TV MacBook Independence

Situation; I have successfully connected my MacBook to Panasonic plasma screen. I have created a short presentation in Flash that runs on a loop full screen. One of the presentation screens contains dynamic content that can be updated (using a xml file) while the presentation is playing.
Question: Is it possible to play the presentation full screen on the plasma while, at the same time, having access to the xml file on the MacBook for updating?

You should be able to. Just turn off mirror displays and you should be able to run one thing on the external while doing something else on the main screen.
Mort

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Macbook resolution independence

how do i get my macbook with os lion, to have a screen resolution of 1200x800, while running an external monitor with a different resolution set through preferences?
every time i set the ext. monitor on the preferences, the lcd screen resolution on the macbook changes resolution too. how can i fix this problem and set the resolutions independently?
this used to work fine when i was running snow leapord, however upon upgrading to lion, i lost the settings, and cannot seem to get it quite right
help pleasseeeee x

This might be a Lion problem. While we all have MacBooks in this forum most of us don’t have Lion. There's a Lion Support Community where everybody has Lion. You should also post this question there. https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.7_lion

Macbook Pro 17" Hi-Resolution LED widescreen question

I'm thinking about purchasing a Macbook Pro but I was wondering, is it worth spending the extra bucks for graphics and video on the 17" with Hi-Resolution LED widescreen or is the Hi-Resolution LED widescreen meant for HD playback?

Wow, seems like this is a problem many people are dealing with and something Apple can't or won't fix at the moment. Wish I knew this before I ordered it. For more information here's a series of postings from a different forum. If you don't feel like reading it all, scroll to the bottom. That describes what I see on my High Res exactly!!
Anyone know if the resolution independence stuff made it into Leopard?
Monaco 9 is going to look pretty darn small if it didn't ...
-- Verne
I don't believe so.
Steve
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Verne Arase <[email protected]> wrote:
Anyone know if the resolution independence stuff made it into Leopard?
Not in a complete sense. It is there under the hood, available for
application developers to test with, but isn't turned on yet for the end
user because there are too many applications which can't handle it,
including many of Apple's ones.
On Mar 5, 2:43 am, [email protected] (David Empson) wrote:
Not in a complete sense. It is there under the hood, available for
application developers to test with, but isn't turned on yet for the end
user because there are too many applications which can't handle it,
including many of Apple's ones.
Is there no way of increasing font size for native tool and menu bars
(whatever the term is)? On a 1920x1200 they go microscopic, and
workarounds aren't very satisfactory. Zooming or else flipping to
lower resolution seems to give fuzzy results, worse than a similar
laptop with a lower native resolution.
One of the problems seems to be a font smoothing algorithm. Put aside
the actual issue of font smoothing and whether you want it or not... I
believe I am talking about a side effect. Try turning off the "image
smoothing" buried deep in the sys-pref/keyboard/trackpad (of all
places). This seems to crisp up the font considerably - it looks
untidy if you zoom in, but without it (even unzoomed) it is as if a
greasy film all over your glasses and you can't focus at all. There is
also a sys-pref for small font smoothing which doesn't appear to work.
With hostile human factors for fonts, it just compounds the pain of
other eccentric factors. That stupid grey font that is used for
example in itunes is too low contrast. Similarly the bookmark bar of
safari is unreadable due to the darkening of the entire top part for
an active screen, which gives no contrast. "universal access" is
pretty useless or else overkillI, and I have searched for endless
"preference" screens to tweak these without much luck...

My MacBook randomly shuts off even when plugged in

I hope someone can help me. My MacBook Pro is not even close to 1 year old and it randomly shuts down completely about twice a day. My battery is stated as in "normal" when looking in the system profiler so I don't think it's the battery, but what other power options could I be having?
I hope there are some Apple gurus that can help me. I am calling Apple tomorrow to see where I can get this fixed, but I don't want the repair guy to say he fixed something when he really didn't. This is my work machine and I would appreciate any help anyone can give me. Not having my MacBook Pro for 1 day is a major killer for me.
Thanks,
Jeremy

Oh, well, if you are so brave as to look at the logs, then this will help: from Applications > Utilities > Console.app, double click Console and run that.
Talk about having way too much fun and information: I like to look around in there, it is very intuitive. The diagnostic Reports; oh my! But the coolest is to peer into FILES > /private/var/log > fsck_hfs.log, and see what is ailing, lately. The logs come up scolled down already to the most current crash yah.
Regarding Adobe Reader: I do not use it. For any file that looks for it I do the "get info" (command and "i" key, or when the file is selected click on File in the menu bar and pull down to "get info"), and then in the "get info" box click on Preview, under "Open with," and yes to "Use this applications to open all documents like this one." I personally prefer Preview for opening .pdf files etc., so I have ditched Adobe Reader, no offense. And I do not have on board any MS Office; prefer NeoWriter: less in the bloatware cpu hogging VM-swapping syndrome imho.
I recently had some System hangs with what turned out to be Adobe Updater (on my Mac Mini, not the MBP). That is a separate app! Click on the magnifying glass at the far right of the top of the screen, and type into the Spotlight search bar "Adobe Updater" ... mouse-over (don't click yet) on a file name that appears under the spotlight search bar and in a couple seconds the Path will display, so you will know where it lives ... I dragged mine off, screaming, (me screaming, not the inert inanimate (who knows though: it is Adobe and MS) files and apps to the trash and emptied them, and never yet (knock on wooden head) have had to rue that moment of assertion of independence ...

Macbook Pro freezing every one hour

Hello guys,
I did post this a couple of days ago, but since I got not a single answer, I'm kindly posting again too see if I get more luck this time, so, I hope any of you can help me with my problem, and thanks in advance:
I have a macbook pro, OS X 10.7.5, 2,3 GHz, two years old. Around a week ago, it started to systematically hang up. It happens as follows: It goes irresponsive, independentely from which applications I'm using at the moment. It does it gradually, so at the beginning I can still move the pointer, but as soon as I try to go to force quite, the spinning wheels appears, and soon it's all frozen, so I don't have any other option than restarting with the physical button.
Funnily, this happens every one hour. I went through other posts in the support community, and firstly, I was directed to check Terminal, finding out, right before the reboots, several messages which said that a thinning of the SSD unit was necessary, since there was less than 20% of the space free. I have cleaned up the unit, having now 34,7 GB out of 127,18 GB free (27%). I thought I had solve the problem, but no, it keeps on freezing the same. The messages do not appear anymore tho.
I checked the unit with Disk Utility, and a repair was recommended. I did a repair, by restarting and holding Ctrl+D, after which Disk Utility says the unit is alright. But it still freezes.
I reinstalled OS X 10.7.5, but that didn't help either.
The Console now shows these messages before the freezing happens:
24/09/13 18:06:08,527 com.apple.Dock.agent: 2013-09-24 18:06:08.526 DashboardClient[484:403] error [1001] setting colorSpace to Color LCD colorspace
24/09/13 18:06:18,000 kernel: hfs: cat_lookup_siblinglinks: getkey for 114690004 failed 2
24/09/13 18:06:52,559 installd: PackageKit: ----- Begin install -----
24/09/13 18:06:58,217 xpchelper: could not open dyld map file: (null)
24/09/13 18:07:01,957 sudo: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/private/tmp/PKInstallSandbox.94nENK/Scripts/com.apple.pkg.JavaSecurity.n0m xH5 ; USER=apple ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mrt.plist
24/09/13 18:07:02,262 installd: Installed "Java for OS X 2013-004" (1.0)
24/09/13 18:07:02,271 installd: PackageKit: ----- End install -----
24/09/13 18:07:02,000 kernel: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x103ddf000): p=531[MRT] clearing CS_VALID
24/09/13 18:09:22,376 Download Java Components: Java Install finished
24/09/13 18:09:22,376 Download Java Components: Relaunching after install: file://localhost/Library/Application%20Support/Adobe/CS5ServiceManager/CS5Servi ceManager.app/
24/09/13 18:10:55,000 bootlog: BOOT_TIME 1380039055 0
Thanks for the help!

Hi,
as un update, I am posting the last ten messages on Console for the last time I had to reboot it, since the one in the original post is already days old:
27/09/13 13:53:05,452 com.apple.cmio.VDCAssistant: /SourceCache/AppleGVA/AppleGVA-3.1.9/Sources/Slices/Driver/AVD_loader.cpp: failed to get a service for display 3
27/09/13 13:53:05,452 com.apple.cmio.VDCAssistant: error initializing gpu library
27/09/13 13:53:06,482 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.apple.rcd[275]) Exited: Killed: 9
27/09/13 13:53:06,495 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.apple.talagent[225]) Exited: Killed: 9
27/09/13 13:53:06,535 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: ([0x0-0x18018].com.apple.iTunesHelper[277]) Exited: Killed: 9
27/09/13 13:53:06,538 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: ([0x0-0x30030].com.apple.AppleSpell[308]) Exited: Killed: 9
27/09/13 13:53:06,592 loginwindow: DEAD_PROCESS: 70 console
27/09/13 13:53:07,053 shutdown: reboot by apple:
27/09/13 13:53:07,054 shutdown: SHUTDOWN_TIME: 1380282787 53340
27/09/13 13:53:07,068 UserEventAgent: CaptiveNetworkSupport:UserAgentDied:139 User Agent @port=43271 Died
Thanks

I am having macbook air recently my iphotos did not open and was showing report apple and reopen but i came to know that by pressing alt and iphotos i open an new photo library and stored the pics but now how can i get the pics which i had in the earlier

i am having macbook air recently my iphotos did not open and was showing report apple and reopen but i came to know that by pressing alt and iphotos i open an new photo library and stored the pics but now how can i get the pics which i had in the earlier photo please help me to recover my photos

Well I'll guess you're using iPhoto 11:
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

Macbook + mini-DVI to video adapter problems!

Hi,
My roommate and I both have Macbooks - I got mine in June '06, it's one of the older black 80 gb models and hers is a white 120 gb that she got in August '07. We bought a mini-DVI to video adapter so we could watch DVDs and video files on our TV, but have been having some trouble with it lately. At first, it worked perfectly with her computer, but in the past few weeks has been malfunctioning - when she plugs it in, the default background shows up on the TV screen but nothing else, any windows she has open only show up on the TV if she drags them to the right on her screen until she can't see them on her computer anymore, so we're unable to watch anything fullscreen. Any tips on how to fix this?
Also, the adapter has never worked with my computer - any time I plug mine in, my computer display becomes enlarged and slightly distorted, and on the TV screen is distorted by horizontal lines that move up and down the screen. Any ideas here?
Thanks so much for the help!

Hi cbeth,
welcome to macbook forum.
For your friend macbook, try to press F7 back and forth to switch between mirror and expanded mode.
Try to update your macbook hardware firmware and software using software updater and repair permission after that...application/utilities/disk utility/repair permission.
Also reset your PRAM and PMU.
Open your friend system preference / display and try to compare and set yours similar to hers, including resolution, color depth, refresh rate.
Good Luck.

Using Mini DVI to VGA adapter on MacBook

I bought the adapter from Apple & hooked up my LCD monitor to the MacBook, but the video I get on the monitor is different that on my laptop. It has an old screen background & the dock but nothing on my desktop shows up. Also, when I'm plugged to the monitor, my dock disappears on the laptop screen. Is there some setting I need to change? It worked fine with my G4 PowerBook.
Thanks for any help....
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

i use the mini dvi-vga adapter in my classroom almost everyday. It sounds like your new monitor is running as a side by side monitor to your display instead of a "replacement" display.
To get your projector/monitor to basically show whatever is on your macbook screen once you've hooked up press F7....this should make your projector/monitory become your display with your dock & all of your desktop stuff. Your new monitor will completely mirror your display.
THis should do what you're looking for.

Mini DVI-to-Video Adapter troubles with MacBook

Hello,
I recently purchased a Mini DVI-to-Video Adapter (the one with Composite and S-Video output) to use with my MacBook to use my computer to watch movies on my TVs. The TVs are very late model, so they may not work, but when I plug the Adapter into my computer and then plug the Composite Video cord into my TV, the TV's picture is black and white and has four replications of the desktop. It is very fuzzy but the TV is clearly receiving some input from the desktop. Does anyone have any ideas of how to correct this, or is it just because the TVs are so old? Thanks for the help.
-Bill

Welcome to Apple Discussions, schumawm.
Most likely the wrong timing/resolution is being sent to the TV. If mirroring is turned on in Display preferences under the Arrangement tab, uncheck the mirror box to turn mirroring off. Then set the TV's resolution to 640 x 480 as a starting point. 640 x 480 may be all that an older TV is capable of.

Mini-dvi to video adapter changing display on macbook?

I recently purchased a mini-dvi to video adapter for my macbook to be able to view photos and video on my tv. I'm having trouble with the display on my computer when I use the adapter. As soon as I plug in the mini-dvi video adapter into the computer the display on my computer switches from 1280 X 800 to 640 X 480. Attached to the adapter I have an s-video cable to my tv. The display shows the same on the tv but in black and white.
Any ideas? Thanks!

Turn mirroring off. That way the two displays can run independently from one another. The mirroring check box is in Displays Preferences under the Arrangement tab.

My mac's software is only available under my profile on MacBook pro. How can other family members get to the optional SW logged in under their own profile

Is there a way to share purchased SW under mote than one profile on the MacBook pro?
Thanks

If the software is in the HD>Applications folder it's available to everyone. If for some reason you put software into User>Applications folder it will be available only to that user.

External Drive is no longer recognized by Macbook

I have this external drive....
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Passport-Essential-WDME2500TN/dp/B0012GK3M Q/ref=sr11?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1280159206&sr=1-1
It is about 60% full of music/pictures/documents that are NOT on my Macbook, therefore I use it regularly.
Every once in a while, I accidentally remove it without properly ejecting first. But I guess I did it one too many times because now the computer will not recognize it at all.
To insure that the drive wasn't corrupt, I plugged it into a PC. It worked fine. The files are all there and were completely accessible. But as soon as I plugged it back into the Mac, it won't show up.
When I try a Disk Utilities repair, I get the following message:::::
FIRST AID FAILED
Disk Utility stopped repairing “My Passport” because the following error was encountered:
The underlying task reported failure on exit
Verify and Repair disk “My Passport”
** /dev/disk1s1
** Phase 1 - Read FAT
** Phase 2 - Check Cluster Chains
** Phase 3 - Checking Directories
Unable to read directory (Input/output error)
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 non HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
I have NO $$$, so telling me to purchase a $30-100 program will not help me AT ALL. I'm looking for solutions that will not effect my wallet, even if they take all day to complete.
What can I do????????

Ok. Just to set one part straight- I doubt the problem came from unplugging your drive without ejecting. This usually isn't a problem unless files are writing or in use when you do it, but ejecting is a safe way to avoid issues.
Try force-mounting the drive in terminal by using the following commands
*mkdir /Volumes/yourdrivename*
this command should give you the location of the drive on your computer. (It should be something like disk2 or disk1s3) Then type the location into:
*mount /dev/yourdrivelocation*
Whether or not this works, follow up this step by ejecting the drive and unplugging and plugging it back in. This worked for me when I was having this issue.
Also- are you able to backup and reformat the drive? This would be a good thing to try if other attempts have failed.

I was given the wrong macbook when I gave mine in for repair. I want to complain. Also, they wiped ALL my data off the hard drive. I want to complain to someone in authority. How?

I am extremely disappointed and angry with Apple service. I am a writer and booked three weeks in Spain so that I could finish my book. On the second day my laptop cut out on me asI was working on it, so I took it to Goldenmack in Cadiz. Not only was I given someone else's macbook when I went back to collect it, but then when I returned to the UK, the Apple shop in Brighton managed to delete ALL my data from the hard drive because I was unlucky enough to get a trainee on her first day. I have since learned she should not have deleted my data without even running a diagnostic. She told me she was going to 'restore' the drive. I took this to mean she was going to restore my work. But no! She erased the lot.
I complained and eventually was put in touch with a supervisor, who I was told had authority to resolve the issue. She said she would get the shop to phone me. That was ten days ago and I'm still waiting.
Ok so there's nothing I can do now to get back the three chapters of my book that I have lost and didn't back up, but the hard drive on this laptop is still faulty. I try to back up my work every time I use the machine but as soon as I attach an external drive, the whole thing shuts down. I can't use it any more as I can't risk losing any more work. This laptop is only just over a year old and this is just not acceptable, especially since I have really looked after it.
This is an appalling service I have encountered from Apple, and I am not going to ignore it. I have contacted the young chap whose laptop I was erroneously given, and the repair of which I paid for! (although I did eventually get a refund), to ask him if he had been given mine as well. He said he had been completely unaware that his laptop had been given to me and he is furious as he had loads of "sensitive material" on it." I have no idea in whose hands my laptop has been either, or indeed what damage it sustained while it was supposed to be in for repair.

Contact Apple Support:
http://www.apple.com/support/contact/
Apple - How to Contact Us:
http://www.apple.com/contact/
Be sure to refer to the repair ticket number.
Sounds like a terrible mixup.
Good luck & happy computing!

Adobe Photoshop CS2 in Macbook Pro

During installation of Adobe Photoshop CS2, the installer runs and freezes in the midst. There is no way of installing Adobe Photoshop CS2 with intel processor. Full reinstallation of Mac OSX doesn't help. Running disk utility doesn't help either. Problems occurred with or without installing of Apple Security Update 2006-003(intel). Any comments?

Edwin, thanks for the input, and I do apologize. You are right. I should be easier with which to live. There are two major problems out there right now. That is also part of the problem. We are not used to two problems in our domain.
I own 20 Mac's in my office, and I only did these updates on my MacBook Pro 17 inch and my G5 Dual 2.3 Ghz machine that has two 30-inch Cinema Displays. I had both problems on my MacBook Pro, and the G5 had the reboot glitch. I won't update the other machines untill these problems are resolved by the OEMs.
Of the two major hiccups out there, this link indicates Quicktime's update is the source of the inability to restart machines, fixed by deleting startup items, I believe. I had this reboot problem also.
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/24/cs2quicktime/index.php
Accrobat's freezing the system, the question at hand, is a result of the Security Update, fixed by rolling back to a pre-Security Update state using Archive & Install re-installation of the OS. Archive & Install does not erase your files or network settings.
Apple has released two products that fouled these systems. Bad Quality Assurance I think. I am not sure if the Security Update problem is an Apple or an Adobe software problem, i.e., Adobe may have not followed some software guidance. I am certain both companies are aware of the problem, but I am uncertain of the fix for Acrobat. We probably do need to update for security, but I can't live without Acrobat. So I will wait it out without the Security Update.

How do I install windows from USB on Macbook pro 3,1

How do I install windows from USB on Macbook pro 3,1 ?
My Superdrive is far from super anymore, So I managed to make an extern drive with both Snow Leopard Partition, Lion Partition (Since I thought Boot Camp 4,1 would bypass my problem), and Time Machine partition, Since I got 1. USB drive that works.
- My general issue is that Boot camp Refuse to see the USB drive - (Many "how to"´s though show how they install windows perfectly through the USB port, but they use airbooks!, and somehow the Macbook will not ?)
I fix that issue with >> rEFIt <<, that suddenly makes it possible for the Mac to see the USB drive, and partitions.
Which was very strange since I could use an extern HD with the whole installation to start up wipe the whole disk, and then use my extern drive with partitions to install Snow Leopard and get everything as before with timemachine. Very smart with timemachine, but very lucky that I have a extern drive that runs the whole system and that I made the partitionsdrive before. DVD-drives are the past!
Point: So the original system could see the Snow Leopard installation USB disk, but boot camp cannot find the USB drive ?????????
After rEFIt I booted and then I got this error:
Starting bootmgr.efi
Error: Unsupported while loading bootmgr.efi
I read it could be a problem with the Windows software, so I purchased an extern DVD drive, Used Disk Utility to make an image (.DMG), then used another program to convert the .dmg to .ISO.
Then downloaded a trialversion of vmWare fusion, and installed windows from the iso. Everything worked brilliant, except and that is why I want to use boot camp, Running windows in another program while running the mac system is a little hacky and slow.
Point: Nothing is wrong with the windows software, and windows runs fine.
I then downloaded the Windows DVD / USB Tool, reformatted a USB drive as Master Boot Partition, MS-Dos Fat partition, then after lots of struggling got Vmware, windows to recognise the USB drive. And installed the windows software on the USB drive, as all the walkthroughs recommend.
Then I tried for "fun"! to just install windows form the extern USB drive, and with rEFIt it will see the drive and start to do something, but then when it starts to boot, the screen just turns into black and nothing happens, and you can see the drive does NOTHING. (I think it is because I only have 1 USB drive and the Extern DVD drive does not get enough power, but again the mac refuse to see the USB drive unless it is a Snow Leopard installation USB-drive!
Well trying to install Windows Ultimate 64 Bit, which worked great in vmware, because that program installed from the .ISO file that I had on the desktop, but trying with Boot Camp did not get anywhere, what kind of **** program is this boot camp anyway!?, but then I try the new USB disk with windows made from windows, thorugh rEFIt, it sees the disk and then starts and then I get this ERROR:
rEFIt - Booting Legacy OS
Starting legacy loader
Using load option ´USB´
Error: Not found returned from legacy loader
Error: Not found from LocateDevicePath
(x 9 times)
Error: Load Error while (re)opening our installation volume
The firmware refused to boot from the selected volume. Note that external hard drives are not well-supported by Apple´s firmware for legacy OS booting
(Hey Apple please send out a updated firmware that fix this issue?!)
So how do I do it ? - or is the only option to fix the partition running the system from the extern disk. Format the whole drive in 2 from the "bottom" and install windows and then afterwards install Mac on the other partition ? Or just run windows on the mac and forget about mac software ? What a stupid solution...

There are strings in the pliist file to add other Macs so that you can use some USB-DVD drives.
This is 5 page thread, so a little more 'meat' to it:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3410900?start=60&tstart=0
And on PC booting Windows from a USB DVD to do the install is usually a piece of cake, sometimes you just need to specify that USB in the BIOS boot order and sometimes select via F12 (or another Fkey) and that is it.
What you have here seems to be everything and everyone is excluded unless there is a mac-model device ID string that specifies yes. An unnecessary hurdle.

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