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In response to: Mac OS X Lion: How to clean up the 'Open With' menu
Nice !!!
In response to: How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line
Thanks heaps for this, worked a treat.
In response to: How to remove constantly launching services on Mac OS X
excellent solution… hopefully it sticks. i tried something else to stop notification center from launching (after I disabled it the wrong way) and the messages came back. worst case, i’ll have to enter the commands every time the computer starts up, which i really don’t mind. THANK YOU!!!!!
In response to: How to open a Mac OS X sparsebundle when it shows up as a regular folder
The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data/Apple’s iMac.sparsebundle” could not be accessed (error -1).
I had this message on my time machine. What does this means and how do I resolve it? Can anyone help me, please?
In response to: CSS: Fixing overflow: hidden in IE
Thanks !
In response to: How to remove constantly launching services on Mac OS X
Thanks a lot!
In response to: How to remove constantly launching services on Mac OS X
I’m pretty sure you need to use “sudo” for launchctl to even see system launch agents. Otherwise it just looks for stuff from your user.
Unless of course you’re just looking for launch agents that are in your user account.
In response to: How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line
Thanks you for this. I love that you wrote this up with the alternatives and explanations and it was only a google search away!
Thanks.
In response to: Mac OS X Lion: How to clean up the 'Open With' menu
Worked a treat thanks!
In response to: CSS: Fixing overflow: hidden in IE
Thanks a lot! I have been struggling with this. It didn’t seem to work for me, until I realized you must also apply “overfow:hidden” to the containing div. Not only “fixed” height. That solves the added unwanted scroll problem of IE. (For me at least)
In response to: Mac OS X Lion: How to clean up the 'Open With' menu
Thanks! Easy and it works
In response to: How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line
2011 model macbook air. Success. Thank you very much!
In response to: Mac OS X Lion: How to clean up the 'Open With' menu
works like a charm, thanks bro
In response to: How to improve the mouse speed on Mac OS X
I have a 27″ iMac and I’m using a Magic Mouse. This too was an annoying issue for me personally. Here’s what I did to fix it. No third party software required.
1.) Open Terminal and type the following command:
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1
2.) Go into System Preferences, under Mouse and move the Tracking slider to the third position from the right side.
3.) Go back into Terminal and type the following command:
defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling 2.25
YOU MUST LOG OUT AND BACK IN TO SEE THE CHANGES.
Step 1 above disables the mouse acceleration that makes a mac mouse over shoot it’s target. At least that’s how I describe what it’s doing. Annoying. After this is disabled, depending on the Tracking you had setup, at first it feels like you’ve made it worse, but do steps 2 and 3 and your mouse will then act allot more like a Windows, which is especially good if you are forced to work on Windows at work and come home to a Mac.
If it isn’t quite right for you, try playing with the number in step 3. Change the 2.25. to 3.0 or more to make it faster, and go the other way (2.0, 1.5, etc) to make it slower.
Another side note; If you want to turn acceleration back on retype the command in step 1 and substitute the -1 for a 1
Also the default scaling, on my computer was 1.5. You can set it back to the default if you like. You can also read the value at anytime using the command… defaults read -g com.apple.mouse.scaling
Hope this helps Jimmy
In response to: Mac OS X Lion: How to clean up the 'Open With' menu
Awesome! Worked like a charm! Many thanks
[Mountain Lion]
In response to: How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line
Another success. Thanks!
In response to: Make your mouse faster on Mac OS X
thanks for the post.
In response to: Mac OS X Lion: How to clean up the 'Open With' menu
Works perfectly on Mountain Lion. Thanks for the tip!
In response to: How to remove constantly launching services on Mac OS X
Excellent Explanation!
In response to: How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line
Thanks a lot..Worked for me :)
In response to: How to remove constantly launching services on Mac OS X
specifically type “launchctl remove” and then what? Just typing that gets the message command not found. I put in the line number where the carbonite code is and copied and pasted the code after typing “launchctl remove". PLEASE BE MORE EXPLICIT WITH DIRECTIONS. Thanks
In response to: Mac OS X Lion: How to clean up the 'Open With' menu
Spot on, thanks very much!
In response to: How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line
You may also want to include a note for laptop users who don’t have Home/End keys and want to use CTRL-leftarrow and CTRL-rightarrow to achieve the same cursor movement.
The OS keyboard shortcuts have CTRL-leftarrow and CTRL-rightarrow mapped to “move left a space” and “move right a space” respectively under System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Mission Control. When you only have one space setup (the default), it is not easy to tell this is what the keys do.
These shortcuts overrule the Terminal keyboard settings, so you need to change or disable them if you want to use those key combinations to navigate in Terminal.
In response to: How to remove constantly launching services on Mac OS X
TY Very Useful
In response to: How to remove constantly launching services on Mac OS X
Thanks! It took me a really long time to understand what was going on!
In response to: How to remove constantly launching services on Mac OS X
Thank you!!
In response to: How to remove constantly launching services on Mac OS X
I’ve been trying to find a solution to removing a ‘MacKeeper’ file for three weeks, thank you…
This solution worked great!!!
In response to: CSS: Fixing overflow: hidden in IE
Thanks ! The width:100%; worked for me :-)
In response to: How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line
I updated for Mountain Lion and I also listed all possible escape sequences that were recommended here. I highlighted the ones that seem to work everywhere.
In response to: How to fix Mac OS X Terminal Page Up/Down + Home/End of line
As of OSX 10.6.8, the correct fix is:
Terminal->Preferences->Settings->Keyboard->+
Key: home or end
Modifier: none
Action: send string to shell
Then for the sequence PRESS ESCAPE (or CTRL-[ ) to get a “\033″ and then type “[H” or “[F” for home and end so the full thing is “\033[H” or “\033[F".
It’s worth noting that these are already bound to Shift-Home and Shift-End (which are obtained with Shift-Fn-Left and Shift-Fn-Right). So if you can change your habits slightly you don’t actually need to reconfigure anything.
Francois: it would be nice if you updated your post to reflect this, since it is the first result in Google and I doubt many people are going to read down the comments this far.
In response to: How to install the APC PHP Cache on Debian (Lenny or Squeeze)
Hi, can you give an update the post for squeeze, where /usr/share/doc/php-apc/apc.php.gz
does not exist? Cheers
In response to: How to get AC-3 5.1 surround sound on your Mac
I received a video movie from a postproduction company. Here’s the info: Apple ProRes 422 (HQ), Linear PCM, Timecode
There’s 7 sound tracks. Tracks 1 to 5: dolby and tracks 6-7: stereo.
To approve the file, I need to listen to the dolby tracks. Here’s what I tried:
1- I connected my MB pro with an optical cable.
2- I tested the connection with the macos included DVD Player. The dolby digital works fine when I unckecked the dolby compression option.
3- I played my .mov video with Quicktime 10.1. Only stereo.
4- Tried with VLC and NicePlayer and unchecked tracks 6-7. Only stereo.
5- Even if it’s not AC3 sound, I tried with Perian and Quicktime 10.1 (http://www.cod3r.com/2008/02/the-correct-way-to-enable-ac3-passthrough-with-quicktime/). Still stereo.
Can anyone tell me what am I doing wrong? I would be appreciated.
Thanks
In response to: Mac OS X Lion: How to clean up the 'Open With' menu
I’ve looking for solution to exactly this problem and the solution presented here works!
In response to: How to redirect www.domain.com to domain.com (or reverse)
I tried it but it doesn’t change the address to www.domainname.com
In response to: TLS IMAP with Courier on Debian
After all this time still worth a million.
In response to: How to remove constantly launching services on Mac OS X
I LOVE YOU !!!
I finally got rid of INTEGO!
In response to: CSS: Fixing overflow: hidden in IE
Height:100%; fixed IE8 issue but now in Firefox it’s not showing scroll.
In response to: Parallels Desktop 7 with Retina resolution - FAIL! (Screenshots)
What about with Mountain Lion “retina” support. How does this work out?
In response to: 3 displays on a mac mini
FlyingAvatar, it’s a split output DVI device, meaning you will always get the SAME signal out of both DVI ports.
In response to: Parallels Desktop 7 with Retina resolution - FAIL! (Screenshots)
In order to get Windows to actually display 2880x1800 pixels, you need to set your Mac to use that resolution.
Apple doesn’t let you do this (because then everything looks so small) but you can use FreeRez to do it!
In response to: Parallels Desktop 7 with Retina resolution - FAIL! (Screenshots)
Right now, we have a screen which has 2880 x 1800 physical pixels and that Windows 7 can handle a resolution of 2880 x 1800 without problems (except for the fact that the text looks small by default).
Given that, why does there have to be downscaling and upscaling involved ?
When Adobe says they are making Photoshop Retina display compatible, they mean that a 2880 x 1800 pixels photo will be displayed with a 1:1 pixel mapping with NO downscaling + upscaling involved … And NO need to change the Mac setting from “Best for Retina display".
So when Parallels say they let us “take full advantage of the retina display” we expect the same thing: A 2880 x 1800 Windows desktop should be displayed without any scaling involved.
In response to: How to improve the mouse speed on Mac OS X
My mouse is not working in sync with my movements after rebooting my mac is there anything I can do to remedy this?
Many thanks
In response to: Why echo is slow in PHP and how to make it really fast
Strange, but with mpm_prefork_module it does not helps.. may be something else?
In response to: How to display Network Shares as Icons on Mac OS X desktop
I upgraded from a Drobo 4bay to a Drobo FS which is a network shared device and even connects with iSCSI (network connection at 1000kbps)
i use this in a small office environment where my assistant also needs access to the same device.
i tried the above, but the icons don’t appear on my desktop - so far the only way is to open the local drive icon and selecting the DroboFS from the side bar.
(i’m running a new Macbook Pro with OSX Lion. )
In response to: No good GTD software for Windows?
The Mac is indeed an excelent platform that potentiats great apps.
Things app, for the mac is also great and my choice for the mac and ipad.
For windows i use GTD-Free http://gtd-free.sourceforge.net/, not pretty but is a real GTD tool, simple and efective.
In response to: 3 displays on a mac mini
This guy seems to be very happy with an USB-to-DVI adapter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0GbrZVDXLk
In response to: How to control fan speed & noise on the mac pro
I just installed smcFanContol 2.3 on my MacPro1,1 which I think was built around 2008 and is a 2 x 3 quad core intel xeon. Contrary to your statement, it DEFINITELY works on my Mac Pro tower and I’ve got the fans running now at 1,200 RPM and the temperature has reduced from 108ºF to 93ºF already! So I guess the version you were commenting on was earlier and perhaps didn’t work on MPs. But the app does now AND per the website, 2.3 works on Lion! I see your post was in 2009. It’s 2012 now so things have changed I guess.
In response to: How to control fan speed & noise on the mac pro
Did you guys solve this problem? If not here’s the solution. I was pretty pissed after reading your comments and having the same problem on my MP3,1/2008. So I searched for the plist-File which is located inside ./Library/Preferences (->com.lobotomo.MacProFan.plist). You can easily edit the base speed using a plist-editor like Apple’s Property List Editor or such. I reduced back to 600rpm and all was well ;)
In response to: CSS: Fixing overflow: hidden in IE
Thanks ! The width:100%; worked for me :-)
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Jack Bauer is not afraid of the boogeyman, he is afraid of jack Bauer…
