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Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Move your Mac even further ahead
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fly high ~ayunite~
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For some reason my Mac refuses to go into Hardware Test mode. On closer inspection the HDD cable is a bit indented/stressed so I'm guessing it's a cable problem. If I take it to an Apple Store, will they replace it for free? (probably a stupid question)
jts
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Guys, I should have known better than to visit that website, but Safari keeps opening tabs with a stupid 9gag URL.
wtf, right? I have closed and re-opened Safari, don't visit that site, and that shit keeps coming up. I've never seen anything like it on OS X.
Deleted my cookies too. It's not working.
What to do?
Think I'll be using Chrome in the meanwhile... since I started writing this post, 3 tabs were opened.
Code:
http://ws.9gag.com:8094/socket.io/1/jsonp-polling/a40_yigrhJpBavaV53pe?t=1352668370606&i=24wtf, right? I have closed and re-opened Safari, don't visit that site, and that shit keeps coming up. I've never seen anything like it on OS X.
Deleted my cookies too. It's not working.
What to do?
Think I'll be using Chrome in the meanwhile... since I started writing this post, 3 tabs were opened.
LumpOfCole
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Hold Shift while opening Safari then reset everything.
jts
...hate me...
Did that and it worked, thank you very much!
CrudeDiatribe
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Can you get the boot menu up by holding option or verbose mode by holding cmd-v? I guess there's a chance the hardware test depends on your boot volume.
I don't know. We've only had an Apple Store here for two months and I've yet to use it for anything.
With the (singular?) exception of Aperture, full screen sucks donkey balls with multiple monitors because you get nothing but linen on one of the two screens (I believe there is a way to specify which screen gets the full-screen app, but I don't remember what it is).
Yeah, it's not that important since I can manually size it to fullscreen, it's just... why!? Don't they test this shit?
The problem isn't about them not testing it. they tested it and they don't care. that's the problem. At some point, they decided that there's not enough people out there using multiple monitors for them to work out a better solution for full screen for that setup.
jts
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http://www.macrumors.com/2012/11/19/os-x-10-9-to-include-siri-and-maps-integration/
I hope it's true, but I also hope it's Siri v3.
Siri is awesome. But it needs more. It needs to answer me when I ask how much is 3+3 instead of just showing a card pulled out of Wolfram Alpha. And more stuff. I can make a list!
It also needs moar languages.
Also, I hope they call it OS X 10.9 domestic cat.
I hope it's true, but I also hope it's Siri v3.
Siri is awesome. But it needs more. It needs to answer me when I ask how much is 3+3 instead of just showing a card pulled out of Wolfram Alpha. And more stuff. I can make a list!
It also needs moar languages.
portuguese pls
Also, I hope they call it OS X 10.9 domestic cat.
What's the exception with aperture?
CrudeDiatribe
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It can use two displays just like it could in its pre-Lion full-screen mode that it's had since 2005. You can set the second display to perform a variety of functions. I have it set to display a grid of photos and my adjustment palette. In non-full screen, it shows the primary image.
Angelus Errare
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Still Fucking loving Versions.
That is all.
Peace.
That is all.
Peace.
I'm on 10.7 but no one is replying in the other thread...
I keep getting this Time Machine error:
"This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 26.89 GB but only 4.57 GB are available."
I thought that Time Machine deleted old backups if it needed more space?? should I just reformat and backup??
I keep getting this Time Machine error:
"This backup is too large for the backup disk. The backup requires 26.89 GB but only 4.57 GB are available."
I thought that Time Machine deleted old backups if it needed more space?? should I just reformat and backup??
I've had this too. it's an error based on some wake from sleep bug or interrupted backup. Time machine does throw away old versions when running out of space but this isn't a message about space being used.
regardless of cause, I can get around it by just telling time machine to backup immediately after clearing the info message. it'll review the previous backups again and will get the correct number of files to backup.
Stumpokapow
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Where's my new iTunes?
Still 10 days left.
I had some performance issues with Aperture in fullscreen mode, but maybe they've beenx fixed up. I should give it a go.
I tend not to use full screen for some apps because of the janky implementation. I'd rather just maximise my aperture window and have a safari window elsewhere.
However, I do like having apps like mail and iTunes hidden away on another screen. Mail is kinda annoying in compose though.
I hope :/ I honestly doubt we'll see it until sometime next year. It'll probably get a revamp thanks to the shake-up from a few weeks back.Still 10 days left.Where's my new iTunes?
I had 1.4.2 installed so just I went to the website and it downloaded 1.6.0 for me.
Installed and running fine. I dunno :/
StopMakingSense
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Where's my new iTunes?
Playing patty-cake with the new iMac.
I sure hope not. What they showed in september looked good.
The Real Abed
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MacRumors says soon. Though it is the end of the month almost anyway. It'll be here in time.... as long as it isn't delayed yet again.Where's my new iTunes?
So I've had my first MacBook Air for about two weeks, using OS X for the first time, and I'm really quite happy with the OS.
However, is there any way/app that allows to assign a custom hotkey for a specific keyboard layout? Next/previous gets fairly cumbersome with 3+ keyboard layouts.
However, is there any way/app that allows to assign a custom hotkey for a specific keyboard layout? Next/previous gets fairly cumbersome with 3+ keyboard layouts.
I'm not exactly sure what you are asking, but have you looked at System Preferences:Keyboard:Keyboard Shortcuts?
PotatoeMasher
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If any of you guys play guitar I can't recommend the OS X version of AmpKit enough: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ampkit/id568052099?partnerId=30&siteID=*xAzfiEA/nI&mt=12
I skipped the iOS version as it seemed to make you buy each piece of gear individually after the fact, but they went with a flat $50 on the Mac. It's the most I think I've spent on the App Store, but it's way better than Garageband and MainStage. It works great with my Apogee Jam even though the AmpKit people seem to have some crappy analog dongle you could buy instead.
I skipped the iOS version as it seemed to make you buy each piece of gear individually after the fact, but they went with a flat $50 on the Mac. It's the most I think I've spent on the App Store, but it's way better than Garageband and MainStage. It works great with my Apogee Jam even though the AmpKit people seem to have some crappy analog dongle you could buy instead.
Well, the problem is that this allows for cycling through keyboard layouts, but not for assigning a shortcut to get to a specific layout.
More specifically, Japanese input on windows is bundled into one, and once selected, one can select its subset of input methods. On OS X it's not a subset, and I end up with 5 keyboard layouts. It can do English and Kotoeri/Google IME have built-in hotkeys for quickly getting to a particular layout.
However, adding some other keyboard layout makes it a 6th, and cycling isn't so convenient. Hence looking for something which would let me assign a shortcut that switches to a particular keyboard.
I don't know how many keyboard layouts you need, but I use 4, romaji, katakana, hiragana, and pinyin and have disabled the US layout all together since romaji has all the same layout+features. I switch between the layouts from a menu brought up by command+space, or if I want to quickly switch into my default kotoeri keyboard (hiragana) I have that set to toggle with capslock - this setting can be found in the kotoeri preferences from the input method menu.
InsomniaX did it, thanks!
I'm having a problem with Mail where if I click on a different mailbox, one of them stops working.
I have my gmail and school email added but if I click on gmail, then go back to "inboxes" or my school inbox it no longer shows any emails from that account
Anyone have a similar problem or know how to fix it?
I'm also experiencing problems with applications randomly quitting. I have the application "Calendar" which is just a calendar for the menu bar and every now and then it just disappears and I have to relaunch it.
I have my gmail and school email added but if I click on gmail, then go back to "inboxes" or my school inbox it no longer shows any emails from that account
Anyone have a similar problem or know how to fix it?
I'm also experiencing problems with applications randomly quitting. I have the application "Calendar" which is just a calendar for the menu bar and every now and then it just disappears and I have to relaunch it.
Got the Shakes
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Hopefully the Wall Street Journal is right about iTunes 11. http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/11/28/wsj-itunes-11-to-be-released-as-soon-as-thursday
iTunes 11 is finally live! Go go go
Ugh, they left too much carbon in my cocoa.
The Real Abed
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How can you tell?
Spacing between elements, feel, color, the way text looks and general inconsistencies in how it acts. I've used iTunes since the very beginning, and have manually edited 10s of thousands of songs. It's like knowing about a dead pixel or a minor dent in a wall. Once you know it is there it is always there even when others haven't been made aware of it. To be fair to Apple it is in the recesses of iTunes few venture to.
The Real Abed
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How do you know it's actually Carbon and not just Cocoa with the old UI?
When you update a object in cocoa, all objects that inherit from its parent get the feature for free. Which seems more likely to you, that they updated the elements to cocoa, but then subclassed the object so that they could change it to look and act like the carbon version which looks like ass, or that they just didn't update it?
Most of their 'obvious' carbon elements are still in the Get Info dialog (which still is modal, a classic feature of carbon windows). But you are completely correct, I have no actual evidence other than my experience with the product over the past 12 years.
The Real Abed
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Who knows. At least it was partially rewritten. I really like it so far.
I hope it gives a taste of the future of all of Apple's stuff. I look forward to 10.9 and iOS 7.
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