full.
Is it possible to turn this off for USB and memory cards, so OS X either writes these files to the primary disk or doesn't write them at all?
A: MacOS now provides this direct flag that you can toggle from Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteUSBStores -bool true
A: Actually touching the .Trashes file will be the best way to solve your main problem since .Trashes is now a file instead of a folder. This means that Apple can't relocate the files to the .Trashes folder when you delete them and your drive is no longer full.
Another option is to hit Cmd-Opt-Shift-Backspace to force Finder to empty the .Trashes content on the card before you eject it.
The first method is really the best as the second affects all Trash contents on all drives.
However, it seems from your post that you are more worried about the pollution of the drive by the various dot files. If you follow the steps mentioned above, you'll save your disk space, but there will be a minimum of dot files created.
A: @ Miles Leacy's post
and @ qarma's comment:
No, this is still possible even in OSX 10.9, but you need to do a few extra steps now:
1) In Finder click Go then click Go To Folder...
2) Type /Volumes and click Go.
3) A Finder window will open, and it should say Volumes at the top.
This is the most important step:
4) Next to where it says Volumes at the top of the Finder window, there is a tiny blue folder icon. Click and drag this icon left into your Favorites panel.
5) Now you will have access to your Volumes folder anywhere, including in Spotlight settings like Miles Leacy suggested. (Whenever you need it, just click on the Favorites link to select it.)
Hope this helps,
Best,
Vlad :)
~ ~ ~
~ ~ ~
What it looks like after adding the Volumes folder to the Spotlight exceptions list:
Notice in the background you can see my post in Safari. ;)
A: Update for Catalina and later
On Catalina and later, you might get an error saying "Operation not permitted" when trying to delete metadata stores on removable volumes using Terminal. To fix this, enable Full Disk Access for Terminal in System Preferences > Security & Privacy.
Now, if you haven't done so already, disable Desktop Services Store for USB volumes and turn off Spotlight indexing for the volume:
sudo defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteUSBStores -bool true
sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/<FS NAME>
sudo rm -rf .{DS_Store,fseventsd,Spotlight-V*,Trashes}
The first line disables .DS_Store files being created on USB volumes and only needs to be run once. The next two lines turn off indexing for Spotlight and delete the files. These need to be run every time the volume is mounted. Although you could add a script to launchd that will run when the volume is mounted, example https://superuser.com/a/132128
A: I use the MacOS Terminal command line to list and delete all these files and folders before ejecting the device from the desktop. For some files, you may have to sudo the /bin/rm command.
A: I use Clean Eject (free). It doesn’t stop writing the files but will intercept the drive before it gets removed, so it’s better than a tool that you have to run separate from the eject process..
In addition I use a custom Automator Service (also free) to be able to assign a hotkey to clean & eject a volume using the app.
A: Dumbest thing ever that I can't simply contribute this to
Metaxis' answer. But it's easy to create a bash script that automatically handles this for all folders in /Volumes (or a specific one if you specify). Should be able to invoke it with Automator or Applescript when a folder appears under /Volumes, then you have automatic disabling of indexing.
#!/bin/bash
if [ -n "$1" ]; then
if [ ! -e "${1}/.metadata_never_index" ]; then
echo "mdutil -i off $1"
mdutil -i off "$1"
cd "$1"
rm -rf .{,_.}{fseventsd,Spotlight-V*,Trashes}
mkdir .fseventsd
touch .fseventsd/no_log .metadata_never_index .Trashes
fi
else
# echo "finding Volumes"
find /Volumes -type d -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 "$0"
fi
A: To keep Spotlight from indexing non system volumes, add /Volumes to the Privacy list in System Preferences > Spotlight.
/Volumes is the point in the file system where all non-system disks are mounted by default.
A: Old question, but I, finally, discovered Asepsis. This is an open source utility that solves this age-old problem by confining all the .DS_STORE directories in one place, by default /usr/local/.dscage
After installation, and a reboot, no more .DS_STORE on USB drives, with the advantage (for some of us) of not having to disable indexing on external drives.
Since version 1.4 it also supports OS X Mavericks.
Update from Aepsis website: "Warning: Asepsis is no longer under active development and supported under OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and later.
A: The built-in dot_clean terminal command will remove ._ files:
dot_clean /Volumes/name_of_drive
and merge them into the existing files, thus not loosing any data.
That does still leave .Spotlight-V100 and others, though.
A: UPDATED March 2018
It seems my solution is not valid anymore, the solution that works right now is proposed by @ElmerCat in one of the answers below.
He is suggesting to use CleanMyDrive 2
Deprecated Solution
As I know you have 2 choices :
*
*TinkerTool (free)
*BlueHarvest (commercial)
A: An easy way to stop my car audio trying to read hidden Mac OS files is to remove them in Windows OS. Simply copy your MP3 music to the USB stick from iTunes. Swap the stick into Windows OS and select view hidden files from folder options. This will then allow you to delete every single hidden file that your trusty Mac placed on your USB stick including those pesky .trashes files. Finally a use for Windows OS!
A: I ended up using a free app "Hidden Cleaner". My car's MP3 player was trying to read .(MP3filename).mp3 (hollow, empty mp3 files) as well. Go to Macintosh HD in Devices section on the Finder left hand menu and drag your USB drive and drop onto the Hidden Cleaner app. It will cleanup the hollow files and leave the real MP3s and will eject your USB.
Note: That is not a permanent solution. You need to do above everytime you copy files. I don't mind though.
A: Most of the solutions here are 'clean up dotfiles before eject', rather than 'prevent dotfile creation'.
In my search for a free solution for the former, I've tried a few options, and settled on the applescript here: SuperUser: Does anyone have a Mac Terminal script to remove hidden files? because it allows me to see exactly what's happening along the way.
Note in my comment on that answer that I made a small edit to get it working on OSX 10.12.1. (I'm not reposting the source in this case, as this seems a pretty 'link friendly' question).
A: *
*Insert the USB drive.
*Navigate to Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities and open Terminal.
*At the Terminal prompt, type the following command, replacing path_to_volume with the real path:
sudo mdutil -i off /path_to_volume
*Press return.
*If prompted for a password, type your admin password, then press return.
You will receive the response:
/path_to_volume/: Indexing disabled for volume. in Mac OS X 10.4 or
/path_to_volume: Indexing disabled. under Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
Spotlight will immediately cease to index the specified volume.
*If you are using Mac OS X 10.5 or later, skip to step 9.
*At the Terminal prompt, type the following command, again substituting the correct path:
sudo mdutil -E /path_to_volume and press return
*If prompted for a password, type your admin password, then press return.
You will receive the response:
/path_to_volume/: Volume index removed.
*At the Terminal prompt, type exit then press return.
*Quit Terminal.
Thanks to thexlab.com, their troubleshooting Mac OS X e-books, and their website for the detailed explanation of why other methods sort of work.
A: Another way to deal with (just the) spotlight files, is to add that volume to your Spotlight exclude list. Plug the device in, and go to the Spotlight prefpane in System Preferences. Select the Privacy tab. Now drag that volume from your desktop up into the privacy list.. or use the + button at the bottom to add it. No more spotlight indexing will happen on that volume.
A: Update — 2021 December
I tested the latest version of Clean My Drive 2 on an M1 Mac, and am happy to report it still works perfectly. The developer continues to update and support the app, which is still free on the Mac App Store.
(previous remarks below still apply)
2017 December
You'd think after all these years, Apple would build something into the Finder to deal with this. It's still a very common problem for people using USB disks or SD cards to play media in their cars or other devices.
Nonetheless, developers have filled the void with numerous Apple-approved apps. The apps listed in previous answers might have been good at the time, but they haven't been maintained to work with modern versions of macOS.
I'd also be a bit wary of installing something that will wield total control of the filesystem, written by unidentified developers. Not wanting to deal with the App Store is one thing, but not wanting to register with Apple as a developer is another. Moreover, something from the AppStore has undergone at least minimal auditing by Apple and can be removed from your computer as easily as it is installed.
So, whenever you happen to read this "answer", its advice to you is to search the App Store for something up-to-date, well reviewed, and free.
TL;DR:
My choice on ***December 20th, 2017*** is "CleanMyDrive 2" from the App Store. Solves the problem, lovely interface, completely free. (Offers in-app purchases of customized icons. Otherwise, everything works for free.)
Tomorrow, something better may come along, but the bottom line is: the App Store has free, easy solutions to j-g-faustus' original but enduring question, posed here so many years ago — a question I had myself today.
So I apologize if this seems more like a rant than an answer, but indeed, all of the previous answers were out-of-date and didn't lead to a useful solution. Not saying something would lead more people to waste time fiddling with the Terminal or installing questionable apps. Just go to the App Store — you won't need to pay.
A: For just a particular mounted volume - like a flash drive called yourUSBstick in this example - these commands will remove existing cruft, stop Spotlight indexing now and in the future, stop the related fsevents logging, and disable the Trash feature.
mdutil -i off /Volumes/yourUSBstick
cd /Volumes/yourUSBstick
rm -rf .{,_.}{fseventsd,Spotlight-V*,Trashes}
mkdir .fseventsd
touch .fseventsd/no_log .metadata_never_index .Trashes
cd -
Other unfamiliar stuff you may still see you probably want to keep, like Apple double "._*" files and other Apple DS cruft relating to icons and window placement.
A: I got this to work on Sierra 10.12.3 in Automator.
First, I made this version of the script:
It functions the same way as freefly42's, just a different way of writing the same thing.
To translate for non-native bash speakers, what it does is:
If run with a commandline argument, it tries to see if the argument is a directory, and if that directory contains a file named ".disable_osx_metadata".
If the special file is not there, then nothing happens. That drive is ignored.
If the special file is there, the script deletes all the osx metadata and creates a few small new items which prevents anything else. For instance, creating a file named .Trashes prevents the OS from creating a directory named .Trashes and then writing files in there.
If run with no arguments, it runs itself once for each directory in /Volumes.
So, if you run it manually or click on it, it checks all attached drives.
If you create a workflow in Automator, then Automator runs it whenever a drive is attached, just for that drive.
#!/bin/bash
x=.disable_osx_metadata
[[ "$1" ]] || exec find /Volumes -type d -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -exec $0 {} \;
[[ -e "$1/$x" ]] || exit 0
mdutil -i off "$1"
rm -rf "$1"/.{,_.}{fseventsd,Spotlight-V*,Trashes}
mkdir "$1/.fseventsd"
touch "$1/.fseventsd/no_log" "$1/.Trashes" "$1/$x"
Save as "disable_osx_metadata", chmod 755, copy to /usr/local/bin .
$ cd Documents/disable_osx_metadata/
$ chmod 755 disable_osx_metadata
$ sudo cp disable_osx_metadata /usr/local/bin
Then open Automator, New, Folder Action
Then I found that even in Sierra 10.12.3 you CAN still add the /Volumes directory in Automator, by a non-obvious way.
Go to Finder, File, "Go To Folder...", manually write in "/Volumes" and hit Enter.
Now this shows you a window with your HD and usb drives, but no obvious "/Volumes" folder to click on.
But the title bar says "/Volumes", and it appears at the bottom too.
You can drag the folder icon next to "/Volumes", either from the title bar or from the bottom, over to the Automator, and drop it on "Folder action receives files and folders added to:[______]"
Close Finder.
Back in Automator: on the left, scroll down and drag "Get Folder Contents" to the right and drop it.
Then on the left again, scroll down and drag "Run Shell Script" to the right and drop it below "Get Folder Contents".
Change "Pass input:" to "as arguments".
Shell:[ /bin/bash ] Pass input:[ as arguments ]
Then drag the script from /usr/local/bin onto the box under "Run Shell Script" so it says
"/usr/local/bin/disable_osx_metadata"
File, save, disable_osx_metadata.workflow
For reference, this gets saved in:
/Users/YOUR_NAME/Library/Workflows/Applications/Folder Actions
If you save something wrong, I think you have to manually navigate there in Finder to delete it.
Finally, for each new usb drive you want to protect, you have to create a file named ".disable_osx_metadata" in the root folder.
You can do it in Terminal:
$ touch /Volumes/NO\ NAME/.disable_osx_metadata
Or just keep a small text file around with a visible name (no leading dot) and copy it to the root of any new usb drive and rename it .disable_osx_metadata after copying.
That drive now gets cleaned each time you attach it from now on.
Not as clean as I'd like. You have to pollute the drive a little, in order to tell the OS not to pollute it more. There seems to be no way make the OS simply leave it alone and not add any files that you didn't ask for.
TODO: Add enable/disable functions to create/remove the dot-file.
TODO: This does not prevent the .DS_Store files in every directory.
TODO: Is it possible to package up the script and the foo.workflow file so a user can skip most of these manual directions? I see there is an "export" option in Automator that creates some sort of package file.
TODO: Possibly obsolete this whole post. This applescript + automator workflow might be better:
https://superuser.com/questions/319553/does-anyone-have-a-mac-terminal-script-to-remove-hidden-files/814104#814104
A: macOS stores deleted files in the .Trashes folder. You can stop it from doing this by turning the .Trashes folder into a file. You can do this in the Terminal:
sudo rm -rf "/Volumes/CARD NAME/.Trashes"
sudo touch "/Volumes/CARD NAME/.Trashes"
Replace CARDNAME with the name of your SD card, which you can see in the Finder sidebar.
Finder is aware of this, and when you tell it to move an item to the trash on that volume, it will warn you that the item will be deleted immediately.
A: I found this App in the Apple App Store for free and use it, and it has worked great for me: CleanUSBDrive by José A. Jiménez Campos.
A: Another OSX utility for removing these extra files is DOTCLEANER which can be found on the OSX App Store.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dotcleaner-ds-store-remover/id1113480556?mt=12
A: Currently, Cleanmydrive2 is available on the app store for free and handles this problem for user up to high sierra.
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a9f5835a18d700aa429c46bdef50f771d876c1b5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to reorder the inbox list in the Mail app I check 3 email accounts on the iPhone. So under 'All Inboxes' in the email app, there are 3 entries. How do I reorder the 3 inboxes? I'd like to put the inbox that's currently 3rd in the list to be 1st in the list.
A: Delete the accounts and re-enter them in the order you want them to appear.
| Q: How to reorder the inbox list in the Mail app I check 3 email accounts on the iPhone. So under 'All Inboxes' in the email app, there are 3 entries. How do I reorder the 3 inboxes? I'd like to put the inbox that's currently 3rd in the list to be 1st in the list.
A: Delete the accounts and re-enter them in the order you want them to appear.
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ec499f7ea40972efb3dd62b4c1100716718d6fd3 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Free or Cheaper Alternatives to Apple Remote Desktop 3 Apple Remote Desktop isn't a bad program. It's a bit overdue for an update, has some issues, but is an otherwise solid program. The big downside to ARD is the price, however.
I'm trying to find an option for teachers in primary/elementary classrooms to have all the computers in their class up on the projector (which you can do with remote desktop) but I don't want to pay the US$499 unlimited seat option (education pricing is a bit cheaper, but still too much). I'm aware you can VNC using the Finder in Snowleopard, but I'm hoping for a tidy program that can simultaneously show (view) several macs. VNC Control would be nice, but isn't necessary. Ideally (almost essential) it will use the existing screen sharing engine in Sharing.preferences.
Update
It's important that the product can show more than one screen at the same time. Logmein free is a great product but doesn't do this.
A: ARD is now available on the Mac App Store for only $79.99.
ARD aside, you can do pretty much anything ARD can do with Screen Sharing, File Sharing, scp, ssh and AppleScript.
| Q: Free or Cheaper Alternatives to Apple Remote Desktop 3 Apple Remote Desktop isn't a bad program. It's a bit overdue for an update, has some issues, but is an otherwise solid program. The big downside to ARD is the price, however.
I'm trying to find an option for teachers in primary/elementary classrooms to have all the computers in their class up on the projector (which you can do with remote desktop) but I don't want to pay the US$499 unlimited seat option (education pricing is a bit cheaper, but still too much). I'm aware you can VNC using the Finder in Snowleopard, but I'm hoping for a tidy program that can simultaneously show (view) several macs. VNC Control would be nice, but isn't necessary. Ideally (almost essential) it will use the existing screen sharing engine in Sharing.preferences.
Update
It's important that the product can show more than one screen at the same time. Logmein free is a great product but doesn't do this.
A: ARD is now available on the Mac App Store for only $79.99.
ARD aside, you can do pretty much anything ARD can do with Screen Sharing, File Sharing, scp, ssh and AppleScript.
A: LogMeIn has a free Mac/PC remote login/access service. Enjoy.
A: RHUB remote support appliances provide the option of showing more than one screen at the same time. Try it out.
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204f2350dee3b340b1b46a5b1af8062eaf6f9133 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why are FTP connections read-only when I use "Connect to Server..."? I'm just trying to connect to the server hosting my website through Finder, but it's always read only, even though I'm logging in with my username and password.
Obviously, I can connect with an FTP client (Fetch), and through the terminal, etc. – but what's the trick to FTP-uploading with Finder?
A: From Apple Support:
You can use the Connect To Server command to connect to an FTP server in the Finder, but you will have read-only access. You cannot copy, or upload, to an FTP volume in the Finder.
| Q: Why are FTP connections read-only when I use "Connect to Server..."? I'm just trying to connect to the server hosting my website through Finder, but it's always read only, even though I'm logging in with my username and password.
Obviously, I can connect with an FTP client (Fetch), and through the terminal, etc. – but what's the trick to FTP-uploading with Finder?
A: From Apple Support:
You can use the Connect To Server command to connect to an FTP server in the Finder, but you will have read-only access. You cannot copy, or upload, to an FTP volume in the Finder.
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b754bfc7ac03caf81222bfb4d08bc3aa82c3daa4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: One Note alternative for Mac? For some time I've been using the combination of FreeMind and One Note on my Windows machine. About a month ago I migrated to Mac and now I'm trying to search for an alternative.
So far I've tried Personal Brain, but it has quite a heavy interface and I don't really like the workflow.
What app(s) would you recommend for managing larger amounts of information on tasks and projects?
A: You have many choices but none of them as good as One Note (It's just my opinion)
*
*Omnioutliner
*Journler
*Macjournal
*EverNote
| Q: One Note alternative for Mac? For some time I've been using the combination of FreeMind and One Note on my Windows machine. About a month ago I migrated to Mac and now I'm trying to search for an alternative.
So far I've tried Personal Brain, but it has quite a heavy interface and I don't really like the workflow.
What app(s) would you recommend for managing larger amounts of information on tasks and projects?
A: You have many choices but none of them as good as One Note (It's just my opinion)
*
*Omnioutliner
*Journler
*Macjournal
*EverNote
A: Growly Notes is totally free (and very close to the look of oneNote)
http://www.growlybird.com/GrowlyBird/Notes.html
However, nothing is as good as oneNote (if that is what you like). You can install OneNote 2007 in OSX using crossover (basically 'wine'). This doesn't work with oneNote 2010, only 2007. It starts quickly and works perfectly. The only problem I can see is that hot linking crashes oneNote.
If you do try to install, look for the oneNote 2007 custom setup in crossover, if during setup it complains about fonts etc... just keep going with the install, and skip and problems. OneNote 2007 will run fine under OSX 10.6
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/impersonator/
If you are looking for something a little different, but just as addictive to use as oneNote, I would recommend trying a program called Scrivener. It is one of the few programs I've found to be perfect for writing & organising my thoughts.
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php
You mentioned freemind (mind mapping), I would totally recommend a program called Vue, it's free too, very slick, and not as linear as freemind, also allows you to add notes, keywords, layers etc.. to organise your data.
http://vue.tufts.edu/
I've used all of the other suggested apps (evernote, yojimbo, etc..) I do like them, and use them. But I hope that I have highlighted a few very useful/nice apps, that most people don't know about.
A: *
*Things
*OmniFocus
and another vote for Evernote.
All three offer a form of syncing across devices.
A: I'm currently evaluating DEVONthink and it seems to be a better, if more complicated, alternative to Yojimbo. They have an iOS app (a bit on the expensive side and rough around the edges but usable nonetheless). You can evaluate the product for 150 hours of runtime.
Evernote is the go-to solution, though, if you need to access your data on different platforms and don't care much about syncing manually.
A: Yojimbo. It only works on Mac OS X though. There's no Windows variant (unlike Evernote)
A: Evernote is great if you're working with multiple computers (including smartphones and tablets) but it doesn't have all of OneNote's features.
A: I have used Things to track to-do items and loved the UI and it's capabilities. They have a great iPhone and iPad app but I strongly disliked the syncing capabilities between the phone, pad and the desktop. It syncs via the network. Not a big deal but it got on my nerves after awhile. If you are using one or more desktops only though, I would highly recommend this as a task tracker.
I use Yojimbo for research on my macs. I like the bookmarklets for Safari. They work quite well and it is great for throwing all kinds of information in and tagging it. You can create smart folders based on those tags. Again, I would note that the iPhone app is a bit lacking right now. Syncing is done via .mac only at this time. Which might be one of the few good reasons to buy the service. If you are using more than one PC or you want to data gather on a mobile device, I would say that Evernote is a better solution.
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4e3f444c2662c84ac62d3fbe1b7f3154a3f042f4 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why does my keyboard switch language in most input fields on the web? I'm basically using US keyboard as my default, but I also have enabled Czech (QWERTY), which has quite different layout for when I need those special characters.
The problem is, that in the past few days whenever I put focus in a password field in Google Chrome, it automatically switches from the US to Czech and I can't switch back, as it is grayed out.
But once I click out of the password field, I can change it back without any problems. What could possibly cause this? I'm using OS X 10.6.6 on Macbook Pro if that's of any relevance.
A: I've had weird input-switching behavior before when the keyboard shortcut to switch input sources was the same as something else I was using, like Quicksilver. Try disabling or changing the relevant shortcuts in System Preferences (under Keyboard & Text Input).
UPDATE: Detailed instructions:
*
*Open System Preferences
*Open the Keyboard preference (under Hardware)
*Select Keyboard and Text on the left
*Find "Select the previous input source" in the box on the right and uncheck it. Its shortcut was probably set to Command-Space.
| Q: Why does my keyboard switch language in most input fields on the web? I'm basically using US keyboard as my default, but I also have enabled Czech (QWERTY), which has quite different layout for when I need those special characters.
The problem is, that in the past few days whenever I put focus in a password field in Google Chrome, it automatically switches from the US to Czech and I can't switch back, as it is grayed out.
But once I click out of the password field, I can change it back without any problems. What could possibly cause this? I'm using OS X 10.6.6 on Macbook Pro if that's of any relevance.
A: I've had weird input-switching behavior before when the keyboard shortcut to switch input sources was the same as something else I was using, like Quicksilver. Try disabling or changing the relevant shortcuts in System Preferences (under Keyboard & Text Input).
UPDATE: Detailed instructions:
*
*Open System Preferences
*Open the Keyboard preference (under Hardware)
*Select Keyboard and Text on the left
*Find "Select the previous input source" in the box on the right and uncheck it. Its shortcut was probably set to Command-Space.
A: I could solve the issue by performing the following steps in Chrome:
*
*disabling all chrome extensions
*disable chrome extension developer mode
*quit and restart chrome
*enabling the previous settings again
A: I'm having the same problem. I ended up just disabling the other two layouts and the problem stopped. Certainly frustrating, when you can't figure out why you're typing gibberish.
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4078edb9f1d80c310a2bd91c392511e10adbefa7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I stream music from my laptop to my iPod Touch over wifi? Rather than running a long cable from my Laptop to my stereo, I've been thinking for a while about getting one of those wireless devices that lets you transmit audio from your PC to a receiver plugged into the stereo.
Then I realised I already have hardware that can potentially do this - I have an iPod Touch, and a Wi-Fi network in the house.
So, is there some iPod Touch App that will let the iPod act as a Wi-Fi music receiver? And presumably, a corresponding piece of broadcast software for my (Windows Vista) Laptop?
edit: Bonus points for a solution that lets me stream all audio from the laptop, rather than just streaming music tracks.
A: You can use the Windows version of Airfoil to send any audio to an Airport Express connected to a stereo. The page above claims it can do the same via an iPod Touch as well. And you can try it for free.
| Q: Can I stream music from my laptop to my iPod Touch over wifi? Rather than running a long cable from my Laptop to my stereo, I've been thinking for a while about getting one of those wireless devices that lets you transmit audio from your PC to a receiver plugged into the stereo.
Then I realised I already have hardware that can potentially do this - I have an iPod Touch, and a Wi-Fi network in the house.
So, is there some iPod Touch App that will let the iPod act as a Wi-Fi music receiver? And presumably, a corresponding piece of broadcast software for my (Windows Vista) Laptop?
edit: Bonus points for a solution that lets me stream all audio from the laptop, rather than just streaming music tracks.
A: You can use the Windows version of Airfoil to send any audio to an Airport Express connected to a stereo. The page above claims it can do the same via an iPod Touch as well. And you can try it for free.
A: You can also share your iTunes library on your Mac of PC and then stream your music from your computer to your iPod touch by selecting that shared iTunes library in the Music app on your iPod touch.
This solution doesn't require any extra software or app.
A: On the road I use the Simplify Media application to do this. It requires an application to be installed on both the computer and the iPod touch/iPhone. Once installed I can play almost any track from my desktop to my iPod touch.
However at my house the simplest solution I have found is to use an Airport Express. I use iTunes to manage my music and then choose to play it on the Airport Express which is connected to my stereo in the living room. I can then use my iPod touch as a remote for iTunes to control what plays.
A: You can use the wifi2hifi app to stream any audio from your Mac but not on your PC to your iOS device.
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cbcc355f1cdb5f9a21fa34365df8aefbab0aca32 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Are there personal finance applications offering both an iPhone and a mac version? With the demise of Cha-ching, I find myself in need of an application for managing my expenses which I can use on both platforms.
It should work in Europe, and maybe have a decent UI.
A: Add MoneyWell to the list
| Q: Are there personal finance applications offering both an iPhone and a mac version? With the demise of Cha-ching, I find myself in need of an application for managing my expenses which I can use on both platforms.
It should work in Europe, and maybe have a decent UI.
A: Add MoneyWell to the list
A: You have iCompta which is the one I use. Well followed by its developer, with upgrades and a quick support through dedicated forum.
I must admit I was used to Money on PC and wanted to have something which doesn't change my (good or bad) habits too much. It's a good one for this.
A: iBank and SplashMoney do what you want. I haven't tested either.iBank looks like a nicer interface, but costs a lot more.
A: Not an application but mint.com runs in any browser on the desktop and has an iPhone app. Mint is like throwing all of you money up in the air and it lands in neat little stacks with labels. Mint is free.
I have no affiliation with Mint, I just like it.
A: iBank is a very good desktop application and I found it to be a more than adequate replacement for Microsoft Money when I moved to the Mac.
There is a companion iPhone app which I haven't used yet, but apparently it can sync to the desktop app via WiFi (Bonjour), MobileMe and any WebDAV server. (If they supported DropBox it would be ideal for me and I'd have bought it by now).
(Edit: I should add that I downloaded and evaluated iBank against MoneyWell - for me iBank won hands down though for the life of me now I can't remember why. I think the overall experience just seemed better).
HTH,
Maurice
A: I use You Need a Budget. It's a great little app, and also has a mobile version that is really nice.
A: I just found out http://www.squirrelapp.com/, which looks quite bare-bones, but has the required features.
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97bfe97a38170ade88fa12db230e8672180f154b | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can iTunes ignore store credit and use a credit card instead? There are times when I've got some store credit from a gift card/certificate on iTunes, but I want to buy something without that.
I want to buy something with the credit card, regardless of what's prepaid on the account.
Is this possible?
A: Sadly for you, iTunes uses credit in the store before using a credit card.
| Q: Can iTunes ignore store credit and use a credit card instead? There are times when I've got some store credit from a gift card/certificate on iTunes, but I want to buy something without that.
I want to buy something with the credit card, regardless of what's prepaid on the account.
Is this possible?
A: Sadly for you, iTunes uses credit in the store before using a credit card.
A: According to Apple's page, it uses the following order for song purchases:
*
*Song credits.
*Gift certificate, prepaid card, or allowance credits.
*Credit cards.
Thus, it would appear that you cannot charge a credit card without using up your credits or gift certificates first.
However, similar to what @Nick said, you could just open up another account, add the credit card to it, and then gift the items you want to your original account.
Update: Based on my own tests of self-gifting, these are my findings:
*
*Gifts will deduct money from the credit card on your account; they will not use up song credits nor gift card credit. This means that you do not need to open another account, just add it as a credit card and gift it to yourself.
*You cannot send a gift to the same email address as your iTunes account. This can easily be circumvented by sending it to one of your other email accounts.
*The easiest method of gifting to yourself is to select the print option. It will show you a code which you then use to redeem the song. It will allow you to redeem the code on the same account.
A: I think if you "gift" something you will use a credit card instead of store credit since you can't buy a gift with store credit.
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274b50e49398b9b342b93aab3a98e647ecf644cf | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iBooks automatically generating cover pages for PDFs? I've loaded some lengthy PDFs onto my iPad in iBooks, and I've noticed that for only one of them, it's seemed to have created a beige cover page for the PDF thumbnail with what looks like the file name. It's nice, but I was unaware of this feature and ideally I'd like it to include the author and paper title instead of the file name. Does anyone know more about this functionality or how I can change what this new cover page says?
A: I am pretty sure the thumbnail is created from the first page in the pdf document.
So to alter the icon you could add another coverpage to the pdf document.
| Q: iBooks automatically generating cover pages for PDFs? I've loaded some lengthy PDFs onto my iPad in iBooks, and I've noticed that for only one of them, it's seemed to have created a beige cover page for the PDF thumbnail with what looks like the file name. It's nice, but I was unaware of this feature and ideally I'd like it to include the author and paper title instead of the file name. Does anyone know more about this functionality or how I can change what this new cover page says?
A: I am pretty sure the thumbnail is created from the first page in the pdf document.
So to alter the icon you could add another coverpage to the pdf document.
A: If you open the PDF in Preview on a Mac, you can drag/drop page thumbnails around (hold option to copy a page) and even drag a page from one PDF into another.
This way you can use the print system's "Save as PDF" feature to set anything as the first page.
Alternatively switch from bookshelf view to list view, where you can see the filenames.
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6d9e5a53a4bc1c7c5d5456703397586bb3033324 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Turn on Back To My Mac via a Script or Command Line
Possible Duplicate:
Turn on Back To My Mac via a Script or Command Line
The VPN software I use for work (IPSecuritas) requires me to turn off Back To My Mac to start it's connection, so I frequently turn off Back To My Mac in order to use my VPN connection (the program does this for me). I forget to turn it back on however and I'd love to know if there was something I could run (script, command) to turn it back on.
| Q: Turn on Back To My Mac via a Script or Command Line
Possible Duplicate:
Turn on Back To My Mac via a Script or Command Line
The VPN software I use for work (IPSecuritas) requires me to turn off Back To My Mac to start it's connection, so I frequently turn off Back To My Mac in order to use my VPN connection (the program does this for me). I forget to turn it back on however and I'd love to know if there was something I could run (script, command) to turn it back on.
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a84795f1223ea6232306199ddd6cf023d49403c7 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What app can I use to create mockups for websites? I'm looking for a free or commercial software for Os X to create mockups for websites. Any suggestion?
A: Balsamiq Mockups is a good one, fairly cheap and very good - http://balsamiq.com/
| Q: What app can I use to create mockups for websites? I'm looking for a free or commercial software for Os X to create mockups for websites. Any suggestion?
A: Balsamiq Mockups is a good one, fairly cheap and very good - http://balsamiq.com/
A: You can do all sorts of fun things with Omnigraffle as well. And if you're looking for a way to make easy wireframes of current websites, you might do worse than checking out Wirify. Good luck!
A: WireframeSketcher is a cross-platform rapid wireframing tool.
A: For mocking up websites I swear by Adobe Fireworks, it might be overkill, but the abilty to have a library of buttons etc and set a master page that carries elements to all the other pages, so headers/footers etc only need to be changed once.
A: Check out frame box—a "lightweight online tool for creating mockups."
A: Depending on the definition of "mockup", you might be interested in DENIM.
DENIM is a system that helps web site
designers in the early stages of
design. DENIM supports sketching
input, allows design at different
refinement levels, and unifies the
levels through zooming.
A: Just In Mind is probably one of the most extensive commercial website mockup apps, and Mockingbird is a fairly lightweight online mockup tool.
If you use Firefox 3, take a look at Pencil, a free wireframe sketching add-on. A version for Firefox 4 is available here, but I haven't tried it.
A: You may try SwordSoft Layout. It also available on the App Store
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c7d12da99cc78beb0d3086d23b597fc6c897b1d5 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to remove a number from 'Recents' on iPhone, rather deleting all? Since many days I am trying to achieve this, but I can only delete/ clear all recent dial, received phone numbers.
Is there an option/ hack to delete only one number at a time on my iPhone ?
I have iPhone 3GS
A: You will have to wait for iOS 5 to be able to do what you are asking. I'm running iOS 5 and I'm able to do this without a jailbreak.
| Q: How to remove a number from 'Recents' on iPhone, rather deleting all? Since many days I am trying to achieve this, but I can only delete/ clear all recent dial, received phone numbers.
Is there an option/ hack to delete only one number at a time on my iPhone ?
I have iPhone 3GS
A: You will have to wait for iOS 5 to be able to do what you are asking. I'm running iOS 5 and I'm able to do this without a jailbreak.
A: If your iPhone is jailbroken you can install the package Ixtension (it's $9.99 from the BigBossRepo)
Disclaimer: I'm in now way affiliated with the developers.
A: Go to 'recents' on phone. Tap 'edit' in top right hand corner of screen.
You will then have like no entry sign type symbol at the left of each number in recents. Tap the no entry sign by the number you wish to delete, a box will appear to the right of that number asking you if you wish to delete it, then type delete.
A: I doubt iOS allows you to enumerate recent calls through standard iOS apps. I would suspect that through jail-breaking you could make an app yourself that could do it. Other than that, I doubt it's possible at all.
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f3e9d0f87d4d54115620640a1dcf2f77b3e2c849 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Does Safari for iOS 4.2.1 support WebGL? Does iOS 4.2.1, the latest release at the time of this question, support WebGL?
A: Not at this point, no. WebKit, that which Safari for Mac OS and iOS are both based on, is supposed to support WebGL but I have yet to be able to get it work properly on Mac OS 10.6, much less iOS. I get the impression the whole thing is too new (relatively) for proper support.
| Q: Does Safari for iOS 4.2.1 support WebGL? Does iOS 4.2.1, the latest release at the time of this question, support WebGL?
A: Not at this point, no. WebKit, that which Safari for Mac OS and iOS are both based on, is supposed to support WebGL but I have yet to be able to get it work properly on Mac OS 10.6, much less iOS. I get the impression the whole thing is too new (relatively) for proper support.
A: WebGL resources:
*
*http://www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/Main_Page
*http://www.scriptol.com/programming/webgl.php
*http://learningwebgl.com/blog/
*https://developer.mozilla.org/en/WebGL
*http://planet-webgl.org/
Looks like its only in Webkit, and even then you have to enable it:
More info: http://webkit.org/blog/603/webgl-now-available-in-webkit-nightlies/
A: I would not get your hopes up of iOs ever supporting WebGL. Not only because exposing the video drivers to untrusted parties poses a security risk. It would also give game developers a way to circumvent the app store for distributing games. Same reason you will never see the flash support extend beyond anything but video.
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01e6e9742b98310ece3e8aa9f7f607cda1f6d1f6 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I export SMS text messages from my iPhone? When answering this question, please note if the solution is:
*
*For Windows and/or Mac OS X users
*The price of the solution
*If you have successfully—and actually—used the solution
How can I export SMS text messages from my iPhone?
A: I rely on PhoneView which you correctly note is a Mac OS X only paid solution.
It has always been updated very quickly by the developers each time a new iOS is released. I even received support several times for pre-release / beta versions of iOS and iTunes. Support emails are promptly answered and I have twice received custom builds from them to resolve issues using their product with pre-release iOS versions to assist me in managing the devices I use for iOS development.
I've used PhoneView to save data from a phone that iTunes said was broken and could only be erased and then restored. It's been a reliable swiss army knife for me filling in many gaps that iTunes and Xcode leave for managing iOS devices.
| Q: How can I export SMS text messages from my iPhone? When answering this question, please note if the solution is:
*
*For Windows and/or Mac OS X users
*The price of the solution
*If you have successfully—and actually—used the solution
How can I export SMS text messages from my iPhone?
A: I rely on PhoneView which you correctly note is a Mac OS X only paid solution.
It has always been updated very quickly by the developers each time a new iOS is released. I even received support several times for pre-release / beta versions of iOS and iTunes. Support emails are promptly answered and I have twice received custom builds from them to resolve issues using their product with pre-release iOS versions to assist me in managing the devices I use for iOS development.
I've used PhoneView to save data from a phone that iTunes said was broken and could only be erased and then restored. It's been a reliable swiss army knife for me filling in many gaps that iTunes and Xcode leave for managing iOS devices.
A: *
*Get /var/mobile/Library/SMS/sms.db
*It is now exported.
What format do you want the export to be? The existing format is sqlite, so you can convert it to ASCII like so: sqlite3 sms.db .dump > sms.db.txt
For step one, you can jailbreak and then scp, or you can just search your backup folder for the file, no jailbreak required.
If your phone is not jailbroken, look on OS X in:
~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/<long_hex_string>/
And, in my case, and according to various web sources, although not in all cases, is named:
3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28
To answer your other questions: Any OS, Free, Successful.
A: I used CopyTrans Contacts for Windows (not sure whether it also operates on Mac) to export my iPhone SMS and iMessage text messages to my PC.
Here is where I found out about the tool: How to export iPhone SMS
I do not know the price as I used their free version to export all of my 100+ messages I think you have to pay if you want to export a really large number of SMS text messages.
A: I'm on windows and I bought Decipher Text Message (Mac $7, Windows $10). It did the trick for my needs and backed up all my work sms messages from my iphone. My girlfriend uses it too however, she is on a mac. The cool thing is that the program also saved my sms images, which I hadn't even expected. Has anyone tried any of the other tools?? Curious about them.
A: A windows software solution is Save The Message
The software is free (trial) however the costs after the 30 day trial are $9.99 for a basic account, $99 for a professional" account.
A: There are numerous tools (as linked elsewhere here), both free and expensive, to export message data. They all rely on interpreting data from an unencrypted iPhone backup. You can actually do this yourself if you're particular about how the data is exported.
The key facts are:
*
*Your backup lives inside ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/{uid}/.
*The manifest.db is an SQLite database mapping all the files in that directory to actual filenames on the device.
*The Library/SMS/sms.db file on your iPhone is another database containing all the message and attachment data.
*Combining the manifest and sms databases lets you query and export all the conversations and attachments from decrypted files in your backup directory.
I wanted to future-proof my exported messages (or make their contents human-readable and easily accessible), so I wrote a script to load these database, export the chats as JSON files, and archive all the attachments alongside each chat (message group).
The result is a kind of hacky but working (for me) tool that I've uploaded to GitHub: iPhone message export. This script might be a good starting point if you're interested in doing these backups yourself.
(The price is free, I've successfully tested on macOS with an iOS 14 backup. I think if windows backups are stored the same way, the same python code should work there as well.)
A: AllYourTexts - free - Windows
Full disclosure: I'm the author.
*
*Allows you to view SMS and MMS data from your PC
*Supports exporting to plaintext or HTML files.
*Shows you graph visualizations of your texting behavior over time.
I was looking for a solution to this myself and I was unhappy with the 3rd party offerings. I felt like they were overpriced or poorly designed, so I wrote my own.
A: Believe it or not, there's an app for that!
The app SMS Export ($4.99) will allow you to export your SMS to the software on both your Mac and Windows.
You can make a back-up of your entire SMS-database or export the SMS-messages to your computer:
You can converted SMS to HTML, CSV or Text. Then you can load your SMS
into any program like Excel or Word and print them.
A: My destination for the export was a new Smasung Galaxy Note, so the Samsung Kies software (eventually) managed to import the SMSs from an unencrypted iPhone backup. Kies is free for Samsung phones. It was necessary to 'update drivers' from one of the menus in Kies before this worked for me. Kies also prevents me running Android File Transfer on 10.8, so I uninstalled Kies once the import was complete.
Otherwise, I've successfully used DiskAid on the Mac to export my SMSs to a flat text file. A useful reference, but I'd rather it exported a friendly (ie standard) SQLite database so I could easily use the data elsewhere.
DiskAid is $29.90 at the time of answer, but they also offer free educational licenses to folk with email addresses at tertiary institutions.
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Q: How can I change a file or folder icon using the Terminal How can I change or set the icon for a file or folder, in the terminal, do I need to use a scripting language?
A: Check out setfileicon (source code), an utility created by Damien Bobillot.
Download the binary here: http://maxao.free.fr/telechargements/setfileicon.gz
After unpacking the file, make it executable:
chmod +x setfileicon
Then you can use it as follows:
./setfileicon "my-icon.icns" "my-file-or-directory"
| Q: How can I change a file or folder icon using the Terminal How can I change or set the icon for a file or folder, in the terminal, do I need to use a scripting language?
A: Check out setfileicon (source code), an utility created by Damien Bobillot.
Download the binary here: http://maxao.free.fr/telechargements/setfileicon.gz
After unpacking the file, make it executable:
chmod +x setfileicon
Then you can use it as follows:
./setfileicon "my-icon.icns" "my-file-or-directory"
A: You'll need the Developer Tools installed, and then the following might work. This takes the graphic in icon.png and applies it to file.ext.
# Take an image and make the image its own icon:
sips -i icon.png
# Extract the icon to its own resource file:
/Developer/Tools/DeRez -only icns icon.png > tmpicns.rsrc
# append this resource to the file you want to icon-ize.
/Developer/Tools/Rez -append tmpicns.rsrc -o file.ext
# Use the resource to set the icon.
/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a C file.ext
# clean up.
rm tmpicns.rsrc
# rm icon.png # probably want to keep this for re-use.
A: With the benefit of several years of hindsight:
user588's answer and koiyu's answer work well, but they rely on utilities (Rez, DeRez, and SetFile) that:
*
*are not installed by default (they come with either Xcode or the developer command-line utilities)
*are now deprecated (Rez and DeRez, because they relate to Carbon)
The osxiconutils project looks interesting, but is no longer maintained and won't compile any longer (as of macOS 10.10.4).
*
*velkoon points out that the linked repo offers downloading a ZIP file with (x64) binaries that still work as of macOS 13 (Ventura). You'll have to authorize the binaries for local execution by running the following against the ZIP file before extracting its contents: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine osxiconutils.zip.
*A notable limitation of the seticon utility is that it can only assign .icns files, not also other image formats - unlike the fileicon utility discussed below.
Therefore I've created CLI fileicon, which should work on a pristine macOS machine (no prerequisites); it is a Bash script based primarily on xattr, xxd and an embedded Python script that calls Cocoa, courtesy of this helpful answer. [Update: Since Python no longer comes with macOS, the Python script has been replaced with an ObjC Bridge AppleScript.]
It allows setting/removing/extracting custom icons for/from files or folders, including on APFS volumes on macOS 10.13 (High Sierra). [Update: Still works as of macOS 13, Ventura.]
You can install it as follows:
*
*If you have Homebrew installed: brew install fileicon
*If you have Node.js installed, from the npm registry, with
[sudo] npm install -g fileicon
*Otherwise:
*
*Download the CLI as fileicon (this link will stay current).
*Make it executable with chmod +x fileicon.
*
*Move it or symlink it to a folder in your $PATH, such as /usr/local/bin (requires sudo).
Here's the usage information; for complete information, refer to the manual:
$ fileicon -h
Set a custom icon for a file or folder:
fileicon set <fileOrFolder> <imageFile>
Remove a custom icon from a file or folder:
fileicon rm <fileOrFolder>
Get a file or folder's custom icon:
fileicon get [-f] <fileOrFolder> [<iconOutputFile>]
Test if a file or folder has a custom icon:
fileicon test <fileOrFolder>
-q ... silence status output
Standard options: --help, --man, --version, --home
A: I have a github project where I create AppleScript "droplets" from [shell/bash, python, perl, ruby, etc.] scripts that take file paths as arguments. I wrote this bash function for changing the icon of an folder (because AppleScript bundles are Folders with a .app extension).
replace_icon(){
droplet="$1"
icon="$2"
if [[ "$icon" =~ ^https?:// ]]; then
curl -sLo /tmp/icon "$icon"
icon=/tmp/icon
fi
rm -rf "$droplet"$'/Icon\r'
sips -i "$icon" >/dev/null
DeRez -only icns "$icon" > /tmp/icns.rsrc
Rez -append /tmp/icns.rsrc -o "$droplet"$'/Icon\r'
SetFile -a C "$droplet"
SetFile -a V "$droplet"$'/Icon\r'
}
Once defined, you call the function with 2 arguments:
replace_icon /path/to/AppleScript.app /path/to/icon.png
or
replace_icon /path/to/AppleScript.app http://i.imgur.com/LmUvWqB.png
As you can see the second argument can be an image on your system, or a URL.
NOTE: That crazy looking $'/Icon\r' thing that I do is because the name of the Icon file ends with a literal carriage return \r. See for yourself with:
find my-applescript.app -maxdepth 1 | less -U
A: Assuming that we have icns-file already. Create temp resource file which points to icns-file:
$ echo "read 'icns' (-16455) \"Icon.icns\";" >> Icon.rsrc
Append the resource file as value of extended attribute "com.apple.ResourceFork" to a file:
$ Rez -a Icon.rsrc -o FileName.ext
Show the icon of the file:
$ SetFile -a C FileName.ext
Append resource file as value of extended attribute "com.apple.ResourceFork" to a magic icon file inside current folder:
$ Rez -a Icon.rsrc -o Icon$'\r'
Show the icon of current folder:
$ SetFile -a C .
Hide the magic icon file inside current folder (press ⇧⌘. to show/hide hidden files in Finder):
$ SetFile -a V Icon$'\r'
Additional details
Icon data is stored as value of extended attribute "com.apple.ResourceFork" (Terminal command "xattr -p com.apple.ResourceFork FileName.ext" prints the value). For a folder there is magic (which is empty and hidden) file Icon$'\r' inside the folder. To extract icon data from extended attribute "com.apple.ResourceFork" into plain text resource file (from which we know correct icns-type identifier "-16455"):
$ DeRez -only icns FileWithIcon.ext > Icon.rsrc
$ DeRez -only icns /Folder/With/Icon/Icon$'\r' > Icon.rsrc
Under macOS 10.13 High Sierra command $ sips -i ImageFile.icns/png/jpg generates error "--addIcon is no longer supported". Switch "-i" means "--addIcon" as extended attribute "com.apple.ResourceFork" onto this file itself using the content of this image file.
A: I almost started a bounty on this, because I didn't manage to change the icon of a folder using @mankoff's answer. But I found a solution.
To change folder's icon you don't point Rez -append tmp.rsrc to the folder but a special Icon\r file inside the folder. If you haven't set a custom icon to the folder before, the file probably will not exist, but Rez creates it on–the–fly. Deleting the Icon\r file will remove the custom icon, so to prevent accidents it is good to be hidden.
These are the modifications to the mankoff's answer:
# Append a resource to the folder you want to icon-ize.
Rez -append tmpicns.rsrc -o $'myfolder/Icon\r'
# Use the resource to set the icon.
SetFile -a C myfolder/
# Hide the Icon\r file from Finder.
SetFile -a V $'myfolder/Icon\r'
A: Another option is to use MacRuby:
/usr/local/bin/macruby -e 'framework "Cocoa";NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace.setIcon(NSImage.alloc.initWithContentsOfFile("/tmp/a.png"),forFile:"/tmp/file",options:0)'
You can download an installer for MacRuby from http://macruby.org.
A: Strangely enough the best solution seems to be not to use Apple's own tools but the Python code because it has various advantages not being limited by:
*
*output file resolution
(it works till 1024x1024)
*input file format
(tried with ICNS and PNG)
*permissions to install
(define it as a function)
Update
Now (on macOS Sierra) @koiyu’s answer seems to work, so you could use this two-liner to copy the icon from a source folder to your destination folder:
#!/bin/sh
DeRez -only icns $1/Icon$'\r' > icon.rsrc; Rez -a icon.rsrc -o $2/Icon$'\r'
SetFile -a C $2; SetFile -a V $2/Icon$'\r'; rm icon.rsrc
A: In the recent macOS version (10.14), sips -i icon.png will get a --addIcon is no longer supported error.
It also needs Developer Tools installed. This uses the graphic in Icon.png and applies it to file.ext, just like user588's answer:
# Covert Icon.png to tmpicons.icns:
sips -s format icns Icon.png --out tmpicns.icns
# Create temporary resource file which points to tmpicons.icns:
echo "read 'icns' (-16455) \"tmpicns.icns\";" >> tmpicns.rsrc
# append this resource to the file you want to icon-ize.
Rez -a tmpicns.rsrc -o file.ext
# Use the resource to set the icon.
SetFile -a C file.ext
# Clean up
rm tmpicons.icns && rm tmpicns.rsrc
A: Much like the Python solution using PyObjC, it turns out it can be done with just AppleScript (which isn't deprecated in 10.15 Catalina, unlike Python and other scripting languages).
I found an example of how to do this on GitHub here:
set-finder-icon
#!/usr/bin/env osascript
use framework "AppKit"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# PROPERTY DECLARATIONS:
property this : a reference to current application
property NSWorkspace : a reference to NSWorkspace of this
property NSImage : a reference to NSImage of this
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# IMPLEMENTATION:
on run argv
set icon to item 1 of argv
set target to item 2 of argv
setIcon to icon for target
end run
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# HANDLERS:
to setIcon to iconPath for filePath
set sharedWorkspace to NSWorkspace's sharedWorkspace()
set newImage to NSImage's alloc()
set icon to newImage's initWithContentsOfFile:iconPath
set success to sharedWorkspace's setIcon:icon forFile:filePath options:0
end setIcon
AppleScript isn't easy to read, but apparently it's possible to access the Objective-C code to do this through the AppKit framework.
A: In addition to Ruby, here's a Python version:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import Cocoa
import sys
Cocoa.NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace().setIcon_forFile_options_(Cocoa.NSImage.alloc().initWithContentsOfFile_(sys.argv[1].decode('utf-8')), sys.argv[2].decode('utf-8'), 0) or sys.exit("Unable to set file icon")
./set-image.py image.png myfile
Python that pre-installed in Mac OS already has PyObjC so you don't have to install any packages.
A: There is some kind of a bug (that happen in folders inside de iCloud sync) with the change of icons of "folders" nor files, at last in Catalina: When the Icon change, the UI does not refresh the folder with the new icon when it have an older one. So the second time you set an icon it not refresh all the times. Even if you do it manually with cmd+i and pasting a previously copied image as icon, the iCloud goes crazy with this.
By looking to a workaround, found this little fix (no ideal but works): - this is in JXA Javascript for automation
function makeIcon(theFolder, theFile) {
var img = $.NSImage.alloc.initByReferencingFile( theFile );
var updateUUID = newUUID()+".txt";
terminal("echo -n > "+ sanityzeForBash(theFolder+"/Icon\r") );
terminal("rm "+ sanityzeForBash(theFolder+"/Icon\r") );
writeTextFile(theFolder+"/"+updateUUID, "_");
$.NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace.setIconForFileOptions(img, theFolder, 0);
delay(1);
terminal("rm "+ sanityzeForBash(theFolder+"/"+updateUUID) );
}
function writeTextFile(fileName, text) {
var file = app.openForAccess(Path(fileName), { writePermission: true })
app.setEof(file, { to: 0 });
app.write( getProperties(text) +"\n\r", { to: file, startingAt: app.getEof(file) })
app.closeAccess(file)
return true;
}
function sanityzeForBash(s) {
return "'"+ s.replace("'","\\'") +"'";
}
function newUUID(){
return ObjC.unwrap($.NSUUID.UUID.UUIDString);
}
function terminal(c) {
var app = Application.currentApplication();
app.includeStandardAdditions = true;
return app.doShellScript(c);
}
The idea of the "trick" is to create a file inside the folder before to change de icon to force the iCloud to sync, then wait 1s to delete the file.
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eff0bf32621b4c57d16cd07cc6de0a31863d3817 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to perform cleanup duties on OS X? For all my Windows PCs I use CCleaner to perform cleanup duties. Is there a similar tool that I can use for OS X to clean up any accumulated crap?
A: There was a not immediately relevant question posted a while ago that actually has answers I think you would be interested in. I answered with my regular maintenance routine (Why is my Macbook Pro getting so slow?). The relevant portion of my answer:
Apple Certified Technicians are your
friends: Third-party system
maintenance software is not. I've been
working with Macs for years and the
one immutable fact that I have learned
is that applications designed to help
maintain the system are more trouble
than they are worth. When all else
fails, take it in because there may be
a hardware problem at this point.
I put my Macs through the wringer every day and I very rarely have problems since I implemented my maintenance routine. Third-party software is not necessary, if not a waste of money.
| Q: How to perform cleanup duties on OS X? For all my Windows PCs I use CCleaner to perform cleanup duties. Is there a similar tool that I can use for OS X to clean up any accumulated crap?
A: There was a not immediately relevant question posted a while ago that actually has answers I think you would be interested in. I answered with my regular maintenance routine (Why is my Macbook Pro getting so slow?). The relevant portion of my answer:
Apple Certified Technicians are your
friends: Third-party system
maintenance software is not. I've been
working with Macs for years and the
one immutable fact that I have learned
is that applications designed to help
maintain the system are more trouble
than they are worth. When all else
fails, take it in because there may be
a hardware problem at this point.
I put my Macs through the wringer every day and I very rarely have problems since I implemented my maintenance routine. Third-party software is not necessary, if not a waste of money.
A: Every once in a while (every 6 - 12 months, or if things start acting weird), check your disk with /Applications/Utilities/DiskUtility.app
Select your hard disk in the left sidebar, then the "Verify Disk" button at the bottom right. If everything is OK, good. If not:
*
*Reboot
*Hold CMD+S at the Chime to boot into Single User Mode
*Run /sbin/fsck -fy # this should fix everything
*Type "reboot".
A: Alex.. please be careful. OS X generally doesn't need maintenance like most Windows installations do. If you just leave it, it will be fine. The only thing I sometimes tell clients who I'm tutoring, is that the maintenance scripts run themselves by default at 3AM. They're not doing anything too serious, log rotations and the like. So if they don't run, I don't think it's the end of the world. But once in a while you may want to leave the computer on all night so they get done.
A: Also, OnyX seems to be the popular choice for those looking for a Mac equivalent to CCleaner.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx
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d50c323f63ee7c0cae8053412adcf2395b94e076 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Are there Greasemonkey scripts for Safari? There's the wonderful Greasemonkey to run user-defined JavaScript on web pages.
Is there such a thing as Greasemonkey for Safari? Or would one instead write a Safari Extension to customize behavior on other web pages? Maybe there's an alternative that runs on AppleScript instead of JavaScript?
A: Another option to run GreaseMonkey scripts is NinjaKit (which is what I use). It's a Safari 5 extension, which means it's just a tad safer than GreaseKit.
| Q: Are there Greasemonkey scripts for Safari? There's the wonderful Greasemonkey to run user-defined JavaScript on web pages.
Is there such a thing as Greasemonkey for Safari? Or would one instead write a Safari Extension to customize behavior on other web pages? Maybe there's an alternative that runs on AppleScript instead of JavaScript?
A: Another option to run GreaseMonkey scripts is NinjaKit (which is what I use). It's a Safari 5 extension, which means it's just a tad safer than GreaseKit.
A: I use TamperMonkey and it works surprisingly well. It's also a Safari Extension.
I have tried used NinjaKit in the past but it no longer works for me, a lot of scripts simply won't work.
A:
Is there such a thing as Greasemonkey for Safari?
You can use SIMBL and GreaseKit to run most Greasemonkey scripts in Safari, unmodified. Detailed installation instructions are found at this link, repeated here:
*
*Download and install SIMBL
*Quit Safari
*Download GreaseKit
*Drag the GreaseKit.bundle file to ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins. You may need to create this location if it doesn't exit
*Start Safari and you'll see a GreaseKit menu bar item
*Install scripts from http://userscripts.org -- the installation process is a little different from the Firefox approach, but it works.
Or would one instead write a Safari Extension to customize behavior on other web pages? Maybe there's an alternative that runs on AppleScript instead of JavaScript?
The native-to-Safari equivalent of Greasemonkey is AppleScript extensions and plugins. For a nice library of native Safari extensions check out Pimp My Safari.
A: The best place to start is probably going to be here: http://developer.apple.com/devcenter/safari/index.action
I've seen safari extensions whose only behavior was to customize behavior of web sites; just yesterday I saw one that changed the layout of reddit to be more iOS-friendly.
here it is.
A: If you don't want to pay $2 for Tampermonkey, you can try Userscripts, which is free.
Userscripts is simpler, you will have to add your scripts using the extension page instead of installing them from GreasyFork automatically, for example. But otherwise it does the job of CSS and JS customisations as well. See the documentation of Userscripts for more information.
Mind that you won't be able to install extensions, which tamper with input devices, in recent versions of OSX. After the installation from the App Store you will have to enable them in the safe mode - after restarting holding the Shift key down. See an article at Apple about it.
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1b61cc1e2f10a7fb13503dbcc738a1b2e793d406 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Can I connect to a specific access point by BSSID? Is there any way to get Mac OS X to connect to a specific access point by BSSID? I have a network with the same SSID for multiple access points, and I would sometimes like to specify which specific access point to connect to. Is this something Mac OS X can do natively, or is there a third party tool that can do this?
A: What OS X version do you have?
In older versions this is possible:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport -A'NETWORKNAME' BSSID='00:11:22:33:44:55' password='PASSWORD'
But on OS X 10.6 it doesn't work anymore.
I've searched high and low for a solution for this, but haven't found anything yet. The only solution is going closer to your base station. So that the n -signal is stronger.
| Q: Can I connect to a specific access point by BSSID? Is there any way to get Mac OS X to connect to a specific access point by BSSID? I have a network with the same SSID for multiple access points, and I would sometimes like to specify which specific access point to connect to. Is this something Mac OS X can do natively, or is there a third party tool that can do this?
A: What OS X version do you have?
In older versions this is possible:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport -A'NETWORKNAME' BSSID='00:11:22:33:44:55' password='PASSWORD'
But on OS X 10.6 it doesn't work anymore.
I've searched high and low for a solution for this, but haven't found anything yet. The only solution is going closer to your base station. So that the n -signal is stronger.
A: An updated version of the airport-bssid tool mentioned in the answer by @Lil'Monster works on OS X El Capitan (10.11). A description of the tool is as follows:
Connect to a specific wifi network, based off BSSID (mac address of
Access Point).
usage: ./Build/Release/airport-bssid <ifname> [<bssid>] [<password>]
Connect to specific wireless network on interface, provided
by the access point with and password .
If and are excluded, a scan of wireless networks
from interface is performed and a list of wireless networks
are returned with ssid, bssid, channel, and signal strength details.
A: You can use that tool:
airport-bssid on github
A: Short answer - you can not. All hail Apple!
Long answer - https://blog.actorsfit.com/a?ID=01800-0b706cf1-c87d-4514-b3e6-0bcc10d08eb5
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a1c63ed06dd68fd736be1080015ba3ae6452e181 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Alternatives to MetaX? I'm trying to rip some DVDs on my Mac, the boxset for a TV show, using Handbrake. I'd also like to automatically fetch metadata - show name, episode name, etc. But MetaX isn't getting any metadata for me for this particular TV program. Any other Mac apps I can use that do similar?
A: Some that I've found:
*
*iFlicks.app
*Vidalin
*iDentify
I've yet to find one that does everything I want. iFlicks.app comes close, but the feature I want that's missing is the ability to tag chapters. You can always use more than one app, but I don't like the idea of different programs overwriting my metadata.
| Q: Alternatives to MetaX? I'm trying to rip some DVDs on my Mac, the boxset for a TV show, using Handbrake. I'd also like to automatically fetch metadata - show name, episode name, etc. But MetaX isn't getting any metadata for me for this particular TV program. Any other Mac apps I can use that do similar?
A: Some that I've found:
*
*iFlicks.app
*Vidalin
*iDentify
I've yet to find one that does everything I want. iFlicks.app comes close, but the feature I want that's missing is the ability to tag chapters. You can always use more than one app, but I don't like the idea of different programs overwriting my metadata.
A: You can try Handbrake. Hands down, the best I've tried.
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817974b92bb99129e557360fb57ae8fe3b271c8d | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What process is accessing the hard drive? I can hear the hard drive chugging away when it should be idle. Some process is writing/reading from it in semi-random bursts, let's say once every second. Very annoying and wasteful.
I tried activity monitor, but that did not give me enough information and lsof is overwhelming.
Where should I start digging to find out what process is (ab)using the hard drive?
This is on 10.6.6.
A: I like using fs_usage to see whats going on. A lot of information is going to go by quick, but you usually can see which app is doing stuff. For example, when idle, ill see safari going pretty crazy at times, plus spotlight, etc.
| Q: What process is accessing the hard drive? I can hear the hard drive chugging away when it should be idle. Some process is writing/reading from it in semi-random bursts, let's say once every second. Very annoying and wasteful.
I tried activity monitor, but that did not give me enough information and lsof is overwhelming.
Where should I start digging to find out what process is (ab)using the hard drive?
This is on 10.6.6.
A: I like using fs_usage to see whats going on. A lot of information is going to go by quick, but you usually can see which app is doing stuff. For example, when idle, ill see safari going pretty crazy at times, plus spotlight, etc.
A: Other thing you can try is the iotop tool.
Example usage would be
sudo iotop # requires root privileges
And more info can be found here
It give summary over the fs_usage which was mentioned by jmlumpkin.
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f17be900089d622f7c0659f8ce428c7114285032 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: What exactly is the difference between Badges, Alerts, and Sounds? I specifically want to know what the difference is between badges and alerts in the Notifications options in the iPhone 4.
Could you provide screenshots of each case?
A: Badges are the little numbered icons, like the one that appears on the Mail and SMS apps when you have new messages.
Alerts are popup messages like this:
| Q: What exactly is the difference between Badges, Alerts, and Sounds? I specifically want to know what the difference is between badges and alerts in the Notifications options in the iPhone 4.
Could you provide screenshots of each case?
A: Badges are the little numbered icons, like the one that appears on the Mail and SMS apps when you have new messages.
Alerts are popup messages like this:
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80ab328658641ae5c37ac1667d137439c6e737cb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is it possible to disable spellcheck for Coda but leave it enabled for other applications? I use Coda as web editor, and I usually have to mix Italian and English nouns and phrases. I don't want spellcheck on (as I use programming-related words such as uid and pid), so I'd like to deactivate it.
At the same time, though, I'd like to have it enabled everywhere else on my computer.
It appears that Mac OS X doesn't have a way to enable spellcheck for some applications but disable it for others.
Is this possible?
A: Just right click in the working tab, select Spelling and uncheck the option "Check Spelling While Typing"
| Q: Is it possible to disable spellcheck for Coda but leave it enabled for other applications? I use Coda as web editor, and I usually have to mix Italian and English nouns and phrases. I don't want spellcheck on (as I use programming-related words such as uid and pid), so I'd like to deactivate it.
At the same time, though, I'd like to have it enabled everywhere else on my computer.
It appears that Mac OS X doesn't have a way to enable spellcheck for some applications but disable it for others.
Is this possible?
A: Just right click in the working tab, select Spelling and uncheck the option "Check Spelling While Typing"
A: I don't know if it's possible (I doubt it), but here's a workaround: set a keystroke for the spellcheck menu item in System Preferences so you can easily turn it off or on.
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94447420802e830be72a1d912d5ef09d10503c21 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Why am I asked for a credit card number to download a free app? I want to download free app in my iPod touch device and i have the following doubts.
Kindly resolve me doubts.
*
*when i try to download it asks my credit card security number.
*since i am trying to download free app , why do i need to provide my credit card security code?
*Will i be debited for downloading the free app from app store?
I cant able to find any information regarding this on apple.
Please provide me some references about this from apple and please resolve my doubts.
Thanks a lot.
| Q: Why am I asked for a credit card number to download a free app? I want to download free app in my iPod touch device and i have the following doubts.
Kindly resolve me doubts.
*
*when i try to download it asks my credit card security number.
*since i am trying to download free app , why do i need to provide my credit card security code?
*Will i be debited for downloading the free app from app store?
I cant able to find any information regarding this on apple.
Please provide me some references about this from apple and please resolve my doubts.
Thanks a lot.
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bc807784822bff2b3e67bffe35ee6bbb22b71ff0 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How can I reinstall an application that the Mac App Store thinks is installed already? I'm the developer of an application that is currently on the Mac App Store. I'm trying to download my own application so that I can test out the binary that is on the store. (As opposed to running it in Xcode.)
I have purchased my own app in the app store previously, but then deleted it. (So that I could install a different version for testing.) Now, the App Store thinks that the application is still installed, even though it is not. (I deleted the development version when I was finished using it.)
I have removed all instances of the application from:
*
*/Applications
*~/Downloads
But the app is marked as "Installed" in the App Store, and it doesn't show up in my purchases. Is there a trick to get my binary re-installed?
A: Awesome, I figured it out. Run this command, which rebuilds LaunchServices:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
And everything should be back to good! Immediately after running, the App Store allowed me to re-purchase the app.
Source: MacLife Link
| Q: How can I reinstall an application that the Mac App Store thinks is installed already? I'm the developer of an application that is currently on the Mac App Store. I'm trying to download my own application so that I can test out the binary that is on the store. (As opposed to running it in Xcode.)
I have purchased my own app in the app store previously, but then deleted it. (So that I could install a different version for testing.) Now, the App Store thinks that the application is still installed, even though it is not. (I deleted the development version when I was finished using it.)
I have removed all instances of the application from:
*
*/Applications
*~/Downloads
But the app is marked as "Installed" in the App Store, and it doesn't show up in my purchases. Is there a trick to get my binary re-installed?
A: Awesome, I figured it out. Run this command, which rebuilds LaunchServices:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
And everything should be back to good! Immediately after running, the App Store allowed me to re-purchase the app.
Source: MacLife Link
A: Just hit Launchpad and delete your app there by clicking and holding down the mouse button and clicking the "x" top left.
Now the Mac App Store knows it's deleted. Just redownload and be HAPPY!
A: It could be that the App Store interface sees your development version(s) as the installed copy. LaunchServices doesn't care if your app is in the /Applications folder or buried in your Xcode build directory. See also.
A: On Snow Leopard, I not only had to run the command in Craig's answer, I also had to make sure that Spotlight was up to date and did not show the app in question to still be on the computer.
You can refresh particular folders in Spotlight's index using the mdimport command. So to refresh the /Applications folder:
mdimport /Applications
I had a Lion partition as well as a SL partition on the machine. Spotlight was set up to index everything on both partitions, and there was a version of the app in question on my Lion partition. I added the entire Lion partition to Spotlight's ignore list, then ran the command in @Craig's answer, and everything worked. Just running the command in @Craig's answer was not enough for me.
A: Nothing helped (El Captain), so I opened Launchpad (F4), found application there, dragged it to Trash and successfully reinstalled.
A: (had it not been that I needed points to do so) I would have upvoted or added a comment that restarting my system like kakhkAtion
suggested was what worked. I was trying to reinstall Affinity Publisher from the app store. (I had tried to find it in Launchpad (it was gone), I removed it the icon from the doc, but both the App store and the command line tool 'mas' both reported it was still there. I also tried holding the option key). Only restarting worked (iMac 2012 running High Sierra 10.13.6)
A: You can also hold down option while clicking the app in the app store to force it to re-install.
A: This will work on OSX Mavericks and Yosemite.
Instead of launching the App Store app from the dock or the apps folder, launch the App Store app from within the Launcher. This will rebuild the App Store app and tell you what's installed or not.
A: Had the same issue. Just restarted my mac and then the app store could see that the app was not installed.
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c1390f4572d86b3ad4090eaa8c2716c9464c3af8 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: Is there any multiple terminal emulator for Mac OS? I love the command line and I would like to see an app like Terminator (for Linux) in my MacOs:
It seems there are ports of that app for Mac available using Fink or Ports. But I found it's a hell to install them... it depends on a lot of things which depends on other things which... etc.
So I've been wondering if there's a MacOS native app like that (free or not)...
A: Terminator was just ported to Mac OS X via the homebrew package Manager.
brew install terminator
See the PR or the recipe.
Tested on OS X 10.9.2 the main functionalities work.
| Q: Is there any multiple terminal emulator for Mac OS? I love the command line and I would like to see an app like Terminator (for Linux) in my MacOs:
It seems there are ports of that app for Mac available using Fink or Ports. But I found it's a hell to install them... it depends on a lot of things which depends on other things which... etc.
So I've been wondering if there's a MacOS native app like that (free or not)...
A: Terminator was just ported to Mac OS X via the homebrew package Manager.
brew install terminator
See the PR or the recipe.
Tested on OS X 10.9.2 the main functionalities work.
A: iTerm 2 claims to be able to do this.
Edit: I just downloaded it, and it seems to work well enough that I think I'll switch from iTerm 1:
I'm not sure what's going on with you and macports, but I just installed tmux using macports. it took about 30 seconds, and was completely painless.
FWIW, I've subsequently spent enough time with GNU screen that I basically just use it for everything at this point. iTerm is nice if you want a local, mouse-driven multiplexer, but almost everything I do is server-side at this point, and doing it all over one SSH connection is much better anyways.
A: Install GNU Screen, or TMUX via macports/homebrew or by compiling it by hand.
A: I'm a big fan of SizeUp which lets you tile windows using keyboard commands. This doesn't put different views in one terminal, but it does let me easily have a bunch of views open at once and organized neatly.
A: I think iTerm 2 and TotalTerminal are all great tools to improve the efficiency when working on terminal and command lines.
A: I found that GNU screen does exactly what I want (just type screen in terminal), but only after I spent a few minutes learning some basics. Here is the jump start I needed on key bindings (straight from the man page) - note that you need to install the GNU version for vertical splits (listed after the FAU version that was in my Mavericks).
Screen version 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06
(included in Mavericks and likely similar in earlier)
The following table shows the default key bindings:
C-a ' (select) Prompt for a window name or number to switch to.
C-a " (windowlist -b)
Present a list of all windows for selection.
C-a 0 (select 0)
a| a|
C-a 9 (select 9)
C-a - (select -) Switch to window number 0 - 9, or to the blank window.
C-a tab (focus) Switch the input focus to the next region. See also split, remove, only.
C-a C-a (other) Toggle to the window displayed previously. Note that this binding defaults
to the command character typed twice, unless overridden. For instance, if
you use the option "-e]x", this command becomes "]]".
...
C-a S (split) Split the current region into two new ones.
...
C-a ? (help) Show key bindings.
C-a \ (quit) Kill all windows and terminate screen.
...
C-a * (displays) Show a listing of all currently attached displays.
Additional items with 'Screen version 4.02.01 (GNU) 28-Apr-14'
(installed using sudo port install screen just now)
All of the items listed above in the 4.00.02 (FAU) version, as well as:
C-a S (split) Split the current region horizontally into two new ones. See also only,
remove, focus.
Same above, but this clarifies that it is horizontal.
...
C-a | (split -v) Split the current region vertically into two new ones.
Note: I tried searching the web for this, but words such as 'screen', 'terminal', and 'split' are so common as to make the man pages easier for me.
A: Use gnu screen, it does what you want, split your single terminal window into many windows all within the same GUI window. (though you'll probably want a newer version than what comes with OS X as the ability to split on both axis is newer than the version of screen already installed on your mac.)
A: There is also the following:
csshx
A: For macOS 10.12 cssh from https://www.macports.org works great, whereas the homebrew version fails.
A: Check out SecureCRT: https://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/mac_osx.html They have a build for Windows, Mac, and Linux. I've used the Windows version for years, and started using the Mac version recently. Although the Mac version isn't as fancy as the Windows version, it is full featured for everything I've ever needed in a multiple terminal emulator. It would be nice to have MobaXterm on Mac, but sadly it's only for Windows.
By the way, SecureCRT is not free. It is $99 for 1 year of updates or $139 for 3 years of updates. If you do cloud computing, server management, etc, it is well worth the price.
A: Use Command + T to open new terminal window
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0e46db4e7d3022b3307016bdcba99458108e48e9 | Apple Stackexchange
Q: How to disable ._ AppleDouble files for SMB? I have a small problem. I don't want that our Macs here create the ._ files to the network drive. For example when you copy an image over the finder to the SMB storage.
Is there a way to disable this function in Finder?
The .DS_Store file is already disabled, but not files such as ._pic1.jpg .
We activated veto files in samba to prevent creation of ._ files, there arose an error – not enough permissions on the drive.
Thank to all ;)
A: Don't know of a way within Finder, but Blue Harvest (paid application) offers this functionality: http://www.zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest4/
| Q: How to disable ._ AppleDouble files for SMB? I have a small problem. I don't want that our Macs here create the ._ files to the network drive. For example when you copy an image over the finder to the SMB storage.
Is there a way to disable this function in Finder?
The .DS_Store file is already disabled, but not files such as ._pic1.jpg .
We activated veto files in samba to prevent creation of ._ files, there arose an error – not enough permissions on the drive.
Thank to all ;)
A: Don't know of a way within Finder, but Blue Harvest (paid application) offers this functionality: http://www.zeroonetwenty.com/blueharvest4/
A: Finder
Finder does much to ensure integrity of data, and to make its results compatible with a broad range of Apple operating systems.
Please, you should not attempt to prevent Finder from creating ._ (dot underscore) files during copy or move routines.
File system
If you prevent creation at the file system level – as you did with your configuration of Samba – you make that file system partially incompatible with at least:
*
*Apple Finder
*Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint and Word 2011.
(For any use case that involves Office 2011 saving to a file system, you must allow ._ on that file system … and so on.)
For more detail please see my answer to a more recent question, Why are dot underscore ._ files created, and how can I avoid them?:
*
*Purposes of .DS_Store and ._ files
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8a592cede0ed7813283a699679aab10ed16203eb | Apple Stackexchange
Q: iPad Charging USB Hub?
Possible Duplicate:
When I plug my iPad into my computer USB ports, iPad displays “Not Charging”. What can I do?
Newer MacBooks provide enough juice through the built-in USB ports for the iPad to charge quickly, and one can use the wall outlet to get the job done as well. However, there don't seem to be any hubs out there that do anything but trickle-charge...
Is anyone aware of a USB hub that can charge an iPad? I'd really like to be able to sync & charge at the same time without having to plug in directly into the MacBook.
A: Apple's online store sells two Belkin USB hubs with support for "high-power devices":
Power: Max. power output per port: 500mAh
*
*Belkin USB 4-port Hub * Stellar
*Belkin USB 7-port Hub * Stellar
| Q: iPad Charging USB Hub?
Possible Duplicate:
When I plug my iPad into my computer USB ports, iPad displays “Not Charging”. What can I do?
Newer MacBooks provide enough juice through the built-in USB ports for the iPad to charge quickly, and one can use the wall outlet to get the job done as well. However, there don't seem to be any hubs out there that do anything but trickle-charge...
Is anyone aware of a USB hub that can charge an iPad? I'd really like to be able to sync & charge at the same time without having to plug in directly into the MacBook.
A: Apple's online store sells two Belkin USB hubs with support for "high-power devices":
Power: Max. power output per port: 500mAh
*
*Belkin USB 4-port Hub * Stellar
*Belkin USB 7-port Hub * Stellar
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