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I Am Crake posted:This is the second one, Man, you've got some lovely luck. This is pointing to hardware trouble again IMO. Check to see what got logged in Console.app around the time of each freeze, it may give you a hint what's up. Also, just as a wild idea, do the crashes happen on battery power or when you're plugged in? Two in a row makes me wonder if you have dirty power or a bad ground that is loving poo poo up (I've had this happen; generally it just causes trackpad weirdness once the case builds up a charge, but who's to say it couldn't also bork your RAM or something).
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I could swear there was talk of a 24" 4K iMac. Did I make this up?
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Cyne posted:Shake was actually still working up to... Mavericks, I think. Fun to mess around with, and I still wonder sometimes how the high-end compositing market would look today if Apple hadn't trashed it. It would still be nuke even if shake was around. Pricing might be different though. Just having it be Mac only is a huge death knell for any VFX tool.
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Shaocaholica posted:It would still be nuke even if shake was around. Pricing might be different though. Just having it be Mac only is a huge death knell for any VFX tool. Ah, yeah, true enough. They definitely would've had to maintain the Linux version and possibly port to Windows to keep Shake viable for VFX. I'm guessing Apple being unwilling to do either of those things is the reason why they dumped it.
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japtor posted:There's a 4K version of the 21.5". And it came too late for me to buy one for my dad. So I got him a non-Retina 21.5", with 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. Because I was feeling $1800 generous, not $4000 generous to get him exactly what I already got a few months earlier.
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kuroshi posted:And it came too late for me to buy one for my dad. So I got him a non-Retina 21.5", with 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. Because I was feeling $1800 generous, not $4000 generous to get him exactly what I already got a few months earlier. When I bought my parents their Mac one and half years ago for Christmas, it more of a present to myself. I haven't had a call from them in the vein of "Why is my computer not working?" or "Can you help me get this printer/hard drive/camera working on the computer?"
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I still do semi regular tech support even after switching my dad to a Mac, mainly because it's apparently still a challenge coming from Windows. Just recently, he randomly decided to change his 1Password database password to something which he can't remember, and set the clue to the old password. Which is fine anyway, because he still continued to use his old Paste Everything Into A Plaintext File On The Desktop and Use Variations Of The Same Simple Passwords Everywhere methods after I set him up with 1Password in the first place.
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I want to get my mom a Macbook because her current laptop is over 5 years old, and was already a budget shitter when she bought it, which means it's ultra shot these days. Aside from basic Internet/e-mail usage, she mainly plays mom games (e.g. stack 3, escape the room mystery types) on it, and I feel like the App Store would probably be Mom Game Mecca for her (with the added benefit of each game not coming packaged with 2 or 3 bullshit toolbar/antivirus addons that I simply can't talk her out of installing.) On the other hand, I feel like she falls into the category of people who don't even really need a computer to get things done these days; anything she does on her computer can be done on a smartphone now, and likely with even more ease than using a trackpad/keyboard. I'm thinking an iPhone 6+ would be a perfect solution, barring than, an iPad (but even that would probably be excessive.)
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Sounds a bit like the overkill situation may apply to my dad as well. He now mostly spends his time playing games on his Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0 Nook edition. His only minor annoyance is with his favorite word puzzle game regularly displaying 15 second full screen video with sound ads at the start of each game session. Or confusion as to why another free game from the Play Store would need the device ID privilege, which is helpfully explained to support asking for things like your call history and current calling status. Android Problems. He still uses the Mac for computer things, including his email, but he does less and less of that lately, often letting email pile up for weeks before sorting it. And this can be a Real Problem, since he has a Facebook account with dozens of friends, and never turned off all the email notification crap they send by default, so his account piles up with dozens to hundreds of new post, new reply, and "follow this crap" type messages that he feels obligated to read. It is, after all, his only contact with most of our extended family, and about half of his former coworkers/friends since he retired over three years ago.
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Chromebooks are a decent option in my experience. My parents just need to read news websites, watch BBC iPlayer, check email and do online banking stuff. Replaced their old Windows XP Dell a couple of years back with a Chromebox and a Chromebook and bought them a printer that linked to Cloud Print and they've just gotten on and used it with no real issues ever since.
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kuroshi posted:Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0 Nook edition I thought you were being snarky but that's actually a product. With that name. That someone sells and markets. And people buy.
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pipebomb posted:And people buy. Well... For content - it would be really nice if Apple provided a way for remote assistance to be given on iOS devices. Even if it had to be user-initiated and only contacted the remote assistance service already defined in an MDM profile or whatever to try and stop it turning into the next fake tech support scam platform.
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That sounds like a problem waiting to happen and I'm sure will never happen.
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Thanks Ants posted:Well... If you have another remote iOS device from a spouse/friend/family, you can remote assistant over FaceTime using the additional device.
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Thanks Ants posted:Well... The remote management features added in iOS 9.3 make this seem like a possibility for iOS 10.
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pipebomb posted:I thought you were being snarky but that's actually a product. With that name. That someone sells and markets. And people buy. I have one myself, only it wasn't sold with the Nook branding and software, only the NU suffix on its model number. Mine was $170 in September of 2014, and his was marked down closer to $100 in 2015 or so. Maybe some day if he finds he needs a faster tablet, I can recommend the Shield K1 to him, and teach him all about migrating his crap over. Certainly, if he ever needs the room for apps, his 8GB of space probably won't allow for migrating apps over to the SD card slot, since he's stuck on KitKat. As for OS X software issues, I've got precious little at the moment. Even greatest Android dev platform I've had to work on. Only thing I can't do on it is Windows Phone dev, so I just run Visual Studio on my Windows machine.
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I'm using a monitor in portrait mode and I have an application that has too many menus to fit all of my menu bar icons. Where do the ones that don't fit go? How can I access them while that application is active on that monitor?
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Weedle posted:I'm using a monitor in portrait mode and I have an application that has too many menus to fit all of my menu bar icons. Where do the ones that don't fit go? How can I access them while that application is active on that monitor? Dunno about specifically your problem with portrait mode, but as someone with LOTS of menu bar items, I really like https://www.macbartender.com/ It works fantastically and lets me put all of my "poo poo I pretty much never click but still want around" in a special side menu and has really cleaned up my menu in general.
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Weedle posted:I'm using a monitor in portrait mode and I have an application that has too many menus to fit all of my menu bar icons. Where do the ones that don't fit go? How can I access them while that application is active on that monitor? You got a monitor working in portrait mode? When I try that with my second monitor everything turns to a garbled mess. And voicing another vote for Bartender. Perhaps hiding the system icons will leave more room for the application ones. I think the app has a month free trial.
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Krispy Kareem posted:You got a monitor working in portrait mode? When I try that with my second monitor everything turns to a garbled mess.   I'll check out Bartender, thanks. I ended up just mapping a keyboard shortcut to the thing I needed the icon for, but if this keeps being a problem I'll give it a spin. Weedle fucked around with this message at 18:39 on May 2, 2016 |
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I'm always weary of stuff like bartender and like Unclutter. I dunno, I guess I just worry if they are hurting my comp's performance in some way.
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rear end Catchcum posted:I'm always weary of stuff like bartender and like Unclutter. I dunno, I guess I just worry if they are hurting my comp's performance in some way. The actual bartender at the bar hurts performance way more than that tiny app does. Just ask my girlfriend.
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rear end Catchcum posted:I'm always weary of stuff like bartender and like Unclutter. I dunno, I guess I just worry if they are hurting my comp's performance in some way. That's like the weirdest loving thing to worry about.
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Bill Barber posted:That's like the weirdest loving thing to worry about.
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Bill Barber posted:That's like the weirdest loving thing to worry about. To be fair, there's a lot of crappy software out there that, given its function, shouldn't impact system performance, but does anyway. Comma.
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rear end Catchcum posted:I'm always weary of stuff like bartender and like Unclutter. I dunno, I guess I just worry if they are hurting my comp's performance in some way. There are three things I install on all new computers (and recommend to others): Alfred Bartender Moom They've never impacted performance in any way I can tell.
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Why do you need Alfred with how command space finder works nowadays? I thought that pretty much ripped how Alfred worked.
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Another vote for Bartender. Also Display Menu, Alfred, 1Password, iStat Menus. I love these mini-recommendation threads. I didn't know about Moom. https://www.dropbox.com/s/jw19tl6ypb2lzmw/screenshot_90.png pipebomb fucked around with this message at 23:53 on May 2, 2016 |
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Actual question: Is there a way to add a shortcut to a Photos album to your Finder sidebar or the Dock? Like if I want to just drag and drop a photo out into a document or slack or tweet or whatever?
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rear end Catchcum posted:Why do you need Alfred with how command space finder works nowadays? I thought that pretty much ripped how Alfred worked. The main reason for me is easy automation. I managed to create an automation object in less than a minute that in essence maps ⌘-L to "lock" the screen (I can't stand the hot space to kick off the screen-saver). Also the settings are very powerful and allow more customization with the Spotlight Index than native Spotlight. I've actually made ⌘-space the hotkey for Alfred instead of Spotlight. Go look it over, if it's not for you then keep using Spotlight. Not everyone needs the features Alfred brings to the table.
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pipebomb posted:Actual question: Otherwise there's some third party stuff, Dropzone and Yoink off the top of my head, but I think there's at least a few others too. Edit: Filepane is another similar one in a sense, but doesn't seem to work in the same way from the description. japtor fucked around with this message at 00:26 on May 3, 2016 |
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I meant more like how in a dialog box you have all of your photos and albums. If you could just drag one of those to the dock or sidebar and access it easily, it would be awesome.
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Don't use Photos to organize your weird internet images and just put them in a folder.
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Bill Barber posted:Don't use Photos to organize your weird internet images and just put them in a folder. Too late man. Im stuck in this walled garden and all my Internets are linked and synched and poo poo.
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Even better solution: delete the ResponseImages album and never look back.
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withak posted:Even better solution: delete the ResponseImages album and never look back. 
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withak posted:Even better solution: delete the ResponseImages album and never look back. But
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Tried making a smart folder in the Finder? If there’s a way to do that with the images/album then I think it's possible to put that on the sidebar.
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pipebomb posted:I meant more like how in a dialog box you have all of your photos and albums. If you could just drag one of those to the dock or sidebar and access it easily, it would be awesome. Steve is weeping.
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tuyop posted:Steve is weeping. It's his fault we're in this iCloud bullshit mess. Should have bought Dropbox and made Finder Great Again.
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