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Survey finds 21% of iOS users wouldn’t change platforms for any price

Posted: 30 Jun 2012 03:26 PM PDT

For those of you wondering if Apple still has a strong cult following, here you go: a new survey from Goldman Sachs finds that 21% of iOS users wouldn’t switch to another platform, for any price.

The securities firm recently surveyed over 1000 smartphone users, in an effort to better understand the costs that consumers face when switching ecosystems. And this is what they found…(...)
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How to easily use bookmarklets in Google Chrome for iOS

Posted: 30 Jun 2012 02:12 PM PDT

A few minutes ago John Gruber tweeted about the lack of bookmarklet support in Chrome for iOS. I responded to him stating that support is indeed there, it just wasn’t as straightforward as it is on Safari.

To tell the truth, I too thought that bookmarklets, or the lack thereof, was simply a medium sized oversight made by Google; after all, such things are instrumental when it comes to using tools like LastPass, Instapaper, etc.

After some tinkering around, however, I was able to confirm that bookmarklet support is indeed included in the version of Chrome that shipped a few days ago. In fact, using them is a fairly straightforward exercise. Check inside for the full how-to…(...)
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Celebrating our 1,000th video

Posted: 30 Jun 2012 12:54 PM PDT

Late last night I had the privilege of posting our 1,000th YouTube video. I’ve been creating videos for iDownloadBlog for almost two years now, and it’s been an insanely rewarding and invigorating journey.

Oddly enough, doing video walkthroughs started off as just a test, something to spice things up every now and then at most. I never had the intentions of doing this to any great degree, let alone full time. To tell the truth, it was your kind feedback and helpful suggestions that made me want to keep going.

Of course, we started off small in our endeavors. In fact, some of the earliest creations were downright terrible in my opinion, both from a image quality and sound perpective. Despite these early hiccups, you, the viewers, have stuck with us from the beginning until now, and for that we want to thank you.

To celebrate video number 1,000, I’ve put together a special montage of some of my favorite moments from the last year and a half. Granted, this represents only a smidgen of what I’d like to share, but due to time I had to be realistic and limit the amount of content included.

What’s been your favorite video moment thus far? We invite you inside to watch and to share your thoughts…(...)
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10 New Messages
Digest #8970
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Re: Safari address box disappeared! by "Marilu" greenmagpies
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Spotlight and Save As search by "Jay Abraham" kerala01212001
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Re: questions of Time by "Oneal Neumann" newalander
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Re: questions of Time by "Daly Jessup" dalyjessup
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usb to parallels by "Claudia" aprimondo
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usb to parallels by "Claudia" aprimondo
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Fri Jun 29, 2012 11:00 am (PDT) . Posted by: "LouisD" ldina
Dane,

I don't know either, but I suspect Disk Utilities, SuperDuper and YASU all call the same underlying shell command.

Anybody know? Any comments on my original "error message"?

Thx,

Lou

--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com, Dane Robison <macdane@...> wrote:
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> I may be wrong, but it seems to me that I still see some activity when running "repair permissions" from Disk Utility after SuperDuper! or YASU having done it. I don't have a good answer for you, but I wonder if there's a difference?
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> Dane
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> On Jun 29, 2012, at 10:50 AM, LouisD wrote:
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> > Dane,
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> > I probably misunderstood Dan's email. Thanks.
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> > I run SuperDuper backups nightly, and have SuperDuper set to repair permissions before backing up my startup drive. So, repairing permissions is done regularly. I also have YASU set to run the daily, weekly and monthly cron scripts, and to reset system permissions. Those operations complete before YASU tries to clear the system and local cache.
> >
> > Don't both of these programs run "repair permissions", or am I missing something?
> >
> > Lou
>

Fri Jun 29, 2012 11:43 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Marilu" greenmagpies
I already tried that, and nothing happened :(

--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@...> wrote:
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> > My Safari (URL Box) has disappeared from my tool bar. I've tried 'View' then 'Customize tool bar' but the URL address box is not available there to drag. I've also tried holding down the 'command' key along with the 'shift' and the 'forward slash' at the same time. Nothing is working.
> > Marilu
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> Try <Shift><Command><\>
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Fri Jun 29, 2012 4:51 pm (PDT) . Posted by: "Jay Abraham" kerala01212001
Hi,

I have a city water bill that I print out and save as pdf after I pay the bill and then I save this in the Shared Folder within a folder called Receipts.

When I type the word water (in the Save as dialog search window) so I can see just those files in the Folder Receipt, no files show up. I do this search so that I can click on the file and then the file name will be consistent and I just change the date of the receipt. For some reason this doesn't work.

When I search for the same name within the global spotlight magnifying glass the files show up.

Does the search function within the Save As window not use the spotlight index. I have reset the index and had it reindex everything - no change in behavior.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Jay
Fri Jun 29, 2012 6:41 pm (PDT) . Posted by: "LouisD" ldina
Jay,

I've been struggling a bit with Spotlight searches in the last few weeks. I find it to be a bit temperamental and less than intuitive at times.

To find the word "water", start typing in the search box. Then click the small "+" sign to add a search filter. In the left-most drop down box, select "Name", then to the right "contains" and then type in "water". If you are searching for a File Name, then be sure to click the File Name button. If searching for the word "water" in the file contents, click the Contents button. You'll probably have to remove the original text you typed into the Spotlight search window. As long as you are not searching for a hidden file or in a hidden folder, it should show up in your search.

If you anticipate doing this search regularly, Save the search by clicking the Save button under the Spotlight search window. Name it and it will show up in the Sidebar.

Better yet, download the free EasyFind application from MacUpdate. It's much more intuitive and it can find nearly anything.

Not sure if I understood or answered your question, but I hope so.

Lou

--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com, Jay Abraham <jaygroups@...> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I have a city water bill that I print out and save as pdf after I pay the bill and then I save this in the Shared Folder within a folder called Receipts.
>
> When I type the word water (in the Save as dialog search window) so I can see just those files in the Folder Receipt, no files show up. I do this search so that I can click on the file and then the file name will be consistent and I just change the date of the receipt. For some reason this doesn't work.
>
> When I search for the same name within the global spotlight magnifying glass the files show up.
>
> Does the search function within the Save As window not use the spotlight index. I have reset the index and had it reindex everything - no change in behavior.
>
> Any thoughts appreciated.
>
> Jay
>

Sat Jun 30, 2012 2:26 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Oneal Neumann" newalander

In the Date & Time preference, how does my ProBook know where I am when I select the 'Set time zone automatically using current location' feature?

For the 'Set date and time automatically' feature, what difference does it make which of Apple Americas, Apple Asia or Apple Europe I select?

Thanx. Oneal

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Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:21 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Daly Jessup" dalyjessup

On Jun 30, 2012, at 2:26 AM, Oneal Neumann wrote:

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> In the Date & Time preference, how does my ProBook know where I am when I select the 'Set time zone automatically using current location' feature?
>
> For the 'Set date and time automatically' feature, what difference does it make which of Apple Americas, Apple Asia or Apple Europe I select?

There's a feature called location services. I don't know much about it, but here's an article that discusses some ways the system can know where the computer is:
<http://rajputyh.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-apples-location-services-work.html>

It matters which time zone you choose, if you opt not to have Location Services turned on (when its on, the Mac can set your time zone automatically), because if you choose the wrong time, your computer will give you the time in a different time zone, not your local time! If you WANT your computer to display the time it is in some other zone, go ahead and choose that zone.

You can turn Location Services on or off, at least in Lion, in Apple menu/System Preferences/Security & Privacy, then under the Privacy tab.

Daly

Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:25 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Claudia" aprimondo
Hi all,
I have a second printer at my boyfriend's, an HP970cxi. I was able to use it normally until I updated to Mac OS X 10.6.8, while HP never updated the drivers for this OS version.
I thought I'd use it via the Parallels section of my Mac, which runs Windows 7 32 bit.
I could download the appropriate drivers straight from HP's website but the problem is... I must have told the computer to automatically connect any external drives to the Mac part and now I do not know how to undo that, at least momentarily, so that I can download and install the drivers in the Parallels part.
Can anyone help, please?
Thanks in advance from sunny, hot and soccer-elated Italy.
Claudia

Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:35 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Claudia" aprimondo
Hi all,
I have a second printer at my boyfriend's, an HP970cxi. I was able to use it normally until I updated to Mac OS X 10.6.8, while HP never updated the drivers for this OS version.
I thought I'd use it via the Parallels section of my Mac, which runs Windows 7 32 bit.
I could download the appropriate drivers straight from HP's website but the problem is... I must have told the computer to automatically connect any external drives to the Mac part and now I do not know how to undo that, at least momentarily, so that I can download and install the drivers in the Parallels part.
Can anyone help, please?
Thanks in advance from sunny, hot and soccer-elated Italy.
Claudia

Sat Jun 30, 2012 9:13 am (PDT) . Posted by: "Nick Andriash" andriash2005
Sometimes, not always, I am greeted by the following message from OSX (Lion) when awakening my MBPro from a sleep:

"This computer’s local hostname “‫Nick-Andriashs-MacBook-Pro-5.local‎‬”
is already in use on this network. The name has been changed to
“‫Nick-Andriashs-MacBook-Pro-6.local‎‬”."

Can anyone shed light on why these messages pop up? Why can't my local hostname just keep the same name?

Thanks for the help....

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 Nick Andriash 
andriash@telus.net
17" MacBook Pro, 2.3GHz Intel Core i7, Memory 16 GB, OS X 10.7.3
AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB
iPad2 WiFi & 3G, 64GB
iPhone4S 32GB

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Sat Jun 30, 2012 9:25 am (PDT) . Posted by: "John Ross" john_a_ross
I get exactly the same - answer anyone?

On 30 Jun 2012, at 17:13, Nick Andriash wrote:

> Sometimes, not always, I am greeted by the following message from OSX (Lion) when awakening my MBPro from a sleep:
>
> "This computer’s local hostname “‫Nick-Andriashs-MacBook-Pro-5.local‎‬”
> is already in use on this network. The name has been changed to
> “‫Nick-Andriashs-MacBook-Pro-6.local‎‬”."
>
> Can anyone shed light on why these messages pop up? Why can't my local hostname just keep the same name?
>
> Thanks for the help....
>
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>  Nick Andriash 
> andriash@telus.net
> 17" MacBook Pro, 2.3GHz Intel Core i7, Memory 16 GB, OS X 10.7.3
> AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB
> iPad2 WiFi & 3G, 64GB
> iPhone4S 32GB
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