Turning on find my Mac on Mountain Lion

I got the following error with Find My Mac;

The error was "This Mac can't be located because it does not have Wi-Fi". I found how to resolve this with the advice from here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4137458?start=0&tstart=0 Basically go into system preferences and under security & privacy, and then the privacy tab, turn off location services then turn them back on. For me this fixed it and Find My Mac now works.

Viewing the full hard drive space usage OS X

Something that has been a pain for a long time is that the hard drive icon, on the desktop, says how big it is and how much space is available, but it obscures it; e.g. "319.14 G...7 GB free" rather than "319.14 GB, 47 GB free". E.g.

Thankfully I found the instructions here; http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-786367.html and the problem is quickly resolved by increasing the grid spacing of the icons until all the text is shown and you get the following;

Brill! So to do that; right click on the hard drive icon (two finger click) and click "Show View Options" and then increase the "Grid Spacing" until the text can be fully seen as above.

Fixing sleeping has fixed waking up too!

Now I have fixed sleeping on my MacBookPro, waking up has now been fixed as well - yeh! What was happening is that when I lifted the lid it would remain black, sometimes pressing space would bring up lock screen sometimes it wouldn't. Opening and closing the lid and pressing the space repeatedly would eventually get the lock screen. Then when the lock screen appeared and I begun to type in my password the screen would go black and not respond, closing the lid and opening and pressing the space would bring the lock screen back. Sometimes a little after unlocking, the screen would go black too! And sometimes you'd get the beach ball in the middle of this too.

Anyway, by getting the MBP to sleep again, all these problems are now fixed, excellent!


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MacBookPro not sleeping

I was getting frustrated that my MacBookPro didn't seem to be sleeping any more - the lovely snoring LED wasn't doing that any more :-( - One of my favourite Mac features. A quick Google and I found this https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3190738?start=45&tstart=0

You need to open terminal and type the following "pmset -g", this will give an output that will include a line saying "sleep 0 (imposed by 18)", 18 being the Process Id (pid) of the programme stopping the sleep happening. On the terminal type "ps -ef | grep -e 18" replacing 18 with the Process Id above - note I had multiple pid's stopping my MBP sleeping.

You can also go to System Monitor and choose to view all processes, order the processes by Pid and you will be able to find the programme that is stopping the sleep. For me it was "cupsd" and another programme. According to the link below this is related to printer network sharing. So go to System Preferences, Printer and Scan and for me I had a print job still hanging around on the print queue for my printer - so I deleted this job. I also unchecked network sharing for my printer. Taking these two actions running "pmset -g" again, there was no longer anything stopping my MBP sleeping.

Problem solved - awesome!!

Website inception

I accidentally typed Google into Google; website inception, I thought the internet was going to break!

Then I thought I'd be a smart arse and do SharePoint inception by putting an iFrame on my SharePoint site, only I thought it would be clever to put my SharePoint site in this iFrame; website exception, but major fail - this basically set up a recursive call to my site, which blew the memory, and wouldn't let me edit it; so I couldn't remove it!!! Argh. But then I remembered I have SharePoint Designer, and a quick search for "iFrame" and replacement with a different site fixed the problem.

Lesson learned; don't try website inception.... (website within a website within a website...)


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