Mac OS X: Unlocking Your Desktop

There are many reasons for unlocking your desktop, but a great many more for leaving it locked the first of which is that the Desktop is more than simply a folder on OS X. Having lots of files on your desktop will affect the performance of your Mac (see here, here, and here).However there are a number of cases where you might want to, temporarily, unlocking the desktop so you can save files to it.First of all bring up finder and right-click your...

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Mac OS X: Fixing "Your screen shot can't be saved" Error Message.

In order to save a screen shot when you're running Mac OS X (I'm on 10.7.4) you press;Cmd + shift + 4 The mouse will then turn into a cursor allowing you to select an area of the screen to take the screen shot of. Clearly an incredibly useful feature particularly if you're looking to produce documents (or blogs!) which include lots of helpful screen shots!The problem is that if, like me, you have a locked desktop (and for the life of me I can't...

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Noetix: Omitting View Templates (Script)

Similarly to a previous post to omit view columns from templates (see here) this script will allow you to omit whole view templates by calling a single file. Here is the script;define noetix_view = &1;define update_date = &2;UPDATE N_View_Templates N   SET N.USER_INCLUDE_FLAG = 'N',       n.last_update_date = TO_DATE('&update_date'),       n.last_updated_by = 'A Pellew' WHERE n.view_label = '&noetix_view';COMMIT;The script file (omit_view_template_xu2.sql...

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Noetix: Omitting A Column From a Template (Script)

As you might be aware Noetix 6.0.2 has introduced a new way to omit columns from view templates. Previous you needed to update the Product_Version column with a product version that would never be used by your installation (we typically picked '8'), from the new version there is a new column called User_Include_Flag which you can set to 'N' to exclude a column.This makes a lot more sense but it has highlighted the issue that we have a lot of changes to make to our various script files in order to introduce the new functionality - hardly ideal....

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Windows 7 Drivers for PC line Flatbed Scanner (Model PCL-3000 aka Mustek 1248UB)

Label on the Underside of ScannerMy parents have just brought a new Windows 7 machine and as you can imagine, as the techie in the family, when I came to visit I managed to pick up the task of getting all the old USB devices working with the new machine. The upgrade was from Windows XP so it was quite a big surprise that pretty much everything worked just fine, the drivers for the Lexmark Z615 were downloaded and installed without incident. Same...

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Using AppleTV (and Airplay) with BT Home Hub 3.0

If you're reading this post then you're probably experiencing one of the following issues;Your Apple TV can connect to the internet over Wi-Fi but can't see your iTunes Library (that you're sharing via Home Sharing) on a another machine on your home networkAirplay Devices you own (such as iPod's, iPhone's, iPad's, etc) cannot see your Apple TV (despite them all being able to access the Internet via the Home Hubs Wi-FiYou've probably tried;Doing a...

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