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Ever since installed Mountain Lion, I have an incredibly strange issue with my MacbookPro8,1. Whenever I bring my laptop back home and it connects to my home Wifi network, it automatically connects to my AirFoil Speakers setup on my Windows PC, without me ever changing that setting. This now happens every time I return home in the afternoon from work and it baffles me why it has automatically become the default setting. I'm at work right now, but when I am at home it is set to "Fractal Speakers" (my Airfoil Speakers name).  tl;dr: essentially my mbp is directly connecting to an airplay receiver every time I connect to my home wifi network, how can i prevent this from being the default choice? "Boom Device" is Boom, by the way.
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Aug 9, 2012 17:32
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Toph posted:I have a really odd problem on Mountain Lion, and would appreciate goony insight: Huh, I just tested and confirmed it on mine, too. Strange.
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Aug 9, 2012 17:34
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Quick question and this seemed like it might be (hopefully!) the best place for it: I've got a PDF with a list of names and phone numbers in column format. It's the kind of PDF where I'm able to copy and paste stuff from it -- I'd really like to somehow import this data into the Contacts application on my mac so it'll sync up with my iPhone and put it all in there, but I don't see any way to do this other than copying and pasting names and numbers field by field -- there's not even an apparent way to copy and paste the information for an entire contact in there at once. Is there a relatively painless method for a not-incredibly-savvy person to import this data into my contacts list from a PDF, or am I stuck doing it the tedious way? Thanks so much
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Aug 9, 2012 18:41
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I have yet to buy anything from the App Store, because bad experiences with getting locked out of iTouch apps has soured me on having to log in to use an App. I am behind the times, but it looks like Pixelmator does what I need and it is only available from the App Store. So I have questions: Has the App Store made any of that less of a hassle or does it end up being even more of a hassle than the iTunes Stuff? As an example, can I take a program to a new computer that does not have internet access and use it, or will it need to call home to be able to be used on a new computer? In other words, is it activation based? Does everyone on the computer have access to the program?
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Aug 9, 2012 18:51
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pupdive posted:Has the App Store made any of that less of a hassle or does it end up being even more of a hassle than the iTunes Stuff? To sort of answer your question, I've had zero problems with the App Store. You buy the app, it goes in your Applications folder, and you do whatever you want with it. Everyone with read/execute access to /Applications (or wherever you feel like moving the app) can use it. Sonic Dude fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Aug 9, 2012 |
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Aug 9, 2012 18:58
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dox posted:Ever since installed Mountain Lion, I have an incredibly strange issue with my MacbookPro8,1. Whenever I bring my laptop back home and it connects to my home Wifi network, it automatically connects to my AirFoil Speakers setup on my Windows PC, without me ever changing that setting. This now happens every time I return home in the afternoon from work and it baffles me why it has automatically become the default setting. Try messing around in Audio MIDI Setup. You may be able to disable the speakers from there, or possibly create an Aggregate Device (click the "+") that doesn't include them and set that to be used for output.
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Aug 9, 2012 19:00
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I swear I'm not a shill for Alfred, but I just stumbled across this Extension tutorial for quickly starting new projects and pulling live code down automatically. I'm sure it could be bent and tweaked in all sorts of different ways: http://youtu.be/jMsM3L2asGk
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Aug 9, 2012 19:44
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pupdive posted:It's normally $29.99, not $59.99. The outside sites are all repeating the same old info. (Is it really only available through the App Store?) I'm just going by what it says on the http://pixelmator.com website. 
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Aug 9, 2012 19:44
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AppShopper says that it's gone back and forth between both prices. This is a good deal though no matter which one you consider the "real" price.
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Aug 9, 2012 19:52
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pupdive posted:Is [the MAS] activation based? Does everyone on the computer have access to the program? As I understand, they are connected/activated through your Apple ID. Applications will work fine on different computers as long as you sign into the same Apple ID. (source) Otherwise, I've had literally no problems with the Mac App Store. You buy an App, it downloads, appears in Applications and works. Reformat? Log in to your Apple ID, click Install and it'll even install every previous application you've bought automagically, or you can do it manually. Pretty seamless if you ask me.
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Aug 9, 2012 19:58
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iPhoto keeps wanting to be updated through the App Store. I've updated it maybe 4 times, but it keeps showing up in the App Store as having an update available. I click update, it downloads and installs, goes away for a few days, then it comes back. It's the same update every time (the one from July 25th). It's not a huge deal but it's a little annoying.
moon demon fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Aug 9, 2012 |
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Aug 9, 2012 20:28
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pipes! posted:I swear I'm not a shill for Alfred, but I just stumbled across this Extension tutorial for quickly starting new projects and pulling live code down automatically. I'm sure it could be bent and tweaked in all sorts of different ways: I purchased Alfred a couple of weeks ago and love it. It has completely replaced Spotlight for me. Extensions are great too - so many good ones already developed and very easy to add your own utility shell and applescripts. This is purely anecdotal, but it seems to be much more polished and consistent in its behavior than a lot of the older alternatives like Quicksilver.
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Aug 9, 2012 20:41
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As was posted in the Apple Development thread in CoC, Textmate 2 is now open source (GPLv3): https://github.com/textmate/textmate It's still pretty much prerelease quality, though.
carry on then fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Aug 9, 2012 |
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Aug 9, 2012 20:45
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Is there some sort of utility that will let me specify where sound outputs for individual apps, while the utility is running? Basically I want to be able to specify that say, audio from Skype goes through my headset, but audio from quicktime goes through my macbook's speakers.
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Aug 9, 2012 20:56
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devilmouse posted:Every so often, someone will write up a "The First Things I Do with a New Mac" article. Not a "My first Mac" guide or something for people coming from Windows, but rather, an article detailing all the random terminal commands to run to make the settings sane, the slightly esoteric software to install and the best ordering, and so on. A couple months ago I threw an SSD in my Mini and decided to start 100% from scratch (clean install of Lion, reinstalling the apps I still wanted, manually copying data and getting everything configured how I wanted, etc.) One of the things I did in preparation was go through the Tips & Tricks section on OS X Daily and copied anything I knew I wanted or thought might be useful into a document.
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Aug 9, 2012 21:07
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Porkchop Express posted:Is there some sort of utility that will let me specify where sound outputs for individual apps, while the utility is running? Basically I want to be able to specify that say, audio from Skype goes through my headset, but audio from quicktime goes through my macbook's speakers. http://cycling74.com/products/soundflower/ Here you go - I use it daily.
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Aug 9, 2012 21:10
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Sonic Dude posted:I think you're going to have to be more specific about what you want to know. "more of a hassle than the iTunes stuff" doesn't help us know exactly what you mean when you say "experiences with getting locked out of [iPod touch] apps." What happens when you take the app to a computer that does not have internet access?
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Aug 9, 2012 21:34
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pupdive posted:What happens when you take the app to a computer that does not have internet access? Individual apps might have some kind of “call home” features, but that's some silliness the developer has decided on in that case, and not something that has anything to do with the app store. Sure, you can't update the apps without internet, but then that's hardly surprising for a digital distribution service… or, hell, it wouldn't be surprising even in the case of physical software distribution — when was the last time you got an update delivered on any kind of physical media rather than download it from the publisher's site?
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Aug 9, 2012 21:54
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pupdive posted:I need to do some standard cropping/resizing of photos for ID cards, and I want a program that does it fast and makes decisions for me so I end up with reasonable size etc. Arivia posted:It might be that all updated apps need to be sandboxed. Like my diary application was sandboxed in the last update. Why would you sandbox a diary app?! For pretty good reasons, seeing as one of its selling points is cloud integration. mediaphage posted:Huh, I just tested and confirmed it on mine, too. Strange. pupdive posted:What happens when you take the app to a computer that does not have internet access?
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Aug 9, 2012 22:32
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pipes! posted:I swear I'm not a shill for Alfred, but I just stumbled across this Extension tutorial for quickly starting new projects and pulling live code down automatically. I'm sure it could be bent and tweaked in all sorts of different ways: I don't understand why you need alfred instead of just saving that shell script locally and running it with an argument.
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Aug 9, 2012 23:30
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Ziploc posted:Holy poo poo. Is there really no way to disable scroll acceleration? https://github.com/davekeck/DisableExtremeScrollAcceleration Finally. It was driving me frigging batty, especially since everyone you try to explain it to thinks you're talking about intertial scrolling or something else that you can actually adjust.
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Aug 9, 2012 23:48
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I'm really sorry if this has been asked before. But my google-fu is weak. Essentially the only thing stopping me from using Safari on my macbook is SALR not being available. Is there some place I'm missing?
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Aug 10, 2012 04:16
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First hit searching for salr safari: https://github.com/scottferg/salr-safari
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Aug 10, 2012 04:18
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ONEMANWOLFPACK posted:I'm really sorry if this has been asked before. But my google-fu is weak. Essentially the only thing stopping me from using Safari on my macbook is SALR not being available. Is there some place I'm missing? Isn't the Last Read functionality built into the site now? What is SALR for?
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Aug 10, 2012 04:19
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Basically SALR tells you how many new posts in (parenthesis). It's very handy to know how many replies there are. I did google it and that did come up but I really am embarassed to admit I don't understand those instructions at all. It says to download it through chrome. I'm lost. Why can't it just be a simple .pkg ? Can anyone dumb it down for me? Thanks and sorry.
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Aug 10, 2012 04:23
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Porkchop Express posted:Is there some sort of utility that will let me specify where sound outputs for individual apps, while the utility is running? Basically I want to be able to specify that say, audio from Skype goes through my headset, but audio from quicktime goes through my macbook's speakers. Doesn't Skype have its own app pref for audio output/input? Other VOIP apps I've used all do.
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Aug 10, 2012 04:26
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ONEMANWOLFPACK posted:Basically SALR tells you how many new posts in (parenthesis). It's very handy to know how many replies there are. I did google it and that did come up but I really am embarassed to admit I don't understand those instructions at all. It says to download it through chrome. I'm lost. Why can't it just be a simple .pkg ? Can anyone dumb it down for me? Thanks and sorry. But the SA Forums already does this
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Aug 10, 2012 04:33
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Mu Zeta posted:But the SA Forums already does this Oh wow it does. The SALR has the counter in Re but the forums default one is at the right of the title column. Thanks!
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Aug 10, 2012 04:42
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goferchan posted:Quick question and this seemed like it might be (hopefully!) the best place for it: I've got a PDF with a list of names and phone numbers in column format. It's the kind of PDF where I'm able to copy and paste stuff from it -- I'd really like to somehow import this data into the Contacts application on my mac so it'll sync up with my iPhone and put it all in there, but I don't see any way to do this other than copying and pasting names and numbers field by field -- there's not even an apparent way to copy and paste the information for an entire contact in there at once. Is there a relatively painless method for a not-incredibly-savvy person to import this data into my contacts list from a PDF, or am I stuck doing it the tedious way? Thanks so much See if you can copy the information into Excel. Be sure to split up first names and last names into different columns and to name the columns accordingly. Save as --> .csv Open up Contacts, File --> Import Go to your .csv file and it'll pop up a window asking how to import the fields. If that doesn't work, let me know and I can try to format it for you. I've got some tools on my computer and I have access to a full version of Acrobat at work--if all else fails I can do some magic there and format it for you. Honestly I haven't done exactly this before so I don't know what you'll need to do, but I've got a good idea of what needs to happen--it'll just take some trial and error. smax fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Aug 10, 2012 |
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Aug 10, 2012 04:56
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ONEMANWOLFPACK posted:Basically SALR tells you how many new posts in (parenthesis). It's very handy to know how many replies there are. I did google it and that did come up but I really am embarassed to admit I don't understand those instructions at all. It says to download it through chrome. I'm lost. Why can't it just be a simple .pkg ? Can anyone dumb it down for me? Thanks and sorry. https://github.com/downloads/scottferg/salr-safari/salr-safari.safariextz
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Aug 10, 2012 05:21
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Thank you again!
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Mu Zeta posted:But the SA Forums already does this SALR does a lot more (no idea about the Safari version as I don't use Safari, talking about the Chrome and FF-versions), like colouring your posts if cited, coloring your posts period, colouring the posts of the OP, Mods, Admins, converting links to pics (configurable for spoilers/NMS/NWS), removing footer/header of the forum, allowing you to navigate with mouse gestures, thread filtering, quick navigation, quick reply, ignore threads, remove links...
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Aug 10, 2012 06:36
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~Coxy posted:Doesn't Skype have its own app pref for audio output/input? Other VOIP apps I've used all do.
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Aug 10, 2012 10:59
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Has anyone tried OmniFocus? It looks good, but it's $40(!)
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Aug 10, 2012 16:09
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Arivia posted:Has anyone tried OmniFocus? It looks good, but it's $40(!) It's pretty much the GTD (getting things done) app. If you follow that strategy/philosophy/whathaveyou, it's the app you want (and there's a neat iOS version as well that lets you synch the two rather effortlessly). If all you want is a reminders/time management app, then it's still very good, if maybe a bit quirky since it assumes you'll want to do certain things with your tasks.
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Aug 10, 2012 16:19
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Tippis posted:It's pretty much the GTD (getting things done) app. I don't think I'm familiar with that philosophy. Is there a link or a guide or something?
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Aug 10, 2012 16:24
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Tippis posted:It's pretty much the GTD (getting things done) app. © DavidCo, 2001
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Aug 10, 2012 16:33
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Arivia posted:I don't think I'm familiar with that philosophy. Is there a link or a guide or something? http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/08/getting-started-with-getting-things-done
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Aug 10, 2012 17:07
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I want my mouse's scroll wheel to scroll traditionally, and my trackpad to scroll naturally. Even though there is a setting for each in the Mouse and Trackpad Preferences respectively, setting one causes a corresponding change in the other. Is there really no way to have this, even on Mountain Lion?
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Hm, this looks interesting. To avoid derailing the thread, is there a separate thread about this, or with discussion of comparable life-organizing philosophies? I could probably use one.Lexicon posted:I want my mouse's scroll wheel to scroll traditionally, and my trackpad to scroll naturally. Even though there is a setting for each in the Mouse and Trackpad Preferences respectively, setting one causes a corresponding change in the other. Is there really no way to have this, even on Mountain Lion?
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