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wdarkk posted:When I get info on the split albums, it gives me a "multiple item info" window. Yes, that's the normal window that comes up for Info when you select multiple tracks, if they are apart of one album or multiple albums. In the case of a compilation, they are marked as different albums because that's just multiple albums that all share the same name by different artists. Something like Led Zeppelin's "II" and Chicago's "II" for example. But if you have a soundtrack or something like that with multiple artists, you select all the tracks on that album, and then mark them as a compilation. Because although those artists all appear on that one album, you do that to join all the songs that share the same album name. EDIT: I have an iTunes thread too: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3022963
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Hughlander posted:So due to my own stupidity my MBP isn't booting. It gets to one of the boot screens shows a spinner icon for 4 seconds, it goes away and comes back after 10. Repeat for hours.
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I love f.lux, but it's still too bright to me because my eyes are more sensitive than most. I tried using Shade but it interferes with f.lux and makes the colors cold again. Is there another brightness reducing software that can imitate or work with f.lux to reduce brightness even more than standard? Or maybe some kind of dark film I can stick on my display?
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May 26, 2013 04:47
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Am I the only one that just turns the brightness down at night?
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May 26, 2013 04:56
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PRADA SLUT posted:Am I the only one that just turns the brightness down at night? Well I do too, but it's still too bright. I found one that doesn't interfere with f.lux called Shady (not to be confused with Shade) but its developers stopped updating it after Snow Leopard so it doesn't work with full screens.
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May 26, 2013 05:21
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UnfurledSails posted:I love f.lux, but it's still too bright to me because my eyes are more sensitive than most. I tried using Shade but it interferes with f.lux and makes the colors cold again. Is there another brightness reducing software that can imitate or work with f.lux to reduce brightness even more than standard? Or maybe some kind of dark film I can stick on my display? Brightness Slider does the job for me. Just remember to disable 'Automatically adjust brightness' on Displays.
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May 26, 2013 05:22
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UnfurledSails posted:I love f.lux, but it's still too bright to me because my eyes are more sensitive than most. I tried using Shade but it interferes with f.lux and makes the colors cold again. Is there another brightness reducing software that can imitate or work with f.lux to reduce brightness even more than standard? Or maybe some kind of dark film I can stick on my display? Why not ask for a feature request?
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May 26, 2013 08:33
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gmq posted:https://www.rescuetime.com/ Thanks dude. Anyone else interested,I also found a good app called "concentrate." You can task it to shut other non essential poo poo or stop you from web browsing etc. With both apps, I should be good. Bob Morales posted:Rebooted and now it's fine. Didn't take a real good look at Activity monitor before I restarted so I'm not sure if something else was going crazy but my CPU wasn't being pegged. I think you can change this under your system preferences- under the keyboard section.
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UnfurledSails posted:I love f.lux, but it's still too bright to me because my eyes are more sensitive than most. I tried using Shade but it interferes with f.lux and makes the colors cold again. Is there another brightness reducing software that can imitate or work with f.lux to reduce brightness even more than standard? Or maybe some kind of dark film I can stick on my display?
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May 26, 2013 12:01
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UnfurledSails posted:I love f.lux, but it's still too bright to me because my eyes are more sensitive than most. I tried using Shade but it interferes with f.lux and makes the colors cold again. Is there another brightness reducing software that can imitate or work with f.lux to reduce brightness even more than standard? Or maybe some kind of dark film I can stick on my display?
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May 26, 2013 13:33
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japtor posted:Got any active Macs running 10.8 (with the proper recovery partition) that you can access? If so get a spare USB stick and just make a recovery drive off that machine. That'll save you a bunch of time starting up on recovering crap if nothing else. Thanks, I pretty much just did what the OP said and other than having to reinstall command line tools through XCode I seem to be back where I was with only an hour or so wasted. Local store even had 32GB thumb drives on sale for $19 which is cheaper than Newegg even!
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May 26, 2013 14:39
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Yeah, but cheap generic flash drives usually have poo poo controllers and don't write as fast as a Patriot or Corsair stick. If it's a drive you're only going to write to once, like as a recovery drive, then it's fine.
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May 26, 2013 16:42
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Kenny Logins posted:I've suggested it before and I'll suggest it again: try wearing sunglasses? Get some Gunnars. They actually do help some people.
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May 26, 2013 17:37
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PRADA SLUT posted:Get some Gunnars. They actually do help some people. I don't always wear Gunnars, but when I do it's because I had a loving eye twitch that wouldn't stop. Actually solved the problem.
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May 26, 2013 19:29
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I was at a trade show and they had a booth. They're more than just colored lenses. They use high-quality lenses (I believe Carl Zeiss) with double antireflective coatings, in addition to the tinting. That may or may not help some people; I have the same coat on my regular eyeglasses and feel like it helps me when I'm looking at my screen.
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May 27, 2013 16:24
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PRADA SLUT posted:I was at a trade show and they had a booth. They're more than just colored lenses. They use high-quality lenses (I believe Carl Zeiss) with double antireflective coatings, in addition to the tinting.
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May 27, 2013 16:32
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Is there a way to keep Safari from refreshing when I go back with a gesture?
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May 27, 2013 23:17
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What program do I want to use to make a family tree?
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May 27, 2013 23:49
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PRADA SLUT posted:Pages?
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I think there's genealogy apps specifically for making family trees, otherwise I guess look into mind mapping or drawing/layout apps. The big advantage of those over Pages is that you can get dynamic links so you can move stuff around at will without having to redo all the connecting lines, they'll just keep up automatically. And with mind mapping apps you can get some hierarchy form automatically with them which should be make things easier, like they can automatically do a bunch of the layout after entering the data in vs doing it all manually in a drawing app.
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May 28, 2013 03:12
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Boris Galerkin posted:What program do I want to use to make a family tree? If you don't need fancy formatting check out http://www.delineato.com/. It's a cheap "Distraction-free Diagramming and Mindmapping" app.
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I think I just found a really neat hidden feature of the OS X spell checker... I was writing an email and had to type out the name of a variable, say, variableName, but I misspelled it as varibaleName, and it gave me the good old red dotted line. I changed it back to variableName and now it's no longer recognised as misspelled by OS X  Is this really built in or did it hitch a ride with some dev environment I've installed? Also, as I typed up this post, it highlighted both variable names as misspelled, so maybe it only works in plaintext emails and textedit?
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So I guess this can go in the software thread. I've got a new 27" iMac and for some reason Netflix in full screen is a dog. I have a secondary display via a Thunderbolt to DVI adapter and in full screen Netflix is fine, regardless of the browser. If I attempt to use the primary display, as soon as I go to full-screen, it stutters on any sort of fast motion in the movie. This happens regardless of browser. My Silverlight is up to date. I've Googled it, but all the hits are from a few years ago where people had problems no matter what size the video was in. I'm guessing the answer is "Silverlight" because I do MLB.TV and NHL Gamecenter on the main display in full screen with no issues. I just wondered if there was some weird setting I need to use. Jose Oquendo fucked around with this message at 20:50 on May 28, 2013 |
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Did you make sure the latest version was installed? If not, look in your /Applications folder and /Library/Internet Plug-ins folder. If you see Silverlight in Applications, delete it from there and from /Library/Internet Plug-ins. If it's not in /Applications, delete it from /Library/Internet Plug-ins. Then go to this page: http://web.sldrm.video.msn.com/d1/sldrm.html Download the latest Silverlight from the link that shows up on the page (a graphic labeled 'Install Microsoft Silverlight') Install it and then see if the movie plays at the aforementioned link. Ctrl-click or right click on the movie and you should get Silverlight preferences.. go to Playback and make sure hardware acceleration is checked. The latest version of Silverlight is v.5.1.20125.0... god knows if they actually offload to the GPU or not, I'm betting not if the new version doesn't resolve your issues. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 21:13 on May 28, 2013 |
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My boss needs to export his emails to give out to someone (I'm not given a whole lot of details on this). He uses the built in Mail program, and wants to export thousands of emails to an external hard drive he is physically mailing. He wants someone on a PC to read these emails easily. We tried an export, and it seems they come out to a .mbox folder, with some text files inside of it basically (the default and only export option). I couldn't read it on my work PC through Thunderbird however. But when he did a single email, it came out as a .eml file which could be read in Thunderbird without a problem. But he can't do this with the (hundreds of?) thousands of emails he has. Does someone know a good way to export Mac's Mail emails to some more-universal format? Or something that will convert the .mbox folders into something Windows can read?
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May 28, 2013 22:40
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IUG posted:My boss needs to export his emails to give out to someone (I'm not given a whole lot of details on this). He uses the built in Mail program, and wants to export thousands of emails to an external hard drive he is physically mailing. He wants someone on a PC to read these emails easily. Your boss is being audited, run!!!
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IUG posted:My boss needs to export his emails to give out to someone (I'm not given a whole lot of details on this). He uses the built in Mail program, and wants to export thousands of emails to an external hard drive he is physically mailing. He wants someone on a PC to read these emails easily. If you're using POP or he's pulled all his mail onto his computer it'll be a lot more difficult. I think you're probably on the right track with Thunderbird for mbox, but it's been a while since I've used it. Have you tried stripping the .mbox extension from the files and dropping them directly into the folder Thunderbird stores its local mail in to see if they just show up? The other alternative is install Office and see if it'll let you suck the email out of Apple Mail directly and then export it to a more useful format. Edit: actually come to think of it, has he tried just dragging the folders out of Mail onto the desktop? It works in Outlook and a lot of the rest of OS X so it might be worth a shot here.
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pipes! posted:That's adorable: Ah, I didn't realise grabbing the workflow also includes all the embedded files. That's pretty neat, gonna have to keep an eye out for fun things as people switch to Alfred v2 and start playing around with it
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May 28, 2013 23:23
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Mercurius posted:If you're using POP or he's pulled all his mail onto his computer it'll be a lot more difficult. I think you're probably on the right track with Thunderbird for mbox, but it's been a while since I've used it. Have you tried stripping the .mbox extension from the files and dropping them directly into the folder Thunderbird stores its local mail in to see if they just show up? The other alternative is install Office and see if it'll let you suck the email out of Apple Mail directly and then export it to a more useful format. He was using POP. If you drag and drop in Mail, it won't let you do anything for mail boxes. It will let you do that for emails, but only one at a time (no Command + A, or selecting multiple). Trying an Outlook trial and import might be something to try, but I don't know how that will work out. We're not getting audited, we're merging with another company.
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Binary Badger posted:Did you make sure the latest version was installed? If not, look in your /Applications folder and /Library/Internet Plug-ins folder. If you see Silverlight in Applications, delete it from there and from /Library/Internet Plug-ins. If it's not in /Applications, delete it from /Library/Internet Plug-ins. I was already running the newest version but manually deleting the plugin and then reinstalling it worked. I guess there might have been remnants somehow of the old one?
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IUG posted:He was using POP. If you drag and drop in Mail, it won't let you do anything for mail boxes. It will let you do that for emails, but only one at a time (no Command + A, or selecting multiple). Trying an Outlook trial and import might be something to try, but I don't know how that will work out.
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I've got a situation that I could use a little help with, hopefully someone here has had a similar problem. I've got a friend whose wife works from home. She VPNs into a government site to do something with medical records I believe. The thing is that she fucks up a computer just by touching it. She has an old Windows XP box that she uses and of course with security support ending soon for that there's no way she should continue using it. She's hosed it up so badly so many times that she ended up buying a second dirt-cheap WinXP box just so she can switch with a KVM to her personal machine and back since the work PC is completely unusable for anything but the VPN. Since I'm going to be "supporting" her breaking things constantly I was going to recommend a Mac Mini to replace her PC and I was thinking that if there was a way to use either Parallels or VMWare Fusion to run her VPN software it would keep her problems confined. I figure it's a lot less work to fix a Mac with a Time Capsule than it would be to keep wiping a Windows box over and over. Is it possible to use either of the Windows virtualization apps to present a fresh Windows instance each time? Like every time she goes to use it, it's back to an initial image that is set up just for her work and anything she does won't persist to the next time? If it is possible, is it something that someone like me who has no experience with either application could set up? I understand she'd have to buy a Windows license but that shouldn't be an issue.
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Joe Don Baker posted:I was already running the newest version but manually deleting the plugin and then reinstalling it worked. I guess there might have been remnants somehow of the old one? Or the plugin does some housekeeping when it first starts up.. either way glad it worked. Two middle fingers up to MS for not documenting anything about the plugin.
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LastInLine posted:I've got a situation that I could use a little help with, hopefully someone here has had a similar problem. If you really want none of her changes to last then set up Windows + Deepfreeze, with her "my docs' folder or such being on an unfrozen partition. She won't be able to save bookmarks or such but at least she can save files to the unfrozen folders. But any other change she makes elsewhere will just require a restart to reset. This is the standard for things like student computer labs at schools, where kids are actively trying to gently caress with computers.
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You want a virtual machine for this application. VirtualBox is free and good is cost is an issue. Set it up with VPN and whatnot, take a snapshot, and then show her how to roll it back to the good snapshot when it breaks. Also get her a Mac, they're far harder for an end user to break (sounds like she'll find a way), give her AdBlock or an equivalent for her favorite browser. Then set up Time Capsule for when she breaks the Mac and CrashPlan or DropBox to get her data offsite.
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mllaneza posted:You want a virtual machine for this application. VirtualBox is free and good is cost is an issue. Set it up with VPN and whatnot, take a snapshot, and then show her how to roll it back to the good snapshot when it breaks. Looking at VirtualBox, it seems like I can do what I want. And I'm guessing I could simply have her open up the snapshot every day. For data backup and recovery I don't think that's going to be much of an issue with a Time Capsule and as for adblock and she's been using that for years and still manages to screw things up. I think this is going to work out great, thanks a lot. You know, every time I've had a Mac question I've come in here and get the answer I need right away. There are a lot of great things I've experienced since moving to OS X, but one thing I didn't expect is a wonderful community. I appreciate all the help I've received in my transition and look forward to being able to offer the same for others as I learn more. Thanks. 
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Anyone have experience with the App Store not letting you purchase apps and then being buggy about downloading them? I had to spend literally a solid week trying to purchase Wargame: European Escalation and X3 on the app store and every time I got the message that the App Store is not processing credit card purchases at this time. Other apps would work perfectly, but those two specifically gave me hell. Eventually I was able to get them purchased, but now every time I try to download them I get errors saying "Please try downloading from the Purchased tab". That's exactly what I'm doing, loving thing won't download. I eventually was able to get Wargame downloaded and it runs fine, but X3 is still stuck, and now I'm getting the same problem with the Xcode update. Maybe 1 time out of 200 when I try, it will start downloading but eventually fail after around 800mb to a gig for some reason (internet drops out, power goes out, it's having a bad day, etc.) and start the "Try downloading from Purchased" cycle all over again. Any solutions?
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While we're on the topic of bitching about the App Store, why the hell didn't they pull a concept from the iOS app store and allow you to update your apps without having to put in your freaking AppleID password every single time? Sometimes I'm just baffled by how these things happen.
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Wario In Real Life posted:While we're on the topic of bitching about the App Store, why the hell didn't they pull a concept from the iOS app store and allow you to update your apps without having to put in your freaking AppleID password every single time? Sometimes I'm just baffled by how these things happen. I think that has more to do with local user permissions than anything else.
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