On Apr 4, 2010, at 8:45 AM, LuKreme wrote:
Twitter is a stream of data. It is not part of the design ethos that
every tweet be read.
Exactly. You choose to "sip, dip, or bathe" in the stream when you
have a few free moments. Take a random sampling from the river when
the mood strikes. It
On Apr 25, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Neil Laubenthal wrote:
Depending on your Photoshop requirements…the much cheaper (less than
$100) Photoshop Elements may do all you need. It doesn't do CMYK,
just RGB, doesn't do Actions, and obviously doesn't have all the
neato new stuff like Content Aware Fil
I use Screen Sharing to control iTunes on another Mac in the house from a
laptop (if someone can recommend a better app for this, that allows full
playlist access AND remote ratings, I'm all ears).
Under Leopard, unless I'm crazy or my memory is screwed up, I could Cmd-Tab to
Screen Sharing, s
On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:13 AM, Macs R We wrote:
> You could use Chicken of the VNC or Vine Viewer to access your remote machine
> instead of Screen Sharing. They don't let command-tab through. (Vine Viewer
> actually has a menu item for "Send Command-Tab," but I've never been able to
> get it
On Jul 14, 2010, at 4:49 AM, Arno Hautala wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 02:23, Scot Hacker wrote:
>>
>> I use Screen Sharing to control iTunes on another Mac in the house from a
>> laptop (if someone can recommend a better app for this, that allows full
>>
On Jul 14, 2010, at 11:49 PM, LuKreme wrote:
> Well, if you need ratings then no, that's your only choice. You cannot change
> the rating of a file in iTunes remotely as far as I can tell, it has to be
> changed on the machine the file is on (is on as far as iTunes is concerned).
> You could t
The one feature I've wanted since forever - the simple ability to remote
control another library in the house from a laptop *with* the ability to
edit/delete/rate/make playlists on the remote Mac... is still not there in
iTunes 10 (I'd been crossing fingers). Even with "password required" enabl
On Sep 2, 2010, at 6:20 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote:
> Not sure about common feature request, but why don't you use Screen sharing
> that's built into OS X Snow Leopard, launch iTunes on that machine and
> edit/create, etc.
Right, that's the workaround. I used to use Screen Sharing, then switche
On Sep 3, 2010, at 4:22 PM, John Stalberg wrote:
iTunes can control a remote library and write to it. I have one
single library on my workstation and using iTunes on the workstation
to control it. I also have a MacBook which use the same library.
However, the two iTunes applications can't
On Sep 6, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Lawrence Sica wrote:
> I see what you mean, though I rarely even look at the interface since most of
> the time it is minimized. How many people regularly use the app outside of
> the mini-controller mode?
I'd venture that only a small minority of people run it in
On Oct 8, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Sven Aluoor wrote:
Hi
# whois bluray-disc.de
% Error: 5500013 Invalid charset for response
Why this error? And howto fix?
FWIW, works fine from a linux host, but not from Mac.
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On Oct 12, 2010, at 3:44 PM, William Ehrich wrote:
What do you get for a TiVo subscription? Is it like the TV Guide
subscription that is offered with EyeTV? When I first read about
TiVo etc I thought that it could record a scheduled program if the
program was delayed (like when the precedi
On Oct 12, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Gregg Dinse wrote:
> I did not realize you could even do that. With my current DVR, which I use
> just like an old VCR, that's all I do. The TV Guide stuff is no longer
> supported on this Panasonic DVR, so I must hand code the day, time, and
> channel. Relative
Out of curiosity, what remaining reasons are there to use Safari or Firefox
when Chrome is available? I find Chrome SO much faster and more stable than
either of them, and the Chrome extensions landscape has really matured. I
haven't launched FF or Safari in many months.
./s
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On Nov 13, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
> Interesting ... I just installed the latest version of Chrome for Mac and it
> was slower than Safari for every page I went to (cursory test).
> I do have ClickToFlash installed for Safari, maybe that's why?
> Not a scientific test, mmv
Hm
On Nov 13, 2010, at 6:03 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
> With regards to Chrome, I try it occasionally, but Safari seems much more
> polished (Top Sites, look-and-feel), and I still sync bookmarks with
> MobileMe, although perhaps I should try Delicious again.
Isn't Chrome's "Most Visited" identica
On Nov 14, 2010, at 2:42 AM, Aron S. Spencer wrote:
> Sure, if you're comparing a released version of Safari and Firefox with a
> beta of Chrome. If you try Webkit v. Chrome, you'll find that Webkit is
> usually faster.
Chrome IS a webkit browser (which is why they have the same Developer Tools
I got a really nice NAD phono pre-amp with USB for xmas and am getting ready to
start encoding hundreds of LPs. Want to set up as smooth a workflow as
possible. So, two questions:
1) Anyone have a preferred solution for separating tracks into pieces based on
silence gaps? Seems like Audacity, A
On Dec 30, 2010, at 4:20 PM, LuKreme wrote:
>
> Also, backing out metadata changes was very easy with Pollux and, at least at
> the time, impossible with Picard.
Great tips on Pollux and Picard - thanks guys. Pollux looks brilliant, but will
try both.
Thanks much,
./s
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The Tivo wants mpeg-2. It can handle a live mpeg stream coming from any Mac on
your local network. Best way to set this up is with PyTivoX
http://code.google.com/p/pytivox/ - point it at a folder on the Mac and it will
make any video in that folder available to the Tivo, transcoding it in real
en I pressed the
> Info button on the Tivo for that video, it said something about the h.264 not
> being compatible. I did not know what to do to improve the stuttering. Do
> you know how to fix this?
>
> Gregg
>
> On 28 Mar 2011, at 3:03 PM, Scot Hacker wrote:
>
>
an transferring. I think that is
> the companion program, StreamBaby. It sounds as if PyTivoX is used to
> transfer files and StreamBaby is used to stream videos.
>
> Thanks again for the help,
>
> Gregg
>
> On 30 Mar 2011, at 3:00 AM, Scot Hacker wrote:
>
>> Sho
On May 13, 2011, at 12:49 AM, Andrew Brown wrote:
> On 5 May 2011, at 11:23, Jared Earle wrote:
>
>> You should be on IMAP anyway. POP3 is a dead end.
>
> Well, so far, I rather prefer my dead end... I need to get "IMAP for
> dummies", but perhaps the answer to my question is short : how do I
On Jun 7, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Nathan Sims wrote:
>
> Okay, to be fair I'll rewatch that portion of it.
>
> But here's where I'm coming from: Shouldn't the real iCloud be where everyone
> has his own? That's the product I was hoping they were going to come out
> with: "My iMac is my iCloud" or s
On Aug 2, 2011, at 6:02 PM, Arno Hautala wrote:
> With movies, online
> distribution generally is already past what DVDs offer.
Not sure what you mean there. Approximately 12% of the Netflix catalog is
available for streaming - the rest is DVD only (which makes it baffling to me
why some people
On Aug 2, 2011, at 11:55 PM, Joar Wingfors wrote:
>
> On 2 aug 2011, at 23:41, Scot Hacker wrote:
>
>> I'd be really bummed to see optical going away before streaming catches up.
>
> Guess what the best way to make streaming catch up is? Introduce incredibly
&
I now have one Lion machine and two SL machines. Lately iCal on all three has
been telling me, while attempting to sync over MobileMe:
"iCal can't read this calendar file. No events have been added."
It does not give me the opportunity to review *which* events are problematic or
tell me *which*
On Aug 23, 2011, at 7:40 PM, Jeff Weinberger wrote:
> I see this and I am still on SL.
>
> I'm thinking it's an issue related to the move to iCloud and hope that it
> goes away in the next few months.
Good theory about iCloud transition, hope you're right. Good to know I'm not
alone in this.
On Sep 20, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Scott G. Lewis wrote:
> What (if anything) have you decided to do with iTunes Match and it's 25,000
> song limit? I have to admit, I have more than 25,000 tracks, and I've seen a
> posted screen shot indicating that there's no facility to "pick" which 25,000
> - you
On Sep 20, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Charles Dyer wrote:
> Interesting. Personally I think that 25,000 tracks is a quite generous
> allowance, and based on the number of tracks I've seen many users have, a
> limit which will accommodate the vast majority of users.
Definitely true, but when I conducted
Am I overlooking something obvious, or is it really not possible to subscribe
to a public calendar (like a Google calendar) from the iCloud UI?
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On Oct 17, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Jochem Huhmann wrote:
> Scot Hacker writes:
>
>> Am I overlooking something obvious, or is it really not possible to
>> subscribe to a public calendar (like a Google calendar) from the
>> iCloud UI?
>
> Looks very much as if you can
On Oct 17, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Jeff Weinberger wrote:
> So Apple told me that unless I use Lion on all my machines I would lose
> access to calendars (mine and shared) on my SL macs after moving to iCloud.
>
> Can you share how to see calendars on an SL Mac after the move?
>
> This would make my
On Oct 17, 2011, at 1:51 PM, Scot Hacker wrote:
> I did find what looks like a solution after posting:
>
> http://vegardhoffwalmsness.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/icloud-and-calendar-subscriptions/
>
> The key is that you have to set it up from a Lion desktop (not the web), and
&g
On Oct 18, 2011, at 6:41 AM, Jochem Huhmann wrote:
> What's better with iCloud is the much easier setup.
For me it's more about lock-in. I'm deeply invested in iPhoto, iTunes, iCal,
Address Book, etc. As a Mac user with iOS devices, It just makes sense to use
iCloud / Apple services to keep e
On Oct 18, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote:
> Not to mention floppies, PPC, 68k, and Classic. Apple is about the only
> computer company that has no fear of killing off legacy items.
Point taken, though I don't consider my calendars to be "legacy items"…
Anyway, their plan worked. All o
On Oct 24, 2011, at 10:15 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
> Trying to figure out why Safari (and other apps) seem slow on Lion.
> Safari, in particular, can take forever to load pages, although other times,
> it can feel fast.
> I've run tests from speedtest.net and I'm getting roughly 30 Mbits dow
On Oct 25, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Nathan Sims wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2011, at 11:14 PM, Scot Hacker wrote:
>>>
>> Finally I went nuclear on it - made sure I had a recent ™ backup (hah - Lion
>> autocorrect action there :), booted from Lion DVD, erased the partition and
On Dec 19, 2011, at 9:42 PM, LuKreme wrote:
> iCal is hideous. Address Book is more hideous.
Are you just referring to the fine Corinthian leather trim, or functionality?
I'm perfectly happy with both apps in Lion. The improvements to data-detected
events in Mail.app after feeding into iCal ar
On Dec 20, 2011, at 7:16 AM, Andy Ringsmuth wrote:
>
> On Dec 20, 2011, at 12:55 AM, Scot Hacker wrote:
>
>>> iCal is hideous. Address Book is more hideous.
>>
>> Are you just referring to the fine Corinthian leather trim, or functionality?
>>
>>
On Dec 20, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote:
> It's too bad they don't have a preference that allows the user to choose the
> new style or the old style.
File under: Facebook users grumble with every UI change, then get used to it,
then grumble again when it gets changed a
On Jun 2, 2012, at 6:37 PM, Macs R We wrote:
> Thinking outside the digital box, is it just possible the fluorescent tube in
> the scan bar is showing its age?
Thanks for this clue - that sounds like exactly the problem - maybe it was
starting to age when I put it in the closet a couple years
On Jun 13, 2012, at 3:03 AM, Cedric wrote:
> It is not possible to install Epson Scan application in Lion (Rosetta ?).
> I tried also to change the Colorsync profiles but it didn't improve the
> results
> so much (tried the Apple and Epson profiles). Probably a specific Colorsync
> profile needs
On Sep 21, 2012, at 11:16 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
> and I certainly don't want them to know my Apple ID.
Out of curiosity, why not? What could a nefarious person do or see with an
Apple ID (and no password)? Account names are pretty much public information on
every service I can think of...
On Nov 15, 2012, at 11:38 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
> I'm running Little Snitch 3 and discovered that when launching Skype, there
> is at least one request to contact Facebook. I'm not a FB user and never
> intend to become one.
>
> Disturbing.
Why is it disturbing?
Since you don't have a
On Nov 16, 2012, at 4:48 AM, Charles Dyer wrote:
> Because if it wasn't for Little Snitch, then every time he launched Skype FB
> would get a knock on its door. They can, and almost certainly will, keep
> track of who knocks on their door, whether or not there's a follow up. It's
> info they
On Dec 21, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Neil Laubenthal wrote:
> Is there a decent app that correctly syncs tweets (unread, etc) across both
> Mac OS and iOS. I've been using Echofon for quite awhile but sync recently
> broke (again) and they don't seem very inclined to fix it…so I'm looking for
> some
On Dec 30, 2012, at 9:54 PM, William Ehrich wrote:
> I'm trying to write a shell script (in a tcsh) which uses a filename argument
> without its extension:
>
> filename=$1:r
> echo filename
>
> doesn't work. What is the right way to do it?
Not sure about tcsh, but this will do it in bash:
So... what is the current state-of-the-art for listening to your home iTunes
library from work? VNC + some audio tunneling solution over ssh? Custom
utilities? Everything I've read on this tonight seems out of date - doesn't
seem like a lot of current action on this front. But there must be *so
On Jan 3, 2013, at 8:36 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
>
> I know nothing about this topic but I bought SuperSync to sync podcasts from
> my machine back to home server and I believe it has functionality to allow
> you to play your music from across the Internet (not DRM protected music
> though,
On Jan 3, 2013, at 7:16 PM, LuKreme wrote:
>
> iTunes Music Match.
Ah, you missed the beginning of the thread:
On Jan 3, 2013, at 12:15 AM, Scot Hacker wrote:
> (Yes, I'd be happy to pay for Match if it ever supports library sizes For the
> Rest of Us, but that doesn
On Jan 3, 2013, at 7:45 PM, LuKreme wrote:
> I found it rather easy to build two library files for iTunes. One for Match
> with 24880 files an one for everything else.
So when you're listening to your collection from work, only half (or less) of
it is accessible? Sorry, that sounds like a bum
you tried Simplify?
> http://appyourmac.com/2009/08/simplify-media-your-streaming-music-server/
> --
> ~~ Daniel Sabsay, Cybernetic Moments
> http://cyberneticmoments.com
>
> Superstition is slavery
>
> On Jan 3, 2013
On Jan 4, 2013, at 3:14 AM, LuKreme wrote:
> The Music MAtch library contains the stuff that I listen to, and anything I
> wold ever want to listen to idly while doing something else. The stuff not in
> the match library is stuff that I would not listen without making
> arrangements (like lis
On Jan 3, 2013, at 12:15 AM, Scot Hacker wrote:
> So... what is the current state-of-the-art for listening to your home iTunes
> library from work? VNC + some audio tunneling solution over ssh? Custom
> utilities? Everything I've read on this tonight seems out of date - doesn&
On Mar 16, 2013, at 10:14 AM, "Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V]"
wrote:
> Can someone please tell me how to do audio switching in iTunes or else
> suggest some other software that will conveniently allow me to choose one (or
> more) of the audio sources?
Hidden gem: If you hold down the Opt key
On Mar 31, 2013, at 3:42 PM, Macs R We wrote:
> Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, I'm still feeling the effects of Apple
> having pulled the RSS mechanism out of Apple Mail. I'm missing out on a
> bunch of the material I used to subscribe to, because I no longer have the
> reminder notificat
On Apr 20, 2013, at 12:24 PM, "Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V]"
wrote:
> The Mac Mini is always on, as is the Mac Pro. With an Airport Express (AE),
> I could connect the AE to the receiver in the living room. Then I could
> choose the multiple speaker option in iTunes (on the Mac Pro) and hav
On Nov 21, 2013, at 11:26 AM, steve harley wrote:
> i seem to be locked in a lifelong battle with web browsers and memory; Safari
> is worse, and harder to manage; leave 50 tabs open in it for a few days and
> it will use a huge amount of swap; i recently saw Safari claiming 11GB of
> real me
On May 1, 2014, at 11:34 AM, steve harley wrote:
> on 2014-04-24 23:28 Hacker Scot wrote
>> I can’t for the life of me figure out what criteria iTunes is using to
>> decide when an album is identical. Anyone know?
>
> in my experience it is the tracks, not the whole album that it is matching,
I would suspect your ISP of port blocking on common SMTP ports (they
might be doing it intermittently). Maybe worth a call to them - in the
attempt to shut down spammers, it's easy to get caught up in the
dragnet. Try having just one SMTP server - your ISP's - and have all
of your accounts send out
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Neil Laubenthal wrote:
> On Nov 1, 2014, at 9:39 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>
> BTW: does WP generate responsive sites?
>
> There are more than 10,000 themes available for WordPress. Many hundreds
of them are responsive, including the default theme that currently
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:54 AM, LuKreme wrote:
> There are quite a few mobile ad dons for Wordpress,
W
e're talking about themes, not add-ons.
> but for REALLY responsive sites, take a look at square space. Free to try
> it out.
>
The application engine behind the scenes is orthogonal to t
With
iTunes 10 and 11, a common
problem
was
that iTunes play counts would not be updated when tracks were played via
Home Sharing, even if the "Home Sharing updates play counts" checkbox was
checked in prefs.
But since iTunes 12, I can't find
any mention of people still
having that problem.
| Sharing | Enable Home
Sharing.
Seriously.
Oh and p.s. When you use this technique, you solve one problem but create
another - you lose the ability to only share certain playlists; you now
must share your entire library, which can make it really slow to load the
library on the client if the index
I have two identical Airport Expresses, about a year old. One is connected
to a Motorola cable modem, the other is across the house and extends the
network wirelessly - straightforward stuff.
This setup worked for most of the year. Then, recently, the remote AEX
started blinking amber. I've factor
LOL - While I'd love to put my money on the tin-hat line, that was an
AWEsome tip on the conflict scanner - I had no idea that was there. It
found my network listed twice (2.4 and 5GHz), with the same exact name. Not
sure whether that's normal or not, but I renamed the 5GHz version, and set
the ch
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:42 PM, @lbutlr wrote:
> (For example, on my MBP Photos says it is downloading 1 item. It’s said
> this for the better part of a week.)
I ran into a nasty issue that prevented one of my machines from getting
new photos or stream updates at all - very frustrating. Finall
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 7:23 AM, @lbutlr wrote:
> The iPhoto Library is a bundle, so yes, those directories exist.
>
> In the Finder, you could use “Go To Location” ⌘⇧G and type in:
>
> /Users/[shortusersname]/Pictures/iPhoto Library.photolibrary/Masters/
>
> and that would open up the Masters fol
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Jeff Weinberger
wrote:
> My wife and I have been using my Apple ID to buy/use apps, music,
> books, etc. on our macs, iPhones and iPads.
>
Probably seemed like a good idea at the time. I've been there, and it took
a very long time to weed ourselves out of the mes
About a year ago, my son installed a game called League of Legends. Ever
since, every time the Mac is rebooted, a League of Legends disk volume
appears in the Finder, and I can't figure out where the automount is coming
from. Neither Spotlight nor `find` turn up anything. Nothing is referenced
in
I recently retired my Airport Express-based audio system for a NAD C338 amp
that has built-in support for both Bluetooth and Wifi. The sound is
incredible - I love this amp. But it turns out, "wifi" support means
Chromecast only, not AirPlay. So I'm giving Bluetooth ATX a try. It works
really well
My 82-yr-old father struggles quite a bit with technology but loves
photography and knows enough to be able to import his photos and then share
them to family with captions. He tells stories with them and likes to do:
[photo here]
Description...
[photo here]
Description...
etc. His usual proce
On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Macs R We wrote:
> Lately, Apple has "improved" several such interfaces into total yuckiness.
>
>
> For example, the "send mail" action in Automator no longer opens up a new
> message in Mail — instead, it throws up its own little dialog box into
> which you have
> the big three of which are Mail, iPhoto, and iTunes.
As you know, iTunes was converted over to the new Music app. I know that
they ditched the .xml companion format for the music library (frustrating
DJs everywhere). However, I see that in Catalina, there's a new
~/Music/Music folder where the n
In Catalina and earlier, I relied on a feature that was kind of hidden. In
Messages, you could select a person, then pull down Buddies | Ask to Share
Screen. This is how I helped my 84-yr-old non-tech father with computer
problems all the time, and it worked great. He didn't need to do or know
any
share screen” and “Ask to share screen” are still present in
> the “Conversations” menu in Messages 14.0 .
>
> -David
>
>
>
> > On Mar 4, 2021, at 6:51 PM, Scot Hacker wrote:
> >
> > In Catalina and earlier, I relied on a feature that was kind of hidden.
&g
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