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Q: How do I use Mac's Preview application text speech feature? How could I let Preview start speaking a selected paragraph? I found the speech menu item in the edit menu but this starts speaking from the beginning of the document!
A: There is a convenient way of making your Mac speak any selected text.
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*Open System Preferences.
*Select Speech.
*Select the Text to Speech tab if it is not already selected.
*Check the box for Speak selected text when the key is pressed and provide a key combination of your choice.
You can now use the key combination to speak selected text system-wide.
A: I read the above comment and tried to follow the instructions I was unsuccessful (as I didn't highlight the text). Although, having now solved the issue you need to highlight the selected text and then press the key combination (mine is ctrl+s).
Now I use it on all applications including preview, Microsoft Word, chrome etc. I love it.
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Q: Offline furigana for iOS Is there any software to compute and display furigana completely offline?
It doesn't have to be integrated with any existing app. A new standalone app I type into is fine.
A: You have several apps available on the App store now - just search for Furigana.
I have a friend that likes this one, but YMMV:
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*Furigana Reader - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/furigana-reader/id529433422?mt=8
It does not work offline, so it doesn't meet your requirements unless you fail to find any offline software and can relax that constraint.
A: I'm a little confused here. You want an app that you can type kanji into and get the kana in return. But the only way to type kanji into the iPhone is by typing it phonetically, which gives you the kana for free, essentially.
There are a number of self-contained Japanese dictionary apps for the iPhone. Most of them use the EDICT dictionary. I've got one that can import EPWING-formatted dictionaries, and have imported Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary into it.
This seems like the closest to what you want. I think. I get the impression that it has the dictionaries built-in, but I could be wrong.
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Q: Are there keyboard shortcuts for Home, End, PageDown, and PageUp in OS X? How do I set keyboard shortcuts for Home, End, PageDown, and PageUp on a 13" MacBook Pro? Are there default keyboard shortcuts? Or can I do it with Automator (and if so, how)?
I want them to work the same way that Home and End do on all Windows apps.
I also want general solution I get that Kyle Cronin♦ was do the same in some apps, but what about others? is there any tricky solution?
A: You can do page up/down and home/end on a Macbook keyboard by using the fn and the arrow keys:
fn+↑ is PageUp
fn+↓ is PageDown
fn+← is Home
fn+→ is End
A: I found another solution for you while I was playing around with KeyRemap4MacBook. Check out the settings pictured below. See anything you like? :)
A: On my MBP it's:
CMD + FN + <- for HOME
and
CMD + FN + -> for END
A: ⌘+→ works like a PC's End (moves the cursor to the end of the line). ⌘+← works like a PC's Home (moves to the beginning of the line). ctrl+A and ctrl+E (Emacs-style keybindings) work in most OS X applications as well.
A: For Eclipse it appears that these keys aren't even set to anything by default, at least in my installation. You probably need to set them in the preferences:
I don't know exactly where the end and home Windows-like functions are in this screen, I couldn't find anything yet that sounds like what they do. Something like "move cursor to end\beginning of line" was what I was looking for.
If you're talking about Safari's address bar, try ⌘+→ and ⌘+← for end and home. Those work in lots of other apps as well.
A: In Terminal, you can use ⌥ Opt+← for home and ⌥ Opt+→ for end. Although this is on a Swedish keyboard.
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Q: Are iPhone sim cards locked specifically to the iPhone hardware? I've got an iPhone 3GS, on the UK network of O2
Can I take that sim card out, and put it into another mobile device (not iPhone) ? I don't have a spare device to try this hence asking here
More importantly, would the sim card actually work in a non-iPhone device or is it locked for iPhone usage only?
Thanks
A: No SIM card is locked to any phone. The SIM card will work in any unlocked device supporting the frequencies used by the carrier that issued the SIM card.
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Q: Using External Monitor. Want Mouse to move Up/Down, not Left/Right? I've got an external monitor and want to be able to use the monitor above the laptop.
It seems I'm supposed to use "Spaces" to support an external monitor which I have done and I've set up two spaces for this. Unfortunately it seems that I'm only able to move between spaces by moving my mouse cursor from left to right instead of from top to bottom and vice versa. Given the layout of the monitors it is really unnatural to have to move from left to right in order to access monitors that are stacked. I can easily do this on my Dell laptop running Windows but is there a way to do it with my Mac's OS X? Stumped.
(source: mikeschinkel.com)
Thanks in advance for the help.
-Mike
A: You don't need to worry about Spaces for this. What you need to do is go into:
System Preferences --> Displays --> Arrangement
Drag the icon representing your external monitor to the top of the icon representing your macbook monitor:
You can also drag the bar representing your menubar/dock to whichever monitor you want to be your "main" display.
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Q: How do I move my menubar to an external monitor? I just asked this question (Using External Monitor and Spaces. Want Mouse to move Up/Down, not Left/Right?) and @calavera gave me a great answer, thanks!
But now I have another question. It seems that the menubar wants to stay with the laptop and doesn't seem to be possible to move to the external monitor. Am I beating a dead horse here or is it somehow possible to achieve the layout I'm looking for? See screenshot:
(source: mikeschinkel.com)
A: SecondBar is also an excellent free app that will add a second menu bar on the other monitor.
A: Try and drag the menubar icon you're pointing to in that screenshot to the other monitor. It's kind of hard to grab with the mouse pointer but it should work if you can click/drag that white space rather than the blue space representing the monitor.
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Q: Since upgrading to version 10.0.1 of iTunes, playback is bumpy Since I upgraded to version iTunes (10.0.1), playback is bumpy and full of hiccups. Typically, for video playback the video will freeze for a second or two at random times, and then skip to the current location in time, meaning that content will be skipped over. This happens every time I play videos now, and it is seriously starting to annoy me.
For mp3 playback, sporadic hiccups seem to be happening as well, but with nowhere near the frequency of videos.
The videos I play are all content purchased from the iTunes store, typically TV shows in 'standard definition'.
I have (obviously) tried to close other resource-hungry apps etc, but that does not help. iTunes is typically at 5-15% processor usage when playing video.
I use Mac OS X 10.6.4 on a 2.53 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro with 4GB RAM. Hard drive has about 10 GB of free space.
Any ideas as to what is wrong here?
A: This might come a little bit as an obvious question but… have you restarted your box since you installed that? A zombie process could be causing delays in other areas.
Check with /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app and sort by CPU usage to see if there’s anything “red” (zombie) or any process not behaving.
In any case, a sane box restart (if you haven’t already) is usually a good advice. Turn the box off for a few secs and then turn it on again, the VRAM might be corrupted and a simple “restart” won’t always do the right thing. (It happens to me in the Mac Pro).
The reason for mentioning this is that your computer is more than capable to play videos.
Do you have Perian or any other third party codecs laying around that might interfere?
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Q: Ripping a whole website to PDF Adobe Acrobat Pro allows the user to convert an entire website (or subset) to a PDF. Is there anything else available for OS X to do the same thing? I don't want to spend several hundred dollars.
Ideally, it would allow the user to rip a URL and all other URLs on the same "prefix" to a single PDF. For example, given the URL "http://example.com/a_web_page", it would pull "http://example.com/a_web_page/index.html", "http://example.com/a_web_page/a", "http://example.com/a_web_page/b", etc., but not "http://example.com/index.html" to a single PDF.
I have found whole books released under Creative Commons licenses as HTML pages (one per chapter, or section). I would like to capture the entire book to a single PDF to read on my iPad.
Thanks.
A: It doesn’t do “whole websites” because it would be hard for it to know “how deep” (tho I agree it could be configured in a way of: go down XX levels), but in any case, if your HTML pages contain a full chapter and assuming the books have about 20-30 chapters, is not that “bad”.
With that in mind, I have an inexpensive application that does this job, and it’s called Web Snapper.
What's so special about Web Snapper?
Web Snapper is drag and drop simple.
When you want to grab a page, you drag
the URL and drop it onto the drop zone
in Web Snapper (or the app icon in the
dock) – it really could't be any
simpler. With the 'Snapper, you can
save pages as scalable/vector PDFs (we
even preserve the links!), or in any
of the image formats that are
supported by MacOS X. If you want to
make a multi-page PDF - simply drag
and drop multiple URLs and then click
the "Save to Multipage PDF".
It may help you because the price tag is $15.
A: Out company developed a batch process for this at PDFmyURL - with this you can convert an entire website to PDF by using a simple API. If you have the sitemap you can just pass this to the API and otherwise you pass the list of URLs that need to be crawled.
The details are here
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Q: What are the specific restrictions on downgrading an iPod Touch to previous iOS versions? We want to test our iOS app on a few devices (iPhone 3G and 4 - or equivalent iPod Touch), but we also need to ensure it will run on the major releases of iOS, maybe 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 4.0.x, etc - I'm a little rusty on the version numbers and who got free upgrades to what.
I've read Is there a way to downgrade a 2nd gen iPod touch from iOS 4 back to 3.1.3? but I'm still unclear whether or not we can just buy a single iPod Touch and downgrade and upgrade as necessary, or if we'd have to buy an iPod Touch per iOS version we want to test.
So, what are the specific restrictions placed on downgrading? Can we just get our devices into DFU mode and apply whatever version we want? I don't want to end up buying a lot of devices if we only need one each.
We don't need any phone-only hardware such as the microphone or sending SMSs, so that's not a factor.
Cheers!
A: (I'm not certain of this answer -- it's a somewhat educated hunch, based on using iPods for 10 years and Apple products for 25, and looking at wikipedia. If anyone knows from actual experience, use that answer instead.)
In general, I would guess that you can downgrade an iPod to the version of the OS that it was released with, but not earlier. So, for example, an iPod Touch 2g could probably be downgraded to iPhone OS 2.1, but not 1.1 (which wouldn't really matter since there was no App Store in 1.x!). Each iPod Touch gen-N ships with the N.1 release of iOS, about a month after the corresponding iPhone ships with the N.0 release.
An iPod Touch 2g should run all versions of iOS for the iPod Touch that have an App Store, though it doesn't support all the features of iOS 4. The hardware differences between iPod models might be a bigger issue for testing, e.g., older iPods don't have a built-in microphone.
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Q: Why does Safari on the iPhone sometimes display a broken play image for YouTube videos? Sometimes I get this "cannot play" image instead of a YouTube video. The video looks normal on a computer, so I'm not sure why this happens. Reloading the page in Safari doesn't help.
Here's the page I was visiting: http://www.boweryboogie.com/2010/11/basketball-diary-trick-shots-on-the-lower-east%C2%A0side.html#more-19961
A: You tube sends HTML5/H.264 video to Safari and devices that are unable to reproduce flash video, however, certain videos (those who have ADs and some other features, as far as I can remember)) are still not supported by YouTube in HTML5 format; that explains why you might experience some problems when using Safari and seeing an embedded video.
In those cases, it’s best to use YouTube’s native application for the iPhone to watch the video.
I have the HTML5 “lab” enabled in youtube and it clearly says that “videos that have Advertising will be reproduced using the Flash player instead”. The video you are showing in your example (this) has advertising in it, hence why mobile safari on the iOS can’t reproduce it.
In you want to know more about this HTML5 “trial”, you can find all the information on youtube’s HTML page.
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Q: Why does my iPhone alarm go off one hour late? I live in Italy and since the summer time change; I cannot set up the alarm to ring at the appropriate time.
I need the alarm to ring at 6:30 am, but if i set the alarm to 6:30 it rings at 7:30 instead.
It's very annoying. I tried to delete every alarm i had set before and create new ones, but i doesn't change anything. How can i fix it?
A: I believe you’re a victim of the iPhone time bug. You don’t specify your iPhone model nor iOS version, but I’m sure you have the above mentioned problem:
Reports from around the world have exposed a daylights savings flaw in the iOS software, which is causing alarms to go off either an hour late or early, depending on where you live.
Google for more love in the subject.
A: I ran into the same annoyance myself, and stumbled into this workaround:
Edit the "Repeat" setting for your alarm, and set it either to "Every day" or "Never". Now the alarm goes off when it should, unlike when it's set to e.g. "Weekdays". Here's a screenshot — green works and red doesn't:
For more background info, I recommend these MacRumors articles:
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*iOS 4.1 Daylight Saving Time Bug Strikes Europe
*Apple Support Acknowledges iOS 4.1 Daylight Saving Time Bug
The latter post contains Apple's recommended workaround (same thing as above, but with some additional information):
To resolve this behavior for existing alarms, set the repeat interval to Never. You will need to reset these alarms for each day you need them.
After November 7th, 2010, you can set your alarms to repeat again.
It's now past November 7, and I just verified alarm works correctly again, even if repeat is set to e.g. "Weekdays". Which is nice. But I hope they fix the bug once and for all before the next DST shift occurs!
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Q: Reset Snow Leopard user accounts/preference My kids completely changed everything in their user account, what is the easiest way to reset everything to default (without reinstalling everything) including:
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*Name of hard drive
*Menu items in Finder
*Dock size and items
*Size/appearance of things
*Even some applications have been moved from their original location
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*Name of hard drive
Click enter, rename it
*Menu items in Finder
What do you mean by that?
*Dock size and items
Trashing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist will do the trick
*Size/appearance of things
Trashing the .plist file under ~/Library/Preferences
*Even some applications have been moved from their original location
You'll have to move them back to /Applications manually.
In order for that not to be reproduced, you could try Parental Controls under System Preferences > Account and limit what they can do on their account.
A: In addition to Loïc’s excellent answer
Menu items in Finder
What do you mean by that?
I believe he means the Finder’s Sidebar and such. In order to reset those, thrash the following file and logoff (or restart):
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
Even some applications have been moved from their original location
You'll have to move them back to
/Applications manually.
Yes, unless he has a Time Machine backup… which I believe he doesn’t. :)
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Q: Alternatives to command line unzip? I've found that the command line unzip tool doesn't gracefully handle some of the files I'm unzipping: it makes a bunch of junk directories, and creates files whose resource forks aren't found. (Perhaps they were created strangely.)
$ unzip -d NEW-DIRECTORY ZIP
Anyways, using Archive Utility is a start, because I can run the following and it is close (and it doesn't mess up my files):
$ open -a "Archive Utility" ZIP
But this does not allow me to specify a new directory for the contents!! It automatically puts them in the current directory. :P
What are my alternatives?
A: The Unarchiver has a beta version of their command line utility available on their downloads page.
A: I saw this extremely helpful answer to a problem I was having unzipping applications on another board from user patashnik:
unzip doesn't handle the embedded resourceforks in ZIP files created by the Finder. If you want to unarchive those files from the CLI, use ditto:
ditto -V -x -k --sequesterRsrc --rsrc FILENAME.ZIP DESTINATIONDIRECTORY
If you want to unpack the archive in the current directory, use . as DESTINATIONDIRECTORY
A: "The Unarchiver" is a great tool, and I highly recommend it, both the GUI and the CLI tools.
That said, my unzip command is
ditto -xk foo.zip target_dir
where 'target_dir' is the directory where I want the files to appear (and it can be '.' if you want them to unzip right there).
Note that 'target_dir' will be created if needed.
Also note that ditto does not mind overwriting files, so use with care.
ditto on Mac OS X is designed to preserve resource forks, etc. so it is my preferred method of unzipping files, especially because it ships with OS X by default.
A: 7z can handle some oddly zipped files
brew install p7zip
7z x weirdarchive.zip
A: you can use also:
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*yemuzip
and
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*stuffit-expander (not free)
A: Springy is a very versatile unarchiver. Shareware - and worth it to me.
A: brew install unar
and then:
unar foo.zip
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Q: How to ensure that all networking goes through my ssh proxy? I have a network location set up to ssh tunnel to my server. For now, just ssh -D type stuff. This works fine. I set up the tunnel from within my .screenrc. In other words, "screen" is the trigger to connect to my proxy. Before I type that I should not be able to go online. However, lynx and ping go through without problems. tunnel or not. This is disquieting.
How can I ensure all network traffic uses my Network settings, and not it's own? The only way packets should be leaving is via my DynamicForward port.
EDIT: The apple specificity comes with the Network settings, either accessed via System Preferences, or via networksetup.
OS X has both ipfw, and the application level firewall.
The appfirewall does not seem to stop things from going out. It stops connections to the system.
Ipfw does take precedence over the application firewall, apparently.
My SOCKS5 proxy is set up on a port, and I then give that port to in a network Location as the SOCKS5 proxy. This works fine. As I see it, programs should not get a choice about using the proxy, and indeed, if I turn it off, browsers can not access the web.
Linux and *BSD's do not have the various ( quite nifty ) things that OSX has in this regard. For them, it would be ipchains and ipfw, respectively.
I think I'm missing something. It should just work.
A: Assuming that ssh is running on localhost (or another machine on the local subnet), the easiest thing to do is to shut down your routes so that nothing can get outside. netstat -nr will show you your current routes. Mine looks like this:
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
default 192.168.0.69 UGSc 93 4438 en1
192.168.0.69 is my default route. If I take that route out: route delete default 192.168.0.69 then I cannot get to any machine not wired to my network. Once screen sets up your proxy, you should have access back.
A: You may want to have a look at man networksetup to see if it could give you what you are looking for.
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Q: How do I make a game controller an active input device on my Mac-mini? How do I make a game controller an active input device on my Mac-mini?
A: If you have a Playstation 3 controller, your Mac can recognize it as a bluetooth device and if you pair it with your computer you can set it up to be used as a game controller for your Mac.
I have only tried it with SNES9x, and it DOES work with that app. Playing Super Street Fighter with a wireless PS3 remote is pretty bad ass, I must say, haha.
Not sure what else it would work with, but I am sure you could map the buttons and set it up to work with other games and services once you pair it.
Good luck!
A: Yeah, it might be an Snes9x issue; I had thought to try the controller with other programs (in part to see if it would work, in part just to play with it), but I hadn't downloaded any games for my NES simulator yet (Nestopia), and I couldn't get Steam to load (I'm not a gamer at all (any case anybody couldn't tell by my asking about simulators for old Nintendo consoles), but my sister had bought me a cheap game on Steam, though I hadn't played it much). Just now, after Mark's reply, I decided to download a game for Nestopia, and when I checked its options I see it has a link to an emulator enhancer that allows it to work with controllers. That same site had its own SNES simulator (the BSNES), so I downloaded that one, and my controller now works with both. So, that's cool. Thanks for your help, guys.
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Q: What is the best free FTP server for Mac OS X Server? I'm running Mac OS X Snow Leopard server on a mac mini and was wondering what the best free FTP server was? I hear okay things about pure-ftpd but I'd like something with an easy to manage UI as well etc...
A: Unless you’re planning on running an extremely heavy loaded FTP server (which the mini won’t be able to handle anyway) the built in FTP Server should be enough.
Pure-ftpd is a classic in the Unix world and I’m sure you can of course make that run under OS X, but it doesn’t have a “UI”, it’s all command line. (But very easy to configure anyway).
A: edit: sorry, speed read and missed the part about best free server. Rumpus is not free.
Hands down best FTP server for OS X is Rumpus. We use it at work to deliver content to clients and also to receive content from providers. Extremely easy to use, but is also very configurable. We have been using it for years & he dev has always replied to our emails within 24hrs.
Worth a try, it will not disappoint!
A: The built in web server is great, and the Server Admin tools in Mac OS Server also make managing the machine awesome as well.
A: That is correct. The build in FTP is great.
But Symbolic Links show up as binaries as soon as the mapped driver is not on the system it self but an network share.
So it's is not usable for me. And there is no alternative that has the same quality standards as OS X.
I've been asking all over the place but the question is asked several times no one has an answer. That is a pitty.
Gr.
LeoFric
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Q: Power adapter extender for iPhone Imagine the disappointment when trying to pair a Monster iCar Play 800 FM Transmitter with a new iPhone comfortably wrapped in a Speck CandyShell. In short, the business end of one does not fit into the business end of the other.
I've looked at the SendStation Dock Extender, but is there really any guarantee that this will fit into my case.
Does anyone have any experience with this or another dock extender, or is my best option to be more careful when buying a replacement case?
Edit:
I ended up buying an adapter by Cable Jive. It fits the case and works just fine.
A: Just eyeballing it, it looks like the extender would fit. If not, maybe take a Dremel to that case and widen the slot?
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Q: My iPhone 4 only shows 256 MB of RAM? I just received my iPhone 4 and Activity Monitor Touch and SYSTEM lite only show 247 MB of hardware memory. But the iPhone 4 is supposed to have 512 MB (of which 503 MB are actually available). I checked with a function of my own (derived from here), too, and it also just shows 256 MB of RAM. I'm running iOS 4.1. I don't believe this is a readout bug as other iPhone 4 owners told me they are shown 503 MB in those apps.
Can anyone confirm this on his own iPhone 4? What should I do? Contact Apple and ask for a replacement device? Or just return the device and buy a new one?
A: That is pretty bizarre. The iPhone 4 is supposed to have 2x256MB memory modules for a total of 512MB, but it sounds like, for some reason, your phone isn't seeing one of them. Your numbers bear this out too - the iPhone hardware sets aside 9MB of the total memory, resulting in the OS seeing 503MB or, in your case, 247MB.
Definitely take it in and try to exchange it or replace it.
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Q: How can I get Time Machine to back up the contents of a FileVault while logged in? Disclaimer: this question and answer are targeted to the Snow Leopard implementation of FileVault where the user home folder is only encrypted in a bundle. Lion's implementation of FileVault doesn't limit Time Machine thusly.
I'm currently using Time Machine to back up my MacBook. However, I had to disable FileVault in order to be able to back up when I'm logged in (which is all the time). Recently, this decision has been nagging at me, and I've been looking for ways to re-enable FileVault or some other similar encryption while still retaining my ability to routinely back up via Time Machine or other similar backup scheme.
I found a note on Wikipedia that it's possible to back up with FileVault if the destination is Mac OS X Server:
With Mac OS X Server as a Time Machine destination:
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*backups of FileVault home directories occur whilst users are logged in.
Unfortunately, this tidbit is not externally sourced and I've been unable to find any other place where this is mentioned. Is this true? Does anyone have experience with it?
If not, what other solutions are there, either for 'tricking' Time Machine to back up the contents of a FileVault, other Time Machine-compatible encryption systems, or FileVault-compatible backup systems? If it matters, I don't need to have the backup itself encrypted, just the MacBook.
A: It is possible to backup your FileVaulted home directory with Time Machine while logged in. The files will be stored unencrypted in the Time Machine volume, just like other files. I've written a blog post explaining the whole process here.
A: I've independently confirmed that you CAN actively Time Machine a FileVaulted OS X home directory to an OS X Server share configured for TM backup usage. Strangely, OS X gives you an error message saying it WON'T work when you turn on TM, but then it does. The workstation is running OS X 10.6.7, the server is running OS X Server 10.6.7. I haven't tested with any other versions of the OS.
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Q: How to get iPhone app that's no longer in the store? I once downloaded an app named "aFuel" from the German app store, but I don't have it anymore because over time I removed it from my phone and eventually reinstalled Windows. The app is no longer available (source).
How can I get this app back? (Or any app for that matter!)
I might have a PC backup that contains the downloaded app, but I don't know what to look for. If you can point me to a likely location on disk then I can look through my backups for any relevant files.
A: If you were running Windows 7 before the reinstall, look for the following folders:
\username\My Music\iTunes\Mobile Applications
\username\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Mobile Applications
If you were running Windows Vista before the reinstall, you should look for:
\username\Music\iTunes\Mobile Applications
\username\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Mobile Applications
If you were running Windows XP before reinstalling, look for:
\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\Mobile Applications
\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Mobile Applications
These are the default locations for your apps. If you had changed the location of your iTunes folder in your iTunes preferences, you could search your backup copy for a folder called "Mobile Applications" or for the app's name.
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Q: extracting multiple zips/rar into same folder maybe I am stupid, but I just cant figure out how to extract multiple zips into the same folder easy.
I always end up with folders of the zip name that then has the content in it... this is really annoying.
Is there a app that does this automatically?
thx
A: One real easy way is to use unzip on the command line.
1) If the ZIP file doesn't contain any folder hierarchy, simply files at the "root" level of the compressed file, do this:
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*open Terminal and cd to the folder with the ZIP file
*unzip zipfile.zip
-> The files are extracted directly into that folder.
2) If the ZIP file does contain a folder hierarchy, but you still want to extract everything in the same folder (usually not a good idea, as the hierarchy is there probably for a reason), do the same thing as above, but with -j modifier for unzip, which means "junk paths (do not make directories)":
unzip -j zipfile.zip
Edit: the same approach works for RAR files, except you'd need to install the command-line unrar tool yourself (unlike with unzip), and I'm not sure what the equivalent for unzip's -j modifier is.
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Q: iPhone: How to prevent maximum screen brightness when charging? I've set my screen brightness to about 50%. This works fine for me, except that the setting seems to be ignored when it's charging: then it's 100%. I've got a desktop charging stand on my bedside table, and this is exactly the place where I don't need maximum brightness!
How can I make my iPhone respect the brightness setting even when charging?
This is an iPhone 4 (iOS 4.1) but I noticed the same with the iPhone 3G (iOS 3.1.3).
A: Upgrade to iOS 4.2. It fixes both the charging brightness and the locked screen brightness bugs. I just tried it and it works.
A: I can't seem to reproduce this issue. Is it possible that ambient light is increasing the brightness? Does it still go to 100% brightness if you turn off Auto-Brightness?
A: Can't fix it -- currently.
Based on postings so far, this is a bug in iOS 4.1 (less prominent/problematic in 3.x versions).
The only solution would be to upgrade to a newer version when that becomes available if this bug has been fixed in that version.
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Q: How do I make the Globe key disappear from the keyboard? I do some dev and testing on the iPhone. Recently, I was testing some localizations and needed to change the language. I've since changed back to English, but now whenever I bring up a keyboard a "globe" key is always near the bottom of the keyboard. This annoys the heck out of me because I keep accidentally tapping it. Any way to turn it off?
A: Under Settings > General > Keyboard > International Keyboards you've got a list of all the keyboard layouts available.
To remove the "Globe" key, you need to have only one keyboard enabled.
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Q: Can you theme the iPod classic UI? Can you theme the 80gb iPod classic so the menus or the music player have a different graphical user interface?
A: Ipodwizard claims to do what you want and claims to not do any permanent damage.
A: The simple answer for this is no.
iPod Wizzard can change the UI for earlier models but not an 80gb 6th Gen model or upwards. Using these hacks does have its risks and will not always be fully stable.
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Q: Email-based FaceTime on iPhone 4? The new iPod Touch and the Mac FaceTime app both allow the user to send and receive FaceTime calls with their email address/Apple ID as the identifier. Is it possible to set up an iPhone 4 to send/receive FaceTime calls with my email address instead of my phone number?
A: On the iPhone itself, you are unable to add "e-mail address aliases" like in the OSX App. The only method of having people call your iPhone is by giving them your phone number.
As far as the iPhone making facetime calls, the only easy way I've seen to do it is to already have their Facetime address in your Address Book, or use Safari.
Open Safari on your iPhone, go to the URL bar, type: <facetime://[email protected]>, then tap the "Facetime" acknowledgement button afterwards.
A: I'm not following why everyone else is saying this can't be done. I have people facetime me all the time on my phone, by using my AppleID email address. I also contact others this same way, and it works just fine. In fact it has the added bonus of ringing ALL iDevices linked to that address. So when someone facetimes my AppleID, it rings on my iPhone, Mac, and iPad all at the same time, allowing me to answer it wherever I am at that moment.
I didn't do anything special to set this up... just went into FaceTime under Settings, and added the email address(es) I wanted people to be able to reach me on. Works fine.
Maybe this is specifically a problem on the iPhone 4 as opposed to the 4s which is what I have?
A: I think email address is the only way to do it.
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Q: When I try to sync my iPad, I get an "Unknown Error (-39)"
It still seems to sync most things - the error occurs late in the sync toward the end of the last step, which seems to be photo-related, and my apps are up to date, etc.
The main thing I've noticed that's off is my pictures - when I open the pictures app, I get a message saying:
iTunes Sync Needed - High Resolution
images synced via itunes are missing.
Connect your device to the computer
you sync photos from and launch iTunes
to sync them.
Since the issue seems like it might be photo-related, I tried repairing my Aperture library's permissions and database - no help.
Any ideas?
A: Try turning off photo sync completely, syncing, and then turning it back on.
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Q: What are some tips for replacing my MacBook Pro hard disk with SSD? I would like to replace my MacBook pro hard disk with an SSD, without reinstalling everything. I am looking for your experience on
*
*good SSD drive models that have good performance at a fair price
*the relocation strategy so that I get my old system migrated with no trouble or pain from the old hard drive to the new one (including additional hardware needed, I guess a usb-sata connector)
A: Allow me to recommend you the OWC ones. You have an “extreme RE” (which I believe you won’t need) and the Pro, which is arguably one of the fastest and most secure drives so far.
I’m sure you can google for comparisons with other drives but I’ve installed a various numbers of SSDs (albeit not only in Macbooks) and the OWC ones are what I’ve chosen for me.
Jeff Atwood himself made a comparison (but he didnt include the OWC at the time), which you can find in this blog post.
Don’t forget to read through the comments, as there’s value in there too.
I’d say that excluding the OWC (which I prefer), the Crucial C300 should be the next in line.
A: I've just bought the Crucial C300 SSD and it's amazingly quick. From benchmarks around the web like this one at bit-tech you can see its the best for the money around at the moment! I got the 128 GB for just over £240 and never looked back.
You can do a time machine backup and restore it to your SSD but as its a laptop you might need to plug it into a USB-SATA to setup. In my case I started fresh (coming from a windows background, I prefer it)!
Here's a video of Crucial testing two MacBooks. One with a disk drive and one with the C300. You can see how much improvement you get from it!
Also, start time for me is now around 20seconds with an even quicker shutdown.
A: I just installed an OCZ Vertex 2 in my MBP, and it flies. It's not the fastest SSD on the market, but it's a good balance of price and performance, and it's still lightning fast
A: I just installed the OCZ Vertex 2 80gb drive last week. LOVE it. Super fast.
I highly recommend it.
I installed the 500gb drive I was using as my boot disk, in the optical bay, and just cloned the drive to my SSD. Then wiped the 500gb and partitioned it into 2 pieces. one 80GB and one 420gb. I clone my SSD to the 80gb partition every 12 hours using Carbon Copy Cloner, that way if the SSD ever dies on me I can just boot the the other drive and be back in business while I wait for the replacement.
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Q: How to prevent the black screen on iPod Touch? Is there a way to not let the iPod touch switch the screen off? I want to use my iPod as a "count down" timer with the built-in clock app. But after some time, the screen turns black thanks to the energy saver policy. I actually want to see the count down until the time is up!
A: I haven't got my iPod Touch with me but this works on the iPhone if you go to Settings -> General -> Auto-Lock and set it to Never. That should work.
Let me know if iPod Touch has removed this. Don't know why they would have!
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Q: Best document / book for Mac hardware? I'm reading 'Mac OS X Internals' but it was published in 2007. It has an extensive section on Mac hardware (table of contents for Chapter 3) and I want to read it all ... except it's for PowerPC not Intel architecture and I would probably be wasting my time.
*
*How much of the chapter is still relevant?
*What's the best place to gain the equivalent knowledge about the Intel architecture? I basically want an Intel equivalent of that chapter.
I don't want to actually do any hardware tinkering, I just want a solid understanding of the hardware as a programmer.
A: I'm sorry that you've had such a difficult time asking this question on Stack Exchange. I haven't been able to find a better/more up-to-date book, but most of Mac OS X is CPU architecture-independent anyway, and the book you're reading does contain an appendix that discusses Mac OS X on x86 hardware and the corresponding similarities and differences between PowerPC hardware:
Appendix A, "Mac OS X on x86-Based Macintosh Computers," highlights the key differences between the x86-based and PowerPC-based versions of Mac OS X. Besides this appendix, the book covers the details of several key x86-specific topics, such as EFI, GUID-based partitioning, and Universal Binaries. Most of Mac OS X is architecture-independent, and consequently, the majority of the book is architecture-independent.
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Q: Are there any limits of re-downloading applications from appstore? I've got an application on my iPhone which was free when I installed it and now it became paid application. One day I accidentally deleted it from device and then was able to download it from Appstore for free (as I "had the previous version" of that app).
So now I just wonder are there limits for that (number of devices I can do that on, any time limits etc)?
Edit: The only thing that I managed to find so far is the following paragraph in iTunes Store "Terms and Conditions":
Solely as an accommodation to you,
some Products may be redownloaded for
use in accordance with the Usage
Rules. Not all Products are eligible
for this accommodation or may be
available at any given time. Apple
shall have no liability to you in the
event that a previously downloaded
Product becomes unavailable for
redownload. Once a Product is
downloaded, it is your responsibility
not to lose, destroy, or damage it,
and Apple shall not be liable to you
if you do so.
So is it a guaranteed behavior at all?..
A: As long as its the same app, then you should be able to do this as many times as needed. Also, once you have that app, you have it even if the price changes, goes from free to paid or vice versa.
One thing that I have seen happen in the app store, is developers releasing a whole new version of their app, and naming it differently, launching it differently. A perfect example of it is Tweetie. When they went to version 2, he re-released it as a new app (Tweetie 2), therefore making anyone who wanted to get the new one to have to pay (even if they paid for the first). Then, that app was converted to free and changed to Twitter for iPhone, but if you bought Tweetie 2, you just got an update that changed it.
A:
"Not all Products are eligible for
this accommodation."
I really think this is just them covering themselves for unforeseen circumstances, but the truth is you should never have to worry about getting charged again for the same exact app (free updates included). The only real risk is if the app gets pulled or the dev removes it. I have personally re-downloaded hundreds of apps, so you can trust me.
In contrast, downloading music from iTunes is not the same. Each download will cost you.
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Q: How can I change multiple line code indentation in Textmate? When I use textmate, I select multiple lines and I press TAB, I would like to change the indentation of my code, rather than deleting it.
Is there a way to change this functionality?
A: Using Alt + Tab also works.
A: Not sure about changing the tab but you can use
CMD + }
to indent multiple lines of code at the same time.
CMD + {
pushes it to the right.
A: I like to hold down alt and then use the mouse to select a column of text. Then I hit tab to indent the lines.
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Q: Taking care of the hard drive in my MacBook? Is it bad for my MacBook if I simply close the lid and pack it up? Will this impact the hard drive?
What about using it in a moving vehicle, like a car?
A: Assuming your computer has a magnetic drive (and not a SSD), when you close the lid, it will take a few seconds for the computer to write some things to the hard-drive; even if it looks fast, it really takes a few secs of “background activity”. It could be 1 sec, but it’s there.
So as a general rule, it’s always good to gently close the lid (hitting the lid with the keyboard can cause damage to the screen and the hard-drive if it’s too strong), and give the computer a couple of seconds to process the sleep state. Once you’re sure that the box is sleeping, you can pack it up and carry it, always remembering that the Hard-Drive is a mechanical device and as such, it’s very fragile (compared to other pieces). This doesn’t mean that you have to treat your box as if it were Murano glass, but mechanical drives and hits are not friends. With that said, I’ve seen laptops fall from 1 meter (tables) to the floor and work for years without a hard drive failure, and on the other hand, small hits against a table (by raising the laptop 1 cm and letting it fall onto a table) rendered hard drives inoperative.
So as you can see the drives tend to be more fragile than not, even when you can never be sure.
I remember about 10 years ago, we were on vacations and for some reason, one of the guys found a box of Sugus candies and we started a fight. Note: They hit really hard and I have pictures of a candy tatooed in my back in red. All in all, one of these candies bounced and hit a guy’s laptop while he was creating a playlist in WinAmp (yeah, we were that old). The computer crashed (Windows XP) and the hard drive never worked again.
The candy story was just a way to illustrate that you can never be sure about hard drives.
Regarding a car: unless you’re going to go to the Camel Trophy, there shouldn’t be a problem. Remember, vibrations and hits may hurt your hard drive, keep it as quiet as possible.
they guy whose laptop broke still hates us.
I have an old macbook that I carry everywhere, on and off and I drop in bed, I move it, I put things on top of it (books, etc). and it still works…
A: All MacBooks (including Pros and Airs) have a Sudden Motion Sensor, which parks the hard drive heads when it senses that the laptop is falling or that there's excessive vibration. That should take care of most of the issues your laptop likely to run into.
Also worth reading: Apple's Advanced tips for Sudden Motion Sensor.
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Q: Do I just need a VGA to RCA adaptor to stream video from my macbook to TV? I want to get the adaptor to stream videos from my macbook to my TV.
I already have the Apple adaptor from DVI to VGA: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB572Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDA4Mw&mco=MTM3NTA3MDU
I know need an adaptor from VGA to RCA.. I guess this one: http://www.bzsell.com/product_pic/10/05/16/flag_129185411642265983.JPG
But the guy at the store, told me that it is not that easy. If the TV is old (and it is), I need a video converter... (around 50 euros)
is that true ?
thanks
A: You might need a converter, but I don’t think so. Bear in mind that all those conversions will degrade the image a lot.
Does your TV have S-VGA? in that case you could use this adapter from Apple. Better than RCA anyway.
edit updated with the right adapter. As already noted, please remember that this doesn’t carry audio.
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Q: Set default input/output sound I have a mac that is hooked into a sound board, I have external sound card that interfaces between the computer and the soundboard, this works great.
However, whenever the computer restarts it sets the input & output to the 'internal microphone' and the 'built in output'.
I'd like to default to the other soundcard. How can I do this?
I'm running OS 10.6.3
A: I use SoundSource (Freeware) to set my output/inputs and they persist (I have a Firewire Audio Interface and a M-Audio Pro USB).
What sound board do you have?
Why are you running 10.6.3 and not .4?
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Q: Web sharing, 404 On my MacBook (10.5.latest), I turned on "Web sharing" in the control panel. The built-in firewall is turned off. I have an index.html in my ~/name/Sites/ folder. It's publicly readable (a+r). I can view it in Safari (or any other browser) if I open it as a file.
If I go to http://192.168.15.103/~name/index.html (or without index.html, or with any other file from that folder), I get a page which says simply:
404 - Not Found
What am I missing? And how do I go about troubleshooting this -- where are the logs?
A: For some reason Apple disabled personal web sharing from your ~/username/Sites folder in Mac OS X 10.5. To turn it back on, edit /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf and look for the following:
#
# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its subdirectories).
#
# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
# features.
#
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>
Change Deny from all to Allow from all. Then go into your Sharing preferences and disable/re-enable web sharing and it should work.
A: Although I'm not sure if the origins of the problem were same, I faced the exact scenario as you described, and I made the "Your personal website:http://192.168.0.100/~name/" provided in System Preferences panel work by uninstalling Pow, a Rack server.
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Q: App Store is the wrong language I changed my iTunes account location to German (with an Austrian credit card) in order to download a certain app that wasn't available in Danish (my primary language). I was now able to get the app from the German App Store. Afterward, I set the location back to Denmark and entered the Danish credit card that I was using before.
Problem:
When I now visit the App Store (on my iPhone), it is still in German. How do I switch the iPhone App Store back to the language that is set in iTunes? iTunes has got it right, but why doesn't my iPhone see the same status?
I expected that it would be enough to just plug it into the PC and let it sync itself, but that wasn't the case. I've just synced the phone with the PC and that went without problems, but the iPhone App Store is still in German while the PC iTunes has the Danish account ("Country/Region: DNK").
A: Open Settings and go to Store. From there, choose Sign Out if you're already signed in and then sign back in again. If you were not signed in, sign in now. Now check the App Store. If necessary, restart the device.
A: I had the same problem (stuck in German store/language). I called Apple support, reset the iPhone, logged into the store, switched to (in my case) my "home" store, the USA. I then restarted the phone and the settings stayed in USA/English.
To reset go to: Settings > General > Reset > Reset all Settings. This doesn't affect your data; just wipes the preferences.
A: Search on safari for an app that is only available in the American IOS store. (TMZ IOS worked for me). Click the link to see the app in your App Store. It will say the app is unavailable unless you switch to a different APP Store. Accept and you are allll good! :)
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Q: iPhone/iPad alarm clock app with custom radio stream support Is there a iPhone (or even better iPad) alarm clock app that will play a radio stream of my choosing to wake me up?
With custom stream I mean the possibility to enter a custom URL to a .pls file, and that pls contains a URL to a mp3.
Something like TimeTurner but with the custom stream support.
A: TuneIn Radio. I've not looked back since.
A: Radio Alarm is a great iPhone app that works well with custom streams (.pls file that points to a MP3) and has a lot of well working alarm features.
A: Tunemark Radio is a iPad/iPhone app that support custom streams (.pls file that points to a MP3), but isn't really written to work as a alarm clock so has poor alarm features.
A: Update 2016 (post iOS 8.0):
Bedr radio alarm clock, which is able to run in a background state.
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Q: Why is my MacBook Pro's fan constantly on at 6000RPM? I recently replaced the logic board on my Mac, now I have this "fan constantly on at 6000RPM all the time" issue.
So I did an Apple hardware test using the installation disk that came with my Mac and got this cryptic error:
4SNS/1/40000000:Th2H-128.000
After some googleing I came across this:
Th2H Right Fin Stack Proximity Temp
And my question(s), what part does the Right Fin Stack Proximity Temp refer to?
Is the error given by the Apple Hardware Test considered 100% accurately?
A: This is a guess but I would assume it's referring to the Temperature sensor next to the heat sink exhaust for the right fan. That would definitely account for your fan running at max... if the sensor is not reporting the temperature, the logic board would likely turn the fan on full blast in order to keep the processor from overheating or even setting the computer aflame.
You might have just forgot to plug the temp sensor in, or left it loose, or it became loose during your board replacement. Or it could have failed...
Try using a temperature monitoring app like Temperature Monitor and see if it gives you any more info.
A: The best solution is to use the app Macs Fan Control (Free), and setting it to control the fans using the GPU (or whatever sensor usually shows the highest temperature) instead of the malfunctioning sensor.
During start, the fans will run high, but when Macs Fan Control kicks in, the fans runs exactly how you want them run.
Download from http://www.crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control
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Q: Check Past Orders on iTunes Online I've purchased a few games for my iPhone, via App Store. I understand that I can check my past orders via iTunes program downloaded on my PC.
But is there anyway to check what are my past orders online, without going through iTunes the Desktop Program?
A: Unfortunately, there's no way built into iOS or the App Store that will tell you what your past purchases were. However, whenever you buy something from the iTunes Store, Apple emails you a receipt of the purchase. You don't get a receipt for free items, but you should be able to keep track of your past purchases anywhere you can get access to your email.
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Q: Is there a hard keyboard case for the iPad keyboard? Is there a hard case for the Apple wireless keyboard for the iPad?
The case is to make the keyboard safe to transport, like in a backpack or something.
A: I couldn't find any hard cases, but Waterfield/SFBags makes some nice soft cases you can use for transporting your Apple Bluetooth Keyboard:
(source: sfbags.com)
(source: sfbags.com)
A: I really like the inCase Origami Workstation because in addition to protecting the Apple Bluetooth Keyboard, it unfolds to support the iPad in a comfortable typing position.
Andy Ihnatko included it in A spring selection of iPad-friendly accessories worth a look
Apologies for the commerce link above. The link is to the manufacturer's site and they don't separate product from store. The Origami is widely available from a number of sources—I picked mine up at a local Apple Store—and no endorsement of inCase as the retail outlet is implied.
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Q: Do the Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad support “middle click”? I'm currently using the old Apple Mighty Mouse and I configured clicking on the trackball as a "middle click" that's been very handy for opening links in new tabs, closing tabs, etc. However, the mouse is starting to show its age and I've been looking at Apple's Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad, and I'm wondering - do either of these support the "middle click" operation? If not, is there a gesture or a multi-finger click that can be used for the same things (i.e. opening new tabs, etc)?
A: Multitouch is another option for adding "middle click" functionality to the Magic Mouse.
(Disclaimer, I'm the developer.)
A: Our friends over at SuperUser have an answer for us:
Here are two utilities that will allow you to customize gestures on the Magic Mouse, including adding middle click:
*
*MagicPrefs
*Better Touch Tool
A: Middle Click is a free app and is perfect for that.
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Q: Can I print envelopes/address labels from Address Book? As Christmas approaches I'd like to send a letter to my friends and family. I currently have their contact information in Address Book. Is there a way to print envelopes with my contacts' mailing addresses from Address Book? If so, how would I do this? If not, is there a program that will interface with Address Book and do this? If it's not possible to do envelopes, would it possible to at least print labels?
A: Address Book has this functionality built in. First, create a group and drag the contacts you want to send mail to into that group:
Select the group, then go File -> Print. Under the Style menu, you will see that you have the option to print either envelopers or address labels. The Layout tab will let you configure what specific kind of labels or envelopes you have:
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Q: What devices can receive an iOS AirPlay audio stream? In addition to printing, the other feature in iOS 4.2 that I'd been looking forward to was AirPlay. My understanding from the keynote when it was introduced was that it allowed iOS to stream audio to existing AirTunes equipment (as well as provide video to the new Apple TV), but I can't get my iPhone 4 running iOS 4.2 to stream audio to my old Apple TV like iTunes can. Is this a known problem? Are there any workarounds, besides buying one of the new Apple TVs (which I can't because my TV is component, not HDMI)?
A: Yes, this would be known.
First, the old Apple TV won't be getting the update (since its now iOS based), and therefore wont support airplay.
Not sure of any workarounds for an old Apple TV that use the actual AirPlay standard. A hack may exist after 4.2 has been out for a while, but I think most people decided to just move to the new Apple TV instead.
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Q: How do I take a screenshot on my Mac? What's the easiest way to take a screenshot of my Mac?
I've used Grab.app, but it's a bit annoying just to get a quick screenshot. Is there a faster way?
A: cmd shift 3 takes a screenshot of the entire current Desktop (all attached monitors, as separate shots].
cmd shift 4 takes a screenshot of a dragged selection.
cmd shift 4 then space (you must press space separately) then click, to take a screenshot of a specific window.
Holding Opt ⌥ as you click will remove the drop-shadow.
Add control to the shortcuts above to place the screen shot on the clipboard instead of saving it to the desktop.
A: Also you may define a shortcut key for copying the selected area to clipboard as I did.
Here is how:
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*System Preferences
*Select Keyboard Pane
*Select Keyboard Shortcuts tab
*Select Screen Shots from left menu
*Double click to the shortcut option of "Copy picture of selected area to the clipboard" and define a key that rarely used (eg:F13)
And done! From now on, when press that key, the area selection pointer appears and after you select the region on the screen, it copies the picture to the clipboard and you may paste anywhere.
Hope it helps...
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Q: Any Problem in Letting iPhone 4 Battery Drop to 0? Is there any problem if I let my iphone 4 battery drops to 0%? I remember for older smartphones, once your battery flattens out all your data is lost, because they are stored in memory.
While I understand that iphone shouldn't have this problem, but I wonder whether is there any problem if the battery goes flat?
A: Not really. You won't suffer any data loss because the iPhone keeps everything on non-volatile flash memory. A complete discharge isn't great for the battery, but as long as it's not a regular habit your phone will be OK.
A: It should not be problem, but avoid leaving the battery in an uncharged state as this can cause it damage. The phone turns off before the battery is completely discharged anyway to guard against this just don't leave it for days like that.
Apple recommend having a complete battery cycle (go from fully charged to depleted and back to charged again) once a month anyway.
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Q: My wireless has been set to “inactive”, how do I reactivate it? I seem to have inadvertently deactivated my wireless in the "Network" section of System Preferences. When I go to the Airport icon in the menu bar it looks like a semicircle that, when clicked on, says "Airport: Not Configured". When I go to configure it, the status is shown as "Inactive", with no "Activate" button in sight. How can I get my wireless working again?
A: The toggle to make a network adapter active/inactive is somewhat hidden. Select the AirPort adapter, then click the button that looks like a gear at the bottom of the list. This will open a dropdown and you can select "Make Service Active":
A: Seems like a problem with your connection to your network. Check that you're being properly authenticated, e.g. you have the correct WEP key, password.
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Q: What type of connection does a Macbook Pro DVD Drive use? My DVD drive isn't working at the moment. I attempted to put another drive in instead, but that didn't work either. My friend suggested that there might be a problem with the connection. What type of connection do I have to obtain?
A: There's one here for a hefty $28.95, though you might find a cheaper one by shopping around.
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Q: iTunes: making it remember the last song and position I have a big collection of music. I thought it would be so natural to remember the last playlist, the last song (and possibly also the position within the song) that I played before I closed iTunes, e.g. because I restarted the computer. So many applications do this, take XCode for example.
So is there maybe a script, or some kind of a plugin that does this? Or any other way?
Or maybe we should ask Apple to add this simple functionality?
Update: iTunes 10.6 remembers the last playlist, but still not the last played song. Well, getting closer each year...
A: You can use the Relaunch application: before close iTunes take a snapshot from iTunes with Relaunch and next time, load this snapshot (or set it to auto-load).
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 restarting your system, and after that double-click on the snapshot you created. Then it restores all your files and applications you had open.
A: Actually, you're asking for the same functionality as the iPod, which picks up right where you left off when you turn it on. You'd expect the same thing from iTunes. Maybe Apple is trolling the forums and will get the hint.
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Q: Stop-Motion movie I want to make a simple Stop Motion movie on my mac. It will be very simple, as a dialog between 2 "playmobils" sitting in a car.
So, the animation will just only be "mouth movements" and "eye winks", to make them look "alive".
What would be your advice about the software to be used to paste different eyes and mouths quickly and easily to create the successive snapshots ? (Consider that I have no budget to do this, so avoid the answer "Adobe CS 4" ;-). To make the editing, I will use the (outstanding) iMovie. (what else? ;-)
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*Which App would you use to create the different mouth shapes ?
*Which App would you use to paste them on the unique picture of the 2 playmobils ?
PS / I know it's not really a Q&A question, but instead more a "advice request", but please do not close it to fast :-)
A: Regardless of what software you use to edit your frames (Be it GIMP, Acorn, Pixelmator, Photoshop, etc.), the best software I’ve seen to actually work with the movie and make it “live” is Boinx’s iStopMotion.
Not free, not the cheapest, but very good quality.
A: *
*Free: GIMP. Not the best interface but it will do the job.
*Cheap: Acorn by Flying Meat Software
Anything by Adobe would be absolute overkill here.
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Q: Capturing video on iOS device? How can I capture a video on an iOS device or the iOS emulator?
I saw some product pages that are using videos demonstrating that how their apps to be used. The video is also showing the touch and other gestures of the user. How can I create such video?
A: To do it in the Emulator, you can just use Quicktime, since the latest version supports Screen Recording. Keep in mind though that it captures the entire screen and not just a particular window.
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Q: iPod songs all show as -0.00 seconds long I've come across a problem with my 5g iPod nano. For some reason all of the songs come up as being -0.00 seconds long. I've tried the normal soft reset, but this doesn't seem to have done anything. Any suggestions?
A: I've had issues with an iPod nano showing most songs with incorrect durations, though in my case they were shown as much longer than the song actually was.
My guess is it was caused by encoding the MP3s in a program not called "iTunes". They played great everywhere, but the song length never looked right in iTunes on my Mac, either. I guess Apple's MP3/ID3 decoder is stricter than my encoder was.
If you were using some other program to encode them, you could try re-encoding them in iTunes.
A: Well, if your iTunes library is ok, then you might want to remove all the music from the iPod, re-sync (to make sure it is empty) and then sync again, that ought to copy the music over.
If this fails to fix it, then you might want to hard-reset the ipod as something could be bad to the point where a simple resync is not fixing it.
Please bear in mind that a reset will erase all the information on the device. You don’t mention if you have WIndows or Mac, but in any case, the process ought to be similar.
Since the access to the underlying OS of the iPod is limited (by Apple’s design), all you can do is try to erase and sync again.
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Q: Why won't iPad connect to my mail server? I have just got an iPad and tried to set up my mail server.
I have a server that has SMTP on port 25 and IMAP configured on the default port 143, nothing special.
In addition, I have port 144 for secure IMAP and 26 for secure SMTP. SSL is a self signed certificate for a custom root that is installed in all devices that allow it.
I use SSL exclusively here and every laptop, desktop and other device works fine with it.
I first tried to set the iPad up with this, but when it did not work, I deleted the account and tried the non secure standard 25/143.
After main attempts (and failures) I did discover that I can send messages fine on both standard and the secure SMTP (indicating no problems with the SSL certificate).
I turned on logging on my mail server and found the message
TCPConnection - SSL handshake with client failed. Error code: 2, Message: End of file,
I get this when trying both SSL on and off.
I tested it on an iPod touch that was here and it works fine on both Imap Secure and standard.
Thanks in advance!
edit---
I found the enterprise tool, and managed to pull a log. I have cleared the log, then go in to mail and the following occurs:
Thu Nov 11 15:33:50 unknown MobileMail[47] <Warning>: Error: Tried to get message at 0, but we only have 0 messages.
Thu Nov 11 15:33:50 unknown MobileMail[47] <Warning>: Error: Tried to get message at 0, but we only have 0 messages.
Thu Nov 11 15:33:50 unknown MobileMail[47] <Warning>: Error: Tried to get message at 0, but we only have 0 messages.
Thu Nov 11 15:33:50 unknown MobileMail[47] <Warning>: Error: Tried to get message at 0, but we only have 0 messages.
Thu Nov 11 15:33:50 unknown MobileMail[47] <Warning>: Error: Tried to get message at 0, but we only have 0 messages.
Thu Nov 11 15:33:50 unknown MobileMail[47] <Warning>: Error: Tried to get message at 0, but we only have 0 messages.
Thu Nov 11 15:33:50 unknown configd[24] <Debug>: CaptiveNetworkSupport:UIAllowedNotifyCallback:63 uiallowed: true
Thu Nov 11 15:35:14 unknown MobileMail[47] <Warning>: Error: Tried to get message at 0, but we only have 0 messages.
Thu Nov 11 15:35:14 unknown MobileMail[47] <Warning>: Error: Tried to get message at 0, but we only have 0 messages.
Thu Nov 11 15:35:14 unknown MobileMail[47] <Warning>: Error: Tried to get message at 0, but we only have 0 messages.
Thu Nov 11 15:35:14 unknown MobileMail[47] <Warning>: ERROR: MFMessageErrorDomain/Socket Read - The connection to the server "ezpcltd.com" failed.
Straight after the last line, the device flashes the "Cannot Get Mail" message.
A: I did originally fix this problem, but it has resurfaced.
I have written a great deal about this problem at my blog... (would paste directly, but pictures will not show up).
http://blog.williamhilsum.com/2010/11/ipad-update-and-more-problems-with-mail.html
The blog will show how I fixed the original problem, therefore is an answer, however, it also shows the new (related) problem.
If anyone has a good fix that will solve everything once and for all, please write another answer!
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Q: Can I use iPhone earbuds as a microphone on my MacBook? The only microphone I have is the one built-in to my iPhone earbuds. I want to try some line-in stuff, so I plugged the headphones into the microphone port. I then went to System Preferences/Sound/Input and selected Line In. It doesn't appear that this is working as a microphone. Should it?
A: On late 2008 MacBooks and on, iPhone earbuds will function as headphones and a mic if plugged into the headphone port.
A: This depends - do you have separate jacks for headphones & microphone or just one jack? If you have two jacks you'll have to get a splitter for it to work properly.
A: In short, the microphone won't work as a microphone the way you're trying it, but the earbuds will.
Longer answer...
In order to use the microphone from your iPhone headphones, they must be plugged into the headphones socket. You can see in the images below that the MacBook Pro "Sound" preference pane recognises that they have a microphone and switches the "Built-in Microphone" to the headphones one when they're in the headphones socket.
If you plug the iPhone headphones into the Mic/Line-in socket, it seems to be only set up for a standard stereo 3.5mm jack, and so will use the earbuds (both of them) as microphones — a stereo microphone effectively (though they're not great at picking up sound or well matched to the hardware as microphones, so will require lots of amplification).
Sound preference pane without the headphones plugged in the headphones socket:
Sound preference pane with the headphones plugged in the headphones socket:
Plugging the iPhone headphones into the Mic/Line-in socket shows no change (i.e. looks like the top image) and having tested it, only the earbuds seem to produce any response in the computer (i.e. they're connected but the microphone isn't).
A: You can use the microphone on the iPhone earphones (as well as the volume and music forward/next on newer machines). But I think the reason its not working for you is by selecting Line In. What if you keep it as microphone?
A: Apple supports using an "iPhone" headset on Macs that display External Microphone in the Built-in Audio section of System Profiler (Also called System Information on newer versions of the OS).
Any computer that displays "External microphone" in the System Profiler will work with the Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic. To confirm that External microphone is in your System Profiler, choose About This Mac from the Apple () menu and then click More Info. Select Audio (Built In) under the Hardware section.
The operation is plug-n-play, the computer will automatically detect the microphone and earphones when you plug in the headset.
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Q: Cutting and pasting files OS X doesn't allow me to cut files. Are there any applications to enable this?
A: It is possible to cut-paste files/folders in OSX 10.7 Lion's Finder (so, since 2011), but the OSX way is slightly different from the Windows way.
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*⌘-C (copy first)
*⌘-⌥-V (now move to it's destination)
So, the steps are very similar to copy-paste, but holding ⌥ (option key) moves the file/folder instead of copies it.
You can also have a look in the edit menu after copying a file - press ⌥ while looking to see the difference: "paste" changes to "move item here".
A: Path Finder supports cutting & pasting files, though I can't think of a case where I'd want to cut & paste that drag & drop wouldn't work.
A: If you can pay some you can use Moveaddict:
And also I found "this solution" but I didn't test it myself.
A: You can't cut files, but you can:
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*Copy the existing file ⌘C
*Delete the existing file ⌘⌫
*Paste in the new location ⌘V
Given that anything you can do with keystrokes can be done by AppleScript, all you would have to do is combine the first two to give you the equivalent of Cut (although you might want to have the script pause a bit between the two…).
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Q: Multimedia Key Binding How exactly does Apple "register" the multimedia keys? I notice that Play/Pause, Rewind, and Fast-Forward are active Application aware. By which I mean that it will control Front Row, or iTunes, DVD Player, or Keynote, all uniquely, not at the same time if all of them are open.
How exactly is this registered? And can it be "extended" to work with other applications?
(Obviously all the rest of the function keys are of a more "global scope" and aren't really involved here.)
[edit]
I'm revisiting this question, because I've seen it come up a couple of times now that I'm discovering things like Vox.app and the like, but I'm still a bit stumped as to how the process can be so "intelligent".
If you browse to /System/Library/CoreServices/rcd.app/Contents/MacOS and run something like strings, less, vim, or any hex utility against rcd, you'll see some very interesting things. Namely, embedded/hard coded AppleScript.
To the best of my knowledge, this daemon controls the IR remotes, as well as the media keys on the keyboard. Given that some key events (Play/Pause, Fast Forward, etc.) are shared between multiple apps (iTunes, Front Row, Keynote, to name a few), I still want to know how the correct one is "chosen" to receive the event from rcd.
I assume this to mean that, in order to "extend" rcd to other apps, you would have to break codesign validation, and directly alter the binary in some scary perplexing manner.
A: You might want to look at the code for KeyRemap4MacBook. There is functionality in there for remapping these keys to whatever you like, I'm not sure however if it would become clear how to "register" those keys.
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Q: Unread mail count on iPhone / iPad is often out of date Apparently, data is only pushed to the iPhone when a new unread emails arrives.
If you read an email on your desktop or on the web, the 'Read' status is not being pushed down to the iPhone until another new email is being pushed down or you check manually.
It's very annoying because I always think there are new messages when there aren't, and the only way to find out is to launch Mail.
Is there a solution?
A: Unfortunately No
As far as Apple is concerned this is by design, and even the latest mail upgrade on MobileMe did not enable this functionality. This has been discussed at length on the Apple forums and hopefully at some point this change will be made.
There is no known workaround, as this is controlled by the server, and not the local app. Even jailbroken their is no solution I am aware of.
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Q: Is there an AFP Server for Windows? We're only a very small company, we don't have a proper Windows server, but we do store central documents on a Windows XP Pro machine via Windows file sharing.
The boss's MacBook Pro will connect and use the shares, but often will get itself into a state where the shares no longer work - navigating to the "server" in the Finder shows zero shares, yet all our Windows machines still work as they should.
I've asked a question elsewhere (serverfault, I believe) about trying to fix the connection problem, but I've not managed to find a solution yet.
We currently only have one Mac in the office, but that may soon rise if we land a certain project, so I'd like to find a workaround, perhaps by using a non-samba sharing system.
Is there an AFP-compatible server that will run on Windows XP?
Alternatively, are there other file sharing technologies that we can use?
A: If the Mac doesn't "see" the windows file server, you can always use the "full name" or IP address of that server, starting the address name by "smb://" in the "Connect" dialog (Cmd + K in the Finder) :
See this Apple Note for more details.
A: Try the program "PcMaclan" on Windows XP.
It's a AFP Server Program.
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Q: Why won't iPhone mail connected to an Exchange account download email bodies? I bought an iPhone 4 today and after alot of fiddling around I got it connected to Microsoft Exchange Activesync. Mail shows the message headers correctly and a preview of the first line from the body. When I click on any of the message headers, it displays the header information but then it just sits their loading the message body.
Eventually it times out and says: The message has not been downloaded from the server
How can I fix this?
A: Check iphone date and time:
Settings->General->date and time.
If its point to Automatic, set Automatically OFF
Time Zone: Setup your current time zone.
Hope it helps
A: I have the same issue which appears to be router specific and only related to emails from an Exchange server as Gmail works fine.
I have both iphone and ipad which work seamlessly on 3G and the first time I check emails on arrival at home on the wireless network. When I check a second time, the headers appear in the phone / ipad although nothing appears in the body, no matter how long the phone is left.
If you go to airplane mode and back, the symptoms are the same as arriving at home. Works one time and then doesn't.
I have proved this to the router as I purchased a Thompson TG845 (which is awful to setup) and it works consistently. When I install my preferred Netgear routers, the above problem exists even if I set the iphone in the DMZ.
Exceedingly frustrating and it appears as if I'm not the only one to experience this.
Changing the time to manual as suggested had no effect neither did aligning it to the Exchange servers time.
Look forward to anyone with the techo answer.
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Q: Custom keyboard shortcuts to change active Spaces desktop I'm a mostly Unix user that are starting to user OS X for iPhone development. Since I won't (and can't) quit my Linux environment I'm trying out the 'Spaces' functionallity for virtual desktops. But the built-in settings for changing keyboard shortcuts are quite limited. Is there some alternative way to change those keybindings to any combination I'd like? (I want Ctrl-Alt- arrow keys to change to next left/right desktop).
Hacky methods OK, too, even very hacky ones.
A: The built in methods for changing shortcuts are less limited than you think.
Go to the Exposé & Spaces preference pane in System Preferences, and check out the bottom section of the preference pane. Note especially the text just above it:
Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts (for additional choices press Shift, Control, Option, or Command)
Here's me pressing ⌃⇧⌘ (Control + Shift + Command) while the shortcut drop-down is active:
The shortcuts have the keys I'm pressing added to them (well, sort of, it avoids redundant combinations but its very easy to see how it works and choose exactly what you want).
So for ctrl+alt+arrow keys, open the drop-down, press ⌃⌥ (Control + Option) and you'll note the top item becomes the shortcut you're after.
You can also do the same for the shortcuts to switch directly to numbered spaces or for the Spaces activation shortcut.
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Q: What's with the PDP Authentication Failure when connecting iPhone 4 to a cellular network? I've bought an iPhone 4 and the text and calling work fine, as does wifi. However, when trying to use internet without Wifi I get a "Could not activate cellular data network - PDP authentication failure".
How can I fix this?
A: There have been a lot of different attempts to fix this general error in different ways. Some of these may work for you.
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*Remove the SIM card from iPhone 3G, turn off the phone, reboot, then reinsert the sim card and wait an hour or two.
*Go to Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset Network Settings on your phone to reset the network setting on the iPhone.
*Change SIM Card
*if nothing else works, call AT&T and have them reset your number.
A: I just got this problem fixed for Argentina calling t-mobile tech support. They were great.
Calling worked.
SMS worked.
Data - did not work. APN Authentication Failure
Tried before this
- airplane mode
- cell settings reset
- power cycle (turn off/on) phone
- hard reset
- network setting reset
- several APN profiles (only useful if you change to local SIM card)
The data roaming ON was set on my phone, but that wasn't working on movistar service. They had me dial a special code to turn that on on the network for my line.
#766#
And it turned data roaming on and instantly - data was back on.
http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-2822
A: You might also try going into Settings > Carrier and choosing manual carrier selection - bizarrely enough, that worked for me. See https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/52624/12164
A: Try to hard -reset the whole phone using the power and the home button.
A: Airplane mode off/on,then off,,manual search network ,enable network by a tik sign, date time ,year most up-to-date, get sim card loaded off,switch off 10minutes,put the SIM card ,switch on phone.its done on iPhone 4.
Or try the settings sent OTH (over the air) by network operators directly to your phone for a GPRS/edge data transfer protocol connectivity.
Such problems occur when you get a hardware change which do not carry the same apple part number and do not authenticate .
Sometimes you may try using a logic card from another i phone 4/4s phone to try rectify the same issue.
Such was the case when a touch/display screen was replaced with another available in the gray market.
A: Bro just call your Internet service provider. They will help you with it. I had same problem but after found that my validity of Sim was over and I need to recharge. Call your carrier and just talk to them.
A: You may try download and install APN configuration file and install again. This solution worked for me
A: in most cases this error occores due to insufficient credit in you mobile connection. please pay your bill to the service provider and try again. it should work.
A: holding both buttons (power and home buttons) at the same time seemed to work for me :)
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Q: Extending Warranty - AppleCare Protection Plan I have a problem with the phone screen.
I set up a repair with apple today and I noticed that the warranty expires in just 3 days.
Would the repair be handled as a warranty or am I expected to purchase the AppleCare Protection Plan to ensure that the repair is treated as within warranty
thanks for your help
A: as long as your case is documented by the Genius before your warranty expires it will be covered under warranty (as long as there are no signs of physical or liquid damage.) in some cases a Genius will cover items under warranty even a few days after it has expired.
A: What @Ryan said is correct, however, if you intend to purchase the AppleCare, you are supposed to do it before your one-year warranty expires. If you’re in Europe, you have two years with/without AppleCare, by law; unless you made the purchase through a company (i.e. the invoice is a company and not an individual).
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Q: How can I delete icons from the 6th generation iPod nano? Is this even possible? I will never use like 90% of them and I'd like to hide them.
A: Update: With the new update from Apple (v1.2), it is now possible to remove icons that you don't use, and to change the size of the icons. Under Settings->General->Home Screen you can show/hide individual icons.
I don't believe that you can delete the icons. You can rearrange them. I moved the ones I'm not interested in to the last screens so they are mostly out of the way.
The User Guide explains how to do this.
A: Based off experience with the iPhone and iPod touch I am guessing that the default apps are not deletable. the one app that can be hidden is the Nike running app that is turned on and off in the settings menu.
A: You can't, you can only remove them from your home screen.
It's simple. Go to Settings < General < Home Screen and then you'll see a menu with on/off buttons.
"Off" means that the icon won't show on the home screen and "On" means it will. Simply change the icon you don't want on your home screen to "off" and you're done.
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Q: Magic Mouse / Wireless keyboard not fully functional after Archive & Install I'm having multiple issues with my 2008-model MacBook Pro. I took it to the Genius Bar and they suggested an Archive & Install, which I did. But now I have a new issue.
I have the wireless/bluetooth Apple Magic Mouse and Wireless Keyboard. Since the Archive & Install, neither is working properly. The mouse tracks and clicks, but the "touchpad" features like scrolling and swiping don't register at all. Also, the function key on the wireless keyboard doesn't seem to do anything.
If I go to the System Preferences and select Mouse, then "setup Bluetooth Mouse" I get a "Searching..." and a spinning wheel forever. The mouse is paired but I can't configure the Magic features.
Similarly for Keyboard. It's paired, and I've clicked "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" so that if I want to use the keyboard to change the volume or something I should be able to use the combination Fn-F11. But both F11 and Fn-F11 do an Exposé thing. If I click "Set up Bluetooth Keyboard..." I also get "Searching..." and the eternally spinning wheel.
If I go to the Keyboard Viewer I see a keyboard layout that looks like the wireless one, but as soon as I press a key the Keyboard Viewer changes to a layout that looks more like the extended keyboard. Pressing Fn changes the keycaps on the ⌫ key to ⌦ , and the arrow keys change, too, but actually pressing these key combinations doesn't do what it says it will do: Fn-⌫ and ⌫ are doing the same thing.
Casting the "put to sleep/wake up" and "restart" spells don't seem to have any effect. Any clues?
A: The "software update" spell solved it. I had a number of updates come down last night and everything seems to work now.
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Q: What about the Apps that I bought on the App Store when I buy a new iPod? Will the App be synched when I connect my new iPod on my Mac ?
Do I have to do something special before selling my old iPod ?
A: At the very least, make sure you sync your old one to your Mac before you sell it. When you sync, it should copy purchased items from your iPod to your Mac.
If you have time, back up your iPod: Connect it to iTunes, then right-click (or control-click) and select Back Up. You can then restore your new iPod from that backup. This will restore your mail accounts, sync settings and app data to the new iPod. It will not restore the correct locations of your apps or home screen folder contents.
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Q: Is there a way to have a scheduled task that will run later if MacOSX is asleep / off at the expected runtime? I want a backup task to run once a week.
The computer I want to do this is a laptop, that is often off / sleeping. I would like the task to run when the computer wakes, if the computer was asleep when it was supposed to run.
Otherwise the chance of anything actually getting backed up is pretty slim.
Is there an application or MacOSX feature that does this?
My understanding of cron jobs is that if the computer is not on when it's supposed to run they will not get run on awakening, so that doesn't look like what I want.
A: There are various mechanisms in Mac OS X to do scheduled tasks. They take a little bit of effort to configure, but this page (formerly elsewhere) explains it and has links to more info. The at service, which was a bit easier to use, is deprecated as it wastes battery, and is no longer enabled by default.
The main recommendation now is to create a launchd plist, although cron is still supported.
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Q: Setting the default browser Is there any way to set the default web browser from within Mac OS?
I currently run Firefox 4 Beta, and haven't been able to find anywhere within the browser to set it as the default - possibly because it is a Beta. However, this makes Chrome start up as soon as I click a link from somewhere other than within FF, which is a tad annoying.
A: *
*Open Safari
*⌘, to open Preferences
*On the General tab there's a pull down that says 'Default web browser', the the one you want from the list
A: You can also use "Default Apps" for change every default application.
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Q: Search for a string in Preview I use Preview's Command-F (find) to search for C# in the pdf document. However, the result is not for 'C#', but just 'C': I get hundreds of meaningless search results.
How can I get the search result exactly for 'C#' or 'C++' in Preview?
A: I've not found a way to get Preview to search for characters like # or +, but Skim, an alternative PDF viewer (homepage here), is a good replacement/addition to Preview and is able to search more specifically.
I've tested it and found it was able to find C++ (without needing any quotes/special options) without bringing up all C results.
It was also able to search specifically for accented characters (like é or ö) — though requires such characters to be accented in the search to find them (i.e. you can't search for blah and expect it to match bläh, nor vice versa). In Preview, either search will return matches for both accented and unaccented characters.
A: Enclose the search string in double quotes, as such: "C++". This will filter the search results from the search for "C" so select Relevance as your sorting criterion from the gray toolbar that appears. All the pages with occurrences of "C++" will then be presented first.
A: You could just open the PDF in Safari. Safari has a more standard approach to searching PDFs -- it looks for exactly what you type. Preview used to behave this way, but somewhere around OS X 10.5, Apple tried to make it smarter, e.g., looking for pages that contain some or all of the words you type, instead of treating your words as a phrase. This new behavior in Preview is much less useful to me, but I don't know any way to turn it off. You can partly get around it by putting quotes around phrases, but I haven't found any way to get Preview to search for symbols, e.g., "C++".
A: Use Google Chrome's built-in pdf renderer. Enter the file:///path/to/file.pdf URL of the file, or bring up the file browser by entering a know directory, like file:///Users/home and navigate to the file location.
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Q: What is SIMBL Agent and why is it running on my machine? Is this something loaded by Apple or did it come with some third party app I must have downloaded.
A: SIMBL is not a part of Apple's Mac OS X package, but is an extension that can be used by other developers in their own work to extend applications where they may not have the original source code (like Safari). SIMBL-related files can be found either in /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins or ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins.
A: It is usually used by SafariFlvSniffer.bundle which comes with a video downloader app.
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Q: How can I view movie subtitles on a new AppleTV? I have an .avi and an .srt for a Mandarin movie. I used HandBrakeCLI to generate a M4V file that I could import into iTunes. In iTunes there is an option to turn the subtitles on and off, which works beautifully.
But when I move over to my AppleTV and select the movie from my computer's library, the subtitles do not show when played. I don't see any option in the AppleTV UI to turn subtitles on/off during movie playback.
All I could find was a setting in the Settings menu to set subtitles to "English" - would this be a global setting? Regardless it had no effect on my movie.
How can I view the subtitles when I watch on my AppleTV?
FYI here is the HandBrakeCLI command I used:
HandBrakeCLI -i /Volumes/Drobo/Movies/Ip\ Man\ The\ Legend\ is\ Born.avi -o /Users/emh/Desktop/movie.m4v --preset="AppleTV" --srt-file /Volumes/Drobo/Movies/Ip\ Man\ The\ Legend\ is\ Born.srt --srt-lang English --srt-default
A: Use Subler.
Open file, click plus sign at top right to add srt file, and then save.
This process is both very fast and easy.
A: I'm not sure if this will work in your case, but someone on this forum seems to have had some success in a similar situation by simply changing the file extention from .mp4 to .m4v.
They were also using handbrake.
A: I'm not sure whether you have a problem with the subtitle track for that specific rip you made however, generally, using the AppleTV 2nd Gen, when the movie is playing, you can hold down the 'Select' button on the remote for a few seconds and it will show you a menu where you can choose whether to display any subtitles for this movie and also which audio track to use (useful if you have two language tracks or have also ripped the commentary track to your file).
A: Hold down the select button during playback.
Doing so will pause video playback and present menus for subtitle track, audio track, and speaker selection.
This may be an old question, but Apple's unintuitive UI clearly hasn't changed.
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Q: How well does VirtualBox perform when compared to VMWare Fusion for Linux guests? I'm looking to do some Linux development, which includes some live testing of my application. I need pretty decent performance, but maybe not pedal to the metal performance, at least not for testing. However, I don't want a VM that is going to drag me down, or use more of my Mac's resources than needed. How well does VirtualBox perform on Snow Leopard?
A: Having extensively used VMware Fusion (all the versions from 1 beta till 3.1), Parallels (from their first public release till 5.x -haven’t yet upgraded to 6) and a lot of VirtualBox versions (Although I stopped using it six months ago), I can say that for Windows both Parallels and VMware ran circles around VirtualBox in terms of features, compatibility and speed.
I used to compile .NET code inside those Windows and the speed of VMware and Parallels was superior (I went ahead and clocked different timings).
VirtualBox’s advantage was (and still is) price. For a lot of stuff VirtualBox is enough, but it’s still (as far as I understand) slower than its two (only) competitors.
The advantage you have is that VirtualBox is free, so you can start trying it now, and both VMware and Parallels offer trial versions you can try. If you’re serious about finding the best virtualization solution for your scenario, I suggest you take the appropriate time to test all three options yourself.
I’m personally using Parallels 5 these months, because it worked better than VMware 3.1 for my Visual Studio C# very big solution. However, I’ve used VMware and skipped Parallels 3 and 4 because they were more unstable and slow (for me).
I didn’t want to upgrade to Parallels 6 because they annoy me with their $49 upgrade price that you have to pay every year.
A: I cannot compare to VMWare, but VirtualBox and Linux work just fine on my laptop. I run computationally expensive code on the Linux VM. It only has 1 CPU whereas the laptop is Core 2 Duo. The laptop has 8GB RAM and the VM gets 2 of those.
One slight performance improvement is to boot the VM headlessly, then ssh in, if your application isn't a GUI.
A: I run Ubuntu Desktop 10.10 as a guest in VirtualBox Mac, and can say that it runs about as fast as when I ran it in Fusion. It is definitely slower that in Fusion for things that open a lot of files (such as recompiling the kernel), but in the same range for normal desktop Linux use, at least in my case.
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Q: How do I reset my ipod touch 1st gen's password? My daughter set a password on it and now does not remember it, how can I remove/reset the password?
The software version is 3.1.3.
A: Found it and putting it here for reference, simply hold the home and power button down for 10 seconds (ignoring the power off slider when it comes up) then keep the home button pressed down and release the power button. This needs to be done while connected to iTunes. At that point iTunes will offer to restore it.
A: I have an iPhone, not the touch, but it is probably similar...
You should be able to restore it to factory settings (including no password, removing all data though) from iTunes.
Plugging the iPhone into my computer and opening up iTunes, if I click on the iPhone in the left column of iTunes, there's a Restore button shown in the Summary tab. As far as I'm aware, this will remove your passcode lock when it restores the phone (and wipes all data on it). You could also restore from a specific backup if you know what the passcode was at the time of that specific backup (assuming you've got backups enabled in iTunes).
A: If you don't have iTunes on your computer they will do it for you in the apple store.
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Q: iPhone 4 - sound only comes out of one speaker I have notices that sound only comes out of one speaker on the bottom of my phone. Is it playing in mono or is the other "speaker" actually a microphone?
A: The iPhone 4 only has one speaker. The matching screen on the other side of the phone is for the microphone.
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Q: Is there a way to stop downloading an app without restarting the iPhone? Is there anyway to stop downloading an iphone app without restarting the phone?
A: You can pause the download while it's in the "loading" stage by tapping the app icon (tap again to resume), but I couldn't find a way to actually cancel the download.
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Q: Looking for a way to set the MacBook screen dimming delay What I need is to extend the delay before the display dims. I will often read a page full of text and the screen will dim, and I have to touch the trackpad. It gets annoying when trying to take notes or do homework.
This is for a 13" 2008 MacBook Aluminum.
I am aware of the pmset halfdim switch. That switch corresponds to the automatically reduce the brightness of the display before sleep in the Energy Saver preferences pane. But it's not what I need. I do like the feature, but I'd just like to extend it 15-20 seconds.
Thanks.
A: I'm not aware of a way to set the dimming time directly. You could always just increase the Display Sleep time in the Energy Saver preferences and then manually put the display to sleep when you're walking away from the machine. That's done with the combination ctrl - shift - eject
A: The best 3rd-party based solution for you is to use Caffeine.
About Caffeine: A tiny program that
puts an icon in the right side of your
menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac
from automatically going to sleep,
dimming the screen or starting screen
savers. Click it again to go back.
Hold down the Command key while
clicking to show the menu.
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Q: Is there a (non-jailbroken) iPhone app that works like Android Lock? Is there an app which works like Andriod Lock on IPhone. I had read cydia offers
but on jailbreak. Is there an official one for this.
A: No, there's no official, Apple-approved replacement for the lock screen. If you really want to use Android Lock, you must jailbreak and then install it via Cydia.
Un-jailbroken phones can only do what Apple allows, which is to run one app at a time. Android Lock is different because what it does is to modify the basic system of the phone, which Apple doesn't allow. And that is the reason why such apps or modifications are only available on jailbroken phones (through Cydia, the jailbroken appstore).
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Q: VLC won't become default for MP3 or MP4 I have tried a number of times to make VLC Media player the default for MP3 and MP4. I open a file and tick the "Always open with" checkbox, but they still open with iTunes and QuickTime by default respectively. Does anyone know how to fix this?
A: You can use utility like Magic Launch to do that.
A: Try one of these 2 solutions I hope they'll solve your problem:
1- use "Default Apps" for change every default application.
2- From the Finder, select a MP-4 file, open the Info panel (File ➔ Get Info or ⌘I), select your preferred application and then click Change All…
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Q: Running a command line tool based on its extension I use Leo for structured editing of my code, and Leo has the extension of .leo.
In order to run Leo, I use the following alias
alias leo='arch -x86_64 /usr/bin/python2.6 /Users/bin/Leo-4.7.1-final/launchLeo.py --gui=qt'
It works well to launch leo with leo file as follows.
leo -f hello.leo
However, I need to find a way to launch Leo by clicking the leo file in the Finder/Path Finder.
What might be the solution to this problem?
ADDED
Mankoff's advice on using Automator works.
For running PyQt with -f option, I set "Pass input : as argument", and have the following bash code, which launches with/without -f option depending a file is dragged on or not.
if [ -z $1 ]
then
arch -x86_64 /usr/bin/python2.6 /Users/smcho/smcho/bin/Leo-4.8-b1/launchLeo.py --gui=qt
else
arch -x86_64 /usr/bin/python2.6 /Users/smcho/smcho/bin/Leo-4.8-b1/launchLeo.py --gui=qt -f $1
fi
A: I would use Automator. Make an app that takes an argument (file dropped on it, file double-clicked associated with that app, whatever), and runs the command you have above.
A: *
*Right click on a .leo file and select Get Info
*On the [whatever.leo] info pane that opens, use the Open With drop-down to browse to the Leo editor.
*Click the Change All... button
Double clicking any .leo file should invoke the Leo editor from now on.
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Q: Client torrent for broadcatching I would like to drop Vuze that I've been running for many years now on my G4 Mac mini in favor of a more lightweight torrent client.
These two features are mandatory:
*
*Watched folder
*RSS scanner for automatic downloads
Any recommendation?
A: I use Automatic (I use 1.x version, which was free, I see there’s version 2.x which is a paid update and I didn’t know about. My 1.x works ok), Transmission for the download (it monitors the files that Automatic downloads from a RSS feed I’ve created using ShowRSS (free).
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Q: iPhone missing task manager I've updated my iPhone 3G to the latest version (4.1 8B117), but I'm still missing features such as the task manager, background wallpaper, etc. I've tried restoring it a couple times now, even set it up as a brand new phone, but I'm still missing these features. Can anyone shed some light on why this is?
A: The features you mentioned, "task manager & background wallpaper" are not available on the iPhone 3G. In order to have access to all the features of iOS 4 you need to have it installed on an iPhone 3GS or later.
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Q: Why is Spotlight listing some people from address book twice? When searching Spotlight, certain Address Book contacts are listed twice. I have confirmed that I do not have two entries in Address Book for those individuals.
The problem is that one of the entries returned by Spotlight will open Address Book but not take me to the selected contact. The other Spotlight entry does work correctly and take me to the selected contact.
I have tried the following to no avail:
*
*Rebuilt Spotlight
*Deleted the following two files:
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*~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb
*~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/MailRecents-v4.abcdmr
Any thoughts on the culprit and solution?
A: Do you have a Time Machine drive connected at the time of the search? It might be searching in your Mac and in your /TimeMachine at the same time.
UPDATE: Since you mention that you don’t have a TimeMachine (or that it doesn’t affect results), I recommend that you rebuild your spotlight index completely from scratch. You mention that you’ve done that, but not how, so, please try to follow the steps in this question, and after you leave your spotlight reindexing all night undisturbed (best way to guarantee that the index ends up being “ok”), let us know if you’re still getting double results.
Might you be having a copy of your address book somewhere else?
Let us know how it goes with a plain new index.
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Q: How do I find out the system temporary directory? I'm testing an app that uses the System temp Directory. Inside of the app, there is some call to a Cocoa function to query this. Is there a way for me to query for this directory name outside of having to write a Cocoa app of my own? Possibly a command that I can issue in Terminal?
A: OS X has Python pre-installed, though not necessarily a fresh Python; but this is not cutting-edge stuff.
So:
Open a terminal
cat > hack.py
import tempfile
print tempfile.gettempdir()
^D
python hack.py
Credit to nosklo
A: env
Just type this command into Terminal. With zero arguments it'll print the names and values of variables in the environment.
Alternative with a bit more typing:
echo $TMPDIR
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Q: Why is it that "Mac OS X Snow Leopard can't be installed on this computer"? I'm trying to install Snow Leopard on a MacBook (32-bit, Dual Core, ca 4 years old).
I am presented with: "Mac OS X Snow Leopard can't be installed on this computer."
Is it because of the 32-bit architecture? Should I just go with Leopard instead of Snow Leopard?
A: Check to make sure you have enough RAM, Snow Leopard requires 1GB of RAM. Snow Leopard does not require a 64-bit processor.
A: What install DVD are you using? If it's one that shipped with a Mac (as opposed one sold separately), it's probably locked to only install on the specific model it was included with.
A: This error is very confusing. Time by time I face this problem because I mostly forget this
solution. I recenlty had this issue with an old iMac G4. It ended up the following way.
After partitioning the volume, you have to click Erase and change the partition type from
DOS to Mac OSX journaled. I hope this will help everybody there because no one in most of
the solutions forums point to these steps. This solution might also work for newer Mac computers.
A: It may also be because your old drive is not partitioned in the correct way. You might have to reformat the DRIVE with the GUID option ticked. The GUID option will appear in Disk Utility ONLY when you choose to reformat the internal drive.
Ask (or google) if you need more info about this.
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Q: iPad VGA output for the iPod app? I'm trying to get an iPad to play a video playlist through the VGA output cable. The only way I know of to play a video playlist is through the iPod app. The problem, is that the iPod app doesn't output the video through the VGA cable.
Is there any way to get it to output correctly? Or is there another way to play the video playlist?
A: I would just look in the app store for a video playback app that supports VGA output. Lots of them do now.
You don't need to jailbreak your phone.
Here is an app called "StreamToMe" that supports playback of your videos over 3G and Wi-Fi and has VGA output.
StreamToMe: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/streamtome/id325327899?mt=8#
A: The App developer needs to add that API to there App. So as of now if you want to output the video through VGA you will need to jail break you iPod or find an app that supports video out through the dock connector.
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Q: Is it possible to save http-hosted MP3 files directly onto an iPad? Is there a way to save an MP3 from a web server directly onto an iPad? I can stream it through the browser, but there is no obvious "save" capability.
Would it make a difference if the MP3 were an email attachment?
A: As fas as I know there is no way to save an MP3 file directly from the web. What you can do is jailbreak your iPad and then try saving it.
A: Here's a roundabout way of doing it.
*
*Create a Drobox account and install the Drobox app on your Mac and
iPhone.
*Use http://urldroplet.com/ to save the mp3 to your Drobox account.
*Open Drobox on your iPhone, you can star it so it's downloaded and kept for offline access.
A: You could save it into an app, such as AirSharing, then use iTunes to save the file to your computer, then put it into the Music Library like normal.
There is unfortunately no direct way to get a file contained somewhere on the Web, or even in an app, into the music library/video library, without first using iTunes.
Same goes for having it e-mailed to you. You can always access the e-mail and re-stream the MP3, but note the emphasis on that. Continually Stream the MP3.
You must use iTunes to get it into your library without any other significant process, such as Jailbreak as noted by Chirag.
A: GoodReader is what you're looking for. Copy the URL into it or use the built in browser to find the file you want then download it.
A: It is possible, by jailbreaking the iPad and then installing a tweak called Safari Download Manager. This will allow you to save any file from Safari to your iPad.
A: My favorite is Documents by Readdle. It has a builtin browser.
You can simply browse your desired webpage and download different kinds of files like mp3, pdf and others into your iPad directly and enjoy playing or reading them in the same application.
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Q: Mac Pro (5,1 - Mid 2010) + Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter + DVI Monitor = blank LCD I just received a new 2.8 Ghz Mac Pro with an ATI 5770. I have one LCD connected to the DVI port which is working fine. I have another DVI LCD connected over a mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter to one of the mini DisplayPort ports. This mini DisplayPort to DVI LCD doesn't register at all.
I've tried three different models of LCDs. System Profiler simply says "No Display Connected." I have tried restarting numerous times and the only other possible solution I've read is to reset the PRAM. I'd like to know if that's actually worth my time or if I'm missing some other configuration change that's necessary.
A: The Mini DP adapter was not fully plugged into the machine. It required a little more force than I was comfortable using to fully seat.
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Q: How to send attachments to windows users properly I already have Windows Friendly attachments enabled, but I'm still having a problem. Whenever I send a image attachment to windows (Outlook) users, it comes as an inline image, not as an attachment. They can't save the image like a regular attachment.
A: Hm, I haven't encountered this problem before, but it might be due to the formatting Mail.app does to the messages. Try making the message plain text by clicking "Format" in the menu bar and selection "Make Plain Text".
A: Probably not the best solution, but you could zip the images before sending them (right-click and choose Compress ... on OS X). Archiving and unarchiving zip files is supported natively in Windows since XP (I think), so even non computer-savvy people should be able to open your attachments.
A: I remember somewhere around Panther (when I still used Mail.app), that Outlook users (on Windows) would have problems with my attachments. I was trying to find the solution I had to apply and I think this link has most (if not all) the information. It essence it was an Outlook’s bug, but there was a fix. It’s explained there.
Regarding the “inline” thing, it’s because Outlook is reading the email as a RichText with inline UUencoded info. As already suggested, try zipping the attachment or send plain text messages to those recipients (there’s a shortcut to easily convert a message to PlainText, see Kyle’s reply).
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Q: Copy DVD to iTunes for watching on Apple TV I have quite a collection of DVDs which is slowly getting smaller and smaller thanks (in part) to crappy Wal-Mart binder style DVD cases scratching the discs. After purchasing an Apple TV, I'm wondering if it is possible to backup DVD's so that they can be watched in iTunes, and subsequently on my Apple TV. I'm running OSX.6, if this helps any.
I would prefer FOSS, but I wouldn't mind paying for something that works, and will be around for a while.
A: I highly recommend having this app in your arsenal for pesky discs that won't rip.
RipIt: http://thelittleappfactory.com/ripit/
RipIt is guaranteed to work and has a 99.9999% success rate in ripping DVDs. In fact, it has been verified to work with over 250,000 unique discs, and is continuously updated to rip the latest releases.
I would also like to mention that I own this software and I was recently unable to rip the movie "Kick-Ass". I contacted customer support with my issue, and later that day they sent me a link to download an updated beta version of the app with a fix for my disc. It doesn't get much better than that!
A: Handbrake was unsuccessful at ripping the first 3 DVDs I tried, but I found an older program called MacTheRipper that works great for ripping. Then I throw the ripped video files at Handbrake for encoding.
A: You can use Handbrake for this.
A: I use Aimersoft DVD Ripper (PC) and have had great experiences.
It's not free, but it's simple and very easy to use. It's even got useful presets:
It's also got GPU hardware acceleration which makes the ripping process faster and smoother. I used an old dual-core Atom-powered Shuttle PC, however, to rip my entire DVD collection and it worked great.
A: You can use VLC media player, VLC is FOSS as you requested.
Please refer to the following post:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/105382/10733
A: I tested the latest version of VLC media player (2.2.2), and it seems that VLC works well on DVDs released before 2014 - but can't process the DVDs of the last year or two. Plus, If you have any problems, I highly recommend visiting DVD0101.com, which offers various tools and tips and tricks related to DVD digitization.
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Q: How can I disable the 2nd hard drive in my 27" iMac? I have an 2010 27" iMac with an SSD and a regular hard drive. Now that I've been using the machine for some time and have not come close to filling the SSD, I'd like to disable the spinning hard drive completely. Why? It makes a loud humming sound when it runs, and I don't use it for anything. Anything I can do short of taking apart this monster and ripping it out?
UPDATE: As of 3-Apr-2012 and OS X 10.7.3, the solution below works. Some programs occasionally spin up the drive, but it only hums for about 5 minutes then goes back to sleep.
A: I don't know if it'll work, but try going into the Energy Saver section of System Preferences and select "Put hard disk(s) to sleep whenever possible". Then go into Disk Utility and unmount the hard drive. With no way to access the drive, I would assume Mac OS X would put the drive to sleep.
This is a temporary solution though, and it won't persist across reboots (Mac OS X automatically mounts all available drives at boot). If you're really not using the drive and don't have any data on there that you want, my suggestion would be to go into Disk Utility, repartition the drive, and for the format select "Free Space". Once done, Mac OS X will be unable to mount the drive and should put it to sleep.
A: The best solution is go to Apple service and ask them to remove the drive. I am also not happy with this issue, and I have a Hitachi 2 TB HDD which has a loud humming at idle. Which HDD model do you have, just curious? I was thinking about installing a quieter HDD, but there are some hardware compatibility problems and iMacs are problematic to open. It's sad Apple does not care about the HDD hum.
BTW it's actually easy to use an Apple script or a simple Cocoa app to unmount the drive on startup - which should use a shell script below
diskutil unmountDrive "drivename"
You can also reduce the time before sleep to 1 min from default 10 mins via Terminal command:
sudo pmset -a disksleep 1
But that does not solve the problem completely. Also some apps are accessing the drive even when unmounted, Parallels background agent does that for some reason.
A: I'd also recommend you try to use my util to auto disable your second drive on booting OS with an opportunity to enable it in one command whenever after. Please check it out: https://github.com/igorleanch/2ndrive
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Q: The Apple-authored driver appletmp.sys halts Windows 7 startup on Macbook Air Following a Windows Update which required a reboot, Windows 7 (64 bit) cannot launch successfully. The Windows System Recovery tool has been unable to fix the problem with any of the recovery points I have tried. The only system image available is from the same time as the Windows Update, so it seems pointless to try.
This thread on the Apple Discussions board has more details.
Any suggestions?
A: I wound up doing a fresh install of Windows 7 and leaving the trackpad off. It probably makes sense to keep a USB mouse handy.
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Q: Is Mac Pro Airport Extreme simultaneous dual-band? Can the Airport Extreme in a Mac Pro be used to create a network that is simultaneously dual-band such as the Airport Extreme base station?
The Mac Pro is a 5,1 with the AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x8E) card in it using the
Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.36.1) firmware.
A: I’m 90% (I leave that 10% just in case) ;), that the Wi-Fi card that ships with a Mac Pro’s is not capable of sharing the ethernet connection (that connects to Internet) over the Wi-Fi in dual band mode. The reason for this is that the very same Airport Express is not able to do that (and it’s a dedicated piece of hardware). You can infer that from two things:
*
*It’s not mentioned in Apple’s website that the Airport Express (or Mac Pro) have simultaneous dual band, which would be required for what you want.
*It is mentioned that (and I quote): “Speed and range will be less if an 802.11a/b/g product joins the network”. That means, that although they can use either 2.4Ghz or 5.0Ghz, they cannot use both at the same time, and when a slower 2.4 device (using a/b/g) joins, the antenna must switch to that speed, because they only have one antenna.
The Airport Base Station (Airport Extreme), on the other hand, mentions that in the very front page: “AirPort Extreme operates in the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands simultaneously and offers even better performance and range.”. Seeing is believing ;)
So the answer to your question is: No, the Airport Extreme card on a Mac Pro (or any other Wi-Fi Mac Computer for the matter) as of November 2010, is not capable of using a Wi-Fi connection in simultaneous dual-band; not for sharing, not as a client either.
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Q: Does iWork support OpenOffice filetypes? I was thinking about getting iWork as a replacement for OpenOffice.
Since I usually saved my files to the OpenOffice format (OpenDocument), I was wondering if it's possible to read these files with iWork. Most important would be reading of .odt (Text) and .ods (Spreadsheets). The ability to write these files isn't that important.
Saving the files to MS-Office first isn't an option though.
I also noticed that Quick-Look displays .odt files on a system that doesn't have OpenOffice installed so there's probably already some OpenDocument support built into OS X?
A: I just created some test documents (.odt, .ods, .odf) in OpenOffice and I was unable to open them in iWork. I was able, however, to open the .odt in TextEdit, which probably accounts for the Quick Look compatibility you mentioned.
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Q: What's a good camcorder that will record video in any of iPad's supported formats? I'm looking for a camcorder that will save me the video conversion step to display said videos on an iPad.
Does such a camcorder exist?
A: According to Apple, the iPad is able to reproduce:
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*H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
*MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
This leads to the file formats that Flip cameras use:
Video Format H.264 video compression,
AAC audio compression, MP4 files
format
So with that in mind, I assume that Flip does it.
However if you’re looking for a more “camcorder” thing (which you don’t specify in your question), the Sanyo’s Waterproof Xacti Camcorder does record in “Apple Friendly” format. Other than those, Google is your friend, look for “Apple friendly” camcorders. There are others out there.
I’ve personally tried the Flip and it’s fantastic, but I don’t have an iPad.
A word of caution: the ipad is not submersible ;)
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Q: Is it possible to install Android using OpenIBoot on an iPhone with the limerain/greenp0ison jailbreak? What it says on the tin; I have an iPhone 3GS jailbroken with limera1n, and I'd love to try Android on it. I've installed Bootlace from the OpenIBoot cydia repository, but it claims it can't run on my phone.
Is it possible to get Android running on my phone? If so, how?
A: It's not possible to install iDroid on 3gs at this time, only 2g and 3g iphones. My 3g is runnin it great. Sorry bro.
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Q: What is a good Time Capsule substitute? I am looking for something similar to Time Capsule, but I am really not interested in the wireless router capabilities.
Can you suggest hardware which has the same good qualities (size, silent operation, reliability), interoperability with my Macs, and possibly aesthetics?
I've looked at various offerings but I've overall unconvinced by any.
A: Any Drobo product will do, but it’s possibly more expensive than a single Time Capsule. The advantages are a lot tho. :)
You can compare the different models. I have used a Drobo (not pro, not fs, not anything) and it had problems with certain reliability, but I’ve heard nice things about Drobo FS and even Drobo Pro.
There are other NAS out there, so find one that you can afford, seek for reviews and go ahead :).
The nice thing about (Drobo in this case) is that you put “normal” drives in there, if one fails, you just replace it. BOom. That simple. It works in practice too. I’ve had two drive failures while using the Drobo.
A: I am using an old G4 Mac Mini, which you should be able to pick up really cheap,
which I have two external drives hooked up to.
It is quiet, reliable and looks beautiful but is small enough to fit into even a drawer if you want it out of the way.
A: Personally I use a Synology NAS. It has TimeMachine support built-in as well as a lot of other useful features (for example streaming music to iTunes). I have a 4-bay model for increased storage since I also use it as a file-server. There are several models to choose from though.
A: The LaCie network space 2 is Time Macine compatible, as are some of the other NAS products in their range. I have the earlier version (not Time Machine compatible) connected to my Time Capsule as a file server and it's just as quiet/stylish but even more reliable than my Time Capsule has been.
(I don't work for LaCie, I'm just a happy customer)
A: Take a peek at a QNAP NAS - they are being actively developed/supported and have a very impressive feature set, including:
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*Cloud Backup to Amazon S3 or ElephantDrive
*Full Time Machine support
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Q: Tab changing in TextMate when working with LaTeX files? I tried the new version of TextMate (1.5.10, r1616). I noticed that there's a 'Changed' item on the Release notes stating that the keyboard shortcuts to change tabs are now the de facto standand Shift-Command-[ and ].
Now, whenever I have a tab with .tex file open and I try to browse through tabs TextMate executes Insert commands 'Command Based on Current Word' (Command-}) and 'Environment Based on Current Word' (Command-{) from the LaTeX bundle when changing to the next and previous tab, respectively.
So, what are my options to get the situation back to normal? I think I could disable the aforementioned commands from LaTeX bundle with the Bundle Editor, but with a quick look I didn't find them. Are there any other file types beside LaTeX that might cause problems with overlapping shortcuts? Is this overlapping of shortcuts a bug in TextMate? I guess there's no way to change the next/previous tab navigation commands. One obvious solution would be not to update to the latest version.
A: In moments, this update was driving me crazy. Luckily, I remembered that the Mac OS lets you customize keyboard shortcuts. So, I opened system preferences > keyboard > keyboard shortcuts --- and restored my textmate tab navigation to how they were previously! Yay!
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Q: What speed does the A4 in the iPhone 4 run at? Apple made a big deal about the iPad's A4 running at 1GHz, but they've never said how fast the iPhone 4's processor is. In the teardown, iFixit mentions that the iPhone 4 uses an A4 but never gives a clock speed. Has anyone been able to find out how fast it actually is?
A: According to MacRumors and some German source the iPhone 4 is somewhat slower than the iPad, but still significantly faster than the iPhone 3GS. I guess that its A4 CPU is clocked at about 750 - 850 MHz.
A: The iPhone 4 is based on the same processor that is seen in the iPad and has a clock speed of 1Ghz.
The iPhone 4 also has 512mb of RAM which is double that of the 3GS and although never officially announced also double that of the iPad.
A: Though it's not confirmed, most sources claim that the A4 in the iPhone 4 is the same processor that runs the iPad, clocking in at 1ghz as you suggested.
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Q: How do I invert the colors on my iPhone? As a prank someone has inverted the colors on my iPhone. Black is white, blue is orange, etc. How do I get my phone back to normal?
A: Go to Settings -> General -> Accessibility and set "White on Black" to Off.
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Q: Force an app to run one of its menu options from a shell script? Is there any way to force the App to run one of its menu options if there is no command line interface available?
Perhaps an Automation sort of thing?
EXAMPLE
I would like to run NewsFire's "File > Export Feeds" command to backup the feed list (OPML file). I tried running NewsFire through Terminal with "--help" but no luck.
Here is the backup script I currently use, in case anybody find it useful. It can be used to save and restore the state of NewsFire accross multiple machines (to restore you just cd ~ , and then unzip backup.zip).
#! /bin/bash
#
# Backup NewsFire preferences, feeds and cache (everything)
#
D_DESTFILE=~/Backups/Config/NewsFire.zip
# Don't update archive, create new one
if [ -e "$D_DESTFILE" ]; then
rm $D_DESTFILE
fi
cd ~
zip -r $D_DESTFILE Library/Application\ Support/NewsFire Library/Caches/org.xlife.NewsFire Library/Preferences/org.xlife.NewsFire.plist
A: This is a beginning of an AppleScript to do the exporting:
set filename to "test file"
tell application "NetNewsWire" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "NetNewsWire"
click menu item "Export Subscriptions…" of menu "File" of menu bar 1
set value of first text field of first sheet of first window to filename
click button "Save" of first sheet of first window
end tell
end tell
tell application "NetNewsWire" to quit
It will save the exported file with the set filename at the location which was last used to do the exporting. It will not overwrite a currently existing file, so maybe you can save it in a temporary place and move it with a separate script.
Note: My copy of NetNewsWire had the menu command "Export Subscriptions…", not "Export Feeds", but if yours is different, just change the name of the menu item on line 6.
Edit to add: You also need to have "Enable access for assistive devices" in the Universal Access System Preference Panel set to enabled for this to work.
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Q: How can I transfer data from a G5 iMac to an i7 iMac? Today's my mother's birthday, and hey gift is a new iMac.
Her older iMac has a G5 processor, and is thus stuck on Leopard. She also has an older version of iLife.
What will be the best way to transfer the data? Does the migration assistant work well across OS versions and CPU architectures? (I know that for some programs I'll require Rosetta.)
A:
Does the migration assistant work well across OS versions and CPU architectures?
Yes, this will work just fine. The best way to do it is to get a firewire cable to connect the two iMacs, boot the older iMac into Target Disk Mode, and let the installer on the new iMac perform the migration.
I believe that Rosetta isn't installed by default, but when you try to launch a Power PC app you will be prompted to install it.
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Q: Avoid iPhone lock on iPod sleep Is there a way to prevent the iPhone from locking when "Sleep iPod" is activated as a timer?
I have this alarm clock app (SleepCycle) that needs to be running on an unlocked iPhone to pick up movement during the night. If I also want to listen to music or an audiobook while falling asleep, I set the clock timer to sleep iPod after a certain interval, but this seems to also lock the iPhone, even if I've set auto-lock to never. Any ideas?
A: Maybe you can ask the developer of SleepCycle to put some iPod scheduling controls into the app? That seems like the best solution.
I do know of one other solution, but I'm afraid it's a Jailbreak app. There's a paid app in Cydia called SBSchedule, which (when combined with the free SBSettings and SBSettings iPod toggle) can toggle the iPod off on a schedule.
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