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Solution for My 6th generation nano plays same song over and over and will not suffle songs – via Apple Support Communities

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/05

Solution for:

My 6th generation nano plays same song over and over and will not shuffle songs or play them like it is supposed to skipping to next song. What do i need to do to get it back to normal?

peter’d in response to Karrojava:

If you have that second Nano, the one that is 1 3/4 inches, perfectly square, and your song is playing over and over, you need to put your finger on the double arrows that move to next song and swipe left. You’ll get the screen with the repeat loop, the genius icon and the shuffle icon and you’ll see that the repeat loop has a 1 showing. Just touch it and the one will disappear. It took me an hour to figure this out and I even got it twice and couldn’t figure out what I did. It isn’t in the current Nano instructions as the newer ones have easier access to these icons.

This is the sequence of screens from iPod nano in delhi | iPad in delhi | HP Laptop in delhi | Samsung Notebook | Chirag Desktop | Gaming Headphone | Apple, MAC Computers | VHS INFOTECH PVT. LTD.:

Playing song Playing song: swipe, then Repeat count; Genius; Shuffle mode Repeat count; Genius; Shuffle mode.

Note: this iPod doesn’t auto-roate so you use two fingers to rotate it 90 degrees on any screen

Rote the screen: use two fingers. Rote the screen:  Use two fingers to rorate the screen. Use two fingers to rorate the screen.

–jeroen

via

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Introducing the new Microsoft Remote Desktop Preview app for Mac – Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) Team Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/09/11

During the last update of Microsoft Remote Desktop for my Mac, I noticed there is a beta available with a feature very familiar for users of visionapp – ASG-Remote Desktop: it allows you to manage common credentials.

Note the uncommon URLs of both the beta page redirect and the download:

In the mean time, I learned that “Microsoft has acquired HockeyApp. This is a tremendous opportunity to continue to provide developers with the best app development tools and users with the best app experiences.”, but the aka.ms is new to me. Anyone knows what it is about? A successor of go.microsoft.com/fwlink redirects?

New Mac OS X beta of Microsoft Remote Desktop announced.

New Mac OS X beta of Microsoft Remote Desktop announced.

I’m keeping an eye on this, as future features interest me much: Multiple monitors, Clipboard redirection, Remote Desktop Gateway, Remote Resources (RemoteApp and Desktop Connections), and Azure RemoteApp preview.

BTW: I wasn’t aware Remote Desktop made it this many platforms yet, as I’m mainly a Windows 8.x/7, Mac and Android user, but here you go:

  1. Windows 10 Universal Windows platform (Preview).
  2. Windows 8.1.
  3. Windows Phone.
  4. iOS.
  5. Mac OS X.
  6. Android.

–jeroen

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OSX: Log shell script events to the OS X system consolemacissues.com (If you are familiar with the Unix command line)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/31

Interesting: Log shell script events to the OS X system consolemacissues.com.

–jeroen

via: If you are familiar with the Unix command line and shell scripting, then you….

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“USB Deivces Disabled: unplug the device using too much power to re-enable USB devices.” – via: Super User

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/17

I like how MaylorTaylor formulated his question around this topic on superuser:

USB Deivces Disabled: unplug the device using too much power to re-enable USB devices.

Basically he regression tested many permutations of devices, cables, ports, rebooting, etc.

I had a similar problem, and found it hard to track down as it was intermittent. In the end it was not 1 but 2 USB cables being not completely reliable.

So the warning can use some improvement:

  • sometimes it is not a device but a cable
  • it doesn’t indicate on which USB port this happens

–jeroen

via: mac – USB device Disabled Mavericks – Super User.

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »

python – Running Mercurial on Mavericks – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/15

Solution [WayBack] python – Running Mercurial on Mavericks – Stack Overflow.:

brew install hg

–jeroen (who forgot to publish this on 20150815T2248)

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50+ and 25+ Ah batteries: Macbook External Battery & Car Adapter Charger from MikeGyver

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/07/06

Wow:

  • 52800mAH Ultimate External Battery for Macbooks
  • 26000mAH Macbook External Battery & Car Adapter

That’s (nah Triad) 50+ and 25+ Ampere hour of battery capacity.

Which is the similar to what car and motor cycle batteries can hold.

–jeroen

via Macbook External Battery & Car Adapter Charger.

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Reminder: check for PCIe SSD upgrades – via: How-To Upgrade the SSD in your MacBook Air or Retina MacBook Pro, boosting size & speed | 9to5Mac

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/29

Need to check this out in the summer: see if there is PCIe SSDs available for my Late 2013 Retina MacBook Pro.

Newer-generation 13″ and 15″ Retina MacBook Pros use newer SSDs with faster PCIe connectors. As of early 2015, no third-party SSDs are compatible with this standard, but we’re expecting to see options hit the market closer to the middle of the year. Some Retina MacBook Pro SSDs will apparently be capable of achieving speeds in the 1.2GB/second range, compared with the 700-800MB/second speeds of stock drives.

–jeroen

via: How-To: Upgrade the SSD in your MacBook Air or Retina MacBook Pro, boosting size & speed | 9to5Mac.

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Intermittent but frequent OS X pauses may be from iCloud syncing | MacIssues

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/21

fseventer is a great tool for investigating Mac OS X file system events. Like many low-level tools, it requires admin privileges.

This is apparent through the use of the tool “fseventer” which monitors what files on your hard drive are being accessed.

–jeroen

via: Intermittent but frequent OS X pauses may be from iCloud syncing | MacIssues.

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Macbook Pro Retina QHD+ 2015 Expected Specs. Skylake.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/01

A few places, including the comment thread at MacWorld UK – New 2015 MacBook Pro with Retina display release date, specs and UK pricing – News – Page 2 – Macworld UK have a some rumours on the Macbook Pro Retina QHD+ 2015 Expected Specs: Skylake and more.

This would be having the Skylake Tock of the Intel Tick-Tock.

If Apple pulls that of this year, I’m sure lots of high end developers and graphics people are going to get it:

Macbook Pro Retina QHD+ 2015 Expected Specs.

  • Processor : Intel Skylake i7-6770HQ (40% Faster & 50% Power Efficient Over Haswell)
  • RAM: 32 GB DDR4 @ 2400 Mhz.
  • Display : Retina QHD+ (iPS/OLED 30% Power Saving!)
  • Hard Disk : 3rd-gen PCIe SSD 2.1Gbps Read Speed 1.6Gbps Write Speed.
  • Graphics Card : Intel & GTX 970 M 4GB DDR5 256Bit. (300x Faster & 50% Less pwr vs 750m)
  • Body/Looks : New Thinner Design & 3 Color Options.(Radical New Look)
  • Security : Touch ID integration.
  • Webcam : Improved Face time HD Camera 1080p @ 60fps
  • Keyboard : New Multi Color LED Backlight Keyboard.

–jeroen

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Mac OS X: Open a Terminal at Folder from Finder / Open Finder at Folder from the Terminal (via: StackOverflow)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/06

Thanks User Chris Page – Stack Overflow for answering on StackOverflow:

  • How to open a Terminal from a selected Folder in the Finder
  • Hoe wo open a Finder at the current Folder in a Terminal

Some quotes of his answer:

As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Terminal includes exactly this functionality as a Service. As with most Services, these are disabled by default, so you’ll need to enable this to make it appear in the Services menu.

System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services

Enable New Terminal at Folder. There’s also New Terminal Tab at Folder, which will create a tab in the frontmost Terminal window (if any, else it will create a new window). These Services work in all applications, not just Finder, and they operate on folders as well as absolute pathnames selected in text.

In addition, Lion Terminal will open a new terminal window if you drag a folder (or pathname) onto the Terminal application icon, and you can also drag to the tab bar of an existing window to create a new tab.

Finally, if you drag a folder or pathname onto a tab (in the tab bar) and the foreground process is the shell, it will automatically execute a “cd” command. (Dragging into the terminal view within the tab merely inserts the pathname on its own, as in older versions of Terminal.)

You can also do this from the command line or a shell script:

open -a Terminal /path/to/folder

This is the command-line equivalent of dragging a folder/pathname onto the Terminal application icon.

–jeroen

via: osx – Open terminal here in Mac OS finder – Stack Overflow.

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | 2 Comments »