Ok so i have a Mini USB bluetooth dongle it has not buttons on it but when i plug it in it shows as a keyboardinput device... it was originally working but i think what happened was i put the bluetooth device into my pc turned on the radio and unpluged it and forgot and reformated and now since the radio is set to off it will not detect as bluetooth
My hard disk crashed and I need to reinstall Mac OS X. I restart, insert the installation DVD, press c on the keyboard and the dvd ejects. I've tried different DVDs, even CDs. It's a Macbook Pro from march 2008.
Is it broken? Or can it be something more severe like the firewire controller on the motherboard (since I noticed this after my hard drive started to act strangely)? I've ran Apple Hardware Test successfully.
I have a friend with a broken iBook, but we wish to recover the hard disk. I haven't seen the drive itself, however the spec lists it as an "Ultra ATA drive". Could you please advise if this is 100% compatible with any standard USB IDE 2.5inch enclosure?
Full spec:
iBook 12" 1GHz(AP) 256MB DDR266 SDRAM built-in Keyboard/Mac OS X Bluetooth Module 40GB Ultra ATA drive Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW).
Ever since I updated my early 2010 MacBook Pro 13" with the 10.6.3 update, the mouse pointer freezes for 5 to 10 seconds, every now and then. The keyboard is next to unresponsive when this happens.
Are there more people having the same problem? Is this a known bug?
Is there a solution?
Hi,
I am starting to use Quicksilver in Mac OS X. At the moment I just know how to "call it" (CMD+I in my case) and open an app. I wonder how could I do, once itunes is running, just to tell to stop playing a song, using QS, and if not, someother workaround, just using Keyboard, in the simplest possible wy.
Thanks
What's the best terminal editor to suggest to a unix newbie? i.e. not vim or emacs.
There are a few editors, joe, nano, etc. Some have easy to remember commands / keyboard shortcuts, others don't.
I'm looking for an editor that one could talk someone through over the phone with, for remote sysadminning.
Most of the time it ignores it and I am able to switch away from UltraVNC to another application. I like this behavior. However, occasionally it gets into a mode where - for no discernable reason - it passes the Alt+Tab to the remote host which is incredibly annoying as I am used to the other behavior and suddenly I have no keyboard shortcut to switch to a different local windows. Since it appears to exhibit both behaviors, I assume there is some way to control which behavior is in use, but I haven't been able to find it
Hi all,
My touchpad on my laptop appears to be no longer functioning. I typically use an external keyboard and mouse so I didn't notice the problem until I tried to use the touchpad.
Even after toggling the on/off switch several times, the touchpad still doesn't work.
In the logs, I see something about cannot read byte from synaptics device.
I will post the full logs when I am in front of my machine.
Thanks,
Walter
This question is an exact duplicate of:
Windows won't ctrl+c and ctrl+v
I have this problem, ctrl+c and ctrl+v never work for anything no matter what, and if I do it a few times it won't let me type at all, I found if I went to accessories/accessibility and click "on-screen keyboard" and then I can type, but I still can't use ctrl+c ctrl+v..what's wrong!?!?
I recently discovered the keyboard shortcut for metacity's "full screen" option, where a window is fully maximised with titlebar and border hidden. I like this mode a lot, and for one of my systems would like to make it the default for all new windows. How would I do that?
Was mucking around with OmniDazzle, and appropriately pressed every keyboard shortcut to see all the effects.
Unfortunately now, when I hover over 'another' window - it comes into focus without me invoking via a click.
Could someone please point me in the direction of what I changed?
Hello everyone,
I am using MacBook Pro Mac OS 10.5. I am new to this development environment. I am previous working on Windows. I am wondering what is the page-up and page-down key on Mac? My MacBook Pro seems does not have the two keys on keyboard.
thanks in advance,
George
Is there any Linux command which remembers directories I changed, and shows its stack with interacting operation to choose a directory such as pushing an arrow key on keyboard? This must be different from the way pushd/popd/dirs do.
Today I got a brand new Microsoft Surface.
With the touch keyboard this really feels like a small notebook, my only problem is:
How do I sync my SkyDrive files to the device? There is SkyDrive app installed, but it can't sync, I can only access the files one by one.
And the usual desktop sync program can't be installed since the system is not x86 but ARM instead.
So how do I sync SkyDrive to this device??
Is there a program or a key map that allows me to easily type mathematcial symbols and unicode letters such as these symbols in a web form?
Maybe a keyboard mapping? An assitant program?
(What I'm doing now is, copy-pasting relevant symbols, which is far from convenient...)
Well, I'm wondering is there's any way to link a single key on my keyboard to a file. I wish to execute the file upon pressing the key. I tried using the built in shortcut hotkey system and it didn't work out for me. It really needs to be one single key.
I need a program that can write what you input in it, and "writing" it back on another process, letter by letter, not copying and pasting it back. Basically, I have a insanely huge file that would take me about a month of non-stop keyboard typing and I can't simply control-C to the other program because it doesn't allow pasting text (go figure). I do realize it's quite an unusual question, but I need this to be done by a machine and not myself. Is there any way to be done?
Hi,
I am not able see any desktop icons, taskbar in my Windows XP system. Also none of the keyboard shortcuts like Win Key + R, Win Key + E are not working.
Yesterday I installed AVG 9.0 in my machine and was working fine. But today when I started the system an svchost error occured saying "the memory at location could not be written".
What would be the cause of this issue?
Thanks in advance
Im intrested in buying a laptop from the HP HDX series, but I have one concern.
As you can see below, they have touch sensitive buttons above the keyboard which are lit up. I cant help but think how distracting they would be if you were watching a film on it.
So does anyone know if its possible to turn these lights off?
And to any owners of this laptop, do you find it distracting?
Thanks
I use OpenOffice to write in about 5 languages, using the US keyboard only.
I therefore make extensive use of the autocorrect feature to add accents and the like automatically.
The problem is that OpenOffice insists on ignoring the letter case I use, and instead it always uses that which I used when setting up the autocorrect.
For example, now when I type, in French, "D'apres", it gets converted to "d’après" instead of "D’après".
Is there a way to tell OpenOffice not to change the letter case?
Currently I use following autohotkey script to change keyboard layout using the CapsLock button.
SetCapsLockState, AlwaysOff
+CapsLock::CapsLock
#SingleInstance force
CapsLock::Send, {ALTDOWN}{SHIFTDOWN}{SHIFTUP}{CTRLUP}{ALTUP}
return
I want CapsLock LED be turned on when layout is Persian and off when it is Englsih. Is it possible? Indeed I want LED be switched wile CapsLock remains off.
Windows Calculator can switch into a "Scientific" mode, getting more math and logical operators, but that's not good enough. I know there are tons of features its missing, such as the ones we see in the Windows 7 calc, or simply making things more visual. Its been years and I still haven't found a good calculator replacement.
Suggestions? And hopefully your calc replaces MS Calc when I press the dedicated "calculator key" on my Keyboard, so I don't have to hunt around for a shortcut.
I find I frequently use the combination of Suspend (^Z) then send to background (bg) in bash. Ideally I would like an alternate keyboard shortcut that negates the need to follow ^Z with the bg command, and just send the active process straight to background. Does this exist?
Edit: I should have been more specific, but appending & to the command is not sufficient, as they often require interaction (stdin) between launch and backgrounding. So:
launch
interact
background
I really do like the Grid plugin in Compiz, but at work I cannot use Compiz on my workstation (Fedora 12). Is there anything similar for plain X or Metacity?
The Grid-plugin gives you a few keyboard shortcuts for tiling active window. For example Ctrl+Alt+Numpad_4 would tile window to half screen.