Re: Problems with Big Sur
FWIW I installed VueScan many years ago. I want to say early 2000's? Could that be? Maybe even earlier if there was an OS 9 version? I forget. For years it was an app I always installed on a new machine. I always skipped installing the scanner manufacturers' software. This was a long time ago, when I did a lot more scanning. I think I've used VueScan once in the past year or two. Not sure why I didn't use Image Capture -- maybe force of habit, or maybe Image Capture wasn't playing well with my particular scanner. --Andy On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, at 11:14 AM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: > Even the simple mode is somewhat obtuse…at least to me. I have not had any > incidents of needing support so can’t comment there although I have seen more > complaints about support than one would think there would be. You’re right…he > does release a lot of updates. > > I wasn’t knocking the software…just passing along what I had read to the OP. > >> On Jun 27, 2021, at 10:59 AM, Charles Lindauer >> wrote: >> >> The complexity is because it is a professional grade scanning software. >> There is a simpler mode. The author releases bug fixes and improvements >> regularly, usually at least monthly if not more frequently, and I’ve found >> him to be very responsive to support inquiries. > > > --- > There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking > stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. > > neil > ___ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Where are my Night Shift options?
Looks like others have had the same problem: <https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mac+night+shift+external+monitor <https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mac+night+shift+external+monitor>>. I may be setting up a system with an external monitor soon. (I have to keep reminding myself I don't need to buy a new computer to try out Big Sur, I have old ones sitting on the sidelines that I can use.) If I run into the same problem and manage to solve it I'll let you know. --Andy > On Jun 24, 2020, at 11:12 PM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > Yes, Andy, that's exactly what my issue is. The Night Shift options don't > appear. I wonder what it is that makes them show up? A certain type of > monitor? Connected a certain way? > > -Carl > >> On Jun 24, 2020, at 7:30 PM, Andy Lee mailto:ag...@mac.com>> >> wrote: >> >> [This is a resend. I messed up both the "From" *and* the "To" the first >> time I sent this. :/] >> >> Are you thinking of Dark Mode? >> >> I searched System Preferences for "night" and selected "Night Shift >> options". This took me to the Display prefs, which included a "Night Shift" >> tab. It sounds like that tab is not showing up for Carl. >> >> >> --Andy >> >>> On Jun 24, 2020, at 9:37 PM, Macs R We >> <mailto:macs...@macsrwe.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Night Shift isn’t a Display thing, it’s an OS thing. It’s the top item in >>> the General Sys Pref. >>> >>>> On Jun 22, 2020, at 9:13 AM, Carl Hoefs >>> <mailto:newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu>> wrote: >>>> >>>> What is the magic incantation to get the "Night Shift" options to appear >>>> in the Sys Prefs Display pane? >>>> >>>> I've hooked up a 42" LG 1080p display to my Mac Pro via HDMI<-->HDMI, and >>>> the Night Shift options do *not* appear in the Sys Prefs Display pane. >>>> >>>> If I hook it up with a Thunderbolt2<-->HDMI cable, would that do the >>>> trick? (I would have to buy such a cable to try it out.) Just wondering >>>> what triggers the options to show up. (Mojave 10.14.6) >>>> >>>> -Carl >>>> > ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Safari Command-F only matches prefixes??
This seems slightly familiar, like I might have seen it before, but part of me is struggling to believe it's actually possible. In Safari 7.0.1 I do Command-F and enter inter. It matches interesting but *not* winter. Really?? This has got to be just me, right? Maybe one of my installed extensions? Anybody else seeing this? --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Safari Command-F only matches prefixes??
On Dec 27, 2013, at 12:10 PM, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: I can't check my system right now, but this doesn't seem like wrong behavior. Presumably when you start searching for something, you know what word you're looking for. I may not be looking for a word based on its prefix. I might be looking for burger on a restaurant page and expect hamburger to be found. In any case, I found the problem. Prefix search is an option in Safari that I had somehow selected. By clicking on the magnifying glass in the Find field I was able to select Contains rather than Starts With. I'm having a hard time thinking of a case where I'd want a search to match within a word instead of just the beginning. If you search for he, do you really want every instance of the to be highlighted? I don't see why this is an extraordinary expectation. Every other browser manages to do it. I would be shocked at any other app that provides a Find function that *only* searches by prefix. Pages? Keynote? Preview? Stickies? VoodooPad? Mail? Terminal? BBEdit? Any Twitter client? And... of course as I wrote that, I found that iCal searches by prefix. I might not mind so much except that as I type ushi it says Event contains ushi, which is a lie -- it only searches for events containing words that begin with ushi. Mail does the same thing and tells the same lie. --Andy On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Andy Lee ag...@mac.com wrote: This seems slightly familiar, like I might have seen it before, but part of me is struggling to believe it's actually possible. In Safari 7.0.1 I do Command-F and enter inter. It matches interesting but *not* winter. Really?? This has got to be just me, right? Maybe one of my installed extensions? Anybody else seeing this? --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- arno s hautala/-| a...@alum.wpi.edu pgp b2c9d448 ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Safari Command-F only matches prefixes??
On Dec 27, 2013, at 1:26 PM, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: Does Mail still do the thing where it only matches from the start of the subject? Or is that on iOS? I did a quick test in desktop Mail.app (Mavericks). When you do a Subject contains search, it does find the string in the middle of the subject line, but only if it is a prefix of a word. I think Spotlight has this behavior as well. Yup. I entered afari, got very few results, changed it to safari and the list contained many more results, including this very discussion thread. :) Thanks for discussing, and happy holidays. :) --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Safari Command-F only matches prefixes??
On Dec 27, 2013, at 6:00 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: In our previous episode (Friday, 27-Dec-2013), Erik J. Barzeski said: Just change this in Safari: How do you get a search field in Safari? Or are you all using Safari V. Old? I'm using Safari 7.0.1. I hit Command-F and a search field appears in the top right corner. I just checked and that also works in Safari 6.0.5 on Mountain Lion. And the magnifying-glass popup has the same two options and defaults to Starts With rather than Contains. At least I assume that's the default -- I don't think I'd have gone out of my way to choose that setting So it must have been what I wanted enough of the time that I never noticed. Though who knows how many hamburgers I failed to get because of it. :) --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Safari Command-F only matches prefixes??
On Dec 27, 2013, at 6:55 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: In our previous episode (Friday, 27-Dec-2013), Andy Lee said: I'm using Safari 7.0.1. I hit Command-F and a search field appears in the top right corner. Oh, right, THAT find. Heh. Never mind. I am filled with too much brandy and fruitcake and fudge. :) Glad to hear it! --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: App shortcuts in Finder toolbar
Works for me, but I have to Command-drag. --Andy On Dec 25, 2013, at 2:37 AM, Hacker Scot shac...@birdhouse.org wrote: In 10.8 and prior, in Finder | View | Customize Toolbar, we could drag apps onto the toolbar. This was great as an alternative to Open With (drag any file onto the right icon in the toolbar to open in that app). In Mavericks, the old app shortcuts still appear, but I can no longer add new ones. Can anyone confirm? Screen Shot 2013-12-24 at 11.32.45 PM.png -- Birdhouse Hosting Custom web and mail hosting services http://hosting.birdhouse.org d(-_-)b ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: how do I put some (or all) of home directory on second disk?
How do the proposed solutions compare when the other drive is unmounted? For example, suppose I owned only one computer, a laptop, and the external drive is only mounted when I'm home? What I would *want* is if I launch iTunes and the drive is not there, it gives me an error. If iTunes is already running and I unmount the drive, I want iTunes to see that as an error too. But I seem to recall cases where a bogus directory would be created like /Volumes/MyExternalDrive/my/path/to/iTunes/library. It was a long time ago, so maybe it wasn't iTunes specifically that had this problem, but I've been gun-shy ever since about offloading the directories used by iTunes, iPhoto, etc. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Surprised ...
On Dec 10, 2013, at 9:57 PM, list boy i.am.list@gmail.com wrote: But then you crash when you hit that ceiling, right? I think need to learn what to do with browser pages that I want to read later, but nothing (Evernote/Pocket/Instapaper/Pinboard/Safari's reading list) I've tried have I been able to stick with… Of the online ones I like Pinboard best. I found it easy to use, and something about the feel of it agreed with me. My latest thing has been to give up hope on an online bookmarking solution. Instead, I dump web pages into EagleFiler. I have used it for many years, and I like that I can do quick full-text searches because it's all local. If I'm away from the computer where EagleFiler is installed, I usually email links and stuff to myself and put them into EagleFiler when I get home. In theory I think it has Dropbox support, but I don't trust any app to do document syncing, no matter how good the developer (and Michael Tsai is good). The only document syncing that I trust to scale is the revision control I use as a developer. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Surprised ...
On Dec 1, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Lawrence Sica lom...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 30, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: On Nov 29, 2013, at 7:51 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 28 Nov 2013, at 18:48 , Michael keybou...@gmail.com wrote: back on a 32 MB 68040 machine, web browsing was relatively simple and easy. But it was all text and some images. No video. No dynamic content. No JSON. Come to think of it, I've never noticed any bloat from IE on Windows. Do they manage memory differently? Really? What version of IE? I’ve seen it eat lots of memory. Really all browsers tend to do so I think. I don't know about memory, but I recently learned that IE has been using a separate process per tab (as Chrome does) since IE8, years before Apple added it in Safari 7. Been meaning to post this link: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftIE8AndGoogleChromeProcessesAreTheNewThreads.aspx Back on the memory topic: if web sites are going to routinely leak massive amounts of memory, regardless of who's to blame, I'd like browsers to let me put a cap on how much memory each tab uses. Kind of like the old days of Classic Mac OS, when we could limit the amount of memory each application could use. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: alternatives to Pages?
Thanks for all the replies. My friend decided to go with Mellel. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Surprised ...
On Nov 28, 2013, at 1:37 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 28 Nov 2013, at 11:17 , list boy i.am.list@gmail.com wrote: Yep, double checked. Today's swap used is 39.12 GB, after 5 hours of uptime. (I should have mentioned initially that my physical memory = 4 GB RAM) Wow. I can't even imagine that large a swap. My laptop doesn't have that much free space, even. Once a browser has a page open with any kind of continually executing dynamic content that has a memory leak, swap space will keep growing ad infinitum. I have found the problem correlates more with certain web sites than with particular browsers or plug-ins. To me that indicates sloppy, even irresponsible coding on the part of either the web site developers or their advertisers. Two culprits: I avoid leaving YouTube windows open, and I don't go to Huffington Post at all. I once opened the JavaScript console and watched it scroll and scroll and scroll as a HuffPo page generated an endless stream of error messages. When my computer starts bogging down I run this command: ls -lh /var/vm On my primary machine, an MBP running Mavericks with 8 GB RAM, I got this just now: total 6422528 -rw--T 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 15:46 sleepimage -rw--- 1 root wheel64M Nov 28 15:46 swapfile0 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 16:30 swapfile1 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 16:15 swapfile2 In the past I wouldn't have been surprised to see this list get up to swapfile8, regardless of which browser I used. (By the way, I'm one of those people with dozens of open browser tabs; I do feel it is a disease of some sort.) But Safari 7 is clearly doing something more efficient with memory -- something Firefox doesn't do, because I switched to it for a while and saw the swap space go up just like it did pre-Mavericks. A little while ago I went to do something on my other machine, an iMac running Mountain Lion with 16 GB RAM. That machine is usually very snappy, but it was being strangely sluggish, so I listed the swapfiles and here's what I got: total 52428800 -rw--- 1 root wheel64M Nov 28 14:26 swapfile0 -rw--- 1 root wheel64M Nov 28 14:26 swapfile1 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile10 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile11 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile12 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile13 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile14 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile15 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile16 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile17 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile18 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile19 -rw--- 1 root wheel 128M Nov 28 14:26 swapfile2 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile20 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile21 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile22 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile23 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile24 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile25 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile26 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile27 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile28 -rw--- 1 root wheel 256M Nov 28 14:26 swapfile3 -rw--- 1 root wheel 512M Nov 28 14:26 swapfile4 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile5 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile6 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile7 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile8 -rw--- 1 root wheel 1.0G Nov 28 14:26 swapfile9 This machine often has only a couple of swapfiles at most, because of its greater amount of RAM and because I don't use it as heavily as my MBP. I only had about a dozen tabs open in Safari, but one or more of them, I haven't figured out which, had been doing something leaky over the past day or days. I quit Safari and the number soon shrank back down to swapfile8. It pisses me off when I see these swapfile explosions. Fifteen years ago if you'd given me the specs of Apple's puniest 2013 computer, and told me a browser couldn't trivially have 200 web pages open at once, and that it would matter if I left the browser running for a day, I would have thought you were nuts. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
alternatives to Pages?
A writer friend asks: If you've been using ClarisWorks/AppleWorks/Pages all the way back, and you like it, and you also have hundreds of documents that you don't want to convert, and you hate Microsoft Word, but the new Pages is like a bug-ridden video game, you might think of changing to ___ ? Given all the grumbling I've seen about the new Pages (haven't used it myself), I suspect others have sought to answer the same question. Any suggestions? --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: alternatives to Pages?
Quite a statement from Apple, considering their traditional policy of not commenting on unannounced products. Thank you! --Andy On Nov 20, 2013, at 6:14 PM, Jeff Weinberger j...@jeffweinberger.com wrote: Agreed that the new iWork (all three products) are awful and bungled badly. I don't have a good alternative, but I've decided to give Apple one more chance to get it right. They left out critical features, but do plan on adding back many of them. The list is here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6049 I am hoping that there will be usage improvements also. Or I'll be looking for the recommendations you are seeking here. FWIW. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Any way to unsync iPhoto and Flickr without deleting the photos from Flickr?
I thought I would be able to use iPhoto purely as a Flickr uploader. I imported 900 photos into iPhoto and uploaded them to Flickr using the Flickr... item in the Share menu. This took a long time, but worked much better than Flickr's web interface for uploading. But when I went to delete the photos from iPhoto, I was warned that they would be deleted from Flickr. That is really annoying, as I didn't see an indication anywhere that the photos would be synced. Is there some way I can break the Bond of Syncitude between iPhoto and Flickr so that I can delete these photos from iPhoto? --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Any way to unsync iPhoto and Flickr without deleting the photos from Flickr?
The suggestion that worked for me was to go to my Flickr prefs and remove the Delete permission from iPhoto (the only permission it had, which seems odd since it did upload). I went right back to iPhoto and deleted the photos without getting a warning. The day hasn't been perfect, but I'm much less bummed than I was ten minutes ago. Thanks *very* much! --Andy On Oct 8, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Andrew Darlow a...@andrewdarlow.com wrote: Hi Andy: Here's a good discussion of the topic, with some specific suggestions: http://www.flickr.com/groups/76164876@N00/discuss/72157623763615744/ Hope that helps, Andrew Andrew Darlow Editor, The Imaging Buffet http://www.imagingbuffet.com Author, 301 Inkjet Tips and Techniques: An Essential Printing Resource for Photographers - http://www.inkjettips.com and Pet Photography 101: Tips for Taking Better Photos of Your Dog or Cat - http://www.PhotoPetTips.com http://facebook.com/andrewdarlow On Oct 8, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Andy Lee ag...@mac.com wrote: I thought I would be able to use iPhoto purely as a Flickr uploader. I imported 900 photos into iPhoto and uploaded them to Flickr using the Flickr... item in the Share menu. This took a long time, but worked much better than Flickr's web interface for uploading. But when I went to delete the photos from iPhoto, I was warned that they would be deleted from Flickr. That is really annoying, as I didn't see an indication anywhere that the photos would be synced. Is there some way I can break the Bond of Syncitude between iPhoto and Flickr so that I can delete these photos from iPhoto? --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Any way to unsync iPhoto and Flickr without deleting the photos from Flickr?
Correction: I *did* get a warning that the photos would be deleted, but then I also got an alert when iPhoto discovered it no longer had permission to do the deletion. Also, I see that the Delete privilege on Flickr is defined as Read+Write+Delete. I don't plan to re-enable Flickr integration in iPhoto. It seems very poorly thought through. --Andy On Oct 8, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Andy Lee ag...@mac.com wrote: The suggestion that worked for me was to go to my Flickr prefs and remove the Delete permission from iPhoto (the only permission it had, which seems odd since it did upload). I went right back to iPhoto and deleted the photos without getting a warning. The day hasn't been perfect, but I'm much less bummed than I was ten minutes ago. Thanks *very* much! --Andy On Oct 8, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Andrew Darlow a...@andrewdarlow.com wrote: Hi Andy: Here's a good discussion of the topic, with some specific suggestions: http://www.flickr.com/groups/76164876@N00/discuss/72157623763615744/ Hope that helps, Andrew Andrew Darlow Editor, The Imaging Buffet http://www.imagingbuffet.com Author, 301 Inkjet Tips and Techniques: An Essential Printing Resource for Photographers - http://www.inkjettips.com and Pet Photography 101: Tips for Taking Better Photos of Your Dog or Cat - http://www.PhotoPetTips.com http://facebook.com/andrewdarlow On Oct 8, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Andy Lee ag...@mac.com wrote: I thought I would be able to use iPhoto purely as a Flickr uploader. I imported 900 photos into iPhoto and uploaded them to Flickr using the Flickr... item in the Share menu. This took a long time, but worked much better than Flickr's web interface for uploading. But when I went to delete the photos from iPhoto, I was warned that they would be deleted from Flickr. That is really annoying, as I didn't see an indication anywhere that the photos would be synced. Is there some way I can break the Bond of Syncitude between iPhoto and Flickr so that I can delete these photos from iPhoto? --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Tomorrow at 10am
On Apr 24, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/tickets/ Tomorrow at 10am, 100,000 iOS and OSX developers will be madly rushing to get 1 of just 5000 tickets, all of which will be gone by 10:05am. Even a lottery or some such would be better, at least there'd be _some_ chance of getting in... This effectively *is* a lottery, isn't it? Everybody will try at the same time, and only chance will decide who succeeds? --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Tomorrow at 10am
On Apr 24, 2013, at 1:08 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: On Apr 24, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Andy Lee wrote: On Apr 24, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/tickets/ Tomorrow at 10am, 100,000 iOS and OSX developers will be madly rushing to get 1 of just 5000 tickets, all of which will be gone by 10:05am. Even a lottery or some such would be better, at least there'd be _some_ chance of getting in... This effectively *is* a lottery, isn't it? Everybody will try at the same time, and only chance will decide who succeeds? That depends also on one's internet speed, refresh acuity, etc. There's _got_ to be a better way! Everyone dreads the thought of vying for the worm. Yeah, this year's approach isn't *quite* everybody has an exactly equal shot, but between giving a day's notice and making the time more convenient for West Coasters it's much closer than last year. Also, by making the videos available even more quickly than last year, they make it easier for people on the fence (like me) to decide it's not worth buying a ticket. These are changes that don't cost Apple much. They're mostly a matter of changing some timing. If a ton of people still complain, I can imagine them *maybe* spending the effort on an actual lottery as you suggest. But if most of the complaints die down compared to last year, my guess is they'll keep doing it this way. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: logging in to radar
At the moment I'm getting this: The Apple Bug Reporter is temporarily down for scheduled maintenance. Please try again later. In the meantime, Registered Apple Developers may wish to file reports via the Bug Report Form. --Andy On Apr 12, 2013, at 6:56 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: Anybody else having trouble logging in to radar today? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Drives me mad ...
On Mar 2, 2013, at 10:10 PM, steve harley st...@paper-ape.com wrote: here is the script: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pt34svg6dn1z9fq/V-FnTrVUxh?m Thanks for this; I look forward to checking it out when I get a chance. Browser headaches are high on my list of daily annoyances, such that I'm almost afraid to start complaining, because I could easily go off on an infinite rant. I have been finding that Safari often (always?) doesn't reopen all the windows and tabs I had open. After relaunching I'll look at the Windows menu, and it'll be much shorter than when I quit. My workaround is to Option-close to close all the windows, then go to the History menu to reload all windows from last session. I *never* trust Safari to restore my window state, which is really sad. I mention this in case some of you are also losing tabs on relaunch but haven't happened to notice. I could have sworn that Chrome was much better about relaunching, but right now it is taking an eternity. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
super-focused text editor
There are a number of text editors designed for focused, distraction-free writing. I seem to recall at least one that only allows forward progress. I forget the exact features, but they were along the lines of limited backspacing, no undo, maybe focusing on one line at a time. Anybody know the editor(s) I'm thinking of? --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: super-focused text editor
On Jan 19, 2013, at 2:38 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: On Jan 19, 2013, at 7:29 AM, Andy Lee wrote: There are a number of text editors designed for focused, distraction-free writing. I seem to recall at least one that only allows forward progress. I forget the exact features, but they were along the lines of limited backspacing, no undo, maybe focusing on one line at a time. Anybody know the editor(s) I'm thinking of? Smith-Corona? :-) And there's even the ding near the end of the line so I know when to hit Return. I walked by a typewriter repair shop recently, yet this solution never occurred to me. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: super-focused text editor
On Jan 19, 2013, at 6:32 PM, steve harley st...@paper-ape.com wrote:
on 2013-01-19 7:29 Andy Lee wrote
There are a number of text editors designed for focused, distraction-free
writing.
I seem to recall at least one that only allows forward progress.
what you describe is essentially a pure typewriter simulator; i don't know of
a native Mac app that can do it, but there probably is one; there are some
quick dirty ways to do it; one would be to use an actual typewriter, then
scan and OCR the result (a ScanSnap S1500m is an excellent accessory for your
typewriter)
I've seen that scanner recommended many times. One of these days I should
really get one.
another way is in the shell; here's a bash function:
tw () { test -f $1 cat $1 ; cat $1 ; }
start editing like this:
tw foo.txt
Oh, *very* nice!
and type away; you can backspace as far as the beginning of a line, but once
you hit return the line is committed; hit cmd-D to finish; to continue where
you left off, the same command will roll the paper back into the typewriter
and leave you positioned to type at the next line; note that the file is in
effect autosaved each time you hit return
to complete the experience, combine with a good font choice and full screen
mode, possibly use split screen (as in iTerm 2) to shift the text from the
the edge of the screen
i also found this:
http://www.mr-corner.com/type/type.html
The Typewriter app is not sandboxed, but reckless me, I ran it anyway. It comes
pretty close. If anything, it's a little *too* strict. When blind-typing, I
tend to know right away when I've typed the wrong letter. I'd like to be able
to backspace a letter or three. I do want to avoid compulsive editing, but it
would be a needless distraction to know I'd just typed teh instead of the
and not be able to fix it. Your bash function works much better. I'll use it
unless and until it falls short in some way.
Thanks for your efforts!
--Andy
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Re: recommendation for an app that can create a slideshow off a thumbdrive
On Sep 16, 2012, at 1:54 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: I'd use QuickLook, but when you go full screen in QL, you can't navigate to the next photo without existing FS first. Yes you can. Either select all the photos and go to QL and use the left and right arrows, or put the folder in list view, select the first phot, go to QL, and use the down arrows. Kevin, it seems to me this meets your needs, doesn't it? --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
DVD Player missing slider in 10.8?
I could swear DVD Player had a slider at the bottom of the main window that I could use to scroll to an arbitrary position in the movie. I don't see it in 10.8. Am I missing something, or is this another feature that Mountain Lion takes away? On a side note, does it seem odd to anyone else that the shortcut for the Chapters window is Command-B? I would expect B to be used for the Bookmarks window. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: DVD Player missing slider in 10.8?
On Aug 11, 2012, at 9:04 PM, Vince LaMonica v...@cullasaja.com wrote: 10.6: http://img.skitch.com/20120812-ewgjhy2kar9876ujhsiq343cdu.jpg 10.7: http://img.skitch.com/20120812-kg8ch9fab733s93fh29n37mngc.jpg Thanks for checking. That's exactly what I thought I remembered. Now, guess what. I tried again just now and the scrubber was there. I tried a different DVD (actually a VIDEO_TS directory) and it was gone -- until I went into full-screen mode and back to a regular window. *Then* it was there. I'm confused, but at least I know the feature wasn't yanked in Mountain Lion. Thanks, all. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Any way to block FaceTime requests from a particular user?
Someone I know keeps getting FaceTime requests from someone she doesn't know, and wants to block them. Is there any way to do that? --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Any way to block FaceTime requests from a particular user?
Oh well. Thanks and thanks. --Andy On Apr 27, 2012, at 10:48 PM, Macs R We wrote: On Apr 27, 2012, at 5:43 PM, LuKreme wrote: Andy Lee spake on Friday 27-Apr-2012@14:47:17 Someone I know keeps getting FaceTime requests from someone she doesn't know, and wants to block them. Is there any way to do that? In OS X? There is no way to selectively block FaceTime calls. Same on iOS. Seems to be all or nothing. You can uninstall FaceTime in OS X and turn it off completely in iOS. That's about it. Print out home page from goatse. When annoying person requests connection, hang printout in front of camera, then accept. Problem will go away. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: iMac WiFi
On Apr 13, 2012, at 3:47 AM, John Stalberg wrote: Did this occur after an OS X update? Hard to say. I immediately updated to 10.7.3 when I brought the iMac home, so I don't have previous data to compare to. I've seen claims that after this update, Macs would intermittently drop WiFi connections after waking from sleep. If you have problem with just one access point or just very few of many, we would like to know the name of one of them. Some routers just don't play well with Mac for some reason and at least one access point doesn't play sell with a particular MacBook but works fine with other MacBooks. Thanks, John. I'm using a brand new Airport Express on the other end, with updated firmware, 12 feet away with a direct line of sight. I do have other Macs around -- will check them. An attempt to fix poor WiFi connections often involves changing the channel. If you have control over the access point you could try to change channel and aim for the ones that got least traffic from others. Or test them one by one, they are not too many. Using Macs R We's tip for checking what channels are being used in the immediate vicinity, I noticed several other networks in the vicinity using the same channel as me (11). I switched to 5 and it may have helped with the slowdowns (I want to gather more data), though I still drop the connection intermittently. --Andy And a controll over the access point might mean you couldtry to update its firmware. But if it is a known Mac uncompabillity with your access point you better get another one. Another informative trst would be to bring another Mac to see what happens? // John___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: iMac WiFi
Thanks for the tips. I may resort to just running an Ethernet cable across the room, or if I find myself tripping over it, I might get that Engenius 1650. Thanks again, I appreciate the advice. --Andy On Apr 13, 2012, at 4:21 AM, Macs R We wrote: On Apr 12, 2012, at 7:36 PM, Andy Lee wrote: Can anyone recommend a USB WiFi antenna? I bought an iMac a couple of weeks ago and the WiFi connection keeps dropping and/or slowing way down. If I reboot, I get broadband speeds for a while but eventually it drops to dialup speeds -- plus the connection drops intermittently. Googling iMac WiFi turns up a lot of similar complaints, some blaming hardware (bad antennas) and some blaming software (in particular, the 10.7.3 update). Some people have said the problem is triggered by waking from sleep. I've tried various suggested solutions and none of them work. At this point, I'm willing to try one of those USB WiFi antennas in case it's a hardware problem. It's stupid to have to spend money on this, but bringing the Mac back to the store for repair, exchange, or even refund is more hassle than I want to deal with right now. Suggestions? The last USB WiFi Antenna unit I knew of that worked with Mac broke after Tiger. You could have a lot of things going on. Your home AP could be colliding with a neighbor's AP on the same channel. It could be a signal strength problem on either unit. The router itself (not the radio part) could be jamming itself up. If you hold the option key down when selecting the Airport symbol in the menu, it will tell you what channel each AP is running on. If you have a collision in the neighborhood, change your router's channel. It will also show you what the RSSI of the signal for any AP is. -80 is a rule of thumb boundary -- if you are getting -50, that's a very strong signal; if you are getting -84, you're probably about to drop out. Does this number change with time? Some routers will show you this number with respect to each LAN device; does that change with time? If it's a signal strength problem, at least this will tell you in which direction (though it won't tell you whether the weak unit is a transmitter on one end or a receiver on the other). Then you can see if you get the same results with another computer; then (if you have one) you can see if you get the same results with another router. If all the data agrees that the problem is that you are just too far away, or have too many walls, then you either need a stronger/more directional radio on your router, a stronger/more directional radio on your computer, or both. Don't bother with the USB-based stuff. Put an Engenius 1650 ($50) in the troublesome room, configure it as a bridge device, hook your Mac to it with an ethernet cable, and shut off your Airport card. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: iPad 3: More of the same?
On Mar 7, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: New if you buy into the marketing hype maybe, but totally uninnovative. There's nothing innovative in the iPad 3 over the iPad 2, just more of the same. You say just like the hardware updates are trivial. I think it's extremely impressive what they've done while maintaining the same price and battery life. Why do you expect anything from the iPad at all, since it's just a big iPod -- the very definition of just more of the same? Stoked about what, exactly, that it has the Apple logo on it? Oh, jeez. One of those. Marketing hype... Apple logo... -- go ahead, you know the word you want to say, go ahead and say it. No Siri? I mean, give me something NEW... Doesn't seem to have full Siri, but there's dictation. Sorry if that isn't new enough for you. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: mix tape software?
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Re: Apple Keynotes feed not working in iTunes
Never mind. Just now I relaunched iTunes and now the feed works. I suspect this was related to whatever glitch was causing apple.com to be down earlier today. --Andy On Oct 5, 2011, at 2:22 AM, Andy Lee wrote: In iTunes I subscribe to the Apple Keynotes feed, which has worked just fine all the way through this year's WWDC keynote. Today I noticed it has a little exclamation point next to it, which leads to the authorization needed message below. Anybody else seeing this? If I use Safari to go to that URL it works just fine and I can download today's event. I'm wondering why it's different in iTunes all of a sudden. --Andy PastedGraphic-1.png ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: lists.apple.com page broken?
On Aug 22, 2011, at 12:37 AM, LuKreme wrote: On Aug 21, 2011, at 22:16, Andy Lee ag...@mac.com wrote: Anyone else seeing this? Yep. Thanks. And now: Proxy Error The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request GET /mailman/listinfo. Reason: Could not connect to remote machine: Connection refused Apache/1.3.33 Server at lists.apple.com Port 8445 I hope this means they're in the middle of fixing it. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
lists.apple.com page broken?
Anyone else seeing this? I just posted on Google+: Argh. I just informed Apple via email that all links I've tried on the Apple Mailing Lists page are broken: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo For example, the cocoa-dev link goes to http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/cocoa-dev, which redirects to http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo2/cocoa-dev, which brings up a page-not-found page, which in turn contains broken links. If anyone is not seeing this please let me know. The timing is rather frustrating, as I wanted to send a friend pointers to the cocoa-dev, objc-language, and xcode-users lists. FFS, Apple, I know glitches happen, but keeping this page working should be the most routine, boring, surprise-free job on Apple's plate. I vaguely remember hearing that Apple outsources lists.apple.com, in which case I direct an additional FFS at whoever they outsourced to. Little things like this undermine my confidence in Apple's ability to execute. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Thoughts on Mission Control / Exposé ?
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Re: Thoughts on Mission Control / Exposé ?
I do that maybe half the time on my laptops, and use three-finger drag the rest of the time.I used to use the click method more until I realized that with three-finger drag, if your fingers reach the edge of the trackpad you can pick them up and place them back down elsewhere on the trackpad to continue the drag, similar to what you do with a mouse when it reaches the edge of the table. The trick is not to keep your fingers raised too long or the Mac will think you meant to end the drag.In Lion I panicked when I saw three-finger drag does something else by default, but it turns out you can re-enable it.I actually use a $20 USB mouse with my desktop. Sometimes I switch to the Magic Trackpad, but I haven't fully weaned myself from the mouse.--AndyOn Jul 25, 2011, at 02:58 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: On Jul 25, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Nathan Sims wrote: On Jul 24, 2011, at 12:29 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote: once you go Magic Trackpad, you never go back Hmm. How do you do 'drag and drop' with a trackpad? i click and hold a corner with my thumb, then drag with another finger on same hand k ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Does Dropbox work with FileVault?
On Jul 1, 2011, at 2:29 PM, st...@paper-ape.com wrote: i don't use FV but i googled your subject line (seemed like a lot of useful hits) and got the impression it works, but there are issues such as an error when logging out; also saw workarounds and mention of Dropbox maybe working the issue out; go google it and let us how you resolve it Well that's just it, Google turned up lots of hits, but none seemed to related to Dropbox flat out not working. The good news is that I logged out of Dropbox and reconnected, and now it seems to behave as expected. I edit a file on the laptop, save, and moments later Growl on the desktop informs me it's picked up the change. I don't know if the original problem was even related to FileVault -- that was just a guess since it was something I'd recently changed. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Does Dropbox work with FileVault?
Yesterday I enabled FileVault. Today I edited a small file and it has been Uploading for ages, and I know my network connection is okay. Google turns up some problems related to logout, but I haven't logged out. Will I not be able to use Dropbox? --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
very suspicious Us, Use, User files
A while back (I'm just now getting around to posting about this) I found files I did not create. In my hard drive's root directory there are files with the names Us, Use, and User. It's as if someone saw the directory entry Users and created files by successively removing the last character. The mystery files are plain files, not directories. Each contains a plist containing a dictionary with two entries that look like this: keyName/key stringhttp://www.facebook.com/plugins/activity.php?site=washingtonpost.comamp;width=270amp;height=320amp;header=falseamp;colorscheme=lightamp;recommendations=trueamp;6214.095647446811amp;7751.048405189067amp;3129.9072271212935amp;7536.087667103857amp;4291.395829059184amp;1395.311774685979amp;2083.6958242580295amp;443.40196531265974amp;9549.78644149378amp;3268.577605485916amp;397.9086992330849amp;732.4148458428681amp;4088. [...goes on with hundreds more numbers...]/string keyURL/key string[...the same humongous URL as above...]/string In each case there's a reference to http://www.facebook.com/plugins/activity.php. The URLs passed as parameters are different in each file. There's washingtonpost.com as above, and also slate.com and huffingtonpost.com. I found similar files in my home directory: L Li Lib Libr Libra (no Librar) And in ~/Library: C Ca Cac Cache (no Cach) Anybody know what these are? I notice HuffingtonPost and Slate.com have a feature where they list my Facebook friends that are somehow connected. Could this be related? If this happened via Facebook, how could Safari have gotten permission to write files in my root and home directories? --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: textedit with regex ?
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Re: textedit with regex ?
On Mar 31, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com wrote:The only regret I have is that references in the replace field seem to be limited to \0 and so it is not possible to have access to more than one search group.Sounds like a topic for another email to the developer. :)I wonder how hard it would be to modify the source to support multiple search groups. If only the project was on on Github I wouldn't mind forking it.I haven't gotten a response to my email about ongoing plain text support.--Andy___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: textedit with regex ?
The first app that came to mind for free/lightweight editing was Bean: http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html I see it supports regex searches. But it's only for editing rich text. It would be nice if someone out there has added regex to TextEdit. --Andy On Mar 30, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: I'm looking for a version of TextEdit that comes with regex. I do use Textwrangler and Aquamacs and emacs and vi sometimes, but I like TextEdit for being simple, and RTFed when needed. But I'd love to have some regex available. Any candidate ? Jean-Christophe Helary fun: http://mac4translators.blogspot.com work: http://www.doublet.jp (ja/en fr) tweets: http://twitter.com/brandelune ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: textedit with regex ?
On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Michael J Wise mjw...@kapu.net wrote: On Mar 30, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Andy Lee wrote: The first app that came to mind for free/lightweight editing was Bean: http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html I see it supports regex searches. But it's only for editing rich text.I must correct myself It handles plain text nicely too, similarly to TextEdit. I wonder if Bean started with the TextEdit source and built on that. It's open source, so I may poke around in the code at some point, just for grins.Honestly, if you need regex ... I'd recommend just using grep. It's not an editor as such, certainly. But it'll certainly show you where the things are that match. And the -n flag will give you line numbersBut grep may not find what you want in an RTF file (due to interspersed formatting tags), and as you mention it's outside of your actual editor, so it's much less convenient when what you want is to find a given pattern in the document you're editing.My question for the OP is: why does it matter that the same editor work with both plain text and rich text?--Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: textedit with regex ?
On Mar 30, 2011, at 8:07 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: On 31 mars 11, at 02:34, Andy Lee wrote: My question for the OP is: why does it matter that the same editor work with both plain text and rich text? Well, because I do use TextEdit to create prettified files a la Word sometimes. Or I prefer to open a Word file in TextEdit just when I need the contents and not so much the formatting. Oh, I understand why you'd want a lightweight .rtf/.doc editor. But you said I like TextEdit for being simple, and RTFed when needed, and that made me think you specifically wanted a plain text editor that can become an RTF editor, and I didn't understand that when (for example) you could use TextWrangler for plain text and Bean for rich text. Both are simple and both have regex searches. I'm also not sure what's not simple about TextWrangler, but that's a separate question. I know it has a huge set of preferences and features, but you can ignore the ones you don't care about. On its face, it looks just like TextEdit. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: textedit with regex ?
On Mar 30, 2011, at 8:37 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: I just checked the beta version and it can't open text files. It can export to text though... Ah, that explains why when I emailed from home I said it didn't support plain text -- because I saw the same thing you did. The regular release version (2.4.3, not the 2.9.5 beta) is what I tried later at work and it supports plain text files just like TextEdit. I hope what we saw is a temporary oversight/bug and Bean is not really losing plain text support. I've emailed the author, James Hoover, to ask about it. The web page *does* say the beta is unstable and it explicitly lists .txt format (Unicode and legacy) as a supported format. The web page also recommends an alternative called iText Express for people who need footnotes. It is another souped-up TextEdit, but unfortunately it does not do regex searches, so don't bother checking it out. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Apple Says Jobs Is Taking a New Medical Leave
Yikes. --Andy http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/technology/18apple.html?_r=1; Apple Says Jobs Is Taking a New Medical Leave By THE NEW YORK TIMES Published: January 17, 2011 Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple Inc., told his staff on Monday that he was taking a medical leave of absence, a year and a half after his return from a liver transplant. “At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health,” he said in a statement to the Applestaff released by the company. “I will continue as C.E.O. and be involved in major strategic decisions for the company.” The statement continued: “I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for all of Apple’s day to day operations. I have great confidence that Tim and the rest of the executive management team will do a terrific job executing the exciting plans we have in place for 2011. I love Apple so much and hope to be back as soon as I can. In the meantime, my family and I would deeply appreciate respect for our privacy.” Apple’s stock immediately dipped on foreign exchanges. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Manton Reece on the Mac App Store
http://www.manton.org/2011/01/app_store_30_cut.html But here's where everything breaks down: for $3000 I expect someone at Apple to tell me what the $%!# is going on. Maybe I should know, but I'm blanking on this -- who's the VP of Developer Relations at Apple? Is there such a person any more? Google turns up articles from 10 years ago about people vacating that position. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: installing Snow Leopard via Shared optical drive , a disk image, or via FW Target mode
On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:16 AM, LuKreme wrote: No no, you create the image and then RESTORE it to the FireWire disc. You boot the laptop from the FW disc and install. I've done this oodles of times. Just be sure the FW drive is int eh right format to boot the machine. Right, you may need to erase or repartition the drive. I forget what the option is called, but Disk Utility will tell you it's the one you need to be bootable on an Intel machine. This is actually the only way I've installed the OS for quite a while. It's faster than booting from a DVD and saves wear and tear on my optical drive. Plus I sometimes download developer seeds and it's much faster putting them on a FireWire drive than burning a DVD. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: App store
On Jan 6, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: On 7 janv. 11, at 12:07, Arno Hautala wrote: oth on my laptop and my desktop, when installing from the Purchases screen, it seemed to replace the existing bundle (even within a subfolder of /Applications). Stuffit Expander on the other hand, installed to the root of /Applications. That's what I feared: the App Store basically decides where you should put the apps. Argh. Not what I wanted to hear. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: emptying trash
On Dec 27, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Arno Hautala wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 08:46, David Herren da...@idiomatrix.com wrote: Here is the directory listing: Santiago:.Trash dherren$ ls -al total 8 drwxr-x--- 3 dherren staff 102 Dec 27 08:39 . drwxr-xr-x 22 dherren staff 748 Dec 20 08:35 .. -rw-r--r--@ 1 dherren staff4 Dec 27 08:38 test.txt Santiago:.Trash dherren$ Odd that ls -a indicates 8 files but lists only 3. Is it possible for files to be hidden in a way that explains this? I know there are ways to make files hidden other than making them dot files. If not, maybe your file system is corrupted. I'd try DiskWarrior. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: emptying trash
You might also try flipping the hidden-files flag in the Finder and seeing if you can see anything more in .Trash. http://guides.macrumors.com/Viewing_hidden_files_on_a_Mac --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
non-junk in Junk mailbox
I looked in my Junk mailbox recently and noticed the for a while now, messages have been getting routed there that were not only not junk, but they weren't even *flagged* as junk. This is rather disconcerting, since it means I'll have to check the Junk mailbox as often as I check my regular mailboxes, which defeats the purpose. I would almost have preferred the messages were false positives, since I'd have some hope that I could retrain the junk filter by clicking the Not Junk button. Anybody else seen this? Why is it happening? Is there a fix/workaround? --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Mac journals/magazines
In addition to all the other votes for MacTech, I'd suggest MacOSXHints.com if you're looking for tips and tricks at about the technical depth of the command line. There's plenty of stuff online that you can narrow to any topic you like, without having to subscribe to a dead-tree magazine. I do enjoy getting MacTech in the mail, though, even when I don't have time to read it. :) --Andy On Jul 25, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Sven Aluoor wrote: Hi folks Anyone can recommend me good Mac magazine? There should be some technical info like UNIX command line and other behind-the-scene things (but no development things). I live in Germany and in our market there are only magazines for beginners. cheers Sven ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Magic Trackpad swu hanging
I got a Magic Trackpad, paired it, ran the Software Update, and rebooted. I've been looking at a blank blue screen for a few minutes. I force-rebooted and that didn't help. Anybody else seeing this? Do I just need Okay, I was literally about to type to be more patient? when my normal desktop appeared. All seems well. Moral of the story: this update may seem to hang, so be patient. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Magic Trackpad swu hanging
On Jul 28, 2010, at 2:48 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote: On Jul 27, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Andy Lee wrote: I got a Magic Trackpad, paired it, ran the Software Update, and rebooted. I've been looking at a blank blue screen for a few minutes. I force-rebooted and that didn't help. Anybody else seeing this? Do I just need Okay, I was literally about to type to be more patient? when my normal desktop appeared. All seems well. Moral of the story: this update may seem to hang, so be patient. I'm interested in getting one for my Dual Quad, but I'm pretty impressed, thus far, with the performance of TouchPad (for iPad and iPhone) over WiFi. Quite responsive. I was even using it to control my DUAL QUAD while I screen-shared my DUAL to my MBPro - with my iPad acting as my track pad input on my DUAL over VNC. How does the Magic Pad feel wrt latency? I'm zip-zooping all over the screen and I don't detect any latency on my 24 iMac (the first aluminum-colored model). I grab a window and shake it as fast as I can and it feels rock solid. I have always loved the feel of the glass they use on the MacBook Pro trackpads, and it feels great on this large surface. They nailed the clicky feel of the button feet. What I'm finding interesting is that I never liked tap-to-click on laptops, but I really like it with the Magic Trackpad. My theory is that the position of this trackpad makes it easier for me to avoid accidental taps, and maybe the angle is more comfortable too. I like using three fingers to drag. I never learned any three-finger gestures on my MacBook Pro, so I don't have to unlearn anything. Three-finger dragging isn't ideal for selecting text, because I can run into the edge of the trackpad, but it's great for moving windows. On the other hand, the regular two-finger approach works fine for *all* dragging, so maybe I'll switch These are initial reactions -- hopefully I'll still feel this way long-term, but it's conceivable I won't. The Apple Store didn't have any MTP's on display yet so I bought this on faith. So far I don't regret it. On the other hand, while I haven't used TouchPad, I've used other apps like Air Mouse that let me use the iPhone and iPad as input devices, and they are pretty cool. Actually, come to think of it, I now have a pointing device I can use while lying in bed. A Bluetooth mouse would have been too cumbersome -- the nearest thing would have been either one of the TouchPad-type apps or a Bluetooth trackball. I think the MTP is the most elegant option. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Magic Trackpad swu hanging
On Jul 28, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: Wow, I like this product. From the Apple store page: Use it in place of a mouse or in conjunction with one on any Mac computer — even a notebook. Does it work with PPC (10.5.8) machines? Or is this excessive advertising hype? Looks like you've caught them in a misstatement: http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/ System Requirements • Bluetooth-enabled Mac computer • Two AA batteries (included) • Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.4 and latest software update Didn't OS X go Intel-only a while ago? --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Google Street View broken on 3/4 of my browsers
Odd thing. Starting last night Google Street View stopped working on one of my machines. I drag the yellow person icon onto the map and it just sits there. The map is not replaced with the street view. Oddly, this happens in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, but NOT Opera. I recently ran DiskWarrior on this machine. As usual, it fixed some files and folders. I wondered if the Flash plugin was among those files and the fix actually broke Flash (though it's not clear to me that Google Maps uses Flash -- I have ClickToFlash on Safari and it doesn't block Google Maps). I downloaded and re-installed the Flash plugin, even rebooted, and still have the problem. I thought it might be a temporary Google bug but it works fine on my other machine. Any thoughts? On a side note, I was liking Opera for a while but (1) if you customize the UI with any of their tool or shortcut panes they look just hideous, and (2) when I printed a Google map only a partial rectangle of the map was drawn -- I had to go back to Safari to print. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Google Street View broken on 3/4 of my browsers
Uh, never mind. I had Flash blocked in Chrome and when I enabled it I got Street View back. Same with ClickToFlash in Safari. I haven't tried Firefox yet but I'm sure it's a similar issue. Sorry for the noise. --Andy On Jul 20, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Andy Lee wrote: Odd thing. Starting last night Google Street View stopped working on one of my machines. I drag the yellow person icon onto the map and it just sits there. The map is not replaced with the street view. Oddly, this happens in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, but NOT Opera. I recently ran DiskWarrior on this machine. As usual, it fixed some files and folders. I wondered if the Flash plugin was among those files and the fix actually broke Flash (though it's not clear to me that Google Maps uses Flash -- I have ClickToFlash on Safari and it doesn't block Google Maps). I downloaded and re-installed the Flash plugin, even rebooted, and still have the problem. I thought it might be a temporary Google bug but it works fine on my other machine. Any thoughts? On a side note, I was liking Opera for a while but (1) if you customize the UI with any of their tool or shortcut panes they look just hideous, and (2) when I printed a Google map only a partial rectangle of the map was drawn -- I had to go back to Safari to print. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Sidebar
On Jul 6, 2010, at 2:50 AM, Rudolf O. Durrer wrote: So, I'm not necessarily looking why the sidebar gets crazy (I did not find it out, but I guess it could be DefaultFolder prefpane), but how to get the Finder to accept and recognize the replaced sidebarplist I guess the obvious question would be, do you still see the problem if you uninstall or disable the prefpane, or log in as a different user? It sounds like the sort of thing that might be mucking with Finder plists. But if the problem doesn't happen terribly often this might be a hard way to test the theory. What if you open a Terminal window and run this: sudo fs_usage -w | grep sidebarplist ...and just leave it running? Then when you lose your sidebar maybe you can see if DefaultFolder recently accessed the file, which would make it a more likely suspect. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
WMA to MP3 converter?
Can anyone recommend a free app to convert WMA files to MP3? All2MP3 seems to be recommended app, but I notice it asks to install something in /Library. Should I be concerned about this? Sent from my iPad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: WMA to MP3 converter?
Sounds good. Thanks, everybody! --Andy Sent from my iPad On Apr 5, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Daniel Israel d...@ebji.org wrote: I like media-convert.com Online and free! On Apr 5, 2010, at 9:27 AM, Andy Lee wrote: Can anyone recommend a free app to convert WMA files to MP3? All2MP3 seems to be recommended app, but I notice it asks to install something in /Library. Should I be concerned about this? Sent from my iPad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -D. Israel d...@ebji.org http://www.customcodebydan.com AIM: JudoDanIzz If a dozen smart, successful people who've achieved something great are all giving the same advice, take it. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
