Monday May 21
07:30
Display colored icons in Safari Bookmark Bar
An old hint from 2003 explained how to use the Character Palette to display icons instead of text in the Safari Bookmarks Bar. The addition of Emoji in 10.7 means that colored icons can be added, the only way I've seen to add color to the Safari Bookmarks Bar. Just note that on an iPad, the icon in the Bookmarks Bar of mobile Safari will be black and white, though it will show as color in the iOS pop-up bookmarks menu.
[kirkmc adds: This works as described, but unfortunately, there aren't many Emoji symbols in Lion. For example, if you wanted to have different colored icons for different bookmarks, it would be practical if there were a set of circles or squares. There is a "large red circle," but only red. Most of the icons are not really useful as visual clues to what the bookmarks are for. But they do alleviate the gray a bit.]
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Sunday May 20
18:10
Setting Up Time Machine Server in Lion Server
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Setting Up Time Machine Server in Lion Server
Friday May 18
21:14
Deploying and Managing Firefox: The Rough Guide
Another Great Article Submitted From Nick McSpadden:
After working with this for a bit, I’ve come up with a step by step installation process for Firefox 10 ESR + CCK deployment on Mac OS.
Firefox CCK Guide – Part I
Most of the information about add-ons that you’ll need is in Mike Kaply’s blog:
http://mike.kaply.com/2012/02/09/integrating-add-ons-into-firefox/
1) Install CCK Wizard in Firefox 10 ESR
2) Run and configure CCK Wizard the way you want
3) Save the CCK data into a “CCK” folder on the Desktop
4) When done, open up Desktop/CCK/xpi/install.rdf
5) Copy the contents of the key underneath underneath (should be {series of alphanumerics} – this is the Firefox app bundle ID, for reference (aka {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384})
6) Rename “...
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21:11
Deploying and Managing Google Chrome: The Rough Guide
The following is a post from the most excellent Nick McSpadden. It is very well written and I am proud that it is the first article published on this site using the new submissions page. Looks like it’s time to change the banner from my Notes from the Underground, er, I mean, Field, to just Notes from the Field!
Greetings!
This is a sort of follow-up to my guide on managing Firefox, this time focusing on managing Google Chrome. I’m working on current Chrome version 18 (which just today got updated to 19), and I don’t know for sure how far back this will work, but I think anything higher than v16 properly supports the MCX policies.
The good news about Google Chrome is that it supports MCX! Unlike Firefox, which requires specific and somewhat obtuse procedures for managing it (including depending upon an add-on that is independently maintained by a hard working individual), the most important parts...
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15:00
Xsan 2 Administrator Guide v2.3: Revision to "...
This document revises the "Upgrade SAN hardware and software" procedure on page 132 of the Xsan 2 Administrator Guide v2.3.
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12:35
Xsan 2: Xsan Admin displays an authentication alert...
When using Xsan Admin on a Mac that has been configured to use an HTTPS proxy, you may encounter unexpected authentication issues when connecting to Xsan systems. The following alert may appear:
"Authentication failures occurred. Not all clients were successfully authenticated."
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12:27
Setting Up The Podcast Service In Lion Server Video
08:16
Users unable to SSH into Lion Server or Mac OS X...
Users may be unable to access the server via SSH. After entering a password three times, the following alert message may appear:
"Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,keyboard-interactive)."
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08:15
Lion Server: NetRestore or NetBoot image creation...
You may not be able to create a NetRestore or NetBoot image from the "Install Mac OS X Lion" app (downloaded from the Mac App Store).
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08:09
Automated Regression Testing Mac OS X Clients Using...
Imaging can be a complicated task. Many imaging environments have a lot of scripts, packages, base images and other aspects of automation. The more of these that you have, the more potential combinations you have for the state of a system once they’ve been run. This gets complicated when you want to make sure that each possible combination of images will have a consistent result when installed. For example, take something simple, like a property list. Each possible combination of packages, scripts images and even managed preferences might have a different impact on that poor property list.
A simple defaults command can often give administrators the ability to see what settings have been applied to a system. For simple tasks that can be programatically trapped for, this might be enough. You can argue that everything can be programatically discovered, but I would argue that is an immature way to look at such things. The example I used in the Enterprise Mac Administrator’s...
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07:30
How to hide all .plist.lockfile files
Apple has introduced an additional type of preference file in Lion, those whose names end in ".plist.lockfile". Here is a good explanation of the function of those files:
Lockfiles and other plist file subtypes in OS X Lion
Since plist.lockfiles do not contain any useful information for the user and almost double the content of and clutter the Preferences folders in /Library and ~/Library, I've been looking for a way to hide those files. With help from Yvan Koenig of MacScripter
in this topic (I'm flex20 in that forum), I wrote an AppleScript "Hide Unhide plist.lockfile.scpt," which provides a quick and easy way of hiding or unhiding all those pesky files.
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Thursday May 17
07:30
"Portable" TextWrangler with Dropbox
I love TextWrangler, and I have a Mac at work and one at home, but often do coding on both. I set up a system using Dropbox so both my preferences and my Application Support files sync so I always have my stationery files and the same settings, wherever I am.
Run the following as a shell script on each of the Macs. This will copy TextWrangler to your Dropbox folder, and create the support folder on Dropbox, then create a symlink to it in the correct location on your Macs. It will then copy the preference files to Dropbox, so when you launch the application on either Mac, you'll have the same setup.
#!/bin/bash
#+ Portable TextWrangler
#* Formatted date & time string.
FORMATTED_DATE=`/bin/date "+%Y-%m-%d%H%M%S"`
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Wednesday May 16
07:30
Permanently Unhide Library
When Apple shipped Mac OS X Lion 10.7, the “Library” folder located within every user’s home folder, which had previously been visible to users in the Finder, was made invisible. This hint shows how to make the folder visible and keep it that way forever.
As you may know, and as mentioned in this hint, the Library folder can be made visible again by running the following command in Terminal:
/usr/bin/chflags nohidden ~/Library
Apple keeps making the folder invisible again with every System update, so it gets tedious re-running the above script. You can automate this by adding a Login Item with an AppleScript "script application" containing the following code:
do shell script "/usr/bin/chflags nohidden ~/Library"
Read detailed instructions for this hint, and download a ready-made script application file on the ...
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05:00
Removing A Credit Card From An AppleID
Sometimes you deploy iOS based devices with iTunes. There are a number of factors that can still force you into iTunes based deployments, such as needing the icons to appear a certain way in iOS. It’s not optimal but it happens. And sometimes you need to give an iPad or iPhone to a user leveraging an existing AppleID that will have a password known by multiple users. Again, not the right way, but there are design requirements that cause you to do it from time to time.
And if you’re using a shared account, one of the last things you want is for users to actually buy stuff with that shared account. Because you might have used that account and connected a credit card to it, it can come up from time to time that you then need to disable that card. Again, none of this is optimal, but it happens.
To remove the card, first open up iTunes.
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Tuesday May 15
18:44
iOS: Error message when trying to use a custom...
When activating 3G service on an iOS device using a custom Access Point Name (APN), the error message "Could not activate cellular data network: PDP authentication failure" may appear.
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15:23
Promise VTrak: Fourth SAS-connected Expansion...
This article contains a script used to configure Promise VTrak SAS-connected Expansion Chassis for Xsan. This script is used in the event that a Promise VTrak RAID Controller has already been configured for use with Xsan, and that an Expansion Chassis is being connected to the already-configured RAID Controller.
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13:09
About the security content of QuickTime 7.7.2
Learn about the security content of QuickTime 7.7.2.
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07:31
New poll: Does your main Mac have an SSD?
As SSDs become more common, and prices drop, more and more people are either buying Macs with SSDs, or installing them in their Macs. Personally, I started using an SSD with the first MacBook Air in 2008, and bought my current Mac - a Mac mini, purchased in 2011 - with an SSD. The gains in performance are huge, though the price still makes them a choice that is not for everyone.
So, what about you? Does your main Mac - the one you use most - have an SSD? Feel free to post in the comments to the poll which model, whether you bought it with the Mac or installed it yourself, or any other comments you may have about SSDs.
Vote in the poll
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07:30
Two AppleScripts for unmounting, mounting local disk...
These AppleScripts are related to this hint. Both can already be found in the replies to the hint topic post, but I'm resubmitting them so that they will appear together.
The first is an improved version of the original AppleScript which presents a dialog box from which a selection of local volumes to be ejected can be made. An example of its usefulness might be that it provides a reliable method for quickly ejecting a MacBook's mounted local volumes for users on the go. I've configured it as a "Run AppleScript" step for an Automator-based Mac OS X Service called "Unmounter" and assigned it the keyboard shortcut of (Command-Control-Shift-E) in System Preferences on my system.
The second is a more robust version of the AppleScript included in my first reply to the original hint topic. It attempts to automatically unmount all unmountable local volumes, and...
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07:30
Copy partially played Audiobooks to a playlist
iTunes Smart Playlists don't offer a criteria to find tracks which have been partially played. While "Last Skipped" is an option, this track property may not be set if the track wasn't actually skipped and was merely stopped.
However, if a track's "Remember playback position" option is set (and most audiobooks have this set by default) the track's AppleScript bookmark property will contain the number of seconds that a track has advanced before being stopped. Thus, any track with a bookmark value greater than zero would have been partially played.
Here is an AppleScript that will copy all the tracks in the "Books" library to a new playlist named "Partially Played". Each time it is run it will update the "Partially Played" playlist.
property nameOfPlaylist : "Partially Played"
tell application "iTunes"
try
set thePlaylist to some playlist whose name is nameOfPlaylist
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Monday May 14
14:42
About the security content of Leopard Security...
This document describes the security content of Leopard Security Update 2012-003.
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08:09
MacPorts new-ish tricks, and a new-ish trickster,...
As the bucket-loads of package providers in Puppet may lead you to believe, if we do not study history we are doomed to repeat it. Or more to the point, there is no shortage of projects focused on solving the same ‘how do I get the bits of code I want to execute on a machine installed’ issue. Mac Sysadmins have used Fink and (originally named DarwinPorts) MacPorts to acquire various open source software and unix tools not bundled with the operating system. A disadvantage many people found in those projects was the reliance on developer tools and compile time to actually go through the build-from-source process, which brings us to the news that was brought to our attention this weekend, via the...
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07:30
Open certain preference panes with quick shortcut
If you press the Option key, then press certain dedicated keys on the standard Apple keyboard, preference panes will open. This works for Mission Control (Option-F3 or Option-F4), Displays (Option-F1 or Option-F2), and Sound (Option-F10, Option-F11 or Option-F12). The F keys in question are those which act on the given features, either displaying Dashboard or Mission Control (F3 and F4), decreasing or increasing brightness (F1 and F2), or changing or muting volume (F10, F11 and F12). If you use a laptop, you may need to press the Fn key together with the other keys to open these preference panes.
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07:30
Drag files from Safari 5 Downloads popup
05:00
Video On Setting Up Software Update Services In Lion...
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Video On Setting Up Lion Server As A Software Update...
Saturday May 12
12:04
New User Submission Page
I have now opened up the site to user submissions and built a page to submit content. I’ve also tweaked the layout a little more to make things load faster and cleaned up the nav bar so that the Submit button can take you to the submission page. I hope to see some pretty awesome submissions after slaving away on the forms!
A couple of notes on submissions:
- Submissions do not require authenticating to the site
- For any accepted submissions I will create an account for you (unless you already have one) and make sure that submissions are properly attributed
- Feel free to submit a snippet along with a read more… type of link that kicks to another site. Unless it’s a problem I’ll accept those articles, but would prefer them to be over 2 paragraphs
The submission page is here: http://krypted.com/submissions
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10:32
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Google recently decided that it was time to force some other company to buy cloudy dispositioned upstarts, Dropbox and Box.net. Google also decided that Office365 represented Microsoft being a little too brazen in their attempts to counteract the inroads that Google has made into Microsoft territory. Therefor, Google thumped their chest and gave away 5GB of storage in Google Drive. Google then released a tool that synchronizes data stored on a Google Drive to Macs and Windows systems.
Installing Google Drive is pretty easy. Just browse to Google Docs and Google will tell you that there’s this weird new Google Drive thing you should check out.
Here, click on Download Google Drive for Mac (or Windows if you use Windows). Then agree to give your first born to Google (but don’t worry, they’d never collect on that debt ’cause they’re sworn to...
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Friday May 11
14:28
Lion Server: Enabling iCal Server Push Notifications...
Learn about enabling iCal Server Push Notifications for Active Directory users.
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07:30
Save all of your Terminal activity to a file
I use Terminal everyday, and I find it a good idea to log everything I you. It makes it much easier to undo your mistakes when you know what those mistakes were. Here's how I do this:
Open Terminal's preferences.
Go to Settings, then Shell. You can choose here to run a command at startup. You could create a simple log of your session using the following:
/usr/bin/script ~/Desktop/Terminal.log
This will log everything you do and append it to the log file.
I like to keep my history so instead I wrote this small script that archives previous sessions by renaming the file with a date/time string. I then set Terminal.app to run at startup the following command:
~/Desktop/logger.sh
Here's the script:
#!/bin/bash
# logger.sh
# Log everything you do in Terminal.
#* Formatted date & time string.
FORMATTED_DATE=`/bin/date "+%Y-%m-%d%H%M%S"`
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06:00
Video ON Setting Up File Sharing Services In Lion...
03:00
Video On Setting Up File Sharing In Lion Server
Thursday May 10
08:00
Video On Setting Up Users and Groups In Lion Server
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07:30
Remove rubber band scrolling in most apps
Combining some findings from a recent hint and on Apple's forums, I've finally found a way to disable the annoying rubber-band scrolling in most applications. All the credit goes to those guys as they did the initial investigation.
It works in applications like:
- Finder
- Mail
- Preview
- TextEdit
- Xcode
and probably in most applications that use the standard UI (the string to be used in defaults appears in AppKit.framework). It doesn't work in Safari or iTunes.
In Terminal type:
defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -int 0
It should work after you relaunch your applications.
To undo this change, run this command in Terminal:
defaults delete -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding
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03:00
Creating Users and Groups in Lion Server
Wednesday May 9
14:36
OS X Lion v10.7.3: User account passwords appear in...
In OS X Lion 10.7.3, user account passwords for Legacy FileVault and/or home folders mounted via NFS, AFP, or SMB are stored as plain text in log files.
System backups and syslog servers may also have the user account passwords stored as plain text.
Note: Time Machine backups are not affected—Time Machine does not back up the log files in which user account passwords are in plain text.
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14:33
Video on Setting Up Profile Manager in Lion Server
13:54
Lion Server: Server app unable to display Profile...
Under certain circumstances, Server app may be unable to display Profile Manager settings after updating to Lion Server v10.7.3. Additionally, you may not be able to administer profiles using the web application.
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13:25
About Apple Remote Desktop client 3.5.3
Apple Remote Desktop client 3.5.3 is a recommended update for Apple Remote Desktop clients.
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13:23
About Server Admin Tools 10.7.4
13:20
About the Lion Server v10.7.4 Update
Learn about the Lion Server v10.7.4 Update.
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13:16
About the OS X Lion v10.7.4 Update
Learn about the OS X Lion v10.7.4 Update.
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13:14
About the security content of OS X Lion v10.7.4 and...
This document describes the security content of OS X Lion v10.7.4 and Security Update 2012-002.
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13:13
About the security content of Safari 5.1.7
This document describes the security content of Safari 5.1.7.
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12:39
Video on Setting Up Profile Manager in Lion Server
10:51
WWDC 2012 AFP548.com party? Are you ready for this?
We are considering another rockin' AFP548.com party on one of the evenings of WWDC 2012, and want to know if enough IT folks are going to make it to WWDC to make it worthwhile. We have a ...
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07:30
View full track info in iOS Music App
This hint solves a long standing problem when playing classical music on an iPhone. When using the iPhone Music app (iOS 5.1), the full entry (e.g. name of artist, album or song title) for an item can be too long to be displayed. Tap and hold entry to see the full entry pop up. Tap and drag your finger down the list to make the pop up change as you drag. This works for album titles, song titles, and artists names.
[kirkmc adds: Nice. I hadn't heard of this before, but searching the web shows that it is not totally unknown. Since it hasn't shown up here before, it's worth posting.]
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07:30
Allow custom URL protocols in Lion Server wiki pages
If you use Lion Server, and its wiki server, you may find it useful to use custom URL protocols for internal documents and links. Apple has published a technical note explaining how to do this. This document explains how to create the necessary configuration file - /etc/collabd/filter_whitelist.plist - for any custom URL protocol you wish to use.
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Tuesday May 8
14:01
TA12-129A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple...
Original release date: May 08, 2012 | Last revised: --
Systems Affected
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft .NET Framework
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Silverlight
Overview
Select Microsoft software products contain multiple vulnerabilities. Microsoft has released updates to address these vulnerabilities.
Description
The Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for May 2012 describes multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. Microsoft has released updates to address the vulnerabilities.
Impact
A remote, unauthenticated attacker could execute arbitrary code, cause a denial of service, or gain unauthorized access to your files or...
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13:18
Aperture 3: Support resources
Learn about the options you have to get support and find answers to your Aperture 3 questions.
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13:01
GarageBand: Re-downloading Learn to Play Artist...
If you’ve started to download one or more Learn to Play Artist Lessons and the download is interrupted or is incomplete, you may resume the download from the Lesson Store in GarageBand. Previously downloaded Artist Lessons may be downloaded again from the Apple Store (but not from the Lesson Store in GarageBand).
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10:53
Lion Server: Unable to connect to L2TP VPN server...
When trying to connect to a Lion Server L2TP VPN server from a Lion client, you may receive an alert stating;
"The L2TP-VPN server did not respond. Try reconnecting. If the problem continues, verify your settings and contact your Administrator."
Mac OS X v10.6 clients may receive a message that authentication did not work.
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09:30
Lion Server: Allowing custom URL protocols in links...
Learn how to enable custom URL protocols for the Lion Server Wiki service (so they become clickable links on a wiki page).
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08:22
Video on Setting up TheLuggage
The Luggage is shaping up to be the go-to packaging software for Mac Admins. Getting started can be daunting for some, though, so I’ve narrated a video taking you through the steps required to set it up. Not included:
- Getting a Mac developer.apple.com account (while this process can mostly be done for free, it’s the best and easiest way if you do have access)
- Downloading the tools from the Mac Dev Center (Command Line Tools and Auxiliary Tools for Xcode)
- Choosing your favorite text editor (no emacs vs vi wars, thanks)
Setting up The Luggage
Happy Packaging! Please find us on Twitter or leave a comment if you have any feedback.
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07:30
Remove scrolling elasticity in Xcode
Mac OS X Lion introduced iOS-style scrolling elasticity. Do you think it's annoying, and it slows you down while working in Xcode? Here's how to remove it.
Copy this Xcode plugin to the following directory:
~/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins/
You should create the directories if needed.
Enjoy!
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05:00
Lights Out Managing Mac Mini Servers with Vera
There is no Lights Out Management for a Mac mini Server (btw, am I the only one that noticed that these are now called Mac mini with Lion Server, where mini isn’t capitalized). While the Mac mini Server doesn’t have the Lights Out Management (LOM)/IPMI chips in it, there are a few things that we can control anyway. Convention would say that we’d get a NetBotz card for that spiffy APC we’ve got, which can do minor automation and even a little environmental monitoring. And there are a few other systems out there that can do similar tasks.
But I’m a home automation nerd these days. So I decided to look into whether my Vera can manage my mini Server botnet and what I might be getting or sacrificing. First, let’s define what we did with LOM. The first and most important is, when the system crashed, we rebooted the server. The second aspect was to maybe wake...
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Monday May 7
15:13
MacSysAdmin 2012!
MacSysAdmin has quickly become one of my favorite conferences to attend. I love the high level of technical acumen and the chance to row a canoe from Minneapolis to Gothenburg, Sweden, which is a serious workout, let me tell you! The 2012 lineup boasts one of the politest guys I know in Arek Dreyer, my coworker Zack Smith, Andrew Renz (of Code 42/CrashPlan fame), the well dressed (and spoken) Ed Marczak, the great Greg Neagle (Munki/Repasado/awesome guy), Alan Gordon’s alter-ego Alan Gordon, the JAMFerific Andrina Kelly, the ostentatious Duncan McCracken, Rick Wylie, Gary Larizza, Luis Giraldo in all his wireless awesomeness, Sébastien Tomasi (representing the file set goodness that is FileWave) and someone I told Tycho he simply had to add to the list of speakers after last years event was over, Per Olofsson (I’m sure my recommendation had little to do with his addition as he has plenty of merit, but I’m very excited to see him do his thing anyway). Oh and least of all, I’ll be...
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12:12
MacSysAdmin 2012 tickets now available
11:27
About the security content of iOS 5.1.1 Software...
This document describes the security content of iOS 5.1.1 Software Update, which can be downloaded and installed using iTunes.
For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patches or releases are available. To learn more about Apple Product Security, see the Apple Product Security website.
For information about the Apple Product Security PGP Key, see "How to use the Apple Product Security PGP Key."
Where possible, CVE IDs are used to reference the vulnerabilities for further information.
To learn about other Security Updates, see "Apple Security Updates".
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10:00
SkyDrive connects Office for Mac to the cloud
We often use many devices throughout the day to access, create or share documents. You might create a PowerPoint presentation using Office for Mac at home, continue working on your Windows PC at the office, and then access and share your files on the go.
Now with the SkyDrive for Mac OS X Lion* preview, SkyDrive for Windows, and the release of SkyDrive for iPad, you can save and store your important documents or other files in the SkyDrive folder in Finder and access them from anywhere.
Here is a short video showing what you can do with the new SkyDrive:
We also created a page to show how SkyDrive can help you access and share documents, photos, and notes across Apple devices and PCs. There are even a few tips for people switching from iDisk.
Please try out the SkyDrive preview and give us feedback on...
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09:01
iPod for Windows: Connecting multiple iPod devices...
While iTunes for Windows allows you to connect multiple iPod devices simultaneously to the same computer for charging, you cannot sync your data from the computer to all the iPod devices at the same time.
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07:30
Scroll PDF in Finder in Column View
In the Finder, when working in Column View, if you select a multipage PDF you can scroll up and down in the document. This is much faster than using the small arrow controls, and appears to work with any input device that can scroll.
[kirkmc adds: Several points. First, in Column View, you need to have Show Preview Column checked in the View settings. When you select a PDF, its first page shows in the Preview column. From there, you hover your cursor and see two arrow buttons. You can either click on these or scroll.
This might be useful if you just need a quick glance at a file, but once you've selected the PDF, you can view it in Quick Look by pressing the space bar, which lets you see the document at full size.]
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Saturday May 5
15:19
2012 Penn State MacAdmins Slides
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Friday May 4
07:30
Moving custom paper sizes from Snow Leopard to Lion
I was recently asked to see if I could copy over the custom page sizes from a Snow Leopard machine over to a Lion machine.
While finding the right file in ~/Library/Preferences (com.apple.print.custompapers.plist) wasn't so difficult, it turned out that the Snow Leopard version of the file is binary encoded while the Lion version is not. (It may be that this file was grandfathered in from a previous system.)
XCode for Lion can convert the file to a regular XML text file:
- Open the file in Xcode.
- Choose File > Duplicate.
- In the Save dialog box, select "Property List XML" from the Format drop-down list.
Moving the regular text version over to Lion and putting it into the Preferences folder gave us a way to copy a huge list of custom paper sizes from one designer to another quickly and easily.
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Thursday May 3
11:15
iTunes Connect Supports More Than 25 Languages
Now you have more ways to reach millions of users around the world. We have expanded language support in iTunes Connect, so you can localize app metadata, keywords, and screenshots in 10 new languages: Traditional Chinese, Norwegian, Turkish, Finnish, Danish, Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Vietnamese, and Greek.
Check out the iTunes Connect Developer Guide for details on adding new localizations. And learn about other resources for Internationalization and Localization.
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11:15
iTunes Connect Supports More Than 25 Languages
Now you have more ways to reach millions of users around the world. We have expanded language support in iTunes Connect, so you can localize app metadata, keywords, and screenshots in 10 new languages: Traditional Chinese, Norwegian, Turkish, Finnish, Danish, Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Vietnamese, and Greek.
Check out the iTunes Connect Developer Guide for details on adding new localizations. And learn about other resources for Internationalization and Localization.
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11:15
iTunes Connect Supports More Than 25 Languages
Now you have more ways to reach millions of users around the world. We have expanded language support in iTunes Connect, so you can localize app metadata, keywords, and screenshots in 10 new languages: Traditional Chinese, Norwegian, Turkish, Finnish, Danish, Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Vietnamese, and Greek.
Check out the iTunes Connect Developer Guide for details on adding new localizations. And learn about other resources for Internationalization and Localization.
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07:30
AppleScript for selecting local volumes to unmount
Note: An updated version of this script (in fact two new scripts) has been posted as a new hint. These new scripts take into account many of the comments posted below. Please see the new hint to find the improved version.
Here's an AppleScript that presents a dialog box listing mounted local volumes, one or more of which can be selected for unmounting. Some solutions for doing this either require the use of additional system resources or are offered commercially. This AppleScript is free, of course. I’ve only tested it in Lion so far. I recommend that you set up a keyboard shortcut that launches the AppleScript either as part of a Mac OS X Automator Service, or from the Script menu, which (in Lion) can be configured using the Keyboard preferences.
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Wednesday May 2
07:30
Option-up arrow and Option-down arrow cycle through...
When focus is in the text entry field in an iChat chat window, holding option and using your up and down arrow keys cycles through the previous messages you've sent. This is very similar to how Terminal lets you cycle through previous command just using the up and down arrow keys.
[kirkmc adds: I actually spotted this a while ago. I'm not sure why it's there; and I don't really see any use for it, other than, perhaps, to find a text you sent to someone without scrolling in the window, and then copy it to send to someone else. This works in Lion; can anyone confirm that whether works in earlier versions of OS X or not?]
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Tuesday May 1
15:02
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07:30
Build a service to count characters, words and...
Apple does not provide any way to count the number of characters in a selected text. Fortunately, you can create your own very easily using Automator.
Launch Automator and create a new Service. Add the Run AppleScript script action, then paste the following code:
on run {input, parameters}
try
set MyText to input as string
set NombreSignes to the number of characters of MyText
set NombreMots to the number of words of MyText
set NombrePara to the number of paragraphs of MyText
set LeResultat to "The selected text contains :" & return & "- " & NombreSignes & " sign(s) ;" & return & "- " & NombreMots & " word(s) ;" & return & "- " & NombrePara & " paragraph(s)."
display dialog LeResultat buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon note
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Monday April 30
16:40
Lion Server: VPN service does not accept connections...
Your VPN service may stop accepting PPTP or L2TP connections after you update Lion Server or after you update from an older version of Mac OS X Server. System log messages may report issues retrieving MPPE keys.
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07:30
Use Logitech N305 number pad with Mac
My right shoulder had been hurting lately, due to the movement necessary to reach my trackpad. I was using a standard, wired Apple keyboard with the number pad on the right, and my Magic Trackpad was to the right of that, making me reach pretty far to access it.
So, I set out in search of a standalone number pad I could use with my Mac. While I don't work with numbers often, when I do my accounting, it's a pain to have to type numbers from the top row of the keyboard. I looked at a number of models - both wired and wireless - and found what seemed to be the best choice: Logitech's N305. This works with Logitech's Unifying Receiver, is fairly compact, and, according to Logitech, works for three years with a pair of batteries.
But the N305 does not support Macs. Fortunately, in reviews for the product on Amazon, a number of people posted a solution. Download the free ...
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Saturday April 28
06:47
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Friday April 27
07:30
Reduce the size of Google Chrome
]Google Chrome keeps older versions of its web browser causing it to balloon in size. I noticed that the Google Chrome App on my Mac was 1.2 GB. That seemed a bit portly for a web browser. Upon looking into the app's bundle, by right-clicking and choosing Show Package Contents, I found multiple old versions of the app, all which appeared to be nearly identical. I removed all but the most recent version and everything appears to run correctly and the app size is now a much more slim 113 MB.
[kirkmc adds: Interesting. On my Mac, in the bundle, in Contents > Versions, there are, indeed, two versions of Chrome. This presumably has something to do with Chrome's silent updating. (Queries on Twitter suggest that this is the norm; a number of people replied that theirs was around 220 MB, as was mine.) Make sure you keep the one with the highest version number. You could also, of course, just download a new copy.
If you want to turn off...
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Thursday April 26
12:19
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07:30
Get rid of intermittent SSH_AUTH_SOCKET environment...
SSHKeychain used to set the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable to something like /tmp/50x/SSHKeychain.socket, but even getting rid of SSHKeychain didn't get rid of the environment setting.
I used to use a great little program called SSHKeychain to maintain my ssh world on OS X. Even after Apple's keychain started dealing with ssh-agent properly, I still kept SSHKeychain around for the convenience of maintaining my ssh tunnel configurations in one place.
However, there was an occasional mismatch between the SSHKeychain way of doing things and the Apple keychain way, and SSHKeychain seemed to have fallen into disrepair, with no maintenance (on SourceForge at least) since 2007.
A few months back, I finally got rid of SSHKeychain, and started having problems.
There was apparently a phase-of-the-moon dependent race condition (somewhere) that clobbered the Apple keychain setting of...
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07:30
New poll: Which is your favorite Mac?
It's time for a new poll. Following Apple's quarterly earnings call, where the company announced selling 4 million Macs in the last quarter (see Macworld's discussion of Apple's earnings), this could be a good time to find out which model Mac OS X Hints readers prefer. Will it turn out that laptops are popular with readers of this site? They represent 70% of Apple's sales. Or is the Mac Pro still a favorite?
You can vote in the poll, and feel free to post comments on that page about why you selected a specific model.
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Wednesday April 25
12:19
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When you attempt to perform a Safe Boot with FileVault 2 enabled, your Mac starts up to a normal login window.
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11:21
Update to SP2 Now Available!
On April 19th, we withheld the Office for Mac 2011 SP2 update through Microsoft AutoUpdate while we investigated issues that affected a small percentage of users. As of this morning, we posted a 14.2.1 update that fixes a number of issues, including the Outlook for Mac database issue, and you can read more about the update in this KB.
This update is primarily preventative and targets those who have not yet installed SP2; however, whether you have or have not installed SP2, please run this update to bring your installation of Microsoft Office:Mac 2011 to the latest version.
Download the Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.2.1 update package now.
Thanks for your help and patience...
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07:39
Update: WWDC 2012 Tickets Sold out!
Well, that was fast. WWDC 2012 tickets sold out in record time! Hopefully you got yours, but if not, there is always the videos. Now we just need to wait to hear the screams from ...
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07:30
Back up blog or FTP directory with AppleScript
All those many different WordPress plugins to back up my blog looked too daunting to me, so I decided to create my own simple Mac-native solution using AppleScript. This AppleScript does the following:
- Simulates a double-click on the alias to my web server (where my WordPress blog lives) to mount it as a WebDAV volume (just like iDisk)
- Runs the handy Unix backup command rsync to copy the remote contents locally
- Unmounts my web server
I then set up a daily iCal event to run the script at 4 a.m. Since I already have CrashPlan backing up my hard drive, that takes care of archiving periodic versions of the backup, just in case.
Here's the script:
set filepath to "Macintosh HD:Users:USERNAME:Library:Favorites:www.example.com"
tell application "Finder" to open filepath
delay 30
do shell script "rsync -av /Volumes/www.example.com/blog/ '/Volumes/Backup/wordpress-backup'"
tell...
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07:27
WWDC 2012 Tickets Available!
WWDC 2012 has been announced for June 11-15, and tickets are now available!. Run, don't walk, to https://devel...
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06:06
WWDC Tickets On Sale
Apple has put tickets on sale for the WorldWide Developer Conference, from June 11th to June 15th in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Last year, the conference sold out really quickly, so might want to jump on buying tickets if you want to go. One thing can be pretty easily assumed, there will be plenty of talk about Mountain Lion (and maybe a new beta/DP as well).Similar Articles:
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Tuesday April 24
14:17
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07:30
Disable warning when changing file extensions in...
You know how when you want to change a file extension in the Finder, you get a warning asking if you're sure you want to change the extension? In most cases, if you are changing the extension, you are doing so because you want to, and you know the consequences.
You can disable this warning. Run the following command in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableExtensionChangeWarning -bool false
Then relaunch the Finder, either by Option-clicking on the Finder's icon in the Dock and choosing Relaunch Finder, or by running this in Terminal:
killall Finder
(I found this when browsing through the long list of defaults commands that we recently published as a hint. But when googling it, I noticed that OSXDaily had recently published. So a shout out ......
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Thursday April 19
10:42
Lion Server: Workgroup Manager may be unable to...
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Tuesday April 17
14:47
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13:22
About Apple Configurator 1.0.1
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Apple Configurator: Using Volume Purchase Program (...
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09:56
Apple Configurator: Enrolling devices in Profile...
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09:54
Apple TV: Basic troubleshooting
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09:52
Mac OS X Server: Configuring clients to use SSL for...
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Friday April 13
20:04
About the security content of Flashback malware...
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19:45
About Flashback malware
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19:42
About Flashback malware removal tool
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12:14
Apple TV: How to use AirPlay Mirroring
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11:36
About Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 8
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