The personal settings which control the configurable options on your Mac or iOS device. Examples include what wallpapers are displayed, when a screen saver will be displayed, or whether or not Time Machine is enabled and how it is configured.
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How to stop an app from launching on Login?
I have created an app, that sets itself to launch at Login using SMLoginItemSetEnabled. Here is the code it uses. My question is, how can I manually remove this app from launching at login?
The app ...
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How to Reset Full-Screen Terminal.app Preferences to Factory Defaults
On an iMac running Mac OS X version 10.7.5 I have accidentally resized Terminal.app to full-screen (272 x 76) and am unable to resize Terminal.app to a smaller size. How do I resize Terminal.app to ...
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AppleScript/Automator Workflow to restore OS X to “mint” condition
Under Mountain Lion, I wanted to create an AppleScript that would essentially restore my OS X install to "mint" condition, if possible even to the point of showing you the ML welcome screen asking you ...
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Keyboard Shortcut for moving left/right a space doesn't work
After going to:
Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Mission Control
I am able to assign a keyboard shortcut to move left/right a space. However pressing shortcut I assigned does not ...
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Sync apps preferences between multiple Macs
I tend to keep all my stuff in Dropbox. Now that I bought a second Mac, I thought that keeping also my applications preferences in Dropbox would have been a good idea.
I managed to sync some of the ...
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Desktop Background with multiple displays
I user a single external display at work with my MacBook Pro, running 10.8.2. I have the displays set up in extended desktop mode (as opposed to mirroring). I have the external monitor set as the main ...
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Apple Mail Preferences are not highlighted. Can't set up Mail.
I am trying to set up Mail on a brand new latest model IMAC. It will not let me past incoming POP settings. When I look at preferences option, it is not lit up and I can not click on it. When I try to ...
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Get rid of little circles on Teleport
I've installed Teleport in order to use two macs with one keyboard and mouse, but when I change of screen there apper some little red circles like a trail of the mouse. Is it possible to get rid of ...
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Hidden file in root directory, what is it? (.com.apple.backupd.mvlist.plist)
There's a hidden file in my root directory and I'm curious to know what it is. It's an empty plist (the size is about 181 bytes, and there's absolutely no keys in the root when opening this plist in ...
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Textual.app (IRC client): is it possible to suppress channel topic being displayed in the message window?
When joining a new channel in Textual, the topic is shown twice:
In the 'top section' of the message window and
in the message text when joining
I want to only display it in the 'top section', as ...
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Spaces preferences carried into Lion - can't get hash symbol
In Snow Leopard I used to use Option + cursors to move around spaces (not Command - this was because I liked Command + cursors for 'Home' and 'End').
Therefore I also used Option + 1, Option + 2 etc ...
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How to toggle closeViewZoomFollowsFocus in com.apple.universalaccess via shell script with instant activation?
I created a Service with Automator on a Mac running "Lion 10.7.3". The Service toggles via a shell script the visibility of hidden files in the Finder and works like a charm. Here's the script:
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Apache starts even if web sharing is disabled
I do web development so I normally have web sharing turned on in the sharing preferences.
After upgrading to Lion I have been continuing with the web development projects I have pretty much as ...
