The Maps app in iOS 6 and later offers turn-by-turn directions using Siri’s voice. But most iPhone and iPad device owners don’t know how to adjust the volume of that voice. It’s not where you’d expect.
Fire up the Settings up, and scroll down until you find Maps. There, you’ll see controls for disabling the app’s voice, or making its volume Low, Medium, or Loud.
Source: Mac OSX Hints
When you want to snap a Panorama photo with your iPhone, you know the drill: You tap the button, and then slowly, steadily move your iPhone from left to right to capture the best possible panoramic photo.
But what if you’re already standing at the right side of your horizontally-oriented subject? It seems crazy that you need to head all the way to the opposite left side, just so you can snap your wide photo.
And indeed, that WOULD be crazy. You don’t have to. Instead, just tap on the Panorama arrow/line, and it flips directions.
Source: Mac OSX Hints
When you flip the ring/silent switch on your iPhone, it goes quiet while it’s locked/asleep—mostly. But unless Do Not Disturb is turned on, your iPhone will still buzz the hum of its internal vibration motor when alerts that would otherwise ring out arrive.
But there’s a fix. You can make your silenced iPhone be truly silent with a single flick of a virtual switch. Head over to Settings, and tap on Sounds. Switch Vibrate on Silent to off, and your phone will be both sound and vibration free when you slide the ring/silent switch to the quieter position.
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Just as you can send iMessages from the Contacts app, you can do so from the Finder too.
Right-click on any file or folder, and choose Share from the contextual menu that comes up. You can share files via AirDrop, email, and various social media services, depending upon the filetype. But nearly any file can be shared via iMessage.
Select the Messages option, and a popover appears for you to compose your message. If you really want to send the file, of course, you can go right ahead and do so. But if you’re just looking to fire off a quick iMessage without first launching the Messages app, you can delete the file attachment from the message body, compose your message, and send it on its way.
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Keyboard junkies know that they can rely on the spacebar to trigger a Quick Look preview of a file, folder, or drive in the Finder. But what about trackpad junkies?
The good news is, there’s an option for the multitouch mavens, too. Perform a three-finger tap on any Quick Look-able item in the Finder, and a Quick Look preview you shall receive.
Repeat the gesture to send the Quick Look preview back into the abyss.
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You remember Font Book, right? That’s the built-in app that OS X offers for organizing and previewing fonts. In Mountain Lion, it gained a feature to make organization a little simpler: Smart Collections.
They work just like Smart Playlists, Smart Folders, and Smart Mailboxes. Option-click the Plus icon at the lower left, or choose File -> New Smart Collection.
Filters in your Smart Collection can include Family Name, Style Name, PostScript name, Languages, and Design Style. That way, you could make a collection that consists of, say, only English, italic, sans-serif fonts.
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OS X’s built-in Contacts app has long offered an option to share a contact’s details via email. But OS X Mountain Lion added two additional options.
With a contact selected, click on the Send To arrow icon at the bottom of the window, and you can choose to send the card not just via email, but also via iMessage and AirDrop.
If you select the iMessage option, when the iMessage composition screen pops up, you can also use it as a quick shortcut to iMessaging the email address or phone number of your choosing: Just delete the card attachment inserted in the message body, and write whatever you’d like instead.
Source: Mac OSX Hints
Rearranging the sections in the sidebar of Finder windows used to be a beast. That hasn’t been the case since the introduction of Mountain Lion.
You can drag and drop sections like Favorites, Devices, and Shared to reorder them however you’d like. And when you do so, the change is immediately effective in all Finder windows already open.
Even better, of course: The change is reflected in any new Finder windows you open, too.
Source: Mac OSX Hints
Running a minecraft server is as easy as downloading the server jar file and runnning:java -jar minecraft_server.jar
But after the thrill is gone you will want to automate this with a launch daemon, know how to back it up, and also how to run this as user nobody for extra security.
Here’s some step by step instructions:There’s three parts to this hint. 1) creating the launchDaemon that starts the minecraft server. 2) how to debug and control the daemon 3) maintaining backups
The first step is to download the minecraft server jar file from the Mojang website. Currently that site is [url]https://minecraft.net/download[/url] but that might change in the future. And Currently the jar filename is: minecraft_server.1.6.2.jar but that will change too.
1) creating a place for it.
when you run the jar the first time it’s going to create a lot of files and subdirectories the in the current working directory (CWD) so we want to create a n …
Source: Mac OSX Hints
Here’s a recipe for setting up Minecraft server on OS X. Since I don’t fully trust the server not to have some security hole, I want it to run as user nobody so it doesn’t have a lot of permissions. And I also want it to restart automatically when I reboot the computer. Finally I show how to backup the worlds you create.
There’s three parts to this hint.
1) creating the launchDaemon that starts the minecraft server.
2) how to turn it on and off
3) maintaining backups
The first step is to download the minecraft server jar file from the Mojang website. Currently that site is https://minecraft.net/download but that might change in the future. And currently the jar filename is: minecraft_server.1.6.2.jar, but that will change too.
1) Creating a place for it.
When you run the jar the first time it’s going to create a lot of files and subdirectories the in the current working directory (CWD) so we want to create a nice place to do …
Source: Mac OSX Hints