Apple stuff - Mac, iPad, iphone

[aviate1138]

Kieran - thank you so much! I could have sworn I tried that but I obviously did not!

I'm not telling my pals who told me so they will think I'm a Mac Ace!

[Foniac]

Haha.. go for it!

There's a lot of hidden shortcuts like that. They just need hunting out!

[mixture]

There's a lot of hidden shortcuts like that. They just need hunting out!

Not really, the majority are listed here.

However.... there's also some fun you can have with Spotlight, for example :

Want to find photos taken at an iso lower than 400 ?

Code:

iso:<400

Want to find documents with more than 10 pages ?

Code:

pages:>10

Depends on the available metadata, but you can get a full list of options to play with using the following command :

Code:

mdimport -A

[ChristiaanJ]

Mystery photo in e-mail

Question from a non-Mac-user....

"Herself" uses a Mac-book, with OS-X

Since several days she suddenly finds herself with a small photo of herself (about "avatar-size") in the top right hand corner of every e-mail she writes (using 'Mail').
She has no use for this feature/bug, and would like to get rid of it.

She has been 'playing' recently with something called 'PhotoBooth' (?) and the photo was probably taken at that time by the camera in the Mac-book (as confirmed by the background of the photo).
However, she has no memory of having clicked on anything that would have inserted the photo in her e-mail template.

She's tried 'Apple Support', but they want to charge 57 euros for an answer....

Does anybody here have an answer to this riddle, and a solution for getting rid of the photo?

Christian (PC user)

[mixture]

She's tried 'Apple Support', but they want to charge 57 euros for an answer....

Surely a (free) post on the Apple website under their Support Forums would have sufficed for such a simple question. Either that, or a Google.

Anyhow, here's the answer you're looking for....

How can I remove my photo from messages in Apple Mail? | Mac|Life

[ChristiaanJ]

Originally Posted by mixture

Surely a (free) post on the Apple website under their Support Forums would have sufficed for such a simple question. Either that, or a Google.

From what 'herself' said, she'd tried both, without finding a clear answer. Don't blame me....

Anyhow, here's the answer you're looking for....
How can I remove my photo from messages in Apple Mail? | Mac|Life

It didn't work exactly as it said on the box... but after a bit more 'cleaning out' of various related odds and ends, the photo is now gone.
So, many thanks! PPRuNe at its best.

CJ

[mixture]

ChristiaanJ,

Don't blame me....

Have covered this in my PM.

For the public record, in short.... sorry.

[alpha-b]

FSX for Macbook pro

Hello fellow flyers

I'd like to know if it's possible to have FSX with the new PMDG installed on the macbook pro?knowing that apple has windows for mac,any compatibilities.Any help is appreciated

[captainpeter]

Hi,
FSX can be run on a MBP using 'BootCamp'.
Steps required are:

• Set up BootCamp using the instructions provided by Apple .(this basically creates a second partition on your drive)
• Install WindowsXP on this new partition
• Install FSX.

If you hold down the option key at startup you can choose to boot into MacOS or Windows.

[alpha-b]

Hey captainpeter
Thanks very much for the help,but by using the Bootcamp i can exclusively run it on apple if i want,or only on windows side?Will there be any graphics issues?Thanx for the help

[DozyWannabe]

Windows only I'm afraid.

There won't be any graphics issues. Apple has been using commodity PC hardware for their Macs for some time now. These days a Macintosh computer is simply a standard Intel PC running Apple's operating system rather than Microsoft's.

[captainpeter]

There are 3 ways to run windows apps on Apple hardware.

1. BootCamp: you choose the OS when starting the computer. Native performance for both OS's.
2. Virtualisation: (using VMware Fusion, Parallels Desktop, ..). Windows runs like an application in a window of MacOS - which is very convenient for productivity apps but often too slow for games.
3. WINE based: (using CrossOver) Emulates Windows (i.e. no Windows installation necessary). You only install the PC Application and CrossOver fakes the necessary Windows parts around it to make it work.

Only #1 works with FSX.
#1 & #2 work with FS2004

I would use option #1 with a small Windows partition of 10 GB if FSX is the only MS app you would like to use.

[BusyB]

Mac Mail Problems

I have raised this before and took it to an Apple Genius bar in SFO last month. Problem still remains.

Basicly, Mail freezes as far as receiving emails once it has been selected and has downloaded any messages. After this download it will not download any further messages however long it is left. It then will not shutdown. I select quit, the mail page goes but the account page appears and I have to use Force Quit to close it. Next start-up exactly the same happens. This has happened since installing Snow Leopard.

The Genius bar were helpful, reloaded mail, checked my macbook, said my hard-drive was a little slow but OK. Still have the mail problem.

Can't find any suggestions or tips anywhere so a few more ideas would be appreciated. I'm thinking I might need a new hard drive.

[mixture]

Hi BusyB,

Are you using IMAP or POP3 protocol to retrieve email in Mail ?
What version of OS X are you running ?

[BusyB]

Hi Mixture,

IMAP and 10.7.1

[le Pingouin]

Maybe it's choking on one particular malformed/corrupt e-mail? Any chance you can download & then delete all the e-mail using another mail client, computer or a browser interface?

[mixture]

Maybe it's choking on one particular malformed/corrupt e-mail? Any chance you can download & then delete all the e-mail using another mail client, computer or a browser interface?

It's IMAP not POP3 le Pingouin, therefore protocol only downloads headers by default unless configured otherwise.


BusyB...

For testing purposes, could you perhaps try another mail client such as Thunderbird to see if the problem can be replicated there. At least then we can determine whether it's on your mac or your ISP.

[BusyB]

Following LP's thoughts I tried but failed to export my emails to Outlook so had a look at my mailboxes. I deleted the RSS files and Mail now Quits normally. I'll monitor it over the next few days and see if it keeps behaving.

Thanks for your suggestions guys.

[SpringHeeledJack]

Greetings fellow macsters. I checked the software update app yesterday and it showed 2 updates ready (should I so wish as normal). I decided to go ahead with them and pressed download. The 2 files comprised of approx 250mb and I would expect with my highly contentioned (?) line to take 15mins to download that as per normal, however it jumped straight into a verification/installation phase and they were in the system within 3mins.....This leads me to suspect that Apple have started to 'pre-load' available downloads and just wait for the user to say yes by pressing the nice blue button, whereas before the user had to agree before anything would download. I have changed nothing in the last while on the mac, so this is why I am of the mind that Apple has changed the process. Has anybody else noticed this ?


SHJ

[mixture]

SpringHeeledJack,

Yup, as of 10.7.x, it can now pull and notify.... rather than just notify and pull on demand.

If you go to your Software Updates System Preferences, you will see an appropriately labeled checkbox (only two to choose from, so I'll leave which one as an exercise to the reader ... )

Bear in mind that it only downloads and doesn't install.... so you're not actually risking anything by letting it do that