Pictures displayed on a computer screen
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Safari 6 rendering issues/artifacts (on Mountain Lion)
Final update I just received an email from Apple confirming this bug has been fixed in OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3
I've been having rendering issues with Safari 6 on different systems all running ...
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How do I combine two or more images to get a single pdf file?
Say I have some image files (for instance, the result of scanning some sheets) and I want to combine them into a single pdf file, each image on a different page.
Is there a faster / more convenient ...
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Where does OS X store the profile photo it takes when you first create an account?
When you first create your OS X login account it takes a picture of you. Where does that picture get stored? I can't find it in ~/Pictures or ~/Library.
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How can I batch convert image files and PDFs to TIFF?
I have a lot .jpeg, .png and .pdf Files and I want to convert all of them to .tiff all at once.
How can I do this?
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What is the best way to deal with a large iPhoto library?
I just migrated from Wndows and imported all my pictures from my external hard drive into iPhoto. I have around 100GB of photos. I wanted to see if this is going to scale or if there is a way I should ...
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Is there any way to upload a screenshot from an ipad to this site (or other StackExchange sites)?
So I capture a screenshot with my handy "[HOME]-[POWER]" combo, and draw freehand arrows on it in Adobe Ideas (because I like their line smoothing) to highlight my problem, but:
I can't find any way ...
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1answer
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OSX Second monitor/display background
Is it possible to change the display default image on a second display connected to an Apple running OSX 10.6. ? I can see all the display options for the desktop, but the 2nd display has the Apple ...
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How can I generate iOS/Flurry style icons in OS X?
As some of you might know, the iOS treatment of app icons is ruthlessly strict. It forces a certain roundness of the corners and allows no transparency, hence enforcing a unified look. I think that's ...
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How do I kill the Application Switcher?
All of the sudden the Application Switcher's graphics breaks:
Restart does help, but became a nuisance. How can I kill it? Restart it?
UPDATE: Logging off fixed this.
UPDATE 2: I came to a ...
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1answer
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Animations are choppy and jerky after a day (Mountain Lion)
After my 13" MacBook Pro (2010) has been on/sleeping for a day, the changing desktop animation and mission control gets choppy. Only a reboot fixes this problem and it stays good for several hours. ...
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1answer
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Why is Safari displaying scrambled graphics?
When I click on "new tab" in safari, I see this flicker often as a new tab is opening:
Any idea why this is? It seems to be a scrambled cache of my graphics card... (In case you're wondering, the ...
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1answer
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What does a CUDA driver do?
I've heard talk of installing a CUDA driver for the new unibody mac (Nvidia 330M) to possibly resolve graphics problems (though it seems it actually doesn't do so). I'm not having problems but I was ...
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1answer
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Animated GIF images are slow on iOS
Animated GIF images seem incredibly slow since iOS 4.3ish. Prior to that, animated GIFs worked just fine and had the same speed as on a computer. I don't mean loading the GIF, but the speed of the ...
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2answers
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Is there a built-in text-to-graphic utility for OS X Lion?
I believe I've seen one or more utilities, possibly command-line or Applescript, which will take a string and create, for example, an image containing that text with the specified font size, etc.
I ...
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2answers
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Fake rectangle/window visible under some windows
tricky question here.
I don't know how long this has been going on, but I noticed it only recently. My semi-transparent windows have a “fake” square/window beneath them, which is visible (it also ...
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1answer
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Mac Pro (mid 2010) grinds to a halt when display is rotated to portrait
I have a Mac Pro Mid 2010 with two ATI Radion 5770's driving 6 Dell U2412M's. Problem is, when even just one of these displays is rotated to portrait, the entire system grinds to a halt. CPU usage ...
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Any tool to tell me the exact color value at a point on a png image?
I want to get the exact color value(RGB, HSB, or any other color space value that can be converted to RGB value) at any given point(preferably the point under the cursor) on a png image. Any tool for ...
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2answers
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Where is my Skype profile picture stored on OS X?
I took a profile picture for Skype using the "Capture a picture from a video camera" button found in the Skype profile dialog. Now I want to use the picture for other things but I cannot find where ...
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Where can I find the gray linen texture that's used as the Lion login screen background?
My company just updated to Lion, and I really like the gray linen texture that's used as the initial login screen background. I'd like to use it for my desktop background, but it's not one of the ...
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simplest way to open all images in a directory in Finder
When I have (and browse with Finder) a directory with a bunch of photos and videos (from e.g. my camera), I often want to open all the pictures in it.
How can I do that?
Right now, I select all ...
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2answers
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Do games need antialiasing on the Retina MacBook Pro?
Since the pixels in the new display are dense enough that they're imperceptible at a normal distance, doesn't that obviate antialiasing?
(Assuming that the game is running at full 2880x1800 ...
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Changing the default screenshot filename
Is there a way to change the default screenshot filename prefix (the Cmd-Shift-4 type screenshot) to something other than the default? The default name looks like this:
Screen Shot 2011-08-30 at ...
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1answer
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Striped Macbook mouse pointer
For a few months my Macbook (white, 1.83Ghz Core Duo, OS 10.6.recent) has been showing the mouse pointer in a strange way. It's as if alternating vertical rows of the pixels making up the pointer are ...
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1answer
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Tool to find duplicate images in a directory structure
I'm searching for an application to find duplicate images.
In my Linux days, there was a nice Gtk+ application which I could provide some folders and which would list all duplicate images based on ...
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3answers
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Tile Finder background image in Snow Leopard
I have seen a guide/tip on the internet to make Finder tile it's background by editing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist however the guide is now outdated and no longer works on Snow ...
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1answer
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How do I draw an arrow in Acorn?
Yes, I know Acorn isn't Visio, but still let me ask the question:
How can you draw an arrow with Acorn?
I am talking about the kind of arrows that Skitch or Jing would draw, and that you typically ...
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1answer
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Fix bad image quality in dark images in iMovie
I have an iMovie project (stop motion animation). Everything is fine, except for a dark scene. The photos get pixelated and blocked, and really ruined. The original image is very sharp and clear, yet ...
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1answer
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A good (and inexpensive) images manager for Mac?
I'm dealing with a huge variety of image files (photos, vectors, icons, cliparts, etc.).
I've organized them in folders and subfolders, in order to find theproper sort of image, but I don't find a ...
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1answer
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Mission Control slow and jerky on 2011 MacBook Pros: any fix?
Mission Control has been horribly slow on my 2011 MacBook Pro 15" (2GHz quad i7, 8GB RAM, 256MB graphics, SSD) -- swiping up usually freezes the screen for 2 seconds, before showing me the Mission ...
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How can I set the background image the same on all master slides without editing each master slide individually in Keynote?
In PowerPoint the master slides have inheritance, so you can set common elements on all the master slides easily. I don't see anyway to do this in Keynote. For example, if I want to set the background ...
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2answers
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Can I use a Mid 2011 27 inch iMac (Thunderbolt) as a display for a PC?
There are other questions on here that are similar, but I believe they relate to older models. If this is a dupe please close it though - I just want to find out if this can be done.
I bought a 27 ...
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Extract images from a pages document
I want to extract all of the images out of a large pages document. I found an article about it from 2006 ( see http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060324033125571 ) which states you can open ...
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1answer
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How can I stitch a set of images together?
I have a set of images that are named foo-N.jpg, where N is a number from 0 to 100.
I'd like to stitch them together such that I have one long image, where foo-0.jpg is at the left and foo-100.jpg is ...
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2answers
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Which graphics chip on MacBook Pro?
My MacBook Pro has two graphics chips and automatically switches between them. How can I tell which one is currently in use? I'm just curious really; it's plenty fast enough whatever it's doing by ...
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What does no chime on boot mean?
My MacBook Pro is having some issues. It boots. But the graphics card doesn't get detected. You can remote in to it but looking at the Displays dialog in System Preferences, no graphics card is shown:
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Use the power of the graphic card on a MacBook?
Is there a way to use the processor of the graphic card on a new MacBook Pro to do some long and repetitive calculations?
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Can a Mac with Thunderbolt effectively use a PCI Graphics Card using an external cage?
I was wondering how good thunderbolt is for adding a beefier PCI graphics card to my MacBook Air.
If I use a PCI enclosure like this, will the card integrate with the Mac to enhance the performance ...
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1answer
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Desktop Background is blank
I change my background in system preferences and it says my background is a picture, but my desktop is still a blank gray. How can I fix this?
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Is there a way I can share a disk image as a remote DVD drive?
I would like to upgrade one of my laptops to Snow Leopard but the DVD drive doesn't work.
So can I share a disk image to use it with Remote Mac OS X Install tool?
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2answers
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Why is my Macbook Pro 2011 video garbled after sleep?
Occasionally when I open my new (April 2011) Macbook Pro I'm greeted by an unusable system with a garbled display. Most often I have to force a reboot (hold down power button for 10+ seconds), but ...
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3ds Max alternative for Mac
Is there a good alternative to Autodesk's 3D modeling software 3ds Max that works on a Mac?
I like 3ds Max because it's very powerful and easy to use for someone who is not an expert in 3D modeling.
...
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1answer
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Mac Pro (5,1 - Mid 2010) + Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter + DVI Monitor = blank LCD
I just received a new 2.8 Ghz Mac Pro with an ATI 5770. I have one LCD connected to the DVI port which is working fine. I have another DVI LCD connected over a mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter to one ...
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2answers
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Fastest way to get an image from Skitch into OmniFocus?
What's the fastest way to get a screenshot from Skitch into OmniFocus?
When you drag and drop an image into OmniFocus, it only creates a link to the image, rather than embedding it. One way to do ...
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3answers
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An app or script to watch folder and display new images in full screen?
I'm teaching a photography class and would like to use a cheap setup to display photos taken by the students in real time.
I have a macbook pro and an iphone. I also have an eye-fi card but it's an ...
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1answer
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Create PDF from tall images (Automator?)
I have a number of images that are 8.5" wide, but very long (around 40" tall) and I want to create a standard multi-paged 8.5" x 11" PDF document from all of the images. The problem is that the PDF ...
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New MacBook Pro graphics card?
When I have a monitor plugged in at work (dual monitor) and I go to About this Mac -> More Info it says Graphics Radeon HD6770. But when I unplug the monitor and just use the laptop display (17") It ...
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magic mouse vs other mouse for graphic design
I've saw some review that the apple magic mouse isn't recommended by designers.
How do you find the magic mouse in your daily graphic design work? Would you recommend it? If not what are some good ...
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App Recommendation for automatically stitching screenshots together on iOS
As per this marvellous screenshot on another question, is there an App available (preferably an iOS app, but a Mac OS X one might do) that will take a series of screenshots that are produced by taking ...
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Can I efficiently make a pdf out of 10 jpeg images? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I combine two or more images to get a single pdf file?
In Lion, how can I efficiently combine 10 jpeg files into a single pdf in which each image is a page? I ...
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1answer
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Software to A) merge two faces into one and B) morph one into another for Mac?
I'm looking for a program (or programs) that will allow me to do two things:
Create a video of one photo of a face morphing into another photo of a face. (This requires tagging the matched elements ...
