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I'm using iMovie HD 6.0.3 under Lion. I also am using some of the plugins from Stupendous Software, and I have a question about the use of one of them, called PiP Rect Crop. I understand how to use this plugin to create a "Picture in Picture" effect, except there is one aspect of this which I...

I got the answer to my question: It turns out that I can split the way I want using QuickTime Player 7. If I hover the mouse over the time indicator on the lower left and then click, I get a menu that gives me the option of choosing Standard or Frame Number. The Standard option is the default...

I want to split a video into several clips without resizing. I know how to do the splitting in iMovie HD, but because that program likes to work with standard aspect ratios, the resulting clips are almost always resized and have annoying black bars on the top and bottom. Is there a way to...

Thank you, Phil, for this simple solution. However, in thinking about this, I realize that the Saved Application State folder is useful for keeping the states of various programs during the course of a login session. Sometimes during an individual login session, I want to restart an...

Even though I'm running Lion, I'm still using the "professional", legacy version QuickTime Player 7 to view most videos. This is because that software gives us more options for controlling how individual videos are played. For example, using QT7, I can go to Window->Show Movie Properties and...

In Lion, is there a way to remove iTunes from the context menu when I Control-Click on a video or audio file and go into the Open With submenu? I have my own favorite programs for listening to music and viewing videos, and I'd like to get iTunes out of sight and out of mind, as much as...

Thank you, but I want this to be fully automated (no human interaction). In any case, I figured out a solution. The following AppleScript illustrates. Suppose I have two sound outputs. The first one is for my headphones, the second one is for my speaker. on setSoundOutput(whichItem) tell...

I have my headphones attached through my MacBook Pro's headphone jack. I have a USB connection to my speakers. In some cases, I'd like to switch my computer's default sound output from the headphone port to the USB speaker port using software only. In other words, I want to do this without...

Of course, I can always manually shut down everything before reboot. However, in the past (up through Snow Leopard), MacOSX took care of that for me with a single confirmation mouse-click after I requested a shutdown or restart. Now, with Lion, MacOSX is forcing me to do more work when I...

Thank you, but that shutdown dialog box does not work. Even when I deselect the reopen closed programs option (or whatever its exact wording is), the Terminal windows still re-open after restart in the way I described in my other thread (I mentioned this in the original post of that other...

I got a solution for this problem from the Lion section of the discussion.apple.com site. Here's what I did to fix this problem: Open Terminal. Open up a Finder window to a work folder. In the Finder menu bar, hold down Option and select Go->Library. Navigate to Saved Application State...

In Lion, if I do a Restart or a Shutdown, a dialog box pops up asking me whether or not I want to close certain open applications. But after a couple seconds -- before I can select the appropriate option in that dialog box -- the shutdown sequence continues. I vaguely remember seeing something...

I now have a reproducible scenario in Lion which illustrates this problem: 1. Uncheck Preferences->General->Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps 2. Open up a few Finder windows. 3. Open up a few Terminal windows. 4. In the Terminal Preferences, disable everything related to...

Thank you! Once I went through the steps you so kindly outlined and clicked the pencil icon, I opened the "User Experience" tab in the "Directory Utility" frame. On that page, the only reference to anything netbios-like is the following selected entry: Use UNC path from Active Directory to...

Is there a way to completely disable netbios under Lion? I've seen instructions for doing this under Leopard, but they don't seem to apply to Lion. Thanks in advance. .

Or better yet, I could operant conditioning to train a real mouse to do it. .

Thank you very much. However, I much prefer a mouse-only solution. .

Thanks, DeltaMac. Yours is a good suggestion. However, I recently found out about a program called XMenu which puts a dropdown menu in the menu bar, and I can fill it with exactly the list of applications that I want. So I opted for that solution. ... even though I do apreciate your...

Thank you. I installed Quicksilver, and I can see that it's a robust and well-designed application. I also looked at its Menu plugin and its Mini plugin. However, Quicksilver still doesn't do exactly what I want. This describes what I am looking for ... Suppose I have three applications...

I'm looking for a custom MenuExtra which would work as follows: It puts one or more menus in the Menu Bar, and each entry of the menu is set to run an app specified by the user. I'd like to use such a MenuExtra to put a menu in the Menu Bar that will allow me to launch a few of my own...