OS X 10.7, Lion (Mac is dropped from the marketing name)
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How can I remotely send an SMS message through my Mac from my iPhone?
Is there an application for Mac OS X which would allow me to remotely send SMS messages through my iPhone? Ideally, just a simple application or maybe a full screen remote application like TeamViewer.
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What is an quick way to create a new blank file in Lion?
In Windows, one can create a new file using Right Click -> Add New -> Type of File. Is there an analogous action in Lion?
I just want to create a new blank file on my Desktop.
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How to check what is preventing MBP from graceful shutdown/restart and fix it? [Now with log entries]
And hopefully really final edit: After upgrading to Mountain Lion, the issue seems fixed, hopefully permanently.
Final Edit: The problem doesn't happen all the time, sometimes I have to wait several ...
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How to auto connect to VPN upon login/boot?
So far, I've been using the build-in VPN tool of Lion.
I would like to auto connect my VPN whenever I'm connected to the internet.
Is it possible to auto connect my VPN whenever I'm connected to the ...
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Will FileVault 2 wear out my SSD faster?
I'm considering using FileVault 2 when I upgrade to Lion. Though my understanding of it is weak, it seems as though it shouldn't really increase the number of reads or writes per disk operation ...
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Can I restore a Snow Leopard backup onto a Lion machine?
So I am a little confused and slightly worried, and I was wondering if someone could answer this.
I have a Time Machine backup saved on an external HD for my Mac mini that is running the latest ...
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Where does $LANG variable gets set in Mac OS X?
I've used wget for the first time after installing Lion OS X and I've noticed that wget got localized to my native language. Running set command in terminal showed that my LANG variable represents my ...
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How can I make ctrl+right/left arrow stop changing Desktops in Lion?
⌃ Control+→ and ⌃ Control+← switches desktops.
I actually had this enabled in Spaces on Snow Leopard, but I'd like to turn this off because I use those key combinations when editing in Eclipse. How ...
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Homebrew permissions & multiple users needing to brew update
I'm using Homebrew to manage package installs on Lion (Lion Server actually but this shouldn't matter).
Homebrew was installed under one user. Now a different user would like to add a package and ...
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Move windows around a desktop — and to different desktops — using only the keyboard?
Here's what I'm trying to accomplish using only a keyboard:
Move a window to different areas/corners of a desktop
Move a window to different desktops
Set/unset a window as shown/sticky on all ...
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Have to reconnect to WiFi every time computer goes to sleep
I recently purchased a new MacBook Air (2011) with Lion preinstalled. There is this persistent and incredibly annoying problem that is occurring with the WiFi. Every time I close the lid or let the ...
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ssh-under-cron stops working in OS X 10.7 Lion
Just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion, and my cron jobs that use ssh have stopped working. It appears that ssh-agent is no longer functioning as expected.
Here's a bowdlerized version of my ...
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Is there a way to disable OS X auto termination of applications?
Is there a way to tell OS X Lion to disable auto-termination for a given application that you do not want to auto terminate?
FYI Lion is a quitter if you did not already know, what if you don't want ...
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How do I truly flush Safari's Cache?
There have been countless times where I run into a problem after I edit HTML on a Mac. The issue derives from me uploading the updated file to my server through FTP, and I'll navigate to the website ...
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Mac does not sleep automatically in Lion!
My Macbook Pro will not sleep even though it is set in System Preferences → Energy Saver.
I do not have any sharing options enabled (System Preferences → Sharing).
I do not have "Wake ...
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Disable a user's ability to unlock a FileVault 2 volume at startup/login time
I recently performed a clean install of Lion on one of my Macs. The installation process created one administrative user account. After installation, I enabled FileVault for the entire disk. Then, I ...
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How can I associate a file extension with a content type?
I have some files with extension "module" and "inc," which are PHP files. When I try to open them, the list of applications that can open them shows only the application I have set as default ...
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mid-2011 Macbook Air changes applications on wake from sleep
When my new Macbook Air (13" mid-2011, Lion) wakes from sleep (by opening the lid, clicking the mouse or pressing the space bar), it usually wakes to the last application I was using, then changes ...
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How do I open the mac context menu from the keyboard?
When I make a spelling error in a document, Lion gives me the option to correct the error by right-clicking (or ctrl-clicking, two-finger tapping, etc) on the misspelled word and bringing up the ...
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How can I show only an .htaccess file in the Finder?
I'm a web developer. I really need to use .htaccess file.
How can make Finder show only the .htaccess file and not all the file prefixed with .?
I am running OS X Lion.
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Is there any way to automatically set outgoing email address based on recipient's email or domain in mail.app?
I'd like mail to be automatically be sent from an account based on domain the domain of the recipient.
Details:
I've set up multiple email accounts in mail.app, both personal and work. I find ...
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How can I check for available entropy?
On linux systems, one can check for available entropy (useful to know if you're tapping /dev/random for any PRNG purposes) with
cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
However, there is no ...
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Copy and Cut sometimes don't work
My system is kept fully up to date and I still see this problem intermittently, although not as often as I used to; I would say that this has not been fully fixed. If there are any workarounds ...
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Copying formatted text from a web page to an Applescript input dialog
I have an Applescript which - simplified - looks like this:
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display dialog "foo" default answer ""
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One of the users of this script runs Lion. Whenever he tries to copy/paste a string to the ...
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Changing Preview.app's default View state in Lion
One thing I dislike about Preview.app in Lion is its defaulting to Continuous Scroll as the view option when a new PDF document opens. My recollection is that previous behaviour was for the last-used ...
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How to make DVD from iMovie
Apple has decided to exclude iDVD from Lion, and I haven't found an easy way to make a DVD that can be played on my DVD player created in iMovie.
I found this question
However, there is no clear ...
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How to create a pseudo-guest account in Lion with FileVault 2?
The guest account always had very limited permissions, unfortunately since activating FileVault on Lion it's deactivated by default. (More about it here: Unable to create Guest Account after enabling ...
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How can I customize the Lion login screen to remove the vignette effect?
Just upgraded to Lion, but the new login screen needs some colour. I found someone online who posted the address of the image that's in the background, so I went and replaced that.
Only, after ...
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How can I change the lock screen background image in Lion 10.7.4?
With Lion, I know that, in order to change the lock screen background image, I have to change
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How to get Finder in Lion to set group permissions to read/write by default?
To have group permissions set to read/write by default in Snow Leopard and Leopard, I used /etc/launchd-user.conf to set the umask to 002.
This still works in Lion in every app except the Finder. ...
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When sharing calendars on iCloud, how do I show other people that I'm occupied, but not why?
Now that I will be able to share iCal calendars (e.g. on iCloud, MobileMe), for events that are marked as private is there a way to make other people only see that I am occupied at a certain time but ...
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Steam under Parental Controls
I need to allow Steam for someone's Parental Controls'd account, I've tried allowing steampowered.com and https://steampowered.com and allowing the copy of Steam.app in the applications folder. Also, ...
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AppleScript vs. Bash script?
I'm a long-time Windows "power user" and developer who has recently decided to move over to Mac OS X.
On OS X Lion and indeed previous versions there seem to be two main options for scripting and ...
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How can I copy the OS X system image from primary HDD to new SSD?
I bought a 240 GB SSD to replace the 500 GB primary HDD in my new MacBook Pro.
How do I clone the current Lion system image on my 500 GB HDD to the SSD? I want to clone the entire drive not just copy ...
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Is it possible to remove the Dock in Lion?
Is there a defaults write command to remove the dock in Lion.
I tried the steps mentioned but that does not seem to work on Lion. I can still see the dock. Are there hidden defaults that can make the ...
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Where can I go to make enhancement/feature requests for OSX Lion?
Don't get me wrong, I like Lion, though I do miss many things from Snow Leopard and wish to express this to the OSX team via some sort of suggestion forum.
I'm visually impaired and the OS is ...
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Update from 10.5.8 to Lion with the Lion USB stick
I bought this small OS X Lion USB stick for $69 today. The guy in the Apple Store said that I can simply upgrade from my 10.5.8 to Lion with this thing. Well I plugged it in and hello, I'm not able to ...
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What happens when I close the lid on my MacBook Pro running OS X?
I'm a new Mac user. What happens when I close the lid on my MacBook Pro running OS X Lion?
Is it sleeping? Or hibernating? Something else?
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Keyboard shortcut to sleep a MacBook Air with Lion
I am looking for a quick way to sleep without closing the lid, or using the mouse.
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Problems with font rendering on a MacBook Pro using external 24" LCD
I have a 24" HP LP2475w at my home and 23" Apple Cinema Display at work. Today when I turned on my laptop at work, I noticed that all fonts look perfect (after having an issue with rendering for the ...
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Reopen windows when logging back in - NOT
In Mac OS X Lion, when I do Apple > Shut Down, there is a checkbox that says "Reopen windows when logging back in".
Even though I constantly UNCHECK the box, it seems OS X doesn't care - and still ...
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OS X lion and SSD
I recently got a Crucial M4 SSD for my mid-2009 MacBook Pro 13" (2.53 GHz). Since I paid some money, I would like to get the best performance possible out of it. Running a speed test using app store ...
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Skype is showing up in Launchpad twice — why? How do I fix it?
Skype is showing up in Launchpad twice. It's been acting like this for a while but if I remember correctly I think it first started when I let Skype auto-update itself a while back.
Any ideas why ...
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Spotlight reports “Indexing and searching disabled” in Lion
Lion keeps "losing track" of Spotlight information. Directories and Applications disappear, full text searches stop working, etc. I seem to need to re-index it once a week or so.
However, now it ...
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How To Disable Lion Ellipsis Autocorrect
Every time i write ... in a text editor like TextEdit or Coda, Lion has started replacing it with a single Ellipse character, which doesn't encode to HTML. This started after I upgraded to Lion and ...
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Do OS X Lion's Versions and Resume features store the cached data for encrypted .sparsebundle images in a secure way?
I store sensitive information on my laptop in encrypted .sparsebundle images which are made with apps like Disk Utility, Knox and Espionage. The question is, if I upgrade to Lion, when I'm working on ...
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Weird display issue on OS X Lion when switching external monitor
I'm using a MBP with a second (external) monitor and since I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion, I encountered some display issues that appear in the Application Switcher, and sometimes in the ...
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How can I keep Safari from re-opening my tabs from my last session?
When I re-open Safari on my Mac Mini, it keeps opening the same tabs that were open before it was quit (or before the Mac OS X was switched off). The result is that it takes too much time to be ...
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Is it possible to use a gesture to go back in Finder in Lion?
I miss the ability to go back to previous directory via a gesture (swipe with two finger right like in Safari or Chrome) in Finder. Is it possible to enable it?
Edit: I'm on a MacBook Pro, and using ...
