Can i disable the remote control capabilities on my macbook?

the remote for my apple tv is effecting my macbook & i would like to disable the ability for the macbook to be controlled by the remote. how do i do this?

Oh well, was just going to say, System Preferences > Security > Disable Remote Infrared Sensor

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Stein

Yes, I didn't realize that's what it's called.
I use an application called synergy http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ to share the mouse and keyboard with a windose machine, a linux box and this mac. It is a really nice way to stay somewhat OS agnostic, it also shares the clipboard with the various machines. I really like the app. However, this nagging problem happens occasionally where Front Row will just randomly pop up and I can't get back out of it. So all I can do is reboot. I'm not sure what causes it, although I'm fairly sure it has something to do with synergy. I did not know there was an easy way to disable the remote, so I've done that now and maybe it will make a difference. But is there a way to just completely disable, uninstall Front Row?
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THAT's the Flash Player.
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THAT's the Shockwave plugin.
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Can I disable the Play Back Controls?

Hello all
In my project, I need the PlayBackControls(playbar controls) to work only on few slides instead of on all slides. I can hide the Play Bar but it would look unlike the other slides.
So, can I disable the PlayBack Controls(i.e., the play bar sholud be visible but the controls shouldn't work) using advanced actions on particular slides?
Regards,
Kartik.

Hello Kartik,
I'm not a Flash programmer, only using functionalities of Captivate (inc. advanced actions) and AFAIK there is not such a possibility.
If you want to have the same functionalities, you could insert custom navigation buttons, and you will be able to disable them on specific slides. Let me know if you want to try that, and in that case which buttons you want to have and which ones you would like to disable on certain slides?
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All good suggestions, Clint. I was going to be a smart-*** and tell you my sticker contains a cloaking device. I didn't know about the orbicule software, though. That's a nice tip.
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I do need a new dog. The burglar entered my home from a rear window, and my 15 year old mutt has apparently retired from her role as security beacon. And my alarm system, which did it's job, likely prevented more loss. He only grabbed my laptop and a portable CD player.
I got a new MBP now, and I'm going to install Undercover, and I've ordered a Kensington cable, which I'll attach to the MPB and a chair or desk when I'm not home. That should deter any more smash and grab theft.
Word to the wise... I didn't have a password login. I had my taxes on my laptop, with my SSN, and so I've since also registered with LifeLock. I've got password log-in activated now.

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The remote controls stopped working

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First shock the Service Center was dirty, the paint obviously several decades old and faded, the light kept to the minimum.
Second shock not Tech on duty to check something as simple as a headsets. I realized there was no way to have a fast resolution to my problem. The Shuffle will be send to a regional repair center, I could have save the trip and just go to an Apple dealer. What the use to have Service Centers if they don't provide service?
Now when a product is returned, after 25 days of ownership (can't say use), a product designed by a company with the reputation of Apple you expect some kind of sign that the company is sorry, stands behind it's product and will do all possible to solve the problem. WRONG.
Third shock. The person who took my Shuffle obviously never saw a Shuffle generation 3 before or even knew it existed. She explained over and over that I may (but it sounded more like I will) be charge for the repair. Even asked me to pay upfront a basic fee to cover the time of a Tech checking on the product. And that the Tech will give me a quote if I am to be charged. Furthermore She found tons of reasons why eventually I would be charged to repair the product, however no technical person ever checked on the product. Well I guess only users read messages on Apple website not employees of Apple.
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I seriously doubt you were at an Apple Store and you were not dealing with Apple employees. You were dealing with a 3rd party shop that does work on Apple products.
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Using the remote control.

I noticed that the Apple knowledge based article describing the functions of the remote hasn't been updated to reflect the v 3 Apple tv software. I suspect there are a few users who don't get to use all the features of the Apple tv because they aren't necessarily aware of all the things the remote will do.
In an effort to try to ensure that users get the best out of their Apple TV's I have now produced my own list of functions that are accessible using the remote control. In doing this I realised it involved a little more work than I'd envisaged since the remote performs many functions which can vary depending on which type of content you are using.
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Using the Apple TV remote control
Message was edited by: Winston Churchill: Having seen the site for the first time I realise I need to do some work on the formatting-I'll put this right in due course, just looking for comments on content for now.

Alley_Cat wrote:
1 - Looks exhaustive!
It was actually, I didn't think I'd need to do quite so much checking that things did what it says.
2 - Having result on the left initially confused me, I think I'd find Action>Result better than Result < Action.</div>
I see the point, but it could possibly be resolved by renaming 'result' as aim, goal or something similar rather than reversing the body text itself. I was trying to emulate the way Apple themselves did this on their KB (Reason I did this - their KB is out of date)
3 - Probably a bit too much information on one page.
Perhaps split into a tabbed layout
Remote | Basic Controls | Music | TV Shows | Films/Movies etc.
Noted, I'm still not happy with the formatting, it needs work, it might not work too well in some browsers, a tabbed page is a little more than my iweb capabilities at present (or at least the way I would want it to work - tabs within a page rather than tabs to change pages)
Jolly Giant wrote:
maybe a slightly larger font ...
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Disable the Remote Management Service?

I know this is "Why would anyone want to do this" question but we are having conflicting issues in one of our labs between NetSupport and Zenworks when trying to run Adobe Flash. NetSupport is a tool that quite a few of our lab teachers use, it gives them the ability to see all of there students screens, take control of them, and a few other features, all from a console that runs on the teacher machine.
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Now when we tried to disable the remote management service in the services menu but it will not stay disable as soon as the machine restarts the remote management service is running and its set to automatic again.
Is there anyway to disable (preferable) or remove just the remote management piece with out removing the rest of the client from the machines?
Thanks,
Mike

You can configure this in the ZCC for which components you want
installed. You can deselect Remote Management.
Note: You can also disable or remove the Mirror Driver from the Devices
Control Panel under Display Drivers and it will not come back.
On 1/13/2012 2:36 PM, mshicks wrote:
>
> I know this is "Why would anyone want to do this" question but we are
> having conflicting issues in one of our labs between NetSupport and
> Zenworks when trying to run Adobe Flash. NetSupport is a tool that quite
> a few of our lab teachers use, it gives them the ability to see all of
> there students screens, take control of them, and a few other features,
> all from a console that runs on the teacher machine.
>
> The problem comes in when running Flash if the student tries to create
> a text box and scroll inside of it then the computer crashes. We
> contacted NetSupport for help with this and they had us run a reporting
> tool that looked at the hardware setup and driver information. Then they
> setup a test machine and tried to replicate the problem and they were
> not able to. However they tech did note that in the scan of the machine
> there could be a conflicting issue between NetSupports Mirror Driver and
> DemoForge TightVNC Mirror Driver. I assumed the latter was part of
> Zenworks remote management. So we stopped the remote management service
> on a machine and tried to replicate the problem. We did not encounter
> the problem so we turned the remote management service back on and sure
> enough as soon as we tried to replicate the problem again the machine
> crashed.
>
> Now when we tried to disable the remote management service in the
> services menu but it will not stay disable as soon as the machine
> restarts the remote management service is running and its set to
> automatic again.
>
> Is there anyway to disable (preferable) or remove just the remote
> management piece with out removing the rest of the client from the
> machines?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
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How can I DISABLE the pop up 'Would you like to copy it to Library', preventing this message from bothering for each and every book, again and again, time after time? (Windows 7 64bit US).

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singmk wrote:
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Would like to hope there is some way to have control over this. Can someone help?
Which firmware your N8 having now? You can check firmware by choosing Call, then type *#0000#.
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You will prompt to enter Lock code each time u define auto lock priod or enable/disable auto lock.
Hope this can help you.
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How can I disable the lock code on my N8

Decided to setup the mail for exchange on my N8 so I could see my work emails. Worked like a charm but after a couple of hours decided I didn't like being that contactable so deleted the mailbox.
Now to the problem, during setup I was forced to enable the phone lock and had to pick a 7 digit alphanumeric code. Fair enough I thought and went ahead. When I removed the mailbox however the lock remained in place with the default auto time of 30 minutes. When I checked in Phone management there is no option to disable this lock so I thought I could at least change the default time to something bigger but when you try, it remains at 30 mins. You also can't disable the auto time as it pops up an error message saying can't unlock phone.
Does anyone know if I'm missing something obvious here or is this something which can't be disabled once it's switched on? I've done a soft reset back to factory settings with no luck and the only other thing I can think of is re installing the firmware which seems a bit extreme.
Would like to hope there is some way to have control over this. Can someone help?

singmk wrote:
Decided to setup the mail for exchange on my N8 so I could see my work emails. Worked like a charm but after a couple of hours decided I didn't like being that contactable so deleted the mailbox.
Now to the problem, during setup I was forced to enable the phone lock and had to pick a 7 digit alphanumeric code. Fair enough I thought and went ahead. When I removed the mailbox however the lock remained in place with the default auto time of 30 minutes. When I checked in Phone management there is no option to disable this lock so I thought I could at least change the default time to something bigger but when you try, it remains at 30 mins. You also can't disable the auto time as it pops up an error message saying can't unlock phone.
Does anyone know if I'm missing something obvious here or is this something which can't be disabled once it's switched on? I've done a soft reset back to factory settings with no luck and the only other thing I can think of is re installing the firmware which seems a bit extreme.
Would like to hope there is some way to have control over this. Can someone help?
Which firmware your N8 having now? You can check firmware by choosing Call, then type *#0000#.
My N8 works fine on security setting and able to define Phone auto lock period, by choosing Menu>Settings>Phone>Phone management>Security settings>Phone and SIM card>Phone auto lock period>User defined>Lock after(minutes)
You will prompt to enter Lock code each time u define auto lock priod or enable/disable auto lock.
Hope this can help you.
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stop and started the bonjour service
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should work.
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Para solucionar este problema debes hacer lo siguiente:
en Windows 7
1) click en Inicio
2) escribe CMD y pulsa enter
te va a aparecer una nueva ventana
3) escribe "netsh winsock reset"
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deberia de funcionar.
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