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Anal Tributary posted:Is there anything less buggy than BetterTouchTool for remapping trackpad gestures? I just map three-finger click to middle mouse click in Chrome because it doesn't natively support three-finger click -> open in new tab. Thing is BTT is annoying as hell: it refuses to start up when I log in, no matter how many times I add it to login items, and it only works for maybe half of the clicks I do. Is there another program that works better for the same thing? I use jitouch to re-enter the 21st century, where having a middle mouse button/3-finger tap to open new tabs is a no-brainer.
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withak posted:My colloquy window casts a shadow. Both of mine do, although the connections window's shadow is very small, and only easily noticeable at the bottom edge. Which is a bit weird, as it at the bottom it's canted off to the right a bit, but there's drat near nothing on the right edge, where it should be [roughly] equally visible. That said, tell me more about jitouch. From its website, I'm not seeing anything different from BTT, except that their defaults are different from what I've already set myself. (Also, cmd+click is nicely ingrained in my head as it is.)
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Jan 7, 2012 06:20
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Rated PG-34 posted:Canada finally has iTunes Match. Too bad it's a buggy piece of poo poo. A quarter of the way through the upload process, my connection fails so that I have to re-scan my whole collection and start the upload process again from scratch Sorry your Canadian Internet connection sucks.  Seriously though, iTunes match does have some problems, but I really, really like it now that I've used it a few months. I'm sure by this time next year, it'll be a lot better of an experience, but it's definitely worth the $25 right now.
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Vertigus posted:I use jitouch to re-enter the 21st century, where having a middle mouse button/3-finger tap to open new tabs is a no-brainer. Thanks for the suggestion, but jtouch seems to break tap-to-click randomly, like every 4th or 5th tap just doesn't register at all.
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Jan 7, 2012 07:06
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Vertigus posted:I use jitouch to re-enter the 21st century, where having a middle mouse button/3-finger tap to open new tabs is a no-brainer. Holy poo poo thanks for this. I had the same issues with three-finger click and BTT not working half the time and thought it was a lost cause. jitouch seems to work every time for me reliably. (I prefer clicks to taps) I thought I was doomed to ctrl-click forever 
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Jan 7, 2012 08:24
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Just fyi, yesterday apple launched an update that broke duplex printing on some brother, like the hl5130dn. The way to fix this problem is to remove the printer in system preference, install the brother driver you can find on :http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/index.html. then you need to add the printer.
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Jan 7, 2012 12:00
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PDP-1 posted:Yep, the font files have no extensions at all, and there was a folder with a _BlahBlah style name that came along with the original package. Being a Mac idiot I assumed that that folder was just some kind of OSX junk and deleted it, but apparently that was both dumb and wrong.  . That said I'm not sure if they'd work in Win/Linux even if they were there, but I haven't messed with that kind of stuff in a while. If you just need to look over the output and not mess with anything, get her to output to PDF-X if possible, it's supposed to embed everything.
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maduin posted:Sorry your Canadian Internet connection sucks. I'm fairly certain that this isn't a connection issue or at least it isn't one on my end. I think iTunes Match is just barfing because it's a buggy piece of poo poo.
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Jan 7, 2012 13:55
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I had problems with the initial iTunes Match upload, not because of iTunes Match itself but because my cable modem kept making GBS threads itself and restarting constantly when iTunes pegged the upload at 6MB/sec for more than a few seconds. Fortunately, there is a way to fix this! In a terminal, run: code:code:code:
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Jan 7, 2012 18:20
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withak posted:My colloquy window casts a shadow. If you minimize it and then bring it back by clicking on its preview icon in the right hand side of the dock, does it still have a shadow? That seems to be what makes mine lose it's shadow
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Jan 7, 2012 19:26
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on iTunes Match: I'd be pretty surprised if it was actually restarting the upload of your collection from scratch. I had to run it a few times, do some weird loving toggling and poo poo to get it to go, but eventually it all went up. Now on my phone, it can be a little sketchy especially depending on the service when I have it stream over 3g. I will sometimes tap one song and have its play screen come up and have a different song actually play back. It will sometimes assign random album art to things. All in all it's pretty disappointing for Apple. It's the first time I've had access to my whole library on my phone like this, so I do like it when it actually works.
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Jan 7, 2012 19:42
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Martytoof posted:If you minimize it and then bring it back by clicking on its preview icon in the right hand side of the dock, does it still have a shadow? That seems to be what makes mine lose it's shadow I'm not sure what preview icon you mean, but the shadow is still there after a bunch of minimizing and maximizing.
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Jan 7, 2012 19:50
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This photo library/inspiration app is free today: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sparkbox/id488652149?mt=12 Downloaded it and it's a bit terrible. The concept is nice but it's glitchy as hell (text entry can sometimes freeze/disappear but enter your typing anyway so you don't know what's going on, autocomplete wipes out banks of tags etc...). However, I really need something like that - something I can archive my reference library in. I could just use Inspector to tag all my images in preview and search via spotlight, but this prog would be more useful, if it were any good. Would love some recommendations on something that's reliable and does a similar job. Happy to pay. E: running 10.6.8, in case that makes a difference.
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Jan 7, 2012 21:02
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There are certain directories in my home directory that I want to share with my wife's user account on the same machine. When I share the directory, it allows her to see the contents, but she can't open any of the media. If I apply the changes to all contents, she can open the videos that are in the folder, but not any new videos that I add. Is there any simple way for me to share these ever changing files and directories with another user account? I'm running Lion, BTW. Thanks!
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Jan 7, 2012 22:11
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Anal Tributary posted:Thanks for the suggestion, but jtouch seems to break tap-to-click randomly, like every 4th or 5th tap just doesn't register at all. Are you sure there's not some issue with your trackpad? I only use tap-to-click and I haven't had any problems.
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Jan 7, 2012 22:26
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dexter6 posted:There are certain directories in my home directory that I want to share with my wife's user account on the same machine. When I share the directory, it allows her to see the contents, but she can't open any of the media. If I apply the changes to all contents, she can open the videos that are in the folder, but not any new videos that I add.
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Jan 7, 2012 22:49
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japtor posted:Maybe something with ACLs or other stuff that's over my head. Have you tried using /Users/Shared? I'm not sure that'll solve the problem of new files being unreadable by her but it's worth a shot, unless you have other users on the computer that you don't want to share with.
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EDIT: Hey look, this isn't the SOPA thread in this tab anymore!
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Jan 7, 2012 23:41
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Can anyone recommend an app that I can use to make some nice-looking charts and graphs for a brochure? Searched MacUpdate but didn't come up with anything that looked great. Alternatively, Excel actually does a decent job of this, but if anyone knows of a way to export print-quality images of them from Excel (other than the somewhat obnoxious and imperfect print-to-PDF), that'd be awesome.
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Jan 8, 2012 00:25
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I think Omni makes some app specifically for fancy charts and graphs so look them up. Otherwise the iWork suite has a trial (Numbers can output fancy stuff), but I'm not sure if the export options are any better. Print layouts are a lot easier in it than Excel though so that might work.
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Jan 8, 2012 01:20
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A couple of days ago when starting up my MacBook Pro (late-2008, 15"), the shift key was suddenly stuck. Therefore it constantly boots in safe mode and I can't log in because I use lower case letters in my password. I can override it by plugging in a USB keyboard, but as soon as I touch the MacBook's keyboard, the shift key is stuck again. When I look at the Keyboard Viewer (I'm not sure that's what it's called in English, but I mean the graphic display of your keyboard that shows which buttons are being pressed) I can see that it's the left shift key that's the problem. When I write on the USB keyboard it isn't pressed down, but when I jump back on the MacBook keyboard, it gets stuck. It's out of warranty but I googled the problem and noticed a couple of other people have had the same issue with the same model as mine. I'm gonna call Apple on Monday and check if they've heard of it, but has anyone here experienced the same thing?
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Jan 8, 2012 02:26
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Does Lion still install a poo poo ton of printer drivers like the older versions of OSX did?
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Jan 8, 2012 03:35
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Rubiks Pubes posted:Does Lion still install a poo poo ton of printer drivers like the older versions of OSX did? japtor posted:I think Omni makes some app specifically for fancy charts and graphs so look them up. Even for what it does, though, it's fairly rudimentary. For more advanced stuff (still more design-oriented than actually data-driven), OmniGraffle will probably do it. Both are available in the Mac (and iPad) App store.
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Tippis posted:It comes with an optional install package for a poo poo-ton of printers, but it only seems like it install maybe a poo poo-kilo of them by default. Where can I get this?
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Vertigus posted:Are you sure there's not some issue with your trackpad? I only use tap-to-click and I haven't had any problems. I dunno. I set it to lowest sensitivity and used it with my Magic Trackpad and it just seemed like it was dropping taps. Been fine since I stopped running it 
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Rubiks Pubes posted:Does Lion still install a poo poo ton of printer drivers like the older versions of OSX did? No. It detects your printer and downloads the drivers you need for that specific model.
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Eight Is Legend posted:A couple of days ago when starting up my MacBook Pro (late-2008, 15"), the shift key was suddenly stuck.
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Jan 8, 2012 08:52
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Lazyhound posted:Does anyone know why my hosts file would reset itself every time I reboot? It's been doing this since I upgraded to Lion. I've found reference to the issue on Google, but no solution/explanation. This is what the file perms look like:
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Jan 8, 2012 09:57
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TACD posted:Does it do this even if you pop the keycap off? There's no crud under there or anything? I actually haven't - I popped off the Caps Lock key since I initially thought that was the issue, but I'll try the shift key.
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Does anybody here know of some software that will allow me to make rapid screen captures? Something that will automatically take a screenshot every second or half second.
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Lazyhound posted:Anyone have a clue on this one? The permissions on my hosts file are the same. However, I noticed you were looking at the hosts file in /private/etc which I had no idea existed. After I did cat /private/etc I noticed it was identical to /etc/hosts, despite the fact that I have only ever edited /etc/hosts. So it seems plausible that /etc/hosts is the master hosts file which gets copied to /private/etc/hosts? Or I'm talking out of my rear end. At any rate, try changing /etc/hosts instead, and if that doesn't work change the permissions of all your hosts files to -r--r--r--
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Cockwhore posted:At any rate, try changing /etc/hosts instead, and if that doesn't work change the permissions of all your hosts files to -r--r--r-- I'm not sure what /private is for; the hier(7) man page doesn't mention it and the URL it points to on Apple's developer site is a 404. I'm about to get on a plane so I can't look into it more. FWIW though, /etc is just a symlink to /private/etc so it doesn't matter which you edit.
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Danger Kick posted:Does anybody here know of some software that will allow me to make rapid screen captures? Something that will automatically take a screenshot every second or half second. QuickTime player (at least in Lion) will let you record a movie of the screen. Is there a reason you specifically need screenshots instead of that?
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Choadmaster posted:Can anyone recommend an app that I can use to make some nice-looking charts and graphs for a brochure? Searched MacUpdate but didn't come up with anything that looked great. Adobe Illustrator, maybe Numbers, but I prefer LaTeX and PGF/TikZ and PGF Plots. Depends on what you want the end results to specifically look like. Might be more of a learning curve than you're looking for though.
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On my old Macbook I downloaded some file which gave me a UK English dictionary and changed my keyboard from a US one to a UK one (some keys are different). I want to do the same thing on my new Macbook, but have no idea what I did. Can anyone help? Changing the language settings under International hasn't worked...
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CaptainCaveman posted:QuickTime player (at least in Lion) will let you record a movie of the screen. Is there a reason you specifically need screenshots instead of that? I'm making animated gifs and this would save me the step of exporting the frames. And I don't have to worry about compression. I'm still on the lookout for some software that will give me more control, but I'm using a terminal command that will do the job right now.
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Is there an app or setting so all the applications are set to the same sound level?
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I have a few hundred files in different folders that need to be moved into the same folder. Many of the files have the same filename, so I want to add the current folder name to the beginning of the filename. Is there anything I can do in automator to fix this?
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I'm going to ask here instead of IYG. A friend of mine just got a new iMac, her first computer in years since she's been broke more or less. The thing is, she has an iPhone 4 running iOS 5, and it's been synched up to her work computer since she's not had a computer for home. I told her to hold off on synching her iPhone to her new iMac as I am worried that it will wipe out all of her phone's addresses, photos, etc. Is there a way she can backup her iPhone to her work's iMac and then transfer the information to her new home iMac, and if so, how?
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So now that globalSAN is a paid product, are there any free iSCSI initiators that work with Lion? Why can't they just build this into the OS already?
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