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I uninstalled Outlook but office reminders are still going off. How do I disable them?
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Is there a way to dump a directory of word files (.doc) and convert them to individual PDFs? I regularly get other mac users without Word complaining they can't read the files properly. I have Microsoft Word 2011 and the Adobe suite, if that helps. the_lion fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Apr 17, 2014 |
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Use Automator to print them to PDF?
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I was about to ask if there were any good S/FTP clients outside of Transmit - which costs too much for how little I need it, FileZilla - which has a horrible interface and randomly interprets trackpad movement as "upload desktop folder to the server", and Cyberduck - which requires the penance of installing Java. But Cyberduck seems to have fixed that bit and embedded the runtime. Now it just begs for donations, fair enough. Just a heads up if anyone else had written it off long ago.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Use Automator to print them to PDF? You could even create a Service accessible via right-click on a word doc to convert and save a PDF in the future.
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AlternateAccount posted:You could even create a Service accessible via right-click on a word doc to convert and save a PDF in the future. God I love services. I just discovered the one that lets me convert highlighted text to Latex (comes with LatexIt).
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Pixelmator's half off (now priced at $14.99) for the next week to coincide with their 3.2 update.
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I guess this is sort of a software question (even though it's related to hardware). When I'm at my desk with my laptop, I connect my mouse and keyboard. With my mouse, I turn off "natural" scrolling because it feels weird for me. Yet, when I use the built-in trackpad I prefer to have "natural" scrolling enabled. The problem is I need to set this manually every time I swap pointing devices. Is there any way for this to stay locked to the specific pointing device (ie trackpad "natural", mouse "normal")?
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Pixelmator's half off (now priced at $14.99) for the next week to coincide with their 3.2 update. And to compete with Acorn's $14.99 sale price, no doubt. Good time to get your pick of indie photoshop-lite apps.
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Plugging the sale of my Mac mini here, since this thread has been more helpful and useful to me than the hardware thread.  Mac mini (Late 2012, 2.5Ghz Dual Core, 4GB RAM) with Extended AppleCare
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shymog posted:Is there any way for this to stay locked to the specific pointing device (ie trackpad "natural", mouse "normal")? You're looking for Scroll Reverser.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Use Automator to print them to PDF? AlternateAccount posted:You could even create a Service accessible via right-click on a word doc to convert and save a PDF in the future. Smart options, I always forget Automator!
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Before I pay $5 for this: http://www.bresink.com/osx/BatteryMonitor.html Is there anything free out there that can log the charge and discharge as a percent or mAh? Preferably draw a nice plot instead of outputting a CSV file? I'm just lazy here.
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I have a Macbook Pro that i've been backing up to a external firewire drive. I recently bought a Mac Mini and just wanted to have both machines back up to that same drive so I wouldn't have to have cables plugged in to my laptop all the time. The first backup for my Macbook completed fine over an ethernet connection. But now any time I backup over wifi it will complete one fine then the next time I get a message that Time Machine has verified the backups and has to start a new backup. I found some instructions online for fixing the broken sparse bundle and that worked for one backup and then it broke again. Doing some googling it seems this is a very common problem with backing up to NAS machines or drives plugged directly into airport devices. Is it always this flaky? Do i just need to plan on hooking up the external drive to my laptop once a week or something. If nothing else is there an easy way I can tell time machine to only back up on wired connections or something?
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syndex posted:I have a Macbook Pro that i've been backing up to a external firewire drive. I recently bought a Mac Mini and just wanted to have both machines back up to that same drive so I wouldn't have to have cables plugged in to my laptop all the time. The first backup for my Macbook completed fine over an ethernet connection. But now any time I backup over wifi it will complete one fine then the next time I get a message that Time Machine has verified the backups and has to start a new backup. I found some instructions online for fixing the broken sparse bundle and that worked for one backup and then it broke again. Doing some googling it seems this is a very common problem with backing up to NAS machines or drives plugged directly into airport devices. Is it always this flaky? Do i just need to plan on hooking up the external drive to my laptop once a week or something. If nothing else is there an easy way I can tell time machine to only back up on wired connections or something? I read somewhere that Time machine backups are not as good as anything rsync does. I think this was it, someone linked in this very thread. http://brian.windheim.org/2012/time-machine-sucks-use-rsync-instead This would be my first guess. Have you tried using Carbon Copy Clone instead to do the backing up? rsync is free, you could give that a go first if you don't want to shell out.
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Pivo posted:CoconutBattery? AFAIK it doesn't log/graph.
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Shaocaholica posted:AFAIK it doesn't log/graph. In the screenshot it has a "History" tab so I don't really know, I haven't used it for a long time.
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thegreatcodfish posted:God I love services. I just discovered the one that lets me convert highlighted text to Latex (comes with LatexIt). Seriously. Creating your own right-click services is maybe the best kept secret wizardry in OSX.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:They've already cranked out 7 betas for 10.9.3. Anki
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Axiem posted:You're looking for Scroll Reverser. Thanks for this, that did the trick!
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I have an Automator service that saves selected text to a text document. Is there a way I can make it convert rich text to markdown? Googling just gives me ways to turn markdown to rich text, the opposite of what I need.
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Well, I own a mid 2007 iMac (one of the 24 inch screen ones) with a C2D, 2 GB of RAM and a 750GB hard disk. It was running 10.4 (I got it just before 10.5 was released) and I upgraded to 10.9.2 last week. I've got to say, I am surprised that Mavericks runs so drat well and fast on this considering the age of the equipment and the lacking of the specs. I've ordered another 2GB of RAM to bring it up to 4GB just because it makes sense, but I am in awe of how well everything is working. It's been about 5 years since I last had my hands on this and some of the automation is making me wonder why I ever went back to windows.
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Pivo posted:In the screenshot it has a "History" tab so I don't really know, I haven't used it for a long time. Nah thats just keeping track of your battery degredation, not anything fine grained like the data during a single charge cycle. Anyway I bought battery monitor for $5. Not bad but more like a $2 app. Axiem posted:You're looking for Scroll Reverser. This app is great. Too bad this should have been core OS functionality since day 1. At least the app is free.
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pyrrho posted:Well, I own a mid 2007 iMac (one of the 24 inch screen ones) with a C2D, 2 GB of RAM and a 750GB hard disk. That machine can actually be upgraded to as far as 6 GB, it's just officially only supported for 4 GB. I've converted a 20-inch mid-2007 iMac to Linux Mint and computationally it's not any faster than when it was under Mavericks running a BOINC project, which should tell you Apple does care somewhat about constantly optimizing and refining the OS while at the same time keeping up compatibility. Put a SSD in that baby and you'll really see it fly!
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I have an SD card that seems to be dying. I can see the photo thumbnails in Finder and in the iPhoto import dialog, but when I try and copy or import the photos about half of them fail. Are there any recovery tools that are actually worthwhile? Or any dd-like terminal jiggery-pokery I can do?
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Binary Badger posted:Put a SSD in that baby and you'll really see it fly! I'd LOVE to swap out the HDD, only problem is I feel so uncomfortable taking apart the screen to do so. I like that it still works and is one of those resolutions that don't exist any more so I'd be mindful of breaking it.
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ephori posted:I have an SD card that seems to be dying. I can see the photo thumbnails in Finder and in the iPhoto import dialog, but when I try and copy or import the photos about half of them fail. Are there any recovery tools that are actually worthwhile? Or any dd-like terminal jiggery-pokery I can do? You could try PhotoRec http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
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ephori posted:I have an SD card that seems to be dying. I can see the photo thumbnails in Finder and in the iPhoto import dialog, but when I try and copy or import the photos about half of them fail. Are there any recovery tools that are actually worthwhile? Or any dd-like terminal jiggery-pokery I can do? Try it in a different card reader on a different computer first. This (as little sense as it makes) solves my occasional can't-read-from-card problems 100% of the time. (And it's not just my reader - my roommate has to use mine instead of his occasionally for the same reasons. It is a mystery...)
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Binary Badger posted:That machine can actually be upgraded to as far as 6 GB, it's just officially only supported for 4 GB. If this does work, then I'm so doing this. I went from 2 -> 4 which helped, but 4 -> 6 will help even more. But what size RAM should I use? 2x 4 GB and it addresses only 6? Or try to find 2 x 3 GB? Does that exist? What am I looking for here? I'm in Norway if that makes a difference. (Already loaded that machine with an SSD).
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Anyone know if there's a way to retroactively turn on encryption for time machine backups? I have a full disk of about 6 months of backups and I'm moving to a faster drive, so I thought it'd be a good time to start encrypting too.
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http://www.mactrast.com/2013/07/how-to-public-how-to-encrypt-time-machine-backups-with-os-x/ You might also be able to right-click the drive in Finder and choose "encrypt."
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Choadmaster posted:http://www.mactrast.com/2013/07/how-to-public-how-to-encrypt-time-machine-backups-with-os-x/ That check box is greyed out for me, though - which is why I wasn't sure if it was an option for already created backups...
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I've got a 13" MBPr that I put next to a 24" monitor. I've never had such a problem in Windows, the mouse would always move smoothly between the monitors no matter where I arranged the displays. In OSX it's the total opposite. I have about 4" of space between the displays that is just a wall where I can't move my mouse smoothly between them. Does anyone know of some software or of a setting I can use that will ALWAYS move my mouse to the second monitor if I push off the edge of the first monitor? I'm referring to display arrangement;  I know I can move the laptop monitor to the "middle" of the large monitor, but that's even more annoying, honestly. I want it to not matter if I'm at the very top, or very bottom. If I move my mouse off the edge of monitor 1, go to monitor 2! vty fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Apr 21, 2014 |
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FistLips posted:If this does work, then I'm so doing this. I went from 2 -> 4 which helped, but 4 -> 6 will help even more. But what size RAM should I use? 2x 4 GB and it addresses only 6? Or try to find 2 x 3 GB? Does that exist? What am I looking for here? I'm in Norway if that makes a difference. Don't bother putting in 2X4, only 6 GB will be recognized, one 2 GB plus one 4 GB should be fine, I have several old iMac 2007's configured this way.
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vty posted:I've got a 13" MBPr that I put next to a 24" monitor. I've never had such a problem in Windows, the mouse would always move smoothly between the monitors no matter where I arranged the displays. In OSX it's the total opposite. I have about 4" of space between the displays that is just a wall where I can't move my mouse smoothly between them. Isn't this the same way it works in windows (if the display boundaries do not line up, the mouse doesn't move to the second monitor)? As a workaround, you could try using one of the resolution setting tools to bump up the actual resolution of your rMBPs display (effectively turning off retina scaling). Although that would probably make it unusable for most tasks...
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Does anyone have suggestions for a good circuit design app?
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If you don't need so advanced stuff Circuitlab is pretty good, https://www.circuitlab.com. It's free if you have a student email.
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Experto Crede posted:Does anyone have suggestions for a good circuit design app?
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