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Jeratain posted:I was debating posting this in the A/V Forum, but figured I'd start here. I use Plex from my Macbook Pro to my Roku 2 and it is actually magic. Easy to set up and finds tags for my media automatically.
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I use plex with smart hub and it works really well for me. Only things missing are subtitles and .dvdmedia support.
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Mar 5, 2012 08:17
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Great, so then Plex does support streaming to XBox 360 without the need for a client-side app on the 360? That's what I couldn't verify.
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Mar 5, 2012 08:29
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Jeratain posted:I was debating posting this in the A/V Forum, but figured I'd start here.
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Mar 5, 2012 09:26
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A version of Plex with DLNA support is supposed to be coming soon, which would make it work with the 360. (it's not this version, but they talk about it here:) http://elan.plexapp.com/2012/03/03/plex-media-server-v0-9-5-3/
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Mar 5, 2012 13:16
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I wonder how well it handles HD content over WiFi. Looking forward to seeing it, at any rate. Anything to kick PS3MediaServer to the curb. Maybe this will get me watching movies on my TV again rather than just my iPad 
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Mar 5, 2012 14:13
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I have a dedicated XBMC HTPC, and it streams to everything with minimum fuss. But I believe it needs to be running to do this... Also that said, XBMC now supports Airplay, so you can now stream to it as it has an Airplay Server on it.
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Mar 5, 2012 15:44
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DashExpander is a free text expander that I just grabbed and am currently trying out. It supports placeholders, DropBox synching, and snippet tagging. The interface is a little janky, but the price is right.
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Mar 5, 2012 16:12
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I have an external Firewire 800 drive that is no longer mounting. Disk Utility can neither repair or verify the disk. Other than Diskwarrior, is there any software that might allow me tog et the data off the disk, or am I pretty much screwed?
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Mar 5, 2012 18:18
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frogbs posted:I have an external Firewire 800 drive that is no longer mounting. Disk Utility can neither repair or verify the disk. Other than Diskwarrior, is there any software that might allow me tog et the data off the disk, or am I pretty much screwed? Are you getting a ton of disk errors if you open up console? Just had a Lacie die in the office last week. Have you ruled out the enclosure being bad? Can you rip it apart and put the HD in another enclosure, or inside a computer?
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Mar 5, 2012 18:42
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Bob Morales posted:Are you getting a ton of disk errors if you open up console? Just had a Lacie die in the office last week. This is also a Lacie! I dont think the enclosure is bad, as neither the USB or Firewire interface will allow me to mount the disk, but it still shows up in Disk Utility. Quite honestly I dont know what I should be looking for in the Console, any tips?
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Mar 5, 2012 19:14
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frogbs posted:This is also a Lacie! I dont think the enclosure is bad, as neither the USB or Firewire interface will allow me to mount the disk, but it still shows up in Disk Utility. Hit command-space and type 'Console' into Spotlight. Click Console, and then try to use the drive. You should some some entries with 'fseventd' 'error' and 'disk2s0' (or whatever your drive is) all on the same line.
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Mar 5, 2012 19:20
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Bob Morales posted:Hit command-space and type 'Console' into Spotlight. Click Console, and then try to use the drive. You should some some entries with 'fseventd' 'error' and 'disk2s0' (or whatever your drive is) all on the same line. I'm getting nothing in console. If I try to verify/repair the disk in Disk Utlity I get an error saying "Invalid Node Structure" and "Invalid B-tree node size".
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Mar 5, 2012 19:26
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frogbs posted:I'm getting nothing in console. If I try to verify/repair the disk in Disk Utlity I get an error saying "Invalid Node Structure" and "Invalid B-tree node size". Edit-maybe look into Linux live CDs like Ultimate Boot CD that have a crapload of utilities on them. I used them to read some disk with an invalid journal before when OS X wouldn't let me, so I guess it's worth a shot.
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One last time to see if anyone else has been experiencing this:dexter6 posted:I've found myself having to force quit Finder several times a day because my 11" MBA slows to a crawl. I've opened up ACtivity Monitor and found Finder sucking up >1gb of RAM. Force quitting gets my speed back to normal, but it will start happening again.
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dexter6 posted:One last time to see if anyone else has been experiencing this: You're not running TotalFinder, are you? I ask because a number of people have reported that very problem with TotalFinder.
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Mar 6, 2012 04:03
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Is there any reliable way of identifying non-standard kernel extensions or anything? I'd like to clean out the cruft in my system without necessarily reinstalling.
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Mar 6, 2012 05:00
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rckstar79 posted:You're not running TotalFinder, are you? I ask because a number of people have reported that very problem with TotalFinder.
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I haven't been experiencing that at all, but I *do* have to force quit Finder a few times a week: I do a LOT of dragging images from Safari to disk to help out with presentations and lectures and student thesis stuff. I'd say I probably drag about a hundred images per week or so into a DMG I keep on my local disk. Now 99% of the time nothing bad happens. I drag an image from Safari to the DMG in a finder window and it does exactly what I ask it to. Then the 1% of the time I drag an image from Safari to the DMG in Finder, let go of the mouse and the system hesitates for a second before bringing the finder up in the window stack (it's usually just sitting behind Safari, partially obscured, but still visible enough that I can drag things into it) so it's the foremost window, and after that happens I can no longer drag ANYTHING into finder. The cursor just acts like it's floating over a window that doesn't respond to drag and drops. If I try to drag an image into the finder, the image will just spring back into the Safari window as soon as I let the button go. The ONLY way to fix this is to kill/relaunch Finder. Nothing else on the system seems to be affected. It's hard to file a bug report because I'm usually in the middle of dragging images around under deadline and can't be bothered to stop what I'm doing to record the details. There's definitely an error in the console, but googling reveals that it's nothing very common. Basically Finder is still a bitch sometimes. I wish TotalFinder integrated into the system a little better because I'd probably use it then. I know I said it a number of times in here already, but explorer is still the best file manager I could ask for. I'd love for Apple to give us a tree structure view that's separate from the contents of the folders themselves.
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Mar 6, 2012 05:33
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Ahahahha gently caress YOU Samsung for packaging your printer drivers in that lovely VISE X installer that requires you to literally quit every running program on your Mac in order to install a printer driver. I would have used the ones that come from Apple which OSX auto-downloads when you first plug in your printer, but this one isn't connected to the network  But seriously. VISE X, everyone 
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Martytoof posted:Ahahahha gently caress YOU Samsung for packaging your printer drivers in that lovely VISE X installer that requires you to literally quit every running program on your Mac in order to install a printer driver. I've had to download drivers from Brother and Lexmark and they've both been packaged that way as well. That just seems to be the way it is for whatever reason. They're probably something of an afterthought given that OS X comes with so many drivers built-in and most people will never have problems with them.
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Martytoof posted:Ahahahha gently caress YOU Samsung for packaging your printer drivers in that lovely VISE X installer that requires you to literally quit every running program on your Mac in order to install a printer driver. Holy poo poo VISE X still exists? 
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A FUCKTON OF WEED posted:Holy poo poo VISE X still exists? Well at least is still used. I remember some printer drivers which would work in 10.7 if you took the extracted file and used that as the driver. But the installer was still PPC code so it wouldn't open. WTF Samsung.
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A FUCKTON OF WEED posted:Holy poo poo VISE X still exists? Despite all reason, some companies still use VISE X instead of just writing their own pkg installer. Seriously I've only encountered them a handful of times and they're usually on the worst loving apps. I'm so weary of installing anything with a VISE X installer because it always feels like it's going to just absolutely destroy something inadvertently.
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I haven't seen a Vise installer since the System 8 days 
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Luigi Thirty posted:I haven't seen a Vise installer since the System 8 days I think the last time I saw one was in OS X with the old platinum widgets, I assumed it was some weird rear end Carbon build using custom stuff to look like the old Mac OS and was never updated.
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Any of you guys use Fireworks CS5? I've been using it for years problem free, but now I can't edit text layers anymore.. I can create text layers fine but as soon as I deselect it there's no way to edit the text.. I can move them around, change fonts, etc but can't edit the drat text. Driving me crazy..
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Holy gently caress, why is Evernote so highly recommended everywhere I look? I just tried it and it's a total loving disaster. I'll list my issues here so at least some people get a chance to hear it may not be as awesome as reviews tend to say. 1) Fucks up pasting formatted text from other apps (i.e. once it reaches a bold segment, all the rest of the pasted text becomes bold regardless). 2) The iOS version can't handle editing lists deeper than one level. This is ridiculous for a note taking app, as lists/outlines are a terribly common way to structure notes. 3) No support for tabs. It'll just insert multiple spaces instead. Wouldn't be a deal breaker within the app (for me), but if you need tabs to be retained when you copy/paste a snippet back into another app... well, gently caress. 4) Even really basic notes with nothing but plain, bold, and italic text gives me "Some of this formatting is not supported" warnings on iOS, despite the fact that these things are supported. WTF? 5) If you switch between editing your notes on iOS and Mac, random blank lines* will start appearing all throughout your notes. Sometimes you'll hit return and get two lines, or one line where you wanted it and also another line inserted just before the line you were on. And as if to keep the cosmic scales in balance, line breaks will randomly disappear sometimes, too. So gently caress you if you want any kind of consistent spacing in your lists/paragraphs/whatever. * Blank lines are no longer blank on the Mac version once you've edited a note on iOS. Each blank line starts with a single space character. This includes blank lines you intentionally put there, not just the ones that appear by magic. 6) Evernote on iOS allows the iOS data detectors to linkify dates. Not uncommon on iOS, but Evernote saves these links as actual links when you save your edits on iOS, resulting in completely useless links scattered throughout your notes on the Mac (links to x-apple-data-detectors://0). A little googling revealed these issues have been around for at least six months (maybe longer, but at this point I don't care to dig further).
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I've hated it for years  , there was a really stupid debate about it vs Simplenote years ago in an iPhone thread. Granted I haven't used either version in a while, but it sounds like it still has the same general jack of all trades/master of none problem going on. Like it had a bunch of nice features but execution was lacking or just plain stupid in basic ways.
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I use Evernote here and there just to see how it's coming along. I'm not really a power user, so I haven't hit many of those issues you mention. It's just got too much going on I think. I think last time this came up Notational Velocity got a lot of praise. It's a barebones client, but is really good at what it does. The search driven interface is pretty nice. What are the other note taking apps worth anything on OS X? It's like I want OneNote that isn't OneNote for Mac.
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Yeah, I had to drop Evernote because it's just too buggy. I liked being able to drop different media types in there, but in the end it wasn't worth it. Switched to Notational Velocity and Simplenote and am much happier with that setup.
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japtor posted:Or was that "Mac OS 8"? 7.6 was the first OS release in lieu of System, which coincided with the clone market. Stuffit used VISE X for the longest time too, at least until a couple of years ago. I am so glad the scourge that is .sit and .hqx is finally behind us.
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Mar 7, 2012 17:12
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Since there's likely no Mac news, the Apple event thread is over in Inspect Your Gadgets today. Here you go.
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What is the best way to set up a custom refresh rate in OSX Lion? I bought a 2560x1440 monitor that some people have been able to run at 95hz- On the monitor I am using right now, it only offers me 60hz 75hz(greyed out). I'd prefer a free program or terminal command/plist edit but haven't been having very much luck with finding things.
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Looking at reviews, it seems the way both notational velocity and simplenote work isn't going to do it for me. I like organization and structure (remember my need to make outlines/lists everywhere  ) so "use search to find your notes in the pile" is not a UI method that appeals to me.I've been trying to read lots of reviews, but I've been having trouble finding anything else with the syncing (Mac and iOS) and organizing features of Evernote (perhaps why it is so popular despite failing at even basic text entry). Does anyone have any further suggestions?
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Sounds like you're looking for a Mac competitor to OneNote, really. Unfortunately, I don't know of a true product that fills this void. It's probably one of the biggest software gaps that I've never filled on OS X and why I just use an Evernote/Notational Velocity combo. Here are some apps that I did run across along the way: http://www.barebones.com/products/yojimbo/ http://www.circusponies.com/notebook/stay-organized http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonnote/ vikingstrike fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Mar 7, 2012 |
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I like Notebook, but since I don't have an iPad, I can't say how well the sync works, or how well that version works period. Then again, I don't do much more with Notebook beyond take notes in classes and what-not. The multidex is pretty neat, if you are looking for a specific word, or number, or what-have-you, but I've honestly not dug down deep enough to try out all the other advanced bells and whistles, since I only come up with a potential use for them in the middle of class, when I can't sit around and faff about with menu options.
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None of those sync nearly as well as Evernote. I'm beginning to think I'll have to put up with Evernote after all. It's disappointing that such an otherwise awesome and useful tool is dragged down by something so basic. I'll try to learn to live with it (and hope desperately for some fixes). Thanks everyone.
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If you haven't already, send all that feedback you wrote to the developer, it will at least increase your chances of getting some of those problems solved.
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Really, the only thing I've ever wanted was a way to sync Stickies across machines. Evernote is ridiculously overbuilt for what I want so I basically stopped using it. I just need something I can jot down and read on another machine, not an organization system for my scribblings. That's why I pretty much just end up emailing things to myself. If only I could sync Stickies
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