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Apple�s Town Hall meeting: Tim Cook talks Android, China, earnings, retail,�more 0 14 (1/28/2013 3:41:54 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Some choice quotes: "Speaking to employees on the current controversies around Apple�s income and future, Cook reportedly told his workers and colleagues that �we [Apple] just had the best quarter of... Jolly

Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Released 84 89 (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! -- Send responses to the rele... Jolly

Create partition smaller than available free space 12 96 (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 woes 45 54 (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.log 8 64 (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 Patent 22 62 (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

Adding and removing individual login items from the command line and/or AppleScript 24 124 (12/26/2011 3:58:18 PM) comp.sys.mac.system There is a way to use the "defaults" command-line tool to add items to the Login Items list of the Accounts / Users & Groups system preference panel: defaults write loginwindow AutoLaunchedApplicationDiction... Jolly

Screeny app FREE today! 7 57 (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 crash 6 92 (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 Leopard 15 60 (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

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Google's new 3D Maps destroy Manhattan in the wake of Apple's Flyover 9 0 (5/23/2013 12:28:49 AM) comp.sys.mac.system Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 06:05 pm By Daniel Eran Dilger Nearly a year after Apple introduced its own Maps service in iOS 6 with Flyover 3D satellite views, Google is expanding its own online Maps to s... michelle14 (18452)

OT: Cramer sees AAPL @ 1500 in three years or less 76 1 (5/13/2013 3:07:07 PM) comp.sys.mac.system ... ghost_topper (1997)

Adobe Doubles Down on Creative Cloud, Adopts Subscription-Only Model 16 9 (5/7/2013 1:24:40 AM) comp.sys.mac.apps http://www.studiodaily.com/2013/05/adobe-doubles-down-on-creative-cloud-adopts-subscription-only-software-model/ By Bryant Frazer / May 6, 2013 Adobe closed the door on the Creative Suite at its Adobe MAX... billy22 (666)

Show ALL files including the ones that start with periods? 11 2 (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? 24 0 (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!! 3 0 (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, WWW 8 7 (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... ? 20 6 (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)

We love our of Mac 14 12 (4/30/2013 8:57:04 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Usenet lives or the Internet dies! From http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.system/about Top posters This month 156 miche...@michelle.org 132 alan.bro...@freelunchvideotron.ca 117 g.kr..... doctor14 (384)

Good article on Apple and taxes (NYT) 84 1 (5/24/2013 12:44:16 AM) comp.sys.mac.system https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/business/making-companies-pay-taxes-th= e-mccain-way.html?pagewanted=3D2&ref=3Dbusiness Concludes: " To get anything done, Congress will have to agree that=20 Senator M... alan.browne (3817)