Spaces rarely returns focus to my last used window. Haven't been able to peg universally reproducible steps, but spend any time switching among spaces and windows and you'll come across this.
It often happens with Finder windows. I'm thinking this is because Mac OS X treats Finder as a single app, so bringing Finder forward in one space brings it forward in all spaces. Extremely annoying!
Anyone have a fix for this?
I have a friend with a broken iBook, but we wish to recover the hard disk. I haven't seen the drive itself, however the spec lists it as an "Ultra ATA drive". Could you please advise if this is 100% compatible with any standard USB IDE 2.5inch enclosure?
Full spec:
iBook 12" 1GHz(AP) 256MB DDR266 SDRAM built-in Keyboard/Mac OS X Bluetooth Module 40GB Ultra ATA drive Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW).
On the native mac widgets, emacs keybindings (ctrl-a,ctrl-e,ctrl-k,etc) are default.
On Ubuntu, I can configure GTK to use emacs keybindings.
I've recently installed Tomboy on OS X, which uses Mono and GTK. Does anybody know how to configure this application (which uses GTK widgets) to use emacs keybindings?
My one month old MacBook Pro suddenly does not sleep anymore when I close the lid. There might be a relation to the Caffeine program that I installed recently. Caffeine prevents a Mac from going into sleep. But I have the problem when Caffeine is not even running.
What reasons could there be for this problem happening? I'm hoping its a software problem instead of some hardware failure.
I have an external USB drive mounted on my Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" box. I want to share a folder on this volume to another OS X computer over LAN. How is it possbile? If I simply enable the built-in File Sharing service and share the directory (using the AFP protocol), it won't be accessible on the other computer.
An app on a Mac that automatically launches on boot and I don't want it to. The app itself offers no way to prevent this. Rather than identify the app, I figured it would be nice to use this question as an opportunity to identify all the places such an app could hide.
Here's where I've looked so far, and I still haven't found it:
Accounts - Login Items
Dock - Open at Login
launchd - Cycled through each tab of agents & daemons in Lingon
Other ideas?
Are there any good FOSS tools to do an audit of reserved IPs used in a Linux/UNIX ISC DHCPd environment? I'm trying to ensure that we do not have stale IP addresses reserved when old MAC addresses are pulled.
Is it possible to set Google Reader as the default feed reader on Safari and/or Mac OS X so that when I open an RSS in Safari I'm redirected to Google Reader like it does in Firefox when you set it appropriately? How?
An app on a Mac that automatically launches on boot and I don't want it to. The app itself offers no way to prevent this. Rather than identify the app, I figured it would be nice to use this question as an opportunity to identify all the places such an app could hide.
Here's where I've looked so far, and I still haven't found it:
Accounts - Login Items
Dock - Open at Login
launchd - Cycled through each tab of agents & daemons in Lingon
Other ideas?
Title pretty much says it all... Is there a way to open/import an SVG file with Photoshop CS2 or CS3? I am on Mac OS X but cross platform solutions are preferred. Illustrator can open SVG files, so I find it odd that Photoshop cannot. I understand Illustrator is vector based, but Photoshop has limited vector capabilities also...
I have a mailing list with 100.000 email and I have to send it an email weekly.
What application/program/webapp/script/ecc do I have to use to send 100.000 email weekly and avoid being considered spammer ?
No program for only windows or mac please. I have LINUX :) !!
I added a lot of words to the standard Mac OS X system-wide dictionary on a given machine, and would like to transfer that specific list of words to another machine. Where / in what file(s) is that list of words stored?
Since I updated Eclipse from Ganymede to Galileo on Mac OS X 10.5, the editor is incredible slow, independently of the programming language: I tried Python and PHP, and for both, the editor scrolling is very slow, like on a very old computer (I'm using am up-to-date Macbook). Any idea where I could tweak it?
I have a wlan setup with that my neighbors can probably access if they're knowledgable enough. My setup includes wireless authentication using WPA/WPA2 mixedmode, WPA-PSK pre-shared key, and enforced MAC filtering.
On a Mac I do not have the root password, but I have a user with administrative privileges.
Can I use it to reset the root password?
Thank's.
MacOS X 10.6.3
I'm right now busy with moving the first steps into Linux, i'm using a bash shell within a mac osx
I see in all tutorials that in order to launch an application from the bash its necessary to cd to its directory and simply type the name of the app.
This is exatly what i'm doing and it does not work (i have on my desktop a 'Eclipse' folder with the launcher icon in it):
cd Desktop
cd Eclipse
Eclipse.app
Why will this not work?
I read everywhere that typing the name of the app its enough
I'm using my 13" Mac Book Pro's audio input functionality with an external microphone (recent vintage, bought around Thanksgiving). I've increased my input volume to the maximum in system preference, but the resulting recorded volume (using iShowU HD) is very low.
Is there anyway to increase the input volume/sensitivity beyond Apple's default settings? I've found plenty on google about increasing the OUTPUT volume, but I want to increase the input volume.
I dunno when I deleted this file (its an avi), its been in the trash for awhile. Today I went to empty the trash and this one file can't claims to be in use. But I have restarted, shut down my mac several times, I've also used my media player several times since last using that file.
So I guess Im trying to find out how to find whats using the file or at least making it appear as such. So I can go about deleting it finally.
I'm trying to turn off Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x) on my Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, and I've got an Asus P5N32-E SLI LGA 775 nForce 680i motherboard.
I looked through all the bios settings and couldn't find anything do do with virtualization or VT-x.
I need to turn virtualization off so I can boot Mac OS X in VMware.
On my mac I always have an emacs buffer open and occasionally I have to copy content from PowerPoint or Word. Unfortunately, copying to the clipboard and yanking into emacs saves all the ugly formatting (and graphics) from the original document. I only want to paste in the text (and never the formatting). My current solution is to paste into TextWrangler and then repaste into emacs. What's a better way to do this?
I have a page with a bunch of HTML tables that I need to print.
Each table should fit on one page, but both Firefox and Safari want to break them over multiple pages and put more than one on a page.
Is there any way to force it to not break the tables across pages?
I can use any Mac program to print.
Thanks.
Is there any good CHM reader out there which can support the following:
Highlighting of text
easy navigation
works on windows, linux and mac
The default one in windows does not support highlighting text.
I am somewhat confused what the differences between a softlink, and a hardlink are (on unix).
It seems like a softlink is the same as a shortcut in windows or an alias on Mac OS X. (Can someone confirm this?) Softlinks can link to both directories and files.
I am uncertain of what a hardlink does or if it is useful..
Is it better to use one instead of the other?
Thanks.
Each block on a SSD has a finite number of writes. This is mitigated on modern drives by "spreading" the writes around as you use the drive.
I'm wondering if you partition a SSD into several partitions (a Mac using Boot Camp, for example) if this measure is defeated somewhat - can the writes be spread across the entire drive? Or are they contained strictly within the partition boundaries? Any SSD controller engineers here :)?