11/1/2019 Quicken For My Mac Is Misbehaving
I do Vjing (semi-pro) and many of my clips have letterbox bars in a 4:3 box. I recently needed an easy way to remove them and just have the image. After a bit of trial and error with masks, I worked it out. And of course, then I found which explains it all. From the author's comment to his original post: What you want to produce here is a black box with a white border, as seen in the bottom left hand corner of Fig. It will look a bit like a film slide. (You can also make a white box with a black border and then hit the Invert button in QuickTime Player, but I digress.) When you insert this black-on-white graphic into QuickTime Player as a mask, QTP will hide the parts of the image that lie under the white areas.This has proved to be very useful indeed.
Quicken for Mac has left a lot of users underwhelmed. Here are our tricks for running the Windows version on your Apple computer.
It's a great way to easily crop out unwanted portions of a movie. I don't know how many people are suffering this, but whenever I add an RSS bookmark to my Safari 3.0 bookmark bar, it never updates with the number of new RSS articles against the name. Yet if I look at the bookmark in the bookmark manager, it happily shows the number of new articles, as seen in. I found that if you create a folder in your bookmark bar, then add your RSS feeds to that folder, it actually works as expected. The number of new articles appear as you would expect next to the site name within the folder, as seen in. robg adds: I think this is probably expected behavior, as adding the article count to bookmarks directly in the URL bar would cause the entries to change position as the message counts changed for each bookmarked RSS feed.
Ever wonder why sometimes iDVD won't recognize the chapter track in the movie file you're trying to import? It turns out that just having a chapter track present in a QuickTime movie file isn't enough - that chapter track also needs some undocumented settings applied to it in order for iDVD to recognize it as a chapter track, and to offer to make a scene menu when you import the video. Video exported from iMovie '06 contains these settings automatically, but if you edit your video in something other than iMovie, you're out of luck unless you want to hack the video file with a hex editor. So I've written a Java command line utility to modify a.mov file that contains a text chapter track, and patch it so that iDVD recognizes it for what it is/ This utility automatically adds (or removes) the three 'magic' atoms to the user data of a chapter track in a movie file. Once these entries are in the file, iDVD will recognize the chapter track and offer to make a scene menu for you. NOTE: This utility will modify the specified movie file in place, so make a backup of the movie first.
I've seen other ways to go about this, but here's a nice and clean way to switch from Safari to Firefox on a misbehaving page. First, make sure you have the. On the Debug menu in Safari, the Open Page With menu item will list your installed browsers; assuming you have Firefox installed, you'll see an entry for Open Page With » Firefox.app. Now quit Safari, and go to the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel, click on the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, and create a new keyboard shortcut. Choose Safari as the application and enter Firefox.app as the menu title. I chose Command-Option-R as my shortcut, but feel free to choose whatever you think logical. Relaunch Safari and try your new shortcut.
Note the same trick works with any browser in the Open Page With sub-menu. robg adds: On my machine, Firefox was listed without the.app extension, so that's what I used for the new keyboard shortcut. Just match what you see in the menu on the shortcut panel and it should work fine. Note that if you have installed, you'll have to remove it to add new shortcuts - at least I had to.
With Saft installed and active, newly assigned shortcuts didn't show in the Debug menu. They did appear when I launched Safari after removing Saft, though. If you have always placed a description of photos in the Description field in iPhoto instead of the Name field, then you'll be in for an unpleasant surprise when using iWeb (or the.Mac gallery).
That's because when publishing photos using either method, it only gives options to display names and not descriptions underneath each photo. So I took an AppleScript that Apple provides for iPhoto and to batch copy the Description field into the Name field in iPhoto.
Compile the AppleScript in Script Editor, select a bunch of photos in iPhoto, then click Run in Script Editor. After a little bit, it should do everything. Then you're ready for iWeb!
I did this album by album in case something went wrong, but it never did. Also, I tried it in iPhoto '08, but my guess is it works in older iPhoto versions as well. Here's the problem: I frequently view PDF files that consist of scanned images (e.g. Archived articles from the pre-electronic publishing days).
When I open these with Preview.app, the application appears to freeze for a while as it processes and generates thumbnail images for each page in the drawer. This process takes an especially long time for documents with numerous pages. A preference option in the app allows changing the size of the thumbnails, but does not allow disabling them completely. Here's the solution:. Quit Preview.app if open. Open /Library » Preferences » com.apple.Preview.plist with a plain text editor. Search for thumbnail; it should find the PVGeneralThumbnailSize key.
Replace the integer right underneath (which varies depending on what you set your preferred thumbnail size to) to 0. Save the change made and close. Now open Preview.app, and you'll see that the drawer will no longer show any thumbnails.
robg adds: The plist file is stored as a binary, so editing it in a plain text editor probably won't work. If you have the Developer Tools installed, you can just double-click it. You could also use or to edit the file. If you're Terminally-inclined, you can use the process described in to convert the file from binary to text for editing, and then back to binary again when you're done. I'm a long-time Quicken user, though I've never really taken advantage of its online features - the ability to download transactions directly from the bank.
Yesterday I decided to bite the bullet, and set up both our bank and our credit card, and enabled the Quicken Scheduler, which automates the acquisition of the data from financial institutions. I did this fairly late yesterday, and didn't use the machine much after that. Today, while posting hints, I noticed that my shortcuts weren't working. As I have installed as well, I turned TypeIt4Me off and enabled TextExpander. No joy there, either. I also double-checked that the 'Enable access for assistive devices' box was checked in the Universal Access System Preferences panel.
When a restart didn't clear things up, I set to work with Google, and quickly on TextExpander's pages: I started using Quicken and now TextExpander snippets don't expand. There is a conflict between the Quicken Scheduler and all keylogger programs, including TextExpander. When the Quicken Scheduler is running, expansions can't be triggered via the keyboard, but can still be accessed via the TextExpander menu. Since the Quicken Scheduler is a background application, that basically means you can't use TypeIt4Me or TextExpander or any other 'key logging' type of program when you have an active schedule in Quicken. In Quicken, you need to go to Online » Scheduled Updates and disable any of your scheduled updates. Once I did that, the Quicken Scheduler vanished, and TypeIt4Me started working again as usual. Since I use TypeIt4Me pretty much constantly, it made sense to give up on my Quicken automatic updates.
You can still update using online information relatively easily; just use the Online » One Step Update to do the job. If you like to use the random screen saver option in the Desktop & Screen Saver System Preferences panel, you might find the.Mac screen saver somewhat annoying: unless you've configured slide shows in its Options panel, the default view is a bunch of Apple products fading in and out of your screen - and when in random mode, the.Mac screen saver can appear at any time. Someone on the Macworld forums, and I thought of two possible solutions.
First, you could go into the Options screen for the.Mac screen saver and uncheck the Public Slide Show option. This will cause the saver panel to show a message stating you need to pick at least one public show before using the.Mac screen saver. However, I don't know if this will prevent the.Mac screen saver from showing in the random rotation - it's not an easy thing to test! The second solution, and one that's guaranteed to work, is to remove the.Mac screen saver from the list. Screen savers are stored in the /System » Library » Screen Savers folder, but if you look there in the Finder, you won't see the.Mac saver listed.
That's because its name starts with a period, which means the Finder believes it to be invisible. So instead, quit System Preferences, open a Terminal, and execute these two commands, pressing Return after each and providing your admin password when asked: $ cd '/System/Library/Screen Savers' $ sudo mv.Mac.slideSaver.Mac.slideSaver.old That's it; the.Mac screen saver is now disabled. To get it back in the future, just use these two commands: $ cd '/System/Library/Screen Savers' $ sudo mv.Mac.slideSaver.old.Mac.slideSaver I did test this solution, and it works - as one would expect, since we're just renaming a file. You can use the dotMac personal domain service without having to actually use iWeb '08. To do so, simply on the dotMac website about using Personal Domains. Once you've got as far as setting up your domain with your registrar, you can use any software you wish (RapidWeaver, Sandvox, Hand coding even) to create your own site.
Simply navigate to your iDisk and make sure you place all your html files in the following folder: iDisk » Web » Sites. Anything in this Sites folder will be used by the personal domain service. I've made a simple 'hello world' HTML file and placed it in the Sites folder. As long as there is at least an index.html file there, it works correctly.
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