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"Not enough space" on partitioning? I have a 320GB harddrive with 95GB free. I boot to a 10.5 disk, open disk utility, and add a 40GB partition. Halfway through the progress bar, though, it tells me that there's not enough space. I'm not sure what it me | Assuming you're booting from the install disk and not your boot volume:
Try making the new partition even smaller the first time... like 20 GB. If it completes successfully, you can usually go back and resize the main partition again to a smaller size. S |
"Not enough space" on partitioning? I have a 320GB harddrive with 95GB free. I boot to a 10.5 disk, open disk utility, and add a 40GB partition. Halfway through the progress bar, though, it tells me that there's not enough space. I'm not sure what it me | You may be getting the 'not enough space' error since there isn't enough space to hold some files while the reformat is going on. I think to be able to do the format like this, you would have to have at least another 125GB free (to basically store all the |
"Not enough space" on partitioning? I have a 320GB harddrive with 95GB free. I boot to a 10.5 disk, open disk utility, and add a 40GB partition. Halfway through the progress bar, though, it tells me that there's not enough space. I'm not sure what it me | Wipe free space, and then try repartitioning. I'm sure that's all the defrag did that mattered. |
MacBook Pro Hang I bought a new MacBook Pro with a Core i5 processor; everything is very good but it hangs a lot. I changed its hard drive and used Apple's diagnostic test but neither helped.
Any ideas about what could be the problem? | It’s a new machine, if it hangs “out of the box” take it back for repairs, it’s under warranty. It could be the memory (RAM). Don’t change anything, let the Apple folks do it for you. |
How to close apps in iphone 4?
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iOS 4 - can I close and app without it staying open in the background?
From what I know, pressing on the home button on iphone 4 will merely hide the application, instead of closing it.
So how can I mak | You have two options to close an app:
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*With the application hidden (i.e. if you are currently at the home screen or are interacting with another app) you can double-press the home button, hold down any icon in the app switcher until they all start to |
Removing software that came from a pkg file? I can't find the uninstaller. I installed some service using a pkg file and now I want to get rid of it. How do I do that? I would prefer not to use lsbom and rm and stuff. It looks scary. | Not a direct answer to your question, but you can also use "Suspicious Package", a QuickLook plug-in for Finder, to see what files a package installed: http://www.mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/
Depending on what files were installed where, you |
Removing software that came from a pkg file? I can't find the uninstaller. I installed some service using a pkg file and now I want to get rid of it. How do I do that? I would prefer not to use lsbom and rm and stuff. It looks scary. | For the most part, Mac applications don't have uninstallers because they're rarely needed. You can almost always just toss the undesired offender into your trash. |
Removing software that came from a pkg file? I can't find the uninstaller. I installed some service using a pkg file and now I want to get rid of it. How do I do that? I would prefer not to use lsbom and rm and stuff. It looks scary. | I recommend you try something like AppZapper ($) or
AppCleaner (Freeware). There are others that work similarly. |
Make an iPhone appear as different model? Is it possible to have a jailbroken iPhone trick an app into thinking you have a different device than the one you're on (e.g., a 3G passing as a 3GS)? | Palm did this with the Pre: the device, like all devices, told iTunes it was an iPod and allowed only the syncing of non-DRM content over the USB connection. As to how the iPhone sorts out what it is to tell iTunes could either be hard-coded or come from a |
The Battery Life Span of iPhone 4 I found that actively using my iphone for 30 minutes will take out 5-7% of the battery. Is it normal? | Yes, this is normal. If we assume that actively using your iPhone 4 for 30 minutes consumes 5% of its battery life, then you can use it actively for 10 hours. The iPhone 4 supports up to 10 hours of uninterrupted video playback OR up to 7 hours of talk tim |
Which text editor can I use with large files (>500 MB)? What are your recommendation for opening large text files on OS X? I found both BBEdit and Textmate to be struggling in this department. | BBEdit is pretty much the standard for opening large text files on a Mac. I've opened some good-sized files with it, and BBEdit didn't even break a sweat. It is not entirely free - you do not have to pay for a license unless you want features that are in t |
Which text editor can I use with large files (>500 MB)? What are your recommendation for opening large text files on OS X? I found both BBEdit and Textmate to be struggling in this department. | I'm using HexFiend to work with a 60 GB text file and it works great (apparently it can handle files as large as 118 GB). |
Which text editor can I use with large files (>500 MB)? What are your recommendation for opening large text files on OS X? I found both BBEdit and Textmate to be struggling in this department. | Check Sublime Text 2 out. It is one of the best out there. |
Which text editor can I use with large files (>500 MB)? What are your recommendation for opening large text files on OS X? I found both BBEdit and Textmate to be struggling in this department. | TextWrangler is a great tool for opening editing and saving large files. I wouldn't recommend if for copying and pasting large amounts of content though. Use it if you don't want to have to deal with the vi interface/commands. Like Loic mentioned, MacVim i |
Which text editor can I use with large files (>500 MB)? What are your recommendation for opening large text files on OS X? I found both BBEdit and Textmate to be struggling in this department. | I found MacVim pretty good at opening large files.
There's even a plugin to speed it up, if the file is really large.
(If you don't want to compile it yourself, you can download a DMG to install it pre-built.) |
Which text editor can I use with large files (>500 MB)? What are your recommendation for opening large text files on OS X? I found both BBEdit and Textmate to be struggling in this department. | If you are reading the file only, use the less command. You can navigate and search through the file like vi, but much faster and without the nasty 'line too long' type problems. For working with big production logs, this is an invaluable tool. |
Which text editor can I use with large files (>500 MB)? What are your recommendation for opening large text files on OS X? I found both BBEdit and Textmate to be struggling in this department. | If you are dealing with files over 2 GBs I recommend 010 Editor. It won't load the entire file in memory which means you can use it to open files larger than your available RAM and opening times will be much shorter (took about 20 seconds to open a 7GB fil |
Which text editor can I use with large files (>500 MB)? What are your recommendation for opening large text files on OS X? I found both BBEdit and Textmate to be struggling in this department. | For me, where BBEdit choked on 750MB, UltraEdit (not free) worked satisfactorily fast. |
Which text editor can I use with large files (>500 MB)? What are your recommendation for opening large text files on OS X? I found both BBEdit and Textmate to be struggling in this department. | My first choice is SlickEdit. It looks, well, is a bit old fashioned, but I have seen no other editor that deals with large files (even GBs of text) that fast, and still giving a ton of features.
It is not a modern IDE by current day standards, but a reall |
Which text editor can I use with large files (>500 MB)? What are your recommendation for opening large text files on OS X? I found both BBEdit and Textmate to be struggling in this department. | http://code.google.com/p/macvim/ worked with a 1 gig file
searching file took about 1 min |
Seeking good quality DVD ripping software for PPC G5, 10.4.11 Subject says it all, but here are the requirements in full:
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*Power Macintosh G5 Dual 2.5 Ghz, 2 GB RAM, 2 TB HDD (destined to become a media and file server for v1 Apple TV and home network | Use the RipIt App. Choose the Compress option and within the Applications preferences you can specify the output file format. I have to say they made the process simple and worry free. I am using it on Snow Leopard so my experience may not be the same as y |
Seeking good quality DVD ripping software for PPC G5, 10.4.11 Subject says it all, but here are the requirements in full:
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*Power Macintosh G5 Dual 2.5 Ghz, 2 GB RAM, 2 TB HDD (destined to become a media and file server for v1 Apple TV and home network | You want HandBrake. Does everything the apps in the other answers do, bit it's open-source and free.
The latest builds have discarded PPC support, but the version before the current (0.9.5) build does have PPC builds available. You can grab those here (Ver |
Monodevelop on OS X and Displaying UTF-8 Does using Copy or paste cause monodevelop to crash, or is it just me? If you have Monodevelop installed, please can you test this, I fount that both shortcuts and from the menus cause it to crash. I seem unable to | Since this is a duplicate, which still has not been closed, and the issues in question have been fixed, I will quote the accepted answer there:
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*Several common Mac programs have clipboard manipulation features that seem to corrupt MD's memory. It' |
iPhone 4 - photos are chopped off on the side I have been using my iPhone 4 to take photos on my holiday, and have been noticing that approximately 10% of the photos I have taken are chopped a bit shorter. I have only noticed it happening on landscape shot | I don't think this is an issue at all. In the Photos app, all pictures are slightly zoomed in on by default to fill the entire screen. If you zoom out on each picture using your fingers, you will notice that they are all the same size. |
iPhone 4 - photos are chopped off on the side I have been using my iPhone 4 to take photos on my holiday, and have been noticing that approximately 10% of the photos I have taken are chopped a bit shorter. I have only noticed it happening on landscape shot | The photos app takes pictures that are a little bit wider than the iPhone screen. Try zooming around the pictures and see whether it's just a positioning issue in the display of them. |
iPod Touch /w iOS4 - Why do I have to have iTunes installed to charge? Do I have to have iTunes running to charge my iPod Touch? I mean, can't I just turn on my computer and have the USB port just charge the silly thing? All my other devices work like th | You pretty much self-answered the question but, in any case and for future reference:
You don’t need iTunes to charge iPhones/Pads/Pods. iPhones come with a wall-pluggable charger that also happens to charge the other members of the family. |
Is there free software for recognizing a song when it plays? I have few .mp3 file that have no name or have a wrong name(artist name and song name) is there any free software exist to recognized what exactly this song is(by playing the song and this softwa | I'm not sure if you have a smartphone, but Shazam and SoundHound work well by using the phone's mic to identify songs while they're playing. And I know you said you don't want to use MusicBrainz, but have you tried the scan feature? It scans the song and |
Using Brushes (mainly dodge and burn) in Aperture 3 while in Full Screen Mode One of the reasons I went to Aperture from iPhoto was that I could easily dodge and burn my photos, which iPhoto doesn't let you do.
I have also been enjoying the full screen mo | In full screen mode move your mouse to the top of the screen, a toolbar will drop down which has the red eye tool. The is also a button for the inspector hud which is the same as the usual adjustment palette. Brushes work just the same. |
Using Brushes (mainly dodge and burn) in Aperture 3 while in Full Screen Mode One of the reasons I went to Aperture from iPhoto was that I could easily dodge and burn my photos, which iPhoto doesn't let you do.
I have also been enjoying the full screen mo | In addition to Henry’s information, here’s a picture to make it more clear:
The “hidden Toolbar”
Don’t miss The Palette, it contains interesting options for these brushes:
UPDATE If you want the “Hidden Toolbar” to remain ‘pinned’ while working in full s |
Display pressed shortcuts as an overlay on the screen On this great Ruby on Rails screencast, every time a shortcut combination is pressed it shows up on top of the screen, and it shows up so often that I find it hard to believe it was placed by hand when | Not sure which specific screencast you're speaking of, but they may be using Keycastr. |
Display pressed shortcuts as an overlay on the screen On this great Ruby on Rails screencast, every time a shortcut combination is pressed it shows up on top of the screen, and it shows up so often that I find it hard to believe it was placed by hand when | For the sake of completeness: Boinx Software's Mouseposé does this (and a lot more) as well ($17). |
"say" in different language? Are there voices in different languages installed in Mac OS X? E.g. spanish, french or slovak? (latest iPod Nano built-in voiceover has beautiful slovak voice, I'd like to try it on Mac OS X too) | For Mac OS X 10.7, Swedish works pretty well by just downloading the Swedish voices using Preferences->System Voice->Customize and setting either as System Voice. It neatly nails even pretty peculiar Swedish words and spellings.
No guarantee for other lang |
"say" in different language? Are there voices in different languages installed in Mac OS X? E.g. spanish, french or slovak? (latest iPod Nano built-in voiceover has beautiful slovak voice, I'd like to try it on Mac OS X too) | As far as I know the only way to get a Mac to speak in another language is to get voice resources in your target language. A web site for French blind people recommends iVox.
Sorry, no Slovak there I can see. |
"say" in different language? Are there voices in different languages installed in Mac OS X? E.g. spanish, french or slovak? (latest iPod Nano built-in voiceover has beautiful slovak voice, I'd like to try it on Mac OS X too) | Lion has many more voices, including Czech (Zuzana) and Slovak voice (Laura)! |
"say" in different language? Are there voices in different languages installed in Mac OS X? E.g. spanish, french or slovak? (latest iPod Nano built-in voiceover has beautiful slovak voice, I'd like to try it on Mac OS X too) | You can use the following command in the Terminal to get a list of all the available voices:
say -v \?
On my system the output looks like this with the voice name followed by the language abbreviation (I removed the comments):
Agnes en_US
Albert en_US
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"say" in different language? Are there voices in different languages installed in Mac OS X? E.g. spanish, french or slovak? (latest iPod Nano built-in voiceover has beautiful slovak voice, I'd like to try it on Mac OS X too) | The voices included in Mac OS X 10.6 are optimized for english only. Even if you set your system language to anything different, it won’t work, because it will try to read with english pronunciation, causing funny wordings. Try saying “Hola” for spanish an |
"say" in different language? Are there voices in different languages installed in Mac OS X? E.g. spanish, french or slovak? (latest iPod Nano built-in voiceover has beautiful slovak voice, I'd like to try it on Mac OS X too) | It might be a bit hard to find the international for OS X Lion, this shows how...
http://www.litebeam.net/litebeam/read4me/voices.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RUI5d5L_wr8 |
"say" in different language? Are there voices in different languages installed in Mac OS X? E.g. spanish, french or slovak? (latest iPod Nano built-in voiceover has beautiful slovak voice, I'd like to try it on Mac OS X too) | Yes, with macOS Big Sur 11.3.1, several languages are pre-installed to be used with the say command in the terminal.
You can check for the available voices in System Preferences > Accessibility. In the left pane, select Spoken content. From the System Voic |
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