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All the Spotlight stuff is in: ... 559 Views / 2 Replies  
All the Spotlight stuff is in:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/Resources/

JayJay1974
Posted by JayJay1974, on May 12, 2005 at 04:16 AM, in GUI Customization
This is not really a bug, more of a lack of... 72,193 Views / 551 Replies  
This is not really a bug, more of a lack of attention to detail.

Burn Folders are slightly different to smart folders, see the 2 pixel difference?...
Posted by JayJay1974, on May 12, 2005 at 04:00 AM, in macOS
Spotlight searches with "and" logic. The item you... 616 Views / 1 Replies  
Spotlight searches with "and" logic. The item you are looking for has to be all of these types to be found. If Spotlight had the ability to use "or" logic and even nested parameters, all would be...
Posted by JayJay1974, on May 10, 2005 at 12:39 AM, in macOS
I was thinking of Straightener. Sort of the... 1,322 Views / 20 Replies  
I was thinking of Straightener. Sort of the opposite of Bender. Gotta love Futurama. I was going to change the icon to one of Bender, but have not found a decent one yet. Has anyone else?
...
Posted by JayJay1974, on May 4, 2005 at 07:43 AM, in macOS
This happens to me too on my 2 month old 17" PB.... 1,105 Views / 12 Replies  
This happens to me too on my 2 month old 17" PB. It seems as thought Spotlight doesn't cache the file types. Annoying to say the least.

JayJay1974
Posted by JayJay1974, on May 4, 2005 at 07:35 AM, in macOS
In 10.3 I used to set my PowerBook's screen... 40,259 Views / 280 Replies  
In 10.3 I used to set my PowerBook's screen brightness to the minimum setting at night (this turns off the backlight in case you are not aware of this feature of PBs.) I would also have the screen...
Posted by JayJay1974, on May 3, 2005 at 04:35 AM, in macOS
Original shiny Spotlight search bar from Tiger DP 805 Views / 1 Replies  
Do you prefer the look of the Spotlight search bar from the Tiger Developer Previews to the current bar? If so, I've recreated the shiny one for you.
All you have to do is navigate to...
Posted by JayJay1974, on May 1, 2005 at 01:49 AM, in GUI Customization
Re: Are these screenshots of Longhorn Or Tiger? 3,021 Views / 47 Replies  
Originally posted by jocker:
http://www.picmate.co.uk/lh_explorer_demo_01.jpg

http://www.picmate.co.uk/lh_fast_search_demo_01.jpg

Does anybody else think it strange that they make the close...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Mar 26, 2005 at 02:59 AM, in macOS
Networking Weirdness 489 Views / 1 Replies  
Hi,

I've done something to my PowerBook to stuff up the networking. The last thing I remember doing before I had problems was deleting a few AppleShare passwords in keychain access.

For Info:...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Mar 20, 2004 at 10:10 PM, in macOS
Sharing a FW drive 402 Views / 0 Replies  
Hi,

I used to be able to connect to my FW400 drive from my PowerBook via my iMac, but since installing 10.3.3 I can't get it to show up in "Connect to Server" or the Network sidebar item.

Any...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Mar 19, 2004 at 09:07 AM, in macOS
Re: Crap Networking 29,489 Views / 143 Replies  
I found out that the little window with the cancel button does indeed show up, but UNDER any finder windows. Finder hangs upon waiting for the click to cancel. You can kill the process that brings up...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Nov 11, 2003 at 05:08 AM, in macOS
FUS from Terminal and AppleScript 1,800 Views / 28 Replies  
Check out this from Mac OS X Hints:

FUS from Terminal and AppleScript (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031102031045417)

JJ
Posted by JayJay1974, on Nov 8, 2003 at 08:46 AM, in macOS
Multiple occurances of nfsiod and netinfod 544 Views / 1 Replies  
I was playing with terminal.app and ran top and found I have 4 occurances of nfsiod and 2 occurances of netinfod currently running. I've tried killing them all except one occurance each but logging...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Jun 16, 2003 at 09:41 AM, in macOS
InputManager??? 9,314 Views / 110 Replies  
If you're having trouble with v64 quitting on launch, then you may have PithHelmet installed in ~/Library/InputManagers/ . I had it installed and I tried everything to get v64 to work - D/L it 3...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Mar 7, 2003 at 07:10 AM, in Applications
Thank you! 458 Views / 2 Replies  
Thank you very much CheesePuff! I've been tearing my hair out about this one. I knew I saw it somewhere but where? Search engines were no help, but you were very helpful.
Thanks again! :thumbsup: ...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Jan 31, 2003 at 09:45 PM, in macOS
Local Web Cache 458 Views / 2 Replies  
I'm sure I read somewhere not so long ago that you can set up your mac (using apache and setting the proxies in Network Prefs) to cache web sites, so that images don't have to be downloaded everytime...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Jan 31, 2003 at 12:24 PM, in macOS
The pictures of Sydney are on the bottom of the... 1,657 Views / 17 Replies  
The pictures of Sydney are on the bottom of the PowerBook (http://www.apple.com/powerbook/index17.html) page.
I was wondering if it was possible to get the various images that apple uses to...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Jan 29, 2003 at 02:37 PM, in macOS
Sherlock will turn out to be the mythical apple browser 1,038 Views / 8 Replies  
Just a random thought I had this morning after a lovely 12 hour night shift... :D

JayJay
Posted by JayJay1974, on Dec 15, 2002 at 04:58 PM, in macOS
.dmg mounted after login 416 Views / 2 Replies  
Is there any way to keep .dmgs mounted after you log out and log back in? I'm fairly sure they used to stay mounted in 10.1.5 but now that functionality has gone. Any ideas?
Posted by JayJay1974, on Nov 3, 2002 at 02:56 AM, in macOS
Can the same be done on a iMac G4? 590 Views / 6 Replies  
Can the same be done on a iMac G4?
Posted by JayJay1974, on Nov 3, 2002 at 02:52 AM, in macOS
Yeah, that's it. That's heaps better. I was... 915 Views / 11 Replies  
Yeah, that's it. That's heaps better.
I was also going to suggest getting the resources straight out of iSync. I DL it and opened it up and the resources are right there in the...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Sep 28, 2002 at 10:57 PM, in macOS
Transferring Users to a new install 402 Views / 0 Replies  
Hi,

I recently got an external HD, so I cloned my boot drive to the external. I reformatted my boot drive and installed 10.2 then the update on top of that. Now I want to transfer all my users...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Sep 28, 2002 at 10:18 PM, in macOS
Re: New Jaguar Wait Cursor 915 Views / 11 Replies  
You wanted people to let you know what they think, well I think it looks bad personally. You'll have to do a bit more work to make it look "real". Firstly, only the arrows should spin, not the...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Sep 28, 2002 at 10:10 PM, in macOS
That's basically what I did (that what... 603 Views / 5 Replies  
That's basically what I did (that what DesktopRebuilderX does). I confirmed the 6 LS* files were deleted. Logged out and back in, no good. Restart, still no good. I'm fairly sure that it was the...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Sep 16, 2002 at 06:33 AM, in macOS
I had the same thing happen to me. All of my... 603 Views / 5 Replies  
I had the same thing happen to me. All of my applications went to generic icons. I stuffed around for a while, trying resetting permissions, then I tried DesktopRebuilderX I think it's called. No...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Sep 14, 2002 at 11:06 AM, in macOS
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,... 517 Views / 3 Replies  
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by 68k33:
<strong>When...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Jul 28, 2002 at 07:19 PM, in macOS
Didn't Steve say at the G4 iMac launch... 436 Views / 1 Replies  
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember Steve saying something along the lines of the G4 iMac being the first Mac to be built with (for) OS X in mind? Quartz Extreme may have been in the back...
Posted by JayJay1974, on May 14, 2002 at 12:21 PM, in macOS
I wish to do this so I don't have to have a... 562 Views / 14 Replies  
I wish to do this so I don't have to have a second ISP account (saving me $$ as I still pay for the cable connection) and so I can (hopefully) get better download speeds, as I would be the only user...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Mar 29, 2002 at 05:13 PM, in macOS
Sharing Cable connection over dial-up 562 Views / 14 Replies  
Can anyone steer me in the right direction for this? I have a cable connection at my parents' place (I just moved out) and I wish to connect to the net over a dail-up connection to the computer...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Mar 29, 2002 at 04:03 PM, in macOS
Hi Scrod, All I'm trying to do is make... 509 Views / 4 Replies  
Hi Scrod,

All I'm trying to do is make software for the users of Mac OS X. I appreciate that a problem has been found in the program and I'm trying to rectify it right now. As you have stated that...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Jun 15, 2001 at 07:43 AM, in macOS
Hi Scrod, If you are having trouble with... 509 Views / 4 Replies  
Hi Scrod,

If you are having trouble with using this program, I would be happy to help you to work out what the problem is. Firstly, did you read the ReadMe? In it it states:

If the program is...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Jun 15, 2001 at 05:17 AM, in macOS
New search tool for OS X 509 Views / 4 Replies  
Hi,

I have developed a new and fast search tool for OS X - LOOK4, to replace Sherlock in searching for files/folders on your hard drives.
Just go to esd software...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Jun 15, 2001 at 04:12 AM, in macOS
Got this off the MOTU-MAC list, which got it from... 682 Views / 21 Replies  
Got this off the MOTU-MAC list, which got it from the DAW-Mac list, where it was forwarded from the Powerbook list. I can't see any reason to disbelieve it, but you know how chinese whispers goes......
Posted by JayJay1974, on Jun 1, 2001 at 08:40 AM, in macOS
REVITUP, I'm interested in the idea too. If... 390 Views / 11 Replies  
REVITUP,

I'm interested in the idea too. If and when you get a reply, would you be able to post some info here in this thread? Thanks.
Posted by JayJay1974, on May 29, 2001 at 03:31 AM, in macOS
Here's an OS 9 style one... 539 Views / 14 Replies  
Here's an OS 9 style one (http://members.optushome.com.au/jwiggins/files/BootPanel.pdf.sit) I prepared earlier:
http://members.optushome.com.au/jwiggins/images/BootPanel.gif

Jason
Posted by JayJay1974, on May 21, 2001 at 02:50 AM, in macOS
When you upgrade to 10.0.1, software update... 492 Views / 9 Replies  
When you upgrade to 10.0.1, software update updates the system to 1.3.1. I thought at first it was just updating the "Software Update" component, but when you update OS X to 10.0.1. The first thing...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Apr 16, 2001 at 11:11 AM, in macOS
I have noticed a speed up too. I thought it was... 634 Views / 29 Replies  
I have noticed a speed up too. I thought it was just me, but it seems to be true. After messing around with some files, I lost my main user preferences. Now everytime I login as that user, all the...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Apr 13, 2001 at 01:54 AM, in macOS
Those buttons are in the Finder.app 712 Views / 31 Replies  
Those buttons are in the Finder.app
Posted by JayJay1974, on Apr 7, 2001 at 03:57 AM, in macOS
Labels in the Finder 800 Views / 25 Replies  
I was poking around in the Finder.app in resorcerer (after converting it with QuickConvert) so I could add a keyboard command for "Hide Others" and found a resource menu item for labels (I think it...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Apr 6, 2001 at 01:58 AM, in macOS
Classic idea 470 Views / 12 Replies  
I think it would be a great idea if that when an application in Classic is running, a little "9" badge is placed in the bottom left corner of the icon in the dock, just like the padlock badge, to...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Apr 4, 2001 at 08:20 AM, in macOS
Speech recognition 352 Views / 1 Replies  
Has anybody got speech recognition to work on older machines such as 7300's? I have the Apple mic plugged in and it works fine in OS 9.x but doesn't on OS X. Thanks for any info.

JJ
Posted by JayJay1974, on Apr 3, 2001 at 01:51 AM, in macOS
Have you tried to install it yourself yet? If you... 380 Views / 1 Replies  
Have you tried to install it yourself yet? If you have HD space, give it a try. It is a learning experience. If you're wanting to play with OS X, attempting to install it is the best place to start....
Posted by JayJay1974, on Apr 2, 2001 at 01:33 AM, in macOS
Have you tried to install it yourself yet? If you... 341 Views / 1 Replies  
Have you tried to install it yourself yet? If you have HD space, give it a try. It is a learning experience. If you're wanting to play with OS X, attempting to install it is the best place to start....
Posted by JayJay1974, on Apr 2, 2001 at 01:33 AM, in macOS
Importing vCards into Address Book 354 Views / 0 Replies  
I got sent a vCard. How do I import it into Address Book? I tried dropping it onto the icon in the dock, but all I get is a new card with the correct title, but no other information filled in. I even...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Apr 2, 2001 at 01:28 AM, in macOS
Importing vCards into Address Book 328 Views / 0 Replies  
I got sent a vCard. How do I import it into Address Book? I tried dropping it onto the icon in the dock, but all I get is a new card with the correct title, but no other information filled in. I even...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Apr 2, 2001 at 01:28 AM, in macOS
Installation on OldWorld Machines. 451 Views / 1 Replies  
After reading Ryan Rempel's instructions on installing Mac OS X on OldWorld machines, I have written instructions on how to create a modified installer CD without going through the hassles of...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Apr 1, 2001 at 10:27 AM, in macOS
Installation on OldWorld Machines. 429 Views / 0 Replies  
After reading Ryan Rempel's instructions on installing Mac OS X on OldWorld machines, I have written instructions on how to create a modified installer CD without going through the hassles of...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Apr 1, 2001 at 10:23 AM, in macOS
Installation on a 7300/G3 413 Views / 3 Replies  
I haven't received my copy of OS X yet and I was just wondering if anyone out there has installed it (or attempted to) on a 7300 of similar machine. I have a G3 upgrade in mine and 208M RAM. Should I...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Mar 25, 2001 at 08:33 AM, in macOS
Another Sydneysider here. I would have thought... 861 Views / 61 Replies  
Another Sydneysider here. I would have thought that it wouldn't have been too much to ask of Apple to ship it today (24th) just to keep the faith of the users. They did it in the States, why can't...
Posted by JayJay1974, on Mar 24, 2001 at 12:42 AM, in macOS
For real proof, I want to see the disks,... 517 Views / 33 Replies  
For real proof, I want to see the disks, packaging and the about box in the one photo. All I see are separate photos. Taken out of context, they mean nothing!
Posted by JayJay1974, on Mar 20, 2001 at 09:34 AM, in macOS
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