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cron works on OS X too. http://www.macosxhints.com/ has something on this, I believe.

There is software available as part of the Apple FireWire SDK that lets you record MPEG2 streams direct from a firewire enabled cable box. Hmmm....

Check here, here and here: [use this link: http://machdtvtimer.home.comcast.net/%5D for more info.

I've recently made the switch to OS X, and this is one of the few aspects of Windows that I miss.

Not *quite* the same thing, but if you go to the Keyboard & Mouse System Preference, then to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, you'll find at the bottom "Full Keyboard Access" -- change that to All Controls and you'll be able to tab to most controls. In that same Preference tab you'll find a metric crapload of navigation shortcuts for moving keyboard focus among windows, Dock, menus, etc.

Also, there are a ton of sometimes poorly documented Mac UI keyboard shortcuts that even long-time users don't know about, but which will speed your usage tremendously. There are various places to learn about them -- the Help menu in the Finder is a start, but also see http://www.macosxhints.com/ for the occasional gem.

And finally, as I mention elsewhere in this story, if you haven't tried http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/ you haven't experienced Macintosh. :)

If you want to download the stream, convert to mp3, and then play on your iPod/iTunes/whatever, check out this link. And Mac OS X users should look at this.

Oh - and the original 1938 broadcast can be found here.

Today I was reading the wonderful tip on Automounting AFP and NFS Sharepoints at Startup, which is found on Mike Bombich's great Mac OS X site, and it occured to me that this might work for SAMBA (Windows) shares as well. I tried it, and sure enough, it does!
SAMBA sharepoints and standard Windows "shared directories" work in almost exactly the same way as AFP shares. The only difference is the URL that you use. If you want to dynamically mount a Windows (or SAMBA) sharepoint, follow the directions at Mike's site for a regular AFP Dynamic mount and replace the URL value with:

url==smb://username:password@servername/sharepoint
Where servername is either the IP address, hostname, or fully-qualified hostname (foo.example.com) of the machine that you would like to connect to, and where sharepoint is the shared directory that you would like to connect to.
In some cases, depending on the configuration of your network, this may not work. If that happens to you, try:

url==smb://Username:Password@Workgroup/servername/ sharepoint
Note: I tested this on MacOS 10.2.8 and can make no promises or guarantees that it will work on any other version of OS X, but it worked for me. Because I have no reason to do so, I have not actually tested this with a static mount, only dynamic. The first URL I listed worked perfectly for me. However, in researching printing to SAMBA-shared printers, I saw many reports of a whole variety of different URLs working for some setups, and not working for others. I suggest that if the two URLs I provided don't seem to work for you, try variations on the theme, or search here for the tips related to printing to samba shared printers and SMB shares for ideas.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040 101194202284

Does this FAQ help you?

Syncing does work with the most recent firmware on the V710. With a small property file hack you can get syncing to work with iSync in OS X as well.

See this article:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 501151747917

Have you tried installing the latest flash? It's a bit better macosxhints hint

Until an audience larger than the /. crowd starts screaming for it, that functionality will not be built into iTunes or the iPod. Get over it. It may seem like a large number of people want OGG support if you only read /. If you go outside of the /. bubble, you will quickly realize that ABSOLUTELY NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE HELL OGG IS! Get used to it!

If you read sites other than /. you might be able to find ways to get it to work.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051 005112822984&lsrc=osxh

I am a mac user. By the handy debug menu, I can pretend to use Windows IE (assuming the Mac IE I have somewhere around gets denied too); I also downloaded WMP at some point when mplayer and VLC decided not to be able to play the newest wmv files.

14. When will I get iMP on Mac & Linux?
Currently, our supplier is working towards supporting a Mac and Linux version.

However, having realised I'd jumped a step in the system, I found out that I can't get in anyway, because they're doing a trial first. Points:

1). I thought the whole point of p2p was to have more people able to carry the load? Tie that in with
2). With a trial of 1000 users, the chances are damn slim that two of them will pick the same program to watch while they're both online (hence nearly everything will be downloaded from the central server during the trial anyway.
3). In response to an earlier point about the 7-day limit - this is a workable idea, because the DRM on the program being 7 days long means that it can be downloaded at any point in those 7 days - whether from the server or others - and becomes inviable after that limit. That fits with the original intention of a week-limit on viewability.

See here:

ile size: 926 K
Download Time Estimate: 2 minutes @ 56K modem
Version: 8,0,22,0
Browser: Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, and CompuServe
Date Posted: 9/12/2005
Language: English

I haven't used it. I did hear it is a lot faster for Safari according to MacOSXHints.

well, you can rip as one track in itunes, and add chapters: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 81423571277&query=gapless though i agree, that one should be able to select the play options during import or any time after.

A quick search on google gave me this: How To Use Your GSM Cell Phone as a Bluetooth Modem on Mac OS X and another hint.

I believe even in 10.4.2, it still cannot by switched on

Sure it can, just take a look here.

Actually, it's very easy to share a single iTunes library between users. Look here: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020 32411075244&query=share+itunes+between+users

Its not turned on by default, but you can if you want. http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 430233117572&query=nfs+spotlight

Once the share is indexed, I think the trick is doing a Find (CMD+F) in the Finder, not just using the Spotlight button in the menubar

Why don't you just learn how to use Google instead. Instead of pasting in the whole Hamlet when you look for information about Shakespeare, you could try searching for just Hamlet and Shakespeare, for instance.

In this case, you could search for just Xnest, read the manual you find in the first link, or the page about it on MacOSXhints for a more gentle introduction. When you've read that, you know what DISPLAY=:1 means, and can go on to search for metacity.

It really isn't hard at all.

Read this:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 808165343661

It is actually a bug with the driver for the new USB scrolling trackpad. This has been noted in various forums and Apple are aware of this problem.

If you plug in an external mouse and disable the trackpad, or replace the driver with SideTrack, the problem goes away.

This only effects the 2005 Powerbooks, and causes much higher CPU and memory load.

Will

I'm not saying that it *isn't* Spotlight, but just about anything could be chewing up your battery. Widgets, indexing, screen savers, or even poor Engergy Saver settings. Have you checked to make sure that Spotlight is what's killing your battery?

Several people have been complaining about a bug in Tiger and the 2005 Powerbooks that has to do with the trackpad:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 808165343661

It seems that the new tracking features eat up a lot of processor time (and thus, a lot of battery as well).

Again, I'm not dissing the Spotlight issue: it's definitely something to look at. But if you're still having trouble, you might check on other factors that can kill your battery life.

Just do a little searching for google's sake:

Sure it does.

There is now a released version of the open source WebKit that drives Safari for everyone to use.

Apple rocks. But you already knew that, didn't you?

Ohhh I'm a genius. That link was supposed to be to *this* hint, not to your post. (Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!)

USB Overdrive is a replacement USB driver and from the website, it still looks like it's supported (just not as active as before since family comes first). If you have a Logitech mouse, you can also tweak it to do something similar.

Nah, they don't think it's innovative. Even Apple's gotta catch up simetimes. Steve admitted this at WWDC 2003.

"I gotta be honest -- Windows (XP) beat us to this...the only feature that I can think of like that." (Cite)

And on their page about it they explain the 3d animation cheekily: "Because We Can." Well hell, if you can, why not? I do it infrequently enough that I enjoy the cute little animation, but if it really bugs you, turn it off by changing 2 lines in an XML file.

what do we have here? a osx-slash-dotter who doesn't read macosxhints.com? look here:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031 027224603111&query=case-sensitive

and don't forget to watch out for the trouble:

http://www.macosxhints.com/search.php?query=case-s ensitive&type=stories&mode=search&keyType=all

regards, n.

what do we have here? a osx-slash-dotter who doesn't read macosxhints.com? look here:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031 027224603111&query=case-sensitive

and don't forget to watch out for the trouble:

http://www.macosxhints.com/search.php?query=case-s ensitive&type=stories&mode=search&keyType=all

regards, n.

Ack! Slashdot garbled up my post! Let me try posting this again.

This hack converts the Google search field in Safari into a YubNub search/command line field.

The hack:
Close Safari. Open this file in a hex editor such as HexEdit, or open it in vi if you know how to use vi: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari

If you want, create a backup of this file just in case. In this file, replace the ASCII string:
ttp://%@.google.com/%@?q=%@&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

with this ASCII string:
ttp://%@%@@yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=%@

For this hack I used this hint. What it does is it replaces a url with another url of same length, so that the binary's length is unchanged. There are three %@'s. They are replaced with "www", "search", and the search term. We only want the search term, so we put an at mark between the first two terms and the domain name, which results in everything before the at mark being ignored.

Your "wive's" system uses swap because macs ship default with swap on. Turn swap off and watch it not use swap. Hard one huh? Windows works that way too. I run one of my XP boxes with a gig of ram w/o swap. Nice and zippy I just don't run 10 apps at a time. Learn a little about the computers you use.

This hack converts the Google search field built in to Safari into a YubNub search/"command line" field.

Close Safari. Open this file in a hex editor such as HexEdit, or open it in vi if you know how to use vi: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari

after creating backup of the file for just-in-case, replace the ASCII string:
http://.google.com/%25@?q=%25@&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

with this ASCII string:
http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=%25@

For this hack I used this hint.

Tarbosh is one of his handles/aliases. Here and here somewhat prove that. He has posted some hints before on Mac OS X Hints.

Tarbosh is one of his handles/aliases. Here and here somewhat prove that. He has posted some hints before on Mac OS X Hints.

FWIW, Motorola's (somewhat crippled, but still nice) V710 Bluetooth phone now syncs with macs quite nicely, if you make a small tweak to iSync's phone compatibility plist. Instructions for doing so are here. Keep in mind that Verizon has disabled the OBEX bluetooth profile, so you cannot, for example, dial your phone from Address Book like you would be able to do with most Bluetooth phones.

You make some interesting points, particularly about Spotlight's inability to use regular expressions. Spotlight does, however, have a simple query language that supports boolean expressions, as described by MacOSXHints, and Apple's Spotlight Developer page. You can also get some idea of what the language syntax looks like by creating a smart folder and doing a "Get Info" on it. You'll see your search terms expressed in this query language. I don't use Spotlight extensively, so I really couldn't say whether this is of any value to you. Check it out and see. I expect a 3,000 word report by Friday :-). All the best.

I used a Sony Ericsson t610 for a while, and it synched up great with OSX. The problem with the phone was that reception was miserable and the screen was completely useless outdoors.

I've since moved on to a Nokia 7610. The reception on this phone is amazingly good, as is the screen quality. Unfortunately, despite Apple's claims, I have not been able to get it to work with iSync (although I did automate importing all of my address book using this method).

Check it out yo:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 503165951266

According to the very page you linked, this hint "does kill searching in Mail.app", so you fix A and break B, so it's kinda, you know, like, a no-hint. :-(

Silas

Poor clueless Windows user.... http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 429153115383 It's built-in, cheaper (than buying XP Pro), and SAFER. There's a Remote Desktop Client for Mac OS X too if you still can't give up your PC.

The answer is yes... http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 504012104186&query=spotlight

Yep.

This update still did not enable Quartz 2D-Extreme on my system, so on a hunch, I enabled it manually, as per this hint, and wow... Really nice!

I had temporarily enabled it under 10.4.0 via the debugging tool, but the speed difference was nowhere near what I'm getting after booting the entire OS with it enabled!

A lot of people are reporting bugs with this being enabled, which is likely why Apple still hasn't enabled it by default. But I've had absolutely 0 bugs so far - Which to be honest has only been about 2.5 hours, but still... It's enough to at least justify trying it out IMHO. Using the hint I reference above, you ocan always "reset" it to off, if you do run into problems.

For what it's worth, I'm going to be leaving this on unless some (any!) problems pop up tomorrow. It's very impressive! Even apps which I wouldn't think would be impacted, such as Remote Desktop (controlling an XP box from within OSX) are noticably faster.

For the record, I'm running a dual 2Ghz w/2gb of ram, and an ATI 9600. Your mileage may vary.

But this is largely what I was trying to achieve when I initially started storing videos in iTunes.

This was my solution (different nickname... Same dull, boring guy). I'm glad to see that Apple's taken my lead and is running with it! 8)=

I actually find it easier and more convenient to stick real notes onto my monitor than work with those things on my desktop. The notes are always on top, can be moved easily if necessary, and can adhere to the frame of the monitor to stay out of the way

Actually in Mac OS 10.4, the postit notes widget can be made to do all of that. This hint at MacOSXHints.com shows how to keep the stickies always on top. They are easy to move and can be put back into the dashboard at any time. Maybe not as good as on the rim of your monitor, though.

How to use automator to full screen QT7.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050 430024234333&query=quicktime+full+screen

This hint at MacOSXHints may help.

If you'd like one of your Dashboard widgets to be available all the time, instead of only when you have activated Dashboard via F12, then activate the Dashboard dvelopment mode. Open the Terminal and type

defaults write com.apple.Dashboard devmode YES

and press Return. Then logout and log back in again. Now debugging mode is activated. To get a widget off of the Dashboard and onto your desktop, just do the following:
Activate Dashboard by pressing F12 (or whatever key you've assigned to Dashboard).
Begin dragging the widget.
Press F12 again, before letting up on the mouse button.
Drop the widget wherever you want it.

You can do the same thing in reverse to drag the widget back onto the Dashboard. Also of interest: while a widget is frontmost, you can press Command-R to reload it. (This may be necessary if a widget is buggy and gets messed up somehow.) There's even a nifty Core Image-based twirl effect to accompany the reload.

There is a method for detaching Dashboard widgets described here.

This lets you keep as many widgets as you want on your desktop, and they don't jump back into the Dashboard every time you display it.

The one remaining annoyance is that they float above all of your other windows. Hopefully there will be a hack for this soon.

Instructions for having a widget always visible are at Mac OS X Hints

This may help out a little bit.

Summary: iPhoto generates 240 pixel wide thumbnails for each photo in the library; if the album view is set so that the thumbnails are wider than 240 pixels, iPhoto will load the photo and shrink it to the necessary size instead of using the premade thumbnail. Obviously, this leads to massive processor usage. I don't know how the iPhoto team could have missed something like this when they were developing the software, but I'd like some of what they were smoking.