I just upgraded to Snow Leopard, and since then, some of my fonts are MAJORLY screwed up in iWork '09 (Pages, Keynote
and Numbers).
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posted by ferdinandcc
on Aug 29, 2009 -
17 answers
Mac OS X Filter: In Finder, when a pop-up menu shows up, say to empty the trash or cancel, I toggle through the buttons/options by pressing tab, but how do I actually select what I toggled to with a keyboard shortcut? '
posted by helios410
on Aug 28, 2009 -
7 answers
Unix mavens: is there a way for
ls on a Mac OS X install to alphabetize its listing case-
insensitively, while still preserving any other ls flags you may be using? If not, does another
ls variant offered by anybody offer case-insensitivity, and if so, how can I supplant one with the other,
without risk of any harm to anything else on my system? (If it matters, my shell of choice is
tcsh.)
posted by WCityMike
on Aug 16, 2009 -
19 answers
Is there a piece of Mac OS X software which will let me divide a very wide screen up into several virtual displays so window/app affinity hacks like spaces will work?
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posted by tomierna
on Aug 1, 2009 -
7 answers
I have a MacBook Pro running Leopard. It has two admin accounts. Some time ago I stopped using account "A" in favor of new account "B" (the reason behind the creation of account B isn't relevant to this question, however). If I delete user account "A," what precautions must I take to ensure the preservation of the files created under "user A," and what automatically happens to the ownership of those files?
posted by Piscean
on Jul 21, 2009 -
10 answers
How can I reconcile Emacs, Firefox, and Cocoa controls' keyboard navigation, and still use Spaces' keyboard shortcuts?
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posted by ChrisR
on Jun 29, 2009 -
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Is there a way to reduce the margins between pages when printing two pages per sheet in Leopard / OSX?
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posted by phyrewerx
on Jun 21, 2009 -
5 answers
Do Civilization IV mods such as Fall From Heaven and Fall From Heaven 2 work in the Mac OSX version of Civ IV?
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posted by ChrisR
on Mar 13, 2009 -
3 answers
Transferring files
(namely txt and pdf files) to the iPhone 3G, how is it done? I broke it out of jail already, so what's my next step?
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posted by zardoz
on Mar 7, 2009 -
10 answers
It is possible to transfer waypoint data from an old Garmin GPS II Plus model to a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.5?
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posted by jcdill
on Jan 28, 2009 -
5 answers
How do I move around 2000 messages from Apple's Mail.app (10.4) to a Google Apps (Premier) GMail account quickly and efficiently?
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posted by Wild_Eep
on Jan 18, 2009 -
8 answers
I need recommendations for Mac backup / archive software to make DVDs that fill each DVD to capacity with files from a group of folders. I'm using a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5.
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posted by jcdill
on Jan 1, 2009 -
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Firefox 3.0.5 on MacOSX 10.5.5: How do I make the Bookmarks Pulldown Menu Wider? I cant read half of my bookmarks because the dropdown is too narrow.
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posted by Fiat124
on Dec 24, 2008 -
6 answers
I have an old blue-and-white G3 tower that is still running OS 8.6 (!) and I'd like to install Tiger on it to use as an in-house web server. However, it doesn't have an internal DVD drive, and recent attempts to use an external DVD drive failed. Any suggestions on how I might work around this?
posted by ancientgower
on Dec 16, 2008 -
10 answers
How to
automate FTP user creation with
Pure-FTPd on
Mac OS X (running Apache) retrieving usernames and passwords from another http (linux) server?
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posted by lion
on Dec 8, 2008 -
8 answers
Is there a Firefox extension, or Mac app that can work with what is currently on Firefox, which will export the current webpage as a PDF file that is not paginated and reproduces the screen appearance, such as what Saft's "Export PDF" feature offers for Safari?
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posted by WCityMike
on Dec 1, 2008 -
6 answers
I'm clueless about wireless home networks. Please help this Mac user get his Wii and Blu-ray player connected to one.
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posted by DakotaPaul
on Nov 5, 2008 -
7 answers
Mac users who write LaTeX documents in Emacs (with or without AucTeX), please tell me about your workflow.
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posted by gleuschk
on Oct 4, 2008 -
10 answers
While talking to my friend, who was using gchat in gmail on a Mac, suddenly her keyboard started acting up. It didn't work it gchat, did work in rmails in gmail, and
the kezboard is messed up for other things++
(y is swapped with z, and all sorts of other things.)
The strange part is, she doesn't even know how she did it. Any Mac gurus have anz ideas_ (any ideas?) Particularly useful would be how to reverse the change...
posted by hAndrew
on Sep 28, 2008 -
7 answers
Is there a way to wirelessly sync my iPhone to iCal via Airport or Bluetooth (without purchasing MobileMe)? Maybe an app through the App Store or a jailbroken app solution?
posted by helios410
on Sep 12, 2008 -
2 answers
How can I make an optimized "Work" account on my Macbook, with a few specific requirements?
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posted by synecdoche
on Aug 31, 2008 -
10 answers
Great MeFites, I come bearing but a humble request. I bought a MacBook Pro about six months before Leopard was released. When it finally came out, I installed it on a partition on an external drive, which I would boot from (because OS X is awesome like that, amirite?) so I could test out all my apps. Now I'm ready to commit to Leopard full-time - what's the best way to go about transplanting my Leopard partition?
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posted by indiewizard
on Aug 18, 2008 -
6 answers
I am a Mac owner who bought
Hazel, an application that will do a number of different tasks to your files based on certain rules. (Think of it as Outlook rules for your Mac desktop.) However, I've really found myself stumped as to what to
do with it, and it's basically just been sitting on my machine unused. If you have it, what do you do with it? If you don't have it or have a Windows machine, do you have any good ideas for rule logic, or automated rules, to apply to files on your desktop, anyway? Looks like it'll auto-run AppleScripts and Unix shell scripts, too. Basically looking to tap other people's minds on this one since my own seems to be balking at this particular mental problem. Thanks.
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posted by WCityMike
on Jul 31, 2008 -
8 answers
SETUP:
-One PowerMac G4 running OS 10.4
-One Macbook Pro running OS 10.5.4
-One Airport Extreme (older UFO model) on 802.11g
For a long time I've had a home network between my desktop and my Airport. I never had any problems with signal or anything. About a year ago I purchased a Macbook Pro and set it up for my network. The only problem is that on my Macbook I consistently get fluctuating signal strength and my network often just disappears all together.
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posted by ISeemToBeAVerb
on Jul 29, 2008 -
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Can you suggest a simple 2d drawing program for Mac OS X (Tiger)? I'd like something with the simplicity of MS Paint. I'm trying to draw some very simple line diagrams. If it's free (or cheap) that would be good.
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posted by bluefly
on Jun 4, 2008 -
11 answers
Is there a way that I can access some very old PDF files that are encrypted with a password I cannot remember any longer? I have a system running Mac OS X (Leopard), and I do need to do the decryption myself.
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posted by WCityMike
on May 16, 2008 -
12 answers
Is there a QuickLook plugin (for Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" if you didn't follow) to browse sqlite databases? If not, wouldn't that be awesome for Rails and iPhone development!
posted by avocade
on May 8, 2008 -
2 answers
Is there a way for Leopard to bind a hosts file to a location in Network Preferences?
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posted by mkb
on Apr 8, 2008 -
4 answers
Can I drag & drop Safari from one hard drive to another? I accidentally deleted the application:-( I don't have the original install DVD with me right now, but I do have a backup on an external drive that's about two weeks old. So, I dragged the Safari.app that was on that to the Applications folder on my Powerbook. Everything seems to be functioning okay.....or am I inadvertently running a browser with a bunch of loopholes & missing parts?
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posted by invisible ink
on Mar 5, 2008 -
3 answers
I would like to save an Excel spreadsheet onto the desktop of a computer for people to look at, but not to modify. I know how to protect the sheet to make it read-only or to require a password to modify it, but is there any way for me to prevent people from deleting it all together? I should add that the computer on which I want to have the file is running Mac OS X. Is there a way to make a file un-deletable? It is a public computer, so it must always be logged in under the same user name.
posted by foxinthesnow
on Feb 12, 2008 -
12 answers
Help! My laptop is a nightmare of unorganized .pdfs, and if I have to create any more staggered files I might just lose my mind. Is there a program specifically designed to help me manage this deluge of information?
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posted by numinous
on Feb 7, 2008 -
31 answers
I'm looking for a file browsing and HTML- and media-viewing interface that can be set up on a Mac OS X machine locally and accessed through a web browser. Remote access not necessary; I'm just looking for a local interface.
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posted by WCityMike
on Feb 7, 2008 -
6 answers
What is the best application (hopefully easy to learn) that will let me build an easy to create timeline of religions, myths, and cults, with the option to click on (or hover the mouse over) different highlighted words to show up more information? Or does anyone know where said timeline exists?
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posted by omnigut
on Jan 20, 2008 -
9 answers
I'm experiencing a strange bug on my macbook pro: with little cause (perhaps a slight mouse gesture, though I have no mouse gesture programs installed), the os will switch to the Stickies application (and sometimes iTunes, when I quit Stickies). I can't figure out what's going on.
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posted by pinto
on Jan 9, 2008 -
3 answers
Using Preview for PDFs, what can I do to maximize the size of the text as they appear on printouts?
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posted by numinous
on Dec 7, 2007 -
17 answers
I noticed this morning in my system logs that I had some failed FTP and SSH login attempts from an IP in China. I thought I was going to have get all Cliff Stoll on this guy, but then looking back further I saw that this has been happening for months, from lots of different IP addresses.
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posted by jeffxl
on Dec 5, 2007 -
9 answers
I'm working on a quick Automator workflow and need some help replacing the local hostname in a series of URLs.
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posted by nathan_teske
on Nov 26, 2007 -
3 answers
