Re: Using a second Mac as a screen for a first

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Good question as I was wondering about that myself. I was planning on purchasing a new macbook in the fall and would like to intall Aperture on it as well.
These two statements from the eula seem contradictory:
+*2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.*+
+B. Single User License. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on one Apple-labeled desktop computer and one Apple-labeled laptop computer so long as both computers are owned and used by you.+
+C. This License does not allow the Apple Software to exist on more than one computer at a time, and you may not make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time.+
As I read it section B reads it can be used on one desktop AND on one laptop. (Notice it says and rather than or.) Section C however reads it cannot exist on more than one computer at a time.
Anyone care to clarify what it's really saying?

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Using a second Mac as a display for a first

Disclaimer: Apple does not necessarily endorse any suggestions, solutions, or third-party software products that may be mentioned in the topic below. Apple encourages you to first seek a solution at Apple Support. The following links are provided as is, with no guarantee of the effectiveness or reliability of the information. Apple does not guarantee that these links will be maintained or functional at any given time. Use the information below at your own discretion.
This Frequently answered question (FAQ) comes about:
Can an iMac/iBook/Powerbook/MacBook act as a display for another Mac since they all have a built-in display?
The truth is complicated because you have to consider who is doing the processing, and who has the drivers for the work being done.
1. For people who want the processing power of multiple Macs together, there is
Daugerresearch.com's Pooch.
2. Apple's Target Disk Mode lets you treat the hard disk of one Mac as an external drive to another. You do have to be careful with this, only the Mac that is currently booted to an active screen has its drivers enabled. If you need the drivers of the other Mac to do some sort of installation, it may not work right, or if you need it to run specific software.
3. The iMac 27" now has a DisplayPort Input port that allows displaying from a second Mac. See Using a 27-inch iMac as an external display. There are some hurdles to get there, however some third party solutions for those hurdles are listed on:
http://lowendmac.com/ed/bashur/09db/dvi-to-mini-displayport.html
4. If you have a second screen to initially setup a Mac as a server of some sort you can make it "headless" (i.e. no second screen necessary) using one of these solutions:
iChat Screen Sharing
OSX VNC
Netopia's Timbuktu
Apple Remote Desktop
Microsoft Remote Desktop
Screen Recycler
Finder Screen Sharing
The speed of your network though can make such solutions appear too slow for words. If you use IP over Firewire on Mac OS X
10.5, 10.4, or 10.3 reasonable speeds can be obtained.
Elgato makes Firewire compatible capture devices which can capture S-Video. If you output the video of that Mac to an S-Video connector, you can view its video on the Elgato capture screen in 720 x 480 resolution. This usually is too little real estate for an effective second display, but for some it may be the quickest solution available.
In addition, Mac Minis, Intel based iMacs and Mac Pros do accept any display that supports VGA or DVI. Contrary to what you might think, you aren't stuck to Apple's displays. The Apple displays themselves are true Progressive LCDs that are widescreen with color matching, extra ports, and an extra place to put an iSight mount if you can find an original iSight. DVI supports more resolutions, and dual-link DVI even more.
This is the 2nd version of this tip. It was submitted on March 12, 2010 by a brody.
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Hi Brian,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities. You can mirror the displays or make whichever display you want the primary in Extended Desktop mode. See this article for details:
How to use multiple displays with your Mac
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5019
The white bar at the top of the left blue box represents the menu bar and determines which display is your primary display. To change your primary display, click the white bar and drag and drop it on the blue box representing the display you would prefer to be your primary display.
Cheers,
- Ari

Can i use my mac as a screen for my pc?

can i use my mac as a screen for my pc?

I use this to make my ipad a display for windows and osx
https://avatron.com/applications/air-display/
looks like it can also be used to make a mac act as display for another computer

Hello. I want to use my iphone as a viewing screen for a usb endoscope, (its a small camera on a long cable for inspecting down piping and such) with an app is it possible to attach the usb to my iphone using a adapter to watch the live video feed on th

Hello. I want to use my iphone as a viewing screen for a usb endoscope, (its a small camera on a long cable for inspecting down piping and such) with your app is it possible to attach the usb to my iphone using a adapter to watch the live video feed on the iphone?
Thankyou.

Hello. I want to use my iphone as a viewing screen for a usb endoscope, (its a small camera on a long cable for inspecting down piping and such) with your app is it possible to attach the usb to my iphone using a adapter to watch the live video feed on the iphone?
Thankyou.

What is the best method of using an iPad as an extra screen for a macbook pro?

I just received a macbook pro what is the best method for using an ipad as an extra screen for an ipad? Hopeflly, one that is no cost to me.

Sorry, but are you incapable of looking things up for yourself? Everything that you have asked is easily searchable on the internet.
I used it over wi-fi.
http://avatron.com/apps/air-display

Is there posibel to use Ipad4 WI-FI as extra screen for a Iphon4?

Is there posibel to use Ipad4 WI-FI as extra screen for a Iphon4?

Sorry but no. The iPhone doesn't support dual screens to any device, much less an iPad.
Regards.

How to restore from Time Machine WITHOUT install discs using a second Mac

It's a question that is asked repeatedly all over the web by Mac users like me that bought in to Time Machine (TM) on the assumption that if their computer died one day it would be a piece of cake to restore from it, only for that day to come and then to be told "ahh, okay the first thing is to get your computers install discs..." (loud crashing sound of world falling around ears).
I've never been able to afford a new Mac and both of my machines were bought second-hand. Neither came with Leopard (both have Tiger and have been upgraded to Leopard via the net). This was never supposed to be a problem as I've been backing up with TM. However it appears that Tiger discs are as much use as an inflatable dart board when it comes to using TM. So I've been faced with the possibility of having to spend £130 (about two hundred Pres Sheets, Yankees) on the Leopard install discs just so that I can have the option of restoring from TM. Bonkers.
However after much nashing of teeth, a very long weekend learning all sorts of things about 'Target Mode', 'Single User Mode', 'Verbose Mode', 'Open Source 9' etc the following solution has worked without the need to go out and buy those over-priced discs...
What you will need:
1 broken Mac requiring restoration
1 second donor Mac running Leopard (or Snow Leopard so long as the broken Mac can run it)
1 firewire cable with the correct fitting at either end to attach both Macs together
1 Time Machine backup
Note: The following is for when you have given up trying to boot from your hard drive. In my case I couldn't boot in to Safe Mode etc. so was forced to format my drive and re-import everything. If you've read this far I'm assuming your at the same point as well and have tried everything else that's out there first.
Also - both my Macs are Power PC's so can't run Snow Leopard, so I can't say 100% this will work with SL (Intel) machines. From what I've read Snow Leopard will work with this procedure too, but if you've found differently please feel free to add your experiences below...
STEP ONE: Format the corrupt Hard Drive or replace with a fresh HDD
*Link the two computers with a firewire.
*If you're replacing your HDD, remove your corrupted hard drive from the 'broken' machine and insert a new one.
*Power up the broken Mac whilst holding down the 'T' key. This will start it up in Target Mode and you'll get a nice firewire symbol floating around that machine's screen.
*Power up the second 'healthy' Mac. This will be our 'donor' machine. When it starts up after a few seconds you will see the hard drive of the broken Mac appear on the donor Mac's desktop.
*Using your donor Mac's 'Disc Utility', format the broken Mac's hard drive (now's the time to partition it etc. if you want to).
STEP TWO: Clone your donor Mac
Your broken Mac is no longer broken and now needs a new OS. But you don't have the discs, right? Well get this... you can clone your donor mac on to your machine, even if they are totally different i.e. a laptop on to a tower.
*Again using Disc Utility, click on your donor Mac's hard drive. The restore tab appears as an option.
*Click on restore and drag the donor Mac's hard drive that contains the operating system in to the Source box.
*Drag the newly formatted hard drive on the broken Mac in to the Destination box.
*Click restore. Your donor Mac's hard drive will now be 'cloned' on to your no-longer-broken Mac. Once this is done, eject the first Mac's hard drive from your donor Mac's desktop. You no longer need the donor Mac.
Ta daa! Your machine now starts up happy and smily again. Time to restore all that stuff that's been sat on your Time Machine drive...
STEP 3: Restore from Time Machine using Migration Assistant
This is the really clever part that prompted me to write this piece in the first place. Time Machine IS accessible without those Leopard install discs you don't have. You need to use something called 'Migration Assistant'.
*Start up your machine as normal and you'll see it is an exact clone of the donor machine. Weird huh?
*Attach your Time Machine hard drive. It will show up as an icon on the desktop and because of it's size, you'll be asked if you want to use it as a Time Machine backup. Err, NO YOU DON'T! Click 'cancel'.
*Open Migration Assistant (if you can't find it just type it in to Finder and click). There are three options, the middle one being to restore from TM or another disc. Yup, you want that one.
*Migration Assistant will now ask you what you want to restore in stages, firstly User Accounts, then folders, Apps etc. It will even import internet settings
And that's you done. Let Migration Assistant do it's thang... altogether I had about 140gb to restore, so it wasn't exactly speedy. This wasn't helped by the fact that my TM hard drive is connected via USB (yes, I know). Just leave it alone and it'll whirr happily away...
Before I go - you don't have an option of when to restore from, and will restore from the last Time Machine save. At least then you should be able to access TM and go 'backwards' if you need to.
Also - for a Mac expert, the above will be up there with 'Spot Goes To The Farm' in terms of complexity. However, for the rest of us the above is only available in fragments all over the net. By far the most common response to 'how do I restore from Time Machine without install discs' is 'you can't'. If I'd found the above information in one place I could have saved a lot of hair pulling and swearing over the last couple of days, so forgive me for sharing this workaround with the rest of the world. Meanwhile your expertise will come in very handy for the inevitable questions that will get posted below, so please feel free to help those people that won't be sure if this solution is the right one for them. I'm no expert, I just want to help people that were stuck in the same situation (and looking at the web, there's a LOT of them).
Hope this is of use to someone, thanks and *good luck*!

Most maintenance and repair, restore and install procedures require the use
of the correct OS X install DVD; be it an original machine-specific restore/install
disc set or a later retail non-specific general install disc set.
By having an unsupported system, perhaps installed via an illegal download or
other file-sharing scheme, where no retail official discs are involved and the
initial upgrade was done by other means outside of the License Agreements,
you are asking us to discuss a matter of illegal installation and use of a product.
There are no legal complete OS X system download upgrades online; only bits
that are update segments to a retail or as-shipped machine's original OS X install.
+{Or an installation where a previous owner had correct retail upgrade discs, &+
+chose to not include them with the re-sale of the computer it was installed in.}+
However, to answer the initial question. To get and use an externally enclosed
hard drive in suitable boot-capable housing, and get a free-running Clone
Utility (download online; often a donation-ware product, runs free) you can
make a bootable backup of everything in your computer to an external HDD.
This is the way to make a complete backup to restore all functions to the computer.
The Time Machine has some limits, in that it can restore only that which it saves.
It does not make a bootable clone of your entire computer system with apps and
your files, to an external drive device. A clone can. And some of the clone utility's
settings can also backup changes to an external drive's system; if that other drive
is attached to the computer correctly.
Carbon Copy Cloner, from Bombich Software; and also SuperDuper, another of
the most known software names you can download and use to clone boot-capable
system backups of your computer's hard disk drive contents, are often cited.
However you resolve the matter of the running OS X system in your computer,
derived from what appears to be questionable means, is part of the initial issue.
Since you do need to be able to fix an existing installation by unmounting the
computer's hard disk drive and run the computer from the other (install disc or
system clone) while it is Unmounted; and use the correct Disk Utility version to
help diagnose and perhaps be able to fix it. You can't use a Tiger version Disk
Utility to fix a Leopard installation, and so on.
So, the situation and replies as far as they can go (since the matter does
constitute an illegal system, if it was arrived at without correct discs) is a
limited one. And file sharing of copied Mac OS X (and other) software is
also considered illegal.
And, one way to get odd malware and unusual stuff, is to get an unauthorized
system upgrade from an illegal source online. You never know what's inside it.
The other reply was not a personal attack; the matter is of legal status and as
you have a product with a questionable system, the answer is to correct it.
And if you want to save everything in your computer, make a clone to a suitable
externally enclosed self-powered boot capable hard disk drive. With older PPC
Macs, that would best be to one with FireWire and the Oxford-type control chips.
However that works out...
Good luck & happy computing!

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Why can't I use a Thunderbolt iMac as a screen for an TV or a gaming console?

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Using ALEKS with Mac (math class review for college)

Hi. I'm taking a math review class for college, and it's online. They want me to do it through something called ALEKS. Has anyone used this before? I've paid for the class, and tried downloading what they wanted me to download, but I got this error message:
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When I clicked the error link, it said:
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I've sent email to my professor, and to the ALEKS company about it, and I'm sure they'll respond. I just wanted to try asking here, in case anyone had done this before and knew what to do.
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Did you follow the instructions here?

Using a second Mac

I now have 2 Macs. I seem to recall that I can load my copy of Aperture on both (vs buying a second license) and wonder if this is true. Also, as my copy is an upgrade from V1.0 would I first need to load version 1 on the new computer and then upgrade?

Good question as I was wondering about that myself. I was planning on purchasing a new macbook in the fall and would like to intall Aperture on it as well.
These two statements from the eula seem contradictory:
+*2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.*+
+B. Single User License. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on one Apple-labeled desktop computer and one Apple-labeled laptop computer so long as both computers are owned and used by you.+
+C. This License does not allow the Apple Software to exist on more than one computer at a time, and you may not make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time.+
As I read it section B reads it can be used on one desktop AND on one laptop. (Notice it says and rather than or.) Section C however reads it cannot exist on more than one computer at a time.
Anyone care to clarify what it's really saying?

USING STRAWBERRY I-MAC AS A MONTOR FOR MAC MINI

Anyone know of a way of using an imac strawberry, with tray loading cd as a monitor for a new mac mini. my daughter adores this machine, but needs to upgrade

Hey Irene,
Yes I know what you mean. I'm working on an iBook G3
700 MHz 14.1" with Airport that I repaired. It was in
a 95 MPH car crash and the LCD was smashed, frame was
bent and the Combo Drive was also bent. Replaced the
LCD with an eBay one, pounded out the frame but the
Combo was too bent to bring back to life. Then it
suffered the classic GPU failure but had it reballed
and it's working great. Total cost $250. I'm amazed
how well these G3 antiques work with Panther or
Tiger. Only occasionally I see a mild slowness.
Since I got this I'm seldom on my G4 tower only for
photo editing, Excel or the like. I love it as you
say because of the portability. I also just sold
another one I fixed to a client. It was a 12". She's
a reporter so now she can work anywhere. Even in her
car on stakeout!
Richard
Dear Richard,
My daughter is going to be going to college in Ohio. Do you think that you could rehab something inexpensive for me that would run the Mac Cats? It would be great to have a book, but a desktop would also be wonderful. We're flying out in July for Orientation I. However, I'm thinking of taking the train for the second Orientation and her move in this August.
You seem quite the rescuer and rebuilder of Macs. Most of what you write about zooms over this newbie's head. (I used to worry that I was bothering you bright lights with my piffling problems. However, Boomer assured me that all questions are welcome...no matter how newbie!
My AIM is on my profile, and
All the best,
Irene

Can I use the second HDD in a Mini for Time Machine?

I am looking to replace one of the HDDs in a Mac Mini with an SSD, this would be for the main OS to work on and all my files, I am not a big advocate of spreading around my files over multiple data silos. I was wondering then, as I don't have a Time Capsule, whether it would be possible to dedicate the second HDD for exclusive use of Time Machine, backing everything up?
I don't have a Mini at the moment and so don't know how OS X treats the existing setup, is the HD treated as one, or are the two clearly separate? It's a mystery to me why there are two in the first place, I summise that it was an attempt by Apple to create the illusion of a fater computer by adding in a small amount of SSD to complement the larger (and cheaper) HDD?
Anyway, would splitting the two work and would it be easily achievable with existing tools in OS X?
Thanks.

Hamper wrote:
I was wondering then, as I don't have a Time Capsule, whether it would be possible to dedicate the second HDD for exclusive use of Time Machine, backing everything up?
Anyway, would splitting the two work and would it be easily achievable with existing tools in OS X?
Yes, you can use the 2nd HDD with Time Machine as your TM back up drive.
As long as you are able to format your new SSD and the HDD, you can use them independently. I would advise using Terminal and the diskutil commands to do this as Mountain Lion 10.8.3's GUI Disk Utility will see the SSD and HDD as needing to be "fixed" (drives marked in RED) and if you choose to FIX the drives your two drives will automatically be setup as a Fusion drive and all data on the drives will be lost.

How can I use my 27 iMac as a screen for my Satellite tv box? Usb?

I'm trying to watch TV from my Directv, into the usb in in my 27" iMac, to use the iMac as a tv. There are several adapters that will convert it properly, but I don't know where to look for software that will let me just watch it in real time, as opposed to recording it.
Anybody know of such a program/software?
thanks!

What iMac model do you have ?
The 2011 ThunderBolt iMacs only work with other ThunderBolt Macs Thunderbolt 10.6 Help: Using another Mac as an external display
For the 2009 and 2010 27" iMacs with Mini DisplayPort you might need something like the Kanex XD http://www.kanexlive.com/xd
The Kanex XD is not compatible with ThunderBolt iMacs.
Stefan

Use external display to present iphone screen for training

I have to teach newbies in my company how to use both the iPhone 4 and the iPad.
I was hoping, that there was a way to display the iPhone screen (exactly like we all see in the keynotes) so I can navigate around and they can see what's happening on an external display - instead of gathering over my shoulder.
There just has to be something - I see all the iphone costumes people use and I can't imagine there isn't a way for me to utilize it for training...
Thanks...

The only way I could think to do that would be to take screenshots of the iPhone showing the things you want to teach them, and then you could buy the iPad VGA Adapter, which works with photo slideshows and movies. You might be better off taking screenshots on the iPhone and iPad and putting together a Powerpoint to demonstrate.
I guess in the Keynotes, Apple has their own custom setup that allows them to show a live feed of the iPhone screen. I hope this is helpful, sorry if it's not exactly what you were looking for.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC552ZM/A
Best of luck.

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