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Q: iPhone App Update from a Development Point of View I am doing iPhone development and my first app is in the market. First week was pretty good but now it is loosing momentum. If I provide an update to the app will it improve the app exposure in the iPhone app store.
A: All an update will do is reset the star rating for the application if it an .x release (for example, 1.0 to 1.1).
But to take the question and answer a big step further (one that falls well outside the scope of this forum), you cannot rely solely on the App Store to market your app. All of the rules for online marketing still apply.
A: I'd recomend that you read a book that I'm reading these days, Tapworthy. It has a lot of advice on what to add to your apps, what to do to keep them interesting, and so on.
Anyway, you should market the app as if it were you who were selling it. Create a dedicated website, with a big iPhone picture and screenshots or videos inside it. Create a dedicated twitter account, and give out promo codes to influential bloggers and app reviews sites...
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Q: When is the locate database updated? I use the locate command in Terminal regularly. When does its database get updated? On other systems, I could run updatedb as root to force it to update.
Note: I know using mdfind to search with spotlight is another option
A: The locate database is updated by the following cronjob:
/private/etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate
On Most Mac systems, Cron has been replaced by launchd, and you'll find that /etc/crontab doesn't exist. The schedule for this scheduled job is determined by launchd, and can be seen with one of the following commands:
% cat /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.periodic-weekly.plist
#### SNIP
<dict>
<key>Hour</key>
<integer>3</integer>
<key>Minute</key>
<integer>15</integer>
<key>Weekday</key>
<integer>6</integer>
</dict>
Or, something a little more user friendly:
% open /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.periodic-weekly.plist
launchd will then run the jobs specified in /etc/periodic/{daily,weekly,monthly}/*, using this schedule.
A: sudo periodic weekly is the easiest way to kick it off the weekly script which will call the normal rebuild of the locate database.
As noted launchd will start this script Saturdays at 03:15 AM if the mac is running. If the mac is sleeping at that time, it will run when the mac wakes. It won't run if the mac is powered off at the magic moment.
A: From the locate manpage:
FILES
/var/db/locate.database locate database
/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb Script to update the locate database
/etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate Script that starts the database rebuild
By default, the database is rebuilt weekly through launchd. You can run locate.updatedb manually to do the update.
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Q: Will iPhone App Update to new version will remove all the ratings? I plan to update my app with new features. If I publish a new version say V 1.0.1 then will I loose all my ratings from version 1.0.
A: Apple splits your App's ratings into two sections; "Current Version" and "All Versions".
The preference on the App Store is to display the "current version" ratings, however aggregated historical ratings and reviews are also available.
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Q: How can I get Preview to open up in the Foreground? Here's what's currently happening:
I use Chrome. I go to some website that has a PDF that I want to view on a hyperlink. I don't like viewing PDFs in the browser (even though I know this is possible), but prefer to have the pdf download and be viewed in Preview.
When I click the link in Chrome it asks me where I want the file saved, and then it downloads it. I click on the completed download tab at the bottom of the screen, and Chrome remains in the foreground. I can see that Preview has indeed been opened and the PDF is viewable, but I have to switch to Preview to view it using expose or command-tab.
Once the document has been opened in Preview and even when Preview is quit out of, it will always open Preview up in the foreground. This only happens on the first instance of opening a document. Also, if Preview is already open (in fore or background) downloading a new document will bring it to the foreground. So, what's happening only happens when a new document is downloaded and preview is not executed.
Here's what I would like to have happen:
I want to click on the completed download in the Chrome download bar at the bottom, and have it open and Preview and application-switch directly to Preview so that Preview is the foreground active application. This happens when I open other file types, but does not happen with PDFs into Preview.
My question:
Is there a way to change this behavior? Is there a central place where I can change the default behavior of whether apps open in the foreground or background?
A: Auto-opening a downloaded file from a browser is done on pretty much a browser-to-browser basis. Since you asked about Chrome, here's the relevant blurb from Google's Docs:
Automatically open certain types of
files
If you want certain types of files to
always open after they're done
downloading, click the arrow next to
the file button in the downloads bar
and select Always open files of this
type. To prevent potentially malicious
files from automatically downloading
to your computer, this option isn't
available for executable filetypes,
such as those with .exe, .dll, or .bat
extensions (for Windows), and .dmg
extensions (for Mac).
Personally, these features weren't visible when I tried it, but then I hardly use Chrome other than for the odd web site test.
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Q: Good simple Clipboard manager I'm used to using Ditto on windows, and need something similar on my mac mini.
Any Suggestions?
A: I think your best choice is :
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*Clipboard Evolved
But you can also use these softwares:
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*JumpCut (Free and open source)
*Clipmenu (As Calavera said :"ClipMenu is nice because it's free")
*Clyppan
*CuteClip
*PTHPasteboard
A: Added to the answer:
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*Maccy (open source - https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy)
*Clipy (open source - https://github.com/Clipy/Clipy)
*Clip Menu (open source - https://github.com/naotaka/ClipMenu)
All the above three are native apps, have search feature, and are really lightweight and fast. I currently use Maccy and before that I had used Clipy which is excellent as well.
Old answer:
Jumpcut is the pure clipboard app. Clyppan is no longer free.
If you do not want all the images you copy to sit in clipboard then Clip Menu can be ruled out and Jumpcut works good.
There's a Jumpcut fork - Flycut. I do not see any difference from Jumpcut, except that it(Flycut) seems to be in, relatively more, active development.
A: I'd recommend Alfred and its Powerpack for clipboard history. Aside from the actual keeping of history, you can save snippets that you use often and call them up with a combination of letters and search among recently copied texts. Alfred's interface for this is much nicer than Jumpcut's in my opinion. I haven't tried any of the others. I haven't found any application to be incompatible with Alfred either.
The price of the Powerpack might seem a little steep for just a clipboard history keeper, but Alfred can do so much more. It has become one of my most essential apps, so give it a try.
A: Two other clipboard managers that have not been mentioned include:
iClip
The simply useful clipboard manager
Stuf
A clipboard manager with a difference, you can copy and paste between different Macs (and PCs!) over your wired or wireless network! Stuf uses DropBox, so can share your clipboard in the office, or anywhere in the world.
A: I'm quite attached to ClipMenu.
It's simple, yet powerful enough for all my needs. It even supports snippets which are so useful for a programmer like me.
A: If you're already using LaunchBar, it has a clipboard manager built in. It's simple, but works just how I would need it to.
A: You can also use the free software Quicksilver with the clipboard module.
Here's a tutorial on how to use the clipboard module.
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Q: How do I back up my iPhone contacts to iTunes over USB? How do I back up my iPhone contacts to iTunes over USB?
I followed the standard procedure and my contacts were wiped out on my iPhone so I am scared about backing them up.
A: Connect your iPhone to your computer. Open iTunes and select your iPhone in the sidebar on the left. Select the Info tab and choose from one of the available options based on your operating system.
A: I sync mine with my google id
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A: iTunes can create backups of your contacts, photos, videos, text messages, notes, etc. of your iOS device when you:
* Sync with iTunes (disabled if you have iCloud backup turned on)
* Right-click (or Control-click) the iOS device in iTunes under Devices and choose Back Up
Use these steps to manually back up your iOS device using iTunes:
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*Connect your iOS device to a computer with the latest version of iTunes installed
*Select your iOS device in iTunes under Devices
*Right-click (or Control-click) the device and select Back Up
Resource:
How to back up and restore from a backup
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
A: In recent firmwares, you can use every Exchange-Provider (including Gmail) for over-the-air-sync of contacts, mails etc.
I use this feature to sync my contacts with my Gmail account, but you can use that as a backup too.
A: What procedure did you follow exactly? Note that the normal process for contacts is to sync the iPhone with the "Address Book" application. During the Sync iTunes also makes a backup, which can be used if you accidentally wipe the phone.
You can also tell iTunes to replace the information on the phone with what is on your Mac, which defaults to the Address Book's contacts. If you did a replace and there weren't any contacts in Address Book, then you could get what you saw.
Does any of that make sense?
A: Sync your phone with iTunes. Done.
A: When you connect to iTunes with USB cable, iTunes backups your contacts. Also you may chose gmail or win address book to backup or sync in itunes.
A: Personally I use MobileMe (now iCloud), but iTunes works just fine.
A: Alternatively (or as an extra precaution on top of the iTunes backup), you can sync with MobileMe. If you don't have it, sign-up for the trial. Then your data is safely in the cloud and on your computer.
A: You can also use iSync (find it with your Spotlight bar) which can do much more than just syncing contacts.
Apple's syncing method: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1386
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Q: Can you install Google Chrome on an iOS Device Is it possible to install Google Chrome web browser on an iOS device?
A: No. It's not possible to run Chrome in iOS.
I don't see why you'll want to run Chrome, even if it exists.
Safari for iPhone uses WebKit, the same rendering engine that Chrome uses. There shouldn't be much difference between the two. Safari is plenty fast on the iPhone.
The only other browser available for iPhone is Opera.
A: You can now install Google Chrome on an iOS Device.
Do note that it does not use the Chrome Rendering engine, but uses the Safari webkit. The "killer feature" though is that it has syncing with your Google Account.
A: As it is not available in the app store (at least not here in Germany), it is not possible. Maybe there is an app or possibility for jailbroken iPhones, but I doubt it.
A: Google would have to first properly release a chrome app for android before even thinking about an iOS app. Would be shooting themselves in the foot otherwise.
Whether or not Apple would approve it would be another story.
A: It is not and I doubt that there will ever be such a port, because the model Chrome is based on is that each tab is run as a separate process. As there is no true multitasking in the iPhone (available in public APIs, that is) such app would not be possible to do.
If Google ever releases something like that (which would not be approved in the App Store, with the current rules, but for argument's sake let's say it's released as an ad-hoc distribution, or as source code) it would work very differently, thus being a different product with the same brand
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Q: Browsing left (up) in column view with no horizontal scroll bar? Sometimes in an "Open" or "Save" dialog you want to go one directory up. It is in column view, but there simply is no column to the left and no horizontal scroll bar. Is there a way to go up one directory without browsing completely down again from the root directory?
A: Pressing ⌘ + ↑ works like a charm.
A: Press ⌘+shift+G and type ".." (two dots).
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Q: Running Leopard on a MacBook Pro that shipped with Snow Leopard I have a MacBook Pro with 10.6 pre-installed. Is there a way to use this machine to test my software on 10.5?
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*Do I need 10.5, or is there is a mode within 10.6 with which I can run 10.5?
*If I need 10.5, how can I get it?
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*Do I need to buy the 10.5 OS? (if so, where does one do that?)
*Does 10.6 somehow include 10.5 with it?
*Do I already have a license for 10.5 by buying 10.6?
*How do I install 10.5 once I have it?
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*Will it work in Virtualbox?
*Do I need to dual boot?
A: No, this will not work. You can have multiple versions of OS X on one machine, but you can only install newer versions than the one that came pre-installed. For example, if your machine came with 10.6.4, you can't run 10.6.3 or older.
When Apple releases new hardware, the drivers for that hardware get rolled into a special build of OS X that comes only on that model. They don't get added to OS X in general until the next point release. (That means that drivers for the hypothetical machine I'm talking about wouldn't be added until 10.6.5.)
Apple doesn't release drivers as standalone software, which effectively makes it impossible to install and older version of OS X than what your Mac shipped with. You'll find that if you put the install disc for an older version in the drive, it either won't boot or it will refuse to install.
However, you can go the other direction. If you have an old Mac running 10.5, you can use Disk Utility to make another partition (HFS+ Journaled), then boot the install DVD for 10.6 and install it to that partition. To switch between the two after installing, hold alt when you boot up. (You can also select the default boot partition through the Startup Drive pane in System Preferences within either OS X install.) Boot camp is not required for this. Boot camp is only required for installing non-Apple operating systems like Windows and Linux.
A: I would think partitioning the disk and using Boot Camp is all you need to do here.
If you don't have a 10.5 disk already, then you'll need to go through Ebay and sites of its ilk. Apple doesn't sell previous versions of OSes.
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Q: How do I see the currently running applications on an iPod Touch? There is only one button at the bottom of my iPod Touch. To close applications, I press the home button. Does it really close applications, or does it just display the home page and an extra thread runs in the background? Is there any way that I can see the currently running applications?
A: In iOS 3, you press the home button, with very few and only Apple-engineered exceptions (eg. the iPod app) the app is closed.
In iOS 4+, there is limited multitasking available to third-party apps. Apple freezes all processes in the background unless they're performing one of the following functions (ripped from Ars):
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*Audio: you can now listen to streaming music from apps, like Pandora or newscasts through the NPR app, while doing other activities on your phone.
*VoIP: you can carry on Voice Over IP calls on services like Skype without having to quit the app if you need to perform other tasks.
*Location: apps that need to poll your location, such as GPS and direction apps, will be able to do so in the background.
*Local notifications: third-party apps no longer have to rely solely on push notifications if they want to alert you of something on your phone. If you have an alert set in, say, one of Omni's applications, it can ping you when the time comes instead of having to go through a convoluted series of Internet tubes to get to you.
*Complete tasks: if you start a task in an application and then switch to another one (such as downloading a new map in your favorite game), it can now complete the task in the background instead of forcing you to sit there and wait on it.
*Fast app switching: this is basically "pausing" an app where it is, which allows you to quickly switch away from it and then switch back, picking up where you left off.
In iOS 4, double-tapping the home button shows a tray holding both recently-used apps and apps performing the above limited-multitasking functions. You can close them/remove them from the tray by clicking the red "-" sign.
A: If you use iOS 4 (or higher) tapping the Home button to close an app now only hides the app's activity and don't closed really, if you want close app you must "double tap button hold the icon then press the dash to close it"
But if you use iOS 3 or less when you press ipod touch button it close running apps and go to your home page.
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Q: How do I connect an iPad to a projector? How do I connect an iPad to a standard overhead projector? Currently the projector is connected to my laptop via standard cable.
A: If you use a VGA connection, the Apple iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter might be of interest to you.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC552ZM/A
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Q: What's the tool that can do some actions when a file is copied? I use Cmd+L to make a alias, and the alias has "alia" appended to the original file name. I move the link to a directory, then remove the "alias" part manually.
Is there a tool that can do this kind of automatically? I mean, if a tool can catch the event a file is copied to a specific directory to call a tool (python, ruby or applescript) with a parameter, I can easily rename the file name.
ADDED
Thanks to Ben and Dori, I could get it working.
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*Go to /Library/Scripts/Folder Actions directory to Folder Actions Setup.
*Run Automator
*Utilities -> Run Shell Script
*Use python as a shell, and pass input should be as arguments
*Run the following code
import sys
import os
for f in sys.argv[1:]:
(name, ext) = os.path.splitext(f)
newname = "%s%s" % (name, ".pdf")
os.rename(f, newname)
Philip's method should work, but I think Automator is easier to get it work.
On my Snow Leopard, I couldn't see the folder action context menu.
A: In addition to Applescript, Automator allows you to create Folder Actions as well, at least in 10.6. (This should have been a comment on Philip's post, but I don't quite have enough rep for that yet.)
A: I'm not sure what you're using to make symbolic links (it's not built in to OS X), so I can't say if something could be added at that step.
For Folder Actions, the three places to look are:
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*/Library/Scripts/Folder Actions
*/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts
*/Library/Scripts/Script Editor Scripts/Folder Actions Handlers
In the first folder, you'll find Configure Folder Actions - run that, and you can enable folder actions, including choosing folders and what scripts apply to those folders.
The last two folders will give you some places to start writing the script you want.
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Q: How can I revive dead pixels on my iPod Touch (second generation)? I've got lines on the top of my iPod Touch (2nd gen) and they won't go away.
I've checked some other forums and they told me to:
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*Turn the brightness all the way up and go to some funky strobing website for 6 hours.
*Put it in the freezer (never again)
*Press down on the screen, but the lines are too near the top to do that (without breaking it)
Are there any other old wives tales relevant to fixing dead pixels. I've seen some come back and go away so I think it's not a totally lost cause.
A: I dont know about how comfortable you are with taking electronics apart, but it sounds like the connector for the screen might be coming loose, or the screen might be on the way out. I would recommend buying a replacement screen on eBay, or paying apple to fix it for you.
A: Do you have a dead pixel (black) or a stuck pixel (stuck on one color)? Those suggestions work occasionally for stuck pixels, but if you have dead pixels, you're out of luck, unfortunately.
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Q: Can I remote desktop into a Windows-based corporate network from my iPad?
Possible duplicate:
iPads in the corporate world
Has anyone remote desktop into a Windows-based corporate network with an iPad? What has been your experience? How do you address the issue of multiple domains? Is this even possible?
Currently, I just connect my laptop to a network cable and remote desktop from one domain into another domain to get to my desktop computer into a different location.
Is this possible with an iPad? How would my regular network cable connect to an iPad?
A: If you’re talking about accessing a Remote Desktop via a RDC Client, There are a lot of applications that work fine. I’m personally using iTap Mobile RDP and it’s fantastic.
A: To answer your networking question: You can connect an iPad to a computer, or to a Wi-Fi connection (or both), but you can't connect an Ethernet cable to an iPad.
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Q: Automator folder action questions As I asked in this post, I could make it that a file in a directory can be renamed automatically, but I have some questions about this action.
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*Where to the workflow files are copied? When I run 'save as', it doesn't seem to show the directory where the file is copied.
*How is this folder action stored and restored so that it runs automatically when system reboots? In other words, I guess I don't have to rerun automator whenever I reboot, how does this possible?
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*I found that the automator workflow is stored in "~/Library/Workflows/Applications/Folder Actions/"
*I also found that folder action from automator workflow is also registered by running "/System/Library/CoreServices/Folder Actions Setup.app"
A:
Where to the workflow files are copied?
I don't understand this question.
Is this folder action stored in a system so that it's working even after my reboot?
By default, folder actions are stored in the /Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts folder.
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Q: How Do I Set the Default Language in Pages? In Pages, you can change the default language to British English in the Inspector --> Text --> "More" tab --> Language: British English.
However, this reverts somehow in every launch of Pages. How do I set British English as the default language so that vocabulary checks are done according to British English?
A: You have to change the settings in the "International" panel in System Preferences.
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*Go to System Preferences.
*Go to the Language & Text (In 10.6) panel (the language tab appears first by default).
*Put your preferred language at the top of the list (you might have to edit the list).
Relaunch your iWork application (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) and your preferred language will be used as default language.
A: To follow up Martin's answer, for British English you will need to edit the list and check the "British English" tick box. I spent while looking for "English (British)", but it's the former format that appears.
A: I suggest that you try Language Switcher.
It’s a freeware software, that launches single applications with a different language.
I tested it with many software but I don't know if it works for pages too, please try it and tell us if it works or not in the comments.
A: I believe the only way to do this is to change the spelling language in a blank document and save it as a template.
Under General Preferences, you can select "Use Template:" and choose that template you saved.
A: If you don't mind changing the UI in addition to the spell checker, the following commands:
cd ~/Library/Preferences/
defaults write com.apple.iWork.Pages.plist AppleLanguages "(Dutch,English)"
Would make the Pages UI (menu items, spellcheck, etc.) use Dutch first, and then English anywhere where the Dutch translation or dictionary is not provided. I leave it as an exercise to the reader to find out if it is "British" or "British English" or "GB-EN" or etc. to set it to British English UI and spell checking. Please leave the answer as a reply / comment to this answer.
Some more details here and here.
A: If you go into the properties box of an existing document, you can change the language of that document to English (Australian) even after you have been working on it for a while. You can even change individual paragraphs or words to separate languages. This means you need to "select all" the text before changing the language. This was in iWork 09 Pages.
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Q: Recording the sound of my Mac Is there a way to capture the currently playing "sounds" ?
For instance, If I want to copy (to an audio-file) the noise I make while playing a flash game, is there a way to record what is currently to be heard in my headset ?
A: Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack Pro can do this for you and much more.
A: If you want to do it for free you can download Audacity and Soundflower (if you have a mac) and record the sound straight off your sound card.
Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
Soundflowerbed: http://cycling74.com/downloads/
Tutorial: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/User:BillWharrie/Using_Soundflower_to_record_streaming_audio
You mentioned you're using a mac, but for people who run windows, there is likely another program you can substitute for Soundflower to accomplish the same thing, although I have not looked into it.
A: Another option, also from Rogue Amoeba, is Piezo which is about 50% the cost of Audio Hijack Pro. So, depending on how complex your needs are, there are two really great options.
A: Soundflower has been my optimal software for audio routing. You can grab it here: http://cycling74.com/products/soundflower/. Please note that this is only available for Mac. If you own a Windows computer, (or GNU/Linux, Solaris, or FreeBSD, or even Mac as well, in addition to any POSIX-conformant platforms), try JACK at http://jackaudio.org. Both of these are free, so try them out.
A: TapeDeck is another such app to the list. It literally has a nice looking interface featuring a classic tape recorder, with a "drawer of tapes" on the side, which is a stack of the recordings that you've made with it before. The data there displays title, time or recording, and the duration.
To record, choose the setting "Record using system audio recorder", and it should record the sound straight from your sound card, i.e. whatever comes out of your headphones/speakers. Free evaluation version is available, and if you find it useful for something that you need to do a lot, the full version is worth it. For me, it's been stable and I like the simplicity of the layout, easy little thing that doesn't take too much area on the screen.
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Q: Can I assign Magic Trackpad 3-finger swipe up/down to scroll to top/bottom? I have the trackpad on my Macbook pro set up to scroll to top/bottom on a 3-finger vertical swipe. As far as I can tell, that option isn't there for a Magic Trackpad.
It's very confusing to have both devices behave differently on the same gestures. Is there a way to fix this?
A: My Magic Trackpad did this right out of the box. I believe you should select "Swipe to navigate."
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Q: In itunes, how do I view entire album of currently playing song? If I have a playlist of songs, and I want to go from a song and play the entire album, I can't see anyway to do this except manually finding album in music list. There must be a better way. This is using itunes 10
A: If you normally sort your overall library by album, you can right click on the currently playing song in a playlist and select Show In Playlist -> Music. This will take you directly to that song in your music library.
A: If you don't have the little arrows visible, perhaps with the new version of iTunes + Ping, you can make them re-appear:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-link-arrows 1
If you Option + click on the arrow for an album, you'll see all songs in that album. The arrow next to the artist name to links to all songs by that artist. If you don't want to press Option then you can run this command:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES
And the normal behavior will be to show you your songs, and the meta behavior will be to link into the iTunes Store.
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Q: Mac ports package name search from command line? I tried to install gnuchessc with Mac ports, but there's nothing like that.
sudo port install gnuchessc
Error: Port gnuchessc not found
Before reporting a bug, first run the command again with the -d flag to get complete output.
Actually, it should have been gnuchess not gnuchessc. Is there a way to let Mac Ports teach me that there is gnuchess instead of gnuchessc from command line?
A: port search $TERM
The MacPorts Guide is really useful for these sorts of things.
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Q: Has anyone else seen "iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it"? Just now, upon taking my iPhone 4 out of my pocket where it lives, I was faced with a screen saying "iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it" (see below - screenshot mysteriously still worked). The only thing it would let me do was dial emergency calls. The phone was not noticeably any warmer than usual when idle. Are there any known issues with this?
A: This happened to my brother's iPhone 4 a few times. When he took it to the Apple Store, they ran a special diagnostic that revealed the phone had reached 200 degrees inside. Needless to say, the phone was replaced.
A: From the User's Guide:
If the interior temperature of iPhone exceeds normal operating temperatures, you may experience the following as it attempts to regulate its temperature:
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*iPhone stops charging
*display dims
*weak cellular signal
*temperature warning screen appears
Important: You cannot use iPhone while the temperature warning screen is displayed except to make an emergency call. If none of the above measures succeeds in lowering the internal temperature, iPhone automatically goes into a deep sleep mode until it cools. You cannot make an emergency call when iPhone is in this mode. Move iPhone to a cooler location and wait a few minutes before trying to use iPhone again.
There have been numerous cases of all sorts of consumer electronics melting/exploding, and these have often been settled with lawsuits. It is appropriate that the iPhone take preemptive measures to avoid such accidents.
A: This is a long shot but maybe there's a process going on in the background that's using a lot of processor cycles.
Consider double clicking the home button and quitting everything running and shutting the iPhone down, then restarting it.
Consider turning off bluetooth to see if that's an issue.
A: I left my IPhone in car's passenger seat while cleaning garage and had the same message when I retrieved the phone. It was a hot South Florida July day and the phone was hot to the touch. Took phone inside and after it "cooled off", started to work again as normal.
A: it is temp pin in battery just try to change your battery thats all
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Q: Is it possible to write to the Boot Camp disk in OS X? I have a MacBook Pro with Boot Camp and sometimes I want to update information on the Windows partition but currently I have to boot in Windows and read from the Mac partition. I don't want to leave OS X to organize files.
A: It is possible.
You will first need MacFUSE and then NTFS-3G.
The User's Guide for NTFS-3G can be found here (PDF).
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Q: How do I change the PIN on an iPhone? A simple one, I guess:
I recently bought a new (unlocked) iPhone, and at the same time changed my phone subscription to another operator. How can I set the PIN code on the new SIM card to something other than the default? With a quick look, I couldn't find anything related in iPhone settings.
A: The setting to change SIM PIN can be found under Settings app → Mobile Data → SIM PIN and not under Settings app → Phone.
A: You can find the option under Settings > Phone > SIM PIN.
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Q: How to display Google App Contacts in a separate iChat list? I have a few accounts in iChat:
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*GMail
*AIM
*Google Apps (a custom domain)
Both GMail and Google Apps put all my contacts in the 'Buddies' list. Can I rename my Gmail list to "GMail Contacts' or something else so that both accounts dont get merged?
A: I actually just tried this and iChat does it automatically. As you can see I have a different window for each account, and I think you can actually set the window's title by setting the account description under Settings->Accounts. As you can see I even have different groups for each account.
Although I usually have them unified using Chax's feature Use All Contacts window as primary contact list
A: Yes, and Yes. Just add a new group, and then drag your Google App contacts to the newly named group. It's really that easy. You can right click on any group name, and select rename.
You can also do the same with Adium
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Q: How to convert .number file to any of the readble format including excel and pdf without having mac I have an important .number iworks file. My Mac is now no more... How do I convert .number file to any of the readble format including excel and pdf without having mac.
A: The .numbers file is actually a directory. There should be an image
file.numbers/QuickLook/Thumbnail.jpg
that contains a preview of the document. It might contain the information that you are looking for. The contents on the file are actually stored in a compressed xml file
file.numbers/index.xml.gz
If you are just looking for some bit of information, you might be able to find it in there. For the most part, unless you have something to parse the xml, it would take quite a bit of work to reconstruct the spreadsheet from the xml.
A: This is very difficult to do without a Mac. You possibly could try to manually extract the data by hand or with a conversion tool, but I am not aware of any conversion tools available.
Therefore, I highly suggest that you use Numbers to do the conversion. Since you don't have your Mac anymore, perhaps you could borrow a friend's? Also, if there is an Apple Store near where you live, you could put the file on a flash drive and do the conversion there.
A: There's a website called Zamzar offering converting services: http://www.zamzar.com.
You can upload .numbers (among many other filetypes) and let them convert it to .csv, .pdf or .xls. You can have them mail you a link to download this converted file (for only one day).
I don't know if they're trustable, but they just helped me out.
A: Perhaps Numbers in iCloud could help, if you have an iCloud account and don't mind uploading your data to a server.
https://icloud.com/
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Q: How do I launch an app at start up but as a specific user? I want to launch an app at login but have it running as a specific user. Here's the use case:
I turn on my Mac and login in as Ben. In the background iTunes is launched for Bill. Ben can launch his own instance of iTunes and access Bills songs via iTunes sharing. Ben doesn't care have access to Bills instance of iTunes. All other iTunes on the local network can also access Bills shared iTunes library.
Please don't suggest iTunes specific solutions (e.g. Home Sharing) as I also want to run other apps in a similar fashion.
Is this possible?
A: If you just have two users, you can auto login as Bill, have Bill's account auto-launch multiple apps (see launchd, or via the GUI under User Accounts), and after a timed delay switch users (again, launchd or an Automater App + "sleep 30;" + this), returning you to the login screen. You now manually log in as Ben.
If you want multiple apps running under multiple user accounts in the background, it gets a bit more complicated. Please clarify if this is the case.
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Q: Can you set custom ringtones for contact groups? In iPhone, you can easily change the default ringtone (Settings → Sounds → Ringtone) and set a custom ringtone for individual people (Contacts → [some person] → Edit → Ringtone).
But can you set a custom tone for a group of contacts? (E.g. "family" or "workmates".)
I think that would be handy—and quite basic functionality, so to speak—but I couldn't find a way to do this through the iPhone UI. Is it possible at all (without jailbreaking)?
A: It is unfortunately not (yet or ever?) officially supported as a feature of iOS.
A: yes, you can assign ringtones to contact groups on iPhone using Grouptones tweak ($2.99 in Cydia, requires jailbreak).
See http://grouptonesapp.com for details!
A: It had this feature on my 3Gs. I know because I just upgraded to the 4s and it's not there. They changed it.
A: Just use this app: GRingtones, it is a group managing app.
The most important feature is that GRingtones could set a ringtone for each group!
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*Setting a group ringtone
*Setting a text tone for a group
*Groups could be created, edited, or deleted free.
*Searching for contacts is also supported.
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Q: How I can save a screenshot of an iPhone application? I want to take a screenshot of an iPhone or iPad application to share.
How is that accomplished?
A: Press the home button and the sleep button simultaneously. Newer phones have the sleep,on the side instead of the top but save images the same.
This will save a picture of the current iPhone screen to the "Photos" application. From there, you can either email it to anyone you want or sync it to your computer.
Assistive touch also works on newer iOS versions.
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*How can I create iPhone screenshots without the lock button?
On iOS 11 screen recording might be if use for capturing transient events where your reflexes or the device itself isn’t responsive enough at the correct moment.
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*How do I take a screenshot in iOS without hitting the Home Button and the Power Button?
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Q: High quality USB microphone that works on the iPhone 4 Can you recommend a high quality USB microphone that works on the iPhone 4? (Apparently there are issues with the iPhone 4 and USB microphones)
A: By "there are issues with the iPhone 4 and USB microphones," are you referring to the fact that no one has ever gotten them to work together?
The iPad, yes—but not the iPhone 4.
(Which, I think, answers the question about which mic I recommend…)
A: It looks like the Tascam IM2 is the only game in town (and just released). Its features are 125dB SPL, 95dB S/N, 20Hz-20kHz, if eBay listings are believable.
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Q: Why does battery die during sleep mode? I'm running MacOSX 10.5.8 on a MacBook Pro.
I was working on my computer last night. I finished work, closed the lid and expected the computer to go to sleep. I assume this is the Apple Safe Sleep mode. My battery was about 70% charged.
Tonight, I open up my laptop and discover that the computer refuses to start and battery has been completely discharged. When I plug the computer in again, all information from my previous session was lost. It's as if the computer shut down completely.
What's happening here? Shouldn't the computer go to sleep and save all information to disk? When I wake the computer up from sleep mode, shouldn't it restore all information from my previous session?
This only happens about 5% of the time that I close the lid. Usually, this works as I expected.
Update to answer @zneak's question:
This is the hardware model, according to About this Mac: More Info...: Hardware.
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro3,1
A: What happened could’ve been because of different reasons. Certain old Macbook Pros had troubles with sleeping (hence why zneak wants to know about the model).
However I believe that your computer woke up (wake on lan? hung process?) during the night and it burned through your battery. What are your Energy Settings?
Also, get some sort of CPU meter like MenuMeters or iStats Menu (€) and make sure your CPU/Cores are not 100%, that indicates a process that’s using all your CPU power (and a lot of energy!)
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Q: Audio book just becomes silent on iPhone after a few hours, no issue with desktop player I built an Audio Book (an M4B) file from a set of MP3 files. The result lasts 18h30, and was encoded using Free MP3 to Audio Book Converter. The resulting file uses AAC version 4 - LC - SBR.
When reading this file with Windows Media Player, I encounter no issue. But on the iPhone (a 3GS running iOS 4.0.1), the sound just abruptly stops at after a few hours (approx. 5 hours), always at the same place: the player still plays the file, but it emits no sound. Another file, encoded the same way, gave me the same problem: at some point, the sound just stops.
Previous audio books that I had built had no such issue. They last around 10 hours, which is still more than the time at which the two problematic files stop.
Any idea about what could be going on? Is it not possible to reliably build large audio books for the iPhone?
[EDIT] I just tried to delete the book from the iPhone, and download it again. Noticed two things: while the length displayed on the book library is 26h36m43, the length displayed in the player itself is only 13h15m21 (one half)... Other thing is that now, it stops after only a few minutes...
[EDIT] An audio book I converted with the same program is available here (290MB). On my iPhone, all sounds disappear at 30m57s. I uploaded it twice, with the same result.
A: It may have been an issue with that iOS version, or the conversion program itself.
Ultimately, however, now that iOS 14 will be released this year, this question is largely unnecessary in 2020 and beyond.
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Q: Is the upgrade to 4.1 worth it? I currently have a jailbroken 3Gs iPhone running 4.01.
I've really used the jailbroken part, but it's good to know that I can tether my laptop to the phone should I ever need to.
Having said that, is it worth it to upgrade the phone to 4.1 (which hasn't been jailbroken yet)? Does it fix the sluggishness issues that were caused by the upgrade from iPhone OS 3.x to iOS 4.x?
A: There have been no reported issues with sluggishness on the iPhone 3GS.
The issues with sluggishness relate to the iPhone 3G. The update to iOS 4.1 resolves these issues.
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Q: Songs Won't Appear On Ipod After Syncing I have been having issues with syncing my iPod and would be extremely grateful if anyone could help.
When I connect my iPod to the computer it shows on both the iPod and iTunes that it is syncing. However the songs that I have added a week ago still won't go on to the iPod and I have tried syncing it several items. The songs are downloaded from iTunes so I don't understand why it won't work.
A: Can you check if your iPod is set for syncing all music ? Attach your iPod to your computer and in the iTunes sidebar select the iPod. Click on Music and check if the setting is enabled or not. Also check if your enabled manually manage songs.
Also, check the Apple Support Article on how to manage and sync the music to your iPod.
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Q: Command Line method to backup using two Time Machine disks Does anyone know of a command line method to select the active Time Machine disk? I would like to alternate between two backup disks for redundancy. I would like this to be automated, presumably via cron, perhaps launchd.
There is an AppleScript method to swap disks, but I am doing remote system administration and cannot rely on GUI scripting. I would presume there is sufficient control of Time Machine using the defaults command, but am not sure how to achieve this yet.
A: Note: The restore component of backing up like this has not yet been tested.
Get the ID of the attached drive
defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine BackupAlias
Eject, plug in 2nd drive, make it the Time Machine drive with the GUI, repeat.
Write (rather than read) the ID:
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine BackupAlias '<00000000 014e0002 ....>'
source & thanks to Christian Stocker. Key comments from that post:
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*http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/defaults.1.html "WARNING: The defaults command will be changed in an upcoming major release to only operate on preferences domains. General plist manipulation utilities will be folded into a different command-line program."
*Also the property DestinationVolumeUUID should be set.
A: If your need is to have redundancy on Time Machine backups, an alternative is to maintain a clone of your Time Machine Volume. I use SuperDuper! for that purpose.
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Q: Why doesn't iOS 4 have any apps to match Locale on Android? Locale seems to be one of the coolest apps on the Android devices. Lets you reconfigure multiple aspects of your phone depending on location. I for example would like to change my default calendar depending on if I'm at work or not.
I've done a lot of digging to see if iPhone has a similar app. And all I can find are old articles saying that since iOS doesn't support background tasks (Which it does now), that this feature isn't even possible. Now that we have background tasks, I can't see whats holding this back, especially in the jailbreak community.
I'm posting this to see if anybody out there has an app in progress, or has anymore information that I haven't been able to dig up.
Thanks
A: While iOS doesn't support generic background tasks (i.e. doing whatever you want in the background), it does support taking some action when a user enters certain geographical bounds, so it seems like this could technically be possible when moving from work to home or elsewhere.
My guess is that it is because iOS is very restrictive about what an app can change about the phone interface. You mention changing the default calendar configuration, which an application cannot do currently with public APIs. Apps are mostly restricted to changing their own settings or firing their own events rather than having access to other apps on the phone.
Could this change in the future? Sure, if Apple adds more public APIs to change various system or app options. But it seems unlikely considering their interest in a consistent user experience.
A: Implementing such an app on the iPhone would require that either GPS or wifi is active all the time (or at least regularly), which might drain the battery.
Also, this app would have to run as a background service all the time, which iOS doesn't really allow. You can run any number of apps but when memory runs low, the least used apps get shut down by the OS. This app should have to be protected against shutdown, which iOS doesn't support. For this reason, this app needs to be written for jailbroken iPhones only.
Therefore, you won't find such an app in iTunes, but you might find it in Cydia (now or in the future), but I don't know.
Note: I've not jailbroken my iPhone 4 yet but situations like this make me want to. I think that Apple puts too many limits on the devices. If people want to run XYZ on their devices and it redcues their battery life to a few hours, let them if they really want to.
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Q: Free (if possible) Video Converter I've been getting along with VisualHub (defunct) for a while now, but recently I've needed an expanded set of Codec's, in particular Theora and VP8.1
A: FFmpeg might be what you're looking for. It is free and supports Theora and VP8.
A: A couple free programs:
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*Miro Video Converter - Free but very limited in terms of customization. But does support Theora and VP8l
*FFMPEG on the command line - Harder to use but it's free.
*Video Monkey - Based on the open sourced replacement of Visual Hub
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Q: Can I use the sound output on both my late 2009 iMac and my Cinema Display? I purchased a 27" Cinema Display to go with my late 2009 iMac.
What I would like to do is use the speakers on both displays. This doesn't seem possible using System Prefs -> Sound. I can only set it to use one set of speakers or the other.
Ideally I'd have the cinema display output the left channel while the iMac outputs the right.
Is there a way to use them both?
A: I don’t know if you can get away with that, but I do know what you can’t do with “the tools you have”.
The first approach would be to - having both output devices connected – create an Aggregate device that encompasses both.
Let’s say one device is called: Headphones and the other is Display.
The initial approach would be to create the Aggregate device in your Audio MIDI Setup panel, add Headphones and Display as devices, mute Headphones’ left channel and then Display’s right channel. Then happily select this new Aggregate device as your sound output and be super happy.
Sadly that doesn’t work. (I’ve tried it). Apparently the clock synchronization between the “devices” doesn’t happen and OS X doesn’t really care, therefore only one device outputs audio. (Sad, but true).
(more information on how to create an Aggregate device that can be found on this Apple Article)
What to do?
There’s hope, but I haven’t tried this solution.
The idea would be to create an aggregate device of your two sources (Display and Headphones) like we did before, then install JackOSX, set its preference to your new aggregate device, start the Jack’s router, set AudioMIDI Setup to use Jack for I/O, open an app to play your music and connect its output send channels to whatever system playback channels you want in Jack Connection manager.
That might work and I suggest you give it a shot.
More simple solutions, might involve cabling, Y-Splitters and weird things which I don’t think you want to dive into (specially given that all the audio is Digital and internal, you’re not talking about external speakers per se).
Finally, although it doesn’t provide simultaneous playback, changing sound sources is very simple with a free utility like SoundSource from your menu bar. (I do it all the time to switch from headphones to speakers).
Hope something of this makes sense.
A: Get two sets of external speakers (one for each monitor), and plug them into a Y-splitter cable, and plug that into the Mac. You'll get the sound balance you seek and, unless you are a hardcore audiophile or have perfect hearing, you won't notice the difference between the analog/digital sound and experience better sound overall.
Just because there are speakers on your Apple hardware doesn't mean you have to use them, or to put it another way: two pairs of powered, external, analog speakers will beat the sound of the internal-but-wired-the-same-way-as-external speakers any day.
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Q: Sorting by multiple criteria in iTunes So I have a playlist with a bunch of albums in it that I would like to sort by album name. This is mostly fine, except where you have two albums from different artists that have the same album name, such as here:
Note that 'Aphex Twin - Classics' and 'Ratatat - Classics' are being merged together.
This is in Album List view, sorting by Album. Album by Artist does not work as it primary sorts alphabetically by Artist instead of alphabetically by Album, which is what I want.
What I would expect to see here is 'Aphex Twin - Classics' first and then 'Ratatat - Classics', because iTunes should know that it has two albums but from different artists.
It looks like you can can set the 'Album Artist' in the id3 tags and it will then sort by that, which means to make this work correctly I'd have to retag all my music and copy the artist into the artist album tag (unless it already existed yadda yadda). This is less than ideal, is there another way?
(Thinking about this I'm imagine it happens because of how iTunes tries to deal with compilations, which imo really needs to be overhauled, but that's another story)
A: I believe that currently the only way to do this is by setting the Album Artist. Considering that you only need to set the Album Artist for albums that you are having problems with, and that you only need to copy and paste the artist name once for each album, it doesn't seem very tedious.
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Q: How can I change the background and text colour for messages in Mail.app I much prefer reading white text on a black background. Is it possible for me to configure Mail.app so that messages are displayed white-on-black instead of the other way around?
A: Yup. Go to preferences -> Fonts & Colors -> click "Select" on "Message font" -> do your thing. :)
A: The more universal way to do this is to turn the entire screen opposite (White on Black).
System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > Invert Colors
You can assign a hotkey in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Accessibility > Invert colors
Default shortcut is: ctrl + option + cmd + 8
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Q: Fast forward / backward on iPod Touch Is there an easy way (that I didn't find yet) the move quickly from one place to another while listen to a podcast or a song (as it was possible on my provious iPod Nano whith the "wheel" button) ?
A: Tap the album artwork to bring up the seek slider. You can then drag the slider to move from one place to another in the track.
A: Hold the skip forward/backwards button (Other known as "next song" button) for a few seconds. You'll fast forward/backwards in the song.
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Q: How to connect to wireless TV satellite receiver from Mac OS X How could I connect to my satellite receiver from Mac OS X and be able to watch TV and navigate through channel list? Is there any free software that could do this?
A: The closest thing to what you want would probably be the SlingBox.
It's not possible to do this with just software, unfortunately. Satellite and cable boxes are pretty locked down, so you need a hybrid hardware/software solution like the SlingBox.
A: use dreambox tv satellite receiver , connect to your network and your mac via wireless
on the mac !dreamX
maybe you have to use VLD video viewer
A: Not free and not software, but if you want the best results, you'll need the EyeTV HD from Elgato.
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Q: What is the best icon creator for mac? I'm new to mac, I used to use Axialis IconWorkshop on Windows. So I want to know what's the best icon creator for mac?
A: If you have access to Photoshop, then I highly recommend Iconbuilder from Iconfactory. Back when I doing this, Iconbuilder made the creation of resources for a variety of platforms a snap.
A: If you just have a tiff file that you need to make into an icon, you can use the built-in command line program tiff2icns.
(This is probably not the best all-around answer, but it has been useful to me.)
A: It's been years and things are changing, let me answer my own question, What is the best icon creator for Mac?
I think the answer is iconutil for me. You can get more info by running man iconutil in Terminal.
I also create an Automator workflow:
https://github.com/sparanoid/automator-workflows#create-app-iconset
You can convert a set of images or a single image to an icon.
A: Since it isn't mentioned, I'll do it: IconSlate is a fantastic app for creating both Windows (.ico) and Mac (.icns) icons. Simple to use, beautifully designed and does exactly what it says on the tin. Highly recommended!
A: If you want free software your best choice was Pic2Icon and you can also try img2icnsapp free version and if you like it, can upgrade it to pro version.
and the best software was iconeer but it's not free and you must pay for it.
I also suggest you see this page for more infos.
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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: 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
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*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: 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.
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*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: 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
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*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: 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:
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*Apple’s free Seminar for Integrating OSX into Active Directory
*MCS + dslocal
*Using Managed Preferences in the DSLocal domain
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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.
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*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\[\033[00m\]\$ '
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*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: 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:
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*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: 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:
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*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:
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*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.
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*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: 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: 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)
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*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:
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*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: 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:
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*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:
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*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:
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*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:
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*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:
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*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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