OS X (previously Mac OS X) is marketing name for Apple's computer OS. Note the proper pronunciation is "ohh ess ten"
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Looking for email/web harvesting program for mac [closed]
Most of the popular application are for windows. Does anybody know of a native email harvesting/crawling application (preferable threaded and multi-core compatible) for mac?
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Show When Applications Were Opened and Closed
I'd like to be able to see a list of applications that were recently opened and quitted on a per user basis.
Ex:
19:25:34 Google Chrome Canary opened by John Smith
20:45:32 Pages quitted by Julie ...
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iTunes Helper still running even if it is off
I wan't to disable iTunes Helper.
I have remove it from Settings > Start up items, but it's still running after restart. Did I miss anything?
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10.8 Notification Center occasionally freezes system
My Mac Pro 5,1 sometimes freezes when I open the Notification Center, and it usually recovers by itself about 10 minutes later. I'd like to know why and how to fix it.
When this happens, the ...
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Is there a way to set an Application Shortcut in the Keyboard Preference Pane via Terminal?
I'd like to have a bootstrap for my custom keyboard shortcuts to use on multiple machines...
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MBP w/ OS X 10.8.3 Performing Quite Slowly Lately
My MBP (2.66 GHz i7, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD) is about two or so years old. It's been running like a champ for most of its life. However, within the past few months, I've noticed a considerable degradation ...
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Mac Pro: Kernel panic during HDD boot and DVD boot
I have a 2007 Mac Pro (OS X Tiger 10.4.11) that cannot boot up anymore since a few days. I see the grey screen with the apple logo and the rotating circle. After a minute or so I get a kernel panic. ...
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Why doesn't the screen saver delay that I set persist after restarting my Mac?
I have a problem with a screen saver, I set it to 20 minutes and when I lock the computer and unlock it, the settings are unchanged. However, when I restart my mac, then the screen saver is set to ...
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2010 Mac Pro beachballing/freezing
My machine is a 2010 Mac Pro 2 x 2.66 6-core intel xeon with 32 GBs of ram running Mac OS X 10.8.3. Just the other day it started to beach ball after about an hour of use. It doesn't make any ...
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Printers compatible with case sensitive hardened Mountain Lion
For security improvment, I'm running all my MacOS X on case sensitive
and journaled file systems (then any ill written program which one day open a file named conf, and the day after try to open it ...
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On Mountain Lion, Trash doesn't Empty
there is a file stuck in the trash
This is what it shows when i do 'Get Info'
When i 'Empty' the trash
The sound plays, the trash window disappears, but the Trash icon doesn't appear empty ...
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What does Skype on Mac do with Webcams?
I don't know if many of you have had this problem: After starting Skype, you can no longer use the webcam you specified for Skype to use in other applications such as Quick Time Player.
Even ...
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Problems with apache after update of php and mysql using homebrew
I am hoping someone here can assist me.
I upgraded php and related files using brew upgrade on my mac which is running Mac OS X 10.8.3. Everything was working fine before and I just wanted to update.
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Cleaning up my .bash_profile: Can I delete some of this?
I'm not a Unix guru.
I'm running OS X 10.8.3 Mountain Lion. Today I removed Macports from my machine. I believe macports left some cruft in my `~/.bash_profile which I would like to remove (the ...
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Ruby and osx, clipboard status detection
My question: is it possible to detect when clipboard was pasted into other app ?
With use of RubyMotion, Macruby, or Apple Scripts maybe ?
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Is there an easy way to get notified of updates for all of my non-Mac App Store apps?
I like to keep my system up to date and the Mac App Store is great in that it automatically notifies you when updates are available for apps downloaded from it. However, I'm after an easy way to get ...
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Any way to add Lion full-screen feature for TaskPaper by AppleScript?
I am using TaskPaper and, unlike most Mountain Lion apps, it appears that there is no way to make it go full screen. Would it be possible to use an AppleScript to make it go full screen in the same ...
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Restoring finder icon
I have moved certain sections (downloads, music, pictures) of my user directory from my SSD to my HDD via symlinks. I have successfully changed over the image of the folder which can be seen in the ...
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Combine sound such as MP3 to video MOV in OS X?
I need to combine a movie without sounds and a MP3 file. How can I do it in OS X? I have Adobe After Effects but it is not at all intuitive to use -- or better I need to find some button to render the ...
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Random space switching issue
When I am using Chrome for web development I like to have it open on the same space as where I am using my code editor.
Chrome is currently assigned to a different space than my code editor so ...
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How can i reset my Terminal?
just some time ago i installed the OS X Server app on my mac and since this day it always appears server as the chosen directory in my terminal.
But because i dont really like the Server application ...
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Net-SNMP python binding path
I'm currently setting a development environment in python 3.3 and i'm trying to import the Net-SNMP python bindings but idk where the files are located.
Simple question: anyone knows where are ...
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Mac Mini with Linux
I have a Mac Mini (6,1) without an optical drive and I would like to put Debian testing on it instead of OS X. I cannot find a complete and concise guide to doing this on the mac's without the optical ...
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5Gb of RAM being used with NO software running?
My computer (brand new) was using 12 Gb of RAM so after I was done exporting my video I force-quit everything and 8 minutes later it's still using 5Gb or RAM, is this normal?! It seems like so much!
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Making checks before rsyncing external drive on OSX
I have the following issue on OSX though I guess this could equally be filed under bash. I have several encrypted portable drives that I use to sync an offsite data store or as an on-the-go data store ...
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Coreaudiod spams system log: Enabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is inactive
I'm getting my system log virtually spammed with:
May 13 23:56:36 alluminium coreaudiod[238]: Enabled automatic stack shots because audio IO is inactive
May 13 23:56:37 alluminium coreaudiod[238]: ...
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How do I make a bash script so that I can drag its input on top of the icon?
I need to make a bash script to that I can drag a .rar file on top of it and then the script will receive the pathname of that file as argument 1 ($1). I have made the bash script, but how do I make ...
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Can I force finder to open without loading previous files?
Finder crashed recently and I had to force quit it. Problem is that now when I open something with it, all of the files that it had open previously (including the one that caused the crash) try and ...
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Connecting to Postfix using Python or Telnet
I managed to configure a local postfix server, which works correctly when using the mail command (and I receive emails from the cron deamon),
however, if I try to connect using telnet localhost 25 ...
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Alternative Large Cursors
I need to use large cursors when using OSX.
However the standard Apple ones I can choose in System Preferences all make the cursor expand to the right and down. These then hide the beginning of any ...
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Keeping a VMWare View session alive?
On OS X 10.8, I have the VMWare View client installed, and frequently use it to log into a remote Windows machine. Unfortunately, the way the infrastructure is set up, it frequently times out very ...
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Copying with sshfs/macfusion adds a number at the end of the dir name
I just copied the iPhoto library to my NAS via sshfs/macfusion, but the resulting directory had a number appended to it
iPhoto Library64569900
What's the reason for it?
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vim does not accept syntax in vimrc
When I put the following in ~/.vimrc and save it,
syntax on
vim get errors while opening. I think there are some vim configuration conflicts. Herewith the errors:
Error detected while ...
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Shortcut to create/remove desktop in Mac OSX 10.8
To switch desktops, one can use < CTRL >-i or < CTRL >-[< left >< right >]. Are there shortcuts to create and remove desktops? If not, how can I make them?
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Mac shutdown. Need apple iTunes account with purchased lion OSX [closed]
I was reformatting My MacBook Pro, erased the hard drive, and reinstalled OS X Lion; the Apple iTunes Store is telling me that I have not purchased it, when I have purchased it.
Apparently my ...
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horizonally flip OSX's monitor output?
For display reasons we've got a setup where a user watches videos on a MacBook via a mirror. Of course, this works okay for videos normally, but the user would like to be able to do more than watch ...
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Good documentation about securityd,SecurityAgent and loginwindow
I am looking for good documentation about securityd,SecurityAgent and loginwindow. I am particularly interested in as to how these processes work in unison during Mac OS X login and authenticate the ...
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Why would opening the DiagnosticReports folder be preferred to using Console.app?
I already searched Ask Different for "Console.app" and "crash logs".
I was recently searching for a way to access OS X crash logs because I couldn't remember the application that pulled them up. All ...
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Can't drag folder to desktop
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, every time I try to drag a folder to my desktop it only makes an alias. Is there any way to reenable moving regular folders? It's really obnoxious to have to make ...
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Need help with Applescript and clicking menu bar item
I'm trying to make an applescript for F.lux that clicks the menu item "Disable for an Hour" as indicated in screenshot one. The element path is indicated in screenshot two.
Here is my code thus far:
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How to sort a fat filesystem?
I need to sort the files of an fat32 filesystem on a SD Card (mp3 meant to be listened in a specific order). How can it be done on OSX?
I downloaded fatsort from sourceforge, but osx removes the SD ...
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Terminal configuration lost after booting up
On OS X 10.8.3, my Terminal.app is configured with my .bashrc file. In my .bash_profile I have:
source .bashrc
It works great, except when I let some Terminal windows opened and shut down the Mac. ...
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Adobe reader XI font error with Chrome > print > save as pdf
I have a strange error with Adobe Reader XI when opening documents saved from the web, using print save to pdf.
Preview does not have that problem with same document.
Looking at the fonts it shows ...
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How can i mount a disk to a folder? [duplicate]
My downloads folder is getting to big. I want to buy a new harddrive, create a folder on it and mount it to downloads in my home folder. What is the right way to do it? Should I just delete ...
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Opening HistoryIndex.sk file? [closed]
I would like to open HistoryIndex.sk file. Is there any app which can open this? It's probably some kind of database file.
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How to dock multiple screens in a single screen?
I am using Macbook Pro and I am trying to dock terminal in the bottom and my webstorm on the top left and safari in top right. I followed the suggestion but I can't get the dividie by holding shift ...
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Is it possible to get the full suite of unix options for the command line tools on OS X?
I follow Unix Tool Tip on Twitter and it is interesting that many of the tips that are posted are not available on OS X.
For example:
cp - u will only copy files that don't exist, or are newer ...
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How can I select all files within a directory with subfolders?
I'm in the process of cleaning up my wickedly bad "Digital Photos" folder. I've got a workflow I like, but I need a better way of selecting the files. What I'd like to be able to do is select a ...
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Need Help with an Applescript / plist
This has been a learning experience for me. Everything checks out logically to me in this script/ plist but something isn't correct. Everything runs, but then the script runs every minute which is ...
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make new Finder windows open at current folder
In Windows when I browse in Explorer, if I open a new Explorer window, it is opened to the same location as the window I had selected when I hit Ctrl-N. Is there a way of doing the same with Finder? ...
