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Q: What is the difference between Intel and PPC? What is the hardware and software differences between Intel and PPC Macs?
A: When it comes to Apple hardware, the differences between the last generation of PowerPC and the first generation of Intel were fairly minor, as far as the end user experience goes. They used the same form factors, and the all-new internals were quite effectively hidden by the unchanged exterior and the accommodations the operating system made for compatibility.
The last PowerPC Macs were sold in 2006, so any new machine since then is Intel.
In general, Intel Macs can run the vast majority of software created for PowerPC Macs. There is a performance hit for the emulation required, but it runs at acceptable speeds even for complex software like Photoshop. PowerPC Macs cannot run Intel software.
The latest version of OS X, Snow Leopard, is available only for Intel-based Macs.
Intel Macs have access to a feature called Boot Camp, which allows them to boot into Windows at full speed. Intel Macs can also run Windows inside virtual machines with the help of third-party software (VMWare Fusion, VirtualBox or Parallels); there is a minor performance penalty for this, but it's much faster than the emulation required for a PowerPC Mac to run Windows software.
A: The Intel chips at the time of the transition were sourced to be far more thermal and power efficient than the PPC chips of the time. Intel had much more room to grow within the same thermal and physical envelopes in terms of clock rate and the amount of hardware needed to support a given processor choice.
The PPC roadmap was shooting for massive clock rates in the 4 to 5 GHz range which amplified these disadvantages for future PPC chips when compared to future Intel chips.
Moving to Intel processors did away with the need for exotic liquid cooling systems, massive heat sink design and complexity due to space constriants that went into the G5 PowerMac. Power supplies were also downsized.
PPC design was heading directly into mainframe territory with chipkill memory, CPU virtualization, First Failure Data Capture and other high end / high cost features. Just check out this P5 heat sink and 4 processor MPM with associated L3 cache chips to get a feeling for how massive these processors would grow before Power7 manufacturing finally packed more power in a lower clock rate / smaller package. (and this is finally shipping in 2010). Now the Power5 and Power6 are still shipping and awesome at what they do in server land, just not so appropriate for the current Mac market space.
Furthermore, there was nothing coming in the pipeline for a portable processor from PPC so even though the power was there for future desktop machines if one accepts the many tradeoffs already listed. Quite simply, portable macs were starving for horsepower on the PPC architecture and likely drove the urgency of a transition to anything but PPC.
A: Hardware-wise: PowerPC is a microprocessor developed mainly by the three developing companies Apple, IBM, and Motorola. It is built with reduced instruction-set computer (RISC) which speeds-up the operation of MIPS (million instructions per second). PowerPC is mainly based on IBM’s earlier Power architecture because it has a similar RISC instruction set for microprocessors.
Intel and AMD CPU's are based on CISC architectures. Typically CISC chips have a large amount of different and complex instructions. The philosophy behind it is that hardware is always faster than software, therefore one should make a powerful instructionset, which provides programmers with assembly instructions to do a lot with short programs.
In common CISC chips are relatively slow (compared to RISC chips) per instruction, but use little (less than RISC) instruction
A: PPC Macs refers to the generation of Macintosh computers created in the mid to late 1990s through to 2006 that used PowerPC RISC based chips made by IBM or Motorola. That last PowerPC based Macintosh, the PowerMac G5 stopped being sold in August 2006. The latest version of Mac OS X a PowerPC chip enabled computer was able to run was Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) (so long as the computer supported it).
Intel Macs refers to the newer Macintosh computers (since January 2006) that use Intel's CISC processors. Intel Macs uses EFI instead of BIOS and can run the latest versions of Mac OS X. Intel Macs are also able to run PowerPC compiled applications through a translation layer called Rosetta which is optionally installed in 10.6.
If a program is made available as a Universal binary it is able to run on both PPC and Intel Macs however many new applications released today are Intel only (eg. Google Chrome, Final Cut Studio, Mac OS X Snow Leopard).
A: From the end user point of view, you don't need to worry about it much. Many applications were produced as "universal", meaning they run on both PPC and Intel-based Macs, and an emulator (called Rosetta) would let PPC-only apps run on the new Intel machines.
However, as time passed, newer features were only available to Intel Macs, so some applications state outright that they require Intel chips. Also, the latest version of Mac OS X only runs on Intel CPUs.
Apple did a reasonably good job of hiding the entire transition from users, so that everything just kept working as people expected, offloading any heavy lifting to software developers.
A: Architecture:
PowerPC: (short for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) and Intel processor.
more information can be found at wikipedia: PowerPC
A: I also wanted to know more on the Power architecture, I did find some good info on it. I'm glad to share the following information, specially for POWER8 (the latest from IBM):
*
*SMT8: 8 threads per core
*
*can also switch mode e.g. SMT1, SMT2, SMT4, SMT8
*CAPI: Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface
*
*first of its kind in industry
*hardware attachment
*eliminates the Device driver overhead when accessing the FPGA.
*Increased coherency
*NUCA - Non Uniform Cache Access
*
*though each processor is associated with a L3 cache, NUCA let's the L3 Cache be shared by the cores.
*Benefits data-intensive workloads
*NVIDIA partnership:
*
*through NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing we can obtain an 8x performance increase for Java programs, on Power8.
More references:
*
*https://community.runabove.com/kb/en/instances/power8-features.html
*https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273393397_The_cache_and_memory_subsystems_of_the_IBM_POWER8_processor
A: One thing I know is that PPCs are big endian by default, but can switch modes if necessary. Intel are little endian.
A: Power PC has its unique set of instruction in which overall is labeled RISC architecture and the way it performs its program goes way faster than that used on PC. About software there isn't difference except the way it was coded or compiled. For example Windows NT 3.51 was developed for PowerPC.
PC most used processor are labeled CISC architecture which change the way you code and the advantage is operates more than a single task at same time.
The term RISC and CISC doesn't make difference since some times RISC 32bits has more complex instructions than CISC 8bits.
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Q: Turn on Back To My Mac via a Script or Command Line The VPN software I use for work (IPSecuritas) requires me to turn off Back To My Mac to start it's connection, so I frequently turn off Back To My Mac in order to use my VPN connection (the program does this for me). I forget to turn it back on however and I'd love to know if there was something I could run (script, command) to turn it back on.
A: There is no supported way to do this. Having said that, you can do it using scutil:
louis@Arios:~$ sudo scutil
> set Setup:/Network/BackToMyMac
> d.add <YYY> <XXX>.members.btmm.icloud.com
> set Setup:/Network/BackToMyMac
> quit
louis@Arios:~$
Replacing <YYY> with the UID of the user account on the system (for most people with single account that is 501), and <XXX> with your iCloud account number. If you don't know that you can check your dns-sd registrations:
louis@Arios:~$ dns-sd -E
Looking for recommended registration domains:
DATE: ---Wed 22 Aug 2012---
9:11:04.789 ...STARTING...
Timestamp Recommended Registration domain
9:11:04.789 Added (More) local
9:11:04.789 Added icloud.com
- > btmm
- - > members
- - - > <XXX>
The last line will list your iCloud user number. I think they are all 8 digit numbers, at least mine is.
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Q: Why doesn't Microsoft Office/2008(& later) support RTL languages? I have Microsoft Office/2008 on my MacBook Pro. Office doesn't support RTL languages like Farsi and Arabic, and I know that Office/2010 (for Windows) also has the same problem.
Do you think the lack of support is because of business competition, or some other reason?
A: “Why” is a question for Microsoft, but I'm guessing it boils down to a simple lack of resources on the part of the Mac Business Unit. They have to prioritize certain features, and RTL support is not a priority for them.
To address the underlying need, you have several options:
OpenOffice and NeoOffice support RTL text in Microsoft Office documents.
Mellel has a reputation as the best RTL/multilingual word processor (it certainly has a nice feature set for it, like a direction breaking space so you can mix RTL/LTR in a paragraph), but I don’t know how good its Microsoft Office document interoperability is.
This would also be a use case where it might make sense to run Office 2010 inside a Windows virtual machine.
A: Microsoft has dragged their heels on support for RTL languages such as Hebrew and Arabic for years. It's always been 'coming in the next version' for as long as I've been using a Mac. Until it shows up, if it ever does, the premiere word processor for RTL languages on OS X is Mellel. It's actually quite great.
A: Microsoft probably doesn't have the manpower and it uses custom code for layout, plus the market is relatively small as well.
What's strange is that Apple's iWork doesn't work with RTL, although the OS (Cocoa framework) does support it.
Indeed, OpenOffice (or NeoOffice) are the best alternatives for RTL languages.
Mellel should also work, but it's quite different in its approach to text editing.
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Q: Repair Disk - Start up disk options I had a power failure and upon rebooting noticed that the OS drive needed to be repaired (Disk Utilities). I am running Snow Leopard and don't have the CD to start up from in order to perform the fix.
Are there any other options for running the repair utils on the startup disk?
A: One option would be to clone your startup drive to an external disk using something like SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner. Then you can use System Preferences->Startup Disk to select that external drive as the boot drive.
Once you've rebooted and are running the system off the external drive you can use Disk Utility to run the repair. After you're done, re-select the internal drive as the Startup Disk and reboot.
A: One option that doesn't require any external drives or disks:
Disk Utility's repair disk is largely* a thin wrapper over the unix fsck (stands for "File System Check") utility. You can run it by:
*
*Booting into "Single User Mode" by rebooting and holding command-S during startup.
*A command-line input will appear; enter /sbin/fsck -fy
*Wait for it to complete. If you see **** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** then run it again, since sometimes fixing the first errors will uncover more.
*Repeat until it says that the disk appears to be ok.
*Enter Reboot to boot normally.
*I can't find any indication that Disk Utility's "Repair Disk" function does anything that fsck doesn't. Nonetheless, Apple recommends that you use Disk Utility instead when that is an option.
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Q: How can I make focus follow the mouse cursor? I will often click on a button expecting it to be clicked but instead all that happens is the application it is in becomes active, and I have to click again to actually click the button. It would be nice if this second click wasn't needed, which leads me to my question:
How can I make it so that when I move the mouse cursor over an inactive window, it becomes active?
A: This is freely possible for the Terminal and X11 :
defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES
defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm true
Or, OS-wise, with a utility that seems to fit your needs, called MondoMouse.
A: I originally wanted to do this with my first Mac a couple years ago as well, since that's how my Linux and Windows environments behave. But I think the driving force preventing this from becoming a reality is in how OS X handles application menus.
What if you want to go to the menu at the top of the screen for an application you're using, but in the process briefly hover over another application? That would become infuriating quickly.
In short, I don't think its doable for that and potentially other reasons.
A: Best little utility I stumbled upon is Zooom/2. Strange name, hence hard to find. You can choose delay (Rather cumbersome, OS X and global menu is not designed to allow that). I set it to focus window under cursor instantly when Option key is pressed. Great value, no dock or tray icons, it just works.
A: Amethyst (https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst) is excellent.
Follow the README.md instructions to download, and then enable "Focus Follows Mouse" in the Misc. section of the Settings view.
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Q: With multiple monitors, can I pick which one an application will load on? In Spaces it's possible to specify which space a given application will open on -- for example, my web browser always opens on Space 1 and iTunes on Space 3. Is something similar possible with multiple monitors, so that whichever space I'm on a certain application will always open on the second monitor? For even more control, can I specify that it will always open on Monitor 2 of Space 4?
A: Not with the default Apple Spaces.
There is an alternative, though. CocoaBots makes a small app called Hyperspaces which builds upon the default Spaces and adds a bunch of cool features. Multi-monitor support is coming to their next release.
http://thecocoabots.com/blog/post/148/hyperspaces-104-and-the-road-to-11/
A: Stay App sounds like it might do what you want.
If you’re fastidious about keeping
your windows tidy, Stay is for you.
Stay ensures that your windows are
always where you want them to be, even
as you connect and disconnect
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Q: How do I disable or get rid of the startup sound my Mac makes? Everytime I turn on my Macbook Pro it makes a start up noise. This is annoying since there is no volume or ability to turn it off. I just don't want the sound to play at all.
How do I disable this startup sound?
A: Open Terminal.app and type:
sudo -s
Give the password when asked for
then:
cat >/private/etc/rc.shutdown.local
#! /bin/sh /usr/bin/osascript -e 'set volume with output muted'
then press Ctrl-D and type "exit".
Next time you'll reboot in silence BUT you'll have to manually reset the sound volume (F10, slider ...) if you want to hear some music again. Theoretically it should be possible to run under /private/etc/rc.local a script to do it ('set volume without output muted') but that seems to behave erratically.
A: I haven't noticed that sound on my MacBook Pro for ages, and today I figured out why. The MBP seems to remember 2 sets of volume settings; both for having-no-headphones-plugged-in, and for having-headphones-plugged-in.
I usually have my external speakers plugged in-when I'm at home, and when I'm travelling/way from home obviously I don't. At some point in the past I have turned the volume down to zero when headphones weren't connected, and now when I start the MBP up there's no sound.
You could try this (though it's not particularly practical) - turn the volume on your Mac right down to zero, then restart the computer. I suspect you won't hear the startup-sound. Like I say, not really practical but if the start-up noise annoys you enough, you might just get into the habit of turning the volume down before switching off. :-)
EDIT: Just realised this this point about turning the volume down has already been made in other answers here, so feel free to ignore this!
A: For Snow Leopard and earlier machines download and install "StartupSound.prefPane" which will install a preference pane in system settings to allow you to adjust the startup volume and disable the startup sound:
http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~arcana/StartupSound/BETA/index.en.html
Note that the above has mixed results in Lion. For Lion users the following is recommended:
*
*Login as administrator and open a terminal window
*Create scriptfile for muting
sudo nano /path/to/mute-on.sh
*Enter this as content, when done press control+O to save and control+X to exit:
#!/bin/bash
osascript -e 'set volume with output muted'
*Create scriptfile for unmuting
sudo nano /path/to/mute-off.sh
*Enter this as content, when done press control+O to save and control+X to exit:
#!/bin/bash
osascript -e 'set volume without output muted'
*Make both files executable:
sudo chmod u+x /path/to/mute-on.sh
sudo chmod u+x /path/to/mute-off.sh
*Check if any hooks already exist (these will be overwritten, so make sure it is OK for you)
sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook
sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook
*Add hooks for muting
sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook /path/to/mute-on.sh
sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook /path/to/mute-off.sh
Notes:
*
*/path/to/ is the location of the scripts, I used /Library/Scripts/
*you can skip the unmuting loginhook (i.e. each logout will silence your machine), but I like it this way because I always have sound
available exactly at the volume level I set last time
*root has to be the owner of the script files - running an editor from command line with sudo is the easiest way to achieve that
(otherwise you need to chown)
*to delete the hooks, use the following:
sudo defaults delete com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook
sudo defaults delete com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook
(source)
A: You can use StartSound.PrefPane which basically just sets the volume to 0 when you shutdown and then turns it back up after login.
A: Hold down the mute button on your keyboard whenever you boot it
A: If you keep your volume off when you shut down your mac/laptop it wont make the sound when you start it up again!
I don't know if this is true but its what my laptop does :)!
Hope this helps!
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Q: Multitasking on iPhone Does the iPhone close the background programs if it runs out of memory or battery?
A: There are two ways to approach this question.
From the end user's perspective, the answer is no. No matter what you do, the app will come back to the same state it was in previously, unless you close it from the switching interface.
Technically: yes. When the device runs short on RAM, it will freeze the application's state from RAM to the main storage (flash). When you resume, it loads the state from flash back into RAM, and then resumes. This is intended to happen quickly enough and transparently enough to be indistinguishable, but you may sometimes notice that resuming takes a bit longer if you have loaded several other apps in the meantime (and therefore pushed the app out of RAM).
A: They aren't really "in memory," more like cached to disk if and when necessary. Many apps don't even use the multitasking or aren't setup for it. When you switch it does actually close the app.
Being in the task bar doesn't guarantee that it's actually in memory, actively running, or both. The OS manages that.
A: No. Even restarting, complete power down and power up, will not remove the background applications from memory. According to the Apple Geniuses you must manually remove the applications from the task bar.
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Q: Is there a configurable "word-of-the-day"-screensaver/ -widget I am looking for a "word-of-the-day" screensaver or dashboard widget where I can configure (e.g. in a text file) that "words" to be displayed?
A: AFAIK - there's word-of-the-day screensaver that comes packed with every Mac OS X (since Tiger). You can configure it on a "per dictionary" basis. So if you need a limited list of some words, just create your own dictionary, install it on the system and I believe you'll be able to use it in a screensaver yourself.
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Q: Strange loading screen when MBP battery dies and reboots I have a 2007 Macbook Pro and for nearly two years, the battery has been toast. In April, Apple replaced the logic board. Since the repair, whenever the power cable comes loose, the MBP shuts off as expected.
Before the repair, when the power cable was unplugged, the MBP simply shut off. Now, when I plug it back in and turn it on, it boots back up in the previous state, but has a white screen with loading bars at the bottom.
I haven't found anything related to this on the web. Is this related to the new logic board, or is there something else I should be concerned about? The MBP is running Leopard and is up to date.
A: This feature is called Safe Sleep. Apple notebooks will keep the RAM contents alive (sleep in PC jargon), but write a copy to the disk (hibernate, in PC jargon) at the same time.
If the battery runs out while the computer is sleeping, when it wakes up, it needs to read the RAM contents from disk, and thus you get the progress bar you are seeing.
Apple doc about it is here
A: This is so called "Hibernation" (my first met in windows). When battery dies, the OS dumps whole RAM into HDD (sort of swapping) so that no information is lost. When it's being booted back up, it loads the information back from HDD to RAM (hence you see the progress with those white bars).
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Q: Faster alternative to ShakesPeer? I've used ShakesPeer for it's clean and Mac-like interface. But the downloads are really slow. Is there a faster alternative to ShakesPeer?
Preferably having at least the same features as ShakesPeer itself if not more. Also preferable if the software follows the Apple Human Interface Guidelines.
A: I haven't tried these but Jucy and EiskaltDC++ are two DirectConnect clients that work on mac. However, neither appears to use a mac interface.
source: http://alternativeto.net/desktop/shakespeer/?sort=likes&platform=mac
A: Whatever calavera pointed you at — also, try MLDonkey, NeoModus Direct Connect (DC original client!) and Valknut, they all have Mac versions.
Since I'm not a DC user, can't comment on speed =(
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Q: How do hide iPod icon with SBSettings? On my Jailbroken iPad, I have SBSettings installed. I chose to hide all my application icons, but iPod will not go away, no matter what the switch setting is. I was thinking about just going into the file system and manually deleting the icon, but I don't know where it's stored.
Any suggestions?
A: Are you running OS 3.1.x or 4.0.x? I've had some inconsistencies with hiding certain icons on my jailbroken 4.0.1 phone. It may be that SBSettings isn't fully compatible with OS 4.x yet.
edit: Fail on my behalf. Somehow I missed "iPad" in both your question AND tag. /facepalm
A: I just used Saurik's guide on theming and made my own iPod icon, a transparent 57 x 57 PNG. Kinda rudimentary, but it works for now. I then used iBlank to hide the shadow. Works for now lol....even though, the iPod is still selectable, kinda gotta be lucky to spot it.
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Q: Is Apple's warranty international? I'm about to travel to the US, where iPods / AirPods / iPhone are much cheaper than in my country.
I wonder if Apple's warranty is international, and/or what warranty coverage exists when I return to my country.
Where can I understand what Apple Warranty covers in the US when products leave the US?
A: I bought an ipad in January 2013 (10 mths ago) in the USA. It started giving problems a few weeks ago by restarting for itself every 2 mins. I took it at the apple dealer and repair center in South Africa where I currently stay, they tried fixing it but said that it needs to be replaced but they can't replace it since its under international warranty and they only deal with South African bought products.
So I guess the warranty is not international
A: Apples warranties are international except for the iPhone where the warranty is only valid in the country the phones was bought in.
A: Apple Warranty is international and you can use your warranty on every country that apple has branch.
but other than warranty you can buy AppleCare Protection.
Apple has “global repair coverage” If you carry your Apple computer or iPod when you travel and happen to need repair service, AppleCare Protection Plan offers global repair coverage.
but for this you need to purchase AppleCare Protection , and if you want go to other country to buy your product cheaper AppleCare Protection not a good Idea.
A: Yes it's international.
My friend bought a MacBook in the US and had a warranty case in Switzerland. The warranty case got solved without any problems.
A: AppleCare warranty is international, sort of no questions asked (unless you take in a soaking iPod).
Apple's limited 1 year warranty is sort of international. As in, your local Apple Service Provider may provide you with warranty or may choose to be very strict on the wording and not cover anything they don’t have to cover to the letter of the law and agreement.
A: Yes, Apple's computer warranties are international. Worst case, you have to ship your product back to the purchasing country if Apple asks for that, but the wording and common practice is U.S. purchases generally get covered everywhere Apple has service globally.
See Apple's Warranty Page for more details. The warranty is established in the country of purchase and if warranty service is not available in the country where the device is when service is requested, you may be on the hook for import/export duties as well as paying for the shipping.
No, iPhone and some parts of AppleCare plus are not necessarily international.
*
*https://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/
Pay attention to parts like:
IMPORTANT RESTRICTION FOR iPHONE, iPAD AND APPLE TV SERVICE.
Apple may restrict warranty service for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV to the country where Apple or its Authorized Distributors originally sold the device.
That doesn’t mean you won’t get service, but you could be denied or could have to get the device back to the country of purchase on your dime to get service.
Also, no in terms of consumer law varying widely between Europe, Asia, US and other countries:
*
*How does Apple's two year warranty in Europe work?
To recap:
*
*Warranty is what Apple offers and you may have responsibilities or costs to get service
*Consumer law covers things outside the warranty, so you need to balance both when choosing where to buy
*Look for words like shall and may and must - these contracts are legal and /or prescriptive so details and words matter. Read all the document, several times before spending money if you don’t know the return policy or have limited time to return goods after purchasing them.
A: Read my answer here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/13285/34885 in the comments (look for my name: madivad). I can vouch that:
iPhones warranties are NOT international.
IMPORTANT RESTRICTION FOR iPHONE AND iPAD SERVICE.
Apple may restrict warranty service for iPhone and iPad to the country where Apple or its Authorized Distributors originally sold the device.
from https://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/products/ipad-english-a.html
UPDATE: I made this post in 2013, I have again checked the link above in 2017, and the situation is still the same.
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Q: Can an iPhone be restored from an iPod Touch backup? If I have an iPod Touch backup on my computer, can an iPhone restore from it? How about vice versa?
A: According to this forums post, somebody did it with success.
Worked flawlessly for me
I just activated my new iPhone 3GS and then iTunes offered to either set it up as a new iPhone or to restore it from my iPod Touch backup which I did. No problems so far...
A: Yes, i can confirm this Works based on my experience. All my music and contacts from my iPod touch was magically restored to the iPhone 4S.
A: It will depends only of the iOS version, because the Apple's script is not accepting iOS minor than 8 right now (That's called downgrade). But if want to make an "Upgrade" (or restore from a version to the same version) so you have no problem with that, even with different devices.
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Q: How do I recover the administrator or root password on OS X? I received a hand me down white MacBook with 10.4 on it and it automatically logs into a user account that isn't able to change much in the preference pane. How do I recover or change the administrator password?
The original owner told me to try a few passwords, none of which work to get logged in as admin.
A: You can reboot into single user mode and change the password of a user with:
passwd [user]
Enter the new password twice and reboot.
A: Boot to OS recovery, internet recovery or on older systems, with a Mac OS X DVD, then there's an option to change passwords.
You can follow an how-to here.
A: Getting admin access without the Setup Utility: another option, for the sake of completeness.
*
*Boot into single user mode by holding command-S on boot up.
*Enter /sbin/mount -wu / when the prompt appears to mount the filesystem
*Enter rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
*Enter reboot
At this point, it should run the colorful little setup utility that ran when the machine was new. This'll create a brand new admin account. This method can be useful if you don't want to mess up any existing accounts on the machine.
Before step 4 you can use the passwd command to overwrite the current password for any accounts on the mac. The command ls /Users will show all the user names.
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Q: iPhone Taskbar close all applications Is there a way to close all application in the taskbar at once?
A: No.
You have to manually remove each one.
A: One nifty trick I learned from a friend: Enter "wiggle" mode for the taskbar, then tap the icons from right to left. This way you can close at least four apps in a steady motion without having to wait for the icons move one column to the right. Sounds obvious, but try it out and you’ll see what I mean.
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Q: "Erase and Install" function missing in Snow Leopard When installing Tiger or Leopard, there was an option called "Erase and Install" that would delete the disk before installing the new OS.
In Snow Leopard, this option seems to be missing. Is there any way I can add "Erase and Install" back to Snow Leopard?
A: With Snow Leopard Erase and Install is now a two step process:
*
*When you start up off the Mac OS X Install DVD from the Tools menu choose "Disk Utility". You will then want to erase the hard drive you want to install on.
*Install Mac OS X as you would normally.
A: Use the tools menu --> disk utility to erase the partition you want to install Snow Leopard on. Then proceed with the installation.
A: Because Snow Leopard is an technically a Leopard upgrade it might not be readily accessible.
You can boot up and under the "Tools" menu open up Disk Utility to erase before you install.
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Q: How do I turn off multitouch zoom in Safari? I'm using my wife's Macbook with the bigger multitouch track pad. Many times while in Safari, it thinks I want to zoom in and the page will zoom in. I want to just get rid of multitouch in Safari, or just disable the zoom feature in Safari.
It's nice to have multitouch in other applications like iPhoto, but it just causes problems in Safari.
A: In the trackpad preference pane (System Preferences) there is an option to disable Screen Zoom.
There is an alternative. A small plugin, of sorts, that allows you to disable pinch zooming in Safari and Firefox.
http://cubeyellow.blogspot.com/2009/01/mac-book-pro-trackpad-zooming-and.html
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Q: Keyboard needs to be setup on every boot up I am being asked to setup my keyboard every time I reboot my computer. Is there anyway I can get this to keep the setup?
I am on Snow Leopard and have a Logitech Wave wireless keyboard and mouse combo. This started happening when I switched to 64-bit mode. Booting into 32-bit mode doesn't fix it.
A: Repair permissions: Run Disk Utility; select your (main) disk; click Repair Disk Permissions
Viewing logs: Run Console
A: Um, standard "stock" fixes:
*
*Repair permissions
*Check logs
*Erase (Logitech) software and reinstall
You could also see if it is actually saving the connection details (by finding the pref file) or it is unable to.
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Q: How can I move an iTunes library from one computer to another? I'm getting a new laptop and I want to move my iTunes library from the old to the new computer. How can I do this? Of course I want to preserve as much information as possible: metadata such as ratings and play counts, cover art, my purchased content from Apple.
I also own an iPhone which I used to sync with the old computer and now I want to sync with the new one, preserving my apps, contacts, purchased content, etc.
What would be the best way to do this? Is just moving the whole “iTunes” folder from one computer to the other an option?
A: If they both have Firewire you can simply use the Migration Utility.
A: Yes, moving the whole iTunes folder will work fine, as long as the music is in the same location or a subfolder (that's the default). You can even move from Mac to PC and vice versa. However, I would suggest copying first; just in case anything goes wrong. :-)
If the iTunes Media folder and the Library files are in different locations, it can get more complicated. It's still possible, but if this is the case and you have the disk space, it's easiest to “Consolidate” the library into the folder that contains the iTunes Library file before you make the move.
A: Yes, simply coping your entirely iTunes folder to an other computer will do the trick. This assumes all of your media is consolidated within the iTunes Media and iTunes Music folders. iTunes will assist in copying music to the folder and organizing a library if you would like to ensure all the media is portable when it comes time to transfer.
Do not forget to reauthorize the old computer if you are not going to use it regularly in case it crashes and one of your 5 slots is taken up. You can reset things after a lost computer, but it is somewhat time restricted to prevent abuse of that feature.
A: *
*If you are a Windows user and don't want to go through all of this hacking, you can buy iTunes Transfer software at my partner site. It will help you back up your library – with playlists – and transfer it to your other computer.
*If you're trying to transfer music from your iPod to your computer, unfortunately, Apple won't let you do this freely, but you can buy iPod to Computer software for PC (free trial download), or iPod to Computer software for Mac at my partner site that will allow you to do this.
*If you just have the hard drive of your old PC, Ben has shared with us how to make the transfer
*If you aren't keen on messing with XML files – and play count isn’t important to you - Oden has a simple process, involving smart playlists, for retaining song ratings when you transfer your iTunes library.
*Collin has a simple way to find out those duplicate songs that you may end up with when transferring your catalog.
*Aaron devised a clever way to transfer while retaining playlists in your collection.
*If you are transferring between Macs, pbaron has a method involving FireWire mode.
Source for above.
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Q: Why does my MacBook Pro take so long to go to sleep? My MacBook Pro takes an awful long time to go to sleep when I close the lid. Considering that I generally want to close the lid and then carry it somewhere, I want it to be fully asleep so I don't have any hard drive issues. Is there anything I can do to speed up the process?
A: I recommend a nifty little utility called SmartSleep that allows you to control when the saving of your RAM contents to disk for the Safe Sleep / Hibernate feature Mac OS X has.
Alternatively you can disable Safe Sleep altogether by running: sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0. To change it back to the defaults, change the value to 3.
0 - Old style - just goes to sleep.
1 - Only Hibernate
3 - Default - goes to sleep but writes RAM contents to disk just in case.
5 - Only Hibernate mode but if you use secure virtual memory.
7 - The Default but if you use secure virtual memory.
A: Use the command pmset -g log to find out what is delaying the sleep command. Look for "applicationresponse.slowresponse" and "applicationresponse.timedout" entries.
A: Depending on what applications you are running it could take a significant amount of time (20-30 sec) to actually "sleep."
OS X will "dock" the hard drive head if it detects sudden movement, so I wouldn't expect any issues there.
A: Another use for the pmset utility (which, like most Apple utilities, is documented: do "man pmset" in Terminal) is to tell the system to sleep when you hit the power button. In Terminal, do
sudo pmset powerbutton 1
and thereafter when you hit the power button a menu comes up with choices Restart, Sleep, Cancel, and Shut Down. I always sleep my MacBook Pro this way in order to be sure it has really gone dormant.
On the other end of the sleep cycle, I don't want the machine waking up while traveling if it gets jostled enough to shake the lid open (even briefly). The Terminal command to estabish this is
sudo pmset -a lidwake 0
For both commands, you will have to authenticate as an administrator.
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Q: Is there a way to start a specific application with a keyboard short cut? Sort of like the Windows+R command in the windows world? That actually just lets you run a command but you get the idea.
A: As of Snow Leopard, this actually is built into the OS.
Launch Automator and create a service that receives no input from any application. From the Actions Library, add the 'Launch Application' action to the workflow. Select the 'Terminal' application in the drop-down list of Applications. Save your new service and then assign a keyboard shortcut to it in:
System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Services
A: Solution suggested by @NReilingh is fine but it fails if Terminal.app is running and it has no opened window (I've tested it in OSX 10.7).
Replacing Launch Application action with Run AppleScript action and setting the following code to be run does the trick:
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Terminal"
activate
reopen
end tell
return input
end run
Here's the full post: Mac OS X: Launch Terminal from keyboard shortcut
A: I wanted a shortcut to always open a new Terminal window regardless of anything else. Here is the code to do that:
tell application "Terminal"
do script ""
activate
end tell
A: Assuming your running Snow Leopard ⌘+space will open Spotlight which can be used to run terminal.
Spotlight can be bound to another key combination but the default is similar to Windows+R.
A: In Mavericks there is an option to open a new terminal window at the folder you have highlighted in Finder. To enable this option go to Finder -> Services -> Service Preferences and check New Terminal at Folder.
Then use it from the Finder menu:
A: This solution works for MacOS Sierra.
*
*Launch Automator
*Click 'New Document' and select 'Service'
*Change "Service receives selected" to "no input"
*Select "Launch Application" from the Action pane
*Select the application that you need to launch from the pull down menu. For Terminal you will have to go to the bottom and select "Other" and find it in the Utilities folder.
*Save the Service using some name.
*Open System Preferences. Go to Keyboard option. Click on Shortcut tab.
*Select Services from the left pane and scroll down to General in the right pane. You should see your Service.
*Click the service. You should see a button on the selected service itself which says "Add Shortcut". Click on that.
*Enter a key combination and close System Preferences.
A: If you have the Alfred Powerpack, you can add a hotkey in Alfred 1:
Or create a workflow in Alfred 2:
Hotkeys have a short delay by default in Alfred 2, but changing the trigger behavior reduces it:
A: I would recommend installing QuickSilver. It's an application launcher that will remember the applications you launch most frequent and recommend them first. It's easy to launch any application with a few keystrokes.
QuickSilver is the first Application I install on every new Mac.
A: Not built-in to the OS, but I've been using a free utility called Visor. What you do with it is leave your Terminal running in the background, but Visor hides it and invokes it in a Quake-style console when you hit a (user-configurable) key combo. It's pretty customizable as to how your Terminal shows/hides. Super awesome.
A: DTerm is accessed via a user-configurable hotkey, and pops up a window in which you can execute a terminal command in the current directory. For example, if you're in Finder and want to tar some files, you just hit the hotkey and run tar, without the need to change directories. Pressing Shift+Enter instead of just Enter after typing your command will execute it in a new Terminal window, from which you can keep working.
A: I use Spark and have ⌘+⌥+§ (I have a UK keyboard layout; § is just below esc) to launch the terminal. I prefer it to using Services/AppleScripts because it's faster. Also it doesn't add any visible UI elements like other solutions (I'm very anal about keeping my workspace as streamlined as possible).
I think development for Spark has stopped but it works perfectly on Snow Leopard.
A: I love Apptivate, it is like Spark. Apptivate lets you "assign system wide shortcuts to any application, document, or script file." It just does this one thing, and does it pretty well. It's very small, so doesn't use much system resource.
One great feature of Apptivate is that if it detects the application, say Terminal.app, that has already been running, Apptivate will hide it, instead of launching a new instance of the application.
A: Although I think the Automator / Keyboard binding to Services is better, I think I should mention Quicksilver, which gives you excellent keyboard services for the mac.
You should read this article about Quicksilver.
A: This is a bit opinionated and not a direct answer: you can use iTerm and set a global hotkey for it through Preferences (⌘+,) > Keys > Hotkey.
A: I'm using FastScripts to do this. It's free for up to 10 keyboard shortcuts, $14.95 to enable unlimited keyboard shortcuts (I'm not affiliated with Red Sweater Software, just a happy customer).
A: This is pretty close: CDTo.
"Fast mini application that opens a Terminal.app window cd'd to the front most finder window. This app is designed (including it's icon) to placed in the finder window's toolbar."
Ideally, you want a tool that mimics the built-in feature of MacOS 9:
A: I use Open Terminal. Check it out here.
A: Thanks for the recommendation for Spark. I have just now tried version 3.0b9 and it worked perfectly in OS X 10.10.3 for creating a shortcut to launch the terminal. I use Ctrl+Opt+T, which is the same shortcut to open the terminal in my linux distro.
A: You can use the Automator.app to make new shortcuts
Automator app> and then service(gear icon)[no input]> followed by launch application.app service,> chose terminal.app > [SAVE] > system pref. >keyboard shorcuts >services > setup shortcut
ctr+opt+cmd+T
Its Explained in this link
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Q: How do I turn off the Front Row keyboard shortcut? I keep accidentally hitting Command+Esc and bringing up Front Row. How can I disable this shortcut?
A: Under Keyboard & Mouse on System Preferences there is a Keyboard Shortcuts tab.
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Q: Why does my MacBook Pro reach high temperatures when running? I have my MacBook Pro sitting on my desk and it's consistently over 160 degrees. It is almost too hot to touch in some places on the casing.
A: 160 degrees Fahrenheit, if it is CPU temperature, is normal for MBP.
MBPs are designed to run pretty hot, with the aluminum case as the main heatsink the casing gets uncomfortably hot sometimes.
If you want to remedy the problem:
*
*use a laptop stand (I use Belkin Cushtops, they are really comfortable),
*put your laptop on steady, heat-transducing surface (human skin, blankets or soft chairs are bad — wooden/plastic/metallic tables are good),
*open up the casing and clean the dust (can make it ~10 degrees Celcius cooler)
*or, use less video- or CPU-intensive application =)
A: If you're interested, I've had a lot of luck manually regulating my MBP's temperature a little better with smcfancontrol. I find that keeping the fans running at 3,000 RPM by default (instead of the normal 1,000) adds no ambient noise over what's already in my office and keeps the temperature a bit lower. I also use it to pre-emptively turn the fans up to 6,000 RPM when I know I'm about to do something that will make it run hot.
A: That is within range. The chips can run up to 205*F according to the people at my local Apple store (I had the same question).
There is a thermal trigger if it gets too hot that will yank power to the computer. Real pain when you're working on something and don't notice the heat output.
A: Short answer: because of the crappy nVidia chip in it. See here for more details and don't forget to use some sort of app to see your actual temperature details. You'll see it's the GPU diode that's burning up. The rest should be hunky dory, at least 12 degrees centigrade below that piece of... extraordinary nVidia technology which I will forever remember for this snafu.
Long answer: I currently have one of those pre-Unibody 17" MBPs, with the faulty nVidias. Oh yeah, I'm so happy, I can hardly hold it in.
It initially ran at about 75 degrees Centigrade when I used it. After putting it on a smcfancontrol diet and keeping the fans revved up to 4500 as a default, everything was hunky dory except it still ran at about 69 degrees and was burning my forearms (though I love it in the winter).
Long story short: bought a wireless keyboard, turned the fans down to their standard 2000, 4 weeks later I'm the proud owner of an MBP with a dead nVidia chip on it. Luckily, I had Apple Care so everything was fixed literally without any questions. The new logic board had the gpu diode running at 63 degrees for the first two weeks (with fans turned down). Now their default has become 72 degrees with the fans at 4000. I think I'm going to turn smcfancontrol off, make the default 2000 again and let it burn.
I wonder how many dead nVidias I have to get in so that Apple replaces my notebook with a version that doesn't have a crappy nVidia card in it.
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Q: Is there a quick way to lock my Mac? On Windows you can hit the keys Windows+L to lock your computer if you step away.
I don't want to have to remember if sleep currently asks for a password, if there is a time out where my screen isn't locked during a short period. Even with Lion supporting resume of many apps, I don't want to log out.
I do want to be sure data is secure when stepping out for lunch or a smoke break.
A: Your Mac can ask your password after it wakes up if you set it to do so in the Preferences panel (Security). From there on, you can use ⌥+⌘+⏏ to put your Mac to sleep. So all you have to do is hit that and walk away.
A: If you enable screen locking within the screen saver pref pane you can put the computer to sleep and lock at the same time by pressing ⌘+⌥+F12
A: ⇧+⌘+⌥+Q will perform a "quick logout."
Another option is to enable a password when waking from sleep or screen saver and adding a hot corner for one or the other. Then locking is as simple as tossing a mouse in a corner.
A: To lock your screen using a apple keyboard try this
Or do this by going to "System Preferences" then "Security" under "General"
A: If you want to be able to remote control your Mac (with Synergy or something similar) even when it's locked, I'd recommend you to show the Keychain Status in the Menu Bar. You do that as follows:
*
*Launch the application Keychain Access
*Press ⌘, to open up the Preferences window
*Tick the Show Status in Menu Bar check box
*Click the newly appeared lock icon in the menu bar
*Click Lock Screen to lock the screen
This will lock the screen with a login window, but still make the Mac possible to remote control. If you don't need to remote control the Mac, MacLoc is a simple and effective solution.
A: On macOS High Sierra, there is a standard key sequence and Apple menu item to lock your screen.
*
*control-command-q or ^+⌘+Q
The Lock Screen 2 app is a great little tool to make locking and unlocking much more adaptable. It is for sale on the app store priced below $5 lately.
The promo video is quite entertaining even though it doesn't promote the ease of assigning a custom key command to engage a screen lock.
A: Here is a good tutorial which will help you to create a short cut keys to lock your mac machine
http://www.macyourself.com/2013/01/27/how-to-lock-your-mac-screen-with-a-keyboard-shortcut/
Lock Screen Service
1. Launch Automator from your Applications folder.
2. Select Service as the document type.
3. Select Utilities from the list on the left, then double-click Run Shell Script in the next column.
4. On the top-right side of the screen, adjust the drop-down menus so the statement reads: Service receives [no input] in [any application]
5. Copy the following command into the large text box that appears:
/System/Library/CoreServices/"Menu Extras"/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend
6. Go to File > Save and name your service Lock Screen. Once saved, you can now quit Automator.
Lock Screen Keyboard Shortcut
1. Launch System Preferences and go to the Keyboard pane.
2. Next, select the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. From the list on the left, select Application Shortcuts. Click on the plus (+) button below to add your new shortcut.
3. In the dialog box we’ll want to leave All Applications selected in the first menu. Enter Lock Screen as the Menu Title. Please note this has to be exactly the same name you entered when saving the service in Automator. Finally, enter your keyboard shortcut. Let’s go with Command+Option+Shift+L.
4. Click Add and you’re all done!
Now when you press your keyboard shortcut (Command+Option+Shift+L), the Mac login screen will immediately be displayed. You’re still technically logged in and processes such as large downloads will continue in the background. But you can leave your Mac unattended without worry – no one will be able to access your account until you enter your password. When you do, everything on your desktop will be there just as you left it!
A:
Go to settings -> Mission control and then over to HotCorners on the bottom left corner.
There are 4 corner setting appearing there. Choose anyone of them according to your feasibility as put to sleep. Just by dragging the mouse to that corner will put it to sleep and lock your system. I guess thats the best easy shortcut i have discovered.
A: If you're using Alfred, just invoke Alfred and start typing "lock". I don't remember if it's activated by default, but if not, you can activate and change the keywords in the Alfred preferences.
A: Via the Expose system preferences panel you can set a "hot corner" of your monitor that activates your screen saver. Say you set the Bottom Left corner, as soon as you move your mouse there the screen saver will invoke. If you've set a password on it, bingo, done.
Yet another option is to enable Fast User Switching in the Login Options pane of the Accounts preferences panel. This puts a Users menu in the top right hand corner, from which you can quickly choose "Login Window...". This kicks you to the login screen, requiring a password to move away from, and also does not end your session/quit any running apps.
A: Deskshade does exactly what you are asking. It locks the screen displaying only a huge padlock sign so intruders know the screen is locked which prevents unnecessary attempts to use the machine whiles you are away.
http://macrabbit.com/
A: SizzlingKeys is a little Preference Pane that mostly lets you configure iTunes keyboard shortcuts, but one of the "Extras" included lets you specify a shortcut to actually lock the computer and take you to the Fast User Switching screen, not just start the screensaver. I keep Lock configured as ⌃+⌘+L but you can specify whatever you want.
SizzlingKeys has a paid upgrade, but the Lock shortcut is configurable using the free version.
A: Another program that can allow you to quickly lock your screen is Padlock. Note that the aforelinked Macworld review of Padlock also gives a comprehensive review of other solutions (many of which were discussed above) for locking your Mac.
A: FTW! A keyboard short cut to launch screen saver which you can configure with a password lock. All free. Follow the link for better explanation and screens. I have been using quicksilver to launch the screensaver which works nicely as well.
http://leafraker.com/2007/09/14/start-the-screen-saver-with-quicksilver/
The only thing left to do is to define a keyboard trigger. I’m using
“Shift/Control/Command-L” as my trigger.
This key combination may sound a bit awkward at first, but I’m using
“Shift/Control/Command” for all my Quicksilver trigger. The nice thing
about this combination is that it rarely cause conflicts with other
keyboard shortcuts, and once you are used to this combination it’s
really not this bad. So in this case I combined it with the letter
“L”, for “Lock”.
A: There is finally a native way to lock your screen, starting with macOS High Sierra (10.13).
This can be done by clicking the Apple menu at the top left of the screen, and then pressing "Lock Screen." The shortcut associated with this action is ^⌘Q. Arguably, this is not as convenient as the ❖L (Windows + L) shortcut that exists on Windows.
However, one can achieve a similar behavior on the Mac natively. Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts, click on All Applications, press the + (plus) button at the bottom, type in "Lock Screen" (without quotes) for the menu title, and for the shortcut assign your own shortcut (such as ⌘L). Now you can use ⌘L à la Windows (or your own shortcut) to lock the screen.
Note that using ⌘L as your lock screen shortcut will render it ineffective for other tasks such as focusing on the URL bar in Safari.
A: Logging out to the fast user switching screen
*
*Run /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend.
*Enable the fast user switching menu from the Users & Groups preference pane and then select Login Window… from the menu.
*Use the lock action in Alfred.
Locking the screen
*
*Check "Require password immediately after sleep or screen saver begins" in the Security & Privacy preference pane. You can then lock the computer manually by pressing control-shift-eject to turn off displays or option-command-eject to go to sleep. A power key can be substituted for eject in 10.8 and later. In 10.9 and later, you can also put displays to sleep by running pmset displaysleepnow.
*Enable the Keychain menu extra from the preferences of Keychain Access and then select Lock Screen... from the menu.
A: You guys should check out QuickLock to lock your Mac with. It locks with any desired keyboard shortcut, it's beautiful, and it's completely and totally customizable.
Best of all it's free.
Check it out here: http://www.quicklockapp.com
A: On macOS High Sierra, there is a standard key sequence and Apple menu item to lock your screen.
*
*Control-Command-Q or ^+⌘+Q
For older OS, ⇧+⌃+⏏ puts the display (only the display, not the whole computer) to sleep and will then prompt you for a password if you have enabled Require password [amount of time] after sleep or screen saver begins under System Preferences > Security.
If your Mac does not have an ⏏ (eject) key, you can use ⇧+⌃+⌽ (power).
A: Lock Me Now - a Free app. Found it great for myself after searching and trying various options.
Nothing redundant, just all-you-need-out-of-the-box:
*
*Lock your screen
*Set a global shortcut
*Unlock with just a password
P.S: I'm not affiliated with this product.
A: With the track pad, you can configure gestures for locking your mac. I do it with a four finger swipe left. To confiugre this, you need a (free) tool like the BetterTouchTool.
A: Use a keyboard shortcut and use Automator to make a screen lock service. This will allow you to set any keyboard command you would like to lock or start a screen saver on your mac. As referenced below is a nice article on how to do the process.
Handy screen locking tips for Mac
If mousing to part of the screen isn’t your thing, you can use the keyboard to lock the screen, but it takes Automator (or a third-party application, but Automator is the better bet if you’re using OS X 10.6). Launch Automator and create a new service.
Tell the new service that it receives “no input” (rather than the default of “text”). The default is also for “any application”, make sure to keep this set. Next, drag the Start Screen Saver action from the Utilities action group to the workflow. Finally, save the service and give it a name, such as Start Screensaver. Go back to Keyboard Shortcuts in the Keyboard section of System Preferences and look in the Services group. Scroll down to the General section and you will see the newly created Start Screensaver service is enabled. Click in the whitespace to the far right of this entry and a new entry box will appear. Type the keyboard shortcut, such as CTRL-OPT-L.
Exit System Preferences.
You will now be able to hit CTRL-OPT-L and activate the screen saver in order to lock the screen. If you wish to return to the login window instead (you are still logged in, but the computer is locked) rather than activate the screensaver, change the Automator service to Run Shell Script instead of Start Screen Saver and have it run the following command:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/user.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend
A: From my answer in Super User.
Using Keychain Access's Lock Screen menubar.
Activate it here, in Keychain Access.app's Preferences:
Then lock.
A: I've used Salute for years - works beautifully.
A nod to Windows' three finger salute - ⌘+⌃+⌫ gives you quick access to screensaver (set a password on the and your done) - terminal or activity monitor. It's no longer actively developed but doesn't need to be - worked great on Leopard through Mavericks.
A: You have some app on the App Store who provide you a lot of way to lock your Mac.
Like this one : https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/lock-me-now/id464265594?l=en&mt=12
Or this : http://www.knocktounlock.com [Lock and unlock your Mac with your iPhone bluetooth]
A: Just hit these 3 buttons at the same time and hold shortly until you're locked:
Control-Shift-Power (⏏ or ⌽)
Works in the latest macOS Sierra.
A: Beginning with OS X Mavericks, all you need to do is press the power button of your MacBook to put it to sleep. This has the advantage of preventing you from having to close the lid to get the same effect. This will put your MacBook to sleep, however.
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Q: When using Spaces, is there a way to set each "desktop" background independently? For instance, say I had a few sweet background images I wanted to use to identify each one.
A: There's no built-in feature in OS X for that but there are two applications that can do that for you, Hyperspaces and SpaceSuit.
A: You have to use a third-party tools, like SpaceSuit.
A: Mac OS X Lion supports this out of the box now. Simply switch to the Space you want to apply a certain background to, then change it as usual (with System Preferences or the desktop's context menu). Repeat for your other Spaces and background images.
For older versions, you will still need to use a third-party tool as recommended by the other answers.
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Q: Windows print screen when using Boot Camp I have bootcamp installed on my Mac, and when on Windows, I need to frequently capture screens using windows shortcuts such as Print Screen.
Using virtualization is not an option, since I need to run a virtualized environment within Windows already.
On the Mac keyboard (I have a MacBook Pro, and an external think aluminum keyboard), there isn't a print screen key. Is there any equivalent when using a mac keyboard?
A: Follow these instructions in order to map the F13-F15 keys on an Apple keyboard to the functions, Print Screen, Scroll Lock, and Break commonly found on PC keyboards:
*
*On your PC, copy the following lines into a text file.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,46,E0,5F,00,46,00,5E,00,37,E0,5D,00,00,00,00,00
*
*Rename the text file remap.reg
*Double click on the file remap.reg and answer yes to the question about adding the information to the registry
*Reboot
Function keys are now remapped to their PC equivalents
Source: MacWindows.com
A: This article at Apple's KB includes the mapping of Windows keys to each of their keyboards.
A: Under Windows (with Boot Camp software installed) you can press F13 or Fn+F11 to take a screenshot.
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Q: How can I get DoubleTwist to differentiate between music and podcasts? Since iTunes has no way to sync with my Motorola Droid, and all of my music is on my Macbook Pro, I recently tried out DoubleTwist. It detected my Droid right away.
The problem is that when I chose to sync all of my music, DoubleTwist also synced all of my podcasts, which quickly filled up my sd card with stuff I don't want on there. Is there a way to have it only sync my iTunes music library and ignore podcasts?
A: Judging by the screenshots, doubleTwist allows syncing specific playlists and has smart playlists.
Create a smart playlist that would contain all your library but not podcasts (excluding genre Podcast), and sync it.
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Q: Sync iPhone with multiple Macs Is it possible to sync an iPhone with multiple computers? I know the music will be restricted, and I don't mind. I want the contacts, bookmarks, etc. to be in sync across my home iMac and my MacBook.
A: The best way to synchronize contacts and bookmarks between several Mac and/or iPhone is to use MobileMe (now iCloud). It will sync all as you need where you want.
A: You actually don't have to buy MobileMe to sync contacts and calendar to multiple Macs and multiple iOS devices. This can be accomplished with only a free Google account. If you want more details on how to set it up, please ask.
As far as I know, there is no way to sync bookmarks without MobileMe.
A: Actually, I just answered the question to how to keep your device's music library synchronized with 2 machines as well: Sync iTunes U between 2 Macs via an iPod
A: One way to partly solve this (without paying for MobileMe) is by syncing certain data between different computers using Dropbox. (This approach was suggested in a Super User question about syncing home folders that I asked a year ago.)
To sync contacts, for example, share AddressBook's application data between your Macs like this:
*
*Move the folder ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook (on the computer where you have the data) to your Dropbox.
*On each computer you wish to sync, create a symlink from ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook to that folder in your Dropbox.
These screenshots show what the setup looks like on one of my computers:
(If you need more detailed instructions, please let me know!)
For bookmarks, you'd need to share some Safari application data (I don't know which files/folders exactly as I haven't done that myself).
Obviously this isn't optimal, but once you set it up, it works pretty well. I think Apple is sooner or later going to provide better (cloud-based, even wireless) sync across multiple devices (also to those who're not paying extra for the service). Well, at any rate they should, as they are lagging behind Google quite badly in this respect.
A: You can have your music synced to one computer and contacts synced to another - no problem.
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Q: Creating a new file blocks Textmate When I want to create a new file through the button (left-bottom one) in the project drawer or in the file menu it takes a long time and blocks TextMate and even blocks TextMate totally in some cases.
I've installed the latest version of TextMate and installed all updates available for Mac OS X.
Anyone any idea what the problem is?
A: I just tested it with a couple of different massive projects on my MBP and it created a new file right away.
First guess would be perhaps a bundle or other plugin you've added is interfering with the program operation somehow. You could also try trashing your Textmate preferences file and restart the program to see if that helps (~/Library/Preferences/com.macromates.textmate.plist).
A: Do you have any external drives connected? Certain external hard drives will go into some sort of dormant mode when they haven't been used in a while, and will block things until they spin back up. This is triggered by anything requiring filesystem access, whether you're trying to access those drives or not.
If this is your issue, it'll be very intermittent, and caused by other attempts to access the file system (Open File and Save File dialogs being common). Furthermore, it won't be limited to just Textmate, but your usage patterns may mean it mostly shows up there.
The solution, in this case, would be to unplug the external drives when not in use.
Of course, this isn't to say this /is/ your issue, but it would more or less fix your symptoms.
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Q: Dot-files and other meta data on non-Mac network shares Is there a way to tell Finder to not use (or worry about) the ._* files and other meta-data files it normally tries to use when it's on a network share?
Currently when I'm in Finder and I try to copy a file to a network share it results in an error:
The Finder can’t complete the
operation because some data in “file_name” can’t be read or written.
(Error code -36)
But I can copy the file from the terminal command line to the network share and use it from Finder afterward just fine. It seems that the meta-data isn't really needed on the network share. Is there a way to tell Finder this?
For reference, I'm using Snow Leopard and the share is a Samba share on a Linux server.
A: defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
Will get rid of the DS files. Anything else you might have to do by hand.
A: Adapted from https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/57832/8546
Finder
Finder does much to ensure integrity of data, and to make its results compatible with a broad range of Apple operating systems. For some types of copy/move routines, ._ (dot underscore) files are required.
File system
If creation of ._ files is prevented at the file system level, then that file system is partially incompatible with at least:
*
*Apple Finder
*Microsoft Office Excel, PowerPoint and Word 2011.
(For any use case that involves Office 2011 saving to a file system, you must allow ._ on that file system … and so on.)
Error code -36
-36 (ioErr) (I/O error) is a file system error, it indicates that data cannot be sent or received by the operating system. Historically, errors of this type were bummers.
Without knowing the detail of your Samba configuration:
*
*I guess that in your case, error -36 is the result of a file system restriction.
For more detail please see my answer to an older question, Why are dot underscore ._ files created, and how can I avoid them?:
*
*Purposes of .DS_Store and ._ files
A: Is the file you're trying to copy using a resource fork?
If you're dealing with .DS_Store file issues run the following command in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
If you're having issues with resource forks on Snow Leopard you may need to change your settings for the streams setting in smb.conf on the Linux machine or nsmb.conf on your local Mac. (._FILENAME files are the resource forks of the file). Check out Super User for more details on this.
A: This is not working for me anymore.
So i have added ._* to the veto files
I think it's works but i don't know if it has other complications?
vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
[global]
veto files = /._*/.AppleDB/.AppleDouble/.AppleDesktop/:2eDS_Store/Network Trash Folder/Temporary Items/TheVolumeSettingsFolder/.@_thumb/.@_desc/:2e*/
(esc-shift-ZZ)
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Q: What's the difference between Real, Virtual, Shared, and Private Memory? The different columns in Activity Monitor are a little confusing
A: Real mem relates to physical memory (actual RAM modules in your computer). Virtual Mem is how much "fake" memory is allocated to the process, meaning memory that is allocated on the permanent storage medium (hard drive, solid state drive, etc) for that process. Shared memory is physical (Real) memory that can be shared with other processes. Private memory is "real" memory that can only be used by the process it is allocated to.
These explanations may help as well... directly from activity monitor --> help --> viewing system memory usage:
Here is an explanation of some of the information displayed at the bottom of the memory pane:
*
*Wired: Wired memory contains information that must always stay in RAM
*Active: Active memory that contains information that is actively being used.
*Inactive: Inactive memory contains information that is not actively being used. Leaving this information in RAM is to your advantage if you (or a client of your computer) come back to it later.
*Used: Used memory is being used by a process or by the system.
Used memory is the sum of wired, active, and inactive memory. If the system requires memory it takes free memory before used memory.
*Free: Free memory is not being used and is immediately available.
*VM size: Virtual memory, or VM, is hard disk space that can be used as memory. VM size is the amount of disk space being used as memory. Mac OS X can use more memory than the amount of physical RAM you have. A hard disk is much slower than RAM, so the virtual memory system automatically distributes information between disk space and RAM for efficient performance.
Page ins/outs: The number of gigabytes of information Mac OS X has moved between RAM and disk space
A: Apple updated the Activity Monitor in OSX 10.9 (Mavericks). They have a good article about what everything means here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5890. In summary...
*
*Physical Memory: The amount of RAM installed.
*Memory Used: The amount of RAM being used and not immediately available for other apps.
*Virtual Memory: The amount of memory mapping that apps have asked for. This is not an actual consumption of RAM resources and it size is determined by the author of the app.
*Swap Used: The space on your drive being used to swap unused files to and from RAM. It is normal to see some activity and it is not a indication that you have depleted RAM resources. Seeing memory pressure in the Red state will indicate that RAM resources are depleted.
*App Memory: The amount of space being used by apps.
*Wired Memory: Memory that can’t be cached to disk, so it must stay in RAM. This memory can’t be borrowed by other apps.
*Compressed: The amount of memory in RAM that is compressed, making more RAM resources available for other apps.
*File Cache: The space in RAM marked as available for apps to use that contains recently used files.
Memory Pressure graph
The combination of Free, Wired, Active, Inactive & Used memory statistics in previous versions of Activity Monitor have been replaced in Mavericks with an easy to read "Memory Pressure" graph.
Memory pressure is indicated by color:
*
*Green – RAM memory resources are available.
*Amber – RAM memory resources are being tasked.
*Red – RAM memory resources are depleted and OS X is using the drive for memory.
A: Taken from my answer at Server Fault:
Mac OS X Memory Jargon:
Wired : This refers to kernel code and such. Memory that should not ever be moved out of the RAM. Also know as resident memory.
Shared : Memory that is shared between two or more processes. Both processes would show this amount of memory so it can be a bit misleading as to how much memory is actually in use.
Real : This is the "real" memory usage for an application as reported by task_info() - a rough count of the number of physical pages that the current process has. (RSIZE)
Private : This is memory that a process is using solely on its own that is used in Resident memory. (RPRVT)
Virtual : The total amount of address space in the process that's mapped to anything - whether that's an arbitrarily large space for variables or anything - it does not equate to actual VM use. (VSIZE)
Active : Memory currently labelled as active and is used RAM.
Inactive : "Inactive memory is no longer being used and has been cached to disk. It will remain in RAM until another application needs the space. Leaving this information in RAM is to your advantage if you (or a client of your computer) come back to it later." - Mac OS X Help
Free : The amount of RAM actually available without any data.
The best documentation I know of (and have been able to find in followup research) is Apple's own Managing Memory article on their developer website.
Other worthwhile sources: Darwin-dev mailing list: [1], [2] and an old article on MacOSXHints. Additionally Mike Ash has posted a good layman's introduction on his blog
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Q: How can I get Snow Leopard to properly reconnect to my Windows network drives after it goes to sleep? My mac goes to sleep. It wakes up. The volumes mounted to a Windows server in my house all work. I can see pictures and listen to music. Until I can't. After two or three sleep/wake cycles, I can't connect to the Windows server at all, with Finder hanging infinitely on trying to connect. I have to reboot the entire machine to reconnect properly. With OS X 10.5, I never could get the volumes to reconnect after sleep, but at least they didn't sabotage Finder. Anyone have any ideas? I hate leaving the mac running all the time.
(27" 2010 iMac, OS X 10.6.4)
A: This is a known issue, and has no current hotfix or resolution. The problem is in the samba implementation.
The only thing I can think of doing is writing a script to umount your samba just before sleep, and mounting right after sleep. (Nobody has done this yet)
Most educated source on the problem I could find:
https://superuser.com/questions/144327/mac-os-cant-connect-to-smb-shares-after-sleep
A: I had this issue as well and found sleepwatcher to do what I need.
I found this article
http://imclumzy.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/mac-osx-automatic-smb-mount-script-using-sleepwatcher/
I used created the main script as he has it and then another to calls this one with one line for each volume I need to mount, for example: sh ~/Scripts/mountShare.sh /Volumes/Music bundywhs/Music.
I don't have the username and password in it since i store it in my keychain.
One other note, his article has the sleep time set to 10 seconds in his wakeup script. That seems to work fine when I am on wireless but for me my wired network takes longer to come back so I changed it to 30 seconds.
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Q: Can the keys on the MacBook Pro be removed for cleaning? The MacBook Pro does a really good job keeping dirt and stuff from getting under the keys, but none-the-less there is some dirt under a few keys. Can I pop these keys off and then easily replace them?
In the past when I've done this, the key never really went back on correctly.
This is the newer Unibody MBP with the black backlite chiclet keys.
A: If they keys are square without beveled edges then no. Removing it would require major surgery to remove.
I recommend a can of air duster, some q-tips, and alcohol to clean the keyboard.
A: Without knowing which specific model you are referring to it would be hard to tell. The keyboards on the newer unibody macbook pros are one assembly and it would not be advised to try to take off the keys.
A: Yes - all keys on all mac portables in the past 10 years or so are individually removable.
There are very delicate plastic scissors hidden under the key caps.
Also - the scissors are not necessarily all oriented the same way. The return key may have two vertical scissors where an H key may have one horizontal scissors mechanism underneath. Also - the size of say a small arrow key may not be the same size as a function key at the top.
Large keys such as the space bar and the option keys have added metal supports and you may need a large amount of patience to get them back.
If you damage the very small delicate nubs - you will have broken that key and have to press the little rubber nubbin by hand until you can get a replacement. If you bend the metal rings that hold the scissors (or the actual switch) - the repair cost is much higher. Most lighted whole keyboards go for $65 to $300 plus labor.
Do your research before starting so you won't be that person with a plastic baggie of parts that are close but not identical waiting in line at the genius bar for help with a tedious repair. :-)
If you know the cost to replace and have a steady hand - dive in and go get those crumbs :-)
A: A bit offtopic answer, but sometimes get handy:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23536/keyboard-cleaner
:)
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Q: Is there any way to print directly from my iPad to my wifi-connected printer? I am happy to purchase an app, but the only printing app I'm aware of seems to just let your ipad connect to a computer that is connected to the printer and effectively print through it.
I'm looking to print from my ipad without the use of another computer. Both the ipad and the printer are on the same wifi network (which is how I print from our laptops).
EDIT: In my specific case, the printer is a Canon MP990.
A: iOS 4.3 now offer AirPrint.
A:
If you want to print pictures and
photos, you can use Epson iPrint
(there are similar apps from other
printer manufacturers, e.g. Canon
iEPP, HP iPrint Photo 2.0,
Kodak Pic Flick or Lexmark
LexPrint). For printing PDFs or
other documents, the already mentioned
"print n share", "Print Bureau"
(both from eurosmartz) or Air
Sharing Pro from Avatron could be
useful.
Via piquadrat answering my similar question on gadgets.stackexchange.com.
A: Canon made a utility for their printers called Easy-PhotoPrint.
Otherwise, they are more generic utility like ePrint (but it's far more perfect or convenient).
A: I have used the iPad part of PrintCentral with mixed results - I have a HP Color LaserJet 2605dn connected to an Apple Airport router. The printer is configured as 'A4' (I'm in the UK) and while some things print just fine from the iPad, other things seem to have pagination issues. Printing from emails and Safari generally seems okay.
To be fair I think that the only way you're going to get this to work seamlessly is if you can find a wifi printer with drivers for the iPad (do they even exist) - everything else is likely to be some kind of compromise.
EDIT: Just to be clear, PrintCentral can either print directly to the 'network' printer, or can send data to an app on your Mac/PC. I haven't tried the latter approach (and your question says you don't want to do it that way anyway) - but I have used it to connect and directly print to my HP from the iPad.
A: Have you tried Google Cloud Print? https://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/apps.html
A: The answer depends on what kind of printer you have.
The fundamental problem is printer drivers. That is why all of the apps use a server/proxy on a desktop computer, that way the can piggyback the desktops existing printer drivers. Otherwise they would need to include drivers for all supported printers.
A few of the printer vendors have iPhone/iPad apps that can take to their network printers, but obviously those only support their printers (an usually only recent ones).
I expect this to change at some point in the future (when Apple builds printing support into iOS), but this how things stand with iOS 3.2/4.0.
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Q: Is there any way to get a pop-up notification on my iPhone or iPad when mail arrives? I have gmail set up to send me "true" push notifications (using the exchange server setup). So my mail arrives in realtime, and I instantly get badges on my springboard screen to indicate new messages.
But I want to be able to get a pop-up with the sender and subject, like I would with an SMS, or an IM using Beejive. Is there really no way to do this? It would be especially helpful when I'm in another app, and don't mind the pop-up's interruption, but would like to know who the message is from before deciding to leave the app to check mail.
A: With the release of iOS 5 mail can now appera as a pop up box style notifacation.
Goto Settings>Notifications>Mail> the choose "Alerts" in the alert style menu.
you will then have something that looks like a message notification when an email arrives
A: Give BoxCar a go.
I use it in a similar way for Twitter Direct Message notifications.
A: I use a combination of Notify and Prowl, running on a spare Mac. I found so many other uses for Prowl, such as sending push notifications from a script.
A: Don't use the standard Gmail configuration from iPhone, use Google Sync.
Here: Google Sync: Set Up Your Apple Device for Google SyncShare Comment
A: This isn't a way to fix your issue now, but I believe iOS 5 will be able to do what you want when it's released this fall according to:
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/features.html#notification
I see screenshots with mail notifications on the top of the screen and I believe these can be configured to be current-style pop-ups per app.
A: I use a combo of Apple Mail rules, an AppleScript, and Howl (another growl app similar to Prowl mentioned above).
Name the Mail rule like so: "growl-TestPost" as indicated in the AppleScript, then set up the considitons and trigger this AppleScript to run. Then set up your Growl display style to use that of Howl (or Prowl).
Here is the AppleScript, unfortunately I do not have info on the original author's script which I modified:
on run
-- at current, the registration is done whenever you launch the script,
-- and also below whenever the the script itself is run by Mail
-- (that let's users make new notification on the fly, sort of...)
-- could probably find a more graceful semaphor, but...
register()
end run
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages messageList for rule theRule
set theRuleName to name of theRule
if theRuleName does not start with "growl-" then return
register()
-- extract notification type from rule name
set noteType to characters 7 thru (length of theRuleName) of theRuleName as text
repeat with thisMessage in messageList
-- basic information for notification
set theSender to sender of thisMessage
set theSubject to subject of thisMessage
set theText to (content of thisMessage)
set tid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
try
set theSummary to (text items 1 through 20 of theText) as text
on error
set theSummary to theText
end try
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tid
-- notify
tell application "GrowlHelperApp" to notify with name noteType ¬
title noteType description ¬
"From: " & theSender & return & "Subject: " & theSubject ¬
application name "MailGrowl"
end repeat
-- if we want to coalesce or order the notifications, then we'd put the
-- notifications into an array above and notify GHA here. I'm not completely
-- on the structures that are required for grouped messages, though..
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
to register()
tell application "Mail"
set ruleList to name of every rule whose name begins with "growl"
end tell
set noteTypes to {}
repeat with theRuleName in ruleList
set end of noteTypes to (characters 7 thru (length of theRuleName) of theRuleName as text)
end repeat
tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
register as application "MailGrowl" all notifications noteTypes ¬
default notifications noteTypes ¬
icon of application "Mail"
end tell
end register
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Q: Why didn't my Windows partition show up in the Startup Disk preference pane? I install Windows(XP after that 7) on my MBP with Boot Camp and every thing was fine but after a while in System Prefences -> Startup Disk my windows partition was lost and when I want to switch to my windows must restart my Laptop and Press Down option during startup. I can't switch directly from my OS X.
anyone know how can I solve this. or why this is happened?
A: Did you by any chance install the NTFS-3G driver?
It's a known bug (for quite some time, now). When installed, you can no longer have the Windows partition in the Startup Disk prefpane.
A: You shouldn't have to eject your Bootcamp disk from your Desktop. As soon as you do that, it's unavailable to the system until you reboot.
A quick tip: if you don't want your Bootcamp drive to display on your OS X Desktop, boot into windows and then rename your C: drive to a name that starts with a period. OS X will treat it as a "hidden" file and not display the icon. Been using that trick since Bootcamp was in beta and have never had a problem with it.
A: I found a solution, if you haven't already. I'm assuming here that you have already uninstalled the NTFS-3G Driver
Browse to /yourhdd/Library/ and search that folder for a file called com.tuxera.NTFS.plist - I found mine in .../Library/Filesystems/NetFSPlugins
Open that file with a property list editor. I used Open with Property List Editor 2.1
Look for a Property, Disable Driver, change it's value to 1, and restart, should be fixed.
A: I had this issue with the latest version of Tuxera NTFS and El Capitan. I reinstalled Tuxera, restarted and all game good again. My bootcamp drive was accessible again via the desktop.
A: In the NTFS control panel, there is an option to uninstall. I did that, and, without restarting, I have the option again!
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Q: Are there sites that support editing and ordering photo prints, cards, and books on an iPad? I'm reposting this question (unchanged) from webapps.stackexchange.com, because I've received no answers there and this seems like an appropriate question for the Apple Stack Exchange site.
I've tried the Shutterfly iPad app, which allows uploading photos, but doesn't support any other functionality available on the website. And I can't edit photos or design cards and books from the Mobile Safari browswer on the iPad, presumably because those features use Flash.
Are there any other photo websites that provide either a full-featured iPad app (that includes creating cards and books and ordering prints) or an iPad or iPhone app that allows uploading photos and a website that allows one to create cards and books and order prints in Mobile Safari?
Note, I download photos directly from my camera to the iPad, so I'm trying to figure out how to avoid any need for a PC.
Someone (on vark.com) recommended Apple's MobileMe (http://me.com). But http://www.apple.com/mobileme/features/gallery.html doesn't show that it supports editing photos and ordering prints, cards, and books. Does anyone have experience with MobileMe?
A: I don't really have a direct answer for you, but I would like to help by sharing what I know.
I have a Mobile Me account, and there are no tools for editing your photos online. It's an image gallery. A gallery is meant just for viewing and not for editing.
Mobile Me was designed to work in conjunction with the iLife software on a desktop mac. You edit the photos, order the prints, make the cards, and the books in the iPhoto app on the Mac.
Photo editing on the iPad is the easy part, but I think you are approaching it from the wrong angle. There are tons of free (and cheap) apps that allow you to edit photos. (Photoshop Mobile for instance. Just check the Photography category in the App Store). Once you edit them in an app, then I would upload them to a service that supports printing services. The hard part is going to be the ordering of prints, cards and books from the iPad.
We can only hope that sometime in the near future, Apple creates a mobile version of iPhoto just as they did with iMovie. That would be ideal.
EDIT
*
*You can order prints from this app as well:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=323705153&mt=8%3FpartnerId%3D30&siteID=KEmRFwU0WKY-yY5rDqaKJMaSUWCfbLPC3w
*You can also order prints from the Walgreens app:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/walgreens/id335364882?mt=8
*This might solve your issue as well!
http://www.ritzpix.com/net/OrderPrints/
*You might want to check out this app and service:
http://www.ecce-terram.com/order-solutions/mobile-client.html
ECCE TERRAM announced a new service this week that will allow people to order prints of photos stored on their iPhones from the phones themselves. With their Photo2lab Client, users may select a photo (both those taken with the iPhone and those transfered from iPhoto), add text and create prints, post cards and even mini photo books. You'll even be able to add an address to a post card from the iPhone's built-in contacts list.
A: I downloaded the Walgreens app and emailed pics to my local store. The only problem is if you edit your photos on the iPad, it doesn't transfer to the store. So just use their browse and edit button, fix the pics there and create an album, send and pick up in hours. So far this has worked.
A: Only answer I can think of would be something like Phanfare loading up to flikr/Phanfare or via SmugMug and the smugshot app combined with the smugmug webpage (which is not mobile friendly, but isn't flash infested either).
A: Just released. I hope this helps:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/roes/id533327862?mt=8
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Q: What is the best media player for the mac (besides .mov - e.g., .mp3, .wmv, .avi, .mpg, etc) I've recently switched from PC to Mac, so I'm slowly building a library of useful utilities. So, any recommendations for the best generic media player?
On the PC - I've found the VLC player to be pretty useful - there's a Mac version, but I don't know how it compares to other alternatives.
Many of the alternatives on the PC are full of crap - e.g., constantly pushing toolbars, add-ins, anti-virus junk, etc.
So, I'd like something lightweight and crapware free. I'd be happy to pay $20-$30 for something that was worth it.
A: I like Movist. It has the format flexibility of VLC, but with a nicer Mac-like interface.
A: I vastly prefer the experience of using Quicktime with a little help from Perian and Flip4Mac to give it compatability with 90% of the video I need to play. For the rare stubborn video that does not want to cooperate with that setup, I break out VLC, because of VLC can't play it, it's just not going to play.
A: VLC is a nice player, but if you want something more Mac OS-like, try Lunettes (download link beta 8 is the last one at the time of writing).
Basically, it's VLC rewritten fully in 64 bits and Obj-C.
You do not have to build it yourself ! Just extract the .app from the zip file, that's all.
A: VLC is by far the best.
Fast, extensible, and versatile. You can play just about any format video, Video_TS file, remote disks, remote streams, even pipe the output of a command into it to play. Can you say on the fly video manipulation? That's VLC.
Not to mention the main selling point, it's free.
Quicktime? Slow. Plugins? Hokey. Alternatives? Either not very "native" or buggy, slow, and prone to crashing. There is not one thing I have been unable to play with VLC that I had to use something else.
Okay, one thing. The MKV support on it is a bit of a pain. Try seeking with a 4GB MKV file.
A: VLC is best media player in OS X too. and it's free also.
but if you install perian in your mac (it's free too) I suggest use QuickTime. peran it's component for Quicktime to support many extension for media on mac.
A: I can only agree regarding VLC. It's best. I've tried quite a few (MplayerX, MplayerOSX, QuickTime and some others), since the UI is, just like on Windows, ugly and non-slick, but it still win by far.
What I like the most are all the keyboard shortcuts for everything. Currently my standard setup is to use VLC together with AirFoil. The problem then is of course the 2 second delay for sound to the AirPort Express, this is however easy to solve with the f key, delay sound 2000 ms (g reduces the delay). Or if you get hold of some subtitle that totally out of sync, use h and j to delay the text. I use this all the time. None of the others I tried have easy (if any) access to these features, and thus make the unusable for me and my lovely AirPort Express setup at home.
A: I like VLC, but I end up using Mplayer OSX Extended more often. I find the default shortcut key mappings to be more intuitive. And it's as versatile as VLC in terms of file format compatibility.
A: VLC really do a good job, but sometimes it fails me when dealing with some Blu-ray issue. I do a lot of homework on this, finally I got Macgo Blu-ray player. I won't say it's the best or perfect, while it meets my needs currently. There is a little friction in the playing of one disc but no big deal.
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Q: Adding a new processor I've got a Mac Pro (Jan-2008) 2.8GHz Quad-core Xeon with one processor. Do all the Mac Pro's have the two sockets motherboards even if it's purchased with one processor? If so can I purchase an equivalent Intel Xeon proc and install it to have the 8-core?
A: No, single processor Mac Pros ship with a single socket motherboard, and use Xeon 3000 series processors, not the more expensive Xeon 5000 series needed for dual socket support.
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Q: What are some good sources for Pages and Keynote templates? It doesn't matter whether they are for free or for purchase as long as they are compatible.
A: The best commercial packages of themes for the iWork apps, in my experience, are those from Jumsoft.(under Design) They produce themes for both Pages and Keynote, as well as animation and art packs.
For free templates, iWorkCommunity has a ton of Pages templates, and some decent Numbers templates as well for basic use. KeynoteUser also produces commercial themes, in addition to having some freebies, and an excellent blog and collection of links for other sources of high quality stuff.
A: Interesting. You can find some nice examples on Themeforest, they should have a big list of such items.
http://wisset.com/premium-keynote-templates/
A: Klariti has SDLC and business templates over but these are for professionals.
http://klariti.com/apple-iwork-templates/
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Q: Is it generally advisable to get anti-virus software for Mac OS X? Is it worth to buy an anti-virus software for Mac OS X?
I heard both opinions like "it's not possible to get a virus on Mac OS X" and "Mac OS X is also vulnerable against virus... "
Which is true? What is the accepted practice, if any? Under what circumstances would anti-virus be advisable?
A: The simple fact is that malware has always existed for Mac OS (OS X and macOS), so the statement that a Mac can't get malware is patently, demonstrably and dangerously false.
A second fact is that Apple has done a good job with technology to make the macOS ecosystem largely immune to most threats. This "immune system" consists of sandboxed application design, entitlements to let developers express intent when they need out of the sandbox, signed code to prevent modifications that turn a known app malicious, App Store distribution, system integrity protection, XProtect file quarantine mechanism with a free online update service.
Historically and for many years; the scarcity of viruses, trojans and other malware that spread widely or affect a broad cross-section of Mac users has contributed to a perceived complacency about good security hygiene. The good news, is macs have a built in multi-layered defense system against virus and trojan/malevolent software. This means that most of the recent exploits rely on people unintentionally sabotaging themselves by self-defeating built in defenses. With a small investment of time, you can significantly decrease the need for additional anti-virus protection on OS X.
The calculus of whether running a specific antivirus package is a moving target (vendors typically react to bugs and threats - so what was true yesterday may not be true tomorrow). This makes general answers about the merits of software easily out-dated in a month's time (let alone the two and a half years that have passed since this question was first asked).
What hasn't changed for decades, is that each user should at least spend some time thinking about what is on their device and how painful total compromise might be to them. Based on how valuable your time is to you, it would be silly for someone that has paid IT staff to advise them to not spend $1,000 extra dollars on evaluating security to include potentially installing anti-virus software. It would also be silly for a casual home user to pay for software rather than invest some time to mitigate known risks in their behavior in response to a healthy fear of the unknown.
There are many cases where additional anti-virus protection is critically important. There are also many cases where it is totally un-needed. I would recommend anyone browse these few Apple knowledge base articles to gauge their "baseline security aptitude" and then reach out and learn more before spending any money on anti-virus software1.
*
*Use gatekeeper, automatic updates to apps and system files and malicious lists for quarantine.
*Protect your computer from harmful applications - the very basics
*Safety tips for handling email attachments and content downloaded from the Internet - a good primer on attachments and executable code
*Apple ID: Tips for protecting the security of your account - great tips on account hygiene, applicable for all online accounts
*Safari: Using encryption and secure connections - starts with the basics, but gets technical quickly. Perhaps better is about certificates to get started.
My only critique of the above articles would be the admonishment to frequently change passwords. This is of limited value when you start making unique passwords and don't as a matter of course enter those passwords on other computers. Changing passwords is of little use when your using them on compromised computers, since the new password is stolen as easily as the old one was.
Once you've mastered the basics, you should have absorbed the following ideas:
*
*how to use the OS X keychain for storing passwords
*considered or implemented having a few distinct passwords
*and have started securing your account passwords as well as your computer (by applying the tips on Securing Apple ID to other accounts)
After the basics, now it's time to think about increasing your overall security by spending money on anti-virus or a good unique password generation toolset2 to automate secure storage of stronger, unique passwords.
Without being proficient at the level of involvement in the linked articles above, spending money and potentially adding instability or slowness from anti-virus software might not make sense for many users. Furthermore, Apple is clearly intent on getting ahead of this problem with the one-two punch of the App Store model where spreading unsafe software installation practices is clearly working with GateKeeper to allow most people to have automated warnings when code is not signed to prevent tampering and assist in tracing the source of malware.
For most Mac users on Lion, the correct answer is to keep running anti-virus if you have it but not to run out and get it unless you have a good reason to spend time and money after getting up to speed on the basics of security.
Since Lion, Apple has hardened the OS faster than bad actors have been able to exploit the OS so for most people and most businesses, not needing additional software as your default option is a sane and probably correct choice.
1 especially with the likes of Mac Defender preying on people looking for legitimate anti-virus software
2 like 1Password
A: There is anti-virus software available for Mac OS X:
*
*Intego VirusBarrier
*ClamXAV (Free)
*Norton AnitVirus Mac Edition
*McAfee VirusScan for Mac
*Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac (Consumer Version is free)
Is it worth it? That's largely up to you. Personally I'd say unless required there's no reason to so long as you practice "safe computing" (eg. not opening files from just anywhere, being aware of what is installed on your computer, etc.). However there are some companies that require any computer (regardless of OS) to have up to date anti-virus software installed and operational.
There are no viruses available for Mac OS X but there are several pieces of malware and trojan horses that a user must manually download and install. The anti-virus products (and actually a feature in Mac OS X Snow Leopard) will help fight against these threats but the primary defence is actually user education as the attack vector is primarily social engineering and not using any security hole.
A: There is a nice article on Mac.Appstrom from yesterday about antivirus on Mac OS X (which ones and do we need them).
A: Another possible reason install an antivirus software on a mac could be the protection of systems running other operation systems in a heterogenous network. A virus or malware could reside on a mac drive for several time, until it is activated by an other system, on which it can run.
Therefore it may make sense to install anti-virus software on all computers in a network, to keep the whole network clean.
A: Arriving lately after the legitimate rising of this question I'd like to add here a return on many years and many OSes regular attacks.
*
*There is no Tchernobyl frontier (in 1986, French government
announced publicly that the Tchernobyl radioactiv cloud wouldn't
cross the country frontiers. Since this official public lie, I name
with this metaphor any form of false official security barrier)
to protect MacOS X: we live under the same probability
(all
operating systems are born equal with approximately the same coding
errors ratio:
they are written by us humans who are error prone).
*There are many attacks targeting specifically Symantec AntiVirus
for 2 reasons (I'm refering here to the huge number of external
attacks I see on our external firewall targeting 2967/tcp and
38293/udp =
ports used by Symantec anti-virus.):
*
*(too many security defaults) × (too many people using it) = good target for cybercriminals
*many versions of Symantec AntiVirus failed to install or run
on a case sensitive filesystem which is the sign of a weak
quality control.
To say it bluntly, a vulnerable anti-virus (Symantec) installed on a
robust operating system (MacOS X), may render this last one
vulnerable.
*Many attacks are targeting directly us (the human seated
behind the keyboard), either through booby trapped
web servers or HTML formatted E-mail hidding URL toward
these booby trapped web servers
The 2 best anti-viruses I'm using on many versions of MacOS X are:
*
*clamav
*ClamXav
As their name lets guess it, they are based on the same engine.
It is pretty good quality software, updated very quickly, and running also on many other Unixes. On some new crapware detected clamav included them within less than 72 h where commercial products took a quiet week (just enough time stop to get many thousand computers infested).
I also appreciate Sophos, because it is running on different OSes, does install and run on a case sensitive filesystem (which is the sign of a serious quality control).
A: Probably goes without saying, but if you run any version of Windows in a VM within OS X, those installs of Windows will need antivirus software on them. A surprising number of people I've worked with (including, on one occasion, a head of IT) haven't thought of that.
A: No, it's not worth it to buy any antivirus software for your Mac. This is for two reasons. Firstly, the number of viruses in the wold for OS X is infinitesimal. Your risk is extremely low, and what viruses do exist, are mostly proofs of concept or MS Office Macro Viruses targeting old versions of Office.
The second reason is because for what antivirus needs you do have, ClamXAV is lightweight, effective, and free. So no, it's not worth purchasing. But it is absolutely worth using, and if you can spare a few bucks for the tip jar, I'd encourage you to do that as well.
A: Apple is excellent and keeping up with patching the few Mac vulnerabilities that do arise, so anti-virus isn't necessary as long as your not foolish enough to fall for blatant trojans.
HOWEVER if you have a Windows PC with which you share files, it may be worth running anti-virus on your mac to prevent yourself from unintentionally spreading Windows viruses (which are otherwise harmless to Macs).
Note that all anti virus programs for mac are either a hoax or simply check for Windows viruses to prevent unintentional spreading of viruses while file sharing.
A: I personally use Sophos. The company I work for uses Sophos with 20,000+ computers, and the Mac version is free for consumer use. I have not had any problems with it running on my machines. It scans relatively quickly, and runs faster & better than any Norton product I've ever used.
A: Viruses are so 80's. The big money is user information, this is where big companies make a lot of money, like Google Ads. Also Known As Spyware.
Viruses started as a joke, a prank, a way for coders to have fun. Viruses flourished on Microsoft platforms like DOS and Windows because Microsoft never really cared about its customers other than how to sell more and make more money.
MacOS X is a Unix based OS. Unlike Windows, a file cannot do whatever it wants. If it tries to modify your hard disk in any way, outside the home folder, it needs permissions. Permission you give. That makes life, for a virus, seriously hard. Because the goal of a virus is not just to infect your files, that means nothing, it's there to infect your system to infect your OS. To take control of your OS. That's the end goal.
It's not impossible to hack an OS like MacOS X, but Apple is not stupid and, unlike Microsoft, it cares - because safety and reliability is what it sells.
I have owned an iMac for 7 years and I've never had the problems I had with Windows. I see little reason to install a piece of software that will slow down my CPU and offer me zero benefits.
There is no such thing as safety, safety is an illusion. As a matter of fact I have caught viruses on Windows several times using an anti-viruses that was full updated.
If you want real safety, disconnect from the internet and install nothing. This is the only way to be sure.
What seriously annoys me, and one of the big reasons I left Windows for good, was that Microsoft created this culture of "getting a virus is what happens for an OS" like its something normal. It's not normal, it's a serious flaw in the design of the OS, a flaw that survives because customers tolerate it as "normal".
Do not install anti-viruses, you paid for your OS, demand from its publisher to deliver an OS that does what is reasonable to expect to keep you and your files safe. Viruses and malware are unacceptable.
A:
Do you need an Antivirus Software on OS X?
Yes, yes you do need some sort of antivirus app for your Mac OS X and my reason for saying that is simple. Viruses exist for every known Operating System. It is true that Apple’s Operating system for Macs is safer and more naturally protected against Viruses but the REAL truth is that Mac systems are not as popular as the Windows OS so those that make viruses don’t see a need to program viruses for Macs when most desktop users in the world still operate on a Windows OS. So my point is, it is better to get a good Antivirus for your Mac computer now because sooner or later, as OS X becomes more user friendly, more and more viruses will appear...
That's how I look at it too, you can never be too safe.
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Q: StartupSound.prefPane on new iMacs? Inspired by this question to which I thought I knew the answer, does anybody know how to make StartupSound.prefPane work on a new iMac?
I just got the computer last week, and installed SS.pP (v1.1b3) right away, but noticed the next day that it didn't actually function. However, it appears to work, in that it installed fine in System Preferences, I can access it, check and uncheck its options, and move its slider, all without receiving warnings or errors of any kind. Whatever configuration I set is remembered the next time I go into the app, even after a reboot. Nevertheless, the startup sound is still played when I boot up.
Edit: Are others having the same issue? I'd be interested to know if this is a consistent problem with new iMacs or some quirk in how I've set mine up...
A: Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure you're out of luck. A year or two ago Apple decided that the startup sound is enough of a diagnostic (which it is, in fact: it lets you know the logic board is functioning properly enough) that it needs to sound on every boot, from the internal audio device, regardless of what your sound settings and interfaces are.
A: I use the Startup Sound prefpane on a 2010 iMac with 10.6.5 and it does its job beautifully. Try reinstalling the prefpane. Link here.
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Q: Opening a new Terminal window when it's running on another desktop I open a lot of terminal windows. I also make use good use of tabs & multiple desktops.
Normally I launch Terminal.app with Spotlight. But if Terminal is already running on another desktop, it changes to that desktop and opens it there. I hate that. I want it to open on the current desktop.
So for now, I've been doing this:
Is there a better way?
A: By Golly, I think I've found it this time.
Fire up Utilities/AppleScript Editor. Copy/paste the lines below. Save it and add it to your Dock. Whenever you click it you'll get a new window on your current desktop. You need to have "Enable support for assistive devices" activated in System Preferences - Universal Access.
tell application "Terminal" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Terminal"
click menu item "New Window" of menu "Shell" of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell
Source: adapted from this hint regarding Safari.
A: I looked far and wide and found no better way myself. I usually have less than 5 Terminal windows open, and I usually don't want to switch desktops for Terminal, so in System Preferences - Expose - Spaces I assigned Terminal to be in Every Space so as to follow me around. You might hate that though.
A: You can create a new service using automator (from the applications folder). At the top of the automator window, enter: Service receives 'no input' in 'any application'. Then, in the workflow, add 'Run applescript'. Make the applescript contain the following:
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Terminal"
do script " "
activate
end tell
return input
end run
(You can add any command you like into the do script line between the " " (e.g. something useful to run when terminal first opens like "uptime" if you like, or just leave it blank).
Save the service as 'Open Terminal' or whatever name you like. It should now appear in your services menu.
Then if you want to add a keyboard shortcut, you just need to go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts tab, select services in the left hand menu, and find your new service (its probably near the bottom). Just click in the space to the right of your service name, and assign it whatever keyboard shortcut you like, and hey presto! it should all work
A: You can tell the system to stop switching spaces "automagically" based on what App comes to the foreground:
# don't switch spaces
defaults write com.apple.Dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NO
killall Dock
This is an important setting if you view each Space as its own workspace, and might have a Terminal window and a web browser window open in each space. If you want to switch spaces, you need to do so consciously and manually.
This is equivalent to System Prefs > Spaces, and then unchecking the "switch space when switching app" checkbox at the bottom.
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Q: What are the benefits of iPhone jailbreak? Some days ago I read a news that said iPhone Jailbreak is legal. So I get 2 question in my mine.
*
*before this news jailbreaking was illegal?(if yes why? "because when we buy something we can do anything we want with that product )(and if no then what was this news for?)
*what is the benefits of jailbreaking? (are all iPhone applications was reachable through iTunes app store?)
A: I Jailbroke my iPhone 4 as soon as the jalibreak was released and had my iPhone 2G Jailbroken before that.
For me it's not about illegally installing applications, it's about intsall tweaks and applications which Apple can't or won't allow into their App Store, for example:
*
*Winterboard: Complete themeing system.
*SBSettings: Easily enable/disable settings from within
any application.
*Infinifolder: Remove the 12 Application limit from iOS4 Folders.
*QuickReply SMS: Reply to SMS messages directly from the message
alert with a popup keyboard and then
instantly return back to what you
were doing.
*Cyntact: Show contact pictures in Contacts.
*BossPaper: Rotating wallpapers (Was available before iOS 4 allowed
them)
*Categories: Allowed Apps in folders years before iOS4 did!
The few short weeks I had my iPhone 4 without it being Jailbroken I found it hard to use as I'd got so used to the small tweaks I'd installed my Cydia, most of them I had purchased.-
A: I jailbroke my iPhone 4 few weeks ago, specifically for the MyFi, which allows you to tether your 3G connection to your other WiFi-enabled devices (iPad, laptop, etc), without paying $20 to AT&T every month and being limited by 2Gb of data. MyFi is $19.99, but you pay it once and enjoy free tethering after that, especially if you kept your $30 unlimited data plan (I did).
Initially beyond that I saw very little reason to use other apps from Cydia store, but now I slowly changing my mind, since I found few real gems.
*
*SBSettings - gives you quick panel to toggle WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G and few other functions. This is extremely handy, especially when you're trying to preserve your battery (long day on the conference or something) and you don't want to dive into Settings each time you want to turn WiFi on or off. SBSettings is free
*Notified Pro - this is notification management done right. Notifications have horrible usability in iOS and this app ($4.00 for Pro version, but I think they have the light one for free as well) fixes it by introducing notifications list similar to one Android has, which you can activate from status bar or via other customized shortcuts
*Frash - which is Flash for iPhone, right in your mobile Safari. Frankly I haven't use it for anything serious yet (and it doesn't support my favorite Flash game Quadradius), but it's a good app to wow your friends, since everyone knows that there's no Flash on the iPhone and you can always prove people wrong.
*My favorite app IntelliScreen - it's a paid app as well, but it's extremely handy. It gives you a highly customizable lock screen very similar to Windows Mobile's Today screen, so you can look at your calendar, emails, SMS and other info without even unlocking your phone. Really, really handy.
One other thing that I didn't try personally yet, but going to soon is sync with your PC or Mac over WiFi. I hate to do it over a cable.
Now, on the bad side:
*
*You have to be more careful and knowledgeable about stuff you're installing. That includes both apps (which are, in general, more buggy and may conflict with each other or with iOS) and stuff like official Apple iOS updates that you can't install unless you know that there's a jailbreak for them.
*Cydia store (and others like RockYou app store) are less informative than AppStore and quite often it's hard to figure out what certain app does
*Payment (while they allow multiple ways including AMazon payments and PayPal) is usually much more painful
*Apps quite often are more expensive (think $4.99-$9.99 range), but on the bright side they worth it
A: As to your first inquiry, Jailbreaking was illegal because of the way the Digital Millenium Copyright Act restricts the circumvention of encryption, copy protection, and other digital security mechanisms. In short, it is not so much the possession of a jailbroken phone which was illegal, but rather the process by which the phone was jailbroken. A common analogy is to liken the DMCA's restriction to a law preventing the crossing of red lines in the road. If there is a public park on the other side of the red line, it is legal for you to be there, but illegal to walk across the line to get there. The recent LoC ruling essentially created an exception to the DMCA's restriction for the specific purpose of jailbreaking a phone for the purpose of installing additional software and expanding it's functionality.
Now, as to Why Jailbreak? In short, Jailbreak if there is an application you want to run which requires you to jailbreak. Apps available through Cydia and other repositories available to Jailbroken iPhone owners run the gamut from those rejected by Apple because they violate the App Stores Terms of Service in some way (Explicit content, use of hidden or illegal API's), apps from authors who disagree with Apples policies in administering the App Store, and apps which rely on functionality only available from other jailbreak apps.
A: Here's the same question from gadgets.stackexchange.com. Lotsa good info in that post as well.
iOS4 really has circumvented the "need" to jailbreak. The reasons are actually dwindling now. Here are my advantages.
*
*Backgrounder allows a (now outdated) type of multitasking. It was ok on iPhone 3G, but with the iPad's more powerful processor, it may be more stable. Once 4.0 is released for the iPad, this won't be necessary any more.
*MyWi allows you to tether for free if you've got the 3G iPad ($9.99 for the app...$19.99 for 4.0, but well-worth it IMO)
*For me, it's cool to have access to the filesystem. Utilities like Mobile Terminal, OpenSSH, and iFile are of specific interest to me just for my own nerdish pleasures lol.
Hope this helps!
A: The Benefits of Jailbreaking are that you can run any software that was created for it, regardless if it was rejected from the Apple’s App Store. Some good applications were rejected for different reasons (using Private APIs, Confilcts with existing Apple apps, etc).
If you Jailbreak your iPhone/iPodTouch you can install any of these, bypassing the iTS.
EDIT: The legal part has been nicely explained by LessPop_MoreFizz.
A: Jailbreaking your phone lets you use non AT&T sim cards in it. If you go overseas to the Czech Republic or to Germany, for example, you can buy pre-paid sim cards in those countries and continue using your iphone if it is jailbroken.
A: For me jailbreaking allowed me to install an app not allowed on the App Store - AutoSilent. I needed this as a drop of my iPhone (1G) left the silent switch permanently set to silent. AutoSilent allowed me to bypass this.
A: I jailbreak because of Wifi Tethering and WinterBoard.
A: Facetime over 3G and tethering are the only reasons to jailbreak an iPhone 4. Multitasking is the only reason to jailbreak an iPad.
Its legal, but make sure you restore the device before you bring it to a genius bar. Apple employees don't have to honor the warranty or applecare if they see that the device is jailbroken.
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Q: iPad virtual keyboard text entry: Way to type multiple capital letters without having to press SHIFT before each letter? Let's say I'm typing a word in ALL-CAPS on the iPad. Currently, the only way I know of how to do this is to press SHIFT before each of the letters.
Is there an alternative, like a sticky shift or Caps Lock function, where I can just go into a caps mode, type the letters I want as all caps, and then go back to normal text entry? I've tried keeping my finger on the shift key as well while I type, but that doesn't work as expected.
A: Tap the Settings app. and click on the General *menu* > the Keyboard. Then turn "Enable Caps Lock" on.
Now just double-tap the shift key to enable caps lock once using the keyboard.
you can see with image tutorial here.
A: Holding shift ought to work, also. Perhaps that relies on the caps lock option, but it works for me.
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Q: iPad virtual keyboard text entry: Can I disable the automatic upper-casing that takes place after I end a sentence? When using the iPad to type a note, for instance, every time I type a period, the iPad assumes I want to start the next word with a capital letter. It also assumes I want to start typing with a capital letter in some text fields on web forms. Is there any way to turn off the automatic SHIFT that is taking place, so there are only capital letters where I explicitly want them to be?
A: *
*Go to settings
*Go to general
*Go to keyboard
*Toggle and disable auto-capitalization
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Q: How to minimize all windows/applications to the dock? ⌥+⌘+M as mentioned in multiple docs only appears to minimize the current (focused) window.
I am looking for the "Show Desktop" equivalent. If it matters I'm using 10.6.4.
A: I just use Hot Corners to do it.
System Preferences >> Desktop & Screen Saver >> Hot Corners >> Select "Desktop" from one of the dropdowns. I use the bottom left, since that's where I was used to the Desktop button in XP lol.
A: ⌥+⌘+M actually minimizes all windows of a current application, not just the current focused window (unless of course, the application you have running only has one non-minimized window.)
The easiest way to hide all active applications is to select the Finder/Desktop, and then "Hide Others." The keyboard shortcut is ⌥+⌘+H.
You can also simply hold ⌥ and ⌘ and click on the Desktop, or Finder on the Dock, or of course, simply use Expose and hit F11 (Or whatever you've rebound Hide-all to.)
A: I finally found how to do it with Command+Option+H+M.
This works for me on Mac OS X Lion.
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Q: How do I sync up my iPhone with my Google Calendar?
Possible Duplicate:
How do I sync my Google calendar with my iPhone?
So I want to be able to add appointments/events/tasks on either and have those changes reflected on both.
A: You should really use Google Sync for iPhone to have all the benefits of Calendars (and even Mail if you need it).
A: In iCal, add a new CalDAV account.
Description: Google:you@gmail.com
Username: you@gmail.com
Password: yourpass
SERVER SETTINGS
Server Address: www.google.com
Server Path: /calendar/dav/you@gmail.com/user/
Port: Auto
Use SSL: CHecked
Make sure you have sync enabled in iTunes.
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Q: Is it possible to add alternate SCM options in Xcode 3? Is it possible to add additional SCM options in Xcode, specifically Mercurial? I know it is possible outside with Murky and others but I was hoping for a "inside Xcode" integration.
If this is too SOish say so.
A: In the latest beta of XCode 4, there's a built-in support for Git, so it's possible to add other SCM.
Maybe Apple will also incorporate Mercurial support as well.
They are several requests - XCode should support Mercurial as well as Git., Xcode 4 should support Mercurial - to put Mercurial support into XCode.
So if you can't find a solution now, I'd suggest you to wait until XCode 4 goes out officially.
By the way, if you need or want a nice Mac OS X client for Mercurial, you should try MacHg.
A: The lack of XCode plugins is due to the fact that apple doesn't document XCode's plugin interface in public. That makes writing XCode plugins very hard. To increase the chance for a future Mercurial plugin you could file a dupe of Documentation and opening of the Xcode plug-in API (.xcplugin and family) which is dupe of rdar://3037631.
A: As far as I know, it’s not possible to add support for mercurial using Xcode alone.
You have to use an external tool (Like Murky). Xcode’s SVN support is primitive to say something nice about it. It works, but it’s far from being like “Versions”. ;)
A: One may want to evaluate github for mac as an alternative.
A: You're not going to find an built in extension for adding other SCM's. Best bet is to either use another tool (Murky mentioned) or the CLI.
The third option would be to build a set of Xcode macros that performed common SCM tasks, such as commit and pull.
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Q: Free screen capture tool that has decent annotation I'm looking for a free screen capture tool that has decent annotation. I want to be able to do the following:
*
*Highlight an area
*Dim everything but the selected area
*Draw arrows
*Blur selected areas
A: I just downloaded the Snagit Beta for Mac, free for now, I'm sure it will cost when it comes out of beta. So far it has everything I was asking for except the dimming feature. It has a few other nice features as well.
A: LittleSnapper (not free) from Realmac Software does these things plus it has organizing features and web capture features, with source code.
It's more suitable for web or other type of designers, perhaps, but it has these annotation features.
A free tool for fast annotation (although I don't think it has darkening or blurring) is Skitch (mentioned by others here as well) which is otherwise very convenient for fast operation.
A: Voila can apparently do all that but it’s not free.
Skitch i use most of the time to add arrows and such. Very good.
A: I second Skitch. I use it every day. It's free, for now.
A: Jing also does much of what you're looking for.
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Q: How can I use an ADB Apple Keyboard with a modern Mac? I recently found an old Apple Extended Keyboard that uses the ADB interface. I would like to use it, but I don't have an ADB-to-USB converter. I know of only one which is the Griffin iMate. Unfortunately, it's out of production and the ones going on ebay are expensive.
Anyone know of another company that made the ADB-to-USB converters? Even better if they still do!
A: The iMate was the only converter available on the market.
If you do get an iMate, the only thing it will work with these days are keyboards and mice. It internally converts ADB keyboard and mice commands to USB keyboard and mice commands, so it will just make your ADB mouse and keyboard look like a USB mouse and keyboard to the computer, no drivers required.
In ~2001 there was a driver for the iMate that would actually configure it as an ADB bus the computer could see, that way anything with real ADB drivers could use it just like a builtin port. That driver has not been updated in years, and Apple dropped all ADB support from OS X, so at this point USB emulation is the only thing it does. Not that there were many (any?) interesting ADB devices that were supported under Mac OS X anyway.
A: Find a matching vintage CPU, install an old linux on it with ADB drivers, and then send the resulting keystrokes over IP.
Or you could buy a nice new low-profile aluminum Apple keyboard. It'll be cleaner, more comfortable, and cheaper.
A: FYI there appears to be another USB to ADB adapter out there as well Micro Connectors USB ADB Adapter. Good luck with your search.
A: ADB is over ten years old.
I would highly doubt anyone is still making a converter for it.
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Q: Stop Safari from loading webpages as Preview images Everyday, the first time I start Safari, if I go to the history or bookmarks tab, I get the following message:
How can I stop Safari from prompting this message and completely disable the webpages Preview?
I already set the update policy to 2 with this:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy -int 2
A: Try running this command in the terminal:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DidPromptToFetchRecentHistoryPreviews -bool YES
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Q: How can I skip the Welcome screen after installing OS X? How can I skip the Welcome Video/Music that comes up after a fresh install of OS X? I believe you could skip this in Windows by hitting ESC, but I cannot find a key that has that same effect in OS X.
A: Unfortunately you can not skip the opening movie - but you can skip the registration process which shows up later by pressing Command-Q. When the Setup process is complete the file .AppleSetupDone shows up in /var/db. (If this file exists it will skip the Setup process altogether)
A: Try pressing cmd+q. It’s a Quicktime movie after all.
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Q: What are your favorite Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts? What are your favorite keyboard shortcuts on Mac OS X?
A: For me the life saving shortcut is the quarter increment/decrement of light/sound:
⇧+⌥ and the increment/decrement light or sound button.
It is extremely useful with LED Cinema Display monitors.
A: ⌘+E: Put selected text into search clipboard.
Then ⌘ + G to find next.
In combination with regular copy-paste you can do selective search and replace very quickly and conveniently.
A: Here's a great one (for switchers) I got from the TextMate blog;
Create the folder ~/Library/KeyBindings (if it doesn't already exist)
In there, create a key-binding file DefaultKeyBinding.dict
In that file, put this text (including all braces & punctuation);
{
/* home */
"\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:";
"$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:";
/* end */
"\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLine:";
"$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:";
/* page up/down */
"\UF72C" = "pageUp:";
"\UF72D" = "pageDown:";
}
Save the file, and when you next start a Cocoa app (eg Mail, TextEdit etc) you will find that Home, End, Pg Up and Pg Down now work as they do on Windows.
It's well worth having a look at the whole of that article - he explains exactly how to make this file and how the bindings work, with information about the other keycodes etc.
A: ⇧+⌘+?: Help->Search, then type any menu item text, can be just a prefix
⌘+E: put selected text in search dialog
⌘+G and ⇧+⌘+G: find next/previous
⇧+⌃+⌘+4: Take a screenshot, press space for whole window screenshot
ctrl + mouse scroller: zoom screen
⌥+⌘+⏏: sleep
A: *
*ctrl+A: Go to the beginning of the line (works in every Cocoa textfield)
*ctrl+E: Go to the end of the line (works in every Cocoa textfield)
*⌘+⇧+H : Pop up the Home folder
*⌘+⇧+D : Pop up the Desktop folder
A: ctrl+F2: Access the menu via the keyboard (Windows alt+space equivalent).
A: Typing / on any file dialog will give you a "go to folder" dialog, which autocompletes with tab (you have to wait a second for it to work). This lets you type in the full path, from the root / folder.
Extra handy if you want to open from / save to hidden locations or already have the command line path you want to save something in.
This can be also accessed via ~ (i.e. the tilde key, to start from your home directory, e.g. ~/Documents) or using cmd+shift+G (which starts with the most recently entered directory).
A: While being in the application switcher (using ⌘+⇥) cycle to an application by pressing ⇥ or ⇧+⇥; then - while still holding down ⌘ - press the down arrow to see an expose view of the selected app´s windows, including minimized windows. Using the arrow keys navigate to a window you want to bring to the foreground and hit ← to select it.
A: Holding down the ⌥ while booting to select the startup volume.
Holding down C while booting to boot from a CD/DVD in the drive.
A: In a text area:
Command ⌘ + → the end of the line (like End)
Command ⌘ + ← the beginning of the line (like Home)
Option ⌥ + → jump forward one word
Option ⌥ + ← jump back one word
A: ⌘+space: activate spotlight.
Then you can launch any application, open most files, do quick calculations, etc.
A: ⌘+W: Close window (or tab).
⌘+⌥+W: Close all windows.
A: ⌘+⇧+4: selective screenshot saved on desktop
⌘+⇧+ctrl+4: selective screenshot saved in clipboard
A: ⌘+⇧+.: show/hide hidden files on any file dialog
A: ⌘+⇧+4+space+click on a window copies the current window to the desktop.
This is very useful while taking screenshots without the need to crop. The rounded edges stay rounded.
Use this with ctrl to copy the image to the clipboard.
A: ⌘+⇥: Cycle through running apps
⌘+`: Cycle through windows for current app
⌘+W: Close current window
⌘+Q: Quit current app
⌘+,: Preferences dialog for current app
⌘+H: Hide current app (as long as it's not Photoshop)
ctrl+⇧+⏏: Sleep all displays
A: Power keys:
Ctrl+⏏: "Are you sure you want to shut down your computer" dialog message appears:
Ctrl+⌘+⏏: restart the computer
Ctrl+⌥+⌘-⏏: shut down the computer
⌘+⌥+⏏: puts the computer in sleep mode
⇧+Ctrl+⏏: puts the monitor in sleep mode
A: Command ⌘ + Option ⌥ + Esc ⎋ brings up the force quit dialog, which is handy for killing unresponsive applications.
Command ⌘ + Option ⌥ + Shift ⇧ + Esc ⎋ held down for 5 seconds kills the foremost application.
A: ctrl+⌥+⌘+8: High contrast theme.
⌘+` (backtick): Cycle through app's windows.
A: ⌘+⇧+N: Create a new folder in Finder
A: ⌘+⌥+H: hide all inactive application windows
This is great for focusing on a single task or works well as a kind of show desktop if you switch to Finder first (providing you have few or no windows open)
A: All of the shortcuts are my favorite!
Specifically (based on frequency of use) ⌘+H: Hide application
A: ⌘+⇥: Cycle through applications.
⌘+`: Cycle through the current application's windows.
⇥: Auto fill commands and file/directory names in Terminal.
⌘+⇧+4: Take a screenshot of a selected area.
⌘+⇧+3: Take a screenshot of the whole screen.
A: ⌘+C: Copy selection
⌘+V: Paste selection
⌘+X: Cut selection
A: shift+F12 or F11 - change sound volume without 'bip' sound
A: fn+F3: show all windows (in the current Space)
fn+⌘+F3: show the desktop
fn+ctrl+F3: show the "current application" windows
fn+⌥+F3: show the Exposé preference pane
A: ⌘+alt+shift+V pastes plain text, SUPER useful for copying from web pages or MS Word into email, and leaving the weird formatting behind.
A: Not wholly keyboard shortcut, but holding down the Option key (⌥) and bringing up a system menu often provides extensive information. For instance if you are connected to wifi, hold down ⌥ and clicking on the network menu will bring up a lot of information (MAC address, IP address, signal strength, et c.) about the current network connection.
Holding ⌥ and clicking on the notification icon also sets your notification status to "Do not disturb"---rather useful when discussing something on your screen with colleagues and you don't want to see Messages popping up.
A: ctrl+⌘+1 to order files by name (icon view)
A: Zoom shortcuts, very good for presentations:
fn+⌥+⌘+8: turn on/off zoom
fn+⌥+⌘+=: zoom in
fn+⌥+⌘+-: zoom out
A: On newer keyboards, invoke Exposé to
*
*fn+F3: show all windows (in the current Space)
*fn+⌘+F3: show the desktop
*fn+ctrl+F3: show the "current application" windows
*fn+⌥+F3: show the Exposé preference pane
While being in Exposé,
*
*cycle through windows with the arrow keys, using return to bring them into focus.
*use ⇥ and ⇧+ ⇥ to cycle through windows by applications (as highlighted in the Dock)
A: ctrl+← or ctrl+→ to move between Mission Control spaces (in Lion).
A: ctrl+⇥ Cycles through tabs in a web browser going to the right.
ctrl+⇧+⇥ Cycles through tabs in a web browser going to the left.
⌘+↓ Goes to the very bottom of a web page or textarea.
⌘+↑ Goes to the very top of a web page or textarea.
A: In Finder, ⌥+⌘+P brings up the full path. If you then hit ⌘+C in Finder, you can paste the full path of a file or folder into your Terminal or elsewhere by ⌘+V.
A: ⌘+z [undo] is my favorite & the one I tell the people I support to remember if they only learn one shortcut.
In Finder it undoes the last operation you just performed from inadvertently beginning to rename a file or folder; or undoing an unintentional drag and drop of a file or folder into the wrong folder or undoing a move to trash operation.
In applications many have multiple levels of undo which lets you step backward undoing previous edits or draws. Extremely useful in extricating yourself from sticky situations or just after having made a simple mistake.
A: control+shift+L turn the lights off
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Q: Is there a free, lightweight text editor that isn't text-only but also isn't a heavyweight IDE? I'm not really satisfied with the text-editors available for Mac OS X.
I tried TextWrangler, Smultron, Coda, SubEthaEdit, TextMate and others I do not remember. But none of the above satisfied my needs.
I want a (free) text editor
*
*which is fast,
*which does syntax highlighting
*were I can define own syntaxes (or there are many plugins e.g. for YAML),
*where the developers are active,
*which does not have the look & feeling of TextWrangler (I hate the sliding sidebar) but or a real Mac-application
*which can define projects (like Coda can)
*which includes a basic support for Git and/or SVN
*which supports a fast autocompletion
*Mac OS X 10.6 compatible
In plain English: the perfect lightweight text editor which is not yet a heavyweight IDE.
A: Try Editra It's do lots of you want but not all of them, it's similar to notepad++ in windows.
A: I can't vouch for it personally, but RedCar looks pretty promising. It supports TextMate bundles and runs on Mac, Linux & Windows. It doesn't support your entire feature list, I don't believe it has integrated source-control or project support (other than folders).
A: You need Notepad++ running under wine! or winebottler!
A: One trend I noticed this year is Mac programmers and web developers moving away from Textmate and the like to MacVim, including Ryan Singer of 37signals, who rocked MacVim during his Future of Web Applications talk recently.
Lots of people have written about why they switched; "Coming Home to Vim" is my favorite.
A: What's wrong with BBEdit, other than you might have to pay for it?
A: You might try KomodoEdit.
I want a (free) text editor
Free and free (under the Mozilla Public License).
*
*which is fast,
Reasonably fast
*
*which does syntax highlighting
Check
*
*were I can define own syntaxes (or there are many plugins e.g. for YAML),
There are lots of plugins; I'm sure it is possible to create your own syntax highlighter
*
*where the developers are active,
I believe so.
*
*which does not have the look & feeling of TextWrangler (I hate the sliding sidebar) but or a real Mac-application
I'm afraid it is not a Cocoa application; it is built off of Firefox's UI system.
*
*which can define projects (like Coda can)
Yep.
*
*which includes a basic support for Git and/or SVN
It looks like there may be some built-in Git support. Here's a git plugin.
It looks like support for SVN is built-in.
Edit: Those features appear to require Komodo IDE, instead of Komodo Edit. Komodo IDE is a for-pay upgrade. You might find "Home-baked SVN support for Komodo Edit" to be interesting.
*
*which supports a fast autocompletion
It has autocompletion; you'll have to try it to see if it is fast enough for you.
*
*Mac OS X 10.6 compatible
Yes.
A: There is a new editor on the block called Chocolat. I've been using it for a week now and really like it. It has a lot of the features of TextMate (as well as supporting TextMate bundles) but I've found it to work a lot better with large sets of files especially over the network.
A: I'm partial to Coda these days, but came across this the other day when I was looking for something else. I haven't tried it, so not sure if it meets all your needs. It's free, but only because it's not being developed anymore.
http://www.web-scripter.com/
A: There's a new text editor called Kod that is modern, fast, and support projects.
A warning -- development on Kod is just starting, so things are a bit unstable. It's alpha-level software at version 0.0.3, although I think it will eventually turn into just the application you're looking for.
Features:
*
*Written from the ground up for 10.6 using Grand Central Dispatch and other new things
*Uses GNU Syntax Highlighting format so there's highlighting support for every language
*Modern UI with Chromium tabs
*Scriptable using node.js
A: Atom by GitHub is a free and powerful text editor and IDE build with programmers in mind. At the same time, it also doesn't give the impression of being a heavy-weight IDE.
Visual Studio Code is another similar offering from Microsoft.
A: Have you considered Xcode?
I know you said you don't like TextMate, but it's one that meet pretty much all your needs.
which is fast
TextMate
Really fast
Xcode
Not that fast but not Eclipse/Netbeans-slow
which does syntax highlighting
TextMate
Very complete and extensible
Xcode
Does syntax highlighting, it depends on your needs
were I can define own syntaxes (or there are many plugins e.g. for YAML),
TextMate
Very, very extensible
Xcode
Syntax extensions are possible
where the developers are active,
TextMate
Some say it's vaporware, yet very few other text editor can compete with its current features
Xcode
Apple development of this program is very active
which does not have the look & feeling of TextWrangler
TextMate
If you don't like the sliding bar, there's a plugin to replace it by a drawer
Xcode
Doesn't have a sliding bar
which can define projects (like Coda can)
TextMate / Xcode
Do projects
which includes a basic support for Git and/or SVN
TextMate
Support for Git/SVN/Mercurial (and probaby more) via built-in and added plugins
Xcode
SVN support for 3.x, added Git in Xcode 4
which supports a fast autocompletion
TextMate
Basic variable/function completion
very complete code completion via bundles
Xcode
Basic variable/function completion
MacOS X 10.6 compatible
TextMate
Some compatibility issue
Xcode
Fully compatible
A: Have you tried any of the Eclipse variants? I'm not a huge Eclipse fan, but the Aptana version of Eclipse (which is geared primarily towards front-end web developers) seems to satisfy all of your requirements above and may be worth a peek.
http://aptana.com
A: Your best bet in 2018 for free and active and extensible editors that are not heavy IDE are:
*
*https://code.visualstudio.com/
*http://barebones.com/products/bbedit/
*https://developer.apple.com/xcode/
All are very fast on SSD modern Mac, even the MacBook (One) with a mobile CPU with minimum cores and clock rate. All are free, actively developed, extensible, support code control and completion and are extensible, scriptable and can be added to for many languages and syntax.
A: There is also Brackets, to consider. Written in Javascript, currently developed by Adobe as a "community guided, open source project", focuses on web development but can also be used as a generic text editor, has a solid API to extend it and a growing number of extension already available.
A: I would say that MacVim but it's of course a more complicated tool based on the traditional unix vim text-editor with a steep learning curve.
By the way, which aspect of TextMate didn't appeal you?
A: Sublime Text 2
Support for TextMate snippets, languages and color schemes.
Split view, tabbing, projects, commands. Full-screen on Lion and a "focused" mode.
Extensible, too.
Very fast, great multiple selection mode and cross-platform.
Currently priced at $59, but a free version is available with occasional alerts.
It also has a rapidly-growing plugin API and surrounding community.
Check it out, it's freaking awesome.
Update: Sublime Text 2 is now superseded by Sublime Text 3 which features various enhancement and performance improvements.
A: I think that Aquamacs might do the trick!
A: You're not going to find it.
*
*which is fast,
TexMate is pretty fast. TextWrangler is faster for large files though.
*
*which does syntax highlighting
Most (if not all) have syntax highlighting.
*
*were I can define own syntaxes (or there are many plugins e.g. for YAML),
You might or might not get this.
*
*where the developers are active,
Best of luck with that.
*
*which does not have the look & feeling of TextWrangler (I hate the sliding sidebar) but or a real Mac-application
What's wrong with the sidebar?
*
*which can define projects (like Coda can)
Define projects as folders and you're all set.
*
*which includes a basic support for Git and/or SVN
UNIX philosophy is to do one thing and do it well. Integrated support for an SCM is not something easily found. Perhaps you should use an external tool?
*
*which supports a fast autocompletion
As far as I know, only a few major IDE's support this.
You're not going to find what you're looking for free. Any IDE will feel slow as mud compared to a text editor like TM or TW.
If you want my honest opinion, try TextMate. Bundles will allow you to replicate some of the behavior you're looking for, the rest you can hope is in 2.0.
A: Check out Fraise, the successor to Smultron. It meets many of your requirements. Here are the ones that are not met:
*
*where the developers are active: Fraise looks like it's now dying like its predecessor
*which includes a basic support for Git and/or SVN: not sure what you mean by this, but Fraise has command line integration
*which supports a fast autocompletion: not positive but I don't think it has autocompletion... but it has commands and text snippets
Everything else you mention is in there.
on edit:
I was a notepad++ guy for years doing windows dev work and over the last couple months I've slowly transitioned over to vim. It does every single thing you're asking for and more.
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Q: iTunes on Windows Refuses to Upgrade I've been having a problem when trying to upgrade iTunes on Windows (7 x64). Every time I try to upgrade it, I get the error message:
QuickTime was not found.
QuickTime is required to run iTunes. Please uninstall iTunes, then install iTunes again.
Wanting to upgrade to 9.2 to get iOS4, I obliterated anything to do with Apple from my machine and reinstalled successfully, but this error comes back time and time again.
I recently found that I am not the only one suffering from this.
Is there a way to solve this issue or am I doomed to stay like this forever?
A: It seems like the installer expects Quicktime to be there but when it looks it can't find it.
Have you tried removing any registry entries to do with Quicktime and retrying the install?
A: I have the same issue. iTunes on Windows 7, installed with default configuration months ago. After that I have upgraded it several times successfully, again with default settings. Now the latest iTunes upgrade offered by Apple Software Updater suddenly fails with "QuickTime required" error. iTunes and QuickTime Player fully working, only upgrading to latest version fails.
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Q: What hardware upgrade would be most beneficial for a Mac? Would it make more sense to buy a Mac with a better processor, or with a better graphics card, or a SSD?
For general computer use, mainly word processing and Chrome/Safari.
A: Do you plan to buy an iMac or a MacBook ?
If you buy a MacBook, you should take a SSD because it's better for a portable device (more resistant).
If you buy an iMac, SSD is not really necessary because you don't move your computer every day, so you can take a better processor and/or RAM.
If you don't manage to choose, juste take a better processor and a SSD :)
Hope this helps !
A: The speed gains from an SSD drive are awesome, but they're still much more expensive.
Also, OS X always sees significant boosts from adding RAM, so get as much as you can afford (but not from Apple!).
A: Given those three I say processor.
Given an alternate option I say processor then RAM. Always buy the most "powerful" processor you can at the time. You're probably going to keep the computer for a few years. With upgrades and new versions coming out it is hard to stay on top. Might as well be as close to the top as possible to start with.
OS X and some programs (cough Firefox) love RAM. Get the stock amount and upgrade later.
A: For general computing the most "bang for your buck" would come from RAM as tonklon states. Get as much as you can given your budget and specs on the computer. The next item would be up the hard drive to SSD.
This can get quite expensive but I've heard nothing but good things about certain SSD drives.
If cost not an issue then do both. If it is then upgrading RAM is your best bet. Keep in mind that Safari is a memory HOG. I've seen it take over 1G of RAM with just a few browser tabs open.
Default graphics card should be more than adequate for your stated needs.
A: My suggestion is to always take the second fast processor available and invest the rest of your budget in RAM. The fastest processor is usually too expensive. You don't get much more speed for the price difference between the fastest and second fast.
And don't upgrade the RAM in the Apple Store. Find a local reseller, who delivers your System readily build with non-apple brand RAM with warranty. You could get twice the RAM for the same price. But never ever use discount RAM. It's not worth the hassle.
EDIT Oct 12:
bmike's comment is right. The SSD is right now the single most important component for your Mac's speed.
So take the SSD. Even if you can then only afford the slowest processor.
BTW. Are there still Mac models w/o SSD?
A: I've found RAM and SSD are usually the ways to go. However, it depends upon your current configuration. If you currently only have 1gb or less of RAM, then you should definitely load up on RAM at the expense of other things (if there need be a tradeoff). But if you've got 2gb already, then SSD will likely do much more for you (given your stated needs).
A: As Jeff Atwood says in his post, "no CPU or memory upgrade can come close to touching that kind of real world performance increase" as an SSD.
A: SSD and RAM for me. But buy them from OWC or Crucial. Don't use the Apple one! And second display is always a nice upgrade, even a small 7 inch USB display.
A: Consider that Hard drive is a bottleneck (physical speed) and limited ram enforces the usage of the Hard Drive (swap!). With those two parameters, you need to find a balance between the two.
If you get 32GB of RAM, yes, you will be using a “slow” hard drive, but the swap to drive will be close to zero. If you go with less ram but an SSD, those swapping times will be way way faster.
I’d chose memory over anything else, because swap is not a substitute for RAM, and no free RAM = bad things occur.
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Q: Why iTunes updates get released so fast and why everytime the entire iTunes has to be updated instead of patched? I use iTunes on my Mac (OS X 10.6) but I wonder what's up with it's update.
I really want know Why iTunes updates get released so fast and why everytime the entire iTunes has to be updated instead of patched.
P.S: I have limited bandwidth with my internet then the size of update was important for me.
A: The reason why they release patches so often, iTunes is the app where all their management of iPhone and iPad occurs, which means they often need to update it to add support for new iPhone/iPad/iPod touch models, and to support new features in those products. The fact that it is also where they handle a lot of their DRM (which they may have contractual obligations to update in some instances) probably is part of the reason as well.
The fundamental issue with delta patches is that they are more complex, and have higher support costs for the vendor. A full updater can run against any version of the app that is installed, a delta patcher most be made against specific version. A full updater will work regardless of whether the app has been modified (user hacking the binary to do something, tweaking the artwork, etc), a delta updater will fail against a modified app.
Given the extra work involved in preparing a delta patch, and the increased chance that it won't work, they tend to only be used in very specific cases. Apple tends to create delta updates for software updates, but they only create a delta against the most recent released version of the OS, rather than making dozens of versions that work with every release they make the one that will get most people, and then for everyone else they do a combo update that is a full updater that also incorporates every previous software update as well.
For smaller things like iTunes, they don't tend to bother with delta updates at all due to the increased workload, support, the increased number of versions that exist, and the fact that iTunes is fairly small in the scheme of things (it is smaller than an OS update, or an iPhone/iPad firmware).
A:
I use iTunes on my mac (OS X 10.6) but
I wonder what's up with it's update. I
realy want know Why Itunes updates get
released so fast and why everytime the
entire Itunes has to be updated
instead of patched.
It probably is patched. There are more then a few files that go along with iTunes, there are other applications and shared processes that must be updated as well.
Applications are updated on an as-needed basis. You probably don't have to update right this minute, it's simply saying an update is available, and you would be better off if you updated. This could fix any number of issues, from performance, stability, or misc "bugs" that were found. You can see the (abbreviated) changelog if you want to know exactly what this update is supposed to do.
Contrary to the other answer, it is not how Apple "bundles" applications. The "bundle" is simply a folder that finder interprets as an application. Applications can (and are often) "patched" by modifying files withing these .app folders. The entire application does not need to be replaced every time. Otherwise every Adobe update would take days do download.
A: Please note that the following answer is valid for any application (Apple-specific or 3rd party).
It's the way Apple bundles all applications. In fact every *.app is a bundle (think - folder). You can open it in finder (right click -> Show Package Contents) or cd to it in terminal. That's why any app is not patched like on windows systems where files of one program is scattered all over the file system, but sort of "replaced" as a whole.
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Q: Quicksilver addons and plugins Quicksilver is no doubt THE App that's must have for any keyboard ninja using Mac. Please share your [power] tips on new addons, triggers and plugins that you use.
A: If you're using Quicksilver just as a launcher I recommend checking out "Google Quick Search Box" (http://www.google.com/quicksearchbox/).
A: [Holywar mode on]
Quick silver is NOT the app that's must have for any keyboard ninja using Mac since Spotlight works like a charm.
Quicksilver was good on 10.3 as there were no Spotlight :).
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Q: Cycle through windows with keyboard in Adobe Acrobat I use Adobe Acrobat Pro a lot, and often keep multiple documents open. Does anyone know of a way of cycling through the open windows of this application without resorting to the mouse?
(Cmd+` (backtick) does not work.)
I use OS X 10.6.4 on a 13" MacBook Pro.
A: You can try Cmd + F6. It's working on both Mac OS & PC.
A: Are you referring to cycling through all open windows in all apps, or all open windows within Adobe Acrobat?
If the former, use ⌘tab to switch between apps, and then ⌘` to swap between windows in that app.
If the latter, ⌘` works just fine for me (Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.3.4; 15" MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.4; no particular third-party addons that might change this behavior).
A: I had given up on this for a long time, but trying it once more I noticed that the "`" requires to be pressed for longer for the switch to happen. Once it switches you have to let go quickly or it will switch back to the 1st document.
Hope this helps.
A: You might want to take a look at Witch (http://manytricks.com/witch/). It'll give you many more options for how you can cycle through windows and open apps. It's not free ($19), but there is a free trial.
A: option+command+backslash (on french keyboard) (`, on english probably)
A: On Mac OS X 10.11.1 with Acrobat Pro DC installed try controltab.
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Q: Mail: Smart Mailbox Filters How can I get the smart mailbox to filter email correctly? I have the following set:
Contains messages that match ANY:
Subject Contains criteria one
Entire Message Contains criteria two
Entire Message Contains criteria three
The result is no messages found. If I remove the third criteria I get messages. What I thought the ANY would take each criteria and OR them. Instead it appears to be AND ing them.
Any thoughts on how to implement criteria in an OR?
A: You've got your rule set up correctly - if it's an ANY set of predicates it's as if there is an OR between them. It may be slow (and why nothing is showing up) because an Entire Message Contains has to search every email you have.
What happens if you have only criteria three and not criteria two - there may be an issue with criteria three that is causing the search to fail. (Check Console)
You can kludge a smart mailbox with AND and OR rules by using other Smart Mailboxes and the "Message Is In Mailbx" or "Message Is Not In Mailbox" predicate.
A: For the "Entire Message" and "Contains" combination, you can use AND and OR to add multiple keywords. For example,
Contains messages that match ALL of the following conditions:
Data Received is in the date range "01/01/2011" to "31/12/2011"
Entire Message Contains "invoice OR receipt"
This will give you all messages in 2011 that contain either "invoice" or "receipt"
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Q: Quick, automated way to verify the copy of a folder? I have a lot of files that I've been transferring around my network and to external hard drives. For example, I just copied a folder with files representing an old laptop's disk image (created with clonezilla) from an external hard drive to my macbook pro.
Is there an app or script I can use that would allow me to verify that all the files in the folder were copied correctly and without corruption? I want to be able to run something on the source and target folders that will give me confidence that they are identical. Ideally, the tool would be able to verify folders on a network drive as well.
A: Two easy ways, one CLI and the other with a GUI :
*
*With Terminal :
*
*diff -rq folder1 folder2
*Using FileMerge (which comes with the Developer Tools) :
*
*
A: The easiest way to do that would be to run a md5 sum on all the files and match it with the local set. I can't script off the top of my head at the moment, but that's how you would do it.
For future reference, don't copy folders. Tar / bzip them up and then move them. Your copy time will be significantly decreased and then it's easier to verify a successful copy.
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Q: Is it possible to launch a program in a specific language? I'm a developer, and my primary language is French, so I use Mac OS X in French. However, I need on a regular basis to open an application in English to do support.
Right now I'm going to the International System Preferences and I put English above in the languages list, then I open the app I need to run in English. When I'm done, I switch it back to French.
This is an annoying process. Is there something else I can use, like a command-line program, to launch an application in a specific language?
A: You can change the language inside the preferences file of the application :
defaults write com.apple.TextEdit AppleLanguages '("en-US")'
Or just run once one application with another language :
/Applications/iCal.app/Contents/MacOS/iCal -AppleLanguages '(de)'
To determine the bundle identifier, run
mdls -name kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier /Applications/Mail.app
or directly in one command:
defaults write $(mdls -name kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier -raw /Applications/Mail.app) AppleLanguages '("en-UK")'
(via SuperUser)
A: There is a freeware, Language Switcher, to launch a single application with a different languages.
it's really simple and work amazingly.
A: Go to the app, Press Command + I and if there are other languages they will show up in the info page. Just untick all except the language you want
A: For Google Chrome do this:
defaults write com.google.Chrome AppleLanguages '("en-US")'
A: I also found this to work:
bash-3.2$ LANG=de.UTF-8
bash-3.2$ /Applications/MuseScore\ 3.app/Contents/MacOS/mscore
A: In the Finder, get info on the application. There are languages here, and you can choose. Alas, this seems to have disappeared in Snow Leopard.
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Q: How to perform hard / cold reboot of iPhone or iPad? I understand that when I press and release the power button on the top of my iPhone or iPad, it stays on but turns off the screen.
Whereas if I press and hold the power button, a "slide to turn off" control appears on the screen.
Sliding this, as I was told, does turn the unit off, but it does so by suspending the RAM to disk (flash memory, actually.) So, when turning on the iPhone or iPad, it isn't so much rebooting the OS as it is resuming it from flash storage.
How to force the OS to completely reboot on these devices?
A: See Restart your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support:
iPhone 8 or earlier
Press and hold the Home and Power Button until your iPhone / iPad reboot (ignore the "Slide to turn off"), you can release both buttons when you see Apple logo.
iPhone X
Press and hold Volume up [or down] and Power Button until your iPhone reboots (ignore the "Slide to turn off"), you can release both buttons when you see Apple logo.
See If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch won‘t turn on or is frozen - Apple Support:
If your screen is black or frozen
If your screen is black or frozen, you might need to force restart your device. A force restart won't erase the content on your device. You can force restart your device even if the screen is black or the buttons aren't responding. Follow these steps:
*
*On an iPhone X, iPhone 8, or iPhone 8 Plus: Press and quickly release the Volume Up button. Press and quickly release the Volume Down button. Then, press and hold the Side button until you see the Apple logo.
*On an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus: Press and hold both the Side and Volume Down buttons for at least 10 seconds, until you see the Apple logo.
*On an iPhone 6s and earlier, iPad, or iPod touch: Press and hold both the Home and the Top (or Side) buttons for at least 10 seconds, until you see the Apple logo.
A: Hard power off, hold power button and home button until it shows the shutdown slider, and then keep holding the buttons. After a while the screen will completely turn black. Now press the power button to boot the machine up.
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Q: Can I change my OS X theme? Some of my friends said that OS X sucks because you only have to choose one theme on every device that have OS X. I searched, but I didn't find any feasible solution just one little thing that cost money (and I didn't want to risk it).
Is there a easy way to change OS X themes that is free? Please don't tell me that the theme doesn't need to be changed; I really want something like Ubuntu that can change anything, I really love my Ubuntu desktop (KDE and Gnome).
If OS X doesn't do this, are there any 3rd-party utilities that can?
A: There is now an app called Flavours that allows theming. It has many nice themes, including some Shapeshifter themes, and runs starting on Lion (10.7.x) up to Mavericks (10.9.x). It costs a bit, however.
A: These days, there's also PaintCan which is a plugin for MacForge.
A: Out of the box there is no themeing capability in Mac OS X, you can however modify some of the colours used by Mac OS X in the Appearance Preference Pane in System Preferences.
If you're serious about themeing however there are 3rd party applications you can get to help with this:
*
*CandyBar - manages and changes icons.
*ThemePark - does most everything else. If you're interested in available themes that work with ThemePark check out MacThemes
Otherwise a fairly good resource is the forum at MacThemes.
A: Back in the 10.4 days there was Shapeshifter from Unsanity. Sadly, it died when Leopard was released.
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Q: Mac ports installation of gcc46 failing due to architecture problems When trying to install gcc46 on OS X 10.6.4 using port (MacPorts 1.9.1) i get the following errors:
artemis:foo$ sudo port install gcc46
Error: Cannot install gcc46 for the arch(s) 'x86_64' because
Error: its dependency gmp is only installed for the arch 'i386'
Error: and the configured universal_archs 'ppc i386' are not sufficient.
Error: Unable to execute port: architecture mismatch
MacPorts was freshly installed on the 10.6 system.
Any suggestions on how to resolve this or how to install gcc46 for i386?
(Previously asked and as of now unanswered on SuperUser.)
A: For some reason the universal_archs configurations was wrong. An answer on SuperUser now worked:
*
*in /opt/local/etc/macports/ copy macports.conf.default to macports.conf
*make sure universal_archs in it is set to x86_64 i386
*now go for clean installs, e.g. by following the migration instructions
A: Try installing first gmp only with the universal variant :
sudo port install gmp +universal
Then reinstall gcc46.
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Q: Can I get the Canon EOS Utility to stop bugging me when I plug in my iPhone? I'm not sure if this belongs here or SuperUser, so I'll ask here and if the community decides to close it, I will re-ask there.
Every time I plug my iPhone in to my MacBook, the Canon EOS Utility (installed with the software for my DSLR) pops up and decides to inform me that a camera was not connected. I, of course, know this, as I just connected my iPhone. This happened with my last iPhone (3G) and continues to happen with my current iPhone 4.
Is there any way to get that software (provided by Canon) to stop bugging me (on my MacBook, OS X 10.6) when I plug in my iPhone?
A: After plugging in your iPhone, open "Image Capture.app" in the Applications folder. In the bottom left of the window is an option to choose what to do when this "camera" is plugged in. Change this to Do Nothing or open iPhoto as you would prefer.
A: You can also try installing Cameras, which will let you select default actions depending on the camera you plug in.
A: Open up the ImageCapture application. There will be an option to change what happens when you plug a camera / device in.
A: One option would be to simply disable the Canon EOS Utility, which apparently has a 'helper' app/daemon running all the time, and manually launch it when you need it.
There should be a setting in the Canon EOS Utility's preferences, but if there isn't, look in System Preferences » Accounts (I think that's what it is called in Snow Leopard) » Login Items.
If there's nothing there, check "~/Library/LaunchAgents" (where ~ is your home directory) for something which (probably) lists Canon in the filename. Remove the file from that directory and restart your Mac.
Bonus Tip: Assuming that your camera mounts in /Volumes/ when connected, you could use Hazel to automatically launch the utility when your camera is connected.
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Q: iChat periodically disconnects About twice a night, iChat will disconnect (though it'll still show me as connected). After about 10 minutes, it'll realize it's disconnected and bring up a dialog telling me it lost the connection. I can then close the dialog and reconnect with no trouble.
My computer's network connection seems to be fine throughout this.
Any idea:
*
*What might might be causing this?
*How to fix it?
*At least how to make it tell me more immediately when it loses the connection?
A: Your problem might be your router loosing connection temporarily to your ISP.
I use Chax, an extension to iChat which, among other great things, auto-reconnects when connection is lost. Chax is donationware.
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