prom candy posted:

I'm trying to do some screen recording using a microphone hooked up to an audio interface. When I record with quicktime the audio only comes out of one channel. I know I can fix this in Garageband after the fact but these are just videos for my coworkers so ideally not having a whole post-processing step would be nice. Does anyone know if there's some simple screen recording software that handles this automatically or a way to get quicktime to treat the incoming signal as mono?

Silly Burrito posted:

Just use Chrome. It’s the best turd in the toilet.

Luceo posted:

buglord posted:

1)Is there a free/low cost application that allows me to snap windows to halves of the screen like on windows?

HorseHeadBed posted:

Is there a word processor that's basically Textedit's rich text mode but a liiiiittle bit more fully featured? I really only need headers and footers, but basic styles might also be nice. I know about Markdown and like how light it is, but I don't really see the point of making one type of file to make another type of file. Docx and rtf to the bitter end.

eightysixed posted:

You had the gumption to recommend that, that was my first thought too, but I kept my mouth shut.

I think it all depends on what you’re trying to create. Pages totally works for so many things, and he said he wanted simple so InDesign is out.

But yeah, Word for Mac, or try to get acclimated to Pages.

Or if you just want something super simple, just use Notes?

Dans Macabre posted:

sniped from firefox

Warbird posted:

idgi. Cmd + C/V works just fine.

Warbird posted:

Oh oh oh, I see. Can’t think of a good use case either but it’s a good trick to have.

quote:

Why use commands rather than ⌘C/⌘V?

The examples above can in most instances be performed using the keyboard shortcuts for copy/paste (or the menu entries for the mouse-inclined). However, there are two main reasons why I would want to use the pbcopy and pbpaste commands.

One reason is that it makes command lines self-contained. What I mean is that, by reading the command line, you can clearly see when the transfer between the clipboard and the command line happens. Granted, this argument is a matter of style, and may be discarded for one-shot commands. It becomes more relevant when you need to repeat the command several times in your workflow.

The other reason is that these commands preserve the exact content of the clipboard. This is especially important when such distinctions as between tabs and spaces matter—typically when copy-pasting in Excel. If you use your mouse and keyboard to select and copy the output of the du command above, you will get a variable number of space characters between the first and second columns. With pbcopy, you will get the exact output of du, that is, a tab character.

In the same vein, I noticed that when the content of the clipboard is too long, pasting it into the Terminal does not work well. This is typically a case where pbpaste is better suited.

Tippis posted:

The most Apple-approved way is probably a folder action in Automator.

New > Folder action.
Pick the folder you want it to act on.
Add a “Rename Finder Items” action.
Set it to “Replace Text”, with a space in the Find field and an underscore in the Replace field.
Save and name it, and you're set.

Unless you specify otherwise (or move it), it will end up in ~/Library/Workflows/Applications/Folder Actions, and if you want it gone, you simply delete it from there.