Questions tagged [mac]
Hardware related questions of computers sold/made by Apple. Use [macos] for the operating system, and use [mac-address] for MAC addresses instead.
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How do I turn on sign in from different locations for Windows live messenger
For windows live messenger, where is this option at? I found it once and I turned it off but I want to turn it back on now but I cannot find the checkbox for the life of me.
Edit - I am on a mac.
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Using a MicroSD Card as a VM Harddrive, on mac
My aging MacPro is well, aged :) and dying. I don't want to buy another but rather use my new Macbook Pro. The only problem is a massive lack of storage. I'm used to 6x drives, all SSD.
Right now the ...
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Mac Joining Active Directory Still Prompts For Authentication
My Mac is joined to an Active Directory domain. What I expected to see was the same ease of access to file shares and internal websites that Windows computers joined to the domain experience (i.e., no ...
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In Firefox, sometimes the hand cursor icon does not appear?
When mousing over links in Firefox, the arrow cursor icon changes to a hand icon, at least on my Mac. Since FF12 or FF11 or so, mousing over links sometimes does not change the cursor correctly. To ...
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Mac terminal: Resource temporarily unavailable
I'm getting an error message in the Mac Terminal when I try to run several different processes. I did some googling and looking on this site, and found out that it might be related to having too many ...
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Mac OS X and third party e-mail clients
I have tried several third party e-mail clients on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard and up), most notable Sparrow and Postbox.
There seem to be a few applications that do not work with an e-mail client other ...
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Hitting left arrow in my Mac terminal during a console program execution displays characters ^[[D. Why?
These work fine when typing in the shell itself (no child processes, just the prompt) - I can edit the input line before submitting it as command input to the shell. But when I am running a program, ...
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Replace MacBook screen with an external display
I have a unibody macbook running OSX 10.8. I wondered how feasible it would be to use an external monitor instead of the built-in display. I am not talking about plugging in a 2nd monitor (this is ...
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How can I disable the calendar agent from running on Mac OS X Lion?
I suppose that because because of the updated way that the Calendar application is integrated into the OS X system and the notification area the "calendar agent" needs to constantly run in the ...
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Using a SD card as a smart card for two-step verification for Mac logon
What I am trying to do is create two-step verification to logon to my mac, one being that you would need to input a SD card (formated with special format or something) and then also have a password. ...
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Would replacing my Mac Mini's HDD with SSD speed it up for ios development?
I do iOS programming using XCode and of course the iPhone Simulator, I am using a 2009 Mac Mini (upgraded to 8GB RAM)
While it is not super slow, if I create a blank project, then compile and run it ...
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No Java Applet support for Mac OS-X on Chrome 10.7.5 after 2012-006 update
Since the 2012-006 update to Apple Java, the Java Preferences pane has disappeared. Apple says that you install the latest version of Java from Oracle in order to reinstate support for Applets. But ...
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iPython in Terminal.app: multi-line editing
I'm using iPython in Terminal.app (on Mac), and when I scrollback to a multi-line block it's really slow moving between lines. Is there a keybinding (or can I configure one) to make it possible to ...
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VPN inside virtual machine in mac
I have a Mac book pro running mountain lion and I have vmware fusion installed. I have RHEL 6.0 64 bit vm running (in NAT mode) and pptp is installed in rhel. I tried connecting my office vpn but it ...
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Enable FTP on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Server
There is a LAN comprising several mac machines (iMac, Mac Pro, macbook etc.), Airport Express router and Mac Mini Server running OS X Server 10.8 (Mountain Lion Server). I need to share a folder on ...
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How to get RSSI values in wireshark captures
I'm running Mountain Lion and have Wireshark 1.8.3. I want to display the RSSI of each packet but I seem unable to do so. I went to Edit->Preferences->User Interface->Columns and select RSSI to be ...
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is there a way to make Google Chrome to focus only on text fields when pressing tab?
is there a way (setting, or extension) to make tabbing on Google Chrome (at least on Mac OS X) to focus only on text fields, instead of all focusable elements? That is, let's say the focus in on the ...
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VirtualBox Mac - Is it possible re-map a key for a VM
I am running Windows inside VirtualBox on Mac OSX. However, I am frequently copying and pasting/undoing etc using keyboard shortcuts.
Because Mac is dumb and tries to be different, common shortcuts ...
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Mac 10.5 Python libsvm 64 bit vs 32 bit
I have a Mac 10.5
when I type "python" in terminal, it says
Enthought Python Distribution -- www.enthought.com
Version: 7.3-2 (64-bit)
Python 2.7.3 |EPD 7.3-2 (64-bit)| (default, Apr 12 2012, ...
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Can't access random web pages on my MacBook Pro 2012?
Sometimes I can't access random web pages. The page simply doesn't load. If I wait for around a minute doing nothing, it will load. It happens very random and very intermittent. Sometimes it starts ...
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Mac mini 1.66 no audio in device manager
Windows 7 installed perfectly except that there is no sound. Not only that, but there is no audio device in the Device Manager screen. I've tried the realtek drivers etc. with no success.
Does anyone ...
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Control + Alt + a Function in Remote Desktop on a Mac
I'm on a Mac and I'm using Remote Desktop to connect to my Windows machine. There's a shortcut needed in one particular program that is Alt+Control+F11. How do I go about doing that?
F11 seems to ...
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How to take photo from the webcamera every time I open my MacBook?
I want to autotake a photo from the camera on my MacBook Air and put the photo in a folder.
Is it possible?
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Format drive in Windows, using drive in Mac (Marking bad sectors)
I have a new 3 TB hard drive that I would like to peform a full format on in Windows. Its my understanding that a full format will mark any bad sectors on the drive and will not use those sectors to ...
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How to execute a multiple line configure command using Mac OS X terminal?
I am reading a nice article about upgrading php on mac os x mountain lion.
At the Install part of the document the author says that the user must execute a multiple line configure command.
What is ...
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How to get user information on a Mac?
How would I get user information from a Mac such as user domain, etc. through a Terminal command?
I've tried dscl as well as dscacheutil, but they don't really have what I'm looking for. I was ...
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How to enable the php 5.4.x version on Mountain Lion
I have installed the latest php version on my mountain lion system using these instructions (http://mac.tutsplus.com/tutorials/server/upgrading-the-native-php-installation-on-os-x-mountain-lion/).
I ...
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How to Reformat Mac with no disk [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Reinstalling Mac OS X without original disc
Restore MacBook Pro to factory settings without disc
I have a MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion (10.8.2) on it, (I've updated the ...
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How do I back up all my email messages from Mail to Dropbox?
My goal is:
Take all of my email messages in Mac Mail, and compress them into one file.
Upload that file into Dropbox.
Even if I do not use Macs in the future, I should be able to see all my ...
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How to alter my mac os $PATH variable so that I can run the latest php version? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are PATH and other environment variables, and how can I set or use them?
I've just followed this article (http://mac.tutsplus.com/tutorials/server/upgrading-the-native-...
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How to set screenshot name to be named correctly so it will be sortable
As it is the names that are given to screenshots in Mac OSX are not accurately named to be sorted alphabetical (and then numerical).
In the names below you'll see that a screen shot taken at 3PM is ...
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Using the same cable for HDD and SSD
I would like to know if is it possible (compatible) to use the same cable of a 3.5" HDD for a 2.5" SSD, or in other words, just swap one for another?
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OS X Server App ail not accept login credentials
I cannot login to the server app and i know for sure all the login info is right. every time i enter my password the name window shakes to tell me it's invalid. I never post unless I'm out of ideas ...
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In Mac, how to create a button in dock to launch screen saver immediately?
In Mac, how to create a button in dock to launch screen saver immediately? I.e. use the screen saver as an app.
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Google Chrome title bar appears blurry using non-Basic Themes
Running Windows 7 Professional on a Retina MacBook Pro through Boot Camp, any Windows themes that are not "Basic" will result in Google Chrome's UI to appear bloated and blurry, as can be seen in ...
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Discrepancy in file size on disk and ls output
I have a script that checks for gzipped file sizes greater than 1MB and outputs files along with their sizes as a report.
This is the code:
myReport=`ls -ltrh "$somePath" | egrep '\.gz$' | awk '{...
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How to remove pages from a PDF document on Mac OS X to print?
I'm faced with a 600 pages long PDF document. There's some vital information on it but at least half of those pages are not necessary so I would like to exclude them from the PDF prior to printing to ...
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Get Mac-Address in Single-User Mode in Mac OS X 10.8?
I was wondering if there is a way to get all the mac addresses of my network interfaces in single-user mode in OS X 10.8. I've tried ifconfig, but since single-user mode doesn't turn on networking, I ...
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Best way to export the full content of a HFS+ partition
My friends MacBook Pro (2008) completely died today. We removed the hard drive, and I'm currently dumping it's whole content into a tar archive with the help of a parted magic live CD, so that he can ...
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Reinstalling Mac OS X without original disc
I've had Mac OS X Lion installed on a mid-2011 iMac. I've erased the main partition and when I try to repair OS installation it connects to the Internet and says that it can't continue and I should ...
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How to stop Word 2011 opening hyperlinks on click?
In previous versions of MS Word, there was a preference for the action to be taken when the user clicked a hyperlink: open it, or edit it. Word 2011 appears to have defaulted to opening the hyperlink, ...
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Is there any fundamental difference between piping in mac and linux?
ps -e | grep bash
sample output from a linux machine:
1128 pts/14 00:00:00 bash
7491 pts/7 00:00:00 bash
12651 pts/14 00:00:00 bash
16145 pts/2 00:00:00 bash
sample output from a mac ...
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How can I disable automatic send / receive for Outlook 2010 for Mac?
There are lots of answers to disable automatic send / receive for Outlook for Windows, but not for Mac.
Does anyone know how to do this for Outlook 2010 for Mac?
The options offer no obvious ...
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How to fix the scrollbars in Mac
Recently the scroll bars in all my applications on mac are growing larger when I hover over them and then covering the last item in lists (like Finder). Does anyone know how to turn this option off or ...
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Vim is missing on Lion
I uninstalled brew and macports and reinstalled homebrew. I dont have vi under /usr/bin/ anymore. How can I fix this?
I tried using brew to install it but it says
Error: No available formula for vi
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Collecting images from a network drive with data merge in InDesign?
Is it possible to link to/collect images from a network drive when doing a data merge? I've tried various paths in the csv/spreadsheet but nothing seems to work. Any tips?
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OS X stealth mode: where is it enacted?
I am working through the security guide from apple (which they did not update since Snow Leopard). In the firewall section it states that ipfw has a default allow rule:
65535 allow ip from any to any
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Annoying Application on Mac Creating Unwanted File
Last year, I installed an application on my Mac called Pocketcam. A few days later, I have removed the app from my Mac by dragging and dropping it into the trash bin. Apparently by doing that, it didn'...
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Microsoft Office 2011 Mac: Reminders don't interact correctly with Spaces or Expose
I'm using Microsoft Office 2011 on Snow Leopard. I'm a heavy Spaces user. Whenever Microsoft Office Reminders pops up a reminder, it brings up the reminder in my current screen. However, if I do ...
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What exactly happens when a USB device is ejected on a Mac?
When a USB device is ejected using the GUI in Finder, what exactly happens at a low level? Are there certain signals sent to the device?
The reason I am asking is because I am trying to emulate ...