Recent questions tagged mac os x

Description : How do I get on the Cloud?

Last Answer : answer:I might be wrong but fairly certain that findmyphone is a function of iCloud. So you needed to make a account on your phone first for it to work. But I think it might work if you have made ... and select find my phone here: https://www.icloud.com/. It should show you something like this.

Description : How do I change my home page on Safari?

Last Answer : After you have opened Safari, go to the drop down menu and click on “Preferences.” Click on the General tab. There is “default web browser” and also a place for “homepage.” I’m no expert but you might try fiddling with these.

Description : My MacBookPro dekstop image randomly change this morning what are the possibilities of why?

Last Answer : What image did it change to?

Description : On Lion OS X how do I make it so that upon start up programs I had exited will not show up?

Last Answer : Look in Users & Groups Preferences, under Login Items

Description : Mac users do you have any idea how to kill a crashed app instead of waiting for the rainbow wheel of death to end?

Last Answer : Yup, force quit.

Description : Do you know how to get Hydrogen beat machine to work on Lion OS X?

Last Answer : Run snow leopard in VMware or parallels. Then run your PowerPC app in that.

Description : Why my osx lion can't link app store,iTunes Store and soft update?

Last Answer : I don’t think this makes any sense. Cant you reword, sorry…

Description : How long should be the mac osx lion to setup the spotlight?

Last Answer : answer:Mine was about 5 hours on a 60Gig SSD and two 1.5TB hard drive with another USB 1TB drive. I wouldn’t be concerned yet. edit :: I should add that most of that is music and videos and that doesn’t take nearly as long to index as the 200 thousand text files that make up OS X.

Description : In "Pages" for mac, if the computer dies and document is unsaved, is it lost or can it be retrieved?

Last Answer : I kind of think you are lost. But send johnpowell a pm and ask him, he knows about this sort of stuff.

Description : Why are my hourly 'Time Machine' backups so HUGE!

Last Answer : Are you using a program like Parallels, that stores things in a huge file? There are a few other programs like that out there, too. You need to exclude those files. I’ll see if I can find the link I read a couple of years ago about this, and if so I’ll post it.

Description : What do you think of the Apple Time Capsule?

Last Answer : answer:As far as I know, Time Capsule is a service built in to all newer Macs; I didn't have to buy Time Capsule itself, just an external hard drive. I designated it as a Time Capsule device, and the ... , I've never had to do much with it beyond plugging in my external HD and let it copy my files.

Description : Is there a keyboard shortcut for this button on the Mac OS X ?

Last Answer : Hide Toolbar / Show Toolbar in Finder windows: Option-Command-T (source)

Description : Is there a firewire 400 to 800 adapter or converter for iMac?

Last Answer : answer:@pamquestion Just get a 400 to 800 firewire adapter, the 800 is backwards compatible. Older devices will work with the new 800 ports on the computer with adapter cables.

Description : Does anyone know of a Kaleidoscope program for Mac?

Last Answer : answer:make one yourself, using photoshop? Its very easy to do…I made a kaleidoscope poster for our local zoo. http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/898/scoper.jpg

Description : Help! Accidentally deleted my paper!

Last Answer : The program may have made a backup which was deleted when you closed out. Don’t write to the drive, and run a recovery application immediately (don’t run the app from the same drive, either – use a thumb drive instead.)

Description : Help with sound problems with DivX Player?

Last Answer : answer:Something may have happened to the codec. Try checking for updates. If it is all up to date, try uninstalling it and reinstalling it, and see if that helps. If not, you can always use VLC.

Description : Is Parallels 5 or VMware Fusion 3 (Or whatever the newest one is) better?

Last Answer : Here’s a (slightly outdated) review from Macworld.

Description : Drawing software for Mac?

Last Answer : I’m a big fan of Acorn. Unfortunately it isn’t free. But it is cheap.

Description : Is there a way to lock icons in the Mac OS X Dock?

Last Answer : Right click or command click. It gets you this. http://imgur.com/MQBv8.png

Description : PGP for OS X requires that SSL/TLS is disabled, does that mean that if it doesn't find a PGPKey for the recipient, my emails will be sent entirely unencrypted?

Last Answer : Don't you need the key to decrypt the message with PGP? SSL is a transmission privacy system, and PGP is a message privacy system If you encrypt with the public key, then only the private key ... would be able to decrypt the message. I don't think the message would be unencrypted, just unreadable

Description : Is ther a way to place the OS X dock on the bottom right of the screen?

Last Answer : System Preferences -> Dock -> Radio Button

Description : How can I automatically change the time zone on my Mac?

Last Answer : The claim that every other app does this is odd. But you could probably do this with applescript. 1. grab your IP address 2. use some kind of geolocation service to grab your location (Perl?) 3. set your ... hour. That doesn't help. But it is doable. But it would be a total pain in the ass.

Description : Should I be worried about this process?

Last Answer : That is pretty normal. It is in line with what I see.

Description : Is there an easier way to open the character palette and keyboard viewer on OS X?

Last Answer : I couldn't find any free solutions for your problem, but I did find this software: http://osx.iusethis.com/app/popcharx. The problem with Mac OS X is that it doesn't have as much open-source support ... 've only had my MacBook Pro for five months and I've been learning to accept that since day one.

Description : Resolving a mac virus... Help?

Last Answer : lol? A bot? What does this bot do, specifically? I want to help, I swear. It just sounds hella fishy.

Description : How can I import Address Book info that was stored on an external hard drive back into the Address book program on my Mac?

Last Answer : What format was the data stored in? If it is an Address Book Archive, exported from Address Book, you can just Import it from the File menu. If you dragged the AddressBook folder out of ~/Library/ ... first File>Export it to an archive, and re-import it after the old data is brought back in.

Description : How do you play the classic game Heretic natively on an Intel Mac?

Last Answer : If it's PPC only, I would imagine it won't run on your Intel machine. I've certainly never heard of PPC emulation to support PPC-only games, for example. I think your best bet would be to ... why not voice that there's at least yourself who would benefit from a truly universal binary to the game.

Description : Do you use Mac Automator? What for?

Last Answer : I read one of the books about it and it takes you through some sample workflows that could be useful in the future I guess. It sounded like it would be so helpful, which I'm sure it is, but it isn ... ' and run that just to clean up my iCal. It really has the potential to be a sick app though.

Description : Can I use Gimp on Mac OS 10.4.11?

Last Answer : Yes, it’s just a pain to find X11 for 10.4. I believe you need the original Tiger cd, and then you can install it from Additional Packages. You might also want to check out Seashore, a port of Gimp for OS X.

Description : How can I convert an *.H264 video file in a Matruska container to play on OS X?

Last Answer : Install Perian Open the MKV in QuickTime Player In Movie Properties, remove any unneeded tracks (subtitles, alternate audio, etc) Save as a self-contained movie Toss the MKV

Description : Does Counterstrike: Source run on Mac?

Last Answer : It does if you aquire a copy of Crossover first…

Description : I want to run a classic Mac OS game on my XP computer. How?

Last Answer : You are fighting two battles: The first is the shear OS difference. The second is the logic chip difference. I'll assume that you are running with an x86 processer (32 bit intel). OS 8 ran on ... were developed for both platforms. What game are you going after? I may be able to look something up

Description : Why do I get double (duped) windows that open when I hit a Fluther link?

Last Answer : This might be the culprit. http://blog.fluther.com/blog/2008/09/27/better-links/ If you hold down command (the key to the left of the space bar) it will open the link in a new tab in the same window.

Description : Suggest an addictive widget/game for Mac OS?

Last Answer : See if you can get hold of Snes9x and a bunch of Super Nintendo Roms off the web, will occupy you for many hours ;)

Description : I can drag, but I can't drop?

Last Answer : Have you tried restarting?

Description : Can I install WebKit to get the same functionality as Safari 4?

Last Answer : Features like Top Sites are what the actual browsers add. Webkit is just a rendering engine. Why not just download it and find out? Most people find the nightly builds to be too unstable for regular use though. Why not upgrade to 10.5.7? Or at least 10.5.6?

Description : What's the best way to install Mac OS X Leopard on VMware Fusion?

Last Answer : Out of curiosity, may I ask why you are doing this? Is it on a linux box? Have you looked into other virtualization software like Parallels or VirtualBox to see if they will support it?

Description : On Adium Messenger, can I get the status messages in front of the contacts, instead of under?

Last Answer : There is a bunch of themes you can get here. One of them might do it. I’m lazy and not looking through them all. Good luck.

Description : Retrieving iPhoto pics?

Last Answer : What version of iphoto do you have? Each one archives a little differently.

Description : Is there a way to hookup two monitors to an Intel Mac Mini?

Last Answer : Only the 2009 ones support spanning. If you bought a new one today you would be able to use dual monitors.

Description : Can Timecapsule be used strictly as an external drive?

Last Answer : i believe so.. not 100% positive but i think.. Why wouldnt you use is as a wireless router as well?

Description : Does Mac OS X contain multilangual speech recognition?

Last Answer : I know that all Macs have a large database for foreign languages. I set my computer to run both English & Mandarin (since I'm learning Mandarin). I would assume, since speech recognition is a ... Mic wont do anything. Change what languages the entire operating system runs on & that should do it.

Description : How can I fix my mom's Mac?

Last Answer : I would try an Archive and Install if you have a Mac OS disc laying around. That should replace and important files you may have mucked up in the Library folder.

Description : How do I find out the Hexadecimal code for a color on my palette in Mac OS X?

Last Answer : If you can find the RGB values, it’s easy enough to a search for a RGB to hex code converter, but if not, I don’t know :\

Description : Is there a website I can get the old version of IE for Mac OSX?

Last Answer : answer:Yes, you can get the old version of IE for Mac, but it's so insanely different that it's meaningless as a tool to test out IE. A nice solution to this problem finally came out (if ... had lots of success with IE NetRenderer (also free). Finally, you can check out previous discussion of this.

Description : How do you install icon sets in Mac OS X?

Last Answer : answer:The simple way is to “copy” an image that you want to use as an icon. Select whatever you want to change and “get info” for it (cmd+i). Click its icon in the window and “paste” the new image over it. Some places that have free icons: Iconfactory Pixelgirl Presents Icon Buffet

Description : Why can't I see any of my icons on my desktop in Mac OS X?

Last Answer : answer:Is Finder running? Have you tried restarting?

Description : What is the best way to back up your MAC?

Last Answer : answer:Is Time Machine excluded because you don't have Leopard? A lot of external hard drives come with automatic backup software. It's usually pretty clunky, but it will get the job done. If you're hardcore, ... . For the most part, I've been very happy with the service, and it's just $5/month.

Description : OS Xers: what is your fav app?

Last Answer : any app? Adobe illustrator OSS only? Grab

Description : Anybody usin' Spaces (Leopard)?

Last Answer : I sure do not.