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Trackpad scrolling is divine and probably my favorite part of mac. Awaiting my Magic Trackpad for my big mother of a two-screen x86 setup. It's really big, if it's really good I may even try to draw with it.
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Is there a way in Mountain Lion to force every folder in OSX automatically sort everything by name (or file kind?) I'm tired of opening folders and having all my poo poo strewn about.
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Aug 12, 2013 20:13
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PRADA SLUT posted:Is there a way in Mountain Lion to force every folder in OSX automatically sort everything by name (or file kind?) I think that's what the options are called. I don't have an OS X machine in front of me right now.
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Aug 12, 2013 20:45
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Would it be worth upgrading to Mavericks on my late-2008 MacBook Pro once it drops or would it get too sluggish running it? Planning on throwing in an SSD soon, if that makes a difference.
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Aug 12, 2013 21:46
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:There's a "Use as Defaults" button when you modify a folder's View Options. Yep 
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Aug 12, 2013 21:56
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Kingnothing posted:Apple only supports poo poo that old because people would whine that their $3k machine would be obsolete. That machine has already hit vintage status. I'd say sometime in 2014 Apple won't even provide parts for it anymore.
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Aug 12, 2013 22:33
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Crosspost from the haus of tech support: I recently was given an old macbook pro for a birthday present. I do not have the original OS disc that came with it so I can't do a factory reset. Can I download Lion from Apple and install it on my Macbook pro or am I hosed without the original disc? I'm unsure of what exactly I need to in order to make this macbook "mine" fully. Can provide more information if needed.
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Aug 13, 2013 00:40
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Eight Is Legend posted:Would it be worth upgrading to Mavericks on my late-2008 MacBook Pro once it drops or would it get too sluggish running it? Planning on throwing in an SSD soon, if that makes a difference. Mavericks is faster then 10.8 and as a bonus can give even legacy macs a small boost to battery lifetime. So ye, drop the 20 ducats when it drops.
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Aug 13, 2013 00:49
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Noise Machine posted:Crosspost from the haus of tech support: I recently was given an old macbook pro for a birthday present. I do not have the original OS disc that came with it so I can't do a factory reset. Can I download Lion from Apple and install it on my Macbook pro or am I hosed without the original disc? I'm unsure of what exactly I need to in order to make this macbook "mine" fully. Can provide more information if needed. Can you log into it? If so just buy ML from the app store and install it. You can set it to install to a USB drive, and then boot from that to wipe the HDD if you want.
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Aug 13, 2013 00:50
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SRQ posted:Can you log into it? If so just buy ML from the app store and install it. You can set it to install to a USB drive, and then boot from that to wipe the HDD if you want. I can log into it, and by that I mean I can only access the sole user account. I'm not prompted for a password, but I do not know the password for the account or the administrator's password. I'm on the road so I don't have access to a thumb drive, but I have an external HDD. Could I download it to the external and boot from there? Noise Machine fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Aug 13, 2013 |
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Aug 13, 2013 01:00
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Noise Machine posted:I can log into it, and by that I mean I can only access the sole user account. I'm not prompted for a password, but I do not know the password for the account or the administrator's password. I'm on the road so I don't have access to a thumb drive, but I have an external HDD. Could I download it to the external and boot from there? Just follow this guide and you'll be good (As long as this macbook's capable of running mountain lion at all that is)
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Aug 13, 2013 01:14
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Out of curiosity, what version of OS X is installed right now?
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carry on then posted:Out of curiosity, what version of OS X is installed right now? 10.6.8
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Aug 13, 2013 01:39
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Noise Machine posted:10.6.8 If you want to stay with 10.6.8 (it's faster and you should get better battery life, at least until Mavericks ships), I know that Apple at least used to give the disks to you for free if you asked for it at an Apple Store or called customer service.
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Aug 13, 2013 01:56
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I want to move my OSX install from an HDD to an SSD. The current size of the OSX partition is less then the total size of the SSD so that won't be a problem, I just need to figure out exactly how to go about this. I'm not installing 10.9 again it's a pain to download all 4 DP updates. I'm thinking I make an image of the OSX partition and restore it? Is it even possible to make an image of a running disk?
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Aug 13, 2013 02:14
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SRQ posted:I want to move my OSX install from an HDD to an SSD. Carbon copy cloner. Old version is still donation ware.
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Aug 13, 2013 02:31
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Since migrating to OSX I've noticed that Chrome doesn't behave the way it should. I have it set to resume where I left off, but if I restart my computer and then go back into Chrome they're all gone. Am I doing something wrong?
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Aug 13, 2013 04:57
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Don't restart the computer then?
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Aug 13, 2013 06:30
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I cloned the disk using that utility, my god that was entirely painless. Now to see if restoring the image I made of the Windows install that was on that disk earlier to another disk will work at all.
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Aug 13, 2013 08:21
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SRQ posted:I want to move my OSX install from an HDD to an SSD. An alternate to CCC which I've been using in recent times: If you've been using 10.7 / 10.8 / 10.9, you probably have a recovery partition by now. Boot to it. (I forget what the special boot-the-recovery-partition key combo is, I just use the option key to bring up the graphical chooser.) Now you can run Disk Utility instead of performing an install, and use it to "restore" your existing OS X partition to the SSD. No need to go through the intermediate step of creating an image file. You may also want to use Recovery Disk Assistant (free download from Apple) to set up a recovery partition on the SSD before starting the clone.
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Aug 13, 2013 11:40
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Well great, I just bought ML because I'd heard Mavericks won't support my old MBP but apparently it does/very well might? Then again, I guess I can wait a year again for the OS to become stable enough to buy. 
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Aug 13, 2013 12:11
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chupacabraTERROR posted:Don't restart the computer then?
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Aug 13, 2013 13:32
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TopherCStone posted:Since migrating to OSX I've noticed that Chrome doesn't behave the way it should. I have it set to resume where I left off, but if I restart my computer and then go back into Chrome they're all gone. Am I doing something wrong? What setting do you have in System Preferences -> General -> Close windows when quitting an application?
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Aug 13, 2013 15:12
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ShadeofBlue posted:If you want to stay with 10.6.8 (it's faster and you should get better battery life, at least until Mavericks ships), I know that Apple at least used to give the disks to you for free if you asked for it at an Apple Store or called customer service. I bought some music software that requires 10.7 or later. Since Lion is not available in the app store I figure I'd just bite the bullet for ML. This is probably the last OS upgrade I'll get out of this mac too. My dad found an old snow leopard disc and I think I might actually still have my old 2008 macbook box with the OS disc still in it.
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Aug 13, 2013 16:18
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SRQ posted:Mavericks is faster then 10.8 and as a bonus can give even legacy macs a small boost to battery lifetime. Great, thanks! When is it expected to be released?
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Aug 13, 2013 16:19
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Axiem posted:What setting do you have in System Preferences -> General -> Close windows when quitting an application?  I imagine that I should uncheck the box
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Eight Is Legend posted:Great, thanks! When is it expected to be released? TopherCStone posted:
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I can't seem to find a thread on the ipad, but I had a question about them. I've been considering buying one, they seem very convinient to have. I'm learning to program in Python and would like to have one so I can practice on my lunch breaks and maybe get some school work done. Are iPads good at performing this task? And if so can you recommend a model to me?
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3552944
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digitalcamo posted:I can't seem to find a thread on the ipad, but I had a question about them. I've been considering buying one, they seem very convinient to have. I'm learning to program in Python and would like to have one so I can practice on my lunch breaks and maybe get some school work done. Are iPads good at performing this task? And if so can you recommend a model to me? There are a few sadistic people who claim to 'work' on an iPad with a keyboard and ssh client but I'd rather poke my eyes out with a fork.
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ShadeofBlue posted:If you want to stay with 10.6.8 (it's faster and you should get better battery life, at least until Mavericks ships), I know that Apple at least used to give the disks to you for free if you asked for it at an Apple Store or called customer service. It's $20 now if you call customer service but apparently they ship the discs pretty quickly.
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Is there any way for me to take notes on an iPad, dropbox the files back to my mac, and then OCR it into searchable text? The only OCR systems that support handwriting recognition I've found so far are crazy expensive and meant to be licensed and integrated into other software. Are there any standalone apps that do this? Failing that, is there any way to accomplish this, or would I better off just typing up the notes to begin with?
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door Door door posted:Is there any way for me to take notes on an iPad, dropbox the files back to my mac, and then OCR it into searchable text? The only OCR systems that support handwriting recognition I've found so far are crazy expensive and meant to be licensed and integrated into other software. Are there any standalone apps that do this? I use this app ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notes-plus/id374211477?mt=8 ) on my iPad, which has a handwriting recognition thing as an in-app purchase. The whole package is $10 and works pretty well.
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Bedurndurn posted:I use this app ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notes-plus/id374211477?mt=8 ) on my iPad, which has a handwriting recognition thing as an in-app purchase. The whole package is $10 and works pretty well. That looks pretty awesome, and it would save me the hassle of having to OCR them on my computer. How well does the handwriting recognition work?
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door Door door posted:Is there any way for me to take notes on an iPad, dropbox the files back to my mac, and then OCR it into searchable text? Have you thought about Evernote?
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digitalcamo posted:I can't seem to find a thread on the ipad, but I had a question about them. I've been considering buying one, they seem very convinient to have. I'm learning to program in Python and would like to have one so I can practice on my lunch breaks and maybe get some school work done. Are iPads good at performing this task? And if so can you recommend a model to me? Just because something is technically possible doesn't mean it's a good idea.
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vtlock posted:Have you thought about Evernote? I already use Zotero to manage articles so I think I'll look into Notes Plus rather than try to coordinate two programs that do a lot of the same stuff, but thanks for the suggestion.
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japtor posted:I think "Fall" so pretty soon I guess, 1-3 months. The Chrome settings are good, but closing the Chrome window results in my tabs being lost (even with the OSX setting toggled). Actually quitting Chrome altogether does result in my tabs being saved, and I haven't tried it again with a restart yet.
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TopherCStone posted:The Chrome settings are good, but closing the Chrome window results in my tabs being lost (even with the OSX setting toggled). Actually quitting Chrome altogether does result in my tabs being saved, and I haven't tried it again with a restart yet. I think the idea is that when you actually close the application it pages the state to disk but if you tell it to close a window full of tabs then the application is still there but the tabs aren't so it doesn't have anything to page to disk when you actually do end up quitting chrome. Just get into the habit of hitting command+Q instead of command+W, I guess.
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door Door door posted:That looks pretty awesome, and it would save me the hassle of having to OCR them on my computer. How well does the handwriting recognition work? It works pretty well if you're writing real words. If the word you're writing would be underlined in red by a word processor, you might have some trouble.
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