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Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Move your Mac even further ahead
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The Real Abed
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It's a known problem. Google for Safari flash blocked mountain lion and look for an Apple discussion. My sister had this problem and we couldn't fix it so I convinced her to reluctantly temporarily switch to Chrome.
This message came out of nowhere;
Now I can't use anything flash.. the link doesn't work for me, does it just lead to a normal .dmg download? If so, could anyone rehost that for me?
Fucking flash, always causing me problems. :|
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.4.402.265/install_flash_player_osx.dmg
Phoenix
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I kinda hope it does. Now I won't have to have 8000 alarms every morning for the people who have birthdays on that day
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If only hotspotshield or tor actually worked here, I could use that way. Could someone dropbox/rehost that file for me? Sorry to derail the thread.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
So if I buy an Apple TV, I can AirPlay any video from my Mac to my HDTV? Any video format? Online streams?
How's the quality? Does video stutter?
Also, is there a way to hook up like four hard drives to my Mac? Just for storing media. Or do I have to grab a NAS?
I was originally thinking of buying an NAS and using it with my HTPC. But if I can use an AppleTV and a bunch of hard drives with my Mac, cool. That's cheaper.
How's the quality? Does video stutter?
Also, is there a way to hook up like four hard drives to my Mac? Just for storing media. Or do I have to grab a NAS?
I was originally thinking of buying an NAS and using it with my HTPC. But if I can use an AppleTV and a bunch of hard drives with my Mac, cool. That's cheaper.
I think it really depends on how much needs to be updated.
The OS releases have been larger, but they were still deltas.
criesofthepast
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This happened to me as well today. It went away on its on though. I installed the latest OS X update an restarted my computer and the flash thing prompt was gone. Not sure if it was the update or just a restart that did it.This message came out of nowhere;
Now I can't use anything flash.. the link doesn't work for me, does it just lead to a normal .dmg download? If so, could anyone rehost that for me?
Fucking flash, always causing me problems. :|
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Alright, I did a bunch of googling. From what I've read, the quality will suck. I guess I need to buy a Mac Mini or something and hook it up to a bunch of hard drives.
Thank you!! Just in time as well.
Yeah, I still haven't restarted to complete the updates and it came up on its own anyhow. Speaking of restarting, I rarely ever do it. I feel sorry for my MBP and what I put it through. :lol
criesofthepast
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I usually restart my iMac once or twice a week at most. I control+shift+eject to turn my screen off quite a bit (love that feature) when downloading something but other than that I just leave it sleeping.
For media (videos, music, photos) I use Home sharing from iTunes to Apple TV and that has great quality. I use it always. I recommend everyone who has an apple tv and a mac to use handbrake and covert everything to mp4 or whatever format iTunes accepts and stream with home sharing. Home sharing for me is reason alone to get an apple tv. I have an emerging tv show and movie collection stored on my iMac and it's so good to watch on my big screen tv.
I've only used AirParrot (unofficial AirPlay) to stream stuff from my iMac to my apple tv and the quality is not great. I don't really use it ever. Guess it's decent for browsing safari and little OS things but for media its not ideal. The official airplay may do something different that AirParrot doesn't and look better but I can't say personally as I haven't tried it.Bboy AJ said:
For media (videos, music, photos) I use Home sharing from iTunes to Apple TV and that has great quality. I use it always. I recommend everyone who has an apple tv and a mac to use handbrake and covert everything to mp4 or whatever format iTunes accepts and stream with home sharing. Home sharing for me is reason alone to get an apple tv. I have an emerging tv show and movie collection stored on my iMac and it's so good to watch on my big screen tv.
With an AppleTV, you can mirror the display of your ML-installed Mac exactly.
If you can see it on the connected display device, it will be mirrored to the "big screen" to which the AppleTV is connected. The quality is the same as the original source upscaled to the size of your "big screen" Obviously the smaller the source, the worse it will look mirrored. I find 720p video to be the reasonable minimum for to look decent on my 1080p 46" display.
I have my ML MBP'11 physically close to my WIFI-N router which is hard wired to my AppleTV. In this circumstance, I've very rarely seen any video stutter.
Anything that increases the latency of the network communications may increase the likelihood of video stutter or stream choppiness.
Easiest way to connect 4 HDDs to a Mac? Chained FireWire drives. Failing that, a NAS.
I would question why you want to connect 4 separate drives when 4TB drives are not exactly expensive or rare. Do you really have 10+TB of media that must be instantly accessible?
On the 10.8.1 subject, immediately pre-10.8.1 install, my fully charged battery meter read 5h37m to empty. immediately post-10.8.1 install, it read 8h37m.
Now 12h later, my charge meter seems stuck at 97% and it shows 4h36m to empty. I'm going to run it down and see what happens. Thankfully, my MBP is mostly use like a desktop.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Yes, of course. When you're running an HTPC like system, you're not going to want to fumble with swapping hdds.
Anyway, thanks for the airplay impressions. Most say the system won't work so well for higher quality videos. I'll give it a shot. Can't hurt to try it out. Thanks.
I watched a 2-hours concert at 1080p, AirMirrored, and it was great; no hiccups whatsoever. (13" 2012 Air, max specs)
Edit: I should mention that it was tested on a 720p TV. Will test it on the 1080p display and report back!
The Real Abed
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Yeah, I myself have 12GB connected to my Mac mini in an assortment of 1, 2 and 3TB drives I purchased over time and keep all my media and backups of that media on. (Basically 6GB+6GB backup) If I could replace all of it with two single 6-10TB drives cheaply I would. Especially if they were something other than USB 2.0. (I have a USB hub with 7 ports. 6 of them used by the HDD's.)
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Thanks. Waiting on your report.
How do you have those drives connected to the Mac Mini? USB? Do you swap them in and out?
The Real Abed
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I said how. USB hub with 7 ports. If I could replace them all with two separate 6GB+ drives cheaply I would in a heartbeat.
bodyofanamerican
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Late 2011 MacBook pro here, and my connection to WiFi shuts off whenever the machine goes to sleep.
Anyone have any advice on how to fix this? Is this a power saving feature I may have turned on by mistake?
edit: Yep, it was in settings. There's an option to terminate network access when the machine goes to sleep.
Anyone have any advice on how to fix this? Is this a power saving feature I may have turned on by mistake?
edit: Yep, it was in settings. There's an option to terminate network access when the machine goes to sleep.
KingJ2002
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Late 2010 model here... my display randomly goes out and it automatically restarts the system. It never happened on snow leopard but it did start on lion (w/ no auto-reboot). the auto reboot is nice but this isnt right... i would like to at least get a fix for this so i can continue using this system until next year when i upgrade this computer.
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Deleted member 12837
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Just installed Mountain Lion. Is there any way to map a three-finger or four-finger up or down swipe to the "Show Desktop" command. I swear I had it that way in 10.7, but the only option in 10.8 is the thumb + 3 finger spread.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Better Touch Tool?
NekoFever
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I'm pretty sure it wasn't possible on Lion without additional software like BTT. I wanted it that way because that's how I had it in Snow Leopard, but in the end I gave up and got used to the spread.
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Deleted member 12837
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Ah, perhaps that's what I'm thinking of (all the way back to SL).
Metroid Hunter
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Just map a button like [fn] to show the desktop. It's less cumbersome than the spread.
Kccitystar
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Everytime I restart my computer, it still opens stuff that I closed before I restarted, and unticking the box that asks if I want to reopen windows does nothing.
What can I do to fix this, GAF?
What can I do to fix this, GAF?
Sounds like a logic board issue - like the video card isn't getting enough juice. This happened with my MBP, and I had to get it repaired.
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Deleted member 12837
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Yeah I just use F12
Unrelated question:
Does Messages quit automatically after being idle for a certain period of time? For the beta on Lion I used to just leave the app open all the time, but ever since I upgraded I'll come back to it after like 30 minutes and it will have quit itself.
Got the Shakes
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Any chance that the stuff that opens when you restart have been set to open on startup?
criesofthepast
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Yeah go to system prefs and double check your user login items. Make sure nothing is there. Some apps have their own preferences to open on startup too. Check all that. All I can think of.
The Real Abed
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Yeah iTunes is extremely buggy in regards to full screen. If you have it set to full screen and open it and switch spaces while it's opening it will become stuck on the main space in a box but as a full screen app and an emPry space will open for it. You have to exit and re-enter full screen to fix it.
The Real Abed
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Yeah, I agree. I've begun opting for non-MAS versions of certain apps whenever I can because of silly restrictions.
mescalineeyes
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Fuck the MAS and fuck Apple for handling it so haphazardly.
A Mac is a computer and should be treated as such.
A Mac is a computer and should be treated as such.
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Deleted member 12837
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For anyone that cares, I figured this out.
http://tidbits.com/article/13174
I realized it's not limited to Messages. It's all Apple apps (TextEdit in the case of this blog post) and also any app that opts into the functionality and implements it. Thankfully, it can be turned off.
KingJ2002
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thanks... i'll just send it down to the apple store.
I have a question about Safari and scaling for higher resolutions. Every other website I visit except for NeoGAF scales perfectly to the monitor resolution on both my cinema display and macbook retina. I used the zoom safari extension but it caused issues with other websites so I had to disable it.
Anyone have a solution? If it's to use Chrome, which while a great browser I used on Windows, I would prefer not to as I'm trying to stay inside the Apple eco system to make everything easier and simple (I'm tired of service/program/device overload).
Anyone have a solution? If it's to use Chrome, which while a great browser I used on Windows, I would prefer not to as I'm trying to stay inside the Apple eco system to make everything easier and simple (I'm tired of service/program/device overload).
KennyLinder
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I want to install Mountain Lion on a totally new, fresh SSD. Apparently there is a small file I can download from Apple and put onto a USB thumb drive, which will allow me to the boot the Mac, and download ML from an Installer menu. Does anyone know where this file is on Apple's site?
Thanks
Thanks
I think I read something like that on the iOS side not too long ago, but it should only concern free apps.
iOS6 no longer asks for your password when you install app updates. Some places wrote about it not asking when downloading a free app for the first time, but I think they're mistaken. It's only when downloading updates for apps.
Useful info, thankyou. Will try this later this evening.
I have kinda set up two displays using the TV to watch movies from m laptop. Is there a way to have the TV display to 'stick' to a space. Like if I;m in desktop, then the other display shows an empty desktop, if I am looking at my dedicated mail space, so is the tv space.
I dunno if that makes sense but both displays switch to the same space even though there might not be anything for the tv display to show.
I dunno if that makes sense but both displays switch to the same space even though there might not be anything for the tv display to show.
Red Blaster
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I've got a 2008 MacBook in storage that's been untouched for over a year, I've since needed to dig it out because my Air just doesn't have enough RAM to use Garageband smoothly. The rub is that it's only on Leopard, do I really have to manually upgrade to Snow Leopard and Lion before I can get Mountain Lion?
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