Apple OSX

The goal of this page is to give information on OSX and related issues.

Special Apple Signs

How to get the correct Apple tokens/sign/characters for typical computer operations.

Token Description Code  Apple  ⎋ Escape ⎋ ⇤ Tab left/backward &#x21e4 ⇥ Tab right/forward ⇥ ⇪ Caps lock ⇪ ⇧ Shift ⇧ ⌃ Control (ctrl) ⌃ ⌥ Option (alt) ⌥ ⌘ Command ⌘ ␣ Space ␣ ⏎ Return ⏎

Token Description Code ↩ Enter ↩ ⌫ Backspace ⌫ ⌦ Delete ⌦ ? Help ⌦ ⃝ Help ⃝ ⇱ Home &x21f1; ↖ Home &x2196; ↸ Home &x21b8; ⇲ End &x21f2; ↘ End &x2198; ⇞ Page Up &x21de;

Token Description Code ⇟ Page Up &x21df; ⇡ Arrow Up &x21e1; ↓ Arrow Down &x2193; ← Arrow Left &x2190; ⇠ Arrow Left &x21e0; → Arrow Right &x2190; ⇢ Arrow Right &x21e2; ⌧ Clear &x2327; ⇭ Num Lock &x21ed; ⏏ Eject &x23cf; ⌽ Power &x233d;

For more tokens and their character representation look at HarmFrielink Unicode characters.

Disk Access

Apple OSX can read form a lot of disk-formats, but can not write to them. First problem, windows NTFS.

Tuxera

Mac OS X does not support writing to Microsoft Windows formatted NTFS volumes out-of-the box. The solution is here. Tuxera NTFS for Mac is our commercial read/write NTFS software for Mac users. Tuxera NTFS for Mac delivers the fastest NTFS data transfer speeds you can have on Mac while protecting your data with its new, smart caching layer.

The software fully supports all versions of Mac OS X from 10.4 (Tiger) onwards, including of course Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) with its 64-bit kernel, and comes with advanced features only available from Tuxera such as support for NTFS extended attributes. Tuxera NTFS for Mac is compatible with popular virtualization and encryption solutions including Parallels Desktop®, VMware Fusion® and TrueCrypt.

Email

If you have more than 1 email address (who hasn't), you probably have the problem that when sending an email the wrong email account is selected in Apple mail. On the internet there are some suggestions how to change this in older version of OSX, but the following method will work for OSX Lion 10.8.2. Start mail In this example the HF One needs to be the first mailbox. Click the command key (⌘) and click and hold the Left-Mouse on the HF One icon or HF One-text and drag it above the iCloud Release mouse and command key when the correct position is reached. This should endup with HF One above iCloud. That's it.

Apple Mailbox