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nonoboy

by nonoboy

Is there a way to use an Autofill program using Chrome/Rockmelt?
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I have a very repetitive job where I write the same things over and over. I would like to shorten this by installing or making use of an Autofill feature on my desktop (Vista and or iOS). I'm not talking about filling out my address and contact information, just normal writing in my Rockmelt browser. I use this on my iPhone but can't seem to get it to work on my Vista PC or Mac OS X Leopard.

Thanks for any help!
flackend

by flackend

How to edit the Mac OS X hosts file?
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I can't seem to edit the hosts file (/etc/hosts). I've tried:
127.0.0.1 http://www.google.com
127.0.0.1 www.google.com
127.0.0.1 google.com

And I've run the terminal command: dscacheutil -flushcache

And I've tried using Gas Mask app: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/29949/gas-mask

My understanding is that pairing a URL with 127.0.0.1 tells the system to look for the URL at the paired IP address.

Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1
flackend

by flackend

MacBook PRAM
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I've never set reset my PRAM before. What should I expect? Will I need to change anything back afterword? I found this info on apple's website describing what PRAM stores (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379):
  • Status of AppleTalk
  • Serial Port Configuration and Port definition
  • Alarm clock setting
  • Application font
  • Serial printer location
  • Autokey rate
  • Autokey delay
  • Speaker volume
  • Attention (beep) sound
  • Double-click time
  • Caret blink time (insertion point rate)
  • Mouse scaling (mouse speed)
  • Startup disk (what I need...
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dave

by dave

Is it possible to install Leopard or Snow Leopard (or even Ubuntu) on an original Apple TV?
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I've had an original Apple TV just sitting in a box for ages now. It's not really useful for anything, considering the Apple TV software it runs is old and won't be updated. It's almost not even worth it to recycle -- I think Gazelle will give me a total of $35 for it! So, I've been looking at Mac minis to run as cheap server at home. Would the original Apple TV possibly fit that bill? Is possible to jailbreak and hack it so that I could run it as a headless server at home?
flackend

by flackend

Count work hours in iCal
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I'd like to be able to get the sum of hours of a selected group of events in iCal without manually adding them up. I've searched Google for a solution and there are a few utilities that might do that. I know it's stupid, but I don't want a whole other app just to do one simple task. You would think the iCal inspector would give that information (Command + Option + I), similar to Finder's inspector's behavior. If anyone happens to know of a light-weight option, plugin or script, something....
dave

by dave

Is there a cheap / free (open-source maybe) solution for editing movies in OS X?
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The last few versions of iMovie have been rather unintuitive and difficult when it comes to editing movies. Is there a cheap or free solution for editing movies on a Mac that can support multiple clips, transitions, and adding audio (music)? Quicktime Player almost works (you can trim clips and add multiple clips), but it seems to lack in transitions and adding audio.
flackend

by flackend

What are your favorite Web, Graphic, and UI Design tools?
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I use Photoshop to design. I Get inspiration from http://dribbble.com/ and a variety of other sites via Google search. http://subtlepatterns.com/ has some great patterns to inspire. I also occasionally browse http://www.woothemes.com/ and http://themeforest.net/ for inspiration. Awesome Screenshot http://awesomescreenshot.com/ to save web pages and annotate. I use Coda to code my HTML and CSS. I currently have no set system for testing browsers. I usually just run XP on VirtualBox with multiple... Read more →
cass

by cass

What's your favorite non-iPhoto photo management app for the Mac?
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This is a cross-post-question from this one I posted earlier about uploading image files imported with iPhoto to websites ( http://gdgt.com/question/how-do-i-upload-photos-th... ). What I gathered is that it's not possible without having to search for the individual files and copying them to a different folder. So I don't think I'll be using iPhoto. On the Windows side, I always used Picasa and I dabbled around with Adobe... Read more →
cass

by cass

How do I upload photos that were imported into iPhoto to websites without using the iPhoto app?
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I always heard that iPhoto was a bit of a control freak when it came to photo management and I can see why it gained this reputation. I'm trying to upload a photo to 500px.com, not Facebook or any of the supported site iPhoto uploads to, using their normal upload tool on their site. I try to navigate to my iPhoto library through the file browser, but I can't open it because it's grayed out. One workaround: I did a search for the image file I was looking for and can copy/paste it to my desktop to... Read more →
falz3tta

by falz3tta

What is everyone's preferred Mac backup tool?
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I've been using Time Machine to do my backups for a couple of years now but I feel like there is something better and more flexible out there. I can't even create a bootable drive with Time Machine and I've heard of people being unable to restore from Time Machine backups in the past. Not looking at online backup (already rolling with Backblaze)
dave

by dave

How can you change how often webclips refresh in OS X's Dashboard?
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I recently decided to try using some webclips in OS X's Dashboard to show me relevant data from various webpages on gdgt (ah hem, RP anyone?). Is there a way to change how often the webclip gets update? It's basically displayed the same thing all day (which is now wildly inaccurate). I know when Apple originally promoted this feature (hah, remember when they were excited about Dashboard?), they said people could use it to keep track of the weather, sports scores, etc. It sounds nice in theory....