Efficient - it's how icloud downloads work for document storage. Meta first, content later, then content uploads and downloads etc can be prioritised if a user requests something out of order, as it were
What happens if I don’t resubscribe after the first year? Will I lose any upgraded songs? No. Any songs you’ve upgraded or downloaded again are completely safe. The only thing you lose is the central storage — iCloud will no longer stream or download matched or uploaded songs to your devices.
esd needs explanation, please. When I see ESD I think immediately of electronic software distribution (as in InstallESD.dmg) but the one question where the tag currently applies seems unrelated.
Recommended
Apple provides and recommends use of Install OS X Mountain Lion.app
that is, "the app" – in its entirety.
For Build 12A269 for OS X 10.8, the version of the app is 1.3.12 (351).
Known
Ignoring parts of the app – with InstallESD.dmg alone:
installation may succeed.
(The sam...
@JasonSalaz Yeah. In truth, I'm interested also in peculiarities that may arise some time after installation (when installation is without "the app") … but that would probably make the question too nebulous, would you agree?
@JasonSalaz I have wanted to ask this question for over a year, but too scared … half-expecting a flood of responses along the lines of, "Nonsense! I installed umpteen times without any problems, so working without the app must always be equal to working with the app!"
@stuffe I see your reputation is still in hot persuit of mine. And if I don't get an answer that actually works for my bounty, I'll have to give you another +100. So people, please, can someone answer this so I don't have to give stuffe the points? :-)
In the System Preferences panel for Spotlight in OS X 10.8, it claims "Spotlight is located at the top right corner of the screen". On my system, this no longer appears to be true; the Notification Center menubar icon has claimed that particular piece of prime real estate. There is precisely one ...
@patrix That's actually exactly what my top corner looks like — I quit Day-O just to see if I could get Spotlight back to the corner. If I can't get it there, Day-O goes back; I miss it.
@stuffe There's still time for someone to do that :-)
I have two Macs both running Lion:
iMac (early 2009, iMac9,1 with NVIDIA GeForce GT 120)
MacBook Air (Early 2011, first of the new shape 11.6")
I often screen share using the Macbook Air as the client, and presenting the screen from my iMac onto it. When this happens the original iMac scre...
One of the great things about Lion was the Virtual Display, whereby when screen sharing you could login as a 2nd user rather than just take over the physical display.
In effect it was like turning your Mac into a (limited) multi user system, whereby 2 people could simultaneously login and use it...
Something tells me that 10.8.x will add the option to see the battery-life as time again. And Apple will again refer to this as an "issue". Just like they did with “Reopen windows when logging back in” in the 10.7.4 update: support.apple.com/kb/DL1525?viewlocale=en_US
That's sort of how it looks to me. I can see how it would be useful for managing longer stuff, but it seems like it would be a bit of a shock coming from Byword.
That said, Byword isn't great for longer documents and I'm not a big Pages fan, so it could be worth installing the trial.
multiple docs in a project, differing status of each document (draft, etc), all the word count goodness - looks nice app - i actually own it (bought it on sale a while ago) but never used it yet. I have a weakness for writing apps.
@brandon WRT apple.stackexchange.com/questions/59312/… Why not get a used mac that can't run Mountain Lion and run Lion server to share up as many shared drives as you care for Time Machine use?
@brandon - see above (the ping failed to connect to your account.)
Hey guys, boring question that's not worth asking on the site as it's opinion based (and DULL)
task managers.
What does everyone use? My criteria: iphone/ipad/mac apps, free sync ( don't mind paying for apps, not liking recurrent sync plans), simple categorisation/tagging tools, nothing project management style, but more options than Reminders
I found a thread in which the following Applescript was contained:
tell application "System Events" to set p to (path to frontmost application) as string
tell application "System Preferences"
activate
reveal anchor "Dictation" of pane "com.apple.preference.speech"
end tell
tell applicati...
Is there an alternative to this script, so that I will not see the System Preferences being opened?
I found a thread in which the following Applescript was contained:
tell application "System Events" to set p to (path to frontmost application) as string
tell application "System Preferences"
activate
reveal anchor "Dictation" of pane "com.apple.preference.speech"
end tell
tell applicati...
