Comment by Vickash on Monitor not displaying color red. Is this the monitor...
Try a different cable. From what you've said it's the only thing you haven't swapped out.
View ArticleComment by Vickash on Monitor not displaying color red. Is this the monitor...
Could be, especially if it's the only thing common to all the setups you've tried.
View ArticleComment by Vickash on Scrolling or resizing windows are no longer smooth on...
Exactly what do you mean by "not smooth"? Is the animation jerky? Are there graphic artifacts?
View ArticleComment by Vickash on Using OS X Lion on a main SL mac - use USB key instead...
Alternatively, you could just upgrade the clone (external drive) to Lion, leaving the main drive (inside the machine) on SL, since the OP says they intend to continue using mainly SL. Then plug in the...
View ArticleComment by Vickash on Is "The disk copy of 'filename.psd' was changed...
It could be that it synced to another machine, which added some metadata to it automatically, then synced back to your machine, so it looks to Photoshop as if it's changed, when only the file's...
View ArticleComment by Vickash on If I use LaunchBar can I disable Spotlight?
You're right. I used mdutil to disable indexing for a drive, but let LB continue to index it while moving some files around. It picked up the changes, but was missing most of the metadata. So I guess...
View ArticleComment by Vickash on Indenting html + javascript/css
Sublime Text is another good choice: sublimetext.com
View ArticleComment by Vickash on How can I start postgres automatically on startup?
launchd is definitely the recommended way to go. I like Lingon (peterborgapps.com/lingon/index.html) for setting up the tasks. Easier than messing with plist files.
View ArticleComment by Vickash on Are "generic" Optical Bay Hard Drive Enclosures for...
Also make sure you get the right one for your system. Some of the earlier Intel Mac laptops used IDE for the optical drives, and at some point they switched to SATA, which uses a different cable. I...
View ArticleComment by Vickash on Executing program through Terminal
/bin is a great place for scripts meant for all users or the system in general, but user-specific scripts should really reside somewhere within the home directory. Creating a ~/bin folder makes them...
View ArticleComment by Vickash on How can I use application aliases pointing to a...
Spotlight should index aliases but not symlinks. What you've shown is consistent with that, so the error message when trying to launch an app is puzzling. If you have Spotlight turned off for the other...
View ArticleComment by Vickash on H.264 encoded .mp4 not playable on iphone
Have you checked inside the "Videos" app? If it's a video podcast it should show up there. Inconsistent, I know.
View ArticleComment by Vickash on Scheduling a task to repeat at a set interval
LaunchDaemons are definitely the way to go on OS X. If you don't feel like messing with plist files, check out an app called Lingon: peterborgapps.com/lingon/index.html that will create them for you.
View ArticleComment by Vickash on Request for Comment - late 2008 MacBook as starter Mac
You're right. I meant to say 4,2. In his original post he says "Late 2008". If System Information shows that, then definitely 4,2. 4,1 and 4,2 are both virtually the same machine anyway.
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for How do I write an AppleScript which auto reconnects to...
Here's a simple Appplescript handler I wrote a while back to solve this exact problem. It pings the OpenDNS server (both of them for redundancy) to check if the internet connection is up. It returns...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for Find out what process is using my HDD
Try running the fs_usage in Terminal (must be run as root):sudo fs_usageThis will start spitting out details of all your disk access right there in the Terminal window. It might go by quickly, but you...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for How to best configure storage for pro level video editing?
Without more details about what camera you're shooting with, and what type of color space and compression you're working with, it's hard to give definitive answers for some of these questions. But...1)...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for Screen Sharing over internet on OS X Lion - cannot...
Most likely you have Observe Mode enabled on your end. In Screen Sharing.app, go to the View menu. You should see an entry for "Switch to Control Mode".
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for Problem to change the country of my Apple Store?
I had this problem as well. I thought of maintaining 2 accounts (one for each country) but that just seemed clunky, so I opted for having just one in my "home" country (USA). Which is what I'm guessing...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for Install OS X in VirtualBox on iMac?
I have a SL 10.6.8 VBox running as we speak. It works perfectly, if a bit slowly. I'm about to abandon it for reasons totally unrelated to VirtualBox, but let's see if I can remember everything I did...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for How can I remove the Job Title and Company from all...
Try something like:tell application "Address Book" set thePeople to every person repeat with i from 1 to length of thePeople tell item i of thePeople set organization to missing value set job title to...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for AppleScript and Growl: How to choose the display style?
Each Applescript you use Growl with registers itself as a different application with Growl.After the first time you use a script, you can go to Growl's settings. Look for the application name you...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for Can I use an unlocked AT&T iPhone 4 with european sim...
iPhone 4 supports four GSM frequencies (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz). Phones like these are usually referred to as "quad-band" or "world-phones", because of these frequencies, most carriers around the...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for What size is my iPhone 4?
Yep, looks like it's a 16GB. The reason you see a "Capacity" value less than 16GB is that the remainder of the space is used by the phone's operating system, so isn't available for your use.AFAIK,...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for Set timeout on idle for VPN (Cisco IPsec)?
Go to System Preferences > Network. Select your VPN connection from the sidebar. Click on Advanced. In the first tab ("Options"), there should be the option "Disconnect if idle for X minutes".
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for Filevault 2 and Changing the Password
IIRC, FileVault2 generates its own encryption keys when you start using it. It uses those keys to encrypt the drive, not your password. This is unlike FileValut1 which uses your password itself.The...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for iCloud in OS X Implementation - which protocol does it...
Not sure if it's the same in Mountain Lion, but in Lion, iCloud documents are stored in ~/Library/Mobile Documents.
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for Most similar Apple TV software for OS X ?
I'd say go with Plex. I've been using and testing different media center apps for years, and, like you, stuck with Front Row until Lion came out, because nothing else felt quite right. Since then, Plex...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for How do I prevent a scheduled shell script containing an...
I notice you have VirtualBox kexts loaded. I assume you have a VM running during the backup. In the past few months I've had kernel panics (nowhere near consistent as yours), from varying apps, but I...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for Can two iPhones access the same iCloud content?
Nope. The same account would need to be signed in on both devices.
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for Is it possible that some hacker is logged in to my...
Nope. Both of those are you.console is where you've logged in (likely on startup), and the GUI started up.s000 is the first shell you opened, the Terminal window itself. If you look at the WHAT column,...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for Which Mac mini with 3 USB controllers can be used for...
It seems that those after 2009 (which reverted to 4 USB ports instead of 5), only have 2 buses. The 2009 models are likely the only models with 3 USB buses.If you get one of the newer ones with...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for How to configure Xserve to go into sleep mode when...
There's a free app called Please Sleep. This works well on my iMac when something is keeping it from sleeping. It waits for the Energy Saver time limit then forces the system to sleep, even if iTunes...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for Can I make the Finder label a folder if it contains a...
Saw this question and realized the answer would be useful to me too. Here's the Applescript I came up with. Copy it into Applescript Editor, and adjust the two variables theSearchPath (first line) and...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for Any way to trigger Folder Action when adding file to...
Without writing a full-blown Objective-C app, this is pretty difficult to do well.I wrote something you might be able to use a while back. Just put it up on Github here. It's a Ruby script that you...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for iTunes: move location of imported items
Go to iTunes Menu > Preferences > Advanced (Tab).In there you can change the iTunes Media folder location. Make sure you have your new drive connected first and select the location on the new...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for Do Apple TVs work only with Apple routers?
Join: yes. Any 802.11 a/b/g/n network should work. Extend: no. The Apple TV can't extend any wireless network.
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for What speed is the SATA controller in a July 2012...
They've had SATA 3 (6Gb/s) since switching to Sandy Bridge early 2011. I'd say get the SATA 3 SSD if it doesn't cost much more.If the combination of memory chips and controller inside the SSD itself...
View ArticleAnswer by Vickash for Is there a way to minimize open windows from the...
I agree that pretty much any solution you can get for the command line would have to rely on AppleScript. And your solution will work. However, rather than scripting System Events, which depends on UI...
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