{ // 获取包含Hugging Face文本的span元素 const spans = link.querySelectorAll('span.whitespace-nowrap, span.hidden.whitespace-nowrap'); spans.forEach(span => { if (span.textContent && span.textContent.trim().match(/Hugging\s*Face/i)) { span.textContent = 'AI快站'; } }); }); // 替换logo图片的alt属性 document.querySelectorAll('img[alt*="Hugging"], img[alt*="Face"]').forEach(img => { if (img.alt.match(/Hugging\s*Face/i)) { img.alt = 'AI快站 logo'; } }); } // 替换导航栏中的链接 function replaceNavigationLinks() { // 已替换标记,防止重复运行 if (window._navLinksReplaced) { return; } // 已经替换过的链接集合,防止重复替换 const replacedLinks = new Set(); // 只在导航栏区域查找和替换链接 const headerArea = document.querySelector('header') || document.querySelector('nav'); if (!headerArea) { return; } // 在导航区域内查找链接 const navLinks = headerArea.querySelectorAll('a'); navLinks.forEach(link => { // 如果已经替换过,跳过 if (replacedLinks.has(link)) return; const linkText = link.textContent.trim(); const linkHref = link.getAttribute('href') || ''; // 替换Spaces链接 - 仅替换一次 if ( (linkHref.includes('/spaces') || linkHref === '/spaces' || linkText === 'Spaces' || linkText.match(/^s*Spacess*$/i)) && linkText !== 'OCR模型免费转Markdown' && linkText !== 'OCR模型免费转Markdown' ) { link.textContent = 'OCR模型免费转Markdown'; link.href = 'https://fast360.xyz'; link.setAttribute('target', '_blank'); link.setAttribute('rel', 'noopener noreferrer'); replacedLinks.add(link); } // 删除Posts链接 else if ( (linkHref.includes('/posts') || linkHref === '/posts' || linkText === 'Posts' || linkText.match(/^s*Postss*$/i)) ) { if (link.parentNode) { link.parentNode.removeChild(link); } replacedLinks.add(link); } // 替换Docs链接 - 仅替换一次 else if ( (linkHref.includes('/docs') || linkHref === '/docs' || linkText === 'Docs' || linkText.match(/^s*Docss*$/i)) && linkText !== '模型下载攻略' ) { link.textContent = '模型下载攻略'; link.href = '/'; replacedLinks.add(link); } // 删除Enterprise链接 else if ( (linkHref.includes('/enterprise') || linkHref === '/enterprise' || linkText === 'Enterprise' || linkText.match(/^s*Enterprises*$/i)) ) { if (link.parentNode) { link.parentNode.removeChild(link); } replacedLinks.add(link); } }); // 查找可能嵌套的Spaces和Posts文本 const textNodes = []; function findTextNodes(element) { if (element.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE) { const text = element.textContent.trim(); if (text === 'Spaces' || text === 'Posts' || text === 'Enterprise') { textNodes.push(element); } } else { for (const child of element.childNodes) { findTextNodes(child); } } } // 只在导航区域内查找文本节点 findTextNodes(headerArea); // 替换找到的文本节点 textNodes.forEach(node => { const text = node.textContent.trim(); if (text === 'Spaces') { node.textContent = node.textContent.replace(/Spaces/g, 'OCR模型免费转Markdown'); } else if (text === 'Posts') { // 删除Posts文本节点 if (node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); } } else if (text === 'Enterprise') { // 删除Enterprise文本节点 if (node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); } } }); // 标记已替换完成 window._navLinksReplaced = true; } // 替换代码区域中的域名 function replaceCodeDomains() { // 特别处理span.hljs-string和span.njs-string元素 document.querySelectorAll('span.hljs-string, span.njs-string, span[class*="hljs-string"], span[class*="njs-string"]').forEach(span => { if (span.textContent && span.textContent.includes('huggingface.co')) { span.textContent = span.textContent.replace(/huggingface.co/g, 'aifasthub.com'); } }); // 替换hljs-string类的span中的域名(移除多余的转义符号) document.querySelectorAll('span.hljs-string, span[class*="hljs-string"]').forEach(span => { if (span.textContent && span.textContent.includes('huggingface.co')) { span.textContent = span.textContent.replace(/huggingface.co/g, 'aifasthub.com'); } }); // 替换pre和code标签中包含git clone命令的域名 document.querySelectorAll('pre, code').forEach(element => { if (element.textContent && element.textContent.includes('git clone')) { const text = element.innerHTML; if (text.includes('huggingface.co')) { element.innerHTML = text.replace(/huggingface.co/g, 'aifasthub.com'); } } }); // 处理特定的命令行示例 document.querySelectorAll('pre, code').forEach(element => { const text = element.innerHTML; if (text.includes('huggingface.co')) { // 针对git clone命令的专门处理 if (text.includes('git clone') || text.includes('GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1')) { element.innerHTML = text.replace(/huggingface.co/g, 'aifasthub.com'); } } }); // 特别处理模型下载页面上的代码片段 document.querySelectorAll('.flex.border-t, .svelte_hydrator, .inline-block').forEach(container => { const content = container.innerHTML; if (content && content.includes('huggingface.co')) { container.innerHTML = content.replace(/huggingface.co/g, 'aifasthub.com'); } }); // 特别处理模型仓库克隆对话框中的代码片段 try { // 查找包含"Clone this model repository"标题的对话框 const cloneDialog = document.querySelector('.svelte_hydration_boundary, [data-target="MainHeader"]'); if (cloneDialog) { // 查找对话框中所有的代码片段和命令示例 const codeElements = cloneDialog.querySelectorAll('pre, code, span'); codeElements.forEach(element => { if (element.textContent && element.textContent.includes('huggingface.co')) { if (element.innerHTML.includes('huggingface.co')) { element.innerHTML = element.innerHTML.replace(/huggingface.co/g, 'aifasthub.com'); } else { element.textContent = element.textContent.replace(/huggingface.co/g, 'aifasthub.com'); } } }); } // 更精确地定位克隆命令中的域名 document.querySelectorAll('[data-target]').forEach(container => { const codeBlocks = container.querySelectorAll('pre, code, span.hljs-string'); codeBlocks.forEach(block => { if (block.textContent && block.textContent.includes('huggingface.co')) { if (block.innerHTML.includes('huggingface.co')) { block.innerHTML = block.innerHTML.replace(/huggingface.co/g, 'aifasthub.com'); } else { block.textContent = block.textContent.replace(/huggingface.co/g, 'aifasthub.com'); } } }); }); } catch (e) { // 错误处理但不打印日志 } } // 当DOM加载完成后执行替换 if (document.readyState === 'loading') { document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { replaceHeaderBranding(); replaceNavigationLinks(); replaceCodeDomains(); // 只在必要时执行替换 - 3秒后再次检查 setTimeout(() => { if (!window._navLinksReplaced) { console.log('[Client] 3秒后重新检查导航链接'); replaceNavigationLinks(); } }, 3000); }); } else { replaceHeaderBranding(); replaceNavigationLinks(); replaceCodeDomains(); // 只在必要时执行替换 - 3秒后再次检查 setTimeout(() => { if (!window._navLinksReplaced) { console.log('[Client] 3秒后重新检查导航链接'); replaceNavigationLinks(); } }, 3000); } // 增加一个MutationObserver来处理可能的动态元素加载 const observer = new MutationObserver(mutations => { // 检查是否导航区域有变化 const hasNavChanges = mutations.some(mutation => { // 检查是否存在header或nav元素变化 return Array.from(mutation.addedNodes).some(node => { if (node.nodeType === Node.ELEMENT_NODE) { // 检查是否是导航元素或其子元素 if (node.tagName === 'HEADER' || node.tagName === 'NAV' || node.querySelector('header, nav')) { return true; } // 检查是否在导航元素内部 let parent = node.parentElement; while (parent) { if (parent.tagName === 'HEADER' || parent.tagName === 'NAV') { return true; } parent = parent.parentElement; } } return false; }); }); // 只在导航区域有变化时执行替换 if (hasNavChanges) { // 重置替换状态,允许再次替换 window._navLinksReplaced = false; replaceHeaderBranding(); replaceNavigationLinks(); } }); // 开始观察document.body的变化,包括子节点 if (document.body) { observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true }); } else { document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true }); }); } })(); \n\n\n\nA: You can press ⌘+A to select all then Text->Indent Selection.\n\nA: You can use Bundles > HTML > Tidy or the shortcut ctrl+⇧+H.\n\nA: I'd like to point out something that crosses a bit the other answers:\nIf you select the text that you wish to format (or reindent), TextMate will apply specific actions only to that. So, if you CMD+A your document and then apply Tidy (either from the Bundles > HTML menu or with the CTRL+SHIFT+H shortcut) it will mostly only do indenting, skipping alerts on validations (that sometimes are unnecessary since we might be working on page snippets).\n\nA: You can use Xcode or Dashcode instead if you install the Developer Tools. They come free on the install discs that came with your computer. I believe both Xcode and Dashcode have syntax highlighting.\nIf you want really good software, get Coda. It is a bit pricey at $100, but I would definitely say it is worth it. It has syntax highlighting and (the big part for me) autocompletion.\n\nA: Yes. The Tidy call in TextMate's built-in HTML bundle can deal with your HTML.\nTextMate's Bundles -> HTML -> Tidy produces:\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n

\n Test\n

\n \n\n\nOn your sample code. Nothing disappeared. You also get the following warnings:\nline 1 column 1 - Warning: missing declaration\nline 2 column 5 - Warning: isn't allowed in elements\nline 1 column 1 - Warning: proprietary attribute \"xmlns:tal\"\nline 1 column 1 - Warning: proprietary attribute \"xmlns:metal\"\n\n\nA: The problem I experienced with the built-in Text -> Indent Selection or Tidy solution is that it doesn't play well with partial HTML code. This is for example important when editing in WordPress or working with partials in Ruby on Rails.\nThe solution that worked for me was to add a command to the bundle with a custom Perl script by John Watson that I found here: http://snipplr.com/view.php?codeview&id=28256\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3223\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"19\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":928,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: application for iPhone to read bar codes I need to read different bar codes, and would be great that I can use my iPhone for that. Currently I have an application to read QRCodes but I'm looking to read PDF417 too.\n\nA: Red Laser has just updated to read more types of barcode. Plus it's free.\n\nA: I use\nRedLaser for \"normal\" codes and ZBar for QRCodes.\nThese are the fastest and most stable I could find. Plus, they are both free.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3224\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"6\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":929,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Does the iPod Touch calendar support every other day scheduling? Does the iPod Touch calendar support every other day scheduling?\n\nA: You can set that up, but not on the device. There's no interface to more complex recursion rules in the iOS calendar app.\nIf you're synching with iCal on a mac, you add the event to iCal and go into the \"custom\" recurrence settings, and it's easy to have it repeat every two days.\nSync your device and bob's your uncle.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3228\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"2\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":930,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: How to disable to login screen shortcut (Cmd+Alt+L) I'm trying to find where this shortcut is being configured under Snow Leopard but I simply can not. Any help would be appreciated!\n\nA: Not sure what you're trying to do, but Safari uses CMD+Alt+L for the downloads window.\nAlso, I used to use LockMyScreen (which doesn't work in Snow Leopard anymore), and it's shortcut is showing in my Mac as CMD+Alt+L.\nI went to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts, then looked in Application Shortcuts.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3230\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"1\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":931,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Is there a way to share a wi-fi connection over wi-fi? The problem is that here is a router (at a cottage), which only allows 2 connections. but we need wi-fi for 8 devices. so the plan is to create another wi-fi spot to share our connection. is there a tool or tutorial for that?\n\nA: In order for a Mac to create a local Wi-Fi network, it needs to have a wired Internet source. So what you need to do is:\n\n\n*\n\n*Connect an Ethernet cable from the router (the wired source) to a Mac.\n\n*On that Mac, choose System Preferences > Sharing.\n\n*Select Internet Sharing.\n\n*Choose Ethernet from the “Share your connection from” pop-up menu.\n\n*Select AirPort in the “To computers using” list, then click AirPort Options and give your network a name and password.\n\n*Connect the other computers to the new Wi-Fi network you just created.\n\n\nIf needed, there are more details on this Apple help page: Sharing your Internet connection.\n\nA: You could do it with the built-in Sharing feature (System Preferences->Sharing), but it would require two wifi cards in the device acting as the bridge. More broadly, to my knowledge, it isn't possible to share a connection in the way you are proposing with a single wifi card (though you could extend the signal, it would still be limited to the same number of connections as that is bring managed by the original access point).\n\nA: Yes you can use Internet sharing with a single WiFi connection. Just enable it from the System Preferences. (The previous poster is wrong. I did this at my Mom's house to allow iPad and iPhone use and it worked fine.)\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3236\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"4\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":932,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: iPod Nano battery loses charge when it's cold My fourth-gen iPod Nano has very recently started to completely lose its charge when I'm outdoors (currently it's a bit colder here, about 10°C / 50°F).\nIndoors, or when it's warmer, it still manages a relatively reasonable music playback time of about 10 hrs. Is there anything I can do except contact Apple about a battery replacement? (The iPod is no longer under warranty and I want to avoid the 59 currency unit fee.)\n\nA: The temperature you describe is not cold enough to affect battery functions too much. It’s within the operating temperatures and it shouldn’t happen. Take a look at the temperature charts in the Apple iPod Battery page and if it doesn’t perform as expected, contact them immediately.\nUPDATE: If the iPod is not under warranty, you’re pretty much “hosed”, however, you can attempt a manual battery replacement. This google query is a good starting point. \n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3246\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"2\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":933,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Why am I getting a \"dubious ownership of file\" error when Launch Agent runs my .plist file? I have a Launch Agent configured to run a .plist file for example: /Library/LaunchAgent/foo.plist. Inside this .plist, it is set to run during LoginWindow and Aqua.\nWhen I attempt to launch my computer and get to the login screen, this plist should run but instead gives the following error (in the console):\n\nlaunchctl: Dubious ownership on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchAgents/foo.plist\n\nWhen I attempt to login in to a non-admin account, it gives the exact same error message. When I attempt to login with an admin account, it works fine.\nI'll be honest, I don't know much about Mac OS X privileges and permissions.\nTo create the file, I opened it up in emacs, with sudo on the admin account (e.g. by using the su command since the other account doesn't have sudo privileges) and then saved it.\nWhich account do I need to use to create the file so that it works for all users?\nDo I need to use the sudo command?\nDo I need to change the file permissions (e.g. use chmod)?\nIs there an easy way to take an existing file and change its ownership instead of having to recreate the file?\nCould someone please explain why this error happens?\n\nA: If a plist is owned by root and writable by a user other than root, that's a security issue.\nYou can change the owner to root with sudo chown root , and change the permissions with sudo chmod 644 (4 for read access, 2 for write access, 1 for execute access, added up. The first number is for the owner, the second for the group, the third for everyone.)\n\nA: From the launchctl(1) manpage’s description of the load subcommand:\n\nNote that per-user configuration files (LaunchAgents) must\n be owned by the user loading them. All system-wide daemons (LaunchDaemons) must be owned by\n root. Configuration files must not be group- or world-writable. These restrictions are in\n place for security reasons, as allowing writability to a launchd configuration file allows one\n to specify which executable will be launched.\n\nlaunchctl has several “Dubious …” messages. The launchd code for 10.6.7 (for example) has three such messages in its launchctl.c (see the function path_goodness_check).\n\n\n*\n\n*Dubious permissions on file (skipping): \n\n*Dubious ownership on file (skipping): \n\n*Dubious path. Not a regular file or directory (skipping): \nTo avoid these messages a pathname must be (#3) a regular file or directory1 (or a symlink to one) that is (#1) owned by root or the invoking user and (#2) not “group” or “other” writable (i.e. chmod go-w).\n1\nNo named pipes, block/character special device nodes, local domain sockets, etc.\n\nYour file is probably owned by the admin user since you say that you do not get the message when logging in as that user (the pathname is owned by the invoking user in that case).\nTo make the pathname work for other users, it should be owned by root.\nTo arrange this, do:\nsudo chown root /Library/LaunchAgent/foo.plist\n\n\nA: Thanks for the answer (changing owner to root) -- that's all I needed.\nTo make this a bit more than a 'me too' post... I got here via a convoluted path: I was getting \"This API can only be used by a process running within an Aqua session\" errors for a launchdaemon.\nSearching for an answer to that led me to Apple's technote on daemons and agents which explained how to resolve the 'Aqua session' error, but that left me with 'dubious ownership' issues. That's how I got here, where my final issue was resolved.\nMaybe adding all of that to this discussion will cause some search engine to link this page to one of the precursory issues, thereby saving some future adventurer some time.\n\nA: This is what happens when people do not know how sudo works. To disable services that are on files owned by your user just call launchtl without sudo. \n\nA: for file in ~/Library/LaunchAgent owned by the user and not root dont sudo, if you do youll have to change the ownership since you are loading it from the root user\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3250\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"54\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":934,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Software to A) merge two faces into one and B) morph one into another for Mac? I'm looking for a program (or programs) that will allow me to do two things:\n\n\n*\n\n*Create a video of one photo of a face morphing into another photo of a face. (This requires tagging the matched elements somehow, I presume.\n\n*Allow me to create a merged image from two faces, sort of like a \"what if they had a baby\" kind of thing. Note that Morph Thing, which does this online, won't work for me, as it won't work with decent size images.\n\n\nA paid Mac app would be fine, as would multiple apps, if there's not one that does both of the above. \nThe only ones I've found online all seemed to be on random download sites that lacked credibility.\n\nA: A quick search gave me two promising applications:\n\n\n*\n\n*Commercial: Creaceed Morph Age\n\n*Freeware: Norrkross MorphX\nI believe that both do what you want.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3251\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"2\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":935,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: How to disable sound when switching Firefox tabs with ⌘1-⌘9 I use the keyboard shortcut ⌘1-⌘9 to switch to tabs in Firefox. In OS X every time I do this there's a sound, which can become annoying when the volume is turned up.\nI looked in about:config for anything matching sound but wasn't able to figure it out. Does anyone know how to disable this sound?\n\nA: That’s certainly not a Firefox sound, at least not one that I’ve heard in the past. \n\n\n*\n\n*Do you have any Extension? Try disabling them all for the sake of testing.\n\n*Any other application running that could be using the same shortcut? (Safari uses that to access the quick bookmarks where ⌘1 corresponds to the 1st on the left (next to Top Sites) and so on. However, the lack of bookmark, doesn’t produce a sound on my system. I even have “Play User Interface sound effect” checked in Sound Preferences pane. \n\n\nMy bet is that you have something else running and that is causing the “bonk”.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3252\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"3\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":936,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: ctrl-o behavior in Terminal.app I often use the ⌃+O shortcut in bash (from \"Learning the bash Shell\"):\n\n[G]o back to [a command in history] and press ⌃+O instead of ↩. This will execute the command and bring up the next command in the history file. Press ⌃+O again to enter this command and bring up the next one.\n\nIt seems this shortcut is not available on OS X; ⌃+O simply does nothing. A web search turns up the suggestion to use the ! bash builtin, but I don't see how I can accomplish the same thing as ⌃+O with it.\nIs it possible to somehow get ⌃+O behavior in Terminal.app on OS X?\n\nA: man bash might help. The \"READLINE\" and \"Readline Key Bindings\" talk about binding the key presses available and how to set up readline's defaults.\nAlso Bash Emacs Editing Mode Cheat Sheet and Working Productively in Bash's Vi Command Line Editing Mode (with Cheat Sheet) are good for figuring out what keypress does what if you are using vi mode instead of the default emacs. In either case bind -P | grep found will show you what key combinations are configured in vi mode and bind -P will show everything available.\n\nA: ⌃+O is, for some reason (probably having to do with it being used for flow control on some kinds of serial connections) set to be discarded by the terminal driver (i.e. not Terminal.app, but the part of the OS between it and the shell). You can get rid of this with the command stty discard undef. To make this change permanent, add this command to your .bash_profile and .bashrc files.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3253\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"19\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":937,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: How can I sync multiple photo and video folders in iTunes? I have an iPhone 4, a PC, and iTunes 10. I can't figure out how to sync photos AND videos from multiple folders.\nIn iTunes' iPhone view, under \"Pictures\" I can select a single master folder, then subfolders to sync. Eg, I have \"D:\\Pictures\" and I select the \"2010\" folder. Fine. But I'd also like to sync \"D:\\Videos\" and select its \"2010\" folder. I see that the \"Pictures\" option also allows you to sync videos. But what's impossible to do, as far as I can tell, is sync multiple folders arbitrarily located in my folder hierarchy, rather than multiple subfolders of a single parent folder.\n\nA: Wild guess here because I don't sync mine on a windows system. But you can probably use symbolic links to your other folders, within the ones that actually sync.\nHere is how to do it:\nhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363878(VS.85).aspx\n\nA: That is a programming command. Use mklink in a command window to interactively make a link. \n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3256\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"1\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":938,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: \"Watch Me Do\" workflow succeeds in Automator but not as app I have a 1 action automator workflow. This workflow is recorded to produce a \"Watch Me Do\" action. The action is to click on the \"VPN\" menu bar item, then select a particular VPN from the menu. This workflow runs fine in automator. When I run it as a standalone app the mouse moves correctly (clicking on the menu, selecting the correct VPN), but I don't actually connect to the VPN. I'm clueless about what's going wrong, so any help at all would be good!\nIn the console, the only thing I see is:\nOct 19 20:19:18 vonnegut Application Stub[7148]: Can't open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle\nOct 19 20:19:24 vonnegut Automator Launcher[7153]: Can't open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle\n\nI'm running on a MacBookPro5,1 with an apple keyboard and a standard 2-button + wheel mouse attached. \nI'm not really sure how to tell whether a connection is attempted. Nothing changes in ppp.log which makes me think nothing gets that far. If I try to connect manually, that's fine.\n\nA: I've previously discovered when attempting to Applescript an application through UI scripting, that the Applescript command of the mouse didn't quite behave the same as the real mouse. For instance, I would be able to command the change of a dropdown box, but the app wouldn't register the change until a \"real\" selection by mouse occurred.\nIt must have been a bug in the design of the app, but it was defunct and I had to find a solution. I ended up using \"Extra Suites\" by Kanzu, which was able to simulate the equivalent of a \"real\" mouse click.\nAutomator uses the same Apple Events as Applescript, and perhaps is falling to the same problem. What VPN client are you using? You might be able to solve the problem by using some Applescript (if the client supports it), or switching to another VPN client.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3262\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"1\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":939,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Connect iPod Touch to WiFi with hidden SSID is it possible to connect an iPod Touch to a WiFi network whose SSID is hidden? If so, how can this be achieved?\nRegards,\nChristoph\n\nA: If the SSID is hidden, that means you don’t see the network’s name, so the only way to connect is by manually typing the SSID. \nYou have to select “Other” from the list of WiFi networks.\n\n\nA: My wireless home network SSID is hidden, for obvious reasons, when I used my iPod Touch for the first time, I manually entered the SSID name and passcode, but I could not get connected. I have to go into my wireless router and enable SSID, that was the only way I could connect my iPod Touch. The problem is when I turn the iPod Touch off, and turn it back on, the iPod touch still won't see my SSID, after it's hidden again.\nEx: if my iPod Touch is connected and I hid my SSID, no problem. When I turn my ipod off and on again, that's when it won't connect because my SSID is hidden.\n\nA: Go to Settings > WiFi > Other\nEnter the SSID of the hidden network\n\nA: Having the same issue but leaving the SSID visible seems to take care of that. The only real wireless security anyway is to have a MAC filter list so just go to settings on the IPOD and get it's MAC address to add to the filter list on your wireless router.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3265\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"5\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":940,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: How to use Regex with spotlight \nPossible Duplicate:\nHow Can I Search A Specific Type of File in Mac? \n\nHow could I use spotlight to search for example for files that end with jar or files that end with doc and at the same time contains \"Hello\" in it's name?\n\nA: I’m assuming by “end with” you mean that files have the extension .jar or .doc. And given all those filenames, you want those who have “hello” in their filnames.\nWith that in mind, you’re looking for something like this:\n(.jar AND “hello\") OR (.doc AND “hello”)\n\nAdditionally, you could extend the number of “words” by adding: \n(.jar AND “hello” OR “some_other_word\") OR (.doc AND “hello”)\n\nFor more ninja commands for Spotlight, your best bet is to read throughout this interesting doc from Apple, that’s the Spotlight’s Query Language documentation with lots of examples. \nFinally, if you want to know what attributes are available for you to query directly, refer to this blog post.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3268\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"8\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":941,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: How to edit videos keeping existing geotagging? Videos recorded with an iPhone or with other GPS-enabled phones gets geotagged as they should. When I trim/crop/edit them in iMovie (iLife '09) the GPS tags are gone.\nHow to keep the tags despite editing or is there a program to add back the geotags to the movie afterwards?\n\nA: You can geotag videos with Picasa, but I don't know if the geotag is saved along with the file...\n\nA: You can download the free app GeoCam Pro in the App Store. This app allows you to upload the video to the site veryminute.com and add the video to your iPhone's library. I think the tags will be also synced.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3269\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"2\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":942,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: How to get rid of firewall \"accept incoming connections\" dialog? I've accepted this so many times that firewall should already remember it.\n\nDo you want the application \"AppName.app\" to accept incoming network connections?\nClicking Deny may limit the application's behavior. This setting can be changed in the Firewall pane of Security preferences.\nDeny | Allow\n\nFor example, I get it for Eclipse when starting my java programs in debugging mode. Sometimes this dialog is displayed only very shortly, like half second, and disappears. I also get it for iTunes (when I enable sharing my library), and other programs, even though I have them listed in Firewall preferences panel (adv. settings).\n\nA: sudo codesign --force --deep --sign - /path/to/application.app\n\nI've never had to create a certificate using this method.\nIf that doesn't help, try without --deep and without the trailing slash:\nsudo codesign --force --sign - /path/to/application.app\n\n\nNote, just to make it clearer: After having applied the signature, start the app, accept incoming connections one last time, then quit and start again to verify that the request is gone.\n\nA: While RedYeti's link is useful, just to save a few clicks for others let me recap how to generate a code-signing cert and to use it for code (re-)signing:\n\n\n*\n\n*Create your own code signing cert:\n\n\n*\n\n*In Keychain Access, Keychain Access > Certificate Assistant > Create a certificate. \nThis launches the Certificate Assistant:\n\n*Name: Enter some arbitrary string here that you can remember. Avoid spaces otherwise you'll need to escape the cert's name when using codesign from the command line.\n\n*Identity type: Self Signed Root\n\n*Certificate Type: Code Signing\n\n*Check the box \"Let me override defaults\", this is quite important\n\n*Serial number: 1 (OK as long as the cert name/serial no. combination is unique)\n\n*Validity Period: 3650 (gives you 10 years)\n\n*Email, Name, etc. fill out as you wish.\n\n*Key pair info: set to RSA, 2048 bits. Does not really matter IMHO.\n\n*From \"Key usage extension\" up to \"Subject Alternate Name Extension\": accept the defaults.\n\n*Location: login keychain.\n\n*Once it is created, set to \"Always trust\" in the Login keychain: right-click on the certificate, choose \"Get Info\", and in the \"Trust\" section, set \"When using this certificate\" to \"Always trust\".\n\n\n*Re-signing an app:\ncodesign -f --deep -s /path/to/app\n\n*Verify that it worked:\ncodesign -dvvvv /path/to/app\nEnjoy!\nUPDATE:\nPeople asked me why this is \"not working\" in macOS 10.14 \"Mojave\". Now that I have finally upgraded :-), here's what I learned. \nBasically, don't use a self-signed certificate for code signing. Generate a certificate using your Apple ID in Xcode instead. To recap the steps briefly:\nIn Xcode > Preferences > Accounts, select your Apple developer ID, click \"Manage Certificates\", select the \"+\" in the bottom left corner, it offers you the option \"Apple Development\". Select that, this will make a certificate for you. By Ctrl-clicking on the new certificate you can export it (in .p12 format), and by open-ing that .p12 file it gets loaded into your Login keychain.\nYou will see that this certificate is valid for a year, \"Issued by: Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Certification Authority\". I suspect that is trustworthier than a self-signed certificate.\nNow you can sign your app as before with codesign -f -s /path/to/prog. I tried it with a simple binary (compiled from hello.c :-) ), and it could be verified with codesign -v.\nI haven't tried it with Python packages yet, so I have no advice to people who mentioned in their comments that this cannot sign \"python.app\".\n\nA: If you're programming in Go:\n\nhttp.ListenAndServe(“localhost:8080”, nil)\n\nInstead of:\n\nhttp.ListenAndServe(“:8080”, nil)\n\n\nA: Just a note though, if you are using a Virtual environment, be sure to sign the app that is being used for the environment. I know this is obvious, but needed to be said nevertheless.\n\nA: I got help in Sayan Mohsin's answer, and I believe it's more generic than go.\nI had this issue with a piece of software that does not need to allow connections from the outside, only from my machine.\nSuch software does not need to be signed to avoid this warning: it only needs to explicitly listen on localhost only.\nDepending on your environment, setting a host restriction will be done differently.\nIn my case, I was working with an nginx server, and changing its configuration from listen 8080 to listen 127.0.0.1:8080 was enough to fix it.\nIf this is also your case, you should definitely check out if your server exposes a way to setup host restriction and set it up to localhost or 127.0.0.1.\n\nA: If you're looking for a way to disable this alert for the iOS Simulator, you can use this script from Tom Soderling:\n#!/bin/bash\n\n# Script to disable the iOS Simulator app from showing the \"Do you want the application xxxx to accept incoming network connections?\" pop-up every time the app is run\n\necho \"> Enter password to temporarily shut firewall off\"\nsudo /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --setglobalstate off\n\necho \"> Add Xcode as a firewall exception\"\n/usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --add /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode\n\necho \"> Add iOS Simulator as a firewall exception\"\n/usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --add /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Applications/Simulator.app/Contents/MacOS/Simulator\n\necho \"> Re-enable firewall\"\nsudo /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --setglobalstate on\n\nexit 0\n\nNote that you have to run it again after every restart. You can do that with launchd by following these instructions. Be sure to specify this:\n LaunchOnlyOnce\n \n\n\nA: There are two options here:\n\n\n*\n\n*You can simply select \"Allow All\" in your firewall, or simply turn it off.\n\n*You can remove the apps from the list, delete the plist file for those apps, run them, and then add them to the list. The plist is responsible for a lot of behaviors and I'm willing to bet either an upgrade to the OS or the app can cause the \"link\" to break.\n\n\nAbout plist files... A plist is a special kind of text file that contains properties the application and other resources, typically the OS, use to retain and reuse information needed to run the application. plist is a file type and has many uses, typically storing user preferences, but, essentially, it is an XML file. You can look to see if there are any caches, which are typically plist files, for the applications in question in /Library/Caches and /System/Library/Caches. There is also one in ~/Library/Caches/ but bad things can happen when mucking around in there, so just leave it alone. The system goes into those folders for a wide variety of reasons, and I usually clean out the first two folders I listed completely about once a month.\n\nA: This relates to whether the app is signed or not. If it's not signed, the preference won't be remembered.\nTo see if an app is signed do this in Terminal:\ncd path/to/your/app\ncodesign -vvv Eclipse.app/\n\nFor Eclipse - mine says it's not signed at all. I can't comment further on how to sign the app since I've not bothered to do that but this answer on superuser covers it:\nhttps://superuser.com/questions/100013/why-does-the-mac-os-x-firewall-dialog-recurringly-pop-up-and-disappear-by-itself#300841\n\nA: I appreciate that this is an old Q & A, but it was the first hit on google for me when I had the same problem. Just wanted to add something for others that may land here.\nIn order to execute any of the codesign commands outlined here, it is necessary to have the xcode command line tools installed. Without these, one gets an error message:\nxcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun\n\nTo fix this, install the tools with:\nxcode-select install\n\nI would've commented on ahall's post, but I don't have the reputation points to do so.\n\nA: My situation involves two copies of Eclipse installed on MacOS Mojave 10.14.5. The first copy was authorised with the MacOS firewall. The second copy would always present the \"accept incoming connections\" prompt. Choosing \"Accept\" would continue to present the message after each reboot, apparently the firewall setting was not updated. \nThe solution was to open MacOS System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Firewall, unlock the screen, Firewall Options. Select Eclipse.app \"Allow incoming connections\" and remove it with the \"-\" button. The next time I selected \"Allow\" to the Eclipse \"accept incoming connections\" prompt was the last.\n\nA: The solution for me was to just disable the firewall completely. It's extremely common to create web-enabled pieces of software that are of course unsigned because you're compiling them natively. \nOpen the spotlight with CMD + Spacebar and search \"privacy\" and select \"Security and Privacy\". Then switch to the \"Firewall\" tab and disable the firewall there.\n\nA: I got this dialogue box (Canon ccpd) everytime after starting my computer. Open firewall > security and privacy > unlock to enable changes > click on button \"Enable stealth mode\" > click button \"Block all incoming connections\".\nNo more irrating dialogue box from Canon printer driver after that.\n\nA: I tried all the above in Mac 10.13 and nothing worked. \nIn the end I wrote a script that ran at logout attached to login hook that turned off firewall so when logged in it no longer needed permission then using delayedlauncher ran another script that turned on firewall.\nAll good now\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3271\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"121\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":943,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: When I click ⌘+C on an email in Mail.app, why can't I paste it as plain text? If I select an email in Mail.app and do ⌘+C, I can then paste the entire email (including header info) in a rich text editor app, such as TextEdit or VoodooPad. However, I'm not able to paste it into a plain text editor like TextMate or into a terminal window. \n(Oddly, I can paste into into TextEdit in plain text mode, which is exactly what I want to be able to do with other apps).\nWhy does it do this? Is there a workaround? Note that Plain Clip does not work as a workaround in this case.\n\nA: This is because of how you can program the pasteboard on Mac OS X.\nText editors expect the pasteboard to contain, well, text data. There are however several kinds of text: there's plain text, there's formatted (RTF) text, there's formatted text with embedded documents (RTFD), there's HTML-formatted text, and a bunch of others.\nWhen you copy something, the application tells the pasteboard how this data can be represented. There are usually several suitable representations: for instance, copying your question exports data in the pasteboard that can be represented as a web archive, RTF data, and plain text in three different encodings. Plenty of types that applications are likely to support.\nHowever, when you copy a mail from Mail, it exports only as two types of data: plain UTF-8 text and a RTFD document. Cocoa tries to paste as an RTFD document because it likes them better, but applications say \"no no, I can't do that\"; they usually support getting text from RTF, but not from RTFD since RTFD usually has embedded resources such as images, and you end up pasting nothing because the apps don't bother to look for the plain text data.\nTextEdit, on its side, is able to edit RTFD documents, so it has no problem pasting the data.\n\nA: On Lion (and possibly earlier; I haven't checked), Mail has this menu item which you might choose to use before copying a message to paste elsewhere:\n\nView > Message > Plain Text Alternative\n\nThere's another option, but it opens a separate window and requires you to wade through potentially unhelpful email headers that are typically hidden:\n\nView > Message > Raw Source\n\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3273\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"2\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":944,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Seeing current permissions for a file? How can I see the permissions for a file (e.g. if I want to recreate those permissions for another file using chmod)?\nFor example after I run chmod 644 on foo.txt, what command, if any, can I run on foo.txt which returns 644?\n\nA: If you type ls -l in terminal you get the permission for your file\ndrwxr-xr-x 7 --- staff 238 Apr 14 2010 images\n-rw-r--r-- 1 --- staff 2628 Aug 26 2009 index.html\ndrwxr-xr-x@ 11 --- staff 374 Feb 28 2010 simplemvc\n\nYou can use table below to convert rwxr-xr-x to number and vice versa:\n\nAnd get more detail here.\n\nA: The easiest way to get the octal permissions from the command line is by using stat(1) with a format specifier. \nYou can read more in the manual page, but the following will give you what you want:\n\nstat -f \"%OMp%OLp\" \n\n%OMp returns the setuid/setgid/sticky bits in octal and %OLp the user/group/other permissions in octal.\nFor example:\n$ ls -ld Data\ndrwxr-xr-x 6 mj staff 204 20 Feb 11:09 Data\n$ stat -f \"%OMp%OLp\" Data \n0755\n\n\nA: The easiest way I'm aware of that will list all permissions, including ACLs, is simply to use the Get Info command from the Finder on the concerned file.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3279\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"2\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":945,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: How can I increase the mouse sensitivity of Magic Mouse? I have a MacBook Pro, running Snow Leopard and I'm using a Magic Mouse which connects through Bluetooth.\nWhile I like the mouse, it's way too slow for my taste. Moving the mouse cursor takes ages. On my Windows PC I'm using a Logitech G9 and in Control Panel of Windows I have set Pointer Speed to maximum with the 'Enhance Pointer Precision' box checked.\nOn OS X I have set the speed set to maximum as well, but it's still way to slow. I'm used to move the pointer from from egde of the screen to another one with minimal wrist movement.\n\nA: Here are 5 Mac utilities that alter the mouse acceleration curve, speeds, and/or add features to mice in OS X:\nUSB Overdrive\n$20 (Shareware; Free unlimited, fully functional trial)\n\nUSB Overdrive is a popular program\n that works with just about any USB or\n Bluetooth input device. It allows\n users to customize mouse acceleration,\n scrolling, clicking, and more. You can\n even configure per-application\n settings. A new version that supports\n Multi-Touch in Apple’s Magic Mouse is\n in development and expected soon.\n\nVersion 3.0.1 compatible with 10.4, 10.5, or 10.6\nSteerMouse\n$20 (Shareware; Free 30 day trial)\n\nAside from mouse acceleration,\n SteerMouse offers a ton of other\n advanced features. Configure up to 16\n buttons, modify scroll wheels/balls,\n and set the cursor to automatically\n move to a specific location on the\n screen when a window is activated.\n Support for the Apple Magic Mouse is\n pending.\n\nVersion 4.0.1 compatible with 10.4, 10.5, or 10.6\nMouseZoom\nFree\n\nWhile MouseZoom does not alter the\n acceleration curve itself, it does let\n users bump tracking speeds beyond\n those available in System Preferences.\n An ideal solution? No, but it’s a free\n alternative that helps ease the pain.\n\nVersion 2.2 compatible with 10.1, 10.2, 10.4, 10.4, or 10.5\nMouse Acceleration\nFree\n\nThis Preference Pane is based on\n Richard Bentley’s MouseFix – a\n non-user-friendly command line\n utility. This version, however, makes\n it easy to increase mouse precision\n and speed up mouse movement with\n visual aids.\n\nVersion 1.0 compatible with 10.4 or 10.5\nBetterTouchTool\nFree\n\nThis is a brand new piece of software\n that just came to be within the past\n couple weeks. It’s in beta and still\n buggy, but it packs some nice features\n and is in active development. I can’t\n say for sure whether it customizes OS\n X’s acceleration curve or just\n supercharges the maximum tracking\n speed. The real reason to give it a\n shot, though, is if you have a Magic\n Mouse or MacBook that supports\n Multi-Touch gestures. BetterTouchTool\n lets users assign specific actions to\n advanced finger gestures and can\n simulate a middle-click. It can even\n bring the Mighty Mouse’s Exposé\n functionality to the Magic Mouse.\n\nCompatible with 10.6\nControllerMate\n$15 \n\nControllerMate is a controller\n programming tool that allows you to\n customize the behavior of your HID\n devices — keyboards, keypads, mice,\n trackballs, joysticks, gamepads,\n throttles, among others.\n ControllerMate’s philosophy is to be\n as flexible as possible, to provide a\n set of basic programming tools, and to\n allow the user to combine those tools\n in an endless variety of ways.\n\nSOURCE: This was posted on Nov 24th, 2009 at MacYourself.com. Some utilities are probably updated now. I’ve used USB Overdrive with certain success. \n\nA: Use the Better Touch tool. Works perfect.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3284\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"9\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":946,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Spotlight loses index of Applications When I get warnings that my HD is nearly full (Macbook Air, 64GB SSD), spotlight always loses its index of applications. That means that I can't launch Safari or Mail or other apps, which is the only thing I use Spotlight for. Only restarting helps to resolve this.\nIs there a way to force Spotlight to reindex the Application folder?\n\nA: This happens whenever I erase the free space on my hard drive (probably for the same reason -- that process creates a big file that eats up all the free space, then overwrites it, creating a low space condition in the process). Typing this command at the terminal:\n\nsudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/Hard_Disk_Name_Goes_Here\n\nwill rebuild your index. Substitute your own disk's volume name in the obvious place.\n\nA: Another alternative is to just have Spotlight delete it's index which will cause it to create a new one:\nsudo mdutil -E /\n\nIf that fails to work, toggling Spotlight on the drive in question will work:\nsudo mdutil -i off /\nsudo mdutil -i on /\n\nChange / to the path to the external hard drive if appropriate.\n\nA: You could drag your application folder to the “Privacy” tab and a few moments later remove it, that ought to cause a reindexing. Maybe unchecking it and re-checking “Applications” also does the same, but I’m not sure about the later. \nIf any attempt to do that fails, you might want to create a fresh index following these instructions. That usually clears any spotlight problems.\nAlso, running so low in disk space is never a good idea, try to make some room for the sake of your OS stability. That is also the reason why restarting fixes it, because when you restart, temp stuff gets deleted and there’s more “room” to play with in your HDD. As you start using your drive, the free space is less, and services start to fail. \n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3286\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"3\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":947,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Life of iPhone 4 LED flash? How many hours can the iPhone 4's camera flash last before it burns out? Have there been any studies done / reports published, or is it just assumed that you probably will need a new iPhone before the flash dies (with normal use)?\n\nA: From Wikipedia:\nLED Flash (Illumination)\n\nAlthough they are not yet at the power levels to replace xenon flash devices in still cameras, LEDs (specifically, high current flash LEDs) have recently been used as flash sources in camera phones. LEDs are expected to approach the power levels of xenon in the near future and may replace built-in xenon flashes in still cameras. The major advantages of LEDs over xenon include low voltage operation, higher efficiency and extreme miniaturization.\n\nSo, now that we know that we have a LED (Light Emitting Diode) in there, let’s see how much should that live (according the the super-experts @ wikipedia):\nLED Lifetime and Failure (read all that for more info)\nShort answer: \n\n\"Typical lifetimes quoted are 25,000 to 100,000 hours but heat and current settings can extend or shorten this time significantly.”\n\nNow do you think your iPhone will last 25,000 hours (worst case scenario for the LED)? That’s a little bit less than three years. It’s certainly possible for an iPhone to last much more than that (I still use a 1s-gen iPhone), however, I highly doubt that you’re going to use it with the flash ON, for three years, non-stop. :)\n\nA: I use mine as a lamp by my bed at night for 2-3 hours at a time. It doesn't even get warm and several months of doing this has not killed it yet. \n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3289\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"5\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":948,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: How can I tell iTunes to always download free updates I would like iTunes to always download free updates for any applications that I have on my iPhone.\nIs that possible?\n\nA: As far as I know, although both iTunes and the iPhone/Pad check automatically for updates, you have to manually start the process. \nYes, I know it’s a bad idea, because we almost always click “download all”. Even if you tell iTunes to remember your password, it won’t start the download automatically whenever there are updates. I have been looking for a way to do this since the iPhone 1G and haven’t come across a solution yet. \n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3291\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"7\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":949,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: What are minimum specs for a MacBook to develop iOS apps? I want to buy a MacBook to develop iOS apps. What are the minimum requirements?\n\nA: Today, I'd go with either a 15\" or 17\" MacBook Pro. They would allow you to work with the iPad simulator at its native resolution. It's a bit too big to run full-size on the 13\" models, so I always end up running it at half size, which is less than ideal. Even if you're not planning to develop for the iPad right now, I'd still plan the hardware purchase around that possibility. The likelihood that you'll do iOS development and never build for the iPad is pretty low.\nBeyond the simulator issues, I like to have the largest screen possible when I'm programming. I have a 13\" MacBook Pro, but I connect it to a 24\" monitor when I'm at my desk. If you're like me, the 17\" would be ideal, if you don't want to have a second screen.\nHowever, Apple is holding a Mac-focused special event tomorrow, and it's never a good idea to buy a Mac this close to one of those events. The entire laptop line is due for updates, and there has been (unconfirmed) speculation that any new models may run at higher screen resolutions, especially on the smaller end of the range.\n\nA: MacBook Pro 13\" with an external display (22 or 24 inches), keyboard and mouse.\nLater you can upgrade it with 8 GB of memory and change its disk to a SSD or Hybrid disk if you need more performances.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3295\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"9\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":950,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Apple-Certified RAM? I'm planning to upgrade my RAM in my MacBook Pro (Late 2008) from the base 2GB to 4GB. I'm planning to buy RAM from Kingston. \nThere's two types of Kingston 1066 2GB RAM here. (Laptop-sized RAM)\n\n\n*\n\n*Normal RAM\n\n*Apple-certified RAM?\n\n\nCan I just buy the normal RAM, or do I have to buy the Apple-certified RAM? Is this not like how the hard drives work with the MacBooks - You can use any as long as it's 2.5\" and it fits into the hard drive bay?\n\nA: I have had good experience with Crucial and then OWC, which is less expensive and never, that I know, gave me a problem I could attribute to the RAM. I’ve brought memory for Powerbooks, Macbook Pros and Mac Pros.\nTheoretically any RAM will do; I remember that Powerbooks (and PowerPC in general) had a “different chip” and not every memory DIMM would work (despite being the same type/speed), but my memory is lost after all these years of Intel Only Macs. \nAll in all, as far as I can remember, the “Apple Certification” was due to the reliability of the memory. I know that Crucial/OWC and some others are Certified, but that’s because certain machines (i.e. Mac Pro) expect to have a heatsink in the modules, among other things. \nIt’s usually safe, but don’t pay “more” just because of that, because it tends to be the same thing. \nIn the Macbook’s case, there’s no heatsink involved (no room!) so pick something from newegg or those sites and you’ll be ok. \n\nA: There's one important thing, and only one important thing, about Apple-certified RAM.\nIf you:\n\n\n*\n\n*Buy RAM that isn't Apple-certified\n\n*Install it (or have it installed by a non-Apple tech) in a Mac\n\n*Later have a (non-RAM-related) problem with that Mac and send it to Apple for servicing without taking out the added RAM\nThen you may get a little love note in the box when it comes back:\n\nDuring the testing process, it was determined that a part Apple has not approved for use with your product resulted in your product's failure. When the part was removed, your product successfully passed all Apple diagnostic and reliability tests…\nContinued use of this part (or parts) may cause another failure or damage to your Apple product, which Apple will not cover in a subsequent repair.\nThe part (or parts) that did not pass Apple's diagnostic tests for your product is identified below:\n      __X__ RAM Memory\n       _____ Other\n\nAnd yes, I'm speaking from my own personal experience (part one, part two).\n\nA: The website I buy from allows you to select the computer you want it to fit in:\nhttp://www.macway.com/fr/path/21/memoire-ram.html\nThe problem is the website is in French but you can just click the drop down menu that says \"Compatibilité\" and click the blue button. It will list you all the ones that are sure to work with your machine. You can copy the info and buy it elsewhere...\nAlso, I found a nice guide on the MacRumors website http://guides.macrumors.com/Buying_RAM\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3297\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"6\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":951,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: How do I set up a Mac as a NIS client? I'd like to load some automounter maps from NIS. I don't need to set up authentication, I just want to enable NIS as a data source, and hook it up the automounter.\n$ cd etc\n$ grep + /etc/auto_master\n+auto_master # Use directory service\n$ ypcat -k auto_master\nNo such map auto_master. Reason: Request arguments bad\n$ ypwhich\ncan't clntudp_create: Can't communicate with ypbind\n\nP.S. I would like to create a new NIS tag, but I can't yet.\nI found this: still trying it:\nhttps://superuser.com/questions/163807/setting-up-nis-nfs-on-mac-os-10-6\nNot sure if I need to reboot after using DirectoryUtility.app\n\nA: I just set the domain name once as root (using sudo) and launchd has launched ypbind for me ever since. The man pages for yp and ypbind might come in handy.\nIs /etc/defaultdomain set? You could issue a ypbind -ypset to see if any servers are responding but it's better to have a list of masters and slaves laid out in /private/var/yp/binding/DOMAINNAME.ypservers \n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3305\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"4\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":952,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Can I output video to my TV using a MacBook Pro? How can I do this? I have the 13\" model.\n\nA: Yes. You just need the right video and audio adapters.\nApple sells two adapters to connect your MacBook's Mini DisplayPort to DVI or VGA. Neither of those will include audio, so you'll also need to get audio cables. Your TV likely includes either optical or composite (RCA) jacks for one or more of your DVI or VGA connections.\nFor HDMI, you'll need a third-party adapter like this one. Note that this one does not carry audio either. The most recent 13\" MBP does put audio out over that port, but I'm not aware of any adapters that can use the audio yet. That same site also sells third-party VGA and DVI adapters that are much cheaper than Apple's.\nI can't vouch for the quality of the third-party adapters, but I buy most of my cables there, and I've always had good results.\n\nA: Does your TV really only have HDMI audio input? No RCA or Toslink?\nThe blog post Playing Hulu from my Mac to my TV might give you some ideas for other methods you could try.\n\nA: I asked a similar answer on SuperUser (https://superuser.com/questions/126520/macbook-pro-with-dvi-to-hdmi-including-audio-possible).\nI was going from DVI to HDMI so you'll have one more step but I ended up getting this:\nDVI & S/PDIF Digital Coax/Optical Toslink Audio to HDMI Converter\n\nhttp://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=101&cp_id=10114&cs_id=1011405&p_id=5369&seq=1&format=2 and it works great.\n\nA: I just bought a 13\" Macbook Air (January 2011). It DOES output audio via the mini display port, so I bought this mini display port to HDMI adapter, which specifically supports audio. It works perfectly. The only \"catch\" is that you have to go into System Preferences -> Sound, and select \"output to HDMI\" every time you connect.\nMoshi MiniDisplay Port to HDMI Adapter with Audio\nHowever, if your Macbook Pro model does NOT support audio out via the display port, then you will need an additional adapter to get sound:\n\n\n*\n\n*a headphone jack to RCA (red+white) plug. Cheapest, easiest, but only 2 channel sound. Also, you will likely need to dig deep into your TV's settings to tell it to combine the RCA audio input with the HDMI video. If you have an external audio amplifier then this is not a problem.\n\n*toslink + dvi to hdmi adapter, mentioned by Jason. Supports multi-channel sound.\n\n*USB + display port to HDMI adapter. This option only makes sense if your TV truly forbids RCA audio input with HDMI. There is one on Monoprice.com, but it only supports 2 channel sound. (I can't provide the link due to lack of reputation points.)\n\n\nA: As far as I know, you’re only able to output HDMI (with audio) with any of the following models:\nMacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010), MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010), MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010), iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009), iMac (27-inch, Late 2009), Mac mini (Mid 2010), MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010).\n\niMac (Late 2009), MacBook Pro (Mid 2010), MacBook (Mid 2010), and Mac mini (Mid 2010) supply multichannel audio (up to 8 channels) and video signals over Mini DisplayPort. To connect your television or other HDMI devices to your Mac, use select third-party Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapters that conform to the VESA v1.1a DisplayPort Interoperability Guidelines.\n\nSource.\n\nA: You can change your audio output by option + clicking on the speaker in the top right corner of your desktop by your clock. \n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3306\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"1\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":953,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: How can I get Automator to mount a network volume? I am writing an Automator \"script\" that rsyncs media on my 10.6.3 MacBook Pro to my Ubuntu 10.10 HTPC. I can make Automator run my shell script for rsync commands, but I can't make Automator mount the three volumes on the HTPC (folders for music, videos, and pictures).\nI automatically mount these volumes when I login (these computers connect via a wifi network), but sometimes the HTPC volumes get unmounted, so I'd like to remount by default.\nIs there a way to mount the volumes in Automator? I am open to shell scripting, too. Thanks!\n\nA: I build automator workflows like this all the time. You only need two actions, and they're both Files & Folders actions.\n1) Get Specified Servers. This will let you build a list of shares to connect to. If you can map it from Finder -> Go -> Connect to server, you can use this.\n2) Connect to Servers. This will connect to any servers passed to it (either from get specified servers or from ask for servers).\n\nA: I use the following applescript to mount directories in conjunction with MarcoPolo so network shares are automatically mounted when I get to both my office and home.\nYou'll need to change USERNAME, PASSWORD, SERVER/SHARENAME and possibly smb:// depending on your server type.\ntell application \"Finder\"\n try\n mount volume \"smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@SERVER/SHARENAME\"\n delay 1\n end try\nend tell\n\n\nUPDATE: An option without MarcoPolo: You can ping the server first and only try to connect if you get a response. You can then add this script into your Login Items\n(Let's say you are trying to connect to a server named \"some_server\")\n-- (0) Check to see if there server exists by pinging it\nset max_retry to 60\nset k to 0\nrepeat while (do shell script \"ping -c 1 some_server\") contains \"100% packet loss\"\n delay 5\n set k to k + 1\n if k > max_retry then error \"Server is not responding for predefined period.\" number 8000\nend repeat\n\n-- (1) It exists, mount the volume\ntell application \"Finder\"\n try\n mount volume \"smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@some_server/SHARENAME\"\n delay 1 --Optional, was added due to slow network issues\n end try\nend tell\n\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3307\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"16\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":954,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: How can I know exactly which songs I have purchased from iTunes? The purchase history of iTunes and the email receipts don't show me exactly which version (i.e. album and song number) of a song I have previously purchased.\nHow can I view this information?\n\nA: The trick is to navigate to iTunes new interface for albums (not search results) (e.g. by clicking the album's name). Instead of seeing the song price, you will see the word \"Purchased\".\nTo get to the song's album, you can either search for the artist and try the 1-3 likely albums the song might be located in until you find the \"purchased\" text, or you could click the \"Write a Review\" link for the song in your email receipt. Note that when you click the \"Write a Review\" link, you will be taken to iTunes old interface for albums. You must click the album name at the top to get to the new interface, which shows the \"Purchased\" text.\nAnother thing to note is that I noticed that if a song you purchased belongs to an album with only one song (i.e. it's the only song in the album), the \"Purchased\" text won't appear.\n\nA: Create a smart playlist and use \"kind contains protected\" as the first rule and \"kind contains purchased\" as a second rule.\n\nA: if you go to iTunes on your device and you can navigate to the purchased section, this will then list all the songs you have purchased on iTunes, you will also be able to download the songs to your device if you haven't got them on there already.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3310\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"3\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":955,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Why do compilation albums sometimes show up as 100s of identical album covers? Does anyone know, why some compilation albums (purchased on iTunes Shop) sometimes appear as 100s of album covers in the album overview? (as opposed to what one would expect, just 1 album or atleast 1 per CD)\n(would have posted a picture here to show what I mean, but I am apparently not allowed to)\nAnd, probably more importantly, what's the fix? I've been meddling around with \"compilation\" properties on the songs, but that doesn't seem to help much. This is really annoying me lol, almost to the point of me considering just deleting the albums only to get rid of this... hoping someone has an alternative suggestion ;-)\n\nA: It's possible the \"Part of a compilation\" meta data wasn't set for these tracks. You can group them together as a single \"album\" in iTunes by:\n\n\n*\n\n*Selecting all the tracks you want to come from the same album (use Cmd-Left Click to select multiple, non-contiguous tracks) \n\n*Hitting ⌘-I to bring up the meta-data editor window and then: \n\n\n*\n\n*For the Album Arist field enter: Various Arists\n\n*For the Album field enter the name of the compilation album\n\n*And then make sure the Part of a compilation option box is checked\n\n\n*Click OK to apply the changes to all the tracks\n\n\nYou should now see them grouped together in the grid view as one album, all showing (hopefully) the same cover art. If they're not showing the same cover art:\n\n\n*\n\n*Find the cover art you like.\n\n*Copy it to the clipboard with ⌘-C\n\n*select all the tracks again and open the meta-data editor window.\n\n*Click once in the Artwork window and hit ⌘-V to paste the cover art to all the tracks.\n\n*Click OK to add the cover art to every track in the compilation.\n\n\nA: The reason why there are so many covers is that each song comes from a separate album hence the 100s of album covers.\nThe fix would be to remove each song's cover art (I believe it has to be done for each song manually) and then applying a new image in bulk for all songs. To do so, select all songs, then (command-i or Ctrl-i on windows) and then drop the artwork onto the big white square on the right of the dialog that just popped.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3312\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"4\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":956,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: What does the \"i\" in Apple product names mean? iPhone, iPod, iPad, iCal, iLife, etc. Does the \"i\" mean anything? And is it a trademark for Apple?\n\nA: When Steve Jobs first introduced the iMac in 1998, he proclaimed that the i stood for Internet. Jobs went on to say, \"i also means some other things to us\" and displayed a presentation slide with the keywords:\n\ninternet\n individual\n instruct\n inform\n inspire\n\nYou can even view video of this event.\nThe \"i\" was first used on the iBook and iMac. These were produced as Steve Jobs wanted a pro and consumer model of a desktop and portable computer. This later rolled out with more products, iSight, iPod, iPhone, iPad.\nYes the products are trademarked, but using an \"i\" itself before a product is not trademarked and it cannot be. Here is Apple's trademark list \n\nA: I asked a rep at the Apple store. They said that it stood for Internet, on the first iMac.(As others have answered.) Now it is just a brand. \n\nA: The whole idea of the first iMac was that you take it out of the box, plug in the power, and then plug in the modem with a phone line. Internet access made easy. The \"i\" stood for internet.\n\nA: According to Wikipedia (for the iMac at least):\n\nApple declared the 'i' in iMac to stand for \"Internet\"; it also represents the product's focus as a personal device ('i' for \"individual\").\n\n\nA: It's the I as in me. It means that these things somehow empower you. \n\nA: \nIn technology, the i-word is frequently related to \"innovation\". So the \"i\" in iphone could mean \"innovative.\"\n\nBerkun, S. (2010). The Myths of Innovation (First ed., pp. 1-82). Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3313\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"33\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":957,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Can I use my Mac to re-create an inverted audio noise cancellation effect? I would like to use my Mac as an audio cancelling device, like headphones that reproduce the outside noise in inverted form, so it cancels out (typically found in airports). With a normal pair of headphones, my Mac could record the ambient noise and send it to my headphones to achieve noise reduction. \nIs there a program able to do this?\n\nA: Audacity can do this as far as I know. There is a White Noise generator, and under the Effects menu there is a \"Noise Removal\" option. \nI don't know if you can do it in realtime, but you could make a short recording of the ambient noise, run the Noise Removal, figure out what got removed (subtract before and after), and then play that part but inverted. Maybe.... \n\nA: This is not possible because the inverted noise would be picked by the computer mic and \"attenuated\" again and again causing a very noisy feedback, like an electric guitar near the speaker. Noise canceling headphones have mic separated from speakers.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3318\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"12\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":958,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Spotlight: Don't Index a Volume Is it possible to ask Spotlight to not index a volume ?\n\nA: Yes, open the Spotlight prefpane and under the Confidentiality tab (not sure, but on my French system it is called \"Confidentialité\"), you can add folders and volumes not to be indexed.\n\nA: There are a variety of options to do this:\n\n\n*\n\n*Add the drive to the \"Privacy\" tab in the Spotlight Preference Pane\n\n*Turn off Spotlight indexing for the site from the command line: sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/NAME_OF_DRIVE\n\n*touch /Volumes/NAME_OF_DRIVE/.metadata_never_index on an external drive.\n\n\nA: If it's a removable volume, create a file in its root directory called .metadata_never_index, as in this hint.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3319\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"4\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":959,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: What does Apple normally announce at events? Tomorrow (October 20th, 2010) Apple will announce something. \nWhat have they announced at previous Mac events and what are some of the things are \"usual\"?\n\nA: This is an open ended question;\nTraditionally Apple at events such as MacWorld, WWDC, etc. run down as follows:\n\n\n*\n\n*Run down of current company progress showcasing how much Mac OS X has grown\n\n*New hardware updates with technical details and great product shots.\n\n*New software - whether it's upgrades or completely brand new products. Lots of demos.\n\n*Occasionally a one more thing, usually the biggest thing of the show if it occurs.\n\n\nA: In this kind of events, Apple announces new/updated software/hardware/service products.\nUsually, invitation card hints what is behind the curtain.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3321\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"0\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":960,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: How to enable Subscribed Calendar to be in read/write mode? As today, any Subscribed Calendar is added as Read Only to the iCal Application\nto confirm that. just double click in a day with the subscribed calendar selected and you will get this annoying popup message\n\nWhat should I do to enable read/write mode into the subscribed calendar, as it supports both ways (I created the URL and works great with Thunderbird w/Lightning)\nProblem also comes that in iPad/iX happens the same situation, and all I wanted was to be able to create and edit events to by calendar\n\nA: The owner grants & controls read / write access. You'd have to ask who owns the calendar.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3325\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"2\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":961,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Repairing broken file associations on the Mac I installed a download manager (I think folx) on this mac book a few months ago, every time I would download a file folx would pick up and download it. \nLong story short, this got confusing, so I deleted folx from the applications. \nNow whenever I try to download a file it just does not work right (on either chrome or safari), the browsers complain about a broken plugin when I view a PDF and it seems safari attempts to download the file on the actual page as opposed to going to the download queue.\nHow do I fix this so file downloads work again in the browsers. \n\nA: Folx does a fair bit of damage on a simple delete uninstall. \nInstead, re-download folx and run the uninstaller app. \nSee: http://wiki.eltima.com/user-guides/downloader-macos/uninstall.html\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3331\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"2\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":962,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: What does the \"Charging is not supported with this device\" error mean? Sometimes when I plug my iPod touch into a dock or cable I get the message Charging is not supported with this device. What's that mean? Did Apple change the pin configuration of the dock connector?\n\nA: Is the charger one designed for an older iPod with charging on the firewire pins in the dock connector. The spec has changed in more recent devices to only charge from the usb power pins so it is detecting the older configuration and giving you this message\n\nA: It could be that your charger does not match your device/iPod.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3334\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"2\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":963,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Using my current 3G Sim with the iPad I'm thinking of buying an iPad at some point, the one with 3G.\nI also have a 3G dongle that I'm not really using at the moment and wish to use on the iPad. I understand that it's a MicroSim, and I can chop my SIM down, but are there any 3G sim locks on the iPad itself?\nThe only thing I think I'll need to find out is the 3G settings (if it isn't locked). I'm in the UK and I have an orange contract.\nSo am I right in thinking that if the iPad is not locked to a certain 3G network, I can use this?\nThanks\n\nA: The iPad with 3G is sold unlocked. In the UK, the iPad with 3G will work with Orange, Three, O2, and Vodafone.\nTo be pedantic, the iPad's 3G connection will not work with carriers such as T-Mobile USA, which in part uses the 1700 MHz frequency for 3G. The iPad with 3G supports the necessary frequencies to fully work in the UK with Orange, Three, O2, and Vodafone, and SIMs from these carriers can be swapped seamlessly.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3336\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"8\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":964,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Dvorak on iOS 4.x? \nPossible Duplicate:\nDvorak on iPad? \n\nI want to use the Dvorak layout on my iPhone's keyboard. I've seen that there is an iKeyEx app in Cydia which offers this, but only for iOS 3.x, not iOS 4.x. Is there a Dvorak solution on iOS 4.x?\nNote that I'm explicitly excluding external Bluetooth keyboards -- I want to have Dvorak on the on-screen keyboard.\n\nA: No, there is not. iKeyEx is the only alternative keyboard software I know of, and it has not been ported to work with iOS 4.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3341\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"0\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":965,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Why is my battery time so much shorter after jailbreak? I've been impressed with the better battery time of my new iPhone 4 as compared to the 3G I had before. Yesterday evening, I finally jailbroke the 4, and the battery time today has been much worse than usual. Why is this?\nI installed a very few programs from Cydia: FolderCloser, NoLockScreen, SBSettings, biteSMS, PdaNet, My3G. Note that I haven't used PdaNet yet, so I would rule that out as a culprit. Also, while My3G is set up, I haven't actually done any faux-wifi stuff today: no Skype, no wifi-only downloads, etc. I've deliberately used 3G less than on normal days, and not used wifi at all (also not as a hotspot). I've not played music at all today, in fact I've barely turned it on at all! The screen brightness is as usual, at about 70%. The phone was charged to 100% overnight as always. \nDespite this, the battery is already under 40% at 5 p.m. where it would normally still be well above 60%. At this rate, I don't think it will even make it until I get home -- which is worse than the battery life of my old 3G!\nWhat's depleting my battery faster than usual, and how can I prevent that?\nUpdate: The first day of jailbroken battery life must have been a fluke, or was fixed by rebooting. I've been through a few cycles now and battery life seems to be practically unchanged after all.\n\nA: I can see two main possibilities: \n\n\n*\n\n*Apps like FolderCloser, NoLockScreen, and SBSettings shorten battery life by requiring heavy background processes. The only solution to this would be either to not install these apps or restore the phone to its original state altogether (and not have these apps installed). I am convinced that jailbreaking allows for processes that are not in phase with Apple's careful thriftiness of battery use.\n\n*Your battery is not calibrated properly so your iPhone miscalculates the remaining percentage. The solution here would be to drain your battery completely and then fully charge it.\nGood luck! And know that you can restore the phone to its original state.\n\nA: I think many of the jailbroken apps continue to run using a full multitasking approach. This is different than the iOS multitasking, which just keeps apps in ram, etc. Those apps staying open, and even using very little processing power, would be using extra processor cycles, therefore depleting faster. \nAlso (I haven't jailbroken before), the jailbroken iOS may even be running more services in the background than a normal iOS install. \n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3344\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"7\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":966,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Is there anything faster than Veency for iPhone? I want to be able to control an iPhone with a PC or Mac—that is, see the iPhone's screen on a computer and control it with my mouse—via either USB or wireless. Are there any solutions faster than VNC Veency? Veency's frame rate isn't good enough, and I need it to show 16-bit color.\n\nA: I've tried Veency on both an iPhone 3G and an iPhone 4, and that looks to be the fastest possible speed to get out of it. Unless someone rewrites Veency or writes another VNC server, it looks doubtful that speed would get any better.\nI've relegated myself to either looking at the iPhone's screen while typing, or pairing a Bluetooth keyboard with the iPhone.\nEdit: If you don't mind looking at the iPhone's screen, you could try iSynergyClient, the Synergy+ client for iPhone. Right now it only has mouse support, keyboard support is still in development.\n\nA: There is a new Cydia app, called Display Recorder. Beside screen recording, it has a local web client, with the abilily to stream live view almost flawlessly.\nYou can buy it from the BigBoss repo for $4,99.\nYou stream by opening the Display Recorder app itself, enable web server with the bottom left button, type the url that shows up in a browser on the PC, and select Live View option (while being on the same wifi of cource).\nIt will even add touch and hardware button simulation right away, but sadly no keyboard support, so you'll need to open a VNC client too in the background, possibly set its refresh rate to never, and here you go. Most probably you can even set your video card to rotate the screen to align with the iPhone screen if you prefer landscape.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3350\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"7\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":967,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Is possible to use a Micro SIM in iPhone 3GS? I want to use my old iPhone 3GS, but don't want to pay another plan for the occasional use.\n\nA: You'd need an adapter like this one to make it fit, but it should work.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3351\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"5\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":968,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Can I block ads on an iPad? I am about to buy an iPad, and was using a friend's device recently. I noticed all these multi-colour intrusive square things I'm completely unused to seeing because I've been using Adblock Plus for years now.\nWhat are my options?\n\nA: No need for a jailbroken iPad, iCab can block ads http://www.icab.de/mobile.html\nAnd it is a great browser.\n\nA: One option is to use a different web browser, such as iCab, available from the App Store.\nIf you really want to use mobile Safari, the following method has been reported to work properly for a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch, and should work on a jailbroken iPad:\nhttp://lifehacker.com/5060621/block-ads-on-your-jailbroken-iphone-or-ipod-touch\nThere exists an app in the Cydia store called AdBlock that aims to fulfill this purpose, but many have found it to be nonfunctional.\n\nA: Here is an update for the current state of affairs. iOS allows for browser extensions to do this sort of thing, you can find them in the AppStore.\nWhen you install something that blocks content in the built-in browser, you can enable, disable or otherwise manage that addon from the settings app built into iOS.\nThis is of course part of the OS now, so jailbroken or not, this is available officially.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3353\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"2\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":969,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Can Numbers ’09 import an Excel XML file? Can Numbers ’09 (part of the iWork suite) import XML files? Specifically, the format created by Excel when exporting as \"XML Spreadsheet 2003.\"\nI can't just use Excel's native format because the files are generated for our clients by a web app.\nIf Numbers can't handle these files, are there any other plaintext formats that could be used? I could use csv, but I would prefer to store formatting within the exported file itself.\n\nA: Numbers ’09 supports Excel native format (.xls) but it can’t convert from an Excel XML Spreadsheet. In fact, if you rename it as “xls” and try to open it (trying to fool Numbers), you’ll probably see all the XML but not the actual spreadsheet. Which is more scary than Psychosis II back in the 80s.\nYour only bet is some CVS or TEXT format, which excel can even export with Macintosh format for line endings and carrier return (if I’m not mistaken). \nThe big drawback is that all format and binary stuff is automagically lost in translation (certain pun intended). ;)\nYou’ll get the data, but not the format. \nAnother alternative is trying to automate the Excel XML to Excel Native format, even if your webapp outputs a XML, you could try to “transform them” before anything else.\nFor that, I haven’t investigated but you can start with a google query like this. There seem to be some Windows solutions, maybe something you can use/try. \n\nA: 10 years old but as I stumbled on this post, maybe someone else will too.\nThe easy way is to view the XML in a browser (I used Firefox), in the Inspector (not source code) you'll find an HTML table. Choose Edit as HTML, copy the table, you can then paste that into Numbers\n\nA: I ended up changing the output to native .xls format by using the PHPExcel PHP wrapper from http://phpexcel.codeplex.com. The files now open fine in both native windows Excel and iWorks Numbers '09.\nUPDATE\nPHPExcel is now available at https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPExcel but was deprecated in 2017 and is no longer being maintained.\nYou should use PhpSpreadsheet instead, available at https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3357\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"3\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":970,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Sleeping screen (Cinema Display) keeps waking up. How can I make it sleep until mouse is moved? I have my Mac Pro (Cyrus) configured not to fall asleep completely but to let the screen sleep when not used for half an hour. I also use the keyboard shortcut for forcing the display to sleep.\nHowever, sometimes, for a few weeks the screen just refuses to sleep and the login alert box appears immediately after the sleep is supposed to start as if somebody violently moved the mouse or pressed a key. After a few weeks the behaviour changes again and sleeping works, for another few weeks. It's periodic.\nHow can I force the screen to sleep without waking up all the time?\n\nA: I have discovered that 100% of the times that this happened to me, it was because I either had:\n\n\n*\n\n*A USB (or Firewire) peripheral connected that was pooling the bus and for some mysterious reason caused your behavior. \n\n*I accidentally moved the mouse (or the table where both mouse/key lie); small vibrations caused the mouse to register movement and that was enough to wake the box.\nI don’t know if this is your case, but whenever you’re in the “it wakes up!” cycle, try to disconnect everything and use the keyboard shortcut with surgeon precision and softness and see if it changes.\nAdditionally you might want con check the Console Output of the logs to see if there’s an error going on while your invoke your sleep screen shortcut.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3360\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"4\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":971,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Black screen, perhaps from login/lock system, after 'closing the clam' I make use of the rather clumsy 'closed clam' mode of operation. I close up my macbook pro, bring it to work, and plug in a USB keyboard and a monitor.\n80% of the time, all is well.\nThe other 20% of the time, things proceed as follows:\n\n\n*\n\n*Unlock box appears on external monitor\n\n*Enter password\n\n*System unlocks\n\n*30 second later ...\n\n*Go to black screen with mouse cursor\n\n\nIt looks just like the 'unlock' environment, only, of course, missing the unlock dialog box.\nI've also seen the system momentarily display the unlock dialog box. If the system was idle long enough to power-save the display, but not to go into lock, wiggling the mouse will sometimes result in my desktop reappearing with the unlock password box appearing, as well, and then disappearing.\nAny ideas?\n\nA: I'll take a stab at how to collect the data needed to come up with an answer as to what and why the system isn't waking up properly. The new unibody MacBook Pro have much more sophisticated modes of clamshell mode so I'll assume you have one of those for now.\nThe best place to see what is happening after the event happens is the console application (or logging into the mac remotely with ssh to tail the logs as you are debugging this issue).\nSleep / wake events get a lot of log messages and you will want to look over a normal sleep wake to get familiar with all the messages that happen in which specific order and what normal times to begin and end the wake from sleep take.\nA lot happens when the machine wakes as it needs to detect what is connected, if the display is shut, which graphics mode to wake up - what the display options and layout are. Then it transmits that info to all the running apps and has to put it's stuff together.\nOne thing to simplify things would be to disable all sorts of screen savers, display time outs and such. I've seen my mac get confused and wake from sleep just to engage a screen saver which went missing because I didn't change it and don't normally use it.\nThere have been several firmware updates in the last two years to tighten up this process as there were (and potentially are still) situations when the system doesn't respond in time or at all correctly. \nLastly - a poor display cable contact or impending hardware failure could be a cause of this. Not likely, but worth checking if you really want to nail this down.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3363\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"1\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":972,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Downloading voicemail to my laptop How can I download my voicemail from the iPhone to my computer? \nTechnically, I know it is not voicemail on the iPhone - it is in ATT's phone system but you knew what I meant.\nHow can I download my ATT voicemail from the iPhone/iTunes to my computer? \n\nA: I use an app called \"iExplorer\" (formerly iPhone Explorer). It basically lets you reach into the phone to download, modify, replace, or add a file in any (or almost any) directory within the file structure.\nhttp://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/\n\nA: You can't do it in iTunes, and you have to be jailbroken to do it. Here's a good tutorial.\n\n\n*\n\n*Jailbreak phone \n\n*Install OpenSSH from Cydia\n\n*Install CyberDuck (or another SSH program) to your computer\n\n*SSH into your iPhone from the computer (here's how)\n\n*Navigate to /private/var/mobile/Library/Voicemail/\n\n*Copy the desired .amr files\n\n\nA: Or use Google voice and you can get them through the browser or emailed to you.\n\nA: I use Phone View for this purpose and it works flawlessly. You do not have to jailbreak your phone for it to work.\n\nA: There is another way. Per this instructables an iTunes backup of the iPhone contains the voicemail files in these folders:\n\n\n*\n\n*~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/\nMac\n\n*\\Documents and Settings\\(username)\\Application Data\\Apple Computer\\MobileSync\\Backup\\\nWindows XP\n\n*\\Users\\(username)\\AppData\\Roaming\\Apple Computer\\MobileSync\\Backup\\\nVista and Windows 7\n\n\nHowever, the bad news is that these voicemail files are mixed in with a ton of other random files from your iPhone, and all the files have long, meaningless filenames with no extensions. To determine what the files are, use the file * command. Note that the backup must not be encrypted for this approach to work.\nfile * | grep audio\nfile * | grep GSM\n\n(on Windows install Cygwin and use the Cygwin terminal to get the file command)\nThe two file contents that seem likely are\nRIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 8 bit, mono 44100 Hz\nAdaptive Multi-Rate Codec (GSM telephony) \n\n\nA: I have a Google Voice number that I just forward important voicemails to.\nTo do this in a typical voicemail system, you'd press 6 for more options, then 2 to forward it.\nYou can keep them in your Google account pretty much as long as you want, or you can simply download them at will.\nI hope this is helpful.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3364\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"16\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":973,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Converting a PDF for use with DVD Studio Pro I have a client who want me to add PDF's to a DVD, so that people can view them through their televisions\nCan it be done?\n\nA: Sure. You need to convert the pages of the PDF into images and handle accordingly from there, much like a photo slide show. The primary concern I would have is whether the PDF is laid out so that it looks good on screen.\nAcrobat (the full version, not Reader) can export all pages to a variety of formats. Acrobat costs good money, but Preview only exports the first page. Ghostscript via Terminal might have a free alternative, but the interface is the command line.\n\nA: I would use PDF to Keynote, and then just export from Keynote as a QuickTime movie.\n\nA: I know this is dated link, but for what is worth...\nDVD Studio Pro allows you to create a Data DVD alongside the video DVD.\nCheck your DVDSP Inspector for DVD Assets. This is a great way to include files and images, even presentations that you wish clients to open and view.\nThere is also DVD@ccess which allows you to embed URLs into buttons that will cause the DVD player to stop (on a computer) and launch your browser.\nJust FYI\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3368\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"2\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":974,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Why don't my arrow keys work in vim under iTerm? They work just fine if I use Terminal and start a vim session, but under iTerm I have to resort to using H-J-K-L to do left-up-down-right movement.\nIn both Terminal and iTerm TERM=xterm-color. My .vimrc is quite lean and there are no key bindings set in there that would causing this problem.\niTerm v0.10.\n\nA: The following worked for me.\nIn iTerm2:\n\n\n*\n\n*Profiles -> Open Profiles...\n\n*Edit Profiles...\n\n*Keys tab\n\n*From Load Preset... drop-down, pick Terminal.app compatibility\n\n\nA: Try the following:\n\n\n*\n\n*From the Bookmarks menu item, select Manage Bookmarks....\n\n*Choose the Default bookmark and click the edit icon.\n\n*Change the Keyboard setting to Global.\n\n\nA: This is how I fixed:\nnnoremap ^[A \nnnoremap ^[B \nnnoremap ^[D \nnnoremap ^[C \n\nNote: \nThe \"^[\" characters must not be typed, instead you get them by doing: ⌃-V and pressing the corresponding cursor arrow position (up,down,left,right). \nTested with: iTerm2 (Build 1.0.0.20140629)\n\nA: I was able to get this sorted out with iTerm2 Build 3.0.15 and the following excerpt from my .vimrc:\n\" Map alternate key combination for Esc.\nnoremap \n\" Map arrow keys for nomal mode.\nnnoremap A \nnnoremap B \nnnoremap C \nnnoremap D \n\nHTH.\n\nA: The fastest (and probably best) way to solve this is to switch iterm profile keymapping to \"Natural editing\" preset.\n\n*\n\n*Go to preferences\n\n*Go to profiles\n\n*Go to keys\n\n*Go to keymappings\n\n*From preset dropdown select natural editing preset\n\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3369\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"16\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":975,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: How do you position your hand to use the command key? What finger do you use? Sorry in advance about what seems like a trivial question. However, I've recently switched from PC to Mac, and while I'm really happy about the switch, this is one of the few issues I'm struggling with.\nOn a PC, the most important shortcuts are CTRL-A (select all), CTRL-C (copy), and CTRL-V (paste). Almost all the other important shortcuts also use the CTRL key.\nOn the PC keyboard, the CTRL key is in the bottom left corner of the keyboard. So, it's very easy to hold it with your pinky, while keeping your hand in its normal position, so you can easily press the other key required for the shortcut (e.g., A, C, V, etc).\nOn a Mac, the \"equivalent\" key to CTRL is Command. However, I can't easily reach that key with any finger - especially without moving my hand from its normal position - so, I can't easily press Command-C or Command-V without really focusing on it.\nIs this just a result of years of practicing on a PC? What finger do Mac users use to click the command key when executing a shortcut?\n\nA: When I first made the switch to Mac I used System Preferences -> Keyboard to switch the ⌘ key with ^ (control) key. That worked for a while until I became more comfortable with the basic two-key commands. Once I started using more complex three and four key commands I had to put it back to default because I needed the labels on the keys at first to remember what the symbols <-> key mappings were.\n\nA: I mostly use my thumb. If I'm trying to hit a key that's more in the middle or right side of the keyboard (such as C or V), I use my ring finger.\nNote that I'm a horrible typist, so I never use the right ⌘ key. If you're comfortable using that, you can probably just use your thumbs.\n\nA: You can use either thumb to hold down a ⌘ key and then use another finger to access the other key. You just have to get used to sliding either thumb a little to the left or to the right of the space bar.\nYes, this is just a result of years of using a PC.\n\nA: It's easier to type shortcuts if you use Sticky Keys as well. This way you can type shortcuts one key at a time, which might sound slower, but isn't if it means you can keep your hands in position and your eyes on the screen. \nI tend to use my thumb for command. I use my left pinky for control, shift and Fn, although it may be different for others as I keep my pinkies over the row below the home row. Alt is tricky, but I guess the pinky makes the most sense for me personally, usually.\nThere's nothing wrong in using different fingers at different times. For instance on the rare occasion I want to show the Dock (⌃⌥⌘F) I move my arm and use index on cmd, middle on alt and ring on control, then type the D afterwards.\n\nA: I also thought it was inconvenient at start but later realised how good it is with the command button. I learnt to type on a keyboard with no markings which requires you to have all keys memorised and your fingers on the right position on the keyboard. By using the command button with your thumb (which is regularly only used for the space ), your fingers are always positioned correctly on the keyboard. Using the control button, you HAVE to use your pinky finger which makes your fingers leave the correct position, which in the end makes you look at the keyboard!\n(by correct position i mean, pinky on A, ring finger on S, middle finger on D, long finger on F etc.)\n\nA: Here is the official advice from Apple\nOn page 67, they state the following:\n\nUse a light touch when typing or using the trackpad and keep your hands and fingers relaxed. Avoid rolling your thumbs under your palms.\n\nBased on this, it would be my assumption that they intend you to either move your entire hand and use your thumb or pointer finger. If you find this unnatural, you can always change the control key to perform the duty of the command key. Open System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys, and change the buttons around as you see fit.\n\n\n\nA: Very late reply but just giving my 2 cents as a long time Apple Magic Keyboard user who's been using a more standard keyboard layout for around 4 months.\nNote: This only applies to the official Apple keyboards like the Magic Keyboard.\nI have to disagree with some of the comments on the accepted answer which say to avoid using the thumb. Due to the Apple keyboards having a much smaller spacebar than the average PC keyboard layout, the thumb movement required to reach the Command key is very minimal. So minimal in fact, that the thumb knuckle is usually the only joint that requires movement and the amount of movement is generally within the natural range of the thumb. In other words, it's a very comfortable movement. That's at least how I feel and I have generally medium-small hands.\nIf however, you're using a non-Apple keyboard with a larger spacebar, yes, it's not advisable to use your thumbs for command as the additional movement required could cause you problems in the long run.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3374\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"61\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":976,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: What does no chime on boot mean? My MacBook Pro is having some issues. It boots. But the graphics card doesn't get detected. You can remote in to it but looking at the Displays dialog in System Preferences, no graphics card is shown:\n\nI took it in to see if it qualified for the free mobo replacement because it does have the qualifying NVidia chipset and the repair shop said they couldn't run the diagnostics tool on it because it wouldn't chime on boot. And therefore wouldn't boot from their external drive to run their diagnostics. I hadn't noticed that it wouldn't chime on boot.\nBut what does that mean? What does the chime tell you? Why would the machine not chime?\n\nA: You don't specify how old your MBP is, but some MBPs built a few years ago shipped with graphics cards that fatally crashed after a few years of years. That's what happened to mine and it was a warranty fix because a recall was done.\nMy understanding of the chime is that it is hard-coded into the motherboard. If it is not playing with the chime, then you probably have something wrong down to that level. It may be a simple fix, it may not, but only Apple will be able to tell you definitively.\n(Answer edited per comments)\n\nA: As an aside, the volume of the chime is governed by the operating system - the Mac will remember how you had your volume set when you last shut it down. If you made your Mac mute, you won't hear a chime on startup.\nIt might be worth plugging in a pair of headphones - it's unlikely that you would have set the volume 'with headphones' to be mute, and as the Mac remembers a level for 'normal' and a level for 'headphones', you might hear a chime.\nStill, any decent Genius Bar staff would have known that you can make the chime go silent this way so I'm guessing it's more serious than this!\n\nA: It usually means the Power On Self-Test failed. Look for an error code as tones, flashing LEDS, or whatever remaining means the particular computer has of communicating. There's a decent synopsis of the startup sequence here.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3375\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"4\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":977,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Install Tiger in VMware Fusion I've got 10.6 running on a 2006 MacBook Pro. I want to run some older software that was meant for 10.4 and earlier, so I figured I'd install Tiger in VMware Fusion, but it isn't working. Any idea how I'd go about it?\nWhat I've tried:\nWhen creating a new VM, there's no option for Tiger. It only offers 10.5 server and 10.6 server. I tried using the 10.5 server option with a Tiger disk image, but with no luck: gives me this error:\n\nMac OS X is not supported with software virtualization.\n To run Mac OS X you need a host on which VMware Fusion supports hardware virtualization.\n\nAny thoughts?\n\nA: This article references VMware Workstation 6 as being able to run OS X with some hacks, but it's slow. But more importantly, that article runs down what I thought was the only known solution to running OS X in a VM: VirtualBox. So you aren't going to be able to do this with Fusion, but you can do it with VirtualBox.\nAlso: Apple does allow virtualization of OS X Server (check the date on that article - circa 2007). It honestly wouldn't stand much of a chance in the big, corporate IT world if it couldn't be legally virtualized these days.\n\nA: The official Tiger (10.4) OS simply does not run in a virtualized environment. To get it to run you have to hack around the incompatibilities, which has been attempted with varying levels of (claim to) success, but it seems pretty sketchy. You're probably better off either dual-booting your MBP or finding an old used computer to dedicate to Tiger apps. I have a G5 still kicking around for just that purpose. \nFYI:\nLeopard (10.5) and Snow Leopard (10.6) server are virtualizable and are fully supported by VMware Fusion. Leopard and Snow Leopard standard versions (\"Client\" version) do not support being virtualized. VMware Fusion 4.1 accidentally left out the code that prevents you from creating and running non-server Leopard and Snow Leopard VMs; version 4.1.1 was quickly released to restore the prevention code. I have not heard great tales of success or failure running the non-server VMs under Fusion 4.1, but you can give it a try. \nAll versions of Lion (10.7) support virtualization. The Lion retail license includes permission to create 2 VMs in addition to the one real machine so long as you run them on Apple hardware. Specifically, section 2B(iii) grants a license:\n\n(iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software.\n\nNote that apparently Apple doesn't take this too seriously, as the official Lion licenses as posted at http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/ still require you to be running \"Snow Leopard\".\n\nA: Have you tried installing 10.6 as a VM? Just wondering, because it sounds like the error message you're receiving is accurate. You're running a 2006 MacBook Pro and as far as I know, the processors in those machines don't support hardware virtualization. So VMware is just telling you that it doesn't support OS X in a VM on your machine.\nHowever, what would work would be installing Tiger on a separate partition. Use disk utility to create a new volume and boot from the Tiger install disk, then install to that new volume and you can boot into it as needed.\n\nA: You are not allowed to run Mac OS in a VM (check the license). :)\n\nA: OS X Tiger can be installed in VMWare Fusion by creating a FreeBSD virtual machine. I am yet to find a way to install the FreeBSD version of VMWare Tools but its something I am working on. For the moment you can do basic stuff like surfing the web.\nSo its a case of creating a FreeBSD virtual machine and adjusting the settings prior to installing Tiger.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3379\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"3\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":978,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: How do I use multiple webcams at once on Mac OS X? I have programmed a Flash app that makes use of several webcams at the same time. The app works great on Windows. When I try to use more than one webcam on Mac OS X, I find that each webcam I plug into the computer disables the previously attached webcam.\nIt appears that I can only have one USB camera working at a time. Is this correct? Is there any way of bypassing this?\n\nA: There are Mac applications that can do this, although I don't believe that any of them run on Flash.\nHere's some that I found:\n\n\n*\n\n*Wirecast from Telestream\n\n*BoinxTV from Boinx Software\n\n*CamCamX from Black-Op\n\n\nThey're all commercial, but there's a wide range of pricing between the three.\n\nA: I had a similar problem where one USB camera would work and the other camera wouldn't. After playing around with this I found out it was because I was using a USB-C hub and plugging both cameras into the same hub. Either the hardware or OS supported only one camera per Macbook USB-C port.\nI put the cameras through two separate USB-C hubs and they worked fine.\nI'm using a newer Macbook and was attempting keep it simple to plug everything through one plug, but if I really want to use the two cameras simultaneously it seems this is impossible.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3386\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"2\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":979,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Over-promiscuous bluetooth on Macbook Pro So I have bluetooth stereo headphones (Motorola s305), that, now with iOS 4.1 and AVRCP, are a delight with my iPhone 3GS, at least, unless I happen to turn them on when my Macbook Pro is around.\nThen the MBP thinks it's a pairing request and the headset's command is lost (worse: this happens while the MBP is sleeping, causing it to wake). I think I once paired it with the MBP when I didn't have other headphones lying around, but I've tried to get the MBP to behave by\n\n\n*\n\n*Disabling \"Discoverable\"\n\n*Unpairing, then removing the profile of the s305 on the MBP\n\n*Telling my MBP to NOT allow BT devices to wake it up\n\n\nShort of disabling bluetooth (would not be desireable - I like my Magic Mouse), what can I do to get my MBP to ignore the headset?\n\nA: I've had my Macbook Pro automatically connect to devices when they power up, but I've never seen a Bluetooth device automatically pair when it's not in the Bluetooth devices list.\nI've never used Bluetooth headphones before, but it sounds like there's some sort of special case happening for audio devices, or at least this particular audio device. is \"Prompt for all incoming audio requests\" ticked in the Advanced options? It sounds like unticked would imply that audio devices would pair automatically.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3387\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"4\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":980,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: What does the plus sign next to the price of an app in the App Store mean? There is often a plus sign in the upper left corner of the price button for an app. Even some free apps have this plus sign.\n\n\nA: It means that it is a universal app, able to run on the iPad and iPhone.\n\nA: It means there are in-app purchases available under that app. You can turn that feature off under your General Settings, Restrictions.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3392\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"29\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":981,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: How can iPhone be used when wearing gloves? In colder weather wearing gloves is essential. Looks like iPhone 4 completely ignores touches of fingers in gloves. So I sometimes even see people controlling their iPhones by touching them with their noses.\nWhat are the limitations of how iPhone can be controlled? How can it be used by a person wearing gloves?\n\nA: Another solution is to use special stylus like this: http://www.tenonedesign.com/stylus.php\n\nA: Here you'll find a list of 11 different gloves to use with your iPhone...\n\nA: You can buy conductive thread and then weave the thread into any pair gloves that you own. There's a really overview of what conductive thread is and more information of the different types here: http://www.fashioningtech.com/profiles/blogs/conductive-thread-overview, and there is instructions on how to do this along with a video demo here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Making-A-Glove-Work-With-A-Touch-Screen/ \n\nA: I like these lambswool gloves by Dots. I imagine they use some sort of conductive thread woven in the fabric, and they're quite affordable at $15.50 to $20.\n\n\nA: The screen is a capacitive touch device so it depends on a conductive item contacting it. A number of companies have produced gloves with appropriately conductive finger pads.\n\nA: You could be like the South Koreans and use sausages.\n\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3394\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"20\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":982,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Rotated PDF Doesn't Save State? For some strange reason, when I rotate a PDF using the trackpad (Two finger multi-touch rotation gesture.), there's no option to save it and all changes are lost after I close it.\n(The save button is grayed out.)\nWhat am I doing wrong?\n\nA: ... Never mind. Apparently rotating using the trackpad of a PDF in Preview is just for cosmetic purposes. You have to rotate using +L or +R or within the Apple-bar menu. Only after that, the save option will be available. :| \nStrange.\n\nA: Like you said, using + L and +R seems to modify the PDF in place. \nBut if you use the rotation gesture on the trackpad, and use Save As, it will save the PDF with the pages rotated.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3399\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"4\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":983,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Can I use my iPhone as a fax machine modem using the Bluetooth connection? I'd like to use my iPhone 4 as a bluetooth modem so I can send a fax using my Mac.\nI can pair my iPhone to the mac and then add a fax from the Printer section of System Preferences and then, I can add to the Fax print queue from Preview. However, the print queue doesn't establish a connection to the iPhone.\nI'm not interested in sending faxes over email and I'm not interested in downloading an app to the iPhone that will send faxes over the internet. I'm interested in using my iPhone as my fax machine modem and printing from my Mac.\nAnyone know how can I do this?\n\nA: I tried to find a solution to do this about a week ago, and found that if you're in the US with a non-jailbroken phone, you just can't. \nYeah, it annoyed me, too.\nThere are a number of different Bluetooth profiles; here's Apple's list of Supported Bluetooth profiles. No faxing on there, dammit.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3403\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"6\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":984,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: How can I know which GUID represents which app in my iTunes backup of my iPhone? I backed up my data from my iPhone to my PC. This backup is not encrypted. When I open up the backup folder, I see a bunch of files named with long GUIDs. Each app that saves data (e.g. to a SQLite table will have a file here.\nHow can I find out which GUID represents a specific app I am looking for?\nI used to be able to use findstr \"app name\" *.mdinfo and then find the corresponding *.mddata file, but as of iTunes 10, there are no *.mdinfo files. This makes it so you can't find the app's name in the files in plain text. So when I try to use findstr \"app name\" *.*, it doesn't find it either. The files have no extension, and if they are SQLite files, they are in binary format and after examining them, they have no information related to the app's name in them.\n\nA: This used to be possible with Erica Sadun's mdhelper program. Unfortunately, it looks like something has changed in the way Apple stores backup files w/ iOS 4.2, and the program cannot achieve the same results (since it finds no mdbackup or mdinfo files).\nOn the bright side, a new tool named iPhone / iPod Touch Backup Extractor has emerged. It correctly translates the GUIDs to names in my iOS 4.2 backups, and allows the files for each app to be extracted together.\n\nA: The whole iPhoneTracker kerfuffle has rasied some good information on python scripts and other code examples that can parse the most recent mbdb files.\nSee http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/#2 and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3085153/how-to-parse-the-manifest-mbdb-file-in-an-ios-4-0-itunes-backup\nThe stack overflow question has the goods on many tools and several good explanations of the technical details. I also have good things to say about the book iOS Forensic Analysis by Sean Morissey\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3413\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"7\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":985,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: \"Not enough space\" on partitioning? I have a 320GB harddrive with 95GB free. I boot to a 10.5 disk, open disk utility, and add a 40GB partition. Halfway through the progress bar, though, it tells me that there's not enough space. I'm not sure what it means- I'm just splitting my free space off to another partition- it shouldn't need any extra space.\nAny ideas as to how I can partition my drive?\nClarification: this is my laptop's internal drive- the one I boot from. I can't boot normally and partition with /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app.\n\nA: Ok, solution found on an old superuser question, posting here for posterity.\nI just needed to defrag the thing\nI got Coriolis iDefrag. I ran that on the compact setting (required restarting into it's own special mode, but no disk burning was needed). A few hours later I tried to resize the partition and it worked fine.\n\nA: Assuming you're booting from the install disk and not your boot volume:\nTry making the new partition even smaller the first time... like 20 GB. If it completes successfully, you can usually go back and resize the main partition again to a smaller size. So the second time, you would delete the new partition and add the final 40GB partition (shrinking the boot partition by an additional 20GB). Not sure why this happens, but I'm usually able to do it this way.\n\nA: You may be getting the 'not enough space' error since there isn't enough space to hold some files while the reformat is going on. I think to be able to do the format like this, you would have to have at least another 125GB free (to basically store all the other data you are currently using)\n\nA: Wipe free space, and then try repartitioning. I'm sure that's all the defrag did that mattered.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3414\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"3\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":986,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: MacBook Pro Hang I bought a new MacBook Pro with a Core i5 processor; everything is very good but it hangs a lot. I changed its hard drive and used Apple's diagnostic test but neither helped.\nAny ideas about what could be the problem?\n\nA: It’s a new machine, if it hangs “out of the box” take it back for repairs, it’s under warranty. It could be the memory (RAM). Don’t change anything, let the Apple folks do it for you.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3424\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"0\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":987,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: How to close apps in iphone 4? \nPossible Duplicate:\niOS 4 - can I close and app without it staying open in the background? \n\nFrom what I know, pressing on the home button on iphone 4 will merely hide the application, instead of closing it.\nSo how can I make sure that all the unwanted apps are closed, so that the memory can be reused?\n\nA: You have two options to close an app:\n\n\n*\n\n*With the application hidden (i.e. if you are currently at the home screen or are interacting with another app) you can double-press the home button, hold down any icon in the app switcher until they all start to wiggle, and press the minus icon in the top left corner of the app you want to close.\n\n*With the application in the foreground, you can hold down the power key until the \"slide to power off\" option appears, and then hold down the home button until the the application quits.\nThe first option is faster.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3426\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"3\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":988,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Removing software that came from a pkg file? I can't find the uninstaller. I installed some service using a pkg file and now I want to get rid of it. How do I do that? I would prefer not to use lsbom and rm and stuff. It looks scary.\n\nA: Not a direct answer to your question, but you can also use \"Suspicious Package\", a QuickLook plug-in for Finder, to see what files a package installed: http://www.mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/\nDepending on what files were installed where, you may be able to find them in Finder and drag to the trash; otherwise you may have to go into Terminal and rm around.\n\nA: For the most part, Mac applications don't have uninstallers because they're rarely needed. You can almost always just toss the undesired offender into your trash.\n\nA: I recommend you try something like AppZapper ($) or \nAppCleaner (Freeware). There are others that work similarly.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3431\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"5\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":989,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Make an iPhone appear as different model? Is it possible to have a jailbroken iPhone trick an app into thinking you have a different device than the one you're on (e.g., a 3G passing as a 3GS)?\n\nA: Palm did this with the Pre: the device, like all devices, told iTunes it was an iPod and allowed only the syncing of non-DRM content over the USB connection. As to how the iPhone sorts out what it is to tell iTunes could either be hard-coded or come from a plist file somewhere in the OS. \nEither way, this forum is really not the place the find the answer to that question(nor do I think SO is either). You probably should head over to one of the myriad iPhone jailbreak forum. Searching \"iPhone jailbreak forum\" in Google brings up a whole host of them.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3434\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"3\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":990,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: The Battery Life Span of iPhone 4 I found that actively using my iphone for 30 minutes will take out 5-7% of the battery. Is it normal?\n\nA: Yes, this is normal. If we assume that actively using your iPhone 4 for 30 minutes consumes 5% of its battery life, then you can use it actively for 10 hours. The iPhone 4 supports up to 10 hours of uninterrupted video playback OR up to 7 hours of talk time on 3G OR up to 6 hours of Internet use on 3G, for example. Your experience with your iPhone 4 sounds reasonable.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3435\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"3\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":991,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Which text editor can I use with large files (>500 MB)? What are your recommendation for opening large text files on OS X? I found both BBEdit and Textmate to be struggling in this department.\n\nA: BBEdit is pretty much the standard for opening large text files on a Mac. I've opened some good-sized files with it, and BBEdit didn't even break a sweat. It is not entirely free - you do not have to pay for a license unless you want features that are in the pro activation above and beyond the free license.\nHow large of a file are you talking about? And how much RAM does your Mac have (both installed and free)?\n\nEdited to add…\nBare Bones released BBEdit 9.6 today, and according to the Release Notes1 (under Changes):\n\nIt is now possible to open files significantly larger than before; the ceiling isn't unlimited, but it is no longer limited by the previously extant constraints in the OS.\n\nSounds to me like it's worth upgrading (free for anyone with BBEdit 9.x) and trying again.\n1 If you've never read a Bare Bones release notice before, you should. Even if you have no interest in BBEdit. Even if you have no interest in Bare Bones. Even if you have no interest in text editors in general. They're that good. Yes, really. Iä! Iä! Pnoies fhtagn!\n\nA: I'm using HexFiend to work with a 60 GB text file and it works great (apparently it can handle files as large as 118 GB).\n\nA: Check Sublime Text 2 out. It is one of the best out there. \n\nA: TextWrangler is a great tool for opening editing and saving large files. I wouldn't recommend if for copying and pasting large amounts of content though. Use it if you don't want to have to deal with the vi interface/commands. Like Loic mentioned, MacVim is a great app if you're more familar with vi.\nUse BBEdit for free now that TW is discontinued if needed.\n\nA: I found MacVim pretty good at opening large files.\nThere's even a plugin to speed it up, if the file is really large.\n(If you don't want to compile it yourself, you can download a DMG to install it pre-built.)\n\nA: If you are reading the file only, use the less command. You can navigate and search through the file like vi, but much faster and without the nasty 'line too long' type problems. For working with big production logs, this is an invaluable tool.\n\nA: If you are dealing with files over 2 GBs I recommend 010 Editor. It won't load the entire file in memory which means you can use it to open files larger than your available RAM and opening times will be much shorter (took about 20 seconds to open a 7GB file).\n\nA: For me, where BBEdit choked on 750MB, UltraEdit (not free) worked satisfactorily fast.\n\nA: My first choice is SlickEdit. It looks, well, is a bit old fashioned, but I have seen no other editor that deals with large files (even GBs of text) that fast, and still giving a ton of features.\nIt is not a modern IDE by current day standards, but a really powerful editor, and as said, the only one I ever used that really works with large files.\n\nA: http://code.google.com/p/macvim/ worked with a 1 gig file\nsearching file took about 1 min\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3437\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"59\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":992,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Seeking good quality DVD ripping software for PPC G5, 10.4.11 Subject says it all, but here are the requirements in full:\n\n\n*\n\n*Power Macintosh G5 Dual 2.5 Ghz, 2 GB RAM, 2 TB HDD (destined to become a media and file server for v1 Apple TV and home network)\n\n*Mac OS 10.4.11, but will be upgrading to Mac 10.5 at a later date\n\n*Surround sound support (Dolby 5.1, DTS)\n\n*Movies are intended for use with an v1 Apple TV, so no disk images or VIDEO_TS folders.\n\n\nWeb searches reveal a lot of software out there but it all seems fairly random, so I'd like to see if anyone has had any experience with a particular application on older hardware and OS. Please note the Handbrake PPC build will not run on this particular machine (quits without error before loading is complete) and RipIt does not support anything before Mac OS 10.5.\nI know I can go the route of Mac the Ripper to Handbrake, but that's doubles the process in time, space, and computers needed. I'm looking to avoid that if at all possible.\n\nA: Use the RipIt App. Choose the Compress option and within the Applications preferences you can specify the output file format. I have to say they made the process simple and worry free. I am using it on Snow Leopard so my experience may not be the same as yours.\n\nA: You want HandBrake. Does everything the apps in the other answers do, bit it's open-source and free.\nThe latest builds have discarded PPC support, but the version before the current (0.9.5) build does have PPC builds available. You can grab those here (Version 0.9.4).\nIt Explicitly supports AppleTV.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3439\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"3\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":993,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Monodevelop on OS X and Displaying UTF-8 Does using Copy or paste cause monodevelop to crash, or is it just me? If you have Monodevelop installed, please can you test this, I fount that both shortcuts and from the menus cause it to crash. I seem unable to find information about this on google, though would personally consider this quite a major bug.\nAnd how can UTF-8 characters be displayed in monodevelop and mono programs? Although they output fine in Terminal. It is similar to this post , but none of the solutions seem relevant as 2.4 has now been released.\n\nA: Since this is a duplicate, which still has not been closed, and the issues in question have been fixed, I will quote the accepted answer there:\n\n \n*\n \n*Several common Mac programs have clipboard manipulation features that seem to corrupt MD's memory. It's a known issue and is documented here.\n \n*Unfortunately my answer remains that same as my answer in the thread you linked: the Mac version of the Pango library that MonoDevelop uses for font rendering does not support glyph fallbacks, but you may be able to work around this by using a font that contains all the glyphs you need. If you could be more specific about the charsets and where you are seeing issues, we may be able to provide more specific answers.\n[NOTE: both these issues have since been fixed]\n\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3441\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"1\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":994,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: iPhone 4 - photos are chopped off on the side I have been using my iPhone 4 to take photos on my holiday, and have been noticing that approximately 10% of the photos I have taken are chopped a bit shorter. I have only noticed it happening on landscape shots, and I have HDR enabled without the option to keep the original. Is this a known issue?\n\nA: I don't think this is an issue at all. In the Photos app, all pictures are slightly zoomed in on by default to fill the entire screen. If you zoom out on each picture using your fingers, you will notice that they are all the same size. \n\nA: The photos app takes pictures that are a little bit wider than the iPhone screen. Try zooming around the pictures and see whether it's just a positioning issue in the display of them.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3442\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"2\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":995,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: iPod Touch /w iOS4 - Why do I have to have iTunes installed to charge? Do I have to have iTunes running to charge my iPod Touch? I mean, can't I just turn on my computer and have the USB port just charge the silly thing? All my other devices work like that; why does Apple have to be such a prima-donna?\n\nA: You pretty much self-answered the question but, in any case and for future reference:\nYou don’t need iTunes to charge iPhones/Pads/Pods. iPhones come with a wall-pluggable charger that also happens to charge the other members of the family. \n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3445\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"0\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":996,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Is there free software for recognizing a song when it plays? I have few .mp3 file that have no name or have a wrong name(artist name and song name) is there any free software exist to recognized what exactly this song is(by playing the song and this software search their database and find similar signal wave)?\nI see some similar app in iphone (if you play song and run this app after some second this app recognize the song)\nAnd I Also use Tunatic in windows and it was a good software but I can't use Tunatic in OS X (Tunatic is available for MAC OS X too)\nI know some software exist to tag music like TuneUP and MusicBrainz and ... but I want some thing else. I don't want answer like this one.\n\nA: I'm not sure if you have a smartphone, but Shazam and SoundHound work well by using the phone's mic to identify songs while they're playing. And I know you said you don't want to use MusicBrainz, but have you tried the scan feature? It scans the song and tries to identify it based on a musical \"fingerprint\", not just by metadata.\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3450\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"2\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":997,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Using Brushes (mainly dodge and burn) in Aperture 3 while in Full Screen Mode One of the reasons I went to Aperture from iPhoto was that I could easily dodge and burn my photos, which iPhoto doesn't let you do. \nI have also been enjoying the full screen mode in aperture, where I will keep the HUD up for my edits. \nWhile doing some edits yesterday, I noticed that the brushes control wasn't available full screen, unless I am missing something. I also couldn't find the red eye removal tool while in full screen either. \nDoing searches online was not that helpful, since brushes and full screen were new in Aperture 3, so usually doing a search like 'aperture 3 brushes full screen' usually returns results listing the new features in Aperture. \n\nA: In full screen mode move your mouse to the top of the screen, a toolbar will drop down which has the red eye tool. The is also a button for the inspector hud which is the same as the usual adjustment palette. Brushes work just the same.\n\nA: In addition to Henry’s information, here’s a picture to make it more clear:\nThe “hidden Toolbar”\n\nDon’t miss The Palette, it contains interesting options for these brushes:\n\nUPDATE If you want the “Hidden Toolbar” to remain ‘pinned’ while working in full screen, simply touch this…switch onto the lock position:\n\n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3452\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"2\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":998,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: Display pressed shortcuts as an overlay on the screen On this great Ruby on Rails screencast, every time a shortcut combination is pressed it shows up on top of the screen, and it shows up so often that I find it hard to believe it was placed by hand when editing the movie.\nIs there any application that does this?\n\nA: Not sure which specific screencast you're speaking of, but they may be using Keycastr.\n\nA: For the sake of completeness: Boinx Software's Mouseposé does this (and a lot more) as well ($17). \n"},"meta":{"kind":"string","value":"{\n \"language\": \"en\",\n \"url\": \"https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3453\",\n \"timestamp\": \"2023-03-29T00:00:00\",\n \"source\": \"stackexchange\",\n \"question_score\": \"4\"\n}"}}},{"rowIdx":999,"cells":{"text":{"kind":"string","value":"Q: \"say\" in different language? Are there voices in different languages installed in Mac OS X? E.g. spanish, french or slovak? (latest iPod Nano built-in voiceover has beautiful slovak voice, I'd like to try it on Mac OS X too)\n\nA: For Mac OS X 10.7, Swedish works pretty well by just downloading the Swedish voices using Preferences->System Voice->Customize and setting either as System Voice. It neatly nails even pretty peculiar Swedish words and spellings.\nNo guarantee for other languages.\n\nA: As far as I know the only way to get a Mac to speak in another language is to get voice resources in your target language. A web site for French blind people recommends iVox.\nSorry, no Slovak there I can see.\n\nA: Lion has many more voices, including Czech (Zuzana) and Slovak voice (Laura)!\n\nA: You can use the following command in the Terminal to get a list of all the available voices:\nsay -v \\?\n\nOn my system the output looks like this with the voice name followed by the language abbreviation (I removed the comments):\nAgnes en_US\nAlbert en_US\nAlex en_US\nAlice it_IT\nAlva sv_SE\nAmelie fr_CA\nAnna de_DE\nBad News\nBahh en_US\nBells en_US\nBoing en_US\nBruce en_US\nBubbles en_US\nCarmit he_IL\nCellos en_US\nDamayanti id_ID\nDaniel en_GB\nDeranged en_US\nDiego es_AR\nEllen nl_BE\nFiona en-scotland\nFred en_US\nGood News\nHysterical en_US\nIoana ro_RO\nJoana pt_PT\nJunior en_US\nKanya th_TH\nKaren en_AU\nKathy en_US\nKyoko ja_JP\nLaura sk_SK\nLekha hi_IN\nLuciana pt_BR\nMaged ar_SA\nMariska hu_HU\nMei-Jia zh_TW\nMelina el_GR\nMilena ru_RU\nMoira en_IE\nMonica es_ES\nNora nb_NO\nPaulina es_MX\nPipe Organ\nPrincess en_US\nRalph en_US\nSamantha en_US\nSara da_DK\nSatu fi_FI\nSin-ji zh_HK\nTessa en_ZA\nThomas fr_FR\nTing-Ting zh_CN\nTrinoids en_US\nVeena en_IN\nVicki en_US\nVictoria en_US\nWhisper en_US\nXander nl_NL\nYelda tr_TR\nYuna ko_KR\nZarvox en_US\nZosia pl_PL\nZuzana cs_CZ\n\nThis is an example on how to use say with a german voice, as suggested by scottishwildcat in the comments:\nsay -v Anna 'Guten Tag!'\n\nIn case you want to hear the example list, you can copy this for loop into your terminal, which will result in all installed voices speaking a text example:\nsay -v \\? | while read LINE\n do\n SPEAKER=$(echo $LINE | egrep -o \"^[a-zA-Z\\-]*[ ]?[A-Z][a-z]+\")\n TEXT=$(echo $LINE | egrep -o \"#.*\" | tr \"#\" \" \")\n echo $SPEAKER\n echo -ne \"This is voice $SPEAKER speaking the example text: \\n\" $TEXT | say -v $SPEAKER\n done\n\n\nA: The voices included in Mac OS X 10.6 are optimized for english only. Even if you set your system language to anything different, it won’t work, because it will try to read with english pronunciation, causing funny wordings. Try saying “Hola” for spanish and you’ll see how it says: “hooola” as an english speaking person would read it. \n\nA: It might be a bit hard to find the international for OS X Lion, this shows how...\nhttp://www.litebeam.net/litebeam/read4me/voices.html\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RUI5d5L_wr8\n\nA: Yes, with macOS Big Sur 11.3.1, several languages are pre-installed to be used with the say command in the terminal.\nYou can check for the available voices in System Preferences > Accessibility. In the left pane, select Spoken content. From the System Voice drop-down menu, you can see the list of already installed voices. You can change here the default voice. Select Customise to add more voices and more languages. You can pre-hear these voices by clicking on the voice name and then clicking the Play button. Once you select new voices, click on OK and they will be downloaded. It might take a few minutes.\nYou can use the following command in the Terminal to get a list of all the available voices:\nsay -v'?'\n\nOn my computer, this command outputs:\nAlex en_US # Most people recognize me by my voice.\nAlice it_IT # Salve, mi chiamo Alice e sono una voce italiana.\nAlva sv_SE # Hej, jag heter Alva. Jag är en svensk röst.\nAmelie fr_CA # Bonjour, je m’appelle Amelie. Je suis une voix canadienne.\nAnna de_DE # Hallo, ich heiße Anna und ich bin eine deutsche Stimme.\nAudrey fr_FR # Bonjour, je m’appelle Audrey. Je suis une voix française.\nAurelie fr_FR # Bonjour, je m’appelle Aurelie. Je suis une voix française.\nCarmit he_IL # שלום. קוראים לי כרמית, ואני קול בשפה העברית.\nDamayanti id_ID # Halo, nama saya Damayanti. Saya berbahasa Indonesia.\nDaniel en_GB # Hello, my name is Daniel. I am a British-English voice.\nDiego es_AR # Hola, me llamo Diego y soy una voz española.\nEllen nl_BE # Hallo, mijn naam is Ellen. Ik ben een Belgische stem.\nFiona en-scotland # Hello, my name is Fiona. I am a Scottish-English voice.\nFred en_US # I sure like being inside this fancy computer\nIoana ro_RO # Bună, mă cheamă Ioana . Sunt o voce românească.\nJoana pt_PT # Olá, chamo-me Joana e dou voz ao português falado em Portugal.\nJorge es_ES # Hola, me llamo Jorge y soy una voz española.\nJuan es_MX # Hola, me llamo Juan y soy una voz mexicana.\nKanya th_TH # สวัสดีค่ะ ดิฉันชื่อKanya\nKaren en_AU # Hello, my name is Karen. I am an Australian-English voice.\nKate en_GB # Hello, my name is Kate. I am a British-English voice.\nKyoko ja_JP # こんにちは、私の名前はKyokoです。日本語の音声をお届けします。\nLaura sk_SK # Ahoj. Volám sa Laura . Som hlas v slovenskom jazyku.\nLekha hi_IN # नमस्कार, मेरा नाम लेखा है. मैं हिन्दी में बोलने वाली आवाज़ हूँ.\nLuca it_IT # Salve, mi chiamo Luca e sono una voce italiana.\nLuciana pt_BR # Olá, o meu nome é Luciana e a minha voz corresponde ao português que é falado no Brasil\nMaged ar_SA # مرحبًا اسمي Maged. أنا عربي من السعودية.\nMariska hu_HU # Üdvözlöm! Mariska vagyok. Én vagyok a magyar hang.\nMei-Jia zh_TW # 您好,我叫美佳。我說國語。\nMelina el_GR # Γεια σας, ονομάζομαι Melina. Είμαι μια ελληνική φωνή.\nMilena ru_RU # Здравствуйте, меня зовут Milena. Я – русский голос системы.\nMoira en_IE # Hello, my name is Moira. I am an Irish-English voice.\nMonica es_ES # Hola, me llamo Monica y soy una voz española.\nNora nb_NO # Hei, jeg heter Nora. Jeg er en norsk stemme.\nPaulina es_MX # Hola, me llamo Paulina y soy una voz mexicana.\nRishi en_IN # Hello, my name is Rishi. I am an Indian-English voice.\nSamantha en_US # Hello, my name is Samantha. 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Q: If I buy an iPhone app will I have to re-purchase the app if I get a new iPhone? I upgraded from the 3G to the iPhone 4 and forgot to backup and transfer my apps. If I attempt to purchase apps that I have previously purchased, will the Apple store charge me? Or will it recognize that I have already purchased the app based on my apple ID? A: according to the caliban answer on SU: To re-download all your apps into iTunes. 1. First you need to authorize your iTunes. (Store > Authorize Computer) 2. Next, check for available downloads (Store > Check For Available Downloads) iTunes will then check for what you have purchased before, and give you an option to re-download your purchased apps. To see a listing of all the apps you have purchased or downloaded, do this : 1. Go to Store > View My Account 2. Login 3. Click on "Purchase History" You should now see all the apps you have downloaded before A: No, you will not be charged. You can re-download them in iTunes or directly on the phone. You'll have to hit the "buy" button, but after it starts downloading, you should see a message saying you already bought it once. The alert box includes a button to go ahead and re-download the app, which you will then not be charged for.
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Q: MacBook Running Really Slow, Activity Monitor Reports HUGE VM My MacBook is running really really slow at the moment, I have quit loads of processes (but activity monitor only reported about 10% cpu usage anyway). I had just noticed I have a VM Size of 250GB! Could this be the problem? Why would it ever be that big? A: The first thing you might want to do is restart it. That will probably fix the problems. Other things you might want to check: * *Do you have enough free disk space? *How much RAM do you have? Are you running any memory intensive application (or many)? I.e. you might have photoshop sitting idle, but ten 80mb RAW files open… that uses RAM, not CPU (as long as you’re not processing them in any way). *Are you running any sort of Virtualization software (VMware, Parallels, VirtualBox?) If yes, are they running a Virtual Machine? *Is your computer Paging too much to disk? (See activity Monitor, memory: Page ins vs. Page outs). A lot of Pageouts is bad (compared to Ins). That means your box is lacking physical RAM memory and must write to the (slow) HDD to save the memory pieces. This is one of the #1 causes for slowdowns. note: some page outs are ok, the system uses the swap no matter how much ram you have. *You already mention it, but sort by CPU Usage in All Processes (Activity Monitor) and make sure no process goes crazy every now and then. *Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.App) and execute: ls -lh /var/vm The output will consist of one (or more) swapfile0, 1, 2… and next to them you’ll see the size. Small sizes are ok (a few hundred Megabytes). If that swapfile is huge, then you have an Insufficient RAM problem. You need more RAM or less programs at the same time. Here’s my output: (I have 12 GB of RAM, so that’s a lot to spare) In the end, restart your computer and monitor those values throughout the day(s). A: That's a pretty normal VM size for me (currently: 257.31 GB). What matters isn't so much the size, but what's using it. Activity Monitor will let you sort your apps by the memory they use—does something look outrageously large? My experience is that Safari is usually the culprit. If it's one particular app, quit it and then relaunch it. If you can't find an obvious offender, restart your Mac. A: If the slowdown isn't obvious in Activity Monitor, then it will take some sleuthing on your part to sort out your particular set of circumstances that is causing it: Spotlight indexing, downloading, anti-virus, printing, etc. CPU usage percentage isn't a complete indicator of what could be bogging down a machine. I once had McAfee Anti-Virus completely bog my machine down (and I mean the beachball, freezing screens,a nd almost complete inability to finish the boot process for an hour at a time) trying to scan the contents of my iDisk contents. But the five processes being run by AV never got above 2% or 3%. Once I disconnected my iDisk, all was fine and I don't hear a peep out of AV. It is no secret that Mac OS X is a memory hog, and the occasional reboot (I do so every Monday morning) does wonders.
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Q: How do I make windows save their position on screen after re-attaching a display? When I attach a second monitor to my MacBook, I drag many windows onto it. When I detach the monitor, all the windows move back onto my MacBook's display. How can I make it so that when I re-attach the monitor, all the windows automatically move back to their position on the second monitor again? I use my personal MacBook at work where I have the extra monitor. But this means I need to detach and re-attach the monitor every day. I have many windows I leave open from the previous day's work, so this is a real pain. I know about an app called Forget-Me-Not, which is almost exactly what I want. But I need something that works on OS X 10.5. A: Slate is free and very powerful, and it does exactly what you want. I answered this in a previously asked question, but I'll summarize my answer here: When you plug in your secondary monitor, Slate automatically detects the new monitor, and all of your windows will be moved and resized just the way you like them. You can define custom positions and sizes for all of your applications, including full screen, half screen, and grid-based. You can define different layouts based on how many monitors you have connected, and you can also define keyboard shortcuts for specific layouts or actions such as nudging and resizing windows by a certain percentage. Try it out! Here is a helpful article on how to get the most out of Slate. A: I've been using Breeze to remember window positions when switching between an external monitor and the internal monitor of my MacBook Air. It works with 10.5, there's a free demo and it's not too expensive at $8. With Breeze you define window positions and sizes and then you can hotkey them. You can also set positions/sizes for specific applications in addition to the global setting. Dori, thanks for that link to Stay, I've been looking for something that does exactly that and I'm running 10.6. Thanks! A: Any chance of you upgrading to 10.6? If so, you could use Stay from Cordless Dog. A: Just came across SizeUp which is kind of like Breeze but also seems to have monitor management. I have not tested it but it looks decent: Edit: Also there is Optimal Layout which is a very full featured tool but also worth looking at. A: After looking for this for a while, I would like to say that Stay works wonderfully for saving state and position of windows across multiple displays. You have to save your settings for single screen and dual/multiple screens in order for your positions to be saved across both situations. Optimal layout, though a full feature product unfortunately did not save the window positions or set them back when switching between single screen and dual screen. At least I couldn't figure out how to work with it after only a 30-minute attempt. It's possible that it does but in the short amount of time i had to set this up, I was unable to save. The ability to divide your screens into sections is a really great feature but not the main feature I was looking for in this case. A: Yes Stay seems to work but it cant shift windows back that have been put into full screen mode. So if you want to maintain a state of full screen items on your laptop, but positioned windows on your external monitor, then unfortunately it doesnt work.. Kind regards, Steve A: I also like Stay. It works great, and is really simple to use: How Does Stay Work? Move your windows to where you want them, then have Stay store them. Once stored, windows can be returned to their stored state at any time by having Stay restore them. A: You dont need anything. Cmd + Alt + Hold down your mouse 1 second at the bottom right corner
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Q: Display external video on iMac I am considering purchasing an iMac. Our office situation is such that the new computer will be placed where a monitor is presently located for a Windows laptop connected via a docking station. Is it possible to connect external video to an iMac? Alternatively, is the iMac capable of hooking up to a second monitor? (my monitor has multiple inputs which I could just switch between) Are there other options that I am missing? A: Is it possible to connect external video to an iMac? Yes, the latest 27" iMac can act as a monitor via Mini DisplayPort. From Apple: Mini DisplayPort output with support for DVI, VGA, and dual-link DVI (adapters sold separately); 27-inch models also support input from external DisplayPort sources (adapters sold separately) You'll need an adapter to convert your laptop output to Mini DisplayPort. Be careful, as some adapters, such as those provided by Apple, are designed to output DVI/VGA/etc, and aren't capable of being reversed to accept it as input. further reading: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3924
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Q: The Casing & Protective Layer for iPhone 4 is Free, or Is It? We all understand that the way to solve iPhone 4's antennagate problem is to use case and a protective layer. As far as I understand, Steve Jobs said that all these case and protective layer is available for free. However today as I went to an iPhone reseller (I'm located in Malaysia), I was told that I would have to purchase the case and the protective layer – they would not be given for free. Now I'm not sure what's wrong here – whether it's my understanding of Jobs' word, or if it's how the way the local Apple reseller works. I understand that when Jobs said that these casing would be given for free, it would be free regardless of which country you are in. It certainly doesn't mean that only US stores would give out the case for free, but every single country in the world which sells iPhone 4 must give it out for free. But the sales representative told me that it's only in the US that the case would be given for free. So I am confused: is the local Apple reseller running around like ancient Chinese warlords and take no directive command from the HQ? A: The free case program is no longer automatic, and it was never done in-store. You had to download an app to request your free case. (That was their way to make sure only one case was requested per-phone.) I'm also not sure if it was ever valid outside the United States. To get the free case now, you have to call Apple support and complain about phone signal issues. You also have to ask them directly for a free case. I have no idea if the same deal applies in Malaysia, but this isn't a case of the store trying to cheat you. They never gave away cases in-store. A: http://www.apple.com/iphone/case-program/ I've heard apple support will still send free cases if you complain of reception issues. I don't know what the policy is in Malaysia.
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Q: Can you format a Numbers cell by calling a function? I'd like to do something like: IF(test_some_condition, BOLD(COLOR("Yes"), "#FF2222"), "No") In other words, I'd like to display some text but format it differently based on some condition. Possible? Doesn't seem like it. thanks, Rob A: In the formatting inspect ("Cells" pane) there is a section called "Conditional Format" in which you can change the text or background color based on the value in the cell. A: Currently the only way to do this is via conditional formatting. Conditional formatting currently only uses the cell value itself, so you cannot do lookups in remote cells to determine the cell formatting, e.g. status lookups, etc.
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Q: MacBook Pro Display Adapter Did Apple change the display adapter from MacBook 2006 to MacBook Pro 2010? I thought they were the same, (similar size) but they actually differ. Do I have to buy a new adapter? A: The Output port from early MacBook (and MacBook Pros) was a mini-VGA, later a mini-DVI port and various accessories were available to connect regular size VGA displays. 15" and 17" PowerBooks had full-size DVI outputs as far as I can remember. Recent MacBook models use a smaller mini DisplayPort. Apple itself offers different adapters to transform the mini DisplayPort into VGA, DVI, or HDMI. If you need a VGA adapter (like you say in your question tag), you are looking for this. If, on the other hand, you need to connect a DVI display, then this is what you want. A: Apple laptops have gone through the following display adapter transitions * *mini VGA and mini DVI ports were used prior to 2008 *mini Displayport was used 2009 to 2011 *Thunderbolt is being used past 2011 The MacBooks never had mini VGA, they started with mini DVI, but earlier Apple laptops such as the iBook used mini VGA. Before they featured mini DisplayPort, early MacBook Pros used a full size DVI port. Note that a Thunderbolt connector is backwards compatible with mini DisplayPort displays and adapters, and looks the same. It may seem as though there's been no transition in 2011, but the Thunderbolt port enables new functionality that mini DisplayPort did not have prior to 2011.
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Q: Time Machine: should I partition a 500GB disk? I was considering using Time Machine and I was wondering if creating a 50 GB partition on a disk of 500 GB for it make sense. A: Technically you could do this, although 50 GB is far too small for most any use these days. The point of concern I think should be raised here is that you look to be hosting both files and backups on the same drive. When (not if—when) the hard drive fails, you will lose both. You would be much better off in the long run keeping the files and backups on separate drives. UPDATE (based on comments): The rule of thumb that I've seen for deciding on a drive size to house a Time Machine back up is at least a 2:1 ratio of the drive to be backed up (so a 500GB would mean a 1 TB TM-hosting drive), and I don't see why that general rule couldn't be followed here. Look at the data volume of the folders you intended to back up, double that, and that's the size partition you go with. If Time Machine requires a minimum that's below what you calculated, just double the size of that for your partition and off you go. Either way, I don't think you're going to find a hard number here. A: You're interested in using the 50GB partition for Time Machine? Keep in mind that Time Machine keeps multiple copies of changed files - it's not just a single back up of your drive. Your backup drive should be at least a couple times larger than the stuff you're backing up, so Time Machine can keep a decent backlog of changes beyond just the most recent. That said, Time Machine will fill the disk with backlog changes until it can no longer fit them, so as long as you have enough space for a "most recent" backup, Time Machine will be happy. A: TimeMachine already places backups inside a folder on the hard disk, so it will not create a mess on that drive. The only reason you should create a partition is if you would not like TimeMachine to use up as much disk space as it needs. Every time a file changes it will create a new copy of it in the backup, and only pruning old versions once the disk is full. If you create a small partition it will restrict the backup to that size. A: OK, my question is simple and related; should I absolutely partition a 2T external drive where I want to keep time machine backup for a 250GB macbook and 50 GB of photos (mostly jpeg). & videos? If it's highly recommended to do so, why? Thanks! (and I read the dated reply on losing the data, but that's a risk of any external disk, whether one or more).
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Q: How do I adjust the tap-to-click sensitivity on the Magic Trackpad or the built-in MacBook trackpad? I have the tap-to-click feature enabled on my Magic Trackpad and find that it works very well for the most pat. However, I think it tends to be a little too sensitive at times. Is there any secret adjustment for reducing the tapping sensitivity of the Magic Trackpad? I assume that the same setting will also apply to the built-in trackpad on MacBooks. A: Unfortunately the sensitivity of the tap-to-click feature on the trackpad may not be adjusted through the default system software at present. It may only be turned off altogether. However if you download BetterTouchTool it will allow you to adjust tap sensitivity, among other things. A: Not a complete answer Use BetterTouchTool. Under the Advanced Trackpad->Taps setting is an option to adjust the time and pressure sensitivity for three and four finger taps
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Q: Can I select only a few specific folders to back up with Time Machine? Can I backup only specific folders with Time Machine? If there is not an "official" way to do this, does somebody know a trick to do so? A: One solution I found is to use Disk Utility to create a new APFS Volume on my main disk, and then I moved all the files I want to back up on this volume (the size of the volume automatically adapts to it's content). Then on Time Machine I excluded all my hard drives except my newly created APFS Volume, in that way it's the only one that gets backed up by Time Machine, and I don't need to update the list unless I add new volumes or hard drives. And if you don't like to have to navigate to this volume to browse your files, you can always create symlinks to them A: Select All the files and folders in the disc that contains the folder you want to back up. Drop them all on the Exclusions window Remove the folder you want backed up from the exclusions A: tmutil enables you to edit the exclusion list from the command line. Because blacklisting folders one by one can be tedious, I wrote deus_ex_tmachina bash script that basically iterate over the folders at the root of your disk and exclude them ; stopping in the middle of the process so you can edit the list. A: You may exclude items from a Time Machine backup as follows: * *Open System Preferences. *Click Time Machine. *After having enabled Time Machine and chosen a backup disk, click Options. *Click + to specify an item that is not to be backed up. The backup disk is included on this list automatically so that it does not back up itself. A: Easily - no. Time Machine's selection only uses exclusion so you'd have to exclude everything but the folders you want. I'd recommend looking at a different solution instead (eg. rsync, Retrospect, or other backup software) A: I'm not sure if time machine follows symbolic links, but if so, you could have a high level directory full of links to the directories you want backed-up, then exclude all the top level directories except that one....slightly roundabout, but not too work intensive (if time machine backs up the content of symbolic links, which I slightly doubt, but should be checked....) I checked. It does not work. Other ideas? A: In my case I have items on an external drive that I want to have backed-up. What I do is create a partition on that drive and then remove that partition from the exclusion list. A: I answered this elsewhere as well, sorry for the redundancy but this question is asked multiples times on this site alone. Time Machine (And excluding files) is not a good solution. Short answer... "Get Backup 3" from the Mac Apps Store. I'm looking for the same solution, (Or was). Basically I want to back up just one folder multiple times a day to a flash drive, similar to the way Time Machine does. BETTER YET! (Million $ idea here...) I would like a local cloud, i.e. I make a change, it updates my local backup on my flash drive to be in sync right then and there when I make the change (Like drop box does). The closest thing I have found is "Get Backup 3" on the Mac App store. You can choose an Origin folder and a destination folder and set it to synchronize the two. You can choose the direction as well which is great, : Folder A to Folder B, or Folder B to Folder A, or even Bi-Directional updates. You can also schedule sync times. I set mine up for close to the end of the day. It backs up and I leave my thumb drive at work in case my laptop ever gets stolen at least I have a copy of my files backed up (Network here is very restrictive and painfully slow). Hope that helps.
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Q: Does the new iPod Touch (iOS 4.1 / 4 gen) require that you jail break it to use a Blue Tooth keyboard? I already have a BT keyboard and I don't really want to buy a new one, so my question is, will the BT keyboard I already have work with an ipod touch? Or will I need to use a proprietary Apple solution for that? A: A 4th generation iPod Touch (or an iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4) running iOS 4.1 supports third-party bluetooth keyboards.
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Q: Duplicate contacts in iPhone 4 with two Exchange accounts, one is Lotus Traveler I have two exchange accounts on my iPhone 4. One that connects to my gmail, the other connects to my work's Lotus Notes. There are no overlapping contacts in the two accounts. There are also no contacts saved locally on my phone. When I enable contacts in both accounts, I get two identical entries for each of the contacts in my gmail. If I disable the Notes exchange account, then there are no more duplicates. If I have Notes contacts enabled, and gmail contacts disabled then I have no contacts at all. Does anyone know what is going on? Is this a problem with having multiple exchange accounts or is it a Lotus Traveler problem? (I tend to blame Notes for all the trouble in the world, but that is just my bias) Thanks all. A: The data stores can get confused. It's usually a server issue but you seem to have narrowed that out by the details you posted. Giving the iPhone a totally fresh database then re-establishing sync often helps when the databases are failing to sync correctly. Since there is no way to just start over for contacts only, you have a short dance of steps. * *Disable all contact syncing over the air. *Power cycle the phone *Use a test account (i make a new user account on my mac with an empty address book) - syncing from iTunes to overwrite all contacts stored on the phone clears the data store well. You can have iTunes only overwrite the contacts and not affect any other data on the iPhone. *Sync back to your main iTunes if desired, then finally re-enable contact sync over the air. Since the contact database gets restored from a backup, restoring the phone won't cure contact database errors. If you can re-set up the phone, you could restore and set it up as a new device also.
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Q: Who are the clients of my shared iTunes library? Is it possible to see who is currently connected and listening to a shared iTunes library? Is it possible to see which songs they listen to and how many/often? It's not really important; I'm just curious about it. Would be nice to know which colleagues love my music… A: A simple one-liner in the terminal will give you the info. $ lsof +D ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/ -i | grep iTunes will return something along the lines of iTunes 5631 Bryson 23r DIR 14,12 102 3747082 /Users/Bryson/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Automatically Add to iTunes.localized iTunes 5631 Bryson 24r DIR 14,12 170 3747080 /Users/Bryson/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media iTunes 5631 Bryson 42u IPv4 0xffffff80178d0c00 0t0 TCP bryson.hostname.com:51447->10.20.1.5:daap (ESTABLISHED) iTunes 5631 Bryson 43u IPv4 0xffffff80178d1a40 0t0 TCP *:daap (LISTEN) iTunes 5631 Bryson 44u IPv6 0xffffff802572f240 0t0 TCP *:daap (LISTEN) iTunes 5631 Bryson 47u IPv4 0xffffff8015f7c500 0t0 TCP bryson.hostname.com:daap->james-win7.lvpp.local:49509 (ESTABLISHED) iTunes 5631 Bryson 48u IPv4 0xffffff801722ca40 0t0 TCP bryson.hostname.com:daap->james-win7.lvpp.local:51393 (ESTABLISHED) The first few lines are my local connection to those files. The last two lines, to the right side of their data, say: bryson.hostname.com:daap->james-win7.lvpp.local:51393 (ESTABLISHED) This indicates that the computer named james-win7.lvpp.local (in this example, that would be a computer on my office's internal Windows Server domain) is connected to your library. Because I know the people in my office, I know that's my buddy james one office over. A: If you are curious, you can tell who’s connected to your computer and find out their IP Address, but that’s all you can find. Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) And type: netstat | grep daap The output will look like this (albeit with other IP addresses): tcp4 0 0 your.ip.address.daap x.y.z.w.49195 ESTABLISHED Being x.y.z.w the ip addresses of those who are connected to your library. That user above is not listening to anything (but it’s connected to your library). You might see duplicated entires for the same IP, for example: tcp4 0 131768 your.ip.address.daap x.y.z.w.49198 ESTABLISHED tcp4 0 0 your.ip.address.daap x.y.z.w.49195 ESTABLISHED That means that computer from ip x.y.z.w is listening to something. I believe the ports (49195 and 49198) are not static and might change, but I really don’t remember now. The important part is the daap which stands for Direct Audio Access Protocol. Essentially your asking nestat to list all your connections to/from your computer and filtering the (rather large) output to those lines which contain ‘daap’ in them. If you get no output or it seems to be “hung”, try using ’netstat’ alone and then scroll up to manually find them. Please note that the command may take a few (sometimes more than 20-30 secs) to produce output, depending upon your network. The ESTABLISHED part means the connection is still alive. For more information about netstat, don’t hesitate typing: man netstat in the Terminal. You might also see your own computer “listening” (iTunes Sharing enabled), it should look like this: tcp6 0 0 *.daap *.* LISTEN tcp4 0 0 *.daap *.* LISTEN Notice that is one for ipv4 and one for ipv6 and the LISTEN part. :) An alternative that I am not sure if it’s still working, is Doug’s Applescripts for iTunes: What Are People Listening 2, which will theoretically find out who/what are they listening. I haven’t tried that one and it seems to be from 2004, however it may still work and you might want to check that out. Applet displays the name and artist of shared songs being listened to by others on the local network. A: From Macworld: Keeping tabs on who’s listening The Sharing pane in iTunes’ preferences will tell you how many users are connected to your shared library. But what it won’t tell you is what they’re actually listening to. To find out, open Activity Monitor (/Applications/Utilities), highlight the iTunes entry, and then click on the Inspect button in the toolbar. Now click on the Open Files And Ports tab and then scroll to the bottom of the list in the window below. If you’re listening to something in iTunes, your current song will show up first, but anything someone connected to you is viewing or listening to will show up like this: 192.168.1.3:daap->192.168.1.8:56089 /Volumes/Backup/iTunes Music/Brian Eno/Another Day On Earth/01 This.m4a In this example, the person is connected from IP address 192.168.1.8 and is listening to Brian Eno’s “This.” A: The iTunes Connection Monitor Widget appears to do what you want, but it may be out of date. The comments indicate it might need modification to work with the latest Mac OS. Anyway, it's a start. Give it a try. The good news is that since it's a widget, you'll be able to look at the innards.
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Q: How to connect to an AFP server from a Windows PC? I would like to connect to an AFP server from a windows PC (XP/Vista/7). The AFP server is a Time Capsule with file sharing over WAN enabled. It seems from my research on internet that it is not possible to setup the Time Capsule to use SMB for the file sharing over WAN. I know that windows don't support natively AFP. Is there any third party applications which would allow a windows PC to connect to an AFP server. Is installing Bonjour on the PC could help? I already tried this : https://superuser.com/questions/119923/connect-a-pc-to-mac-os-x-server Thanks for your help! Benjamin From : https://superuser.com/questions/196562/how-to-connect-to-an-afp-server-from-a-windows-pc (I don't know how to migrate my question to here...) A: Installing Bonjour (aka Zeroconf) doesn't help. Bonjour only announces existing services. If the server only serves AFP the client needs to understand AFP. The only Windows AFP client I knew was PC MacLan (http://store.ca.com/miramar/miramar.aspx) which seems not to be sold any more. (I still have it installed on an XP box.) The often cited Microsoft Services for Macintosh was just an AFP server for Windows NT Server. I think there were efforts at some time to create a FUSE driver as an AFP client on Linux which could in principle be ported to OSX but I haven't heard of that in a long time. I would love to hear of an AFP client solution though.
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Q: Why do X11 applications start but their windows stay invisible? After using a fresh OS X system for a while, I regularly hit the point where X11 clients start and run, but their windows do not show up anywhere. I suspect it has something to do with Mac port paths, but i am not sure. Has anyone else experienced this? A: It might be a bit of a workaround, but you could try installing XQuartz, a newer version of X11. It bypasses X11 rather than replacing it, so you should be able to uninstall it again if you want Apple's X11 back.
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Q: Are there any cool free 3D games on the OS X platform? I've been recently playing Urban Terror, which is a multiplayer FPS game built on Quake 3 engine, and runs across Mac/Linux/Windows. Are there more such games that are * *free *run on immersive 3D engine [not a Flash/HTML5 game] *belong to action-adventure/RPG/RTS/[insert your favorite] genre *possibly multi-platform [not must-have but a nice-to-have] Thanks! A: No discussion of free FPS games on the Macintosh can be complete without a link to Aleph One. And of course, there's that recruiting tool, America's Army. Version 2.5 was available for Mac OS X. I guess version 3 isn't being developed for Macintosh yet…
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Q: How can I tag movies for use in iTunes/AppleTV? I'm rolling over my AVI's to MP4 for my new AppleTV. Is there a good program out there for tagging the movies with their appropriate details? Also, I noticed iTunes will get "Album Artwork" for some movies and not others. I don't know if that's related though. I am doing this conversion on a Windows 7 box. A: You can do that in iTunes, select each file and click Get Info on the context menu. You can even tag several files at once if they share common info, such as the episodes of a series. Also, you can add covers in the same manner. Just paste from IMDB or (as I do) from the iTunes browser previews
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Q: Dock Icons behaving like they'd be locked, but they are not? I just noticed a weird behavior on my dock. The icons seem like if they'd be locked but in fact they are not. For instance when I try to move the icons around, I can take them and move them up. While I'm holding the touchpad, the icon moves with my cursor (that's not the case if the dock would be truly locked), but there won't open any spaces on where I'd like to move the icons to. I also tried the commands defaults com.apple.dock contents-immutable -bool FALSE killall Dock But in fact this doesn't change anything. Is there some additional flag which prevents adding new icons to the dock? I also tried some commands from this list here with no success: http://secrets.blacktree.com/edit?id=2279 Actually executing defaults read com.apple.dock contents-immutableresults in "0". I'm also able to remove icons to the dock, but not add new ones. Thx for any hint A: Have you tried deleting the Dock prefs?
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Q: Is there any way to check the availability of iOS app names? Is there any way to check the availability of iOS app names? A: NEW INFORMATION (2018) Please see this question on the relevant site, Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17748195/2684 tl;dr: there is no time restriction on how long you can reserve, but it’s not guaranteed. OUTDATED ANSWER I haven’t seen that option in the Apple Developer Program, but you can reserve a name. After you reserve it, you have 120 days to upload a binary (You have to create an app in the iTunes Connect system). After 90 days, you receive a notification from Apple, saying that you only have 30 days left to upload the app. Once the 120 days are past, "the app name will then be available for another developer to use.” I also believe that if you do not upload anything, bad things happen to your account, but I can’t verify this. Other than that, I haven’t seen a mechanism like “google” for name searching. (Apple might as well do that at some point!). A: Yup, fire up your iTunes Connect account and try to create an app with the name you're looking for. Of course, that does limit you to 120 days before you must submit code...
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Q: How can I get iTunes to automatically refresh the media library? Most of the media players that have a "media library" functionality usually self-refresh the library when files are added or removed. As I share the media library with other media players (I use iTunes only to copy music on the iPod), I would like iTunes to automatically refresh when I add, remove, or rearrange audio tracks in the file system. How can I get iTunes to do this? A: What you call a “design” flaw, is not such thing. It’s a design decision made by the iTunes team. Although iTunes lets you “manually manage your library”, it’s never intended to let you move things around in the filesystem, add, remove or modify files. The premise for iTunes happiness is that you always add the items to the library and modify things from within iTunes. You have the choice to let iTunes “organize” the library (which will copy the media to the iTunes library folder and organize it there as he wants) or you can leave it wherever you originally had it, but iTunes doesn’t “read” or “monitor" the filesystem for changes. It knows things changed when the library.xml is changed, and the only application that does that is iTunes itself. Is this the best way? Yes and no, it has advantages, but a lot of people miss the “Winamp-like” ease of use and it’s understandable. On the other hand, it simplifies a lot of things for a lot of people. It has decently worked for quite a few years now. But that’s the topic for another discussion. :) A: In addition to Martin's answer, I would point out that a major reason for this design decision is speed. If iTunes had to scan the filesystem for changes every time it ran, the program could potentially slow to a crawl. There are a number of tricks and third party utilities you can use to get around this behavior. The wiki for MusicBrainz Picard has some quick tips on refreshing metadata info, like using the "Get Info" menu item to refresh individual track information. They also detail a small AppleScript that will refresh multiple tracks at once. As for adding and removing files, the best way to get around this is to not try to get around it in the first place. Use the "Add to Library" and "Delete" functions in iTunes itself. However, if you do decide to remove files without using the iTunes "Delete" function, you can use a script such as "Super Remove Dead Tracks" from Doug's Apple Scripts For iTunes. A: Itunes Folder Watch is the external app you require for this functionality http://albumbrowser.klarita.net/itfw.html A: My answer is use a different music manager. That is what I have done. iTunes use to pickup on new music I added but now you have to put it the "watch folder" and of course then it moves it from there into the library. That wont work when I use Google Music Manager and have my cloud music sync to my hard drive. So iTunes is out for me. A: The only way I have found success is deleting the itunes index and then adding the main directory of music again....sucks but seems to work. A: (I'm running iTunes in Windows) I had to do it the hard way after running a program to remove duplicates from my computer. I changed the location of my iTunes library in preferences. Then, I selected all songs in iTunes and deleted them (they didn't delete off of my original library location). I then changed my library location back to where my music is located. Then, I opened Windows explorer and navigated to the folder where all of my music is and selected all the folders except the "Automatically add to iTunes" folder. I dragged all music folders into the "Automatically add to iTunes" folder and moved them there. iTunes detected them and then refreshed the library. It was a small hassle, but at least my duplicate files are gone now. A: As others have mentioned, I don't know that you can get iTunes to automatically track changes, but here's one possible work-around. I keep my music on an external hard drive, and whenever I add new music to it, I go to File -> Add Folder to Library, and point it to my external HDD. I also have (under Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced) unchecked the "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" and "Copy files to iTunes...". This works for adding files, but unfortunately does not detect removed files. It also means that you'll only be able to add files to your devices when the HDD is attached. I also have "Manually manage music" selected for my ipod, but I don't think that's related to how I store my music. A: As an addition to the above answer: I put all new music to be added to the iPod in a seperate folder then point iTunes to this folder under "add folder". I then add these files/folders to my HDD library and delete them from the seperate folder. 'Works for me. A: if using window 7 you can move all music files o itunes . itunes media . music then right click music library properties remove the current monitered folder change it to the itunes >itunes media > music you will have to do something simaler with windows media player open window media player orginize>mange librarys>music remove the current monitered folder add tunes >itunes media > music to monitered folders To clear the Windows Media Player database, follow these steps: a. Exit Windows Media Player. b. Click Start, click Run, type %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Media Player, and then click OK. c. Select all the files in the folder, and then click Delete on the File menu. Note: You do not have to delete the folders that are in this folder. d. Restart Windows Media Player. Note: Windows Media Player automatically rebuilds the database. A: Sorry if this answer is located elsewhere in the thread. I didn't see it, so figured I would add my two cents worth. The easiest way I found to do this is to just re-add the library folder (without deleting the library because that is time consuming and unnecessary) for example. I keep all my movies on an external drive in a folder marked iPod Movies, and not in my iTunes media folder that is designated in my preferences. So, whenever I add new movies to that external drive, I just re-add the iPod Movies folder "File>Add Folder to Library>". It always adds the new movies I've put in the iPod Movies Folder. It is still a manual process, but it is quick and it adds all movies I've added since the last time I did this, and it is free and doesn't use up memory running in the background (unlike the albumbrowser recommended above). Hope this helps
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Q: Alternative for ADmitmac to access dfs shares? I can cmd+k to hidden shares if I remember the names, but normal access of dfs shares would be nicer. I want to get rid of admitmac since it makes my system unstable and slow. A: The Samba version that powers all that functionality for Unix/Linux/OS X, supports Distributed FS “out of the box”; if I am not mistaken ADmitmac only provides a layer that handles configuration and automation of those tasks for you and adds a few services that might require a “server”. I have no experience with admitmac whatsoever so take this with a grain of salt. With that said, OS X can join Active Directory networks created by either Samba servers or Windows 2003-2008. For more information check the Apple Business solutions, you might get away with what you need without having to use ADmitmac. If your problem is that you have to type cmd+k every time you want to connect to a dfs share, you could always -once connected- drag that share to the right side of the dock, where it will create a direct access to the share. Next time you click on that, if the share is not connected, it will try to do that. This works for any type of connection (at least Windows Shares work too and I recall using nfs). That way you don’t have to type the name when you need the share. Alternatively, you can “add” it to Favorites (I’m sure you’ve already seen this window): Finally, here are a couple more resources you might want to check: * *Apple’s free Seminar for Integrating OSX into Active Directory *MCS + dslocal *Using Managed Preferences in the DSLocal domain
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Q: Conkeror as default browser on Mac OS 10.6 I'd like to use Conkeror as default browser in Mac OS 10.6. Selecting conkeror.app as default browser with Safari does not work. While it is possible to start Conkeror via Firefox command line arguments (-app), opening additional URLs with that instance is not. If anyone has been able to setup Conkeror on Mac OS 10.6 in a way that... * *uses Conkeror as default browser for all applications *reuses a running Conkeror instance when opening an URL (either current or new buffer) ..., could you post the steps necessary to do so? P.S.: Feel free to retag with 'conkeror' EDIT: In addition to the Info.plist solution posted below, you also need the line url_remoting_fn = load_url_in_new_buffer in your .conkerorrc, if you want to open URLs in an existing window. A: Select Conkerer as your default through Safari's preferences. Update per the comment: From their website: "Unfortunately, at this time, there doesn't seem to be a way on OSX to configure conkeror as your default browser. " I just happened to stumble across that. I had never heard of Conkerer until now. A: Sure it's possible to set Conkeror as the default web browser; it just needs a properly structured Info.plist file. I created one here: http://www.markdouma.com/developer/ConkerorInfoPlist.zip Just download that, unzip it, and replace the following Info.plist file with the one included in the download: /Applications/conkeror.mozdev.org/conkeror/Contents/Info.plist Note: after completing this, make sure you touch the application bundle, which will force Launch Services to re-examine and re-register the app and its newly found capability for the http:// and https:// URL types. In other words, the following should be sufficient: touch /Applications/conkeror.mozdev.org/conkeror.app Then deselect and re-select the app icon in the Finder. Launch Safari, and choose Conkeror from the popup menu: FWIW, I changed the Info.plist to be the following: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>CFBundleSignature</key> <string>CONK</string> <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key> <string>org.mozdev.conkeror</string> <key>CFBundleURLTypes</key> <array> <dict> <key>CFBundleURLName</key> <string>Web site URL</string> <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key> <array> <string>http</string> <string>https</string> </array> </dict> </array> <key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key> <string>6.0</string> <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key> <string>English</string> <key>CFBundlePackageType</key> <string>APPL</string> <key>CFBundleExecutable</key> <string>xulrunner</string> <key>CFBundleName</key> <string>conkeror</string> <key>CFBundleVersion</key> <string>93</string> <key>NSHumanReadableCopyright</key> <string>(c) 2007, Shawn Betts</string> <key>NSAppleScriptEnabled</key> <true/> <key>CFBundleDisplayName</key> <string>Conkeror</string> <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key> <string>0.9.3</string> <key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key> <string>Conkeror 0.9.3, A 100% keyboard driven mozilla based web browser.</string> </dict> </plist> A: springify, it's not possible to set conkeror as the default browser on OS X. A: Have you checked out Default App? It's a preference pane you can install to set any app as a default for a number of different tasks. It's running on my Macbook running 10.6, and let's me choose any app I want for browsers; I don't have Conkerer but I can only assume it'd work for that too. Worth a download anyway. Hope this helps. A: So under the hood, Workgroup Manager creates a plist located at... ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.internet.plist Which contains this information... <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>mcx_defaultWebBrowser</key> <string>/Applications/Google Chrome.app</string> </dict> </plist> So create that file and change "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" to whatever the path of your application is. Hopefully that will fix your issue. A: Here, try Choosy.
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Q: Why does spaces keep capturing keyboard input some times after switching spaces? I'm running snow leopard on a fairly new macbook pro 13" (september 2010). Sometimes the black visualization showing the available spaces and the space I'm currently on doesn't disappear when I have switched between two spaces. When this happens, spaces seems to steals keyboard input from the application(s) on the space I have switched to. Sometimes the visualization disappears after I keep switch spaces some more, but sometimes I have to force a reboot. Also, spaces seems quite slow at times. Does anybody else experience the same thing, and is there anything to be done about it? A: I find that killing the Dock only sometimes makes the problem go away. Usually keyboard input returns, but if I switch spaces using the keyboard shortcuts, the visualisation sticks around & keyboard input is stolen again. What I have found to work is putting the display to sleep. I've had the bottom right corner of the screen set to do that for ages, so it's quite convenient for me. I've never had this method fail; once the screen is awoken, the problem is gone & doesn't return when I switch spaces again. To me this suggests that the problem isn't actually in Dock, it's in the system's EventTap subsystem, the bit that lets stuff like Spaces, Screen Sharing, LaunchBar, & Spotlight take keystrokes before the focussed application gets them. I've actually experienced a similar problem with Screen Sharing, where the system whose screen is being shared gets its keyboard input mangled if a modifier key is pressed on the viewing computer & not released until Screen Sharing has lost focus. It's sort of the reverse problem, but it indicates that perhaps the Spaces problem is the EventTap framework getting stuck in a similar way, never sending the message that Control isn't being held down any more. A: I experience the same issue on a regular basis. Pressing CMD+W right after noticing that the spaces window will persist makes the window disappear most times. If it doesn't, you can kill Dock from Activity Monitor (start it from the Applications folder in your Dock, select 'Dock' and click 'End Process' or the like). This always makes keyboard input work again, but the issue will reappear very soon. If I could, I also would give bounty for this! /Update: The Mac OS X 10.6.5 changelog suggests that this issue will be fixed in that version: Addresses keyboard responsiveness issues in the Dock when Spaces is turned on. A: I haven't figured out the why of it, per se, but I have figured out a good way to get around it; I created an Applescript application that lives in my dock that allows me to kill the Dock when this happens (since the keyboard is no longer responsive at that point). Create this script in the AppleScript editor and save it as an application somewhere: set app_name to "Dock" do shell script ("killall " & app_name) Add it to your Dock, and when Spaces grabs all keyboard input you can click it to restart the Dock, which will allow you to proceed. A: This comment on the apple subreddit led me to this thread where people discuss this issue in relation to an application called Cinch. In the thread about this on the apple forums, people mention several other applications that might be causing this issue too. What is causing this issue? From what I can gather, this issue seems to be related to applications using Event Taps (an API that lets applications directly listen for keyboard and mouse events). I think there is either A) a bug in OS X where Event Taps sometimes stop working for whatever reason, or B) application programmers consistently have a hard time using Event Taps correctly. What can I do about it? If this is indeed caused by an OS X bug (this seems the most likely to me), this issue can't be fixed completely by end users. There is one thing you can do that might make it happen less frequently though: In the Cinch thread, there is a link to an application that lists all running applications that have Event Taps open. It looks like this: I figure that the more applications you are running that have an Event Tap open, the more often you'll end up with a clogged Event Tap somewhere, and you'll have the spaces issue happen more often as a consequence of this. So, if you're having this issue, try running as few of the applications that show up in EventTaps.app as you can. For whenever the issue does happen, kill the Dock using whatever method you find most convenient. I keep the AppleScript snippet that Chris R posted in his answer in an .app on my Desktop, and run it whenever spaces locks up.
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Q: Movies and Podcasts are not set as watched on the second generation Apple TV I have a little problem with my new second generation Apple TV. TV episodes and podcasts remain unseen/unheard status even if I did watch/hear them. So the list of unwatched shows stays pretty much the same. I have to set the status manually in iTunes. Is it just me or is the the way it works? Do I need to change some settings? A: This is a known issue. You can try holding down the Play/Pause button and then selecting "Mark as watched". The Apple TV sometimes crashing when you select "Mark as watched" is also a known issue. Apple TV owners are awaiting a fix.
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Q: Changing the color of the path in Terminal.app I would like the CasebashMac:bfgenv chris$ part of the following line to appear in a different color in my terminal. CasebashMac:bfgenv chris$ python A: I set the PS1 variable in my .bashrc to achieve this. * *Open Terminal *[editorofchoice] ~/.bashrc *Add a line with the following: PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ ' * *Save the .bashrc *Exit Terminal and re-open. You should now have a green prompt. A: The terminal app does not actually change the colours, this is controlled by the shell that is being run. The default shell is bash and controlling colours is done by altering the prompt. There are many tutorials and other documents on the web to tell you more. One guide to customising the prompt is from IBM
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Q: How can I save opened application settings in Mac OS X? In Linux there is an option to save the currently opened windows such that when you shutdown and boot later, these applications are there the way you left them. It is similar to Hibernate in Windows. Is there something similar in Mac OS X? A: You are looking at two different things. 1) Shutdown and boot - get your same apps as per Linux option - see @Am1rr3zA 2) Hibernate - OSX does this already. Just choose sleep from the apple menu For more details see Macworld explanation and Apple docs A: I think you can use Relaunch application for this purpose: Relaunch saves you time by taking Snapshots of which applications you are using, and starts them back up for you. Think of it as a launcher on steroids that lets you switch between work contexts with one click. you can take a snapshot before restart your system and after that double click on the snapshot you created then it restored all your files and application you worked on. A: Thank you for your replies. I found a widget that does what I'm looking for. Now I can do a "hibernate" similar to the one in Windows. The widget puts the Mac in deep sleep. Even if I pull the power cord, when i start the Mac, it will show how I exactly left it.
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Q: Software for Mac OS X to view movies on my PS3 or Xbox 360 I want to see movies that are on my Mac on the screen connected to my PS3 or Xbox 360 A: Nullriver Software: Medialink - PS3 Connect360 - Xbox360 A: I use MediaLink, which lets you use your Mac as a server which the PS3 can connect to for music, pictures, and movies. It seems to work well enough; my only problem is that I don't like the PS3's interface for browsing through large collections of things. For example, when sharing my entire iTunes library, I'm just about restricted to playlists or random shuffle -- pulling a particular artist/album/song out of thousands is just a pain. For movies, it's worked just fine for me. A: I use Rivet for streaming to my PS3. It's completely painless to set up, while I've had trouble with another solution in the past (unfortunately I can't remember the name of that one). A: PS3mediaserver Supposedly works with XBox 360 as well. Supports streaming and transcoding. A: I am using Vuze for that: http://www.vuze.com/features/device Not sure if there are any alternatives for OSX.
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Q: Can Textmate nicely indent HTML? Does Textmate have a function to nicely indent HTML? HTML Tidy indents it - but it seems to delete tags as well. (This isn't completely proper HTML, but still!) <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:tal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/tal" xmlns:metal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/metal"> <head> <title></title> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.speechapi.com/static/lib/swfobject.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.speechapi.com/static/lib/speechapi-1.1.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script> <body> <!-- All above disappears --> <p>Test</p> <!-- All below disappears--> </body> </html> A: You can press ⌘+A to select all then Text->Indent Selection. A: You can use Bundles > HTML > Tidy or the shortcut ctrl+⇧+H. A: I'd like to point out something that crosses a bit the other answers: If you select the text that you wish to format (or reindent), TextMate will apply specific actions only to that. So, if you CMD+A your document and then apply Tidy (either from the Bundles > HTML menu or with the CTRL+SHIFT+H shortcut) it will mostly only do indenting, skipping alerts on validations (that sometimes are unnecessary since we might be working on page snippets). A: You can use Xcode or Dashcode instead if you install the Developer Tools. They come free on the install discs that came with your computer. I believe both Xcode and Dashcode have syntax highlighting. If you want really good software, get Coda. It is a bit pricey at $100, but I would definitely say it is worth it. It has syntax highlighting and (the big part for me) autocompletion. A: Yes. The Tidy call in TextMate's built-in HTML bundle can deal with your HTML. TextMate's Bundles -> HTML -> Tidy produces: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:tal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/tal" xmlns:metal="http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/metal"> <head> <title></title> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.speechapi.com/static/lib/swfobject.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.speechapi.com/static/lib/speechapi-1.1.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"> </script> </head> <body> <!-- All above disappears --> <p> Test </p><!-- All below disappears--> </body> </html> On your sample code. Nothing disappeared. You also get the following warnings: line 1 column 1 - Warning: missing <!DOCTYPE> declaration line 2 column 5 - Warning: <body> isn't allowed in <head> elements line 1 column 1 - Warning: <html> proprietary attribute "xmlns:tal" line 1 column 1 - Warning: <html> proprietary attribute "xmlns:metal" A: The problem I experienced with the built-in Text -> Indent Selection or Tidy solution is that it doesn't play well with partial HTML code. This is for example important when editing in WordPress or working with partials in Ruby on Rails. The solution that worked for me was to add a command to the bundle with a custom Perl script by John Watson that I found here: http://snipplr.com/view.php?codeview&id=28256
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Q: application for iPhone to read bar codes I need to read different bar codes, and would be great that I can use my iPhone for that. Currently I have an application to read QRCodes but I'm looking to read PDF417 too. A: Red Laser has just updated to read more types of barcode. Plus it's free. A: I use RedLaser for "normal" codes and ZBar for QRCodes. These are the fastest and most stable I could find. Plus, they are both free.
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Q: Does the iPod Touch calendar support every other day scheduling? Does the iPod Touch calendar support every other day scheduling? A: You can set that up, but not on the device. There's no interface to more complex recursion rules in the iOS calendar app. If you're synching with iCal on a mac, you add the event to iCal and go into the "custom" recurrence settings, and it's easy to have it repeat every two days. Sync your device and bob's your uncle.
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Q: How to disable to login screen shortcut (Cmd+Alt+L) I'm trying to find where this shortcut is being configured under Snow Leopard but I simply can not. Any help would be appreciated! A: Not sure what you're trying to do, but Safari uses CMD+Alt+L for the downloads window. Also, I used to use LockMyScreen (which doesn't work in Snow Leopard anymore), and it's shortcut is showing in my Mac as CMD+Alt+L. I went to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts, then looked in Application Shortcuts.
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Q: Is there a way to share a wi-fi connection over wi-fi? The problem is that here is a router (at a cottage), which only allows 2 connections. but we need wi-fi for 8 devices. so the plan is to create another wi-fi spot to share our connection. is there a tool or tutorial for that? A: In order for a Mac to create a local Wi-Fi network, it needs to have a wired Internet source. So what you need to do is: * *Connect an Ethernet cable from the router (the wired source) to a Mac. *On that Mac, choose System Preferences > Sharing. *Select Internet Sharing. *Choose Ethernet from the “Share your connection from” pop-up menu. *Select AirPort in the “To computers using” list, then click AirPort Options and give your network a name and password. *Connect the other computers to the new Wi-Fi network you just created. If needed, there are more details on this Apple help page: Sharing your Internet connection. A: You could do it with the built-in Sharing feature (System Preferences->Sharing), but it would require two wifi cards in the device acting as the bridge. More broadly, to my knowledge, it isn't possible to share a connection in the way you are proposing with a single wifi card (though you could extend the signal, it would still be limited to the same number of connections as that is bring managed by the original access point). A: Yes you can use Internet sharing with a single WiFi connection. Just enable it from the System Preferences. (The previous poster is wrong. I did this at my Mom's house to allow iPad and iPhone use and it worked fine.)
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Q: iPod Nano battery loses charge when it's cold My fourth-gen iPod Nano has very recently started to completely lose its charge when I'm outdoors (currently it's a bit colder here, about 10°C / 50°F). Indoors, or when it's warmer, it still manages a relatively reasonable music playback time of about 10 hrs. Is there anything I can do except contact Apple about a battery replacement? (The iPod is no longer under warranty and I want to avoid the 59 currency unit fee.) A: The temperature you describe is not cold enough to affect battery functions too much. It’s within the operating temperatures and it shouldn’t happen. Take a look at the temperature charts in the Apple iPod Battery page and if it doesn’t perform as expected, contact them immediately. UPDATE: If the iPod is not under warranty, you’re pretty much “hosed”, however, you can attempt a manual battery replacement. This google query is a good starting point.
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Q: Why am I getting a "dubious ownership of file" error when Launch Agent runs my .plist file? I have a Launch Agent configured to run a .plist file for example: /Library/LaunchAgent/foo.plist. Inside this .plist, it is set to run during LoginWindow and Aqua. When I attempt to launch my computer and get to the login screen, this plist should run but instead gives the following error (in the console): launchctl: Dubious ownership on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchAgents/foo.plist When I attempt to login in to a non-admin account, it gives the exact same error message. When I attempt to login with an admin account, it works fine. I'll be honest, I don't know much about Mac OS X privileges and permissions. To create the file, I opened it up in emacs, with sudo on the admin account (e.g. by using the su command since the other account doesn't have sudo privileges) and then saved it. Which account do I need to use to create the file so that it works for all users? Do I need to use the sudo command? Do I need to change the file permissions (e.g. use chmod)? Is there an easy way to take an existing file and change its ownership instead of having to recreate the file? Could someone please explain why this error happens? A: If a plist is owned by root and writable by a user other than root, that's a security issue. You can change the owner to root with sudo chown root <filename>, and change the permissions with sudo chmod 644 <filename> (4 for read access, 2 for write access, 1 for execute access, added up. The first number is for the owner, the second for the group, the third for everyone.) A: From the launchctl(1) manpage’s description of the load subcommand: Note that per-user configuration files (LaunchAgents) must be owned by the user loading them. All system-wide daemons (LaunchDaemons) must be owned by root. Configuration files must not be group- or world-writable. These restrictions are in place for security reasons, as allowing writability to a launchd configuration file allows one to specify which executable will be launched. launchctl has several “Dubious …” messages. The launchd code for 10.6.7 (for example) has three such messages in its launchctl.c (see the function path_goodness_check). * *Dubious permissions on file (skipping): <pathname> *Dubious ownership on file (skipping): <pathname> *Dubious path. Not a regular file or directory (skipping): <pathname> To avoid these messages a pathname must be (#3) a regular file or directory1 (or a symlink to one) that is (#1) owned by root or the invoking user and (#2) not “group” or “other” writable (i.e. chmod go-w). 1 No named pipes, block/character special device nodes, local domain sockets, etc. Your file is probably owned by the admin user since you say that you do not get the message when logging in as that user (the pathname is owned by the invoking user in that case). To make the pathname work for other users, it should be owned by root. To arrange this, do: sudo chown root /Library/LaunchAgent/foo.plist A: Thanks for the answer (changing owner to root) -- that's all I needed. To make this a bit more than a 'me too' post... I got here via a convoluted path: I was getting "This API can only be used by a process running within an Aqua session" errors for a launchdaemon. Searching for an answer to that led me to Apple's technote on daemons and agents which explained how to resolve the 'Aqua session' error, but that left me with 'dubious ownership' issues. That's how I got here, where my final issue was resolved. Maybe adding all of that to this discussion will cause some search engine to link this page to one of the precursory issues, thereby saving some future adventurer some time. A: This is what happens when people do not know how sudo works. To disable services that are on files owned by your user just call launchtl without sudo. A: for file in ~/Library/LaunchAgent owned by the user and not root dont sudo, if you do youll have to change the ownership since you are loading it from the root user
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Q: Software to A) merge two faces into one and B) morph one into another for Mac? I'm looking for a program (or programs) that will allow me to do two things: * *Create a video of one photo of a face morphing into another photo of a face. (This requires tagging the matched elements somehow, I presume. *Allow me to create a merged image from two faces, sort of like a "what if they had a baby" kind of thing. Note that Morph Thing, which does this online, won't work for me, as it won't work with decent size images. A paid Mac app would be fine, as would multiple apps, if there's not one that does both of the above. The only ones I've found online all seemed to be on random download sites that lacked credibility. A: A quick search gave me two promising applications: * *Commercial: Creaceed Morph Age *Freeware: Norrkross MorphX I believe that both do what you want.
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Q: How to disable sound when switching Firefox tabs with ⌘1-⌘9 I use the keyboard shortcut ⌘1-⌘9 to switch to tabs in Firefox. In OS X every time I do this there's a sound, which can become annoying when the volume is turned up. I looked in about:config for anything matching sound but wasn't able to figure it out. Does anyone know how to disable this sound? A: That’s certainly not a Firefox sound, at least not one that I’ve heard in the past. * *Do you have any Extension? Try disabling them all for the sake of testing. *Any other application running that could be using the same shortcut? (Safari uses that to access the quick bookmarks where ⌘1 corresponds to the 1st on the left (next to Top Sites) and so on. However, the lack of bookmark, doesn’t produce a sound on my system. I even have “Play User Interface sound effect” checked in Sound Preferences pane. My bet is that you have something else running and that is causing the “bonk”.
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Q: ctrl-o behavior in Terminal.app I often use the ⌃+O shortcut in bash (from "Learning the bash Shell"): [G]o back to [a command in history] and press ⌃+O instead of ↩. This will execute the command and bring up the next command in the history file. Press ⌃+O again to enter this command and bring up the next one. It seems this shortcut is not available on OS X; ⌃+O simply does nothing. A web search turns up the suggestion to use the ! bash builtin, but I don't see how I can accomplish the same thing as ⌃+O with it. Is it possible to somehow get ⌃+O behavior in Terminal.app on OS X? A: man bash might help. The "READLINE" and "Readline Key Bindings" talk about binding the key presses available and how to set up readline's defaults. Also Bash Emacs Editing Mode Cheat Sheet and Working Productively in Bash's Vi Command Line Editing Mode (with Cheat Sheet) are good for figuring out what keypress does what if you are using vi mode instead of the default emacs. In either case bind -P | grep found will show you what key combinations are configured in vi mode and bind -P will show everything available. A: ⌃+O is, for some reason (probably having to do with it being used for flow control on some kinds of serial connections) set to be discarded by the terminal driver (i.e. not Terminal.app, but the part of the OS between it and the shell). You can get rid of this with the command stty discard undef. To make this change permanent, add this command to your .bash_profile and .bashrc files.
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Q: How can I sync multiple photo and video folders in iTunes? I have an iPhone 4, a PC, and iTunes 10. I can't figure out how to sync photos AND videos from multiple folders. In iTunes' iPhone view, under "Pictures" I can select a single master folder, then subfolders to sync. Eg, I have "D:\Pictures" and I select the "2010" folder. Fine. But I'd also like to sync "D:\Videos" and select its "2010" folder. I see that the "Pictures" option also allows you to sync videos. But what's impossible to do, as far as I can tell, is sync multiple folders arbitrarily located in my folder hierarchy, rather than multiple subfolders of a single parent folder. A: Wild guess here because I don't sync mine on a windows system. But you can probably use symbolic links to your other folders, within the ones that actually sync. Here is how to do it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363878(VS.85).aspx A: That is a programming command. Use mklink in a command window to interactively make a link.
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Q: "Watch Me Do" workflow succeeds in Automator but not as app I have a 1 action automator workflow. This workflow is recorded to produce a "Watch Me Do" action. The action is to click on the "VPN" menu bar item, then select a particular VPN from the menu. This workflow runs fine in automator. When I run it as a standalone app the mouse moves correctly (clicking on the menu, selecting the correct VPN), but I don't actually connect to the VPN. I'm clueless about what's going wrong, so any help at all would be good! In the console, the only thing I see is: Oct 19 20:19:18 vonnegut Application Stub[7148]: Can't open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle Oct 19 20:19:24 vonnegut Automator Launcher[7153]: Can't open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle I'm running on a MacBookPro5,1 with an apple keyboard and a standard 2-button + wheel mouse attached. I'm not really sure how to tell whether a connection is attempted. Nothing changes in ppp.log which makes me think nothing gets that far. If I try to connect manually, that's fine. A: I've previously discovered when attempting to Applescript an application through UI scripting, that the Applescript command of the mouse didn't quite behave the same as the real mouse. For instance, I would be able to command the change of a dropdown box, but the app wouldn't register the change until a "real" selection by mouse occurred. It must have been a bug in the design of the app, but it was defunct and I had to find a solution. I ended up using "Extra Suites" by Kanzu, which was able to simulate the equivalent of a "real" mouse click. Automator uses the same Apple Events as Applescript, and perhaps is falling to the same problem. What VPN client are you using? You might be able to solve the problem by using some Applescript (if the client supports it), or switching to another VPN client.
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Q: Connect iPod Touch to WiFi with hidden SSID is it possible to connect an iPod Touch to a WiFi network whose SSID is hidden? If so, how can this be achieved? Regards, Christoph A: If the SSID is hidden, that means you don’t see the network’s name, so the only way to connect is by manually typing the SSID. You have to select “Other” from the list of WiFi networks. A: My wireless home network SSID is hidden, for obvious reasons, when I used my iPod Touch for the first time, I manually entered the SSID name and passcode, but I could not get connected. I have to go into my wireless router and enable SSID, that was the only way I could connect my iPod Touch. The problem is when I turn the iPod Touch off, and turn it back on, the iPod touch still won't see my SSID, after it's hidden again. Ex: if my iPod Touch is connected and I hid my SSID, no problem. When I turn my ipod off and on again, that's when it won't connect because my SSID is hidden. A: Go to Settings > WiFi > Other Enter the SSID of the hidden network A: Having the same issue but leaving the SSID visible seems to take care of that. The only real wireless security anyway is to have a MAC filter list so just go to settings on the IPOD and get it's MAC address to add to the filter list on your wireless router.
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Q: How to use Regex with spotlight Possible Duplicate: How Can I Search A Specific Type of File in Mac? How could I use spotlight to search for example for files that end with jar or files that end with doc and at the same time contains "Hello" in it's name? A: I’m assuming by “end with” you mean that files have the extension .jar or .doc. And given all those filenames, you want those who have “hello” in their filnames. With that in mind, you’re looking for something like this: (.jar AND “hello") OR (.doc AND “hello”) Additionally, you could extend the number of “words” by adding: (.jar AND “hello” OR “some_other_word") OR (.doc AND “hello”) For more ninja commands for Spotlight, your best bet is to read throughout this interesting doc from Apple, that’s the Spotlight’s Query Language documentation with lots of examples. Finally, if you want to know what attributes are available for you to query directly, refer to this blog post.
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Q: How to edit videos keeping existing geotagging? Videos recorded with an iPhone or with other GPS-enabled phones gets geotagged as they should. When I trim/crop/edit them in iMovie (iLife '09) the GPS tags are gone. How to keep the tags despite editing or is there a program to add back the geotags to the movie afterwards? A: You can geotag videos with Picasa, but I don't know if the geotag is saved along with the file... A: You can download the free app GeoCam Pro in the App Store. This app allows you to upload the video to the site veryminute.com and add the video to your iPhone's library. I think the tags will be also synced.
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Q: How to get rid of firewall "accept incoming connections" dialog? I've accepted this so many times that firewall should already remember it. Do you want the application "AppName.app" to accept incoming network connections? Clicking Deny may limit the application's behavior. This setting can be changed in the Firewall pane of Security preferences. Deny | Allow For example, I get it for Eclipse when starting my java programs in debugging mode. Sometimes this dialog is displayed only very shortly, like half second, and disappears. I also get it for iTunes (when I enable sharing my library), and other programs, even though I have them listed in Firewall preferences panel (adv. settings). A: sudo codesign --force --deep --sign - /path/to/application.app I've never had to create a certificate using this method. If that doesn't help, try without --deep and without the trailing slash: sudo codesign --force --sign - /path/to/application.app Note, just to make it clearer: After having applied the signature, start the app, accept incoming connections one last time, then quit and start again to verify that the request is gone. A: While RedYeti's link is useful, just to save a few clicks for others let me recap how to generate a code-signing cert and to use it for code (re-)signing: * *Create your own code signing cert: * *In Keychain Access, Keychain Access > Certificate Assistant > Create a certificate. This launches the Certificate Assistant: *Name: Enter some arbitrary string here that you can remember. Avoid spaces otherwise you'll need to escape the cert's name when using codesign from the command line. *Identity type: Self Signed Root *Certificate Type: Code Signing *Check the box "Let me override defaults", this is quite important *Serial number: 1 (OK as long as the cert name/serial no. combination is unique) *Validity Period: 3650 (gives you 10 years) *Email, Name, etc. fill out as you wish. *Key pair info: set to RSA, 2048 bits. Does not really matter IMHO. *From "Key usage extension" up to "Subject Alternate Name Extension": accept the defaults. *Location: login keychain. *Once it is created, set to "Always trust" in the Login keychain: right-click on the certificate, choose "Get Info", and in the "Trust" section, set "When using this certificate" to "Always trust". *Re-signing an app: codesign -f --deep -s <certname> /path/to/app *Verify that it worked: codesign -dvvvv /path/to/app Enjoy! UPDATE: People asked me why this is "not working" in macOS 10.14 "Mojave". Now that I have finally upgraded :-), here's what I learned. Basically, don't use a self-signed certificate for code signing. Generate a certificate using your Apple ID in Xcode instead. To recap the steps briefly: In Xcode > Preferences > Accounts, select your Apple developer ID, click "Manage Certificates", select the "+" in the bottom left corner, it offers you the option "Apple Development". Select that, this will make a certificate for you. By Ctrl-clicking on the new certificate you can export it (in .p12 format), and by open-ing that .p12 file it gets loaded into your Login keychain. You will see that this certificate is valid for a year, "Issued by: Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Certification Authority". I suspect that is trustworthier than a self-signed certificate. Now you can sign your app as before with codesign -f -s <apple_ID> /path/to/prog. I tried it with a simple binary (compiled from hello.c :-) ), and it could be verified with codesign -v. I haven't tried it with Python packages yet, so I have no advice to people who mentioned in their comments that this cannot sign "python.app". A: If you're programming in Go: http.ListenAndServe(“localhost:8080”, nil) Instead of: http.ListenAndServe(“:8080”, nil) A: Just a note though, if you are using a Virtual environment, be sure to sign the app that is being used for the environment. I know this is obvious, but needed to be said nevertheless. A: I got help in Sayan Mohsin's answer, and I believe it's more generic than go. I had this issue with a piece of software that does not need to allow connections from the outside, only from my machine. Such software does not need to be signed to avoid this warning: it only needs to explicitly listen on localhost only. Depending on your environment, setting a host restriction will be done differently. In my case, I was working with an nginx server, and changing its configuration from listen 8080 to listen 127.0.0.1:8080 was enough to fix it. If this is also your case, you should definitely check out if your server exposes a way to setup host restriction and set it up to localhost or 127.0.0.1. A: If you're looking for a way to disable this alert for the iOS Simulator, you can use this script from Tom Soderling: #!/bin/bash # Script to disable the iOS Simulator app from showing the "Do you want the application xxxx to accept incoming network connections?" pop-up every time the app is run echo "> Enter password to temporarily shut firewall off" sudo /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --setglobalstate off echo "> Add Xcode as a firewall exception" /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --add /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode echo "> Add iOS Simulator as a firewall exception" /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --add /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Applications/Simulator.app/Contents/MacOS/Simulator echo "> Re-enable firewall" sudo /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --setglobalstate on exit 0 Note that you have to run it again after every restart. You can do that with launchd by following these instructions. Be sure to specify this: <key>LaunchOnlyOnce</key> <true/> A: There are two options here: * *You can simply select "Allow All" in your firewall, or simply turn it off. *You can remove the apps from the list, delete the plist file for those apps, run them, and then add them to the list. The plist is responsible for a lot of behaviors and I'm willing to bet either an upgrade to the OS or the app can cause the "link" to break. About plist files... A plist is a special kind of text file that contains properties the application and other resources, typically the OS, use to retain and reuse information needed to run the application. plist is a file type and has many uses, typically storing user preferences, but, essentially, it is an XML file. You can look to see if there are any caches, which are typically plist files, for the applications in question in /Library/Caches and /System/Library/Caches. There is also one in ~/Library/Caches/ but bad things can happen when mucking around in there, so just leave it alone. The system goes into those folders for a wide variety of reasons, and I usually clean out the first two folders I listed completely about once a month. A: This relates to whether the app is signed or not. If it's not signed, the preference won't be remembered. To see if an app is signed do this in Terminal: cd path/to/your/app codesign -vvv Eclipse.app/ For Eclipse - mine says it's not signed at all. I can't comment further on how to sign the app since I've not bothered to do that but this answer on superuser covers it: https://superuser.com/questions/100013/why-does-the-mac-os-x-firewall-dialog-recurringly-pop-up-and-disappear-by-itself#300841 A: I appreciate that this is an old Q & A, but it was the first hit on google for me when I had the same problem. Just wanted to add something for others that may land here. In order to execute any of the codesign commands outlined here, it is necessary to have the xcode command line tools installed. Without these, one gets an error message: xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun To fix this, install the tools with: xcode-select install I would've commented on ahall's post, but I don't have the reputation points to do so. A: My situation involves two copies of Eclipse installed on MacOS Mojave 10.14.5. The first copy was authorised with the MacOS firewall. The second copy would always present the "accept incoming connections" prompt. Choosing "Accept" would continue to present the message after each reboot, apparently the firewall setting was not updated. The solution was to open MacOS System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Firewall, unlock the screen, Firewall Options. Select Eclipse.app "Allow incoming connections" and remove it with the "-" button. The next time I selected "Allow" to the Eclipse "accept incoming connections" prompt was the last. A: The solution for me was to just disable the firewall completely. It's extremely common to create web-enabled pieces of software that are of course unsigned because you're compiling them natively. Open the spotlight with CMD + Spacebar and search "privacy" and select "Security and Privacy". Then switch to the "Firewall" tab and disable the firewall there. A: I got this dialogue box (Canon ccpd) everytime after starting my computer. Open firewall > security and privacy > unlock to enable changes > click on button "Enable stealth mode" > click button "Block all incoming connections". No more irrating dialogue box from Canon printer driver after that. A: I tried all the above in Mac 10.13 and nothing worked. In the end I wrote a script that ran at logout attached to login hook that turned off firewall so when logged in it no longer needed permission then using delayedlauncher ran another script that turned on firewall. All good now
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Q: When I click ⌘+C on an email in Mail.app, why can't I paste it as plain text? If I select an email in Mail.app and do ⌘+C, I can then paste the entire email (including header info) in a rich text editor app, such as TextEdit or VoodooPad. However, I'm not able to paste it into a plain text editor like TextMate or into a terminal window. (Oddly, I can paste into into TextEdit in plain text mode, which is exactly what I want to be able to do with other apps). Why does it do this? Is there a workaround? Note that Plain Clip does not work as a workaround in this case. A: This is because of how you can program the pasteboard on Mac OS X. Text editors expect the pasteboard to contain, well, text data. There are however several kinds of text: there's plain text, there's formatted (RTF) text, there's formatted text with embedded documents (RTFD), there's HTML-formatted text, and a bunch of others. When you copy something, the application tells the pasteboard how this data can be represented. There are usually several suitable representations: for instance, copying your question exports data in the pasteboard that can be represented as a web archive, RTF data, and plain text in three different encodings. Plenty of types that applications are likely to support. However, when you copy a mail from Mail, it exports only as two types of data: plain UTF-8 text and a RTFD document. Cocoa tries to paste as an RTFD document because it likes them better, but applications say "no no, I can't do that"; they usually support getting text from RTF, but not from RTFD since RTFD usually has embedded resources such as images, and you end up pasting nothing because the apps don't bother to look for the plain text data. TextEdit, on its side, is able to edit RTFD documents, so it has no problem pasting the data. A: On Lion (and possibly earlier; I haven't checked), Mail has this menu item which you might choose to use before copying a message to paste elsewhere: View > Message > Plain Text Alternative There's another option, but it opens a separate window and requires you to wade through potentially unhelpful email headers that are typically hidden: View > Message > Raw Source
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Q: Seeing current permissions for a file? How can I see the permissions for a file (e.g. if I want to recreate those permissions for another file using chmod)? For example after I run chmod 644 on foo.txt, what command, if any, can I run on foo.txt which returns 644? A: If you type ls -l in terminal you get the permission for your file drwxr-xr-x 7 --- staff 238 Apr 14 2010 images -rw-r--r-- 1 --- staff 2628 Aug 26 2009 index.html drwxr-xr-x@ 11 --- staff 374 Feb 28 2010 simplemvc You can use table below to convert rwxr-xr-x to number and vice versa: And get more detail here. A: The easiest way to get the octal permissions from the command line is by using stat(1) with a format specifier. You can read more in the manual page, but the following will give you what you want: stat -f "%OMp%OLp" <file or directory> %OMp returns the setuid/setgid/sticky bits in octal and %OLp the user/group/other permissions in octal. For example: $ ls -ld Data drwxr-xr-x 6 mj staff 204 20 Feb 11:09 Data $ stat -f "%OMp%OLp" Data 0755 A: The easiest way I'm aware of that will list all permissions, including ACLs, is simply to use the Get Info command from the Finder on the concerned file.
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Q: How can I increase the mouse sensitivity of Magic Mouse? I have a MacBook Pro, running Snow Leopard and I'm using a Magic Mouse which connects through Bluetooth. While I like the mouse, it's way too slow for my taste. Moving the mouse cursor takes ages. On my Windows PC I'm using a Logitech G9 and in Control Panel of Windows I have set Pointer Speed to maximum with the 'Enhance Pointer Precision' box checked. On OS X I have set the speed set to maximum as well, but it's still way to slow. I'm used to move the pointer from from egde of the screen to another one with minimal wrist movement. A: Here are 5 Mac utilities that alter the mouse acceleration curve, speeds, and/or add features to mice in OS X: USB Overdrive $20 (Shareware; Free unlimited, fully functional trial) USB Overdrive is a popular program that works with just about any USB or Bluetooth input device. It allows users to customize mouse acceleration, scrolling, clicking, and more. You can even configure per-application settings. A new version that supports Multi-Touch in Apple’s Magic Mouse is in development and expected soon. Version 3.0.1 compatible with 10.4, 10.5, or 10.6 SteerMouse $20 (Shareware; Free 30 day trial) Aside from mouse acceleration, SteerMouse offers a ton of other advanced features. Configure up to 16 buttons, modify scroll wheels/balls, and set the cursor to automatically move to a specific location on the screen when a window is activated. Support for the Apple Magic Mouse is pending. Version 4.0.1 compatible with 10.4, 10.5, or 10.6 MouseZoom Free While MouseZoom does not alter the acceleration curve itself, it does let users bump tracking speeds beyond those available in System Preferences. An ideal solution? No, but it’s a free alternative that helps ease the pain. Version 2.2 compatible with 10.1, 10.2, 10.4, 10.4, or 10.5 Mouse Acceleration Free This Preference Pane is based on Richard Bentley’s MouseFix – a non-user-friendly command line utility. This version, however, makes it easy to increase mouse precision and speed up mouse movement with visual aids. Version 1.0 compatible with 10.4 or 10.5 BetterTouchTool Free This is a brand new piece of software that just came to be within the past couple weeks. It’s in beta and still buggy, but it packs some nice features and is in active development. I can’t say for sure whether it customizes OS X’s acceleration curve or just supercharges the maximum tracking speed. The real reason to give it a shot, though, is if you have a Magic Mouse or MacBook that supports Multi-Touch gestures. BetterTouchTool lets users assign specific actions to advanced finger gestures and can simulate a middle-click. It can even bring the Mighty Mouse’s Exposé functionality to the Magic Mouse. Compatible with 10.6 ControllerMate $15 ControllerMate is a controller programming tool that allows you to customize the behavior of your HID devices — keyboards, keypads, mice, trackballs, joysticks, gamepads, throttles, among others. ControllerMate’s philosophy is to be as flexible as possible, to provide a set of basic programming tools, and to allow the user to combine those tools in an endless variety of ways. SOURCE: This was posted on Nov 24th, 2009 at MacYourself.com. Some utilities are probably updated now. I’ve used USB Overdrive with certain success. A: Use the Better Touch tool. Works perfect.
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Q: Spotlight loses index of Applications When I get warnings that my HD is nearly full (Macbook Air, 64GB SSD), spotlight always loses its index of applications. That means that I can't launch Safari or Mail or other apps, which is the only thing I use Spotlight for. Only restarting helps to resolve this. Is there a way to force Spotlight to reindex the Application folder? A: This happens whenever I erase the free space on my hard drive (probably for the same reason -- that process creates a big file that eats up all the free space, then overwrites it, creating a low space condition in the process). Typing this command at the terminal: sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/Hard_Disk_Name_Goes_Here will rebuild your index. Substitute your own disk's volume name in the obvious place. A: Another alternative is to just have Spotlight delete it's index which will cause it to create a new one: sudo mdutil -E / If that fails to work, toggling Spotlight on the drive in question will work: sudo mdutil -i off / sudo mdutil -i on / Change / to the path to the external hard drive if appropriate. A: You could drag your application folder to the “Privacy” tab and a few moments later remove it, that ought to cause a reindexing. Maybe unchecking it and re-checking “Applications” also does the same, but I’m not sure about the later. If any attempt to do that fails, you might want to create a fresh index following these instructions. That usually clears any spotlight problems. Also, running so low in disk space is never a good idea, try to make some room for the sake of your OS stability. That is also the reason why restarting fixes it, because when you restart, temp stuff gets deleted and there’s more “room” to play with in your HDD. As you start using your drive, the free space is less, and services start to fail.
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Q: Life of iPhone 4 LED flash? How many hours can the iPhone 4's camera flash last before it burns out? Have there been any studies done / reports published, or is it just assumed that you probably will need a new iPhone before the flash dies (with normal use)? A: From Wikipedia: LED Flash (Illumination) Although they are not yet at the power levels to replace xenon flash devices in still cameras, LEDs (specifically, high current flash LEDs) have recently been used as flash sources in camera phones. LEDs are expected to approach the power levels of xenon in the near future and may replace built-in xenon flashes in still cameras. The major advantages of LEDs over xenon include low voltage operation, higher efficiency and extreme miniaturization. So, now that we know that we have a LED (Light Emitting Diode) in there, let’s see how much should that live (according the the super-experts @ wikipedia): LED Lifetime and Failure (read all that for more info) Short answer: "Typical lifetimes quoted are 25,000 to 100,000 hours but heat and current settings can extend or shorten this time significantly.” Now do you think your iPhone will last 25,000 hours (worst case scenario for the LED)? That’s a little bit less than three years. It’s certainly possible for an iPhone to last much more than that (I still use a 1s-gen iPhone), however, I highly doubt that you’re going to use it with the flash ON, for three years, non-stop. :) A: I use mine as a lamp by my bed at night for 2-3 hours at a time. It doesn't even get warm and several months of doing this has not killed it yet.
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Q: How can I tell iTunes to always download free updates I would like iTunes to always download free updates for any applications that I have on my iPhone. Is that possible? A: As far as I know, although both iTunes and the iPhone/Pad check automatically for updates, you have to manually start the process. Yes, I know it’s a bad idea, because we almost always click “download all”. Even if you tell iTunes to remember your password, it won’t start the download automatically whenever there are updates. I have been looking for a way to do this since the iPhone 1G and haven’t come across a solution yet.
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Q: What are minimum specs for a MacBook to develop iOS apps? I want to buy a MacBook to develop iOS apps. What are the minimum requirements? A: Today, I'd go with either a 15" or 17" MacBook Pro. They would allow you to work with the iPad simulator at its native resolution. It's a bit too big to run full-size on the 13" models, so I always end up running it at half size, which is less than ideal. Even if you're not planning to develop for the iPad right now, I'd still plan the hardware purchase around that possibility. The likelihood that you'll do iOS development and never build for the iPad is pretty low. Beyond the simulator issues, I like to have the largest screen possible when I'm programming. I have a 13" MacBook Pro, but I connect it to a 24" monitor when I'm at my desk. If you're like me, the 17" would be ideal, if you don't want to have a second screen. However, Apple is holding a Mac-focused special event tomorrow, and it's never a good idea to buy a Mac this close to one of those events. The entire laptop line is due for updates, and there has been (unconfirmed) speculation that any new models may run at higher screen resolutions, especially on the smaller end of the range. A: MacBook Pro 13" with an external display (22 or 24 inches), keyboard and mouse. Later you can upgrade it with 8 GB of memory and change its disk to a SSD or Hybrid disk if you need more performances.
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Q: Apple-Certified RAM? I'm planning to upgrade my RAM in my MacBook Pro (Late 2008) from the base 2GB to 4GB. I'm planning to buy RAM from Kingston. There's two types of Kingston 1066 2GB RAM here. (Laptop-sized RAM) * *Normal RAM *Apple-certified RAM? Can I just buy the normal RAM, or do I have to buy the Apple-certified RAM? Is this not like how the hard drives work with the MacBooks - You can use any as long as it's 2.5" and it fits into the hard drive bay? A: I have had good experience with Crucial and then OWC, which is less expensive and never, that I know, gave me a problem I could attribute to the RAM. I’ve brought memory for Powerbooks, Macbook Pros and Mac Pros. Theoretically any RAM will do; I remember that Powerbooks (and PowerPC in general) had a “different chip” and not every memory DIMM would work (despite being the same type/speed), but my memory is lost after all these years of Intel Only Macs. All in all, as far as I can remember, the “Apple Certification” was due to the reliability of the memory. I know that Crucial/OWC and some others are Certified, but that’s because certain machines (i.e. Mac Pro) expect to have a heatsink in the modules, among other things. It’s usually safe, but don’t pay “more” just because of that, because it tends to be the same thing. In the Macbook’s case, there’s no heatsink involved (no room!) so pick something from newegg or those sites and you’ll be ok. A: There's one important thing, and only one important thing, about Apple-certified RAM. If you: * *Buy RAM that isn't Apple-certified *Install it (or have it installed by a non-Apple tech) in a Mac *Later have a (non-RAM-related) problem with that Mac and send it to Apple for servicing without taking out the added RAM Then you may get a little love note in the box when it comes back: During the testing process, it was determined that a part Apple has not approved for use with your product resulted in your product's failure. When the part was removed, your product successfully passed all Apple diagnostic and reliability tests… Continued use of this part (or parts) may cause another failure or damage to your Apple product, which Apple will not cover in a subsequent repair. The part (or parts) that did not pass Apple's diagnostic tests for your product is identified below:       __X__ RAM Memory       _____ Other And yes, I'm speaking from my own personal experience (part one, part two). A: The website I buy from allows you to select the computer you want it to fit in: http://www.macway.com/fr/path/21/memoire-ram.html The problem is the website is in French but you can just click the drop down menu that says "Compatibilité" and click the blue button. It will list you all the ones that are sure to work with your machine. You can copy the info and buy it elsewhere... Also, I found a nice guide on the MacRumors website http://guides.macrumors.com/Buying_RAM
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Q: How do I set up a Mac as a NIS client? I'd like to load some automounter maps from NIS. I don't need to set up authentication, I just want to enable NIS as a data source, and hook it up the automounter. $ cd etc $ grep + /etc/auto_master +auto_master # Use directory service $ ypcat -k auto_master No such map auto_master. Reason: Request arguments bad $ ypwhich can't clntudp_create: Can't communicate with ypbind P.S. I would like to create a new NIS tag, but I can't yet. I found this: still trying it: https://superuser.com/questions/163807/setting-up-nis-nfs-on-mac-os-10-6 Not sure if I need to reboot after using DirectoryUtility.app A: I just set the domain name once as root (using sudo) and launchd has launched ypbind for me ever since. The man pages for yp and ypbind might come in handy. Is /etc/defaultdomain set? You could issue a ypbind -ypset to see if any servers are responding but it's better to have a list of masters and slaves laid out in /private/var/yp/binding/DOMAINNAME.ypservers
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Q: Can I output video to my TV using a MacBook Pro? How can I do this? I have the 13" model. A: Yes. You just need the right video and audio adapters. Apple sells two adapters to connect your MacBook's Mini DisplayPort to DVI or VGA. Neither of those will include audio, so you'll also need to get audio cables. Your TV likely includes either optical or composite (RCA) jacks for one or more of your DVI or VGA connections. For HDMI, you'll need a third-party adapter like this one. Note that this one does not carry audio either. The most recent 13" MBP does put audio out over that port, but I'm not aware of any adapters that can use the audio yet. That same site also sells third-party VGA and DVI adapters that are much cheaper than Apple's. I can't vouch for the quality of the third-party adapters, but I buy most of my cables there, and I've always had good results. A: Does your TV really only have HDMI audio input? No RCA or Toslink? The blog post Playing Hulu from my Mac to my TV might give you some ideas for other methods you could try. A: I asked a similar answer on SuperUser (https://superuser.com/questions/126520/macbook-pro-with-dvi-to-hdmi-including-audio-possible). I was going from DVI to HDMI so you'll have one more step but I ended up getting this: DVI & S/PDIF Digital Coax/Optical Toslink Audio to HDMI Converter http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=101&cp_id=10114&cs_id=1011405&p_id=5369&seq=1&format=2 and it works great. A: I just bought a 13" Macbook Air (January 2011). It DOES output audio via the mini display port, so I bought this mini display port to HDMI adapter, which specifically supports audio. It works perfectly. The only "catch" is that you have to go into System Preferences -> Sound, and select "output to HDMI" every time you connect. Moshi MiniDisplay Port to HDMI Adapter with Audio However, if your Macbook Pro model does NOT support audio out via the display port, then you will need an additional adapter to get sound: * *a headphone jack to RCA (red+white) plug. Cheapest, easiest, but only 2 channel sound. Also, you will likely need to dig deep into your TV's settings to tell it to combine the RCA audio input with the HDMI video. If you have an external audio amplifier then this is not a problem. *toslink + dvi to hdmi adapter, mentioned by Jason. Supports multi-channel sound. *USB + display port to HDMI adapter. This option only makes sense if your TV truly forbids RCA audio input with HDMI. There is one on Monoprice.com, but it only supports 2 channel sound. (I can't provide the link due to lack of reputation points.) A: As far as I know, you’re only able to output HDMI (with audio) with any of the following models: MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010), MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010), MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010), iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009), iMac (27-inch, Late 2009), Mac mini (Mid 2010), MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010). iMac (Late 2009), MacBook Pro (Mid 2010), MacBook (Mid 2010), and Mac mini (Mid 2010) supply multichannel audio (up to 8 channels) and video signals over Mini DisplayPort. To connect your television or other HDMI devices to your Mac, use select third-party Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapters that conform to the VESA v1.1a DisplayPort Interoperability Guidelines. Source. A: You can change your audio output by option + clicking on the speaker in the top right corner of your desktop by your clock.
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Q: How can I get Automator to mount a network volume? I am writing an Automator "script" that rsyncs media on my 10.6.3 MacBook Pro to my Ubuntu 10.10 HTPC. I can make Automator run my shell script for rsync commands, but I can't make Automator mount the three volumes on the HTPC (folders for music, videos, and pictures). I automatically mount these volumes when I login (these computers connect via a wifi network), but sometimes the HTPC volumes get unmounted, so I'd like to remount by default. Is there a way to mount the volumes in Automator? I am open to shell scripting, too. Thanks! A: I build automator workflows like this all the time. You only need two actions, and they're both Files & Folders actions. 1) Get Specified Servers. This will let you build a list of shares to connect to. If you can map it from Finder -> Go -> Connect to server, you can use this. 2) Connect to Servers. This will connect to any servers passed to it (either from get specified servers or from ask for servers). A: I use the following applescript to mount directories in conjunction with MarcoPolo so network shares are automatically mounted when I get to both my office and home. You'll need to change USERNAME, PASSWORD, SERVER/SHARENAME and possibly smb:// depending on your server type. tell application "Finder" try mount volume "smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@SERVER/SHARENAME" delay 1 end try end tell UPDATE: An option without MarcoPolo: You can ping the server first and only try to connect if you get a response. You can then add this script into your Login Items (Let's say you are trying to connect to a server named "some_server") -- (0) Check to see if there server exists by pinging it set max_retry to 60 set k to 0 repeat while (do shell script "ping -c 1 some_server") contains "100% packet loss" delay 5 set k to k + 1 if k > max_retry then error "Server is not responding for predefined period." number 8000 end repeat -- (1) It exists, mount the volume tell application "Finder" try mount volume "smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@some_server/SHARENAME" delay 1 --Optional, was added due to slow network issues end try end tell
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Q: How can I know exactly which songs I have purchased from iTunes? The purchase history of iTunes and the email receipts don't show me exactly which version (i.e. album and song number) of a song I have previously purchased. How can I view this information? A: The trick is to navigate to iTunes new interface for albums (not search results) (e.g. by clicking the album's name). Instead of seeing the song price, you will see the word "Purchased". To get to the song's album, you can either search for the artist and try the 1-3 likely albums the song might be located in until you find the "purchased" text, or you could click the "Write a Review" link for the song in your email receipt. Note that when you click the "Write a Review" link, you will be taken to iTunes old interface for albums. You must click the album name at the top to get to the new interface, which shows the "Purchased" text. Another thing to note is that I noticed that if a song you purchased belongs to an album with only one song (i.e. it's the only song in the album), the "Purchased" text won't appear. A: Create a smart playlist and use "kind contains protected" as the first rule and "kind contains purchased" as a second rule. A: if you go to iTunes on your device and you can navigate to the purchased section, this will then list all the songs you have purchased on iTunes, you will also be able to download the songs to your device if you haven't got them on there already.
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Q: Why do compilation albums sometimes show up as 100s of identical album covers? Does anyone know, why some compilation albums (purchased on iTunes Shop) sometimes appear as 100s of album covers in the album overview? (as opposed to what one would expect, just 1 album or atleast 1 per CD) (would have posted a picture here to show what I mean, but I am apparently not allowed to) And, probably more importantly, what's the fix? I've been meddling around with "compilation" properties on the songs, but that doesn't seem to help much. This is really annoying me lol, almost to the point of me considering just deleting the albums only to get rid of this... hoping someone has an alternative suggestion ;-) A: It's possible the "Part of a compilation" meta data wasn't set for these tracks. You can group them together as a single "album" in iTunes by: * *Selecting all the tracks you want to come from the same album (use Cmd-Left Click to select multiple, non-contiguous tracks) *Hitting ⌘-I to bring up the meta-data editor window and then: * *For the Album Arist field enter: Various Arists *For the Album field enter the name of the compilation album *And then make sure the Part of a compilation option box is checked *Click OK to apply the changes to all the tracks You should now see them grouped together in the grid view as one album, all showing (hopefully) the same cover art. If they're not showing the same cover art: * *Find the cover art you like. *Copy it to the clipboard with ⌘-C *select all the tracks again and open the meta-data editor window. *Click once in the Artwork window and hit ⌘-V to paste the cover art to all the tracks. *Click OK to add the cover art to every track in the compilation. A: The reason why there are so many covers is that each song comes from a separate album hence the 100s of album covers. The fix would be to remove each song's cover art (I believe it has to be done for each song manually) and then applying a new image in bulk for all songs. To do so, select all songs, then (command-i or Ctrl-i on windows) and then drop the artwork onto the big white square on the right of the dialog that just popped.
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Q: What does the "i" in Apple product names mean? iPhone, iPod, iPad, iCal, iLife, etc. Does the "i" mean anything? And is it a trademark for Apple? A: When Steve Jobs first introduced the iMac in 1998, he proclaimed that the i stood for Internet. Jobs went on to say, "i also means some other things to us" and displayed a presentation slide with the keywords: internet individual instruct inform inspire You can even view video of this event. The "i" was first used on the iBook and iMac. These were produced as Steve Jobs wanted a pro and consumer model of a desktop and portable computer. This later rolled out with more products, iSight, iPod, iPhone, iPad. Yes the products are trademarked, but using an "i" itself before a product is not trademarked and it cannot be. Here is Apple's trademark list A: I asked a rep at the Apple store. They said that it stood for Internet, on the first iMac.(As others have answered.) Now it is just a brand. A: The whole idea of the first iMac was that you take it out of the box, plug in the power, and then plug in the modem with a phone line. Internet access made easy. The "i" stood for internet. A: According to Wikipedia (for the iMac at least): Apple declared the 'i' in iMac to stand for "Internet"; it also represents the product's focus as a personal device ('i' for "individual"). A: It's the I as in me. It means that these things somehow empower you. A: In technology, the i-word is frequently related to "innovation". So the "i" in iphone could mean "innovative." Berkun, S. (2010). The Myths of Innovation (First ed., pp. 1-82). Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Q: Can I use my Mac to re-create an inverted audio noise cancellation effect? I would like to use my Mac as an audio cancelling device, like headphones that reproduce the outside noise in inverted form, so it cancels out (typically found in airports). With a normal pair of headphones, my Mac could record the ambient noise and send it to my headphones to achieve noise reduction. Is there a program able to do this? A: Audacity can do this as far as I know. There is a White Noise generator, and under the Effects menu there is a "Noise Removal" option. I don't know if you can do it in realtime, but you could make a short recording of the ambient noise, run the Noise Removal, figure out what got removed (subtract before and after), and then play that part but inverted. Maybe.... A: This is not possible because the inverted noise would be picked by the computer mic and "attenuated" again and again causing a very noisy feedback, like an electric guitar near the speaker. Noise canceling headphones have mic separated from speakers.
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Q: Spotlight: Don't Index a Volume Is it possible to ask Spotlight to not index a volume ? A: Yes, open the Spotlight prefpane and under the Confidentiality tab (not sure, but on my French system it is called "Confidentialité"), you can add folders and volumes not to be indexed. A: There are a variety of options to do this: * *Add the drive to the "Privacy" tab in the Spotlight Preference Pane *Turn off Spotlight indexing for the site from the command line: sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/NAME_OF_DRIVE *touch /Volumes/NAME_OF_DRIVE/.metadata_never_index on an external drive. A: If it's a removable volume, create a file in its root directory called .metadata_never_index, as in this hint.
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Q: What does Apple normally announce at events? Tomorrow (October 20th, 2010) Apple will announce something. What have they announced at previous Mac events and what are some of the things are "usual"? A: This is an open ended question; Traditionally Apple at events such as MacWorld, WWDC, etc. run down as follows: * *Run down of current company progress showcasing how much Mac OS X has grown *New hardware updates with technical details and great product shots. *New software - whether it's upgrades or completely brand new products. Lots of demos. *Occasionally a one more thing, usually the biggest thing of the show if it occurs. A: In this kind of events, Apple announces new/updated software/hardware/service products. Usually, invitation card hints what is behind the curtain.
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Q: How to enable Subscribed Calendar to be in read/write mode? As today, any Subscribed Calendar is added as Read Only to the iCal Application to confirm that. just double click in a day with the subscribed calendar selected and you will get this annoying popup message What should I do to enable read/write mode into the subscribed calendar, as it supports both ways (I created the URL and works great with Thunderbird w/Lightning) Problem also comes that in iPad/iX happens the same situation, and all I wanted was to be able to create and edit events to by calendar A: The owner grants & controls read / write access. You'd have to ask who owns the calendar.
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Q: Repairing broken file associations on the Mac I installed a download manager (I think folx) on this mac book a few months ago, every time I would download a file folx would pick up and download it. Long story short, this got confusing, so I deleted folx from the applications. Now whenever I try to download a file it just does not work right (on either chrome or safari), the browsers complain about a broken plugin when I view a PDF and it seems safari attempts to download the file on the actual page as opposed to going to the download queue. How do I fix this so file downloads work again in the browsers. A: Folx does a fair bit of damage on a simple delete uninstall. Instead, re-download folx and run the uninstaller app. See: http://wiki.eltima.com/user-guides/downloader-macos/uninstall.html
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Q: What does the "Charging is not supported with this device" error mean? Sometimes when I plug my iPod touch into a dock or cable I get the message Charging is not supported with this device. What's that mean? Did Apple change the pin configuration of the dock connector? A: Is the charger one designed for an older iPod with charging on the firewire pins in the dock connector. The spec has changed in more recent devices to only charge from the usb power pins so it is detecting the older configuration and giving you this message A: It could be that your charger does not match your device/iPod.
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Q: Using my current 3G Sim with the iPad I'm thinking of buying an iPad at some point, the one with 3G. I also have a 3G dongle that I'm not really using at the moment and wish to use on the iPad. I understand that it's a MicroSim, and I can chop my SIM down, but are there any 3G sim locks on the iPad itself? The only thing I think I'll need to find out is the 3G settings (if it isn't locked). I'm in the UK and I have an orange contract. So am I right in thinking that if the iPad is not locked to a certain 3G network, I can use this? Thanks A: The iPad with 3G is sold unlocked. In the UK, the iPad with 3G will work with Orange, Three, O2, and Vodafone. To be pedantic, the iPad's 3G connection will not work with carriers such as T-Mobile USA, which in part uses the 1700 MHz frequency for 3G. The iPad with 3G supports the necessary frequencies to fully work in the UK with Orange, Three, O2, and Vodafone, and SIMs from these carriers can be swapped seamlessly.
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Q: Dvorak on iOS 4.x? Possible Duplicate: Dvorak on iPad? I want to use the Dvorak layout on my iPhone's keyboard. I've seen that there is an iKeyEx app in Cydia which offers this, but only for iOS 3.x, not iOS 4.x. Is there a Dvorak solution on iOS 4.x? Note that I'm explicitly excluding external Bluetooth keyboards -- I want to have Dvorak on the on-screen keyboard. A: No, there is not. iKeyEx is the only alternative keyboard software I know of, and it has not been ported to work with iOS 4.
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Q: Why is my battery time so much shorter after jailbreak? I've been impressed with the better battery time of my new iPhone 4 as compared to the 3G I had before. Yesterday evening, I finally jailbroke the 4, and the battery time today has been much worse than usual. Why is this? I installed a very few programs from Cydia: FolderCloser, NoLockScreen, SBSettings, biteSMS, PdaNet, My3G. Note that I haven't used PdaNet yet, so I would rule that out as a culprit. Also, while My3G is set up, I haven't actually done any faux-wifi stuff today: no Skype, no wifi-only downloads, etc. I've deliberately used 3G less than on normal days, and not used wifi at all (also not as a hotspot). I've not played music at all today, in fact I've barely turned it on at all! The screen brightness is as usual, at about 70%. The phone was charged to 100% overnight as always. Despite this, the battery is already under 40% at 5 p.m. where it would normally still be well above 60%. At this rate, I don't think it will even make it until I get home -- which is worse than the battery life of my old 3G! What's depleting my battery faster than usual, and how can I prevent that? Update: The first day of jailbroken battery life must have been a fluke, or was fixed by rebooting. I've been through a few cycles now and battery life seems to be practically unchanged after all. A: I can see two main possibilities: * *Apps like FolderCloser, NoLockScreen, and SBSettings shorten battery life by requiring heavy background processes. The only solution to this would be either to not install these apps or restore the phone to its original state altogether (and not have these apps installed). I am convinced that jailbreaking allows for processes that are not in phase with Apple's careful thriftiness of battery use. *Your battery is not calibrated properly so your iPhone miscalculates the remaining percentage. The solution here would be to drain your battery completely and then fully charge it. Good luck! And know that you can restore the phone to its original state. A: I think many of the jailbroken apps continue to run using a full multitasking approach. This is different than the iOS multitasking, which just keeps apps in ram, etc. Those apps staying open, and even using very little processing power, would be using extra processor cycles, therefore depleting faster. Also (I haven't jailbroken before), the jailbroken iOS may even be running more services in the background than a normal iOS install.
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Q: Is there anything faster than Veency for iPhone? I want to be able to control an iPhone with a PC or Mac—that is, see the iPhone's screen on a computer and control it with my mouse—via either USB or wireless. Are there any solutions faster than VNC Veency? Veency's frame rate isn't good enough, and I need it to show 16-bit color. A: I've tried Veency on both an iPhone 3G and an iPhone 4, and that looks to be the fastest possible speed to get out of it. Unless someone rewrites Veency or writes another VNC server, it looks doubtful that speed would get any better. I've relegated myself to either looking at the iPhone's screen while typing, or pairing a Bluetooth keyboard with the iPhone. Edit: If you don't mind looking at the iPhone's screen, you could try iSynergyClient, the Synergy+ client for iPhone. Right now it only has mouse support, keyboard support is still in development. A: There is a new Cydia app, called Display Recorder. Beside screen recording, it has a local web client, with the abilily to stream live view almost flawlessly. You can buy it from the BigBoss repo for $4,99. You stream by opening the Display Recorder app itself, enable web server with the bottom left button, type the url that shows up in a browser on the PC, and select Live View option (while being on the same wifi of cource). It will even add touch and hardware button simulation right away, but sadly no keyboard support, so you'll need to open a VNC client too in the background, possibly set its refresh rate to never, and here you go. Most probably you can even set your video card to rotate the screen to align with the iPhone screen if you prefer landscape.
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Q: Is possible to use a Micro SIM in iPhone 3GS? I want to use my old iPhone 3GS, but don't want to pay another plan for the occasional use. A: You'd need an adapter like this one to make it fit, but it should work.
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Q: Can I block ads on an iPad? I am about to buy an iPad, and was using a friend's device recently. I noticed all these multi-colour intrusive square things I'm completely unused to seeing because I've been using Adblock Plus for years now. What are my options? A: No need for a jailbroken iPad, iCab can block ads http://www.icab.de/mobile.html And it is a great browser. A: One option is to use a different web browser, such as iCab, available from the App Store. If you really want to use mobile Safari, the following method has been reported to work properly for a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch, and should work on a jailbroken iPad: http://lifehacker.com/5060621/block-ads-on-your-jailbroken-iphone-or-ipod-touch There exists an app in the Cydia store called AdBlock that aims to fulfill this purpose, but many have found it to be nonfunctional. A: Here is an update for the current state of affairs. iOS allows for browser extensions to do this sort of thing, you can find them in the AppStore. When you install something that blocks content in the built-in browser, you can enable, disable or otherwise manage that addon from the settings app built into iOS. This is of course part of the OS now, so jailbroken or not, this is available officially.
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Q: Can Numbers ’09 import an Excel XML file? Can Numbers ’09 (part of the iWork suite) import XML files? Specifically, the format created by Excel when exporting as "XML Spreadsheet 2003." I can't just use Excel's native format because the files are generated for our clients by a web app. If Numbers can't handle these files, are there any other plaintext formats that could be used? I could use csv, but I would prefer to store formatting within the exported file itself. A: Numbers ’09 supports Excel native format (.xls) but it can’t convert from an Excel XML Spreadsheet. In fact, if you rename it as “xls” and try to open it (trying to fool Numbers), you’ll probably see all the XML but not the actual spreadsheet. Which is more scary than Psychosis II back in the 80s. Your only bet is some CVS or TEXT format, which excel can even export with Macintosh format for line endings and carrier return (if I’m not mistaken). The big drawback is that all format and binary stuff is automagically lost in translation (certain pun intended). ;) You’ll get the data, but not the format. Another alternative is trying to automate the Excel XML to Excel Native format, even if your webapp outputs a XML, you could try to “transform them” before anything else. For that, I haven’t investigated but you can start with a google query like this. There seem to be some Windows solutions, maybe something you can use/try. A: 10 years old but as I stumbled on this post, maybe someone else will too. The easy way is to view the XML in a browser (I used Firefox), in the Inspector (not source code) you'll find an HTML table. Choose Edit as HTML, copy the table, you can then paste that into Numbers A: I ended up changing the output to native .xls format by using the PHPExcel PHP wrapper from http://phpexcel.codeplex.com. The files now open fine in both native windows Excel and iWorks Numbers '09. UPDATE PHPExcel is now available at https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPExcel but was deprecated in 2017 and is no longer being maintained. You should use PhpSpreadsheet instead, available at https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet.
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Q: Sleeping screen (Cinema Display) keeps waking up. How can I make it sleep until mouse is moved? I have my Mac Pro (Cyrus) configured not to fall asleep completely but to let the screen sleep when not used for half an hour. I also use the keyboard shortcut for forcing the display to sleep. However, sometimes, for a few weeks the screen just refuses to sleep and the login alert box appears immediately after the sleep is supposed to start as if somebody violently moved the mouse or pressed a key. After a few weeks the behaviour changes again and sleeping works, for another few weeks. It's periodic. How can I force the screen to sleep without waking up all the time? A: I have discovered that 100% of the times that this happened to me, it was because I either had: * *A USB (or Firewire) peripheral connected that was pooling the bus and for some mysterious reason caused your behavior. *I accidentally moved the mouse (or the table where both mouse/key lie); small vibrations caused the mouse to register movement and that was enough to wake the box. I don’t know if this is your case, but whenever you’re in the “it wakes up!” cycle, try to disconnect everything and use the keyboard shortcut with surgeon precision and softness and see if it changes. Additionally you might want con check the Console Output of the logs to see if there’s an error going on while your invoke your sleep screen shortcut.
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Q: Black screen, perhaps from login/lock system, after 'closing the clam' I make use of the rather clumsy 'closed clam' mode of operation. I close up my macbook pro, bring it to work, and plug in a USB keyboard and a monitor. 80% of the time, all is well. The other 20% of the time, things proceed as follows: * *Unlock box appears on external monitor *Enter password *System unlocks *30 second later ... *Go to black screen with mouse cursor It looks just like the 'unlock' environment, only, of course, missing the unlock dialog box. I've also seen the system momentarily display the unlock dialog box. If the system was idle long enough to power-save the display, but not to go into lock, wiggling the mouse will sometimes result in my desktop reappearing with the unlock password box appearing, as well, and then disappearing. Any ideas? A: I'll take a stab at how to collect the data needed to come up with an answer as to what and why the system isn't waking up properly. The new unibody MacBook Pro have much more sophisticated modes of clamshell mode so I'll assume you have one of those for now. The best place to see what is happening after the event happens is the console application (or logging into the mac remotely with ssh to tail the logs as you are debugging this issue). Sleep / wake events get a lot of log messages and you will want to look over a normal sleep wake to get familiar with all the messages that happen in which specific order and what normal times to begin and end the wake from sleep take. A lot happens when the machine wakes as it needs to detect what is connected, if the display is shut, which graphics mode to wake up - what the display options and layout are. Then it transmits that info to all the running apps and has to put it's stuff together. One thing to simplify things would be to disable all sorts of screen savers, display time outs and such. I've seen my mac get confused and wake from sleep just to engage a screen saver which went missing because I didn't change it and don't normally use it. There have been several firmware updates in the last two years to tighten up this process as there were (and potentially are still) situations when the system doesn't respond in time or at all correctly. Lastly - a poor display cable contact or impending hardware failure could be a cause of this. Not likely, but worth checking if you really want to nail this down.
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Q: Downloading voicemail to my laptop How can I download my voicemail from the iPhone to my computer? Technically, I know it is not voicemail on the iPhone - it is in ATT's phone system but you knew what I meant. How can I download my ATT voicemail from the iPhone/iTunes to my computer? A: I use an app called "iExplorer" (formerly iPhone Explorer). It basically lets you reach into the phone to download, modify, replace, or add a file in any (or almost any) directory within the file structure. http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/ A: You can't do it in iTunes, and you have to be jailbroken to do it. Here's a good tutorial. * *Jailbreak phone *Install OpenSSH from Cydia *Install CyberDuck (or another SSH program) to your computer *SSH into your iPhone from the computer (here's how) *Navigate to /private/var/mobile/Library/Voicemail/ *Copy the desired .amr files A: Or use Google voice and you can get them through the browser or emailed to you. A: I use Phone View for this purpose and it works flawlessly. You do not have to jailbreak your phone for it to work. A: There is another way. Per this instructables an iTunes backup of the iPhone contains the voicemail files in these folders: * *~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/ Mac *\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\ Windows XP *\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\ Vista and Windows 7 However, the bad news is that these voicemail files are mixed in with a ton of other random files from your iPhone, and all the files have long, meaningless filenames with no extensions. To determine what the files are, use the file * command. Note that the backup must not be encrypted for this approach to work. file * | grep audio file * | grep GSM (on Windows install Cygwin and use the Cygwin terminal to get the file command) The two file contents that seem likely are RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 8 bit, mono 44100 Hz Adaptive Multi-Rate Codec (GSM telephony) A: I have a Google Voice number that I just forward important voicemails to. To do this in a typical voicemail system, you'd press 6 for more options, then 2 to forward it. You can keep them in your Google account pretty much as long as you want, or you can simply download them at will. I hope this is helpful.
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Q: Converting a PDF for use with DVD Studio Pro I have a client who want me to add PDF's to a DVD, so that people can view them through their televisions Can it be done? A: Sure. You need to convert the pages of the PDF into images and handle accordingly from there, much like a photo slide show. The primary concern I would have is whether the PDF is laid out so that it looks good on screen. Acrobat (the full version, not Reader) can export all pages to a variety of formats. Acrobat costs good money, but Preview only exports the first page. Ghostscript via Terminal might have a free alternative, but the interface is the command line. A: I would use PDF to Keynote, and then just export from Keynote as a QuickTime movie. A: I know this is dated link, but for what is worth... DVD Studio Pro allows you to create a Data DVD alongside the video DVD. Check your DVDSP Inspector for DVD Assets. This is a great way to include files and images, even presentations that you wish clients to open and view. There is also DVD@ccess which allows you to embed URLs into buttons that will cause the DVD player to stop (on a computer) and launch your browser. Just FYI
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Q: Why don't my arrow keys work in vim under iTerm? They work just fine if I use Terminal and start a vim session, but under iTerm I have to resort to using H-J-K-L to do left-up-down-right movement. In both Terminal and iTerm TERM=xterm-color. My .vimrc is quite lean and there are no key bindings set in there that would causing this problem. iTerm v0.10. A: The following worked for me. In iTerm2: * *Profiles -> Open Profiles... *Edit Profiles... *Keys tab *From Load Preset... drop-down, pick Terminal.app compatibility A: Try the following: * *From the Bookmarks menu item, select Manage Bookmarks.... *Choose the Default bookmark and click the edit icon. *Change the Keyboard setting to Global. A: This is how I fixed: nnoremap <silent> <ESC>^[A <Nop> nnoremap <silent> <ESC>^[B <Nop> nnoremap <silent> <ESC>^[D <Nop> nnoremap <silent> <ESC>^[C <Nop> Note: The "^[" characters must not be typed, instead you get them by doing: ⌃-V and pressing the corresponding cursor arrow position (up,down,left,right). Tested with: iTerm2 (Build 1.0.0.20140629) A: I was able to get this sorted out with iTerm2 Build 3.0.15 and the following excerpt from my .vimrc: " Map alternate key combination for Esc. noremap <c-[> <Esc> " Map arrow keys for nomal mode. nnoremap <silent> <Esc><Up>A <Nop> nnoremap <silent> <Esc><Down>B <Nop> nnoremap <silent> <Esc><Right>C <Nop> nnoremap <silent> <Esc><Left>D <Nop> HTH. A: The fastest (and probably best) way to solve this is to switch iterm profile keymapping to "Natural editing" preset. * *Go to preferences *Go to profiles *Go to keys *Go to keymappings *From preset dropdown select natural editing preset
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Q: How do you position your hand to use the command key? What finger do you use? Sorry in advance about what seems like a trivial question. However, I've recently switched from PC to Mac, and while I'm really happy about the switch, this is one of the few issues I'm struggling with. On a PC, the most important shortcuts are CTRL-A (select all), CTRL-C (copy), and CTRL-V (paste). Almost all the other important shortcuts also use the CTRL key. On the PC keyboard, the CTRL key is in the bottom left corner of the keyboard. So, it's very easy to hold it with your pinky, while keeping your hand in its normal position, so you can easily press the other key required for the shortcut (e.g., A, C, V, etc). On a Mac, the "equivalent" key to CTRL is Command. However, I can't easily reach that key with any finger - especially without moving my hand from its normal position - so, I can't easily press Command-C or Command-V without really focusing on it. Is this just a result of years of practicing on a PC? What finger do Mac users use to click the command key when executing a shortcut? A: When I first made the switch to Mac I used System Preferences -> Keyboard to switch the ⌘ key with ^ (control) key. That worked for a while until I became more comfortable with the basic two-key commands. Once I started using more complex three and four key commands I had to put it back to default because I needed the labels on the keys at first to remember what the symbols <-> key mappings were. A: I mostly use my thumb. If I'm trying to hit a key that's more in the middle or right side of the keyboard (such as C or V), I use my ring finger. Note that I'm a horrible typist, so I never use the right ⌘ key. If you're comfortable using that, you can probably just use your thumbs. A: You can use either thumb to hold down a ⌘ key and then use another finger to access the other key. You just have to get used to sliding either thumb a little to the left or to the right of the space bar. Yes, this is just a result of years of using a PC. A: It's easier to type shortcuts if you use Sticky Keys as well. This way you can type shortcuts one key at a time, which might sound slower, but isn't if it means you can keep your hands in position and your eyes on the screen. I tend to use my thumb for command. I use my left pinky for control, shift and Fn, although it may be different for others as I keep my pinkies over the row below the home row. Alt is tricky, but I guess the pinky makes the most sense for me personally, usually. There's nothing wrong in using different fingers at different times. For instance on the rare occasion I want to show the Dock (⌃⌥⌘F) I move my arm and use index on cmd, middle on alt and ring on control, then type the D afterwards. A: I also thought it was inconvenient at start but later realised how good it is with the command button. I learnt to type on a keyboard with no markings which requires you to have all keys memorised and your fingers on the right position on the keyboard. By using the command button with your thumb (which is regularly only used for the space ), your fingers are always positioned correctly on the keyboard. Using the control button, you HAVE to use your pinky finger which makes your fingers leave the correct position, which in the end makes you look at the keyboard! (by correct position i mean, pinky on A, ring finger on S, middle finger on D, long finger on F etc.) A: Here is the official advice from Apple On page 67, they state the following: Use a light touch when typing or using the trackpad and keep your hands and fingers relaxed. Avoid rolling your thumbs under your palms. Based on this, it would be my assumption that they intend you to either move your entire hand and use your thumb or pointer finger. If you find this unnatural, you can always change the control key to perform the duty of the command key. Open System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys, and change the buttons around as you see fit. A: Very late reply but just giving my 2 cents as a long time Apple Magic Keyboard user who's been using a more standard keyboard layout for around 4 months. Note: This only applies to the official Apple keyboards like the Magic Keyboard. I have to disagree with some of the comments on the accepted answer which say to avoid using the thumb. Due to the Apple keyboards having a much smaller spacebar than the average PC keyboard layout, the thumb movement required to reach the Command key is very minimal. So minimal in fact, that the thumb knuckle is usually the only joint that requires movement and the amount of movement is generally within the natural range of the thumb. In other words, it's a very comfortable movement. That's at least how I feel and I have generally medium-small hands. If however, you're using a non-Apple keyboard with a larger spacebar, yes, it's not advisable to use your thumbs for command as the additional movement required could cause you problems in the long run.
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Q: What does no chime on boot mean? My MacBook Pro is having some issues. It boots. But the graphics card doesn't get detected. You can remote in to it but looking at the Displays dialog in System Preferences, no graphics card is shown: I took it in to see if it qualified for the free mobo replacement because it does have the qualifying NVidia chipset and the repair shop said they couldn't run the diagnostics tool on it because it wouldn't chime on boot. And therefore wouldn't boot from their external drive to run their diagnostics. I hadn't noticed that it wouldn't chime on boot. But what does that mean? What does the chime tell you? Why would the machine not chime? A: You don't specify how old your MBP is, but some MBPs built a few years ago shipped with graphics cards that fatally crashed after a few years of years. That's what happened to mine and it was a warranty fix because a recall was done. My understanding of the chime is that it is hard-coded into the motherboard. If it is not playing with the chime, then you probably have something wrong down to that level. It may be a simple fix, it may not, but only Apple will be able to tell you definitively. (Answer edited per comments) A: As an aside, the volume of the chime is governed by the operating system - the Mac will remember how you had your volume set when you last shut it down. If you made your Mac mute, you won't hear a chime on startup. It might be worth plugging in a pair of headphones - it's unlikely that you would have set the volume 'with headphones' to be mute, and as the Mac remembers a level for 'normal' and a level for 'headphones', you might hear a chime. Still, any decent Genius Bar staff would have known that you can make the chime go silent this way so I'm guessing it's more serious than this! A: It usually means the Power On Self-Test failed. Look for an error code as tones, flashing LEDS, or whatever remaining means the particular computer has of communicating. There's a decent synopsis of the startup sequence here.
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Q: Install Tiger in VMware Fusion I've got 10.6 running on a 2006 MacBook Pro. I want to run some older software that was meant for 10.4 and earlier, so I figured I'd install Tiger in VMware Fusion, but it isn't working. Any idea how I'd go about it? What I've tried: When creating a new VM, there's no option for Tiger. It only offers 10.5 server and 10.6 server. I tried using the 10.5 server option with a Tiger disk image, but with no luck: gives me this error: Mac OS X is not supported with software virtualization. To run Mac OS X you need a host on which VMware Fusion supports hardware virtualization. Any thoughts? A: This article references VMware Workstation 6 as being able to run OS X with some hacks, but it's slow. But more importantly, that article runs down what I thought was the only known solution to running OS X in a VM: VirtualBox. So you aren't going to be able to do this with Fusion, but you can do it with VirtualBox. Also: Apple does allow virtualization of OS X Server (check the date on that article - circa 2007). It honestly wouldn't stand much of a chance in the big, corporate IT world if it couldn't be legally virtualized these days. A: The official Tiger (10.4) OS simply does not run in a virtualized environment. To get it to run you have to hack around the incompatibilities, which has been attempted with varying levels of (claim to) success, but it seems pretty sketchy. You're probably better off either dual-booting your MBP or finding an old used computer to dedicate to Tiger apps. I have a G5 still kicking around for just that purpose. FYI: Leopard (10.5) and Snow Leopard (10.6) server are virtualizable and are fully supported by VMware Fusion. Leopard and Snow Leopard standard versions ("Client" version) do not support being virtualized. VMware Fusion 4.1 accidentally left out the code that prevents you from creating and running non-server Leopard and Snow Leopard VMs; version 4.1.1 was quickly released to restore the prevention code. I have not heard great tales of success or failure running the non-server VMs under Fusion 4.1, but you can give it a try. All versions of Lion (10.7) support virtualization. The Lion retail license includes permission to create 2 VMs in addition to the one real machine so long as you run them on Apple hardware. Specifically, section 2B(iii) grants a license: (iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software. Note that apparently Apple doesn't take this too seriously, as the official Lion licenses as posted at http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/ still require you to be running "Snow Leopard". A: Have you tried installing 10.6 as a VM? Just wondering, because it sounds like the error message you're receiving is accurate. You're running a 2006 MacBook Pro and as far as I know, the processors in those machines don't support hardware virtualization. So VMware is just telling you that it doesn't support OS X in a VM on your machine. However, what would work would be installing Tiger on a separate partition. Use disk utility to create a new volume and boot from the Tiger install disk, then install to that new volume and you can boot into it as needed. A: You are not allowed to run Mac OS in a VM (check the license). :) A: OS X Tiger can be installed in VMWare Fusion by creating a FreeBSD virtual machine. I am yet to find a way to install the FreeBSD version of VMWare Tools but its something I am working on. For the moment you can do basic stuff like surfing the web. So its a case of creating a FreeBSD virtual machine and adjusting the settings prior to installing Tiger.
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Q: How do I use multiple webcams at once on Mac OS X? I have programmed a Flash app that makes use of several webcams at the same time. The app works great on Windows. When I try to use more than one webcam on Mac OS X, I find that each webcam I plug into the computer disables the previously attached webcam. It appears that I can only have one USB camera working at a time. Is this correct? Is there any way of bypassing this? A: There are Mac applications that can do this, although I don't believe that any of them run on Flash. Here's some that I found: * *Wirecast from Telestream *BoinxTV from Boinx Software *CamCamX from Black-Op They're all commercial, but there's a wide range of pricing between the three. A: I had a similar problem where one USB camera would work and the other camera wouldn't. After playing around with this I found out it was because I was using a USB-C hub and plugging both cameras into the same hub. Either the hardware or OS supported only one camera per Macbook USB-C port. I put the cameras through two separate USB-C hubs and they worked fine. I'm using a newer Macbook and was attempting keep it simple to plug everything through one plug, but if I really want to use the two cameras simultaneously it seems this is impossible.
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Q: Over-promiscuous bluetooth on Macbook Pro So I have bluetooth stereo headphones (Motorola s305), that, now with iOS 4.1 and AVRCP, are a delight with my iPhone 3GS, at least, unless I happen to turn them on when my Macbook Pro is around. Then the MBP thinks it's a pairing request and the headset's command is lost (worse: this happens while the MBP is sleeping, causing it to wake). I think I once paired it with the MBP when I didn't have other headphones lying around, but I've tried to get the MBP to behave by * *Disabling "Discoverable" *Unpairing, then removing the profile of the s305 on the MBP *Telling my MBP to NOT allow BT devices to wake it up Short of disabling bluetooth (would not be desireable - I like my Magic Mouse), what can I do to get my MBP to ignore the headset? A: I've had my Macbook Pro automatically connect to devices when they power up, but I've never seen a Bluetooth device automatically pair when it's not in the Bluetooth devices list. I've never used Bluetooth headphones before, but it sounds like there's some sort of special case happening for audio devices, or at least this particular audio device. is "Prompt for all incoming audio requests" ticked in the Advanced options? It sounds like unticked would imply that audio devices would pair automatically.
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Q: What does the plus sign next to the price of an app in the App Store mean? There is often a plus sign in the upper left corner of the price button for an app. Even some free apps have this plus sign. A: It means that it is a universal app, able to run on the iPad and iPhone. A: It means there are in-app purchases available under that app. You can turn that feature off under your General Settings, Restrictions.
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Q: How can iPhone be used when wearing gloves? In colder weather wearing gloves is essential. Looks like iPhone 4 completely ignores touches of fingers in gloves. So I sometimes even see people controlling their iPhones by touching them with their noses. What are the limitations of how iPhone can be controlled? How can it be used by a person wearing gloves? A: Another solution is to use special stylus like this: http://www.tenonedesign.com/stylus.php A: Here you'll find a list of 11 different gloves to use with your iPhone... A: You can buy conductive thread and then weave the thread into any pair gloves that you own. There's a really overview of what conductive thread is and more information of the different types here: http://www.fashioningtech.com/profiles/blogs/conductive-thread-overview, and there is instructions on how to do this along with a video demo here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Making-A-Glove-Work-With-A-Touch-Screen/ A: I like these lambswool gloves by Dots. I imagine they use some sort of conductive thread woven in the fabric, and they're quite affordable at $15.50 to $20. A: The screen is a capacitive touch device so it depends on a conductive item contacting it. A number of companies have produced gloves with appropriately conductive finger pads. A: You could be like the South Koreans and use sausages.
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Q: Rotated PDF Doesn't Save State? For some strange reason, when I rotate a PDF using the trackpad (Two finger multi-touch rotation gesture.), there's no option to save it and all changes are lost after I close it. (The save button is grayed out.) What am I doing wrong? A: ... Never mind. Apparently rotating using the trackpad of a PDF in Preview is just for cosmetic purposes. You have to rotate using +L or +R or within the Apple-bar menu. Only after that, the save option will be available. :| Strange. A: Like you said, using + L and +R seems to modify the PDF in place. But if you use the rotation gesture on the trackpad, and use Save As, it will save the PDF with the pages rotated.
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Q: Can I use my iPhone as a fax machine modem using the Bluetooth connection? I'd like to use my iPhone 4 as a bluetooth modem so I can send a fax using my Mac. I can pair my iPhone to the mac and then add a fax from the Printer section of System Preferences and then, I can add to the Fax print queue from Preview. However, the print queue doesn't establish a connection to the iPhone. I'm not interested in sending faxes over email and I'm not interested in downloading an app to the iPhone that will send faxes over the internet. I'm interested in using my iPhone as my fax machine modem and printing from my Mac. Anyone know how can I do this? A: I tried to find a solution to do this about a week ago, and found that if you're in the US with a non-jailbroken phone, you just can't. Yeah, it annoyed me, too. There are a number of different Bluetooth profiles; here's Apple's list of Supported Bluetooth profiles. No faxing on there, dammit.
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Q: How can I know which GUID represents which app in my iTunes backup of my iPhone? I backed up my data from my iPhone to my PC. This backup is not encrypted. When I open up the backup folder, I see a bunch of files named with long GUIDs. Each app that saves data (e.g. to a SQLite table will have a file here. How can I find out which GUID represents a specific app I am looking for? I used to be able to use findstr "app name" *.mdinfo and then find the corresponding *.mddata file, but as of iTunes 10, there are no *.mdinfo files. This makes it so you can't find the app's name in the files in plain text. So when I try to use findstr "app name" *.*, it doesn't find it either. The files have no extension, and if they are SQLite files, they are in binary format and after examining them, they have no information related to the app's name in them. A: This used to be possible with Erica Sadun's mdhelper program. Unfortunately, it looks like something has changed in the way Apple stores backup files w/ iOS 4.2, and the program cannot achieve the same results (since it finds no mdbackup or mdinfo files). On the bright side, a new tool named iPhone / iPod Touch Backup Extractor has emerged. It correctly translates the GUIDs to names in my iOS 4.2 backups, and allows the files for each app to be extracted together. A: The whole iPhoneTracker kerfuffle has rasied some good information on python scripts and other code examples that can parse the most recent mbdb files. See http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/#2 and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3085153/how-to-parse-the-manifest-mbdb-file-in-an-ios-4-0-itunes-backup The stack overflow question has the goods on many tools and several good explanations of the technical details. I also have good things to say about the book iOS Forensic Analysis by Sean Morissey
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Q: "Not enough space" on partitioning? I have a 320GB harddrive with 95GB free. I boot to a 10.5 disk, open disk utility, and add a 40GB partition. Halfway through the progress bar, though, it tells me that there's not enough space. I'm not sure what it means- I'm just splitting my free space off to another partition- it shouldn't need any extra space. Any ideas as to how I can partition my drive? Clarification: this is my laptop's internal drive- the one I boot from. I can't boot normally and partition with /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app. A: Ok, solution found on an old superuser question, posting here for posterity. I just needed to defrag the thing I got Coriolis iDefrag. I ran that on the compact setting (required restarting into it's own special mode, but no disk burning was needed). A few hours later I tried to resize the partition and it worked fine. A: Assuming you're booting from the install disk and not your boot volume: Try making the new partition even smaller the first time... like 20 GB. If it completes successfully, you can usually go back and resize the main partition again to a smaller size. So the second time, you would delete the new partition and add the final 40GB partition (shrinking the boot partition by an additional 20GB). Not sure why this happens, but I'm usually able to do it this way. A: You may be getting the 'not enough space' error since there isn't enough space to hold some files while the reformat is going on. I think to be able to do the format like this, you would have to have at least another 125GB free (to basically store all the other data you are currently using) A: Wipe free space, and then try repartitioning. I'm sure that's all the defrag did that mattered.
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Q: MacBook Pro Hang I bought a new MacBook Pro with a Core i5 processor; everything is very good but it hangs a lot. I changed its hard drive and used Apple's diagnostic test but neither helped. Any ideas about what could be the problem? A: It’s a new machine, if it hangs “out of the box” take it back for repairs, it’s under warranty. It could be the memory (RAM). Don’t change anything, let the Apple folks do it for you.
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Q: How to close apps in iphone 4? Possible Duplicate: iOS 4 - can I close and app without it staying open in the background? From what I know, pressing on the home button on iphone 4 will merely hide the application, instead of closing it. So how can I make sure that all the unwanted apps are closed, so that the memory can be reused? A: You have two options to close an app: * *With the application hidden (i.e. if you are currently at the home screen or are interacting with another app) you can double-press the home button, hold down any icon in the app switcher until they all start to wiggle, and press the minus icon in the top left corner of the app you want to close. *With the application in the foreground, you can hold down the power key until the "slide to power off" option appears, and then hold down the home button until the the application quits. The first option is faster.
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Q: Removing software that came from a pkg file? I can't find the uninstaller. I installed some service using a pkg file and now I want to get rid of it. How do I do that? I would prefer not to use lsbom and rm and stuff. It looks scary. A: Not a direct answer to your question, but you can also use "Suspicious Package", a QuickLook plug-in for Finder, to see what files a package installed: http://www.mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/ Depending on what files were installed where, you may be able to find them in Finder and drag to the trash; otherwise you may have to go into Terminal and rm around. A: For the most part, Mac applications don't have uninstallers because they're rarely needed. You can almost always just toss the undesired offender into your trash. A: I recommend you try something like AppZapper ($) or AppCleaner (Freeware). There are others that work similarly.
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Q: Make an iPhone appear as different model? Is it possible to have a jailbroken iPhone trick an app into thinking you have a different device than the one you're on (e.g., a 3G passing as a 3GS)? A: Palm did this with the Pre: the device, like all devices, told iTunes it was an iPod and allowed only the syncing of non-DRM content over the USB connection. As to how the iPhone sorts out what it is to tell iTunes could either be hard-coded or come from a plist file somewhere in the OS. Either way, this forum is really not the place the find the answer to that question(nor do I think SO is either). You probably should head over to one of the myriad iPhone jailbreak forum. Searching "iPhone jailbreak forum" in Google brings up a whole host of them.
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Q: The Battery Life Span of iPhone 4 I found that actively using my iphone for 30 minutes will take out 5-7% of the battery. Is it normal? A: Yes, this is normal. If we assume that actively using your iPhone 4 for 30 minutes consumes 5% of its battery life, then you can use it actively for 10 hours. The iPhone 4 supports up to 10 hours of uninterrupted video playback OR up to 7 hours of talk time on 3G OR up to 6 hours of Internet use on 3G, for example. Your experience with your iPhone 4 sounds reasonable.
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Q: Which text editor can I use with large files (>500 MB)? What are your recommendation for opening large text files on OS X? I found both BBEdit and Textmate to be struggling in this department. A: BBEdit is pretty much the standard for opening large text files on a Mac. I've opened some good-sized files with it, and BBEdit didn't even break a sweat. It is not entirely free - you do not have to pay for a license unless you want features that are in the pro activation above and beyond the free license. How large of a file are you talking about? And how much RAM does your Mac have (both installed and free)? Edited to add… Bare Bones released BBEdit 9.6 today, and according to the Release Notes1 (under Changes): It is now possible to open files significantly larger than before; the ceiling isn't unlimited, but it is no longer limited by the previously extant constraints in the OS. Sounds to me like it's worth upgrading (free for anyone with BBEdit 9.x) and trying again. 1 If you've never read a Bare Bones release notice before, you should. Even if you have no interest in BBEdit. Even if you have no interest in Bare Bones. Even if you have no interest in text editors in general. They're that good. Yes, really. Iä! Iä! Pnoies fhtagn! A: I'm using HexFiend to work with a 60 GB text file and it works great (apparently it can handle files as large as 118 GB). A: Check Sublime Text 2 out. It is one of the best out there. A: TextWrangler is a great tool for opening editing and saving large files. I wouldn't recommend if for copying and pasting large amounts of content though. Use it if you don't want to have to deal with the vi interface/commands. Like Loic mentioned, MacVim is a great app if you're more familar with vi. Use BBEdit for free now that TW is discontinued if needed. A: I found MacVim pretty good at opening large files. There's even a plugin to speed it up, if the file is really large. (If you don't want to compile it yourself, you can download a DMG to install it pre-built.) A: If you are reading the file only, use the less command. You can navigate and search through the file like vi, but much faster and without the nasty 'line too long' type problems. For working with big production logs, this is an invaluable tool. A: If you are dealing with files over 2 GBs I recommend 010 Editor. It won't load the entire file in memory which means you can use it to open files larger than your available RAM and opening times will be much shorter (took about 20 seconds to open a 7GB file). A: For me, where BBEdit choked on 750MB, UltraEdit (not free) worked satisfactorily fast. A: My first choice is SlickEdit. It looks, well, is a bit old fashioned, but I have seen no other editor that deals with large files (even GBs of text) that fast, and still giving a ton of features. It is not a modern IDE by current day standards, but a really powerful editor, and as said, the only one I ever used that really works with large files. A: http://code.google.com/p/macvim/ worked with a 1 gig file searching file took about 1 min
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Q: Seeking good quality DVD ripping software for PPC G5, 10.4.11 Subject says it all, but here are the requirements in full: * *Power Macintosh G5 Dual 2.5 Ghz, 2 GB RAM, 2 TB HDD (destined to become a media and file server for v1 Apple TV and home network) *Mac OS 10.4.11, but will be upgrading to Mac 10.5 at a later date *Surround sound support (Dolby 5.1, DTS) *Movies are intended for use with an v1 Apple TV, so no disk images or VIDEO_TS folders. Web searches reveal a lot of software out there but it all seems fairly random, so I'd like to see if anyone has had any experience with a particular application on older hardware and OS. Please note the Handbrake PPC build will not run on this particular machine (quits without error before loading is complete) and RipIt does not support anything before Mac OS 10.5. I know I can go the route of Mac the Ripper to Handbrake, but that's doubles the process in time, space, and computers needed. I'm looking to avoid that if at all possible. A: Use the RipIt App. Choose the Compress option and within the Applications preferences you can specify the output file format. I have to say they made the process simple and worry free. I am using it on Snow Leopard so my experience may not be the same as yours. A: You want HandBrake. Does everything the apps in the other answers do, bit it's open-source and free. The latest builds have discarded PPC support, but the version before the current (0.9.5) build does have PPC builds available. You can grab those here (Version 0.9.4). It Explicitly supports AppleTV.
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Q: Monodevelop on OS X and Displaying UTF-8 Does using Copy or paste cause monodevelop to crash, or is it just me? If you have Monodevelop installed, please can you test this, I fount that both shortcuts and from the menus cause it to crash. I seem unable to find information about this on google, though would personally consider this quite a major bug. And how can UTF-8 characters be displayed in monodevelop and mono programs? Although they output fine in Terminal. It is similar to this post , but none of the solutions seem relevant as 2.4 has now been released. A: Since this is a duplicate, which still has not been closed, and the issues in question have been fixed, I will quote the accepted answer there: * *Several common Mac programs have clipboard manipulation features that seem to corrupt MD's memory. It's a known issue and is documented here. *Unfortunately my answer remains that same as my answer in the thread you linked: the Mac version of the Pango library that MonoDevelop uses for font rendering does not support glyph fallbacks, but you may be able to work around this by using a font that contains all the glyphs you need. If you could be more specific about the charsets and where you are seeing issues, we may be able to provide more specific answers. [NOTE: both these issues have since been fixed]
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Q: iPhone 4 - photos are chopped off on the side I have been using my iPhone 4 to take photos on my holiday, and have been noticing that approximately 10% of the photos I have taken are chopped a bit shorter. I have only noticed it happening on landscape shots, and I have HDR enabled without the option to keep the original. Is this a known issue? A: I don't think this is an issue at all. In the Photos app, all pictures are slightly zoomed in on by default to fill the entire screen. If you zoom out on each picture using your fingers, you will notice that they are all the same size. A: The photos app takes pictures that are a little bit wider than the iPhone screen. Try zooming around the pictures and see whether it's just a positioning issue in the display of them.
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Q: iPod Touch /w iOS4 - Why do I have to have iTunes installed to charge? Do I have to have iTunes running to charge my iPod Touch? I mean, can't I just turn on my computer and have the USB port just charge the silly thing? All my other devices work like that; why does Apple have to be such a prima-donna? A: You pretty much self-answered the question but, in any case and for future reference: You don’t need iTunes to charge iPhones/Pads/Pods. iPhones come with a wall-pluggable charger that also happens to charge the other members of the family.
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Q: Is there free software for recognizing a song when it plays? I have few .mp3 file that have no name or have a wrong name(artist name and song name) is there any free software exist to recognized what exactly this song is(by playing the song and this software search their database and find similar signal wave)? I see some similar app in iphone (if you play song and run this app after some second this app recognize the song) And I Also use Tunatic in windows and it was a good software but I can't use Tunatic in OS X (Tunatic is available for MAC OS X too) I know some software exist to tag music like TuneUP and MusicBrainz and ... but I want some thing else. I don't want answer like this one. A: I'm not sure if you have a smartphone, but Shazam and SoundHound work well by using the phone's mic to identify songs while they're playing. And I know you said you don't want to use MusicBrainz, but have you tried the scan feature? It scans the song and tries to identify it based on a musical "fingerprint", not just by metadata.
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Q: Using Brushes (mainly dodge and burn) in Aperture 3 while in Full Screen Mode One of the reasons I went to Aperture from iPhoto was that I could easily dodge and burn my photos, which iPhoto doesn't let you do. I have also been enjoying the full screen mode in aperture, where I will keep the HUD up for my edits. While doing some edits yesterday, I noticed that the brushes control wasn't available full screen, unless I am missing something. I also couldn't find the red eye removal tool while in full screen either. Doing searches online was not that helpful, since brushes and full screen were new in Aperture 3, so usually doing a search like 'aperture 3 brushes full screen' usually returns results listing the new features in Aperture. A: In full screen mode move your mouse to the top of the screen, a toolbar will drop down which has the red eye tool. The is also a button for the inspector hud which is the same as the usual adjustment palette. Brushes work just the same. A: In addition to Henry’s information, here’s a picture to make it more clear: The “hidden Toolbar” Don’t miss The Palette, it contains interesting options for these brushes: UPDATE If you want the “Hidden Toolbar” to remain ‘pinned’ while working in full screen, simply touch this…switch onto the lock position:
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Q: Display pressed shortcuts as an overlay on the screen On this great Ruby on Rails screencast, every time a shortcut combination is pressed it shows up on top of the screen, and it shows up so often that I find it hard to believe it was placed by hand when editing the movie. Is there any application that does this? A: Not sure which specific screencast you're speaking of, but they may be using Keycastr. A: For the sake of completeness: Boinx Software's Mouseposé does this (and a lot more) as well ($17).
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Q: "say" in different language? Are there voices in different languages installed in Mac OS X? E.g. spanish, french or slovak? (latest iPod Nano built-in voiceover has beautiful slovak voice, I'd like to try it on Mac OS X too) A: For Mac OS X 10.7, Swedish works pretty well by just downloading the Swedish voices using Preferences->System Voice->Customize and setting either as System Voice. It neatly nails even pretty peculiar Swedish words and spellings. No guarantee for other languages. A: As far as I know the only way to get a Mac to speak in another language is to get voice resources in your target language. A web site for French blind people recommends iVox. Sorry, no Slovak there I can see. A: Lion has many more voices, including Czech (Zuzana) and Slovak voice (Laura)! A: You can use the following command in the Terminal to get a list of all the available voices: say -v \? On my system the output looks like this with the voice name followed by the language abbreviation (I removed the comments): Agnes en_US Albert en_US Alex en_US Alice it_IT Alva sv_SE Amelie fr_CA Anna de_DE Bad News Bahh en_US Bells en_US Boing en_US Bruce en_US Bubbles en_US Carmit he_IL Cellos en_US Damayanti id_ID Daniel en_GB Deranged en_US Diego es_AR Ellen nl_BE Fiona en-scotland Fred en_US Good News Hysterical en_US Ioana ro_RO Joana pt_PT Junior en_US Kanya th_TH Karen en_AU Kathy en_US Kyoko ja_JP Laura sk_SK Lekha hi_IN Luciana pt_BR Maged ar_SA Mariska hu_HU Mei-Jia zh_TW Melina el_GR Milena ru_RU Moira en_IE Monica es_ES Nora nb_NO Paulina es_MX Pipe Organ Princess en_US Ralph en_US Samantha en_US Sara da_DK Satu fi_FI Sin-ji zh_HK Tessa en_ZA Thomas fr_FR Ting-Ting zh_CN Trinoids en_US Veena en_IN Vicki en_US Victoria en_US Whisper en_US Xander nl_NL Yelda tr_TR Yuna ko_KR Zarvox en_US Zosia pl_PL Zuzana cs_CZ This is an example on how to use say with a german voice, as suggested by scottishwildcat in the comments: say -v Anna 'Guten Tag!' In case you want to hear the example list, you can copy this for loop into your terminal, which will result in all installed voices speaking a text example: say -v \? | while read LINE do SPEAKER=$(echo $LINE | egrep -o "^[a-zA-Z\-]*[ ]?[A-Z][a-z]+") TEXT=$(echo $LINE | egrep -o "#.*" | tr "#" " ") echo $SPEAKER echo -ne "This is voice $SPEAKER speaking the example text: \n" $TEXT | say -v $SPEAKER done A: The voices included in Mac OS X 10.6 are optimized for english only. Even if you set your system language to anything different, it won’t work, because it will try to read with english pronunciation, causing funny wordings. Try saying “Hola” for spanish and you’ll see how it says: “hooola” as an english speaking person would read it. A: It might be a bit hard to find the international for OS X Lion, this shows how... http://www.litebeam.net/litebeam/read4me/voices.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RUI5d5L_wr8 A: Yes, with macOS Big Sur 11.3.1, several languages are pre-installed to be used with the say command in the terminal. You can check for the available voices in System Preferences > Accessibility. In the left pane, select Spoken content. From the System Voice drop-down menu, you can see the list of already installed voices. You can change here the default voice. Select Customise to add more voices and more languages. You can pre-hear these voices by clicking on the voice name and then clicking the Play button. Once you select new voices, click on OK and they will be downloaded. It might take a few minutes. You can use the following command in the Terminal to get a list of all the available voices: say -v'?' On my computer, this command outputs: Alex en_US # Most people recognize me by my voice. Alice it_IT # Salve, mi chiamo Alice e sono una voce italiana. Alva sv_SE # Hej, jag heter Alva. Jag är en svensk röst. Amelie fr_CA # Bonjour, je m’appelle Amelie. Je suis une voix canadienne. Anna de_DE # Hallo, ich heiße Anna und ich bin eine deutsche Stimme. Audrey fr_FR # Bonjour, je m’appelle Audrey. Je suis une voix française. Aurelie fr_FR # Bonjour, je m’appelle Aurelie. Je suis une voix française. Carmit he_IL # שלום. קוראים לי כרמית, ואני קול בשפה העברית. Damayanti id_ID # Halo, nama saya Damayanti. Saya berbahasa Indonesia. Daniel en_GB # Hello, my name is Daniel. I am a British-English voice. Diego es_AR # Hola, me llamo Diego y soy una voz española. Ellen nl_BE # Hallo, mijn naam is Ellen. Ik ben een Belgische stem. Fiona en-scotland # Hello, my name is Fiona. I am a Scottish-English voice. Fred en_US # I sure like being inside this fancy computer Ioana ro_RO # Bună, mă cheamă Ioana . Sunt o voce românească. Joana pt_PT # Olá, chamo-me Joana e dou voz ao português falado em Portugal. Jorge es_ES # Hola, me llamo Jorge y soy una voz española. Juan es_MX # Hola, me llamo Juan y soy una voz mexicana. Kanya th_TH # สวัสดีค่ะ ดิฉันชื่อKanya Karen en_AU # Hello, my name is Karen. I am an Australian-English voice. Kate en_GB # Hello, my name is Kate. I am a British-English voice. Kyoko ja_JP # こんにちは、私の名前はKyokoです。日本語の音声をお届けします。 Laura sk_SK # Ahoj. Volám sa Laura . Som hlas v slovenskom jazyku. Lekha hi_IN # नमस्कार, मेरा नाम लेखा है. मैं हिन्दी में बोलने वाली आवाज़ हूँ. Luca it_IT # Salve, mi chiamo Luca e sono una voce italiana. Luciana pt_BR # Olá, o meu nome é Luciana e a minha voz corresponde ao português que é falado no Brasil Maged ar_SA # مرحبًا اسمي Maged. أنا عربي من السعودية. Mariska hu_HU # Üdvözlöm! Mariska vagyok. Én vagyok a magyar hang. Mei-Jia zh_TW # 您好,我叫美佳。我說國語。 Melina el_GR # Γεια σας, ονομάζομαι Melina. Είμαι μια ελληνική φωνή. Milena ru_RU # Здравствуйте, меня зовут Milena. Я – русский голос системы. Moira en_IE # Hello, my name is Moira. I am an Irish-English voice. Monica es_ES # Hola, me llamo Monica y soy una voz española. Nora nb_NO # Hei, jeg heter Nora. Jeg er en norsk stemme. Paulina es_MX # Hola, me llamo Paulina y soy una voz mexicana. Rishi en_IN # Hello, my name is Rishi. I am an Indian-English voice. Samantha en_US # Hello, my name is Samantha. I am an American-English voice. Sara da_DK # Hej, jeg hedder Sara. Jeg er en dansk stemme. Satu fi_FI # Hei, minun nimeni on Satu. Olen suomalainen ääni. Serena en_GB # Hello, my name is Serena. I am a British-English voice. Sin-ji zh_HK # 您好,我叫 Sin-ji。我講廣東話。 Tessa en_ZA # Hello, my name is Tessa. I am a South African-English voice. Thomas fr_FR # Bonjour, je m’appelle Thomas. Je suis une voix française. Ting-Ting zh_CN # 您好,我叫Ting-Ting。我讲中文普通话。 Veena en_IN # Hello, my name is Veena. I am an Indian-English voice. Victoria en_US # Isn't it nice to have a computer that will talk to you? Xander nl_NL # Hallo, mijn naam is Xander. Ik ben een Nederlandse stem. Yelda tr_TR # Merhaba, benim adım Yelda. Ben Türkçe bir sesim. Yuna ko_KR # 안녕하세요. 제 이름은 Yuna입니다. 저는 한국어 음성입니다. Yuri ru_RU # Здравствуйте, меня зовут Yuri. Я – русский голос системы. Zosia pl_PL # Witaj. Mam na imię Zosia, jestem głosem kobiecym dla języka polskiego. Zuzana cs_CZ # Dobrý den, jmenuji se Zuzana. Jsem český hlas. (partially taken from https://maithegeek.medium.com/having-fun-in-macos-with-say-command-d4a0d3319668)
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