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Mar 15	comment	Rebooting iPhone Doesn't Kill off All the Process This does NOT work with all apps. I closed the Mail app this way, and it is still present in the SBSettings task manager. Its possible Apple has special rules for their own apps, or that certain apps can circumvent this. It did work for several other apps I tried.
Mar 10	comment	Programmatically/Script-atically changing the default Open-With setting Nevermind, I have type declarations for all the file types I am interested in.
Mar 10	accepted	Programmatically/Script-atically changing the default Open-With setting
Mar 10	comment	Programmatically/Script-atically changing the default Open-With setting Is RCDefault scriptable? I looked over their site, and it doesn't look like it.
Mar 9	awarded	Scholar
Mar 9	accepted	Aperture .aplibrary file is 3X (!) larger than the photos it points to
Mar 9	asked	Programmatically/Script-atically changing the default Open-With setting
Mar 7	comment	Apple shipping - air or sea? Are you sure it's being shipped from Shanghai? I would imagine that Apple must have at least one distribution point in Canada, somewhere. They will probably ship it from there.
Mar 5	asked	Is is possible to replace the CD drive in a 17" macbook Pro with a SSD/second HD?
Mar 4	comment	Did they increase RAM in iPad 2? @MikeyByCrikey - Also, "Magic" just means no one has figured out how it works, and is a detrimental shortcut to critical thinking. I'd argue that it is actually a pejorative term.
Mar 4	comment	Did they increase RAM in iPad 2? @MikeyByCrikey - But I DO know how much RAM my fridge and DVD player have, and I incorporate such information into the decision making process when deciding to buy products.
Mar 4	answered	What activities cannot be interrupted?
Feb 28	comment	iTerm2.app stopped working I want to point out that iTerm2 is still in the alpha release stage.
Feb 19	comment	How to format the OS X installer USB stick that comes with MacBook Air? @VxJasonxV - There are some thumbdrives which show up as CD drive in the BIOS, notably the sandisk cruzer U3 series. I've used mine to install ubuntu on a laptop which didn't support booting off a normal thumbdrive, so it is very useful, in specific situations.
Feb 19	answered	Why does (Apple) Remote Desktop, with client ports correctly forwarded, report as “Offline” to administrator's machine?
Feb 18	comment	How does the 4th generation iPod Shuffle know what time a song was last played? @Thomas L Holaday - Clocks are cheap, electronically speaking. It's probable that the microcontroller used in the shuffle has one built in as standard, even if apple did have custom modifications done to the MCU IC. Furthermore, any computer (and I use computer in the sense of anything which executes machine code) requires a "clock", or system oscillator to function at all, so adding timekeeping to the existing system is fairly simple.
Feb 17	comment	If iPhones/iPads don't support Flash, how do they play YouTube? @Nivas - What VxJasonxV said. Flash hardware acceleration is not very widely deployed. I expect it will eventually be GPU accelerated on mobiles, but it's not there yet. HW accell is pretty much only on the PC platform as of yet.
Feb 17	comment	If iPhones/iPads don't support Flash, how do they play YouTube? Flash can be hardware accelerated as well, it's not just h.264
Feb 15	comment	“System Builder” Windows on VMWare Fusion? As long as all your forks are based off the same trunk, I don't think it would cause any issues. Regarding moving between Macs, the virtualized hardware should stay the same from the VM OS's perspective (I think), so it would likely not be considered a new PC. Really, I haven't virtualized W7 much, so I can't speak to the specific issue at hand as much as I can to virtualizing WinXP.
Feb 14	comment	Why does (Apple) Remote Desktop, with client ports correctly forwarded, report as “Offline” to administrator's machine? Are you sure the RDP administrator software isn't trying to use ping or something similar to determine if the target is up? It might be worth checking to see if your router is discarding icmp echo messages, which could confuse the RDP admin software.