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<title>macosxhints.com 10.4 tips</title>
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<title>10.4: Find one possible source of Spotlight issues</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090422063557423</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.4</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/tigerx2a.jpg&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;If you're experiencing slowdowns, crashes, beachballs, and other general usability issues with Spotlight in Tiger, &lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?p=529846&quot;&gt;this thread&lt;/a&gt; on our forums may contain the solution. In the first (and as of this writing, only) post, the author describes how a downloaded program contained a file with a newline (carriage return) character in its name. After much digging, the author and others figured out that this badly-named file was breaking Spotlight in 10.4.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To find the offending file, the user used &lt;tt&gt;find /[whatever] -type f -print&lt;/tt&gt; in Terminal, and then scanned the output for any lines that didn't begin with a &lt;tt&gt;/&lt;/tt&gt;. After finding and deleting the offending file, Spotlight started working normally again.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The author also tested for the problem in 10.5 by intentionally creating a file with a newline char ...</description>
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<title>10.4: Security Update 2008-06 and Network preferences</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20081006194150436</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/tigerx2a.jpg&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;After running the latest security update on 10.4.11, I noticed I couldn't change any settings in Network Preferences. Opening up that settings screen would result in a &quot;Your network settings have been changed by another application&quot; window popping up in an endless loop.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It turns out the security update makes some changes to the way PPP passwords are stored. Now, instead of being stored in a world-readable file, they're stored in the Keychain. For some reason, the update gets confused with existing PPP passwords and gets stuck in a loop. The easy way out: open Terminal and delete your existing network configuration. (You might want to make a paper backup to ease the task of entering them in again later.) In Terminal, type these commands (press Return after each): ...</description>
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<title>10.4: Resurrect the 10.5 Movies widget in Tiger</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080609093907318</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.4</dc:subject>
<description>Recently the Leopard Movies widget, which Steve demoed along with Leopard, stopped working in Tiger. Leopard's built-in Movies widget continues to function, while in Tiger, it gives an error of &quot;invalid zip code.&quot; You can make this widget function once again in 10.4.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Navigate to /Library/Widgets and find the Movies widget. Control-click on the widget and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Then open &lt;tt&gt;parser.js&lt;/tt&gt; in your favorite text editor, and replace all occurrences of &lt;tt&gt;A99D3D1A-774C-4914-9E3B-18645117428A&lt;/tt&gt; with &lt;tt&gt;DE7E251E-7758-40A4-98E0-87557E9F31F0&lt;/tt&gt; and save. Close any open movie widget in Dashboard, then re-open it. Now it works.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;robg adds:&lt;/b&gt; I can't test this one here...]
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<title>10.4: Repair a non-functional Spotlight</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080122085658347</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:30:04 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.4</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/tigerx2a.jpg&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;Problem: Spotlight will only find some files, and fails to re-index. I had a stubborn Spotlight that wouldn't find files; I searched high and low for solutions. I found some help in &lt;a href=&quot;http://osxdaily.com/2007/02/15/spotlight-wont-work-fix-a-broken-spotlight-menu-with-these-troubleshooting-tips/&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, but it never permanently fixed the problem. While trying to reindex using &lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301562&quot;&gt;Apple's instructions&lt;/a&gt;, I noticed that if files are corrupt, Spotlight fails.
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Solution: Boot into single user mode (Command-S at startup) and run the file system check by typing &lt;tt&gt;/sbin/fsck -fy&lt;/tt&gt; (this command will be shown on screen in single user mode). Virus scanners are another way to find corrupt files.  I found the corrupt files with the files system check and fixed them, and now Spotlight is reindexing correctly ...</description>
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<title>10.4: Possible security issue with wake from sleep</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080115010734658</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.4</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/tigerx2a.jpg&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;I like my PowerBook to be secure, so in the Security System Preferences panel, I require a password when coming back from sleep. I noticed a little problem though: assume I wake the machine, and after entering my password (but before the desktop is loaded), I close the lid, and the PowerBook goes to sleep. When I wake up the PowerBook the next time, it doesn't ask for a password, but shows my secrets to the world.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So don't close the lid and believe you're safe, unless you are very sure you are fully logged in. Especially when you move around a lot, and are used to just closing the notebook and stuffing it in you bag.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;robg adds:&lt;/b&gt; This hint was marked 10.4 only; I couldn't replicate it on 10.5, at least on my desktop machine.]
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<title>How to unzip SMB-mounted zip archives in 10.4.11</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20071221113709718</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.4</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/tigerx2a.jpg&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;I noticed that in the upgrade to 10.4.11, something broke -- sudently, BOMArchiveHelper would no longer unzip a .zip archive on a mounted SMB share. So I copied the BOMArchiveHelper.app (ion /System/Library/CoreServices/) from a 10.4.10 installation over to the 10.4.11 installation. This fixed the problem.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;robg adds:&lt;/b&gt; I can't confirm this issue, so if you can, please comment. I never like recommending replacing system components, but in this case, it seems it may be a necessary evil to resolve what appears to be either a bug or an intentional behavior change. I would strongly recommend keeping a backup copy of the new version, however, just in case unforeseen problems develop. As with any hint such as this, be aware that you're changing system files, and anything bad that happens to your machine is your responsibility.]
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<title>10.4: How to enable booting from multiple clones</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20071027080541945</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:30:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.4</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/tigerx2a.jpg&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;I'm a big fan of using SuperDuper (or CarbonCopyCloner or even Disk Utility) to make bootable clones of my startup volume as an important part of my backup strategy. In fact I like to not only keep a most recent clone, but several historical ones as well. 
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
So I was delighted when I recently discovered I could buy 500GB and 750GB external FireWire hard drives for under &amp;#36;200, and assumed I could simply format them into multiple boot-volume-sized partitions into which I could place clones, as I had so often and easily in the past. However, I eventually became dismayed when I later discovered that while I could use SuperDuper and other programs to create multiple clones, the only clone that I could actually boot would be the first bootable clone in partition order encountered on the drive.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
With a hint from an Apple Genius, I eventually discovered the source of my  ...</description>
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<title>10.4: A simple way to copy the path to a file or folder</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20071018002311820</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.4</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/tigerx2a.jpg&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;Here is a very quick method to find the path of a file or folder. Press Command-Option-Space to open an empty Spotlight Results window. Drag the file or folder whose path you'd like to copy to the Search box in the Spotlight Results window. Copy the resulting path. That's it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;robg adds:&lt;/b&gt; Works as described!]
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<title>Managing keys and certificates in the Keychain</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20071012043415287</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.4</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/tigerx2a.jpg&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;Applications like Mail and Safari support the use of digital certificates for secure email and client SSL authentication.  These applications use keys and certificates that are stored in the Keychain.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For example, to enable secure email with Mail, the basic steps are:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Generate a key and certificate pair, using a product such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://simpleauthority.com&quot;&gt;SimpleAuthority&lt;/a&gt; or the Certificate Assistant (see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050522045225980&quot;&gt;this hint&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Import the key and certificate pair into the Keychain, such as by double clicking on the .p12 file&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Import the Certification Authority (CA) certificate into the X509Anchors keychain, so that certificates issued by this CA are trusted&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mail automatically recognises that secure email is possible and provides options in the compose window to sign  ...&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;</description>
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<title>Tutorial for Implementing NetBoot in OS X 10.4</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20071001144539242</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.4</dc:subject>
<description>Mac OS X includes a &quot;NetBoot&quot; feature, whereby you can have any Mac boot from the system on any other Mac on your network. This is not an easy thing to set up, and requires installing software, setting up the root account on the host Mac, creating NetBoot share folders, fiddling with NetInfo Manager and much more.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; I've posted an illustrated tutorial for implementing NetBoot &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-Your-Regular-Mac-a-NetBoot-Server!/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;kirkmc adds&lt;/b&gt;: Not for the faint of heart, but since it's Friday, this looks like a good weekend project for some of you. I haven't tested this.] 
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<title>10.4: Change the Tile Game widget's image</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.4</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/tigerx2a.jpg&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;You know the Tile Game widget, with the picture of the tiger?  I got tired of the tiger picture, so I attempted to change it to another picture. Turns out it was pretty easy.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
[&lt;b&gt;robg aside:&lt;/b&gt; Temporarily changing the Tile Game's image is quite simple -- make sure the Tile Game widget is open, then start dragging an image in the Finder, activate Dashboard, and drop it on the Tile Game widget. Your image will replace the tiger, at least until the next time you close the widget. This hint explains how to &lt;em&gt;permanently&lt;/em&gt; change the image on the widget.]
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First, create (if you don't have one already) a folder named Widgets in your user's Library folder. Now navigate to the top-level /Library &amp;raquo; Widgets folder, and copy the Tile Game file to your user's Library &amp;raquo; Widgets folder. OS X will first look for widgets in your user's folder, so we'll modify th ...</description>
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<title>10.4: Recover from a dragging issue in Disk Utility</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2007091213270183</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.4</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/tigerx2a.jpg&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;I think this is an issue with Intel Macs, but it may be all Macs with a 10.4 Installer DVD. Apple has a support document, &lt;a href=&quot;http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303694&quot;&gt;Unable to drag and drop in Disk Utility while started from install DVD&lt;/a&gt;, that explains a bug in Disk Utility found on some 10.4 Install DVDs (including my MacBook Pro's). I ran into this when my hard drive failed, and I needed to clone it to send it off to Apple for replacment -- and now again that I want to upgrade to a new 200Gb 7200/16Mb internal hard drive.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There is a workaround beyond those provided by Apple, assuming your internal hard drive has Disk Utility on it, it's in the normal place, and you are willing to use Terminal. After you boot from the Installer DVD, and are on the first installer screen (just past the language screen), go to the Utilities menu and choose Terminal. In Te ...</description>
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<title>10.4: A detailed look at MacFUSE and the SSH file system</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070904180753526</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.4</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/tigerx2a.jpg&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;Have you ever been been at work or somewhere else and wished you could access the files on your home computer remotely and safely? (Or maybe the other way around?) I've just helped someone set up a remote connection through a router to their work machine so they can access the files from home. (Of course this only will work if it's your computer and you have authorization to modify the router settings and remotely access the computer.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Google provides &lt;a href=&quot;http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2007/01/taming-mac-os-x-file-systems.html&quot;&gt;MacFUSE&lt;/a&gt; (File System in User Space) that provides this ability via a secure (SSH) connection, and it's fairly easy to do. Basically, with MacFUSE installed, it's like having the remote computer's hard drive mounted on your desktop (remember it'll be a little slow via the internet), but you can do anything on the remote machine that you need to ( ...</description>
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<title>10.4: Merge modified dictionaries from two different Macs</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070808015336447</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.4</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/tigerx2a.jpg&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;As with many users, I use both a laptop and a desktop Mac. On both systems, I use the check spelling feature, and often add words to the dictionaries. The problem is that the two dictionaries are different on both Macs. Here is a shell script [&lt;a href=&quot;http://osx.du2r.net/script/merge-spelling.sh&quot;&gt;Original source&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/dlfiles/merge-spelling.sh.txt&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;macosxhints mirror&lt;/a&gt;] to synchronize these spelling files using a web site. Each time the script is launched, the remote spelling file is dowloded, synchronised with the local spelling file, then sent to the the remote web site.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Open the script using TextWrangler or your favorite text editor, and fill in the Configure section:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;tt&gt;LANG&lt;/tt&gt; allows you to choose which language file to use.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;tt&gt;REMOTESPELLING&lt;/tt&gt; is the path of the dictionary on the web site :  ...&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
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<title>10.4: A fix for the modem GUI not showing completed jobs</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070808083522278</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>I recently had the experience that my internal modem did not show my sent faxes anymore. As soon as I clicked on Completed Jobs within the internal modem.app, the window became sluggish and did not react anymore. I finally found out that it had something to do with one of the earlier jobs that was not sent properly. These jobs are stored in /var &amp;raquo; spool &amp;raquo; cups and begin with somewhat like &lt;tt&gt;c0*&lt;/tt&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In addition to that, there is a wonderful CUPS administrative view that you access with your browser via &lt;a href=&quot;http://localhost:631&quot;&gt;http://localhost:631&lt;/a&gt; that I hadn´t seen before. There you'll find your printers, but also your internal modem and all the jobs that have ever been faxed with it. One of these jobs had to be my &quot;killer.&quot; Note that this job list is generated dynamically at startup of the &lt;tt&gt;cups&lt;/tt&gt; daemon. If you mangle around with the job files (moving or deleting), you won´t see a result until you restart the daemon with &lt;tt&gt;sudo killall ...&lt;/tt&gt;</description>
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<title>10.4: Create an 'active files' view using Smart Folders</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:30:04 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.4</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/tigerx2a.jpg&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;I often find I'm working with several files nested deep within client project folders. Rather than clutter my screen with a pile of open Finder windows, I've instead created a Smart Folder that focuses on the active files I'm working on.
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Create and save a smart folder with the following options:
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&lt;li&gt;Select Others... at the top of the Smart Folder and add the folder or folders you want included, making sure to uncheck other items like Macintosh HD, etc.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kind = Any&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Last Modified = Since Yesterday&lt;/li&gt;
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You can change Kind to focus on specific files, or Last Modified if you are a little less active. I now have a Smart Folder in the sidebar which allows me to easily jump to the project files and folders I'm actively working on.
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[&lt;b&gt;robg adds:&lt;/b&gt; This is a pretty basic Spotlight/Smart Folders tip, but might be useful to those who are  ...</description>
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<title>10.4: Fix a muted Plantronics USB microphone on 10.4.10</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070714102116127</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:30:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.4</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/tigerx2a.jpg&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;After one of the recent 10.4.10 updates on an Intel iMac, the microphone on my Plantronics USB headset appeared to be disabled. The solution that worked for me was to use Applications &amp;raquo; Utilities &amp;raquo;  Apple MIDI Setup, and access Properties For &amp;raquo; Plantronics Headset under Audio Devices. At the bottom of the panel, there is a Mute checkbox, and unchecking this restored the microphone's operation.
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I can't take credit for the fix; I found it via Google on &lt;a href=&quot;http://macspeech.com/support/index.php?action=kb&amp;amp;article=188&quot;&gt;macspeech.com&lt;/a&gt;. However, I thought this might be worth passing on to macosxhints.
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The 10.4.10 update did not cause this problem on a G4 PowerBook, so I believe this is related to the recent Intel audio fix that Apple released. However, after launching Apple MIDI Setup on the G4, the microphone was disabled and the checkbox  ...</description>
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<title>10.4: Make the Spotlight menu bar icon invisible</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070712060118926</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:30:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.4</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/tigerx2a.jpg&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;So, you don't want Spotlight's ugly blue lens present in the menu bar, right? How about concealing it? As an administrator, navigate to /System &amp;raquo; Library &amp;raquo; CoreServices &amp;raquo; Search.bundle. Control-click on Search.bundle and choose Show Package Contents. In the new window that opens, navigate into /Contents &amp;raquo; Resources. Copy MDSearchWidget_Normal-1.tiff to the desktop. Open this file in Photoshop or your editor of choice, and wipe the Spotlight lens and then save. (The file will get bigger -- from some 2.5k to 52k or so; it's OK.)
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Now, check the permissions of original file and match it on our copied file by unlocking it. Lock it again and put it back inside the Resources folder, after removing the original and storing it in a safe place. Run Disk Utility and repair permissions and restart. Voila. The Spotlight lens is gone from the menu. However, there a ...</description>
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<title>10.4: More convenient filename searches</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=200706301607134</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.4</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/tigerx2a.jpg&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;Leopard will have a better file name search capability, but while we wait, searching for file names with wildcards and boolean AND/ORs can be fairly convenient with this hint. First, some setup. Go to your home folder and choose FIle &amp;raquo; New Smart Folder from the menu. Click on the minus signs to remove all the search terms, and then click on the plus sign to add one. Click on Kind and choose &quot;Other...&quot;. After a short delay, a list will appear. Scroll down and select Raw Query, then press OK. Now copy and paste the following lines (including the blank lines) into the query text box:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-left: 20px; padding: 5px; border:1px solid; width:420px; height: 60px; overflow:scroll;white-space:nowrap&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;(i==' Scroll forward and replace &quot;xxx&quot; with filename, use &quot;||&quot; for OR,  &quot;&amp;amp;&amp;amp;&quot; for AND, &quot;*&quot; for wildcard, &quot;cwd&quot; for case insensitive/any word ')||((kMDI ...&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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<title>10.4: A fix for non-mounting USB drives in 10.4.10</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070628092633507</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>System 10.4</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/tigerx2a.jpg&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;After updating my Mac to OS X 10.4.10, my external FireWire/USB2 drive didn't mount any more (if plugged in via the USB2 port). I thought about an interface failure specific to my enclosure, but searching on the web, I saw that it was a common problem for 10.4.10 users with Intel Macs and external enclosures. Moreover, I tested the drive on another Mac with 10.4.9 and it worked flawlessly. So it was a problem with the 10.4.10 update.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The only solution found until now was downgrading to 10.4.9 again, but this is a real pain. I was ready to use &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.charlessoft.com/&quot;&gt;Pacifist&lt;/a&gt; to replace the new USB kernel extensions with the older 10.4.9 ones. But before doing this, I wanted to check if I could force the drive to mount in some way, and accidentally found the workaround.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I used System Profiler to list USB devices and get the VendorID/ProductID of the d ...</description>
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