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KidDynamite posted:huge pictures CMD+Shift+4 then Space, learn it man!
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# ¿ Jul 20, 2011 16:38 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 13:59 |
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Binary Badger posted:Pretty interesting article about Internet Recovery mode, another new feature of Lion: Holy poo poo this owns. If you replace the drive on your new MBA or Mac Mini, you just boot up to Internet Recovery mode, connect to wifi, authenticate your App Store ID and it re-installs Lion for you over the internet. This is the future man.
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# ¿ Jul 20, 2011 19:07 |
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frunksock posted:I bought and upgraded to Lion on my MBP. I also have a Mini running SL Server because that's what it came with (I don't think I actually use any Server features). So, since my understanding was that buying Lion for one machine entitled you to upgrade all of your machines with it, I proceeded to try to upgrade the Mini, however it's telling me that since I have Server installed, I have to buy both Lion and Lion Server for $80. I believe Lion Server is a $50 add-on to server, not a stand alone product. EDIT: Yup, from the App Store: EDIT 2: I guess I misread your question, I have no idea if there's a way to downgrade OSX Server. You might be able to pull the .DMG like you can with the Client OS and do an Upgrade and Install option. FCKGW fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Jul 22, 2011 |
# ¿ Jul 22, 2011 04:41 |
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Actually a found a helpful document Apple has already created on exactly how to migrate from Snow Leopard Server to Lion Server http://images.apple.com/macosx/server/docs/Upgrading_and_Migrating_v10.7.pdf Space Racist posted:Also, is it just me, or can the mouse no longer be used to wake the display? Not talking about full sleep, just the screen being turned off. Not just you, moving the mouse no longer wakes the screen. You have to click the mouse or tap a key now.
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# ¿ Jul 22, 2011 04:52 |
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Sigma posted:I leave iTunes on its own full screen these days, but sometimes when I wake my mac mini, it does this: What am I looking at here?
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# ¿ Jul 31, 2011 18:56 |
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jink posted:Guys, if you have your dock at the bottom iTunes is leaving space for it. On my system I leave the dock at the left and amazingly there is a left side 'gap' in fullscreen mode. The fullscreen for iTunes doesn't take over the dock area. I have the dock on the left and that's not the behavior I'm seeing. Fullscreen mode works properly for me.
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# ¿ Aug 1, 2011 16:11 |
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Abel Wingnut posted:What's a good, free timer for Snow Leopard? Timer or Chimoo Timer.
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# ¿ Aug 10, 2011 21:32 |
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Ziir posted:What was the free uninstaller app that people recommended before again? There's a few. AppZapper AppCleaner AppTrap Personally I use AppTrap because it works directly with the Trash and doesn't need to be dragged into a separate window.
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# ¿ Aug 11, 2011 18:28 |
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ndrake posted:I'm jealous. I'm on macbook air connecting to an airport express (apple gets all my money) and when the computer wakes up it only finds my network 20% of the time. My mbp with snow leopard has no troubles. Just so you're not thinking you're crazy this happens all the time on my Mid 2010 Macbook Pro. I also have an AEBS and I get a connection back from sleep about 20% of the time. It also happens on my 2009 iMac, although less frequently. I also have a 50/50 shot of my MBP not waking up from sleep, so I seem to have a few of the worst bugs some people are talking about
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# ¿ Aug 12, 2011 16:23 |
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Since upgrading to Lion I'm having a reoccurring issue of the ability to adjust the sound being lost. The sound still works fine, but I cannot adjust the sound using the keyboard or dropdown on the menubar. Repairing the permissions on the drive and restarting seems to resolve the issue, but it will come back later that day or the day after. Here's the system prefs: I'm almost positive it's a Lion issue. Is anyone else seeing this issue?
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2011 04:08 |
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japtor posted:Yeah for the machines that can work with 4GB but not actually use it, they still report the full 4GB installed. I think the actual usable amount is 3.3GB...not really sure how someone (OWC?) figured that out but that's the number I remember over the years. "About this Mac" will show the amount installed while Activity Monitor will show the amount accessible.
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# ¿ Aug 16, 2011 16:08 |
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Ziir posted:
It's to be able to search the contents of MS docs inside of spotlight.
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# ¿ Aug 16, 2011 22:28 |
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Yargh posted:I've done what I can, but I'm so lost, I don't know where else to get an answer. From some Googling, it looks like you may be one of the lucky few who have a trojan on your system, specifically Trojan.OSX.DNSChanger.B. What "trojan finder app" did you run? Was it legit? You can try downloading some removal software like http://www.iantivirus.com (site is run by pctools/symantec) or the DNSChanger removal tool. Let me know if that finds anything, I'm kinda curious to what bug you have.
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2011 09:01 |
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For those interested.. MacUpdate is having their bundle promo again! Get these 11 apps:
Not as nice a bundle as years past, but if you're in the market for Toast it's a fantastic value.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2011 05:29 |
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xie posted:People who know more about Macs than me: If you're really serious about this, it would be invaluable to have a Mac on hand to learn and walk though the nuances of the OS. A few-generations old Macbook or Mac Mini can be had for under $500. Just make sure it's an Intel processor and it might be a good idea that it be able to run Lion. As far as books, Apple has official books for their Training and Certification program. They're pretty thorough, and cover all the subjects like Apple Hardware, OSX Lion and Server, and also the pro apps. http://www.peachpit.com/promotions/promotion.aspx?promo=135631 It really depends on what your job requires, but I would pick up the OSX 10.6 and OSX Lion support essentials books and maybe the Mac Hardware and Mac Security books.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2011 15:36 |
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MacUpdate Holiday Promo Bundle is going on again.
Not as "must-have" as previous bundles, but a solid pack anyways. TotalFinder, IconBox and Mac DVD Ripper Pro are all things I've used or am using now, they're all great. If you needed any of these things, now would be a great time to buy. FCKGW fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Dec 5, 2011 |
# ¿ Dec 5, 2011 19:39 |
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My Airport Extreme with a USB disk attached isn't backing up anymore. I get this error: Any ideas? Googling that error message gets me exactly 4 results, none of which relate to my problem.
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2011 18:03 |
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Martytoof posted:Have you run a Disk Utility sanity check on the drive? Sorry to be that guy with the baby suggestion, but it's a starting point. It looks like the Disk isn't mounted at all now. Maybe the disk is bad, or not spinning up? Here's what console's spitting out, I can't really make sense of it. pre:12/12/11 9:49:17.802 PM com.apple.backupd: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Macbook%20Pro@AirportExtreme._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Time%20Machine 12/12/11 9:49:18.464 PM com.apple.backupd: Mounted network destination at mountpoint: /Volumes/Time Machine using URL: afp://Macbook%20Pro@AirportExtreme._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Time%20Machine 12/12/11 9:49:18.582 PM mds: ERROR: _MDSChannelInitForAFP: AFPSendSpotLightRPC failed -1 12/12/11 9:49:19.000 PM kernel: AFP_VFS afpfs_mount: /Volumes/Time Machine, pid 8158 12/12/11 9:49:23.559 PM com.apple.backupd: Failed to create backup of Time Machine Information file /Volumes/Time Machine/MacBookPro.sparsebundle/com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.bckup, error: (null) 12/12/11 9:49:23.627 PM com.apple.backupd: Running backup verification 12/12/11 9:49:25.691 PM com.apple.backupd: QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN 12/12/11 9:49:27.454 PM com.apple.backupd: Disk image already attached: /Volumes/Time Machine/MacBookPro.sparsebundle, DIHLDiskImageAttach returned: 35 12/12/11 9:49:27.622 PM com.apple.backupd: Backup verification incomplete! 12/12/11 9:49:29.635 PM com.apple.backupd: QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN 12/12/11 9:49:30.339 PM bootpd: service time 0.000005 seconds 12/12/11 9:49:30.734 PM com.apple.backupd: Ejected Time Machine network volume. 12/12/11 9:49:30.736 PM com.apple.backupd: Giving up after 3 retries. 12/12/11 9:49:31.000 PM kernel: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount: /Volumes/Time Machine, flags 0, pid 8204 12/12/11 9:49:40.747 PM com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: The target disk image volume is read-only. 12/12/11 9:49:58.317 PM bootpd: service time 0.000007 seconds Airport Utility seems to be able to see it though. FCKGW fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Dec 13, 2011 |
# ¿ Dec 13, 2011 06:52 |
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Bob Morales posted:My main thing was that I liked the way the address bar searched your history in Firefox. Like, this guy? http://www.google.com/errorpage That's not a chrome thing, that's you hitting a non-existent page on Google's servers.
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2012 23:52 |
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Cool retrospective on OSX over the years http://twistedmac.com/index.php/mac-os-x-over-the-years
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2012 23:59 |
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Just got this in my email. Macupdate is doing their promo bundle again and this time it's not half bad. $50 gets your eleven Mac apps. VMware Fusion, Drive Genius and PDFpen are pretty solid apps. Be aware that new versions may be coming out soon which is why they're so cheap. I'm still using the version of Parallels 3 I got many years ago from this bundle.
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2012 20:39 |
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Anyone use any good document management software? Something like Paperless perhaps? I'm planning on moving my large drawer of documents to digital and would like to see what my best options are.
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2012 06:16 |
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Suggestions on some cheap accounting software for Mac? I've got some affiliate sales online but it's very small, only a handful of checks a year. I'd just like to keep track of income and the small month expenditures so I can better prepare the taxes due and write-offs come April.
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2012 18:56 |
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chupacabraTERROR posted:If it's really such a trivial amount of transactions, why not just track them in Excel/Numbers? I use Quickbooks myself, which is totally overkill for something like this, but I think most accounting software requires decent accounting knowledge to automate everything, while Excel can be used just to track balances manually. Yeah, that's what I'm doing now. I was just wondering if there was anything in the ~$20 range that would be more of a pleasure to use. I think I might still have some old caopies of iBank or whatever else was in the MacHeist bundles.
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2012 19:03 |
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Why not OS X Big Sur?
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# ¿ Jun 11, 2013 00:44 |
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I installed Mavericks on my '09 iMac, but when I attempt to run the Migration Assistant to restore the Apps and Files from my external, it won't see the drive. It's a WD Mybook connected via FW800. I can browse the drive and see the files and folders fine but Migration Assistant doesn't se the drive at all. FCKGW fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Oct 13, 2013 |
# ¿ Oct 13, 2013 04:26 |
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Oneiros posted:Check the Time Machine System Preferences and make sure that it hasn't turned itself off / disassociated itself from the backup volume. Migration Assistant wouldn't recognize my (encrypted) backups until I turned Time Machine back on after the update. Time machine seems to work fine, I can browse backups made weeks and months ago. mayodreams posted:At least for the the Developer Previews, you had to install a utility to allow for migration assistant to work from Mountain Lion or Lion. Apple will probably either push this update before Mavericks goes public (I think this happened for ML too). This might be my problem then. I'll just install a couple core apps then and wait to see if a utility comes along. After I bought my rMBP the iMac has become a second citizen anyways. EDIT: I just realized it will let me migrate my Macbook sparsebundle file, but not the iMac backup. So I guess it's seeing the drive after all? FCKGW fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Oct 13, 2013 |
# ¿ Oct 13, 2013 06:17 |
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I'm looking for a piece of software that can sync folders between a local folder and an SMB share. The one issue I keep running into with some software I've tried is that if the share is not mounted it will just fail or hang instead of trying to mount the share. I need something that will mount an SMB share (with user/pass) if it's not mounted and then sync files. Don't want real-time, just once a day type thing.
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2013 21:38 |
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japtor posted:Is the user/pass in the keychain, or can you set it up in the bookmark or whatever (like smb://user:pass@address or something)? I've tried with a program called GoodSync which seems to mount the drive fine, but it never seems to save the password in my keychain. Once the drive becomes unmounted then asks for the password again. I've seen some people script this stuff with automator and rsync but i'm not sure if that has bidirectional syncing.
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2013 23:50 |
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I'm on the Mavericks GM seed. This fucker is stuck in my software update and won't go away no matter how many times I install it. When I run update from the terminal, I get this: pre:Error downloading Mavericks Developer Preview Recovery Update: Can't load data for Mavericks Developer Preview Recovery Update from the Apple Software Update server Any ideas? EDIT: This is on both an '09 iMac and '12 rMBP FCKGW fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Oct 23, 2013 |
# ¿ Oct 23, 2013 16:21 |
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BobHoward posted:I also had problems getting 603 but that MacRumors fix is overkill IMO. What worked for me: No dice. I never even checked my purchased tab, I had the issues clicking the banner in the first place. Mavericks was installed via USB flash drive. Bob Morales posted:Just saw a fix on MacRumors: However this fixed it, thanks a ton.
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# ¿ Oct 24, 2013 08:57 |
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Magic Mango posted:It used to show the "Are you sure you want to shut down your computer?" dialogue box with options for shutdown, reboot and sleep, which it actually still does if you hold it down. Setting is consistent with iOS behavior now. I actually prefer the new method. I was always afraid I'd hit the power button while typing something and accidentally hit Enter and shut everything down.
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# ¿ Oct 25, 2013 16:11 |
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Stare-Out posted:I decided to let go of Sparrow's rotting corpse and check out Airmail. It's pretty nice, much like Sparrow only supported and not murdered by Google as of yet. Also at $2 it's a bargain. Airmail is indeed awesome and they just introduced a bunch of new features in the latest 1.2 version.
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# ¿ Oct 26, 2013 03:33 |
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actionjackson posted:Is the new Mavericks dock annoying anyone else? Yes. Side dock has light blue Apple icons on a blue/white background with blue light indicators, what a great idea.
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# ¿ Nov 4, 2013 07:20 |
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wheez the roux posted:What's the go-to software for using >1080p res on an rMBP? SwitchResX seems to have the best feature list but costs $$, QuckRes is cheaper but seems to be very barebones, and Retina DisplayMenu is free, but also doesn't seem to have been updated in over a year. Am I missing one, or is it worth it to spend for SwitchResX? I found Pupil and have been very happy with it. I tried the other two and found nothing they could do any better than Pupil. You can try it free for a couple weeks and if you want to buy it it's only $5. http://www.pupil.io/
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# ¿ Nov 10, 2013 05:47 |
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I think that because Pages is a more consumer oriented product that the .doc importer is probably fairly basic. The few times I've had to use it to open resumes or product manuals have been just fine and completely readable.
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# ¿ Nov 16, 2013 16:58 |
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Shaocaholica posted:Whats a reliable zip archiver? Seems like whenever someone sends me something zipped from OS X its corrupt. Granted these are typically huge archives (10G+) but I've never had persistent issues like this with 7z and p7z. I've used The Unarchiver for a while. It's handed a few zip files that the native OSX zip handler couldn't unpack for some reason. It's also free.
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# ¿ Nov 20, 2013 21:57 |
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colas posted:Is there a good alternative to VLC? Bitch-rear end app keeps screensaver from coming on. MPlayerX seems nice.
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# ¿ Nov 21, 2013 02:27 |
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Are you trying to play some obscure audio format player? Because having a media/video player enable the screensaver is the exact opposite of what you would want it to do. Also you're probably thinking of IDKFA
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# ¿ Nov 21, 2013 04:00 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 13:59 |
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Butt Soup Barnes posted:Oh, I should give this a try first. Does doing this affect battery life significantly? Don't even need it. You can have the VM run Office like it was just another window in OSX if you want.
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# ¿ Nov 22, 2013 01:36 |