oddball are the conjurer of the Mac community . Like Houdini , we practice our knowledge to get out of bad situation . And like David Copperfield , we use sleight of deal to dazzle the uninformed . With these three trick , you’re able to conjure up some magic of your own in the New Year .
Resurrect Lost Print Jobs
You printed something weeks ago — perhaps an airline - ticket receipt . Now you desire to impress it again , but you did n’t save a written matter of the Web page and ca n’t obtain the info on the airline ’s site . What to do ? reissue it from your automatically save computer backup of every document you ’ve ever printed , of course .
The first thing you require to get laid is that a piece of Unix software program foretell CUPS ( Common Unix Printing System ) controls printing in OS X. cup includes an option that lets you save and reissue previously print document ( print jobs ) . Here ’s how :
redact the CUPS FileTo start the choice , you have to get at and edit a file call cupsd.conf ( save a copy of the original ) . Select the Go To Folder command from the Finder ’s data file computer menu and typecast
If you haveBare Bones Software’s$49 TextWrangler or $ 179 BBEdit , you may start the file by dragging it to the program icon . If you ’re using TextEdit , getBrian R. Hill ’s $ 15 utility Pseudoand drag the TextEdit icon to its image . This open TextEdit with root access , which you involve in lodge to save the emended file . ( BBEdit and TextWrangler have this power built in . )
Next , locate the following text in the written document :
vary
Now settle
exchange the line so it read
Find a Saved JobYour next step is to forecast out how to locate and reprint a specific save job . To enter the Web - free-base user interface for the CUPS printing software , launch Safari ( or your preferred browser app ) and type the follow uniform resource locator in the address field of battle :
Select Do Administration Tasks . If you ’re using OS X 10.3.4 or subsequently , a sheet will drop down asking you to fill in your name and word . Do so and tap the enter release . You now have administrative admittance to the cup software system .
press the Manage Jobs clitoris . In the filmdom that appears , tap the Show Completed Jobs button . To see your most - late print job , scroll to the bottom of the window that look . To reprint a job , press the Restart Job push button next to its name .
Password HasslesIf after you fall into place on the Restart Job button , CUPS rejects your right countersign , you may be muck in a Panther problem . Panther uses a new form of parole encryption that CUPS ca n’t decrypt . That ’s a problem if you make a steel - new user account in Panther and you ’re running OS tenner 10.3.4 or later .
orchard apple tree intends to fix this ; in the lag , you could delete the section of the cupsd.conf filing cabinet that requires the password . Your Mac will be less secure , but you ’ll be able-bodied to use the feature . Locate the following air near the ending of the cupsd Indian file :
Delete these four telephone circuit , or add a pound symbolic representation before each one to make them inactive.—TED LANDAU
Prevent Server-Log Wipeout
Every week , your vane server kicks out a log file that you desire to download with the $ 39 Interarchy file - transportation software (; November 2004 ) and work on with your logarithm - psychoanalysis program . This voice childlike enough — but there ’s a glitch . By nonremittal , Interarchy uses Indian file - name prolongation to settle how to download file . Your log utilize the .log denotation ; therefore , Interarchy does n’t recognize them as text file . What ’s a Webmaster to do ?
From an Interarchy file cabinet itemisation , take one of your log file and pick out Listing : Get Info . In the Get Info windowpane , choose BBEdit or your favorite text editor program from the program kill - up menus for Open , View , and Edit ( in font you require to view or blue-pencil the Indian file ) . Then pick out Text from the Encoding pop - up bill of fare , choose your logarithm - analysis programme from the Post Process app bulge out - up menu , and shut the Get Info window . Now Interarchy will download all your logarithm files as BBEdit text files and work them automatically in your logarithm - analytic thinking program.—ADAM C. ENGST
Put iChat on Autopilot
A admirer of mine who recently began working from home told me he was terrorize to ill-use away from the computer in cause the boss sent a message via iChat . I said john breaks were acceptable . “ Well , ” he start with some falter , “ what if I necessitate to take the dog to the beach ? ”
Obviously , he take an iChat autoresponder that could discover a chat induct by the boss and type a series of reaction . Here ’s how to whip one up usingPygmy Software ’s free iCAR utility , an iChat plug - in for creating autoresponses , andScript Software ’s $ 20 iKey , a very coolheaded macro usefulness .
It works this room : in iChat you must flick on a chat window to make it active . iCAR performs this service for you , but it also does something once it activates that windowpane — it sends a message or trigger an AppleScript . If it place a message , it reveals to your newspaperman that it ’s autoresponding . Instead , you could set it to actuate an AppleScript — but you leave the AppleScript field empty . This generates an inconsequential alert message that does n’t appear . Then iKey tread in and type your bastard response .
The SetupTo accession iCAR ’s configurations , install it and then unfold iChat . Choose iChat : Preferences , and tap the Auto - Reply tab . Set it to autoreply when your status is Available , Away , and Idle . Under Timing , choose Reply To Every substance . To keep iCAR from revealing that you ’re autoresponding , trade off the Message Prefix choice at the bottom of the window , which by default eccentric
Next go to iKey to make the sequence of reply . First select Shortcut : New Set : Select An software and voyage to iChat . When you find it , press Select . Choose Shortcuts : New Sequence . In the Shortcut : succession windowpane , turn on the Programmed choice and choose After Activate from its pop out - up menu . In the same window , select Defined from the Repeat bulge - up menu and enter
Now tick on the Sequence lozenge and take Shortcuts : public utility : await Front Window With Title . In the windowpane that appears , press the Utility tab key , choose Wait Window Title Contains from the Action bolt down - up menu , and enter your boss ’s iChat handle ( whatever appear in the title bar when you two schmooze ) in the Title / String In Title field . This tell apart iKey to wait until your boss initiates a chat .
In the same window , choose Shortcuts : Utility : Make A break , select the Utility tab in the resulting window , and enter
Next , choose Shortcuts : Keyboard : Type Text . select the Keyboard tab in the ensue windowpane and character
I ’ve set up a number of responses in this way , with long break between each one . A agile way to do this is to merely copy , paste , and customize the steps you composed earlier . Finally , tell iKey to type
The CaveatsBefore you leave your Mac , make iChat the active software . iKey may not see the chat window if it ’s running in the background . If your boss logs out of the chat before the sequence is all over , he or she is give way to be suspicious when you keep to send updates about how your call is going . And if your boss tries to get through you later in the day and is greet with the same scheme , you ’re so busted.—CHRISTOPHER BREEN
