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Martytoof posted:Man is Yosemite's Mail.app an absolute nightmare with Gmail for anyone else? I've got a 50/50 chance of Google's SMTP server being unavailable, according to Mail. It's absolutely fine on my other Yosemite machine on the exact same network so I can't figure it out. When I run diagnostics it seems to connect to Gmail just fine. I get that sometimes after waking from sleep, but restarting the app fixes the problem.
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iostream.h posted:What's the best solution for automatically updating the metadata on video files? I've been converting a bunch of my old DVDs and while iFlicks 2 is usually pretty good about finding the information online, it's not very reliable. I use Subler and don't have any major complaints.
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Lawen posted:I use Subler and don't have any major complaints. Seconding Subler for many things (subs, among them, obviously). I also make heavy use of iDentify (2) if it's just for mass processing of tags.
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Nov 13, 2014 12:12
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Kobayashi posted:I know how it works; I'm saying the way it works is stupid. I can think of no reason why anyone with a phone number would ever want messages to be sent from their email address. If they have a phone other than iPhone without unlimited texting but do have an iPad or Mac? Part of the selling point of iMessage when it came out was that it was billed as data, not texts. I believe iMessage is also used for signaling for FaceTime video calls.
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Nov 13, 2014 13:56
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Kind of funny now that I have unlimited texting but limited data.
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fordan posted:If they have a phone other than iPhone without unlimited texting but do have an iPad or Mac? Part of the selling point of iMessage when it came out was that it was billed as data, not texts. I believe iMessage is also used for signaling for FaceTime video calls. Sure, that makes sense, but again, if someone has an iPhone, when is "send messages from my email address" ever the right option? I'm on the fence about the corporate-liable device scenario, as the enterprise market as a whole is moving toward BYOD. E: Anecdotally, I've come across maybe 10 people who have iMessaged me from their email address. Never once has someone told me that was what they wanted.
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Nov 13, 2014 18:52
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I just upgraded to Mac OS X Yosemite on my mid-2012 11" Macbook Air. I've been getting random wi-fi drops ever since. I can't get any productivity done when my wi-fi drops every 40 seconds. I've googled remedies but none work. Any news on when Apple is going to patch this? I have a D-Link DIR-655 router, so maybe that might be the problem too?
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Nov 13, 2014 22:18
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Rabid Snake posted:I have a D-Link DIR-655 router, so maybe that might be the problem too?
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Nov 13, 2014 22:27
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Kobayashi posted:Sure, that makes sense, but again, if someone has an iPhone, when is "send messages from my email address" ever the right option? I'm on the fence about the corporate-liable device scenario, as the enterprise market as a whole is moving toward BYOD. Maybe when the iPhone in question is a hand-me-down that's being used as a glorified iPod touch without any phone number attached to it? Or an actual iPod touch? I have an iPhone 4 that was given to me by a friend when they upgraded to a 5s last year. I never got on the iPhone bandwagon because seriously, you all pay way too loving much money for your phone bills. I already spend about 15 hours a day in front of a computer and more or less my whole life within a wifi bubble. I get along just fine with an el-cheapo candybar on a minimalistic voice only, limited texts plan for my phone needs, and I just use my computer for most computer poo poo. That said, sometimes I wander out of my home wifi bubble and into other people's wifi bubbles. My local bar, various university buildings, restaurants, airports, etc. In those cases it's useful to have a little pocket computer that I can use for email, browsing SA, loving around while I wait for things, or even messaging people using a profile registered with *gasp* my email. Because, you know, I don't have a phone number associated with this thing. Same story with my wife and her iPod. Cyrano4747 fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Nov 13, 2014 |
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Nov 13, 2014 22:34
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Cyrano4747 posted:Maybe when the iPhone in question is a hand-me-down that's being used as a glorified iPod touch without any phone number attached to it? Or an actual iPod touch? Congratulations you use your phone in ways that are completely different from the vast majority of Americans.  Also uh at least with my mobile provider, which phone you have plays no factor at all into how much your monthly phone bill is. I could have a bottom-of-the-barrel piece of poo poo phone from 2006 or a top-of-the-line flagship, and my monthly phone bill would be the same (I use an Android, but this applies equally to iPhones). dik-dik fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Nov 13, 2014 |
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dik-dik posted:Congratulations you use your phone in ways that are completely different than the vast majority of Americans. Yeah, I know, I was just pointing out that there are circumstances where having the option for an email address makes sense. He seem oddly upset by the very notion that there is an option for ID'ing the sender that isn't a phone number. The phone bill comment was referencing the fact that I don't have to pay for a data hookup. Voice and text only on a dumb phone is really, really loving cheap compared to even cheap smartphone plans. At least in the US that is. I remember seeing some cheap as poo poo smartphone plans when I was in Germany. Bring your own device, of course, but goddamn those were some cheap entry data plans. edit: if you insist on an example of user-ID by email that isn't a total niche case, also consider wireless-only iPads. It wouldn't be too crazy to want to message from one of those and, again, no associated phone number. Cyrano4747 fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Nov 13, 2014 |
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Nov 13, 2014 22:42
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Calm down poor people, we get it, you have it all figured out.
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Nov 13, 2014 22:47
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Cyrano4747 posted:The phone bill comment was referencing the fact that I don't have to pay for a data hookup. Voice and text only on a dumb phone is really, really loving cheap compared to even cheap smartphone plans.
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Nov 14, 2014 03:44
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You can pay like $10/mo for the minimum amount of data, right? That's like two lunches out every month. Either live with that or do a flip phone and iPod touch.
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Nov 14, 2014 03:54
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That's still $120 a year for nothing if you just have cellular data disabled.
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Nov 14, 2014 03:58
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I just find it a little silly. "I never use it! I would never want that!" Do you truly NEVER go anywhere? Has anyone saying this tried living with it and seeing if they feel the same way afterwards?
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Nov 14, 2014 04:03
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By the way, the fix to the windowserver process eating a shitton of CPU and destroying your mac can be solved by going to Accessibility -> Displays -> Reduce Transparency. Instantly improved it for me.
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fleshweasel posted:You can pay like $10/mo for the minimum amount of data, right? That's like two lunches out every month. Either live with that or do a flip phone and iPod touch. If you know a smartphone plan in the US that charges $10/mo for the minimum amount of data please point me to it. That's something I've been looking for off and on and every time I go looking they all end up being $35-40 for the low end data plans. We're actually pretty happy with the flip phone and iPod touch arrangement.
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Cyrano4747 posted:If you know a smartphone plan in the US that charges $10/mo for the minimum amount of data please point me to it. That's something I've been looking for off and on and every time I go looking they all end up being $35-40 for the low end data plans. Are you seeing a therapist?
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Nov 14, 2014 06:57
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I think T-Mobile will do what you want.
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ambushsabre posted:By the way, the fix to the windowserver process eating a shitton of CPU and destroying your mac can be solved by going to Accessibility -> Displays -> Reduce Transparency. Instantly improved it for me.  . This was on a 2011 Mac mini w/Radeon 6630M. I tried the same stuff on my old 2009 model w/Nvidia 9400M but didn't test out as much cause it didn't seem to make as much a difference, even though I remember zooming being poo poo on there too earlier, but seemed fine when testing it out 
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After upgrading to Yosemite I have lost the 10 day reminder for Time Machine. Was it removed or is something broken on my end?
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I have a kind of lovely medium-res scan of a simple figure that I want to turn into a character in a font. I assume I'll have to vectorize it first and I've tried a couple online vectorizers but they're trash. I've tried VectorDraw from the app store to do it by hand, but it seems like its Bezier curve implementation is kinda buggy. When I pull on handles, it'll randomly move the anchor point instead of adjusting the curve more often than not, which is a pain in the rear end. Are there better apps for this (preferably cheap or free)?
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Nov 14, 2014 13:31
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There's FontForge. You can also get a free trial of Sketch from the app store. FontForge is a fully-fledged font editor whereas Sketch is simply a vector graphics program.
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Thanks, gonna try those out! E: In case anyone cares, fontforge worked out excellently. Carthag Tuek fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Nov 14, 2014 |
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Cyrano4747 posted:Yeah, I know, I was just pointing out that there are circumstances where having the option for an email address makes sense. He seem oddly upset by the very notion that there is an option for ID'ing the sender that isn't a phone number. The complaint wasn't that it was an option so much as for some people it seemed too be the default where it didn't make any sense for it to be. quote:edit: if you insist on an example of user-ID by email that isn't a total niche case, also consider wireless-only iPads. It wouldn't be too crazy to want to message from one of those and, again, no associated phone number. Guess what? Still a phone number associated .
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Since I used VPNs fairly often a friend of mine suggested Viscosity and yep, it is a brilliant VPN program. Would not use anything else anymore. https://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/
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ArcticZombie posted:There's FontForge. You can also get a free trial of Sketch from the app store. FontForge is a fully-fledged font editor whereas Sketch is simply a vector graphics program. Unrelated to the question, but Sketch is a piece of goddamn amazing software.
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Michaellaneous posted:Since I used VPNs fairly often a friend of mine suggested Viscosity and yep, it is a brilliant VPN program. Would not use anything else anymore. It was the first Mac program I bought when I picked up my rMBP. I use it almost every day and probably the best VPN client I've used. I might even pick it up for Windows one of these days.
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I know I've asked this before, but what's the procedure to create a bootable usb drive to install Windows 7 on a standard PC from a Macbook? I googled it and the instructions I followed spit out an unrecognizable drive.
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GobiasIndustries posted:I know I've asked this before, but what's the procedure to create a bootable usb drive to install Windows 7 on a standard PC from a Macbook? I googled it and the instructions I followed spit out an unrecognizable drive. Open bootcamp assistant and follow onscreen instructions.
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Dr. Tim Whatley posted:Open bootcamp assistant and follow onscreen instructions. This doesn't help at all. I have a Windows 7 ISO, stored on my Macbook, that I want to install on a PC that has a new hard drive. Bootcamp does nothing for me here; it doesn't recognize the ISO when mounted.
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GobiasIndustries posted:This doesn't help at all. I have a Windows 7 ISO, stored on my Macbook, that I want to install on a PC that has a new hard drive. Bootcamp does nothing for me here; it doesn't recognize the ISO when mounted. Clearly you didn't follow the onscreen instructions.
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Dr. Tim Whatley posted:Clearly you didn't follow the onscreen instructions. What onscreen instructions? Here's a screenshot of what happens every time I try it. If you're just going to be a jackass don't bother replying.  edit for more content: The last time I had to do this (with the same ISO) I used Terminal and it worked perfectly. GobiasIndustries fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Nov 16, 2014 |
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GobiasIndustries posted:What onscreen instructions? Here's a screenshot of what happens every time I try it. If you're just going to be a jackass don't bother replying.
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GobiasIndustries posted:What onscreen instructions? Here's a screenshot of what happens every time I try it. If you're just going to be a jackass don't bother replying. here's how that window appears to the rest of the competent world.  how old is the system you're doing this on? what version of osx?
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Mercurius posted:You need to plug a USB drive that's large enough to have the ISO put onto it in first or the installer has nothing to make a bootable thing from. There should be another option above the 'Download the latest Windows support software from Apple' thing there about making a USB installer. Is your USB stick being detected in disk utility? Yep; I've actually tried 2 different USB drives, a 16 & a 64gb. Both show up in Finder/Disk Utility, but I don't see any other options in the Boot Camp Assistant. I've tried restarting after plugging each one in just in case, too.
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Quick question: I'm still getting used to how OSX manages app installations and demoware. I downloaded the Pixelmator demo and have the app file sitting in my Downloads folder after unzipping it. Am I supposed to drag these types of files to my Applications folder or is it ok to just run it from where it currently resides since it's just a demo?
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Butt Savage posted:Quick question: I'm still getting used to how OSX manages app installations and demoware. I downloaded the Pixelmator demo and have the app file sitting in my Downloads folder after unzipping it. Am I supposed to drag these types of files to my Applications folder or is it ok to just run it from where it currently resides since it's just a demo? You can, or you can put it wherever you want.
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Lovely -- I can' t run it anyway since I'm still on Mavericks. Thanks anyway, Bob.
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