@stuffe Agreed. But I did upgrades from 10.4 through 10.7. I did do an audit/cleanup prior to 10.7 though.
@stuffe I was trying to get there but, in all honesty, my demands for Photoshop are very modest in the era of Aperture (which I use for 95%+ of my adjusting/resizing/conversion). There are a few Photoshop features that Pixelmator doesn't give me—particularly adjustment layers which I used to frequently use for the design of Badges, Posters, Stickers and T-shirts, but Adobe has priced Photoshop out of the market.
Before reading further:
I know about butler and similar programs. I am looking for a BUILT-IN way to do this without a third party app.
Anyway, I wrote an AppleScript that runs a shell command. I want to display that output in the menubar at the top... without Butler how can I do this?
Your call. I could answer referencing Stationery Pad, or locked files (particularly useful as Lion will auto-lock files) and so on. But is it worth it?
Too late, the answer is no.
"+10 1 min ago upvote Is There A Free Photoshop Alternative for Mac OS X?"
@stuffe Yes mods, yes poster of the answer, no for poster of the question. Almost nothing is really deleted. Old answers never die; they just fade away.
@jaberg This one feels real to me... how to recreate old behavior. I'm almost tempted to do an AppleScript solution. But at work now, so I won't.
@stuffe What I think would be worth it, if we could ever come up with the right Jeopardy question, is a canonical question on Lion versioning and the changes to the "save". I could see similar demand for a question that cleans up the AppleID/iCloud ID/iTunes Store ID confusion.
+1vote from me on the basis that I have never seen the duplicate and revert option before.
You could add that if a file is locked (and it will lock files that have not been edited for a while automatically) it will open it read only and effectively become an unsaved copy of the original document without you needing to do anything
@bmike True, and I guess unlike a few of the other SE sites, this one is by it's nature approchable and accessible by all members of the Apple community, many of whom are simply iPod owners, not l33t h4x0rs!
It's a safe bet that most people are out of business for less than an hour. Of course, you'll probably be spending hours exploring all the new features, so you might want to count that against your system being unusable for "real work" due to "exploration and play".
Since you can't easily interr...
The canonical name is the "asynchronous progress indicator" but in most user documentation it is described as "a progress indicator (that looks like a spinning gear)". The Apple Publications Style Guide is a nice reference for learning what Apple considers the correct terms for writing about thes...
Apple has made a very handy official tool to slow down the network on the mac for testing.
It's called the Network Link Conditioner and it's a free download for Lion users from the App Store as part of Xcode.
There are 11 built in profiles from a Lossy Edge network with 400ms delay to a cable...
The first needed some experience to make it good, the second just knowing a lot of history and references - the last was a one shot - you just know the right tool and it's obscure so others don't know about it.
You never know what answer is going to find a lot of support until later it seems.
@jaberg I recall you saying - in short - that adding screenshots is sort of ridiculous. It's just eye-candy. That's why you want to have your screenshots with those drop shadows, right?
(I may be completely wrong here. Please don't shoot me.)
@gentmatt No. I think that answer actually does benefit from screenshots. The shadows are eye candy, but I like the way they look and am quite serious that I want them to remain.
One day I'll create a macro to add the shadows to "cropped" shots.
This is what I learned in my preparation as a tutor: 1) Just text 50% absorption 2) text and media 75% absorption 3) text, media and self-study 100% absorption
Here's my crazy theory: I think that screenshots make answers instantly understandable. You get the point very fast. That instant gratification is what the reader likes and then he up votes that answer.
@gentmatt And - once every answer has a picture - we will be discussing how the ones with just words - simple and sweet stand out and get more votes :-)
@bmike True, but it's also my experience that my answers I'm proudest of rarely earn much reputation, and my most obvious answers have earned my the most rep over time. Fortunately this week I've encountered some exceptions to the rule.
@DanielL For me - that checkmark when the OP picks my question or a comment catching some subtle argument or the comment pointing out an error in my presentation (or premise) is what really drives me. One of those keeps me coming back in a way that no 30 votes or 10,000 views will.
Now, don't' get me wrong - I really appreciate each vote - especially that first up vote to recognize it's not a zero.
We have an app which uses Location Services. One of our users is complaining that he can't see the app in the Location Services settings, even though it's complaining that Location Services are turned off.
He claims he already uninstalled and reinstalled the app, and even checked the Restriction...
@bmike I just did a view of my zero vote answers (the majority), and am genuinely surprised as a lot of them. OK, some are not so good, particularly my earlier stuffe, but I stand by nearly all of them.
Open the Pages document using Pacifist. (Other archive utilities might work also, but Pacifist worked for me.)
I did this by right (CTL)-clicking on the Pages document icon, then choosing Open with… Pacifist from the contextual menu.
This will produce a window listing the contents of the Pages ...
Everybody says Flash=>Smaller. Only @MartínMarconcini points out that there is a controller missing which is now on the logic board. And so far nobody has considered that there's no SATA interface anymore. Everybody speaks about design, nobody speaks about technological advantages :(
Yikes, I'm not sure there's room enough on a Macbook Air to install GIMP. (The download is creeping along…)
@gentmatt Ah. Well most people aren't engineers. And even some engineers are going to care more about the fact that they have a tiny little computer to carry around than the tech benefits.
Having Apple defining which controller to use offers new possibilities. e.g. Secure erasing SSDs is done by the controller. Also memory upgrades should be cheaper.
If Apple integrates the flash controller and NAND modules directly onto the motherboard (and logically attached to the PCI express bus), performance will improve dramatically. Users of enterprise PCIe SSDs have already seen the incredible performance that these solutions are capable of. It is not exaggeration to say that a PCIe SSD is as much of an upgrade over a SATA or SAS SSD as they are over a traditional rotational hard disk drive.
If that comes to pass it will give further credibility to my discussion with @Bmike about the real world importance of having "lots of RAM" on flash storage machines.
@gentmatt To which my layperson/unconcerned engineer response is computers will always get faster, but the one I got is plenty fast. And did I mention that it's tiny?
@stuffe I think that's the problem with most questions like that. Most of us aren't really qualified to answer, and fewer still really care to put forth the effort necessary to provide an answer. For me it comes back to will my answering this question really improve this guys user experience—or am I just serving as an unpaid researcher to satisfy his curiosity?
I've been searching for a while on this one and the only answers I can dig up are "use X11"...so I thought I would bring it to the experts. Is there a way to configure mouse gestures/actions in the OS X Terminal app such that single-clicking on text copies the text to the clipboard?
Like everything else you purchase in the Mac App Store, you can install Lion on all of your Macs after buying it once. There is no activation process or DRM.
Here's the relevant excerpt from Lion's license agreement (emphasis mine):
If you obtained a license for the Apple Software from the M...
I'm despairing because I haven't earned much rep today. Mind you I earned 223 (!) yesterday, and more since Friday than any weekend in my history of the site, but since I slowed down today, I'm convinced I'm not going to finish the contest.
Perhaps some more realistic expectations on my part would be a good thing.
Although chat as a interface for search might not be the fastest way for your to get results. I was just typing your queries into the search bar for the site and giving you the resulting links.
Without third party software, the answer is
Yes, you can.
The caveat is that you'll either need to repeat this for each of your iWork apps, or make it system-wide. I'm presenting the answer for Pages; repeating for Numbers and Keynote is left as an exercise for the reader.
Create a new service...
@jaberg Thanks, I'm really surprised that I got there this fast. There are still two weeks to go! I wonder how many people will end up hitting level 3. I am sure that there will be more than five.
@gentmatt Not sure. I'm not really tracking how everyone is doing and I don't have a good feel for the numbers. I'm hoping to qualify for level two and would be extremely pleased to get to three.
@daviesgeek Some secrets should remain that way :-) that, however, is something that anyone can do, though. Just peek at the room transcripts and you'll get a feel for recent discussion without popping into the joiner's line up.
@daviesgeek No, because I'm not going to re-watch the iPhone 4 release video just to satisfy your curiosity. The definition of this marketing term has been hashed over and over and comes extremely close to "common knowledge".
marketed by Apple as the "Retina Display", based on the assertion that a display of approximately 300 ppi at a distance of 12 inches (305 mm) from one's eye, or 57 arcseconds per pixel[42] is the maximum amount of detail that the human retina can perceive.[43]
@daviesgeek So there you go. By my definition its not a particularly good question. But as you point out, you now have four answers—all essentially identical— to choose from, two which came from the same trivial Google search necessary to get an answer.
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@daviesgeek I just had to say that! It's all about pictures lately:)
And a Public Service Announcment - you don't need to put meta comments like "EDIT" and "UPDATE TO EDIT" in your questions. The system already has an app for that!
@bmike I'm sure I'll understand that someday, but in the meantime, I'm not concerned that I'd fallen (excessively) into a bad habit. I occasionally DO put edit in the text to clearly separate new information from the original text when I think it's necessary for clarity.
I know "fanboy" can have a positive meaning, but it is regularly used as a bit of a derogatory term, and in any case it implies a sort of blind loyalty or devotion, something I haven't seen much of here
the members of this community generally like Apple and Apple products, but I don't think any one of us is afraid to use something non-Apple if works better, or to call Apple out for things that we disagree with
@gentmatt Feel free to edit to add your pictures—I'm done with that question. :) (Though maybe we should combine all the answers into a single, canonical community answer)
maybe I'm making more out of this than is warranted or the author intended, but I wonder why he used "fanboys" instead of the much better "enthusiasts" which is found right in our site description
@KyleCronin I suspect you're making more of this than is warranted because we're so often faced with fanboy as an argument about why our point of view is obviously biased, invalid and flawed.
I am going to have to rematch MBW later because of all this distraction. ;) Rich Siegel is on providing a fresh perspective.
I have heard this as a factoid from somewhere, and I'd like verification of it before I use it as a factual piece of information.
The new iPad (2012, 3rd generation) has a super high pixel count. Does this make for the highest resolution of comparable tablets on the market (i.e., those with simi...
@jaberg I can take that from regular passers-by, but this is an employee of Stack Exchange. Is this how Stack Exchange views and characterizes our site?
With the advent of the new iPad, which has a retina display, I started thinking about what exactly a retina display is. I know it has higher resolution, but what exactly is the definition of a retina display?
@gentmatt I have no immediate plans of deleting it, but I can't say that it will never be deleted. I can't say that about anything on the site, really.
@gentmatt AH--sorry. Didn't realize you'd already answered. I saw your comment to my answer and I had seen your answer, but i hadn't credited it to you in my mind.
They were talking about the "Community Answers" that Apple now has in its iPhone product page and Rich Siegel mentioned that it was "like Stack Overflow" in so much as there was a Best Answer called out.
@jaberg I take pains to never call someone out without warning them first.
I also take pains to confront someone openly and directly when I feel they may have crossed a line. And then wait and listen to make sure my suspicions are founded before forming a real opinion.
i.e. you don't need to guess when you arrive on my "shit list" - you'll get advance warning, direct questions.
@PeopleWhoHaveEnoughRepOrAreMods Is the fact that my tag wiki for stationery-pad isn't there indicative of a decline, or of a not-having-gotten-around-to-approving-it-yet?
With Xcode 4.3.1, Apple ships the new iOS 5.1 Simulator. Unfortunately, it looks like when you run iPad hardware, there's no longer the iPad frame around the sim window. Does anyone have any idea how to restore that frame? I often use the simulator to demo features to others via screen sharing, a...
It is interesting to note that Hard Drive Manufacturers use the correct meaning of "Gigabytes" when referring to hard drives, and not what most people think of as a GB which is actually a Gibibyte:
Gigabyte = 10 to the 9 bytes = 1000000000bytes = 1000 megabytes
Gibibyte = 2 to the 30 bytes = 10...
Ha, I got an upvote on that which would have taken me to 208, so it got capped and I got 2 taking me to 200. Then I got a an "unupvote" on a different question, losing me 10 points.
But the cap system isn't celver enough to realise that I am now under the limit again, and hasn't reinstated the lost points.
So in essence I started on 198, gained what should have been 10, lost 10, and ended up on 190...!
I think the rep cap feature probably needs a tweak to do the capping at the end of the day, not at the point where you first reach the limit
Before reading further:
I know about butler and similar programs. I am looking for a BUILT-IN way to do this without a third party app.
Anyway, I wrote an AppleScript that runs a shell command. I want to display that output in the menubar at the top... without Butler how can I do this?
Open the Pages document using Pacifist. (Other archive utilities might work also, but Pacifist worked for me.)
I did this by right (CTL)-clicking on the Pages document icon, then choosing Open with… Pacifist from the contextual menu.
This will produce a window listing the contents of the Pages ...
I've been searching for a while on this one and the only answers I can dig up are "use X11"...so I thought I would bring it to the experts. Is there a way to configure mouse gestures/actions in the OS X Terminal app such that single-clicking on text copies the text to the clipboard?
Like everything else you purchase in the Mac App Store, you can install Lion on all of your Macs after buying it once. There is no activation process or DRM.
Here's the relevant excerpt from Lion's license agreement (emphasis mine):
If you obtained a license for the Apple Software from the M...
Without third party software, the answer is
Yes, you can.
The caveat is that you'll either need to repeat this for each of your iWork apps, or make it system-wide. I'm presenting the answer for Pages; repeating for Numbers and Keynote is left as an exercise for the reader.
Create a new service...
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With the advent of the new iPad, which has a retina display, I started thinking about what exactly a retina display is. I know it has higher resolution, but what exactly is the definition of a retina display?
It is interesting to note that Hard Drive Manufacturers use the correct meaning of "Gigabytes" when referring to hard drives, and not what most people think of as a GB which is actually a Gibibyte:
Gigabyte = 10 to the 9 bytes = 1000000000bytes = 1000 megabytes
Gibibyte = 2 to the 30 bytes = 10...
