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I got this tiny flash drive from Amazon a couple of months ago and I really grew to like it. Something peculiar happened with it, Windows wouldn’t recognize the FAT partition that I had created using Mac OS X and re-formatting it with Windows reduced the capacity of the disk to 200mb.

Solution is to use HP’s flash drive format tool under Windows, it recognizes the full capacity.

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64963-page,1/descr­iption.html

Keywords: flash disk, flash drive, usb drive, thumb drive (we really need a standardized name :), 200 mb, 200mb, partition, format

BetterTouchTool is a more advanced  version of MultiClutch that I talked about a month ago. It allows to customize the gestures of both Magic Mouse and the multi touch touchpad. It also incorporates functionality similar to “MiddleClick”.

Get it here: http://blog.boastr.net/

From http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060906153448633

Convert Real audio and video into MP3 and AVI files
Authored by: straniero on Wed, Jan 17 2007 at 1:47AM PST

I want to thank the person who started this thread! I’ve been trying for years to convert my South Park Real Movie collection to Quicktime and have finally managed thanks to them!

But… The instructions are not real clear! Here’s plain and clearly what you need to do to convert .rm video to Quicktime….

1) Download ffmpegX.dmg, mencoder and mplayer from ffmegx.com/download.html
mencoder and mplayer are zipped together as “ffmpegXbinaries20060307.zip”
Unzip them after downloading or FFMPEGX can’t find them while it’s installing (D’uh!)
Run FFMPEGX so that it can complete the installation!!!!!

2) Download and install Real Player 10 (not 9 or any other version!) from real.com
I tried it with 9 and realized that these people who are saying that they couldn’t find the “codecs” folder in the right place were doing the same thing, and it doesn’t work! (I did only find 12 codecs and not 14, but it works!)

3) Control-click on the Realplayer icon and “open package contents”. Navigate to Contents -> Frameworks -> HXClientKit.framework -> Helix Plugins -> Codecs. Take all of the files in the “codecs” folder and copy them to a new folder that you create inside of /Library/Application Support/ffmpegX and name the folder “reallib”.

4)That’s it! Open FFMPEGX and convert your Realplayer media to Quicktime! For some reason though, you must use the DivX Mencoder preset or it won’t work, (So, export it again when you’re done!)

Other tips….
FFPEGX just has stripes on the progress bar while it’s doing this conversion, it’s normal.
If you do a “get info” while you’re converting, you’ll see millions of “1 Dupicate frame(s)!” messages. It’s not stuck in a loop! I think what it should say is “1 Frame has been duplicated!”. These messages just mean that it is working!

I also found that by putting the 3ivx codec into FFMPEGX in the same way as the Real codecs I could convert videos that I could get to run in Quicktime before! Who knows the possibilities?

Happy encoding!
The Straniero

http://clement.beffa.org/labs/projects/middleclick/

Three finger tap becomes middle click. This, added to MultiClutch that I previously mentioned, boosts my web surfing productivity tenfold. I can open pages in new tabs, browse between tabs and close tabs without using the keyboard at all, just with finger strokes. It’s very nice, I must tell you :)

Here’s what I had been looking for some time, surely it would be of use to everybody.

Multiclutch lets you assign shortcut keys to some multi-touch gestures in applications, so let’s say in Safari when you put 3 fingers and swipe left, instead of going back-forward, you could configure it to switch tabs. Similarly you can configure rotate gesture to for example implement back-forward.

It’s a bit tricky to configure it on Snow Leopard, here’s how it works:

http://blog.prashantv.com/2009/multiclutch-fixes-instructions/

Don’t forget the last step, if you don’t do it, Firefox and some other apps might crash.

Lets you move objects not in whole pixels but in sub-pixels, great for making Apple-style indent or emboss effects.

http://johndunning.com/fireworks/about/CustomNudge

I installed Wireshark for my Networking course on Snow Leopard and had some difficulties.

After copying the command line utilities, if the folder you copied into wasn’t there before, it’s probably not in the include path. To edit the include path:

1. Open Terminal
2. sudo nano ~/.bash_profile
3. Add such a line:
   export PATH=/opt/wireshark/bin/:$PATH
   adjust name of the folder according to where you copied the files.

Secondly, I was instructed to put ChmodBPF in StartupItems, but got the following error when I restarted:

“/Library/StartupItems/ChmodBPF” has not been started because it does not have the proper security settings.

I observed that there was something wrong with the ownership of those files. To solve it,

1. Open Terminal
2. Go to /Library/StartupItems/
3. chown -R root:wheel

This will fix the problem.

Then I got the following errors when I ran Wireshark:

The following errors were found while loading the MIBS:
-:0 1 module-not-found failed to locate MIB module `IP-MIB’
-:0 1 module-not-found failed to locate MIB module `IF-MIB’
-:0 1 module-not-found failed to locate MIB module `TCP-MIB’
-:0 1 module-not-found failed to locate MIB module `UDP-MIB’
-:0 1 module-not-found failed to locate MIB module `SNMPv2-MIB’
-:0 1 module-not-found failed to locate MIB module `RFC1213-MIB’
-:0 1 module-not-found failed to locate MIB module `IPV6-ICMP-MIB’
-:0 1 module-not-found failed to locate MIB module `IPV6-MIB’
-:0 1 module-not-found failed to locate MIB module `SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB’
-:0 1 module-not-found failed to locate MIB module `SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB’
-:0 1 module-not-found failed to locate MIB module `SNMP-MPD-MIB’
-:0 1 module-not-found failed to locate MIB module `SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB’
-:0 1 module-not-found failed to locate MIB module `SNMP-PROXY-MIB’
-:0 1 module-not-found failed to locate MIB module `SNMP-TARGET-MIB’
-:0 1 module-not-found failed to locate MIB module `SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB’
-:0 1 module-not-found failed to locate MIB module `SNMP-USM-DH-OBJECTS-MIB’
-:0 1 module-not-found failed to locate MIB module `SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB’

Apparently there is a problem with include paths. Solution:

1. Click OK on error message.
2. In Wireshark window Edit > Preferences > Name Resolution.
3. Click SMI (MIB and PIB) paths edit button
4. Click New
5. Add the path /usr/share/snmp/mibs/
6. OK and close Wireshark, also close X11.
7. Restart Wireshark

Two things to do after upgrading:

1. Upgrade your Flash player because the one that comes with Snow Leopard is old. It gets choppy with HD videos, for example.
   Flash Player update and Snow Leopard
2. Follow the instructions on this forum post to clean caches
   http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=778819

UPDATE: I found out that the real problem was caused by extensions that weren’t compatible with Snow Leopard thus were giving errors and re-launching every few minutes (thus the beachballing). So open the Console and check your logs. When you identify the offending extensions from the Log, uninstall them if possible.

If you see launchd complaining that it can’t find something,  a handy script called “Consultant’s Canary” may help you see where they are configured so you can go ahead and delete the launcher scripts.

This is quite annoying for Spotify/Hulu users. Even if you have iTunes closed, when you try to play music in Spotify by pressing the play key on the keyboard, iTunes launches and starts playing too. Essentially hijacking the key.

Solution is, keep QuickTime X open (without any files) when iTunes is closed. Then iTunes won’t launch when you press the play/pause keys.

Another excellent workaround is provided with a Python script which is essentially an iTunes launcher which doesn’t launch the application if Spotify is running. It is found here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2122639&start=30&tstart=0

Solution: install the Fireworks CS4 upgrade from Adobe’s website.

Adobe – Fireworks Support Center : Downloads : Updaters

Then Fireworks will start crashing after quitting, but that’s not such a big problem :)