32-bit apps?
System Information > software > applications "no information available" ??? -- William Ehrich Edina, Minnesota ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
itunes eula
iTunes launched itself and made me 'accept' a huge license agreement (tl;dr). What is that all about? I don't use iTunes and never bought music from Apple. -- William Ehrich Edina, Minnesota I sent this via my other ISP by mistake, so it was refused. Mea culpa. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
extend text selection
Double click selects an alphanumeric string. Is there any way to extend that to include, for instance, '-' so that I can copy-paste a phone number or date or a password for some awkward web site? -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
printing txt file
I have an unformatted text file with lines of up to 72 monospace, 7 bit ASCII, characters which I want to print on a PC. How can I do this? When I print to pdf in TextEdit the lines are wrapped at 54 characters in a page with lots of empty space. I just want it to look like the unformatted TextEdit window. As though typed on a Teletype. I've done this before and can't remember how. -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
remount usb memory
When I have a USB memory plugged in and unmount it in Finder, how can I mount it again without physically unplugging it? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Photos public beta - GUI mistakes
On 2015-3-3 11:33 AM, Jacob Danilchik wrote: They removed drag and drop functionality and a finder like side bar. These omissions make this the most un-Mac like application Apple has ever created. Neither one is really appropriate on the iPhone. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Setting up a dual boot 10.7 and 10.9
On 2014-7-8, 9:15 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: I'd like to hear from anyone that has done a dual boot setup for 10.7.5 and 10.9.4. I have: 0: GUID_partition_scheme*500.1 GB disk0 1:EFI EFI209.7 MB disk0s1 2:Apple_HFS V9 59.5 GB disk0s2 3:Apple_Boot Recovery HD650.0 MB disk0s3 4:Apple_HFS V7 60.0 GB disk0s4 5:Apple_HFS Data379.5 GB disk0s5 Installed 10.7.5 in V7 a long time ago. Simply cleared (format) and installed 10.9 in V9. Migration assistant V7 V9 made V9 ready to boot into and run. Each of these has its own /Users, /Applications etc. Data is for T'Bird and Firefox profiles, downloads, DMGs, video, etc, as well as a copy of the downloaded 'Install OS X Mavericks.app' and combo updates. (Be sure to copy the install app before running it!) ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
small dmg
How can I make a small (40KB) dmg? Disk Utility seems to insist on at least 40MB. -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
middle button
I have a mac book and no mouse. How can I do 'middle click' on the touchpad? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: middle button
I have a mac book and no mouse. How can I do 'middle click' on the touchpad? What Mac application is expecting a middle-click? Firefox NoScript, but probably not important, which is why I never bothered to think about it before. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: 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? My first reaction was that I could never do that. Too sloppy. But then I remembered when (1960s?) I learned to use a dictating machine that cut a track in a plastic disk. It's possible, but the new way is better. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: shell script
I wrote: I'm trying to write a shell script (in a tcsh) which uses a filename argument without its extension: filename=$1:r echo filename doesn't work. What is the right way to do it? This works (it just needed the #!): #! echo $1:r ~/pp shellscript boo.com boo ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
dot files
When I give a USB stick to friends they are confused by the 'invisible' dot files which are very visible on a DVD player or at Kinkos. Is there any way to get rid of them? Or a way to have OS X take the NTFS file system as a hint that they are not needed? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
shell script
I'm trying to write a shell script (in a tcsh) which uses a filename argument without its extension: filename=$1:r echo filename doesn't work. What is the right way to do it? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Best Windows codec in QuickTime?
I was under the impression Windows played MP4 now. Windows 7 plays mpg (mpeg-2) and mp4 files exported from EyeTV. The mpg is nice because it's the raw data stream from HD TV. Sony Blu-ray players also play mp4, but only the most recent ones play mpg. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Uninstalling quicktime 7 on 10.6.8
But I haven't looked at VLC yet. Time to, I think. It has a lot of controls and isn't over-chroma like QT on mp4. It's only fault is that it doesn't remember your place in whatever you were watching. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Uninstalling quicktime 7 on 10.6.8
I'm having a little problem. I've got a 10.6.8 system. I want everything to open with QuickTime Player. Instead, stuff keeps getting reverted to QuickTime Player 7. How can I uninstall the older version, and force everything to the up to date version? http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/ and you won't have to uninstall anything. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Quicktime color
I sometimes record programs with EyeTV and tried exporting to mp4 to save space (a miserably slow process). When I display the .mp4 files with VLC they are beautiful but when I use Quicktime they are grossly over-chroma. Is there some way to fix this? -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Impressed with Safari ...
However, I'm generally really impressed with Safari and its great to back. I tried it again after reading this, but prefer reading text on Firefox. It's harder to set the font size on Safari: it lets me choose 14 or 18, but not 16. I can zoom to make the small print big enough but then the various headers are much too large. And there are some differences in displaying what should be the same Times font: larger spacing between letters and a slightly rougher rendering. (This should be an operating system function; how can it be different??) Does Safari have anything like Firefox about:config which I might be able to use to improve things? -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: 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? In 10.7 it's at the bottom of the window, unless displayed in full screen mode. Then only when the movie is running and I move the mouse pointer. I don't know about 10.8. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: USB modem and Lion
I use a USB Zoom modem to send faxes to the hospital, which doesn't accept e-mail. When it is plugged in the printer setup routine accepts it. -- Bill Ehrich MacBook 6,1 OSX 10.7.3 ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: iPad 3: More of the same?
On 2012-3-7 4:37 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: All the great stuff on your iPad — your music, photos, and videos — can stream wirelessly to your HDTV and speakers via Apple TV or to AirPlay-enabled speakers over a Wi-Fi network. Can it input files from a USB memory or a disk player? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Upgrading an air?
there are several places in the overall procedure where you can damage your soft battery if not extremely careful. How hard to replace that? It and the SSD are most likely to wear out. Why do you call it 'soft' battery? -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
new user setup
To make a separate admin user is there any way to set him up to have the same environment without going through all the new user setup procedure? Or is there a better way to turn admin abilities on and off? -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
mail test
If I send mail via my clear.net (actually Google) account it changes my From: address from whatever I set. It also refused an e-mail with an included .exe file until I changed it to .xe Now back to the SMTP server at my old local ISP. - Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: The new Mac mini
As of Lion and the latest hardware it will actually net boot from apple servers from what I understand. I've wondered about that. Will it save my WiFi password etc in PRAM? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: The new Mac mini
A lot of people still consume media on their computer. I know people who use their PCs or Macs to watch movies on a regular basis. CDs and DVDs compete with the iTunes store. sigh ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
laptops
A friend's PC broke so we shopped for a new one. Best Buy has a wide selection with the same processors and often more memory and disk space than comparable Macs, for about half the price. USB-3 (and a shelf full of cheap external drives most of which are now USB-3). HDMI port. Built in WiMax for Clearnet ($45 per month). Built in S/W for TV and making DVDs. hp are sending a set of system restore disks for $16. When we got it home I spent time setting it up for her which was slow because I've mostly done Apple for 20 years and DOS and Unix before that. I quickly learned again how much and why I hate Windows. Windows-7 is better, but... And Linux and BSD aren't quite housebroken for non-geek civilians. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Open Source and simple video editing software (with trim function) for Mac
I am searching for a simple and user friendly software who is able to trim all video formats. Best would be Open Source, also free as in free beer is acceptable. MPEG-Streamclip ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: associating arbitrary files to a script
I'm thinking of associating files with an arbitrary extension to a standard shell script so that when the file is double-clicked it automatically launches the script and is used as its argument. The file wants to be a 'unix executable'. Mine are simple text files with no extension, type = creator = 0, and the first line something like: #!/bin/tcsh -f Maybe starting with #! is enough. Use chmod to set the execute bits. -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Multiple accounts and iCloud?
With the iCloud paradigm, you no longer own your data; you're only granted access to it, and then only according to their rules. Did I not drink the right KoolAid or something? I got upset about this too, but the realized that I don't have to use it and can still keep my data at home. I did make a new super password to help prevent unexpected charges from the Apple store when I realized that my old Apple ID made me vulnerable. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Safari Trojan
It isn't a Mac problem. Yes it is, and aggravated by complacency. On my machine (white laptop) a pop-up comes up whenever I try run a downloaded program, or even a pdf, for the first time, warning me that this is a file from the internet and not to be trusted. (I don't remember the exact text.) I don't know whether this is optional. It seems like a good idea if people take it seriously. Of course it won't help the people who think a user manual is part of the wrapping paper. I don't know whether it can be turned off. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: USB GPS dongle on OSX?
Does anyone have recommendations for a good USB GPS dongle that return NMEA strings? I've tried numerous GlobalSat units; they're cheap and lousy, rarely holding lock, and just sitting in one place return changing coordinates and garbage NMEA strings. Plus, they update only once/second. The only alternatives I've been able to find are the ones made by/for Microsoft (Pharos, etc), which won't work on OSX, as far as I can tell. Where were you testing? GPS can be bad between tall buildings or under trees. It also helps to put the antenna on your car roof. There should be a magnetic base for that. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
faster video conversion?
Are there any good programs yet to convert and compress an mpeg2 stream to h.264, making good use of the video processor? -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: OS X is ten years old today
Planned obsolescence is the old term for what y'all are writing about. Another example is the tight restriction on memory expansion: always just slightly more than standard so you will have to keep buying new machine. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: OS X is ten years old today
I would like an iMac if it weren't on that rigid stand, if I could position it where I want it today and move it tomorrow. A giant iPad with lots of connectors for mouse, keyboard, TV tuner, comm devices, etc, but not on the back where they make it hard to lay it on something. With WiMax built in, easily tunable to the various wireless internet providers. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
finder windows
On one of my boot drives new finder windows open where they were closed and on the other one they always open in the upper left corner. Where is the preference for changing that? And is there a preference for whether unmounting a dmg closes the finder window? It seems to happen sometimes, but not always. ?? (It would be nice to have something like Firefox about:config.) ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Adobe flash installer
Firefox says update Flash, but Adobe's installer's splash screen has 'install' grayed out. Is OSX trying to protect me from doing something stupid (installing Adobe S/W)? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Adobe flash installer
On 2011-3-7 12:02 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote: On Mar 7, 2011, at 11:47 AM, William Ehrich wrote: Firefox says update Flash, but Adobe's installer's splash screen has 'install' grayed out. Is OSX trying to protect me from doing something stupid (installing Adobe S/W)? There's a teeny-tiny checkbox buried in the middle of the splash screen that says I've read the license or words to similar effect. Right? Once you check it, the Install button undims. Yes, that worked after I looked again. I thought you meant the read the license bit, but there is indeed a small gray on gray, almost invisible, check box. (See also discussion of hard to read grey on grey in Macintouch.) sigh ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
deleting files
Why does cmd-delete sometimes delete immediately (after a warning) instead of moving to trash? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: deleting files
Why does cmd-delete sometimes delete immediately (after a warning) instead of moving to trash? If there is no Trash directory on the volume (network volume, or perhaps an unsupported file system), Finder will delete files from it (after a warning) instead of trashing them. This is a partition (Data) on my HD. It has a .Trashes file which has plausible old stuff in it, but wasn't emptied by empty trash. Oddly this has read and write permissions, but the .Trashes files on my boot partitions are write only for everybody and have a small + in the corner of the icon. I now deleted that .Trashes file and rebooted. Now everything works normally again. ?? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Manton Reece on the Mac App Store
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/20/apple-shutting-down-mac-os-x-download-site/ This says Jan 6, but http://support.apple.com/downloads is still there for updates. Useful because S/W Update doesn't work well with a flaky internet connection. -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
updating Xcode
S/W Update says I should update Xcode to 3.2.5 and that the file size is 618.6 MB but, it no longer offers the file download option, sending me to a general downloads site which never heard of Xcode. Apple dev made me fill out a lot of registration (after accepting my 20 year old user name and passwd and assigning me my old person number) and then pointed me at a 3.5 GB download which includes an unwanted iOS SDK. How can I get the file that Update is telling me to get? -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Snow Leopard Exposé Bug - Anyone Else?
On Nov 17, 2010, at 1:06 PM, lrr wrote: Killing the Dock fixes it briefly. Is there any fix? How can you kill the dock? -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: lion
On 2010-10-24 10:55 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: Give me one consistent look and feel. When I read this list I have the message that I'm reading fill most of the center of my screen (13 inch MacBook, not very big). I go to the next one with just 'F', or delete it and read the next with just 'delete'. That is different from other Mac programs and very convenient. On the other hand I've gotten used to two finger scrolling which is a wonderful invention, but on a Google map that zooms, while scrolling has to be done with one finger. Yuk! One size does NOT fit all. -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: lion
On 2010-10-21 12:41 AM, Michael Brian Bentley wrote: The Mac desktop becomes program-centric, while it remains document-centric for some. The full-screen thing is part of the deal Like MS-DOS and Windows? First bog standard intel hardware, then... ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Mac Mini and EyeTV as a DVR?
I've been using an EyeTV Hybrid with my MacBook to watch and record broadcast TV. It works quite well, simply recording the raw digital TV (MPEG-2?) stream and displaying it. It can also translate the TV format to several formats, but Toast (~$80) is needed to record in the DVD format used by most players. Picture quality is much better than the Comcast basic cable that I subscribed to when local interference made analogue TV unusable, or my old Panasonic DVD recorder. Unlicensed 'white space' Wifi will probably kill broadcast TV here in the next few years, so it's not something to invest a lot of money in, but EyeTV is a very good interim solution. -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Color profiles
On 2010-10-4 2:44 PM, LuKreme wrote: The default color profile is ridiculously bright. I went through the calibration process and ended up with a color profile that looks ok in the finder or mail, but has much too defined shadows on the windows and is nearly unreadable with white-on-black windows. And WoW is a sea of mushy dark shapes. Sounds like my MacBook (Nov 2009). The gamma set by OSX 10.6 is too high. I changed it to 1.8, leaving everything else unchanged. Much better. -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Color profiles
On 2010-10-4 6:21 PM, LuKreme wrote: Is there a quick way to change the gamma without walking through the entire calibration process again? System Preferences Display Color Calibrate Don't check Expert Mode Go through the steps with continue, changing gamma to 1.8 I use Neutral White: D65 At the end I called my resulting profile gamma 1.8. -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Safari toolbars
Can anything be done about the dark gray backgrounds which make Safari's toolbars, especially the tabs, so hard to read? Something like Personas which solved the problem for Firefox? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: network usage statistics since last reboot
'network usage' reminds me that I've been curious about Soft Ware Update. It downloads 4MB and collects almost 300k (slow on my dialup). The download seems to be fairly well compressed so I wonder whether it's a great pile of XML. Does anyone know what's in it that makes it so fat? -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
eyetv wakeup
I like to have EyeTV store the 6AM BBC news to watch later. Sometimes it does and sometimes not. System logs show a lot of interaction between the PM and eyetv and eyetv helper, much too much, as though someone is recording everything for bug chasing. I looked up Mac power manager in wikipedia and it does look very ugly to work with. Recording evening programs seems more reliable. Does anyone else use EyeTV and have similar experiences? New MacBook, 10.6.3, EyeTV build 5851 and 6036 behave the same. -- Bill Ehrich Of course there is always a workaround: I could probably do a pmset wakeup for 6AM on weekdays, but I'd like to solve the problem. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
help?
I'm trying to find out why eyetv wakeups only work sometimes. Among other things I see lots of Can't create kext cache / - owner not root lines in system log and wonder what they mean. Google has lots of references to lists and discussion groups where people ask about this and some people make guesses. :-( Presumably someone at Apple knows. Is there any forum, list, or newsgroup that Apple people read and on which they give real answers? -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: DVD Player and disk image
Ashley Aitken wrote: If it is mounted it shouldn't be any different from a DVD in the drive, unless the DVD has copy protection built-in, but that should also effect burnt images. Thanks. Setting Finder prefs to show mounted disks in the sidebar seemed to help or just make it clearer. If it's there, DVD Player just plays it. -- Bill Ehrich ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
