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People from the United Kingdom of Great Britain...	1,333 Views / 15 Replies
People from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - People from Northern Ireland = British Q.E.D.
Posted by Richyfp, on Jun 14, 2005 at 08:19 PM, in macOS

Excitingly, I had a Tiger kernel panic earlier...	1,064 Views / 13 Replies
Excitingly, I had a Tiger kernel panic earlier today. It looked like this (http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/rfp26/tigerpanic2.jpg). When I restarted, it showed me this...
Posted by Richyfp, on Apr 30, 2005 at 07:27 PM, in macOS

Re: Re: The MacNN Obscure keyboard shortcut challenge	624 Views / 6 Replies
I don't know the emacs command, but alt+right arrow or alt+left arrow will move you one word backwards or forwards. Command+left or command+right does the same as ctrl+a and ctrl+e, respectively.
Posted by Richyfp, on Mar 6, 2005 at 06:04 AM, in macOS

Just a little note on how much the PBs have...	11,422 Views / 150 Replies
Just a little note on how much the PBs have improved since September 2003, when I bought my 15" model: 1.25 GHz ---> 1.67 GHz 512Mb RAM ---> 512Mb RAM Radeon Mobility 9600 (64Mb) ---> Radeon...
Posted by Richyfp, on Feb 3, 2005 at 05:09 AM, in Mac Notebooks

System sounds aren't played through Quicktime,...	844 Views / 6 Replies
System sounds aren't played through Quicktime, but instead are played by the System Sound APIs which are part of CoreServices. A distinction is made between system sounds and all other audio and as...
Posted by Richyfp, on Sep 14, 2004 at 07:19 AM, in Mac Desktops

Quicktime support for the 5.1 surround is due to...	844 Views / 6 Replies
Quicktime support for the 5.1 surround is due to be beefed up in Tiger, I believe. Quicktime player (from one of the Developer Preview screenshots) will have a new Sound Properties window which...
Posted by Richyfp, on Sep 13, 2004 at 02:30 PM, in Mac Desktops

Haha - try right clicking it and downloading it...	917 Views / 4 Replies
Haha - try right clicking it and downloading it to your Desktop making sure that "Show Icon Preview" is selected in view options!! Very funny indeed.
Posted by Richyfp, on Aug 7, 2004 at 05:50 AM, in macOS

Re: Re: What is 'webcore"	1,035 Views / 13 Replies
Is there a feature support comparison somewhere on the net? I'd be interested to know the differences between WebCore + JavaScriptCore 125.x and the most recent Gecko release in terms of standards...
Posted by Richyfp, on Jul 22, 2004 at 07:18 PM, in macOS

[list=1] Applications>Utilities>Keychain...	550 Views / 2 Replies
[list=1] Applications>Utilities>Keychain Access Window menu>Keychain First Aid Click "Options..." Select "Expert" tab Check "Synchronize login keychain password" and "Set login keychain as...
Posted by Richyfp, on Feb 3, 2004 at 04:08 PM, in macOS

MacDog is totally oon the ball there - turn on...	2,310 Views / 29 Replies
MacDog is totally oon the ball there - turn on Folder actions and assign the script "Applications/Applescript/Example Scripts/Folder Action Scripts/Image - Duplicate as JPEG.scpt" to the Desktop by...
Posted by Richyfp, on Jan 12, 2004 at 04:55 PM, in macOS

I've just had 4... Macintosh LC Performa...	1,516 Views / 44 Replies
I've just had 4... Macintosh LC Performa 5300 PowerMac G4 DP 500 MHz AlBook G4 1.25
Posted by Richyfp, on Dec 28, 2003 at 08:32 PM, in MacNN Lounge

I thought that this was exactly how the whole...	1,312 Views / 14 Replies
I thought that this was exactly how the whole Limitations/Capabilities system was managed or at least it was in Jaguar. I posted about this back In February this year......
Posted by Richyfp, on Nov 29, 2003 at 11:09 AM, in macOS

Re: Side ports	1,574 Views / 35 Replies
Yes, they do. As mosch has just pointed out - a laptop is not solely for desk use. It also has to be used on planes, trains and in cars where space at the back is limited rather than space at the...
Posted by Richyfp, on Sep 30, 2003 at 06:12 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Well, my online order status has changed to...	874 Views / 14 Replies
Well, my online order status has changed to "Shipped"! Woohoo! Should be here early next week... They're shipping them via "Kuhne & Nagel" - the same people that shipped my iPod in June.
Posted by Richyfp, on Sep 25, 2003 at 06:56 AM, in Mac Notebooks

Woah - that is a very long time, indeed! I...	874 Views / 14 Replies
Woah - that is a very long time, indeed! I called the Apple store today to check when mine would ship and the guy said that it would ship today (Wednesday), but my order status still says "Being...
Posted by Richyfp, on Sep 24, 2003 at 07:39 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Congratulations!! Just out of interest... when...	874 Views / 14 Replies
Congratulations!! Just out of interest... when did you order it?
Posted by Richyfp, on Sep 24, 2003 at 06:15 AM, in Mac Notebooks

Official 'New Powerbook Order Status' Thread - UK!	874 Views / 14 Replies
I was wondering what people's new PB order status was in the UK, as there are only a handful of people admitting to be in the UK in the other thread. ;) My stock (not BTO) 15" 1.25 GHz Powerbook...
Posted by Richyfp, on Sep 23, 2003 at 07:18 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Whilst slightly off topic, I posted a long time...	624 Views / 7 Replies
Whilst slightly off topic, I posted a long time ago about another improvement that could be made to the print dialog box... http://website.lineone.net/~richyfp/pics/manypages.jpg
Posted by Richyfp, on Sep 22, 2003 at 09:36 PM, in macOS

Do you get any messages in Console.app when you...	951 Views / 5 Replies
Do you get any messages in Console.app when you plug in your iPod? Something mentioning autodiskmount, perhaps? Upgrade to 10.2.8 using Software Update - it's supposed to fix some issues with...
Posted by Richyfp, on Sep 22, 2003 at 08:59 PM, in macOS

Is it just me who thinks that Bluetooth...	7,281 Views / 120 Replies
Is it just me who thinks that Bluetooth information should not be shown if Bluetooth hardware is not present?!! I'm gonna send some feedback on that...
Posted by Richyfp, on Sep 22, 2003 at 08:26 PM, in macOS

10.2.8 out!!	7,281 Views / 120 Replies
Just to let ya know! In Software update...
Posted by Richyfp, on Sep 22, 2003 at 05:09 PM, in macOS

Hey Bill - do you have an iChat or another AIM...	744 Views / 11 Replies
Hey Bill - do you have an iChat or another AIM client? If you do, my user name's "richyfp" - IM me and I'll see what I can do for you.
Posted by Richyfp, on Sep 16, 2003 at 07:38 PM, in macOS

Looking at the problem from a hardware...	1,311 Views / 22 Replies
Looking at the problem from a hardware perspective, rather than from the file locking perspective (which can be overcome by better programming techniques), I can see that the following is true. ...
Posted by Richyfp, on Sep 12, 2003 at 06:59 PM, in macOS

<OT> I'm starting at Cambridge University this...	1,041 Views / 18 Replies
<OT> I'm starting at Cambridge University this October and Macs are supported very well. So much so that the University has an account manager at Apple UK who contacts all undergraduates giving them...
Posted by Richyfp, on Sep 5, 2003 at 07:23 PM, in macOS

OK, maybe not for editing, but it's possible to...	5,469 Views / 58 Replies
OK, maybe not for editing, but it's possible to secure a PDF such that editing is not possible, but copying is, right? I just think that would be a handy and very cool addition to the OS,...
Posted by Richyfp, on Aug 10, 2003 at 10:51 AM, in macOS

Nothing per se, but the fact that Apple are...	5,469 Views / 58 Replies
Nothing per se, but the fact that Apple are making changes to Quartz may signal a change in the screencapture utility. Some justification of your "no" would also be nice...
Posted by Richyfp, on Aug 10, 2003 at 07:13 AM, in macOS

With the addition of PDF 1.4 to Panther's...	5,469 Views / 58 Replies
With the addition of PDF 1.4 to Panther's Preview.app, are we any closer to getting PDF screenshots that have editable text and vector paths?? Also, does Quartz in Panther use the full PDF 1.4...
Posted by Richyfp, on Aug 9, 2003 at 11:09 AM, in macOS

This may also be of interest... Ext2 FS for...	767 Views / 1 Replies
This may also be of interest... Ext2 FS for Mac OS X (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/)
Posted by Richyfp, on Aug 6, 2003 at 08:08 PM, in macOS

As you can tell, I don't know much about this......	685 Views / 2 Replies
As you can tell, I don't know much about this... but surely the OS (rather than the window manager) knows which parts of the display are text/controls/bitmaps otherwise features such as UI scripting...
Posted by Richyfp, on Aug 6, 2003 at 10:27 AM, in macOS

PDF 1.4 in Panther	685 Views / 2 Replies
Does Apple's adoption of the PDF 1.4 standard in Panther's Preview.app (http://www.apple.com/macosx/panther/preview.html) have any further significance? I was just thinking of the possibility of...
Posted by Richyfp, on Aug 6, 2003 at 09:37 AM, in macOS

It has been stated by Apple at WWDC (the quartz...	34,040 Views / 400 Replies
It has been stated by Apple at WWDC (the quartz team?) that many of the interface elements in Panther are simply there as placeholders in the developer builds. Hence, any UI discussion at this early...
Posted by Richyfp, on Aug 2, 2003 at 05:29 AM, in macOS

I'm sure that WebCore (and JavaScriptCore) will...	8,436 Views / 93 Replies
I'm sure that WebCore (and JavaScriptCore) will be standard frameworks in Panther and I would hope that Help Viewer (along with other apps, like Sherlock) would take advantage of that.
Posted by Richyfp, on Jun 22, 2003 at 09:24 AM, in macOS

The working offline text is very odd, but the...	8,436 Views / 93 Replies
The working offline text is very odd, but the "active activity monitor" is surely just an audio level meter rather than anything to do with video. The export button in activity monitor is probably...
Posted by Richyfp, on Jun 21, 2003 at 06:26 PM, in macOS

Ok, I've fixed a couple of bugs. The script will...	882 Views / 8 Replies
Ok, I've fixed a couple of bugs. The script will now open artwork from AAC files and will correctly deal with songs that contain the following characters: ' : and / Get it here...
Posted by Richyfp, on May 5, 2003 at 07:10 AM, in Applications

Damn... I've just been testing the script a bit...	882 Views / 8 Replies
Damn... I've just been testing the script a bit more and to my disappointment, I've discovered that it doesn't work with AAC files!! It gives a "parameter error". I know where the problem is...
Posted by Richyfp, on May 4, 2003 at 09:10 PM, in Applications

If you've already got all your album art in the...	882 Views / 8 Replies
If you've already got all your album art in the iTunes library, then I've written an applescript that will open the artwork (of the currently playing song) in Preview.app, ready for printing or...
Posted by Richyfp, on May 4, 2003 at 08:17 PM, in Applications

http://website.lineone.net/~richyfp/pics/comp/smar...	3,225 Views / 73 Replies
http://website.lineone.net/~richyfp/pics/comp/smartlist.jpg How's this?
Posted by Richyfp, on May 4, 2003 at 07:58 AM, in Applications

Possibly the most useful feature of iTunes 4 is...	1,180 Views / 11 Replies
Possibly the most useful feature of iTunes 4 is that you can now convert songs to different formats in the following way: Select the format that you wish to convert to in the Importing pane of...
Posted by Richyfp, on Apr 28, 2003 at 04:48 PM, in macOS

True. Very true. Why not have a look at this...	1,157 Views / 21 Replies
True. Very true. Why not have a look at this (http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=156983) thread for one of my ideas on how to enhance the functionality found in the print dialogs...
Posted by Richyfp, on Apr 25, 2003 at 03:43 PM, in macOS

It certainly could.... choose folder with...	1,157 Views / 21 Replies
It certainly could.... choose folder with prompt "Select a folder in to print HTML documents from..." copy the result as alias to source_folder display dialog "Select search string for files to...
Posted by Richyfp, on Apr 25, 2003 at 02:49 PM, in macOS

Now that is clever! I knew about the existence of...	1,157 Views / 21 Replies
Now that is clever! I knew about the existence of the lp and lpr commands, but what I didn't realise was that lpr would actually parse the HTML before it was printed!! I thought that it would just...
Posted by Richyfp, on Apr 25, 2003 at 07:22 AM, in macOS

Ahhhhh... now I see!!! In which case, ignore my...	847 Views / 4 Replies
Ahhhhh... now I see!!! In which case, ignore my previous post entirely. :p
Posted by Richyfp, on Apr 24, 2003 at 03:22 PM, in macOS

If the Finder can't do it then this sounds like a...	1,157 Views / 21 Replies
If the Finder can't do it then this sounds like a job for AppleScript!! I tried to write a script to do what you're after, but I've hit a problem when it comes to actually printing. The script...
Posted by Richyfp, on Apr 24, 2003 at 03:20 PM, in macOS

I don't think that AppleWorks should really be...	847 Views / 4 Replies
I don't think that AppleWorks should really be used to judge the multimedia prowess of the operating system. If you open up an application that uses the standard OS X color picker (be it carbon...
Posted by Richyfp, on Apr 24, 2003 at 03:08 PM, in macOS

Just in case anyone would want a script to do...	1,158 Views / 16 Replies
Just in case anyone would want a script to do what Cory has thankfully achieved, I'll post the AppleScript code here. The necessary code for handling servers is now received by the Standard...
Posted by Richyfp, on Apr 24, 2003 at 01:36 PM, in macOS

I don't either, I was just basing that on your...	1,974 Views / 20 Replies
I don't either, I was just basing that on your many well-informed posts in the past...
Posted by Richyfp, on Apr 23, 2003 at 02:19 PM, in macOS

Since we're all getting fancy here ;) I thought...	955 Views / 16 Replies
Since we're all getting fancy here ;) I thought I'd write an AppleScript to do the job... display dialog "How many seconds would you like the screensaver to run before taking a screenshot?" ...
Posted by Richyfp, on Apr 23, 2003 at 02:01 PM, in macOS

This is a probably a question best answered by a...	1,974 Views / 20 Replies
This is a probably a question best answered by a driver developer... But here's my take I believe that a certain minimal functionality is provided by Apple in all cases and manufacturers may add...
Posted by Richyfp, on Apr 23, 2003 at 12:50 PM, in macOS

Re: Re: New print dialog feature... (screenshot included)	1,974 Views / 20 Replies
I've just tried this in TextEdit (as a typical Cocoa app) and it's not possible to even type either a '-' or a ',' in the From: box. Shame. I take it, then, that this has just been implemented by...
Posted by Richyfp, on Apr 23, 2003 at 05:34 AM, in macOS

It is possible to obtain a screen shot of a...	955 Views / 16 Replies
It is possible to obtain a screen shot of a screen saver using Grab.app (included in Applcations>Utilties). While not ideal, the solution is as follows: Set a 'Hot corner' for activation of your...
Posted by Richyfp, on Apr 22, 2003 at 07:24 PM, in macOS

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