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

Re: Where are my Night Shift options?

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: >> >> [Thi

Re: Safari Command-F only matches prefixes??

On Dec 27, 2013, at 6:55 PM, LuKreme 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 fille

Re: Safari Command-F only matches prefixes??

On Dec 27, 2013, at 6:00 PM, LuKreme 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

Re: Safari Command-F only matches prefixes??

On Dec 27, 2013, at 1:26 PM, Arno Hautala 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 sub

Re: Safari Command-F only matches prefixes??

l? 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 th

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 installe

Re: App shortcuts in Finder toolbar

On Dec 25, 2013, at 1:16 PM, Hacker Scot wrote: > On Dec 25, 2013, at 1:02 AM, Andy Lee wrote: > >> Works for me, but I have to Command-drag. > > > Ah! Yes, that works. Wonder why they changed it? Thanks for the tip. I'd guess it's related to the similar change

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 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

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 alr

Re: Surprised ...

On Dec 10, 2013, at 9:57 PM, list boy 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

Re: Surprised ...

ull the trigger.) Now Safari is much nicer and can kill just the processes for the offending tabs, and it tells you first how many web pages it has to kill/reload. For me it's usually 3 or 4 out of the dozens I have open, at most. This is much nicer but the warning does still happen. --

Re: Surprised ...

On Dec 1, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote: > > On Nov 30, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > >> On Nov 29, 2013, at 7:51 PM, LuKreme wrote: >>> >>> On 28 Nov 2013, at 18:48 , Michael wrote: >>> back on a 32 MB 68040 machine, web browsing was relatively simple and easy. >>

Re: Surprised ...

On Nov 28, 2013, at 1:37 PM, LuKreme wrote: > On 28 Nov 2013, at 11:17 , list boy 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 sw

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: 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 wrote: > Agreed that the new iWork (all three products) are awful and bungled badly. I > don't have a good alternative,

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

Re: Any way to unsync iPhoto and Flickr without deleting the photos from Flickr?

e-enable Flickr integration in iPhoto. It seems very poorly thought through. --Andy On Oct 8, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Andy Lee 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 > sinc

Re: Any way to unsync iPhoto and Flickr without deleting the photos from Flickr?

otography 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 wrote: > >> I thought I would be able to use iPhoto purely as a Flickr uploader. I >> i

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

Re: Tomorrow at 10am

On Apr 24, 2013, at 1:08 PM, Carl Hoefs wrote: > On Apr 24, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Andy Lee wrote: > >> On Apr 24, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Carl Hoefs >> wrote: >> >>> https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/tickets/ >>> >>> Tomorrow at 10am, 100,000 iOS a

Re: Tomorrow at 10am

On Apr 24, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Carl Hoefs 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 lea

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 wrote: > Anybody e

Re: Drives me mad ...

On Mar 2, 2013, at 10:10 PM, steve harley wrote: > here is the script: > > 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

Re: Drives me mad ...

I don't have an answer but I sympathize. I have yet to use a browser that feels like it scales to the dozens of windows I have open. The UI doesn't scale, and the performance doesn't scale (the bogging down you mentioned). Just today I relaunched a browser and audio started playing from one of t

Re: super-focused text editor

On Jan 19, 2013, at 6:32 PM, steve harley 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 y

Re: super-focused text editor

On Jan 19, 2013, at 2:38 PM, Macs R We 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

Re: super-focused text editor

On Jan 19, 2013, at 9:56 AM, William Ehrich 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 >> backspacin

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

Re: recommendation for an app that can create a slideshow off a thumbdrive

On Sep 16, 2012, at 7:27 AM, Andy Lee wrote: > On Sep 16, 2012, at 1:54 AM, LuKreme wrote: >> 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. >

Re: recommendation for an app that can create a slideshow off a thumbdrive

On Sep 16, 2012, at 1:54 AM, LuKreme 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 li

Re: DVD Player missing slider in 10.8?

On Aug 11, 2012, at 9:04 PM, Vince LaMonica 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

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

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 >

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: 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, An

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 connectio

iMac WiFi

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 W

Re: Safari errors

This has been pissing me off for ages. And not just me. --Andy On Mar 20, 2012, at 8:19 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: > Why does Safari 5.1.4 do this so often? > > - > Webpages are not responding. To visit the > s

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

Re: mix tape software?

Thanks for all the suggestions! I'll pass them on. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk

mix tape software?

I'm asking for a friend of a friend. She's looking for an app "to put music on a CD but wants to edit, change the tempo or blend other songs together. Her son ice skates and she is going to need to make many many of these in the future." Any suggestions? I did a search for "dj mix" on MacUpdate

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 f

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 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

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: > > > > For example, the cocoa-dev link goes to > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listin

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 con

Re: Thoughts on Mission Control / Exposé ?

On Jul 25, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Cyril Niklaus wrote: > They obviously like to keep our minds on their toes! As opposed to athlete's foot, which would keep our toes on our minds. --Andy (being silly this morning) ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@om

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

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 ___

Re: very suspicious Us, Use, User files

Just wanted to thank everyone for the replies. I haven't noticed any harmful effects, which I realize doesn't mean there weren't any. In any case, I deleted the files and moved on. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://w

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.

Re: iPad 2 versus iPod Touch?

On Apr 15, 2011, at 07:07 PM, st...@paper-ape.com wrote:you should at least do some reading (start with apple.com), and preferably go to an Apple Store to try the devices yourself and ask the employees there lots of questionsVery good suggestions. Also, if you have a Mac, explore the App Store i

Re: textedit with regex ?

On Mar 31, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary 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 i

Re: textedit with regex ?

On Mar 31, 2011, at 12:54 PM, st...@paper-ape.com wrote:> or do you want Bean to add a command-line tool?If this is the case you can write your own shell script that looks like this:#!/bin/sh#open -a Bean "${@}"--Andy___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-ta

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 rel

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

Re: textedit with regex ?

On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Michael J Wise 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 search

Re: textedit with regex ?

The first app that came to mind for free/lightweight editing was Bean: 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-Christop

Apple Says Jobs Is Taking a New Medical Leave

Yikes. --Andy > 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 takin

Manton Reece on the Mac App Store

> 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

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 e

Re: installing Snow Leopard via Shared optical drive , a disk image, or via FW Target mode

On Jan 7, 2011, at 1:14 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote: > As OWC doesn't have an enclosure at the moment, I figured I'd create a Snow > Leopard image, stick it on a portable FW drive and go from there. > When trying that route, the SL installer says I need to burn a disc first. I've definitely installe

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). >> >> Stuff

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. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omn

Re: emptying trash

On Dec 27, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Arno Hautala wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 08:46, David Herren 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 ..

Re: use APPLE Magic Trackpad and mouse in parallel

On Oct 17, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Sven Aluoor wrote: > Anyone have experience with Trackpad? I have both connected right now (USB mouse, Apple Trackpad), and both work as one would expect. --Andy ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http

Re: non-junk in Junk mailbox

On Sep 4, 2010, at 10:19 PM, Karl Kuehn wrote: > On Sep 4, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Andy Lee wrote: > >> 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 eve

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 mai

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 d

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 adve

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 >> for

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 des

Re: Running a command-line app from the Finder

Maybe Platypus. --Andy On Jul 27, 2010, at 8:00 PM, Benjamin Esham wrote: > Hi all, > > I regularly use the slrn newsreader, which runs in a Terminal window. I > created a Terminal preset to open a big window and run slrn, and I saved > this as a *.terminal file by going to Shell > Export Set

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: > Od

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 DiskWar

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 ques

Re: WMA to MP3 converter?

Sounds good. Thanks, everybody! --Andy Sent from my iPad On Apr 5, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Daniel Israel 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 M

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@omnig

Re: VOB to MPEG

There are free apps that will do it. Not sure if Handbrake is one of them. My favorite was VisualHub, which to my great sadness the developer stopped working on years ago. It worked flawlessly, as did its free sibling iSquint. The developer opened up the source to VisualHub but I have yet to

Re: What do people mean by multitasking?

On Feb 5, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: > I think that's the point exactly . . .and why there isn't a built in video > camera because of the view angle . . .after all on your lap your > correspondent would get a great view of your nostrils:-) That could start a whole new industry arou