Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Released8489 (7/25/2012 5:07:38 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Yey! Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) was released today! It's available on
the App Store right now at $19.99, and is chock full of improvements and
new feature goodness!
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Send responses to the rele... Jolly
Create partition smaller than available free space1296 (2/19/2012 3:58:35 PM) comp.sys.mac.system I have an internal hard drive in my Mac Pro that I currently use for Windows. It's a 400 GB drive with a 133 GB Boot Camp volume on it, and the rest available free space. I'd like to use a non-destructive u... Jolly
Lion restore woes4554 (2/14/2012 2:01:46 PM) comp.sys.mac.system I wanted to swap the OEM Fujitsu 120 GB hard drive in my wife's MacBook Pro (Late 2006) 15 inch Core 2 Duo with a newer, larger 250 GB Seagate hard drive. I had Time Machine back it up to an external Firewi... Jolly
Timestamps in /var/log/appfirewall.log864 (1/24/2012 2:10:26 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps I'm trying to change the format of date/time stamps in /var/log/appfirewall, and so far haven't figure it out. Currently, lines in the log are in this format: Mar 3 11:48:31 server Firewall[459]: 1130 Acc... Jolly
Apple introduces us to Siri, the Killer Patent2262 (1/20/2012 10:13:15 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps "On October 4, 2011, Apple launched the iPhone 4S with Siri just one day prior to Steve Jobs passing. Today, the first killer patent application behind Siri was published by the US Patent and Trademark Office... Jolly
Screeny app FREE today!757 (9/8/2011 1:56:25 AM) comp.sys.mac.apps From Mac Daily News: Drew Wilson�s Screeny gives you the freedom to capture your videos or images at any size. Screeny is free via Apple�s Mac App Store for today only! With Screeny, you can click & drag to... Jolly
Fast User Switching stutter / loginwindow crash692 (11/16/2009 8:52:39 PM) comp.sys.mac.system So a relative running Mac OS X 10.5.8 on a PowerPC Mac mini has an interesting problem I'm trying to figure out: When another family member wishes to log into his computer using Fast User Switching, he's see... Jolly
No Contextual Menus in Snow Leopard1560 (10/26/2009 4:03:54 AM) comp.sys.mac.system Well I finally got around to installing 10.6 on my main work station tonight. While most everything went as expected, one thing caught me by surprise: Apple has omitted support for contextual menu additions... Jolly
Show ALL files including the ones that start with periods?112 (5/11/2013 5:41:20 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Hello.
Is there a way to show ALL and access files in updated Mac OS X (10.5.8
and 10.8.3)'s Finder without going to Terminal (ls -all)? The reason is
why I need to recover older backup copies from Time ... ant(767)
Free software development?240 (5/24/2013 11:03:41 AM) comp.sys.mac.system I'm a Linux guy. But I've occasionally had to write things for
Windows, so I use tools like MinGW that provide a full toolchain for
Windows development. I'd like to write stuff for Apple devices as
well.
I'... lee4457(2)
Safari bookmarks got scrambled!!30 (5/24/2013 3:20:01 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps Safari 6.0.4 on Mac 10.8.3
Some time after 5/20 my bookmarks all got re-arranged. I noticed this
because a folder that had been at the top suddenly showed up at the
bottom. I restored the Safari direct... bob148(545)
Happy Birthday, WWW87 (5/1/2013 6:24:30 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Well, happy belated birthday; I'm a day late. Can you believe that the web
is only twenty years old? (Of course the internet is much older.) It's
changed our lifestyle as much as the telephone, radio, te... michelle14(18452)
Delay between login and finder... ?206 (5/2/2013 3:39:44 PM) comp.sys.mac.system I'm using a 2012 Mac Mini, OS 10.8.4 running off of an
externally-mounted (USB3) Intel 520 series SSD.
The Mac boots -very- quickly this way, up to the point where
the login screen is displayed (single u... j.albert(333)
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