Re: Big Sur and screen sharing

een” and “Ask to share screen” are still present in > the “Conversations” menu in Messages 14.0 . > > -David > > > > > On Mar 4, 2021, at 6:51 PM, Scot Hacker wrote: > > > > In Catalina and earlier, I relied on a feature that was kind of hidden. > In Messages,

Big Sur and screen sharing

In Catalina and earlier, I relied on a feature that was kind of hidden. In Messages, you could select a person, then pull down Buddies | Ask to Share Screen. This is how I helped my 84-yr-old non-tech father with computer problems all the time, and it worked great. He didn't need to do or know

Re: Aruba, Jamaica, but never Catalina

> the big three of which are Mail, iPhoto, and iTunes. As you know, iTunes was converted over to the new Music app. I know that they ditched the .xml companion format for the music library (frustrating DJs everywhere). However, I see that in Catalina, there's a new ~/Music/Music folder where the

Re: Photos sharing to GMail or Apple Mail

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Macs R We wrote: > Lately, Apple has "improved" several such interfaces into total yuckiness. > > > For example, the "send mail" action in Automator no longer opens up a new > message in Mail — instead, it throws up its own little dialog box

Photos sharing to GMail or Apple Mail

My 82-yr-old father struggles quite a bit with technology but loves photography and knows enough to be able to import his photos and then share them to family with captions. He tells stories with them and likes to do: [photo here] Description... [photo here] Description... etc. His usual

Auto-connect to BlueTooth from Mac desktop

I recently retired my Airport Express-based audio system for a NAD C338 amp that has built-in support for both Bluetooth and Wifi. The sound is incredible - I love this amp. But it turns out, "wifi" support means Chromecast only, not AirPlay. So I'm giving Bluetooth ATX a try. It works really well

Mystery automount

About a year ago, my son installed a game called League of Legends. Ever since, every time the Mac is rebooted, a League of Legends disk volume appears in the Finder, and I can't figure out where the automount is coming from. Neither Spotlight nor `find` turn up anything. Nothing is referenced in

Re: Converting to family sharing?

On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Jeff Weinberger wrote: > My wife and I have been using my Apple ID to buy/use apps, music, > books, etc. on our macs, iPhones and iPads. > ​Probably seemed like a good idea at the time. I've been there, and it took a very long time to

Re: Photos app

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 7:23 AM, @lbutlr krem...@kreme.com wrote: The iPhoto Library is a bundle, so yes, those directories exist. In the Finder, you could use “Go To Location” ⌘⇧G and type in: /Users/[shortusersname]/Pictures/iPhoto Library.photolibrary/Masters/ and that would open up the

Re: Photos app

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:42 PM, @lbutlr krem...@kreme.com wrote: (For example, on my MBP Photos says it is downloading 1 item. It’s said this for the better part of a week.) ​I ran into a nasty issue that prevented one of my machines from getting new photos or stream updates at all - very

AEX extended network

I have two identical Airport Expresses, about a year old. One is connected to a Motorola cable modem, the other is across the house and extends the network wirelessly - straightforward stuff. This setup worked for most of the year. Then, recently, the remote AEX started blinking amber. I've

Re: Update play counts via Home Sharing

solve one problem but create another - you lose the ability to only share certain playlists; you now must share your entire library, which can make it really slow to load the library on the client if the index is very large. ./s On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Scot Hacker shac...@birdhouse.org

Re: SMTP servers going offline in Mail.app?

I would suspect your ISP of port blocking on common SMTP ports (they might be doing it intermittently). Maybe worth a call to them - in the attempt to shut down spammers, it's easy to get caught up in the dragnet. Try having just one SMTP server - your ISP's - and have all of your accounts send

Re: iTunes track replacement algorithm

On May 1, 2014, at 11:34 AM, steve harley st...@paper-ape.com wrote: on 2014-04-24 23:28 Hacker Scot wrote I can’t for the life of me figure out what criteria iTunes is using to decide when an album is identical. Anyone know? in my experience it is the tracks, not the whole album that it

Re: Surprised ...

On Nov 21, 2013, at 11:26 AM, steve harley st...@paper-ape.com wrote: i seem to be locked in a lifelong battle with web browsers and memory; Safari is worse, and harder to manage; leave 50 tabs open in it for a few days and it will use a huge amount of swap; i recently saw Safari claiming

Re: airplay question

On Apr 20, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: The Mac Mini is always on, as is the Mac Pro. With an Airport Express (AE), I could connect the AE to the receiver in the living room. Then I could choose the multiple speaker option in iTunes (on the

Re: iTunes sharing over the internet

On Jan 3, 2013, at 12:15 AM, Scot Hacker shac...@birdhouse.org wrote: So... what is the current state-of-the-art for listening to your home iTunes library from work? VNC + some audio tunneling solution over ssh? Custom utilities? Everything I've read on this tonight seems out of date

Re: iTunes sharing over the internet

, Have you tried Simplify? http://appyourmac.com/2009/08/simplify-media-your-streaming-music-server/ -- ~~ Daniel Sabsay, Cybernetic Moments http://cyberneticmoments.com Superstition is slavery On Jan 3, 2013, at 11:10 PM, Scot

Re: iTunes sharing over the internet

On Jan 4, 2013, at 3:14 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: The Music MAtch library contains the stuff that I listen to, and anything I wold ever want to listen to idly while doing something else. The stuff not in the match library is stuff that I would not listen without making

iTunes sharing over the internet

So... what is the current state-of-the-art for listening to your home iTunes library from work? VNC + some audio tunneling solution over ssh? Custom utilities? Everything I've read on this tonight seems out of date - doesn't seem like a lot of current action on this front. But there must be

Re: iTunes sharing over the internet

On Jan 3, 2013, at 7:16 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: iTunes Music Match. Ah, you missed the beginning of the thread: On Jan 3, 2013, at 12:15 AM, Scot Hacker shac...@birdhouse.org wrote: (Yes, I'd be happy to pay for Match if it ever supports library sizes For the Rest of Us

Re: shell script

On Dec 30, 2012, at 9:54 PM, William Ehrich ehr...@clear.net 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? Not sure about tcsh, but this will do it

Re: Decent Twitter Syncing

On Dec 21, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Neil Laubenthal n...@laubenthal.net wrote: Is there a decent app that correctly syncs tweets (unread, etc) across both Mac OS and iOS. I've been using Echofon for quite awhile but sync recently broke (again) and they don't seem very inclined to fix it…so I'm

Re: SKYPE contacting Facebook?

On Nov 15, 2012, at 11:38 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: I'm running Little Snitch 3 and discovered that when launching Skype, there is at least one request to contact Facebook. I'm not a FB user and never intend to become one. Disturbing. Why is it disturbing? Since you

Re: SKYPE contacting Facebook?

On Nov 16, 2012, at 4:48 AM, Charles Dyer charles.d...@gmail.com wrote: Because if it wasn't for Little Snitch, then every time he launched Skype FB would get a knock on its door. They can, and almost certainly will, keep track of who knocks on their door, whether or not there's a follow

Re: Shared Photo Stream privacy issue?

On Sep 21, 2012, at 11:16 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: and I certainly don't want them to know my Apple ID. Out of curiosity, why not? What could a nefarious person do or see with an Apple ID (and no password)? Account names are pretty much public information on every service I

Re: Thoughts on 10.7 now?

On Dec 20, 2011, at 7:16 AM, Andy Ringsmuth wrote: On Dec 20, 2011, at 12:55 AM, Scot Hacker wrote: iCal is hideous. Address Book is more hideous. Are you just referring to the fine Corinthian leather trim, or functionality? I'm perfectly happy with both apps in Lion

Re: Safari on Lion

On Oct 24, 2011, at 10:15 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: Trying to figure out why Safari (and other apps) seem slow on Lion. Safari, in particular, can take forever to load pages, although other times, it can feel fast. I've run tests from speedtest.net and I'm getting roughly 30 Mbits down -

Re: Safari on Lion

On Oct 25, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Nathan Sims wrote: On Oct 24, 2011, at 11:14 PM, Scot Hacker wrote: Finally I went nuclear on it - made sure I had a recent ™ backup (hah - Lion autocorrect action there :), booted from Lion DVD, erased the partition and started fresh, then restored from

Re: Subscribing to calendars from iCloud

On Oct 17, 2011, at 1:51 PM, Scot Hacker wrote: I did find what looks like a solution after posting: http://vegardhoffwalmsness.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/icloud-and-calendar-subscriptions/ The key is that you have to set it up from a Lion desktop (not the web), and you have to set iCloud

Re: Subscribing to calendars from iCloud

On Oct 18, 2011, at 6:41 AM, Jochem Huhmann wrote: What's better with iCloud is the much easier setup. For me it's more about lock-in. I'm deeply invested in iPhoto, iTunes, iCal, Address Book, etc. As a Mac user with iOS devices, It just makes sense to use iCloud / Apple services to keep

Re: Subscribing to calendars from iCloud

On Oct 18, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote: Not to mention floppies, PPC, 68k, and Classic. Apple is about the only computer company that has no fear of killing off legacy items. Point taken, though I don't consider my calendars to be legacy items… Anyway, their plan worked. All of

Re: Subscribing to calendars from iCloud

On Oct 17, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Jochem Huhmann wrote: Scot Hacker shac...@birdhouse.org writes: Am I overlooking something obvious, or is it really not possible to subscribe to a public calendar (like a Google calendar) from the iCloud UI? Looks very much as if you can share calendars only

Re: Subscribing to calendars from iCloud

On Oct 17, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Jeff Weinberger wrote: So Apple told me that unless I use Lion on all my machines I would lose access to calendars (mine and shared) on my SL macs after moving to iCloud. Can you share how to see calendars on an SL Mac after the move? This would make my life

Re: iCloud

On Sep 20, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Scott G. Lewis wrote: What (if anything) have you decided to do with iTunes Match and it's 25,000 song limit? I have to admit, I have more than 25,000 tracks, and I've seen a posted screen shot indicating that there's no facility to pick which 25,000 - your

Re: iCal can't read...

On Aug 23, 2011, at 7:40 PM, Jeff Weinberger wrote: I see this and I am still on SL. I'm thinking it's an issue related to the move to iCloud and hope that it goes away in the next few months. Good theory about iCloud transition, hope you're right. Good to know I'm not alone in this.

iCal can't read...

I now have one Lion machine and two SL machines. Lately iCal on all three has been telling me, while attempting to sync over MobileMe: iCal can't read this calendar file. No events have been added. It does not give me the opportunity to review *which* events are problematic or tell me *which*

Re: The new Mac mini

On Aug 2, 2011, at 11:55 PM, Joar Wingfors wrote: On 2 aug 2011, at 23:41, Scot Hacker wrote: I'd be really bummed to see optical going away before streaming catches up. Guess what the best way to make streaming catch up is? Introduce incredibly popular media consumption devices

Re: Tired MacBook Pro, and IMAP

On May 13, 2011, at 12:49 AM, Andrew Brown wrote: On 5 May 2011, at 11:23, Jared Earle wrote: You should be on IMAP anyway. POP3 is a dead end. Well, so far, I rather prefer my dead end... I need to get IMAP for dummies, but perhaps the answer to my question is short : how do I handle

Re: how do I go from AVCHD to Mac to TiVo?

to stream videos. Thanks again for the help, Gregg On 30 Mar 2011, at 3:00 AM, Scot Hacker wrote: Shouldn't be a matter of transferring any files per se' (I haven't seen this .mts thing you speak of), and the Tivo should not be seeing h.264 anything. PyTivoX on the Mac should

Re: how do I go from AVCHD to Mac to TiVo?

The Tivo wants mpeg-2. It can handle a live mpeg stream coming from any Mac on your local network. Best way to set this up is with PyTivoX http://code.google.com/p/pytivox/ - point it at a folder on the Mac and it will make any video in that folder available to the Tivo, transcoding it in real

Track metadata from analog encodings

I got a really nice NAD phono pre-amp with USB for xmas and am getting ready to start encoding hundreds of LPs. Want to set up as smooth a workflow as possible. So, two questions: 1) Anyone have a preferred solution for separating tracks into pieces based on silence gaps? Seems like Audacity,

Re: Track metadata from analog encodings

On Dec 30, 2010, at 4:20 PM, LuKreme wrote: Also, backing out metadata changes was very easy with Pollux and, at least at the time, impossible with Picard. Great tips on Pollux and Picard - thanks guys. Pollux looks brilliant, but will try both. Thanks much, ./s

Re: Giving up on Safari ...

On Nov 14, 2010, at 2:42 AM, Aron S. Spencer wrote: Sure, if you're comparing a released version of Safari and Firefox with a beta of Chrome. If you try Webkit v. Chrome, you'll find that Webkit is usually faster. Chrome IS a webkit browser (which is why they have the same Developer Tools

Re: Giving up on Safari ...

Out of curiosity, what remaining reasons are there to use Safari or Firefox when Chrome is available? I find Chrome SO much faster and more stable than either of them, and the Chrome extensions landscape has really matured. I haven't launched FF or Safari in many months. ./s

Re: Giving up on Safari ...

On Nov 13, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote: Interesting ... I just installed the latest version of Chrome for Mac and it was slower than Safari for every page I went to (cursory test). I do have ClickToFlash installed for Safari, maybe that's why? Not a scientific test, mmv Hmm,

Re: Giving up on Safari ...

On Nov 13, 2010, at 6:03 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote: With regards to Chrome, I try it occasionally, but Safari seems much more polished (Top Sites, look-and-feel), and I still sync bookmarks with MobileMe, although perhaps I should try Delicious again. Isn't Chrome's Most Visited identical to

Re: whois query answer: % Error: 55000000013 Invalid charset for response

On Oct 8, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Sven Aluoor wrote: Hi # whois bluray-disc.de % Error: 5500013 Invalid charset for response Why this error? And howto fix? FWIW, works fine from a linux host, but not from Mac. ./s ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list

Re: Remote control in iTunes 10

On Sep 3, 2010, at 4:22 PM, John Stalberg wrote: iTunes can control a remote library and write to it. I have one single library on my workstation and using iTunes on the workstation to control it. I also have a MacBook which use the same library. However, the two iTunes applications can't

Remote control in iTunes 10

The one feature I've wanted since forever - the simple ability to remote control another library in the house from a laptop *with* the ability to edit/delete/rate/make playlists on the remote Mac... is still not there in iTunes 10 (I'd been crossing fingers). Even with password required

Re: Remote control in iTunes 10

On Sep 2, 2010, at 6:20 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote: Not sure about common feature request, but why don't you use Screen sharing that's built into OS X Snow Leopard, launch iTunes on that machine and edit/create, etc. Right, that's the workaround. I used to use Screen Sharing, then switched

Re: Cmd-tab and Screen Sharing

On Jul 14, 2010, at 11:49 PM, LuKreme wrote: Well, if you need ratings then no, that's your only choice. You cannot change the rating of a file in iTunes remotely as far as I can tell, it has to be changed on the machine the file is on (is on as far as iTunes is concerned). You could

Re: Photoshop replacement

On Apr 25, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: Depending on your Photoshop requirements…the much cheaper (less than $100) Photoshop Elements may do all you need. It doesn't do CMYK, just RGB, doesn't do Actions, and obviously doesn't have all the neato new stuff like Content Aware