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TACD: Oct 27, 2000

eriddy posted:

Am I on glue or is there no way to purchase an electronic iTunes gift card using a physical Apple Store gift card without going into an Apple Store? I have hundreds of dollars on this card and want to buy some music but I can't figure out how to move my money from this gray card in my wallet to my iTunes account without going to Apple Store I hope I'm wrong.

I don't think anybody else responded to this yet, but I'm pretty sure you're out of luck. The Apple Store and the iTunes Store are kind of separate, you can't use a gift card from one for a purchase at the other. If you want a definite answer then call up iTunes support but I'm 95% certain they'll say you have to go buy a gift card at a store.

# ? Oct 26, 2014 14:47

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# ? Jun 13, 2024 00:59

NeuralSpark: Apr 16, 2004

terriyaki posted:

Kind of a weird Keychain Access / Safari question here:

Whenever I try to sign in over at my health insurance company's website I always get this weird keychain access popup asking me if I want to allow access to an item in my keychain.

I want to delete this item but for some reason I can't actually find it in my keychain.

How do I get this bloody thing to stop popping up?

Edit: Hitting Always Allow doesn't change anything, it will still always pop up.. And it's weird that I can't find the item anywhere in the Keychain..

Your insurance provider has their website configured to allow (but not require) certificate-based authentication, and the pop up is Safari trying to find a certificate to submit. The security subsystem has chosen that one as it thinks it's the best match, and is asking permission to read it from the keychain. This is a site configuration problem, and will continue to happen even if you delete that item.

# ? Oct 26, 2014 16:58

Leathal: Oct 29, 2004; wanna be like gucci?
lil buddy eat your vegetables

Apparently there's a general Bluetooth audio stack problem in Yosemite that causes sound to drift out of sync over time which is really annoying when you dock your laptop expecting to stream a movie while sick in bed.

# ? Oct 27, 2014 00:05

kode54: Nov 26, 2007; aka kuroshi; Fun Shoe

People having trouble with Pages/Numbers/etc not working with Handoff, make sure that iCloud is turned on for them on your iDevices. I checked my iPhone 6, and all three of those have iCloud turned off.

# ? Oct 27, 2014 05:22

Feenix: Mar 14, 2003; Sorry, guy.

So amongst all the other poo poo that runs poorly on my 2010 iMac (I know, shut up) I get stutters/pauses opening finder windows. Presumably because Yosemite can't animate the scaling thingy well on my machine despite that never having been a problem in past OS's. Is there an easy way to disable that? I googled, and am seeing terminal commands for stuff. Didn't there used to be something somewhere in SYSPREFS?

# ? Oct 27, 2014 06:37

brap: Aug 23, 2004; Grimey Drawer

You could try disabling vibrancy in accessibility options.

# ? Oct 27, 2014 07:48

Feenix: Mar 14, 2003; Sorry, guy.

fleshweasel posted:

You could try disabling vibrancy in accessibility options.

Not seeing that under accessibility.

# ? Oct 27, 2014 07:52

Choadmaster: Oct 7, 2004; I don't care how snug they fit, you're nuts!

"Reduce transparency"

# ? Oct 27, 2014 08:55

Michaellaneous: Oct 30, 2013

So I just saw the update for Yosemite and I wondered if some of you folks already have some experience with it? Compatibility, looks, speed?

# ? Oct 27, 2014 10:35

Khelmar: Oct 12, 2003; Things fix me.

This is going to sound really stupid, but anyone here good with Applescript? I'm trying to figure out how to insert a page from one document into another to do a Christmas card envelope merge. I can make separate files for each envelope, but it seems asinine that I can't just combine them all into one Pages document to print them.

# ? Oct 27, 2014 13:09

LPG Giant: Feb 20, 2011

So I'm having an issue with iMovie. I want to completely slowdown a clip of video (that was shot, in slo-mo mode on an iPhone 5S). The problem is, iMovie automatically does it in the same way that iOS shows it, with the beginning and end being normal speed. I can't seem to be able to get rid of the normal speed part at the end, which is really jarring. It looks like this in imovie:

Notice the movie icons: those show that those parts are at normal speed. I tried clicking the movie icons, but they can't be selected. If I click the turtle icon I can drag it to encompass the entire clip, but this dragging doesn't actually do anything and the change doesn't stick.

I know I could overcome this by exporting it from my iPhone with an app (e.g. TruSloMo), but that's hassle and there should just be a way to do this in iMovie right?

# ? Oct 27, 2014 13:24

lunar detritus: May 6, 2009

Michaellaneous posted:

So I just saw the update for Yosemite and I wondered if some of you folks already have some experience with it? Compatibility, looks, speed?

It seems to have a weird memory leak if you use multiple displays. Other than that it works pretty well.

# ? Oct 27, 2014 13:25

Shin-chan: Aug 1, 2008; To be a man you must have honor...
...honor and a penis!

TACD posted:

I don't think anybody else responded to this yet, but I'm pretty sure you're out of luck. The Apple Store and the iTunes Store are kind of separate, you can't use a gift card from one for a purchase at the other. If you want a definite answer then call up iTunes support but I'm 95% certain they'll say you have to go buy a gift card at a store.

It used to be you could use an Apple Store gift card to purchase a physical iTunes Store gift card both in the store and Online (which would have to be shipped). Never the other way though.

It appears they have altered their policy since I did it a couple years ago, but maybe you'd have some luck trying to buy an iTunes card in a store with an Apple Store gift card.

My guess would be that they don't allow this because they probably pay a third party processor and would lose a bit more on having to process the money essentially twice.

# ? Oct 27, 2014 15:52

Vintersorg: Mar 3, 2004; President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club

Love my WiFi dropping every second since upgrading.

# ? Oct 27, 2014 16:06

korora: Sep 3, 2011

LPG Giant posted:

This seems too obvious but have you tried dragging the gray circles above the movie clip icons?

# ? Oct 27, 2014 16:24

dik-dik: Feb 21, 2009

Vintersorg posted:

Love my WiFi dropping every second since upgrading.

Eugh well I guess I'm glad it's not just me?

# ? Oct 27, 2014 16:35

Feenix: Mar 14, 2003; Sorry, guy.

Choadmaster posted:

"Reduce transparency"

This will remove animations?? I'm trying to just have a finder window pop open and not do it's little "sweeping growing" animation that (now) stutters for me in Yos.

# ? Oct 27, 2014 16:38

brap: Aug 23, 2004; Grimey Drawer

Feenix posted:

This will remove animations?? I'm trying to just have a finder window pop open and not do it's little "sweeping growing" animation that (now) stutters for me in Yos.

I am just speculating that reducing transparency will reduce the cost of rendering that animated window.

# ? Oct 27, 2014 16:40

Vintersorg: Mar 3, 2004; President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club

dik-dik posted:

Eugh well I guess I'm glad it's not just me?

Tons of people - tons of "fixes" but no word from Apple.
http://www.macworld.com/article/2839012/apple-mum-as-mac-owners-tussle-with-yosemite-over-wifi-problems.html#tk.rss_all

# ? Oct 27, 2014 16:52

LPG Giant: Feb 20, 2011

korora posted:

This seems too obvious but have you tried dragging the gray circles above the movie clip icons?

Yeah that increases/decreases the amount of speeding up/slowdown. I fixed it by splitting the clip right before it speeds up again, and this new clip I then slowed down. Also a workaround, but at least I didn't have to go back to the phone it was shot with.

# ? Oct 27, 2014 17:39

Vintersorg: Mar 3, 2004; President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club

This seems to have worked for now, haven't been disconnected in 20 minutes.

Changed the order as Bluetooth DUN 2 was at the top and WiFi was buried.

EDIT: Okay, that seemed like a temporary fix. It's disconnected a couple times here and there. We'll see how long this goes.

Vintersorg fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Oct 27, 2014

# ? Oct 27, 2014 19:13

Kobayashi: Aug 13, 2004; by Nyc_Tattoo

This is a bit of a long shot, but links from Mail seem to open in the wrong Safari window. I would expect links I click to open up in the current, foreground Safari window. Instead I have a minimized window and Mail keeps pulling it back up and opening a tab in that window. It's incredibly annoying. Anyone else notice this?

# ? Oct 27, 2014 21:17

Chilled Milk: Jun 22, 2003; No one here is alone,
satellites in every home

dik-dik posted:

It would appear that all of these things are true. gently caress that for real.

I'm not paying another $10 for an app that I bought not 2 months ago.

E: Looks like the beta is still available, though.

But if you don't act now, they're jacking the price up to $20.

The new version looks nice and all but no thanks. I liked 1.x but it's been slightly fussy on Yosemite. Guess it's an opportunity to check out Mail.app again since it in theory covers 95% of my wants.

# ? Oct 27, 2014 23:00

korora: Sep 3, 2011

LPG Giant posted:

Yeah that increases/decreases the amount of speeding up/slowdown. I fixed it by splitting the clip right before it speeds up again, and this new clip I then slowed down. Also a workaround, but at least I didn't have to go back to the phone it was shot with.

OK, here's how you do it. After you drag the clip into your timeline, look at the toolbar above the playback window. There's a button that looks like a speedometer that should be turned orange. Click on that, then select Speed: Slow. To get your full slow motion effect, click on Auto in the bar with speed % options (or put in 12% as a custom speed).

You can also turn off the default behavior in Preferences > "Apply slow motion automatically" but it doesn't really save you any time because then you still have to enable slow motion for your clips.

# ? Oct 27, 2014 23:02

japtor: Oct 28, 2005

Khelmar posted:

This is going to sound really stupid, but anyone here good with Applescript? I'm trying to figure out how to insert a page from one document into another to do a Christmas card envelope merge. I can make separate files for each envelope, but it seems asinine that I can't just combine them all into one Pages document to print them.

If you just want to print them without opening up every single one to print you should be able to open up the particular printer app from System Preferences. Unless something has changed you should be able to drag all the documents to the printer app window or icon to print them, but you won't be able to mess with print settings.

Otherwise all I can think of is to find some print to PDF script, then you can make an Automator action to convert them to PDFs then combine those into one document.

Kobayashi posted:

This is a bit of a long shot, but links from Mail seem to open in the wrong Safari window. I would expect links I click to open up in the current, foreground Safari window. Instead I have a minimized window and Mail keeps pulling it back up and opening a tab in that window. It's incredibly annoying. Anyone else notice this?

I've been having this for a while with any outside app, it's really confusing since it's not always like that. It's just that at some point it goes into open in random window mode or something.

# ? Oct 27, 2014 23:21

some kinda jackal: Feb 25, 2003; �
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I can't believe I'm about to say this, but after using Outlook 2013 for the past year, I'm actually really hyped about Office 2015 coming to OSX next year (supposedly) -- If Outlook compares to the Windows version then I'll easily dump Mail.app and every Exchange thing I bought in the past few days for it without a second thought. Reasonable people can disagree, but I think Outlook is a great mail client that I can't wait to use on my Mac.

# ? Oct 27, 2014 23:22

Mercurius: May 4, 2004; Amp it up.

Martytoof posted:

I can't believe I'm about to say this, but after using Outlook 2013 for the past year, I'm actually really hyped about Office 2015 coming to OSX next year (supposedly) -- If Outlook compares to the Windows version then I'll easily dump Mail.app and every Exchange thing I bought in the past few days for it without a second thought. Reasonable people can disagree, but I think Outlook is a great mail client that I can't wait to use on my Mac.

I'm not really a fan of office in general but boy howdy am I looking forward to something that isn't office 2011 for my poor end users who are stuck with it.

I think I read somewhere that the next Mac version of office is going to share a lot of its code base with the iOS versions of office which are surprisingly good so I'm cautiously optimistic :unsmith:

# ? Oct 27, 2014 23:32

Tippis: Mar 21, 2008; It's yet another day in the wasteland.

Anything that gets rid of the Office 2011 UI will be an improvement at this point. It would have looked out of date in Jaguar, never mind how OSX has looked in the last half decade. I rather like how it looks on Windows currently, and if that look carried over to 2015, it would probably mesh fairly well with Yosemite (not to mention it would get rid of that horrid tool inspector widget� brrr�).

# ? Oct 27, 2014 23:36

some kinda jackal: Feb 25, 2003; �
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I'm just guessing here, but you can download the free OneNote app to get an idea of how some of the Metro UI motif translated to an OSX app. I like to imagine that the Office update will follow that look/feel.

I quite like it.

# ? Oct 27, 2014 23:40

spongeworthy: Jan 16, 2009

Tippis posted:

Anything that gets rid of the Office 2011 UI will be an improvement at this point. It would have looked out of date in Jaguar, never mind how OSX has looked in the last half decade. I rather like how it looks on Windows currently, and if that look carried over to 2015, it would probably mesh fairly well with Yosemite (not to mention it would get rid of that horrid tool inspector widget� brrr�).

I don't really mind the UI but the font looks like complete poo poo on this retina screen.

# ? Oct 28, 2014 00:02

asecondduck: Feb 18, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

spongeworthy posted:

I don't really mind the UI but the font looks like complete poo poo on this retina screen.

That's odd, the fonts look fine to me. Microsoft apparently released an update back in 2012 to support retina resolutions. Some of the UI uses old images that look lovely, but the actual fonts that you type with and all that look fine.

Is it possible that "Open in Low Resolution" is selected in the program's Get Info pane?

That said, I hope that the rumors about Office 365 coming to Mac are true, because the new interface is awesome and having to go back to the mess that is 2011 was disappointing. I've been using Pages and Scrivener for the time being (which has been nice, actually, I may not go back).

asecondduck fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Oct 28, 2014

# ? Oct 28, 2014 00:14

Cyrano4747: Sep 25, 2006; Yes, I know I'm old, get off my fucking lawn so I can yell at these clouds.

lelandjs posted:

That's odd, the fonts look fine to me. Microsoft apparently released an update back in 2012 to support retina resolutions. Some of the UI uses old images that look lovely, but the actual fonts that you type with and all that look fine.

Is it possible that "Open in Low Resolution" is selected in the program's Get Info pane?

That said, I hope that the rumors about Office 365 coming to Mac are true, because the new interface is awesome and having to go back to the mess that is 2011 was disappointing. I've been using Pages and Scrivener for the time being (which has been nice, actually, I may not go back).

Are they still doing that annual subscription poo poo with office 365?

Because if so gently caress that forever. I don't care if it's cheaper in the long run, I just have a major dislike for subscription based setups for something as core to my life as word processing. I fully grant that this isn't a super-logical stance and really don't care.

# ? Oct 28, 2014 00:39

Drugs: Jul 16, 2010; I don't like people who take drugs. Customs agents, for example - Albert Einstein

Cyrano4747 posted:

Are they still doing that annual subscription poo poo with office 365?

Because if so gently caress that forever. I don't care if it's cheaper in the long run, I just have a major dislike for subscription based setups for something as core to my life as word processing. I fully grant that this isn't a super-logical stance and really don't care.

You can, and always have been able to, buy non-subscription copies of Office

# ? Oct 28, 2014 00:44

Tippis: Mar 21, 2008; It's yet another day in the wasteland.

Cyrano4747 posted:

Are they still doing that annual subscription poo poo with office 365?

Because if so gently caress that forever. I don't care if it's cheaper in the long run, I just have a major dislike for subscription based setups for something as core to my life as word processing. I fully grant that this isn't a super-logical stance and really don't care.

Yes they are and yes you're not logical (but you can still get the core programs without it). :v:

Although I suppose the value of it will vary with how many (and what kinds of) machines you want to use. Compared to how much MS would try to extort me in the past for the four machines I use, to say nothing of the mobile platforms, it's an absolute bargain. The extra online storage comes in handy as well.

# ? Oct 28, 2014 00:47

spongeworthy: Jan 16, 2009

lelandjs posted:

That's odd, the fonts look fine to me. Microsoft apparently released an update back in 2012 to support retina resolutions. Some of the UI uses old images that look lovely, but the actual fonts that you type with and all that look fine.

Is it possible that "Open in Low Resolution" is selected in the program's Get Info pane?

That said, I hope that the rumors about Office 365 coming to Mac are true, because the new interface is awesome and having to go back to the mess that is 2011 was disappointing. I've been using Pages and Scrivener for the time being (which has been nice, actually, I may not go back).

Hmm that update doesn't seem available through the program itself. Downloading the 14.2.4 update separately. Thanks

# ? Oct 28, 2014 00:59

asecondduck: Feb 18, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

spongeworthy posted:

Hmm that update doesn't seem available through the program itself. Downloading the 14.2.4 update separately. Thanks

The latest version is 14.4.5, but I'm not sure it's available on ~~The Pirate Bay~~ Microsoft's site.

Basically what I'm getting at is that the Office apps should auto update unless someone's taken specific measures to disable it.

# ? Oct 28, 2014 01:02

spongeworthy: Jan 16, 2009

lelandjs posted:

The latest version is 14.4.5, but I'm not sure it's available on ~~The Pirate Bay~~ Microsoft's site.

Basically what I'm getting at is that the Office apps should auto update unless someone's taken specific measures to disable it.

I got this through my University a couple years ago and just put it back on my new MBP from a time machine restore. And I had to update to 14.1.0 just now through the app itself before I could see the most recent updates - they are there now.

# ? Oct 28, 2014 01:11

wdarkk: Oct 26, 2007; Friends: Protected
World: Saved
Crablettes: Eaten

Is there a preferred guide for creating a fusion drive with a recovery partition? Most of the DIY fusion drive guides don't seem to bother with it.

EDIT: Macworld has this and it looks like I might be able to do it with a USB stick and a time machine backup rather than a bootable clone.

wdarkk fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Oct 28, 2014

# ? Oct 28, 2014 01:17

chaosbreather: Dec 9, 2001; Wry and wise,
but also very sexual.

Khelmar posted:

This is going to sound really stupid, but anyone here good with Applescript? I'm trying to figure out how to insert a page from one document into another to do a Christmas card envelope merge. I can make separate files for each envelope, but it seems asinine that I can't just combine them all into one Pages document to print them.

Applescript can be really tricky to write, even as its being the simplest possible language to read and totally non-confrontational. For this, it's often called 'the world's first read-only language'. Fortunately, Yosemite actually introduced Javascript as an alternate OSA scripting language. Give it a shot!

edit: Something like:

JavaScript code:

source_path = Path('~/Desktop/doc1.pages')
source_page = 0

destination_path = Path('~/Desktop/doc2.pages')

Pages = Application('Pages')
source = Pages.open(source_path).pages[source_page]

Pages.open(destination_path).pages.push(source)

chaosbreather fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Oct 28, 2014

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# ? Jun 13, 2024 00:59

beergod: Nov 1, 2004; NOBODY WANTS TO SEE PICTURES OF YOUR UGLY FUCKING KIDS YOU DIPSHIT

Is anyone else dealing with slow boot times when upgrading to Yosemite? In particular, the Startup Mode (holding down option on boot) is insanely slow, taking 2-3 minutes to list my various startup drives (as of right now, I have four of them).

# ? Oct 28, 2014 09:34

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