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PRADA SLUT posted:What should I use to download YouTube videos in Lion? The ClickToFlash extension gives you a right-click option to download video.
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Viktor posted:One sidenote, found out and spent the day swapping my superdrive back in to install bootcamp. Kinda crappy the MBP EFI/bios has no support for USB or portable CD/DVD Windows installs. It will only work off of the internal superdrive without some serious vm trickery. So no word on how to fix this reply issue? Its really annoying signing into gmail to handle all of it in-browser.
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Viktor posted:Yep even the late 2011 MBP has zero support for USB install, it's pretty bonkers.
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Apple officially supports USB Windows install only on the MacBook Air and Mac Mini. I don't understand it either.
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PRADA SLUT posted:What should I use to download YouTube videos in Lion? https://www.keepvid.com
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Stare-Out posted:I'll keep that one in mind, thanks. But in the meantime I'm not all that confident about messing with the speakers too much. I guess I slightly overplayed the issue, but that said if the audio options get extended somehow or an app becomes available for the purpose, I'm getting it in an instant. You could use Audio Hijack Pro for this, but it would be a bit of a pain because you'd have to keep it running all the time.
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Occasionally I'll see corruption like this at the bottom of a window: It usually goes away if I scroll up or down or switch windows and then back. Any ideas as to what's causing it?
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I've got an older Mac Mini that runs headless as a media server. I've been using LogMeIn to manage it from my PC and my iPad, and it works fine but it's pretty slow. I was hoping to use Splashtop since I've heard it's much faster, but after getting it all setup I find out that Splashtop currently doesn't support headless and fails to connect unless you've got a monitor hooked up. Is there anyway to 'trick' the mini into thinking a monitor is actually connected? Or is there a better alternative remote-desktop app that's fast and multiplatform?
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Uh, VNC. It's built into OS X (it's what Screen Sharing uses when you turn it on in System Preferences > Sharing), and it's open source so there's a client for practically any device or computer. It'll be decently fast when connected over a local network, but it will suck if you try to connect to it from a remote network.
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Dec 23, 2011 21:37
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Well the performance kind of blows with the built in server for anything other than Screen Sharing, so it'll probably about as fast/slow as LogMeIn and other stuff. But yeah it's the most cross platform thing you'll have by far.
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#1 tip for using VNC: make the desktop background a solid color.
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My MacBook Air won't reconnect automatically to the wifi at my parent's place. My brother's MacBook pro and my Mom's HP Windows Vista Laptop will reconnect fine. My MBA will connect if I go to the drop down, but if I close it and reopen it, it has no internet until I do the drop down. I only rarely have this problem on any other routes, and never this consistently. The MBA is running 10.7.2. The router is running DD-WRT v24 (05/24/08) micro, with WPA2 Personal TKIP encryption. Any ideas?
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Dec 24, 2011 02:31
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Pretty sure WPA2 only does AES encryption. Anyway, try adjusting the router from trying to downgrade connections. If it's set to 802.11b/g/n, try setting it to N only and see what works and what doesn't. If not N, try G then B. Any other feature that has some auto downgrade thing, adjust that to not do anything automatically as well. While I haven't had this problem with Mac hardware, this did resolve similar issues on a network with multiple Windows laptops.
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modig posted:Any ideas? Do you have bluetooth on?
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PRADA SLUT posted:What should I use to download YouTube videos in Lion? JDownloader (https://www.jdownloader.org) works like a charm, and you can choose if you want MP4, WEBM, or FLV. SD or HD. It is an excellent multipurpose cross-platform website file downloading tool. Can be used for all sorts of download sites.
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Yet another option for YouTube, if you like the command line, is 'youtube-dl', easily installable via Homebrew.
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I'm having trouble with f.lux on snow leopard (early '11 MBP). Previewing works, and after previewing the temperature will usually stay adjusted temporarily, but after a few minutes (recently its been more like seconds) it goes back to default temp. Any ideas?
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SpeakIng of screen sharing, does anyone have a good/easy solution to sharing the screen of a remote Mac behind a router? My friend wants to be able to log into his dad's iMac and do whatever maintenance needs to be done (software updates, etc.) without having to bother his dad about it (so iChat is out). We could of course set up port forwarding on the router, but there's still the issue of knowing his dad's current ip address. It would be nice if there were some simple, back-to-my-Mac-style way of doing it that would handle that poo poo automatically.
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Choadmaster posted:SpeakIng of screen sharing, does anyone have a good/easy solution to sharing the screen of a remote Mac behind a router? My friend wants to be able to log into his dad's iMac and do whatever maintenance needs to be done (software updates, etc.) without having to bother his dad about it (so iChat is out). We could of course set up port forwarding on the router, but there's still the issue of knowing his dad's current ip address. It would be nice if there were some simple, back-to-my-Mac-style way of doing it that would handle that poo poo automatically. I use LogmeIn for this. It's free to use on the website, and there's now a free iOS app for it so you can control the machines from your iPhone or iPad. I should mention that logmein handles the NAT traversal business automatically so you don't have to do any port forwarding or anything. Also, if you port forward SSH to his mac, you can ssh in and do software updates and it won't even bother him  sudo softwareupdate -a -i -v Of course, for some updates you'll have to reboot. Which he might notice. echobucket fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Dec 24, 2011 |
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Sigma posted:Do you have bluetooth on? Bluetooth is off. I'll try g like only wolffenstein said. edit: g only and switching from TKIP to AES doesn't help. I'm spending way more time trying to solve this than it would actually cost me. modig fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Dec 24, 2011 |
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I just installed Lion on my parents' Mac Mini and I can't find the setting to disable "natural scrolling". Is there something I can set with defaults write?
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Kilted Yaksman posted:I just installed Lion on my parents' Mac Mini and I can't find the setting to disable "natural scrolling". Is there something I can set with defaults write? Check the Trackpad pane.
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Kilted Yaksman posted:I just installed Lion on my parents' Mac Mini and I can't find the setting to disable "natural scrolling". Is there something I can set with defaults write? Something is going on 
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Kilted Yaksman posted:I just installed Lion on my parents' Mac Mini and I can't find the setting to disable "natural scrolling". Is there something I can set with defaults write?
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Kilted Yaksman posted:I just installed Lion on my parents' Mac Mini and I can't find the setting to disable "natural scrolling". Is there something I can set with defaults write? This almost looks as thought OS X thinks the mouse doesn't do scrolling at all. What kind of mouse is it?
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Yeah, 10.7.2 is installed, and the mouse is a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0. There's also a microsoft mouse prefpane installed but I don't see a scroll direction option there either.
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Kilted Yaksman posted:Yeah, 10.7.2 is installed, and the mouse is a Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0. There's also a microsoft mouse prefpane installed but I don't see a scroll direction option there either.
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I just uninstalled the IntelliMouse software, and I have the full mouse prefpane back (yes!), but now the back/forward side buttons don't work.
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Now that you have the natural scrolling turned off, you may be able to reinstall the software. I don't know if it will turn natural scrolling back on.
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Any idea why my 2011 MBP (running Snow Leopard) would choke on writing from a DVD while my old PowerBook (running Leopard) works fine? I got a book for Christmas with a large DVD attached, which I would prefer to access locally. On my MBP, if I just lasso all the folders on the DVD to a folder on my desktop it stops writing after a few seconds and the drive makes a little click-y sound. Trying to create a disk image also fails with "input/output error." Seems to be working fine on the ol' PB. Pretty weird.
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The optical drives Apple puts in their computers are garbage. I have trouble playing a bunch of DVDs on my Macs where my PS3 has never met a disc it couldn't play. My Mad Men season 1 disc 1 warns me about bad sectors and has to skip over a bunch of scenes. Every other player I own plays it fine.
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That's true, but it's still dumb to use optical disks for movies these days. Christmas present? I would call them and express disappointment in their build quality.
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royalejest posted:Recently, my iMac has started dropping my wifi connection periodically. I haven't fixed it yet, but I've had this problem on my iMac (actually 2 of them - the first one I bought within a week, the logic board or power supply poo poo itself so I returned it). With both of them, WiFi would drop. Could be 30 seconds (repeatedly), 10 minutes or an hour. I went through one round of tech support with Apple Care and have a scheduled appointment for this Friday (the 30th) with the tech support for Airport / etc. (I'll report back if I learn anything) I went through a few of the power-on options (CMD + OPTION + P + R + power button) with Apple Care already. I also talked to a friend who works the Genius Bar at my local store. They seemed baffled. It's close enough to the router to run a Cat6 cable so I haven't been stressing about it. But I know it's that machine's issue as my MBP and my roommates Win7 machine aren't affected by this.
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fleshweasel posted:That's true, but it's still dumb to use optical disks for movies these days.
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Cyne posted:Any idea why my 2011 MBP (running Snow Leopard) would choke on writing from a DVD while my old PowerBook (running Leopard) works fine? I got a book for Christmas with a large DVD attached, which I would prefer to access locally. On my MBP, if I just lasso all the folders on the DVD to a folder on my desktop it stops writing after a few seconds and the drive makes a little click-y sound. Trying to create a disk image also fails with "input/output error." Seems to be working fine on the ol' PB. Pretty weird.
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Cyne posted:Any idea why my 2011 MBP (running Snow Leopard) would choke on writing from a DVD while my old PowerBook (running Leopard) works fine? I got a book for Christmas with a large DVD attached, which I would prefer to access locally. On my MBP, if I just lasso all the folders on the DVD to a folder on my desktop it stops writing after a few seconds and the drive makes a little click-y sound. Trying to create a disk image also fails with "input/output error." Seems to be working fine on the ol' PB. Pretty weird. You got Applecare, right? Tell me you got Applecare.
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why would it matter on his 2011 mbp p.s. the reason it doesnt work is that it's broken. i recommend making an appointment at an apple store.
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smax posted:You got Applecare, right? Tell me you got Applecare. But yes, get AppleCare. Please.
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fleshweasel posted:p.s. the reason it doesnt work is that it's broken. Well that makes sense.  I guess I just wanted to see if it could possibly be a system issue or something before making the trek to the nearest Apple store (actually not that bad, there's one about an hour in either direction, I just don't get out to those parts often).
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I just came across an unopened, $249.00 "AppleCare Protection Plan" for "Macbook/iBook." The bottom of the back says "register now to activate." Since it's unopened, does this mean it is definitely unused and I can attempt to resell it? It's ~4 years old, so I'm not sure if it will still apply to current laptops. Edit: Next to the bar-code it says "MA519LL/A". It seems like different versions are being sold for different prices. How do I go about finding what I can apply this to? These are buy-it-now for $100, whereas this is being bid on and is up to $174. Blinky2099 fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Dec 26, 2011 |
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