anything relating to text, including text editors such as TextEdit
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Contact switched to Android; how to send texts instead of iMessages?
My brother switched to an Android phone from an iPhone recently.
When I attempt to text him, it still tries to send those messages as iMessages.
Two questions:
will he receive these iMessages, and
...
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1answer
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How to edit writable locations in a document in Pages '09?
The following image shows a region of the sheet it is not possible to write or select. There the cursor is, if i write another letter it will show up on the next page.
How do i enable the document to ...
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0answers
22 views
How can I “zoom out” while viewing a text file on an iPhone?
On my new iPhone 4, plain text files display at a width of 38 columns. Rows with more than 38 characters are wrapped. I want to view text files containing prose formatted with widths of 70 or 80 ...
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Can I find and replace Core Text/Cocoa text strings in any application?
My scenario:
I use an app called Antetype for UI design.
Antetype uses OS X-native technologies for text rendering (it uses the system-standard text palette).
Antetype does not have a find and ...
2
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3answers
224 views
How can I create plaintext files with Markdown syntax and convert them to PDF format?
I am very much a novice at this, so please bear with me.
I'm intrigued by the idea of using Markdown. I want to be able to write my stuff in a plaintext editor on OS X and iOS and save it in Dropbox ...
2
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1answer
46 views
Why will Text Edit and other apps prevent me from choosing text colors?
I have had a Genius take a look at my MacBook, no one has offered ANY support that works. Forgive me if I'm learning how to describe the issue, but here is my problem with TextEdit, Apple Mail and ...
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String AKM not getting displayed in iphone app [closed]
I am facing a strange problem. When i tried to use text AKM its not getting displayed in my iphone app.
I tried with appending quotes, comma etc but no luck.
Any ideas on this ? Am i the first one ...
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1answer
36 views
Changing text navigation buttons in OSX
I'd like to change the default text navigation buttons for OSX (Mountain Lion).
That is, currently the key to move iterate tokens when editing a text file (or in XCode) is alt, and command for ...
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2answers
70 views
Selecting a whole line of text, including the newline
Kind of a tricky one to describe. Here goes though. Open up your favourite text editor on OSX (well, Textedit, Coda 2, a Chrome textarea at least). Type a long line of text, followed by a short line. ...
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1answer
123 views
How to force OS X Notes application to lose formatting when I paste text from clipboard?
While I do find Notes.app very useful, especially due to the iClould integration with iOS counterpart apps, I am very annoyed about the text formatting used by the application.
I just want to be able ...
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Note app that synchronizes AND MERGES with Google docs
I am looking for a note-taking app that will synchronize with Google Docs and MERGE changes.
Right now I am using AwesomeNote, which is otherwise wonderful, but if I make a change off-line and also ...
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How do I turn column select off?
When using terminal.app, the cursor turns into a cross and you can drag out a rectangular area of text with it. However, it is required to use Alt/Option in the terminal.
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1answer
132 views
Is it possible to disable iPhone sounds and vibrations when the phone is unlocked?
I have been chatting extensively on my iPhone via text messages. I always have my phone on silent and the vibrations seem to really run down the battery. It's a waste because a lot of the time I have ...
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1answer
287 views
Is there a Mac OS X Command Line application that can convert text encodings from one type to another? (Specifically to convert Mac OS Roman to utf8)
I would like to call a command line utility in Mac OS X 10.8 that gives me the ability to convert a text file saved in standard Western Mac OS Roman encoding to the more generic UTF-8.
I will be ...
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1answer
27 views
Good Text List transformation Software
Let's say I have a list of items like so:
default
cube
page
concave
zoom
linear
fade
none
and I want to change it to the following:
'default' => t('default'),
'cube' => t('cube'),
...
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0answers
194 views
Extracting iPhone text messages
I was just reading online about how to extract iPhone text messages. I've followed the instructions and have found my messages. I used the instructions on this website: http://iphone-sms.com. (It was ...
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1answer
61 views
How to disable Gatekeeper alerts on opening text files synced with Dropbox?
I use WriteRoom to create and edit text files on the Mac (10.8.2). I keep these files in my DropBox (v1.6.14) folder so that they're synced to the cloud and can be edited on my iOS devices and other ...
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2answers
163 views
Blurry Text on Apple iMac OS X 21.5"
I recently purchased a new iMac which I love except for one sort of big issue - the text is blurry on several programs. At first I thought it was a browser issue when I noticed it in Gmail (using ...
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0answers
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Mimic Xcode's camelCase selection keyboard shortcuts in OS X
I spend a very large amount of time editing text in Xcode, and I would like maneuvering around text within the rest of the Cocoa Text System to offer an identical experience. There are 3 versions of ...
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3answers
110 views
remove highlighting from Stickies?
Text that is copied from a web browser and pasted into the native Stickies app often brings text highlighting along with it and I haven't been able to find a way to remove the highlighting within ...
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1answer
643 views
Mountain Lion US keyboard layout .. bug? British layout when selected US keyboard
When I change my input source to US Keyboard and I want to press this key: ` I get some British key.
My keyboard is this one:
And it behaves like this one:
I changed my keyboard layout like ...
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0answers
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Textexpander add text to last line
I would like to add a new TextExpander snippet to do the following:
I will add a url from the clipboard in the form of:
This is my text with a link [1] and one more link [2]
[1] http//link1
...
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1answer
70 views
Copying text gets jumbled around
I am doing a series of text correction for a game, and recieved the pdf of corrections from the customer. I use preview as a pdf reader.
On windows, I can freely copypaste the content back and forth, ...
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1answer
22 views
Adding Tabs to text boxes within a webpage?
Is there a way to type a tab space to text within a webpage?
(without copy pasting a tab)
The normal behaviour of the tab key in an internet browser is cycling between input fields, buttons links etc ...
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4answers
243 views
Joining lines into a single line in TextEdit
In a text document, how do I join several lines into a single line? I want each paragraph to be on a single line, but keep the lines between the paragraphs.
Here is an example. I want to convert this ...
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1answer
319 views
Select and drag text on Mac OS X 10.6 doesn't allow me to drag
I have just been enlightened on what I previously thought was a short-coming of the whole Mac OS X platform - that like Windows, a user may select a block of text and drag it. This is particularly ...
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1answer
343 views
iOS application that allows search in Word documents?
I have a huge .doc (Microsoft Word) file (several megabytes) and I need to search it on my iPhone. I have tried like 5 different editors and readers to no avail.
Is there any application that allows ...
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2answers
171 views
save or forward texts from an iPod touch
Is it possible to save or forward texts from an iPod touch?
This is for a kid who is being bullied by a class-mate, and I want to keep a record of the texts sent.
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2answers
325 views
How to make Smart folder like physical folder with the combined contents of two folders
I have an application which looks for its data (*.txt) files in a folder. I have two folders containing text data that I need to keep separate, but it would be useful to have the application see the ...
4
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1answer
143 views
Open as text option for every file, regardless of what OS X thinks of it [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to permanently put TextEdit in the Open with… menu list?
Being a programmer, I often work with text files. As you probably know, file extensions are more or ...
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1answer
99 views
How to use Automator to upload my real estate listing to web?
I want to use Automator to extract any text in a set region of a PDF, extract all images from the PDF, place all the text in corresponding fields of an Excel spreadsheet, and then upload that ...
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2answers
1k views
Text randomly disappears while typing?
rMBP OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
While chatting with friends on facebook, the text randomly disappears and appears at random intervals. I cannot induce the effect manually. It is very frustrating to see ...
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3answers
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In Mail.app 6.0, is there a way to drag-select parts of message bodies? [closed]
In Mail.app 6.0 with 10.8 Mountain Lion, Apple has chosen to make it impossible to drag-select text in a message that has been sent or received. In previous versions, you could do as you can with ...
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1answer
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Why is the “black” text on my Mac made up of so many different colors?
My Mac has this nifty "zoom" function that kicks in when I hold control and scroll in and out. If I zoom all the way in on black text on my screen, it is made up of many different colors. Why is ...
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1answer
20 views
Word stop when navigating text with option-key
I use option and command to navigate text (which is awesome). I've read somewhere that you can specify the characters that constitute a word stop (underscores for example). However I can't find this ...
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1answer
167 views
In terminal, how to get “say” to say things “right” ? ie using custom phonetics?
I'd like to use "say" in the terminal to create audio files with a custom phonetic dictionary, or at the very least, say things how I think they should sound. From my understanding, this can't be ...
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3answers
1k views
Can someone read messages on my locked iPhone?
I left my iPhone in a taxi cab. I locked the phone to make sure nobody finds it and makes expensive calls. But does locking the phone prevent someone from seeing the texts I am sending? What if the ...
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3answers
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iPhone text messages
I do not want my new iPhone to open text messages automatically when I tap the icon because of this recent scam thing with "you've won a prize". I've gotten that message 3 times so far, and I have to ...
2
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1answer
270 views
Multi-selection of text in text areas (Chrome, Sparrow) will switch keyboard to “Insert mode” and overwrite too much text
OSX 10.7.4, MacBook Air
I've noticed that when I select text and attempt to replace it with additional text, some text areas will maintain the selection and cause me to errantly delete data from my ...
3
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5answers
229 views
Copy text from mac to ipad
I'm often reading stuff on my Mac but then I want to switch to my iPad to read it there. Is there a simple way to copy text or an URL from my Mac to my iPad?
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2answers
207 views
Select font when converting .txt to .pdf from command line
I often need to convert text files to PDF from the command line. I currently use enscript, a2pdf, cupsfilter, etc. The feature I'm missing is the ability to use an OS X font instead of one of the ...
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1answer
44 views
Add text substitution for all words ending with certain letters
I’d like to have automatic spelling correction in MAC OSX 10.7 for all words ending with certain letter sequences. It would help me a lot in my typing if all words ending with "...ao” were substituted ...
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3answers
385 views
How can I use text substitutions without having to type a space?
I have some custom text substitutions set up in the Language & Text pane of System Preferences. But in order to activate a substitution, I have to type the shortcut and then press the spacebar. ...
3
votes
2answers
697 views
How can I zoom in TextEdit?
I am given documents from various different sources in various different formats to work with. I use TextEdit to read and make small edits to them.
TextEdit can read and edit all of the formats I ...
2
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1answer
266 views
How to setup Indian rupee format in Numbers?
Indian rupee number format is different from US number format.
e.g. 1,00,00,00,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rupee
How do I setup a custom number format in Numbers?
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2answers
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How can I download plain .txt files in Safari/Chrome?
Some data formats will not be automatically downloaded by Safari/Chrome. Usually there are other options:
.jpg → right-click will show a dialog with an option download
.pdf → when you ...
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3answers
564 views
How can I dynamically choose smart or non-smart quotes?
In Keynote and Pages (and other apps), I can set a preference in the Auto-correction pane to use smart quotes. However, I'm writing a bunch of slides that include code. When typing the code, I don't ...
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4answers
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My iPhone 4S won't text my friend's Android, my phone thinks she still has an iphone with iOS5
My friend used to have an iPhone 3GS with iOS version 5. Our text messages showed up blue being that we were on the same software. She now has updated her phone to a Galaxy S II and my phone still ...
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1answer
2k views
Why won't my iPhone reply to a text message after updating to iOS 5? [closed]
After updating to iOS 5, I cannot reply to a text message from non iPhone users. iMessage works fine. In order to actually reply to a text, I have to go into my contacts and hit "Send Message"...and ...
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4answers
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Prompt when sending text message as SMS instead of iMessage?
Is there a way I can get Messages to prompt when it wants to send a message as SMS rather than an iMessage ?
I hate noticing that when a message fails to send, its sent as SMS instead of imessage, ...
