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
ight 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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thanks for all the replies. My friend decided to go with Mellel.
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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
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
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
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
- 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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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
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
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
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
Thanks for all the suggestions! I'll pass them on.
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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
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
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
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)
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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
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
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
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.
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___
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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
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,
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
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
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
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
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 $%!# is going on.
Maybe I should know, but I'm blanking on this -- who's the VP of Developer
Relations at Apple? Is there such a person any
On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:16 AM, LuKreme wrote:
No no, you create the image and then RESTORE it to the FireWire disc. You
boot the laptop from the FW disc and install. I've done this oodles of times.
Just be sure the FW drive is int eh right format to boot the machine.
Right, you may need to
On Jan 6, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
On 7 janv. 11, at 12:07, Arno Hautala wrote:
oth on my laptop and my
desktop, when installing from the Purchases screen, it seemed to
replace the existing bundle (even within a subfolder of
/Applications).
Stuffit Expander on
On Dec 27, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Arno Hautala wrote:
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 08:46, David Herren da...@idiomatrix.com wrote:
Here is the directory listing:
Santiago:.Trash dherren$ ls -al
total 8
drwxr-x--- 3 dherren staff 102 Dec 27 08:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 dherren staff 748 Dec 20
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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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
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