Fast User Switch from AppleScript

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iTunes 4.5, Fast User Switching and
AppleScript

iTunes 4.5, Fast User Switching and
AppleScript 05/21/2004 10:05 AM
I use iTunes on my desktop computer but spend most of my time working on my PowerBook. I have a couple of scripts on my PowerBook to pause and play iTunes on the desktop machine. Now that iTunes 4.5 will still play while swit...

10.3: How to restore the fast user
switch cube effect

10.3: How to restore the fast user
switch cube effect 02/19/2004 11:38 AM
I couldn't imagine how it would be deactivated, but I found out: if you and the user you're switching to have different screen resolutions, depths or refresh rates, your fast user switching transition will be like a resolutio...

10.3: Kill another user logged in under
Fast User Switching

10.3: Kill another user logged in under
Fast User Switching 12/02/2003 12:38 AM
Fast User Switching has been a popular Panther feature in my lab where several students share one computer. However, ocassionally a user forgets to log out, and I (logged in as Administrator) have not figured out how to log t...

Add Features Fast With AppleScript
Studio

Add Features Fast With AppleScript
Studio 12/30/2003 11:14 PM
Sal Soghian: "Of course, the magic behind inter-application communication is AppleScript, with its unique ability to query and manipulate scriptable applications and their elements. When you press the iDVD button in iPhoto, an AppleScript script within the iPhoto package executes, commanding both applications to insert the selected images or album into the open iDVD project."

Mac Dev Journal: Add Features Fast
w/AppleScript Studio

Mac Dev Journal: Add Features Fast
w/AppleScript Studio 12/30/2003 01:32 PM
The makers of Macworld magazine have a new digital publication aimed at Macintosh software developers called, appropriately enough, Mac Developer Journal. A sample from the first issue has been posted online called Add features fast with AppleScript Studio, and it's penned by Apple's own AppleScript Product Manager Sal Soghoian.

An AppleScript to modify user
permissions

An AppleScript to modify user
permissions 03/14/2005 04:29 PM
Here is an easy way for changing permissions. This is useful when files are constantly being swapped around between users, or you want to access your files while logged in another administrator's account, and vice versa. Copy...

HP acquires Riverstone fast switch
rights

HP acquires Riverstone fast switch
rights 06/14/2004 10:16 AM
Personal Computer World Jun 14 2004 2:24PM GMT

Vitesse Bids $66M for Cicada in Fast
Switch Play

Vitesse Bids $66M for Cicada in Fast
Switch Play 12/30/2003 02:47 PM
SiliconValley.Internet.com Dec 30 2003 1:19PM ET

Switch Terminal colors per user

Switch Terminal colors per user 12/28/2004 10:47 AM
After the recent post about switching iTerm's colors, and reading the post about dynamically switching to random colors in Terminal, I decided to look for a way to switch to pre-determined colors in Terminal per user. I use ...

Google's switch to answers.com was
driven by user experience

Google's switch to answers.com was
driven by user experience 03/14/2005 04:25 PM

Last week, I wondered aloud whether Google's switch from dictionary.com to answers.com for their "definition" links was driven by concern for their users or was just a business deal:

The cynic in me feels like money had to have changed hands in order for this to have happened (maybe Google is an investor in GuruNet, maybe GuruNet paid for that placement), but the optimist in me says that Google is still a weird little company where the members of project teams can stumble across a better resource that will make their users happier and more productive and implement it on the live site quickly, even if the company that provides that resource could be considered a competitor.

Marissa Meyer, Product Manager for Google, was kind enough to respond to my query about it:

This decision was driven off of concern for our user experience. We are not paying answers.com for this service nor are they paying us. They were willing to work with us and design a website that we felt represented an improvement for our users over what was offered on dictionary.com (no pop-ups, dense information presentation).

That a $50 billion American company is so focused on the experience presented to its users, well, it's pretty impressive.

10.3: X11 and fast user switching

10.3: X11 and fast user switching 11/18/2003 01:59 PM
I think I read somewhere that X11 could work for only one logged-in user. Actually, when fast user switching, several people can have access to X11. The first one gets display 0 (the default), the second one gets display one ...

FUS++ Enhances Fast User Switching

FUS++ Enhances Fast User Switching 11/17/2003 08:55 PM
FUS++ is a free open source utility that enhances Panther's Fast User Switching feature.

Quickeys and Fast User Switiching

Quickeys and Fast User Switiching 04/20/2004 11:12 AM
I was using a Classic filemaker application that required a lot of tedious mouse clicks, so decided to automate this using QuicKeys X2. After much configuration I got the macro to work. Unfortunately this long running macro h...

10.3: Use fast user switching from the
Terminal

10.3: Use fast user switching from the
Terminal 11/07/2003 11:03 AM
For those who love Panther's Fast User Switching but don't like the menulet in the upper-right corner, here's a shell script to do it. #!/bin/sh if [[ -z $1 ]]; then # robg note: Please enter the next two lines as on...

Mac OS X enable fast user switching

Mac OS X enable fast user switching 09/23/2004 03:00 AM
Tech-Recipes Sep 23 2004 5:47AM GMT

Fast User Switching Makes Room for
Others

Fast User Switching Makes Room for
Others 05/27/2004 01:47 AM
Question: What is fast user switching?

Auto-timeout to the fast user switching
window

Auto-timeout to the fast user switching
window 03/08/2004 11:18 PM
While this is far from an original hint on my part, it does pull together several good things into one bucket and provides an elegant solution to address multi-user system screen savers and security. So what I wanted to do w...

Use Fast User Switching to simulate
virtual desktops

Use Fast User Switching to simulate
virtual desktops 02/17/2004 11:49 AM
For those people using Panther who have wished for virtual desktops, I recently had a "Duh!" moment. I had set up accounts for my wife and three children on our 17" iMac, and was marvelling at the Fast User Switching feature ...

Use multiple iTunes libraries via fast
user switching

Use multiple iTunes libraries via fast
user switching 06/22/2004 09:14 AM
After struggling with an option that allowed me to story my main iTunes library on a file server, whilst still having a second (smaller) library that I can take with me when I'm on the road, I concocted the following concept....

WinSwitch 2.0 enhances makes Fast User
Switching

WinSwitch 2.0 enhances makes Fast User
Switching 09/07/2004 06:39 AM
Wincent Colaiuta has announced WinSwitch 2.0, the latest release of the popular replacement for Apple's Fast User Switching menu...

iTunes 4.5 plays nice with Fast User
Switching

iTunes 4.5 plays nice with Fast User
Switching 04/30/2004 12:17 PM
This is a bit of an "un-hint." There have been many hints here on using iTunes with Fast User Switching. In versions of iTunes before 4.5, you could only run one instance of iTunes on a given machine, so some hints involved...

Fast user switching may disable some
print jobs

Fast user switching may disable some
print jobs 01/19/2004 11:43 AM
Today I was trying to print a image from iPhoto on 4x6 glossy paper using a HP PSC 750 All In One. My dad (admin) had been logged on and every time I tried to print, it sent him an error message even though I was logged in (I...

10.3: Reclaim CPU cycles lost via fast
user switching

10.3: Reclaim CPU cycles lost via fast
user switching 01/06/2004 10:36 AM
Recently, I discovered that my iBook had its CPU pegged even though I was only using Safari and a few other small apps. Turns out another user left Microsoft Word running in her account (via fast user switching), and that wa...

10.3 Fast user switching and Logitech
Control Center 1.1.1

10.3 Fast user switching and Logitech
Control Center 1.1.1 11/16/2003 02:30 AM
I found that when using Logitech control center 1.1.1 with their Optical Wheel mouse that my configured "command-click" for the wheel button was not working. Since I use this to open links in a new tab in Mozilla, ...

10.3: Palm Pilot hot sync works with
fast user switching

10.3: Palm Pilot hot sync works with
fast user switching 10/31/2003 10:36 AM
I turned on fast user switching (which I am very excited about). Just after switching to the login screen, without thinking, I hit the Hot Sync button on my Palm Pilot stand. To my surprise, it synced to the logged-in accoun...

Man Happier About Switch To Mac Than
Switch To Christianity

Man Happier About Switch To Mac Than
Switch To Christianity 06/15/2004 10:01 AM

Fast Internet turns a fast buck

Fast Internet turns a fast buck 12/23/2003 08:07 PM
Haaretz Dec 23 2003 7:26PM ET

eBay’s Global Transformation: Fast, but
Not Fast Enough

eBay’s Global Transformation: Fast, but
Not Fast Enough 03/17/2005 03:02 AM
Byte Level Research publishes a global analysis of eBay’s business strategy and Web site. By 2006, more than half of eBay's revenues will come from outside the US. However, to maintain mementum, eBay must expand its pace of expansion and improve its Web globalization navigation. [PRWEB Mar 16, 2005]

HotFix Watch: Programs that are
advertised to a user run when another
user logs on to an SMS 2.0 client
computer

HotFix Watch: Programs that are
advertised to a user run when another
user logs on to an SMS 2.0 client
computer 08/30/2004 05:24 PM

Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes

Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes 02/11/2004 04:31 PM
Here're my running notes from danah boyd's Re venge of the User: Lessons from Creator/User Battles at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

The response is an attempt to "configure the users" -- constrain behavior to acceptable behavior with messaaging, kicking people off, etc.

This won't work: you can't tell a hacker not to hack. These kids are social hackers. You can stop some bad behavior, but you chase off your best users, too.

Dating doesn't happen because you're in a dating context. Dating arises out of real contexts.

Taking away fakesters didn't make Frienster more real. Friendster is unreal because people never remove their friends, even if they never see them (the exception is when you break up, ironic, because ex-lovers are strong ties!).

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How to deal with packages where user
specific data configuration has to be
user portable

How to deal with packages where user
specific data configuration has to be
user portable 09/11/2004 11:26 PM

"Lance Arthur slightly loses it over
BitTorrent - which I will confess does
not have the greatest user experience
for a naive user"

"Lance Arthur slightly loses it over
BitTorrent - which I will confess does
not have the greatest user experience
for a naive user" 08/14/2004 09:34 AM

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web 12/08/2002 10:04 PM
WebmasterBase Dec 8 2002 8:41PM ET

SMS Query: Match Computer with User and
the User Fullname

SMS Query: Match Computer with User and
the User Fullname 05/15/2004 08:42 AM

Modify The User Description Attribute
For An Ad User Account

Modify The User Description Attribute
For An Ad User Account 08/17/2004 09:19 PM

Back to the User: Creating User-Focused
Websites

Back to the User: Creating User-Focused
Websites 10/17/2002 08:03 AM

Power User: Google is a user’s best
friend

Power User: Google is a user’s best
friend 08/05/2002 10:45 PM
Every Web user should know how to exploit the features of the powerful Google.com search engine. Besides the news.google.com beta test site I've mentioned before, it also features a free but invaluable Google toolbar that you can download from google.com. It appears as a little search window in every browser session.

Fast Company | Fast Company Contacts and
Customer Service

Fast Company | Fast Company Contacts and
Customer Service 06/27/2004 04:46 AM
From the FastCompany website .. linking policy .. send a fax .. Contact Us

fastcompany.com/about/contact.html
track this site | 4 links

On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the
User Interface

On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the
User Interface 09/09/2002 06:29 AM

Grok Description matches for Fast User Switch from AppleScript
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Create a zip archive via a keyboard
shortcut

Create a zip archive via a keyboard
shortcut 12/29/2004 10:14 AM
I just finished reading this hint, in which the hinter wished there was a way to create a zip archive with a keyboard shortcut. Well, with the Keyboard & Mouse system preference pane, there is! All you have to do is go to Sy...

Undocumented SharpReader keyboard
shortcut

Undocumented SharpReader keyboard
shortcut 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
Given [DEL] deletes an item and moves to the next or previous item (depending on Tools|Options|Default move direction) [Ctrl+UP] goes to the previous unread item and [Ctrl+Down] goes to the next unread item. what do you think [Ctrl+DEL] would do?... (40 words)

On keyboard shortcut consistency, or
lack thereof

On keyboard shortcut consistency, or
lack thereof 01/16/2004 11:03 AM
I just finished typing a lengthy weblog entry... did a final review prior to posting it and noticed a word out of place... so I went to edit, placed the cursor on the word in question, selected it with Ctrl-W, and... hey where did my browser go? In both VS.NET and IntelliJ IDEA, Ctrl-W selects the word under the cursor,... (268 words)

KeyCue 1.0 keyboard shortcut utility
released

KeyCue 1.0 keyboard shortcut utility
released 05/24/2004 07:44 AM
Ergonis software today announced the availability of KeyCue 1.0, a new addition to its popular macility software collection...

Use a keyboard shortcut to show the main
iCal window

Use a keyboard shortcut to show the main
iCal window 11/16/2003 01:47 PM
Quite a specific hint here, but one I find saves me time. As a hardened geek ;), I tend to use the keyboard for navigation more than the mouse. I often keep iCal running, but with the main window closed. One thing that oft...

10.3: Create a keyboard shortcut to
check Mail in one account

10.3: Create a keyboard shortcut to
check Mail in one account 01/06/2004 10:36 AM
My wife and I share the same Mac OS X account since I personally find it a pain to deal with multiple accounts. Anyway, since we both have our own email accounts set up in Mail.app, when we select or hit the keyboard shortcu...

Ergonis's KeyCue Offers Keyboard
Shortcut Cheat Sheet (07-Jun-2004;
2.4K)

Ergonis's KeyCue Offers Keyboard
Shortcut Cheat Sheet (07-Jun-2004;
2.4K) 06/07/2004 10:03 PM

Ergonis's KeyCue Offers Keyboard
Shortcut Cheat Sheet (28-May-2004; 2K)

Ergonis's KeyCue Offers Keyboard
Shortcut Cheat Sheet (28-May-2004; 2K) 05/28/2004 03:48 PM

Run applications as another user without
switching

Run applications as another user without
switching 05/21/2004 10:05 AM
This is regurgitating a hint I got from the comments section of another hint about Apache (I think). What this does is allow you to keep a program within the constraints of another user, without having that user logged in via...

Protect iPhoto originals via sharing and
user switching

Protect iPhoto originals via sharing and
user switching 07/02/2004 11:21 AM
One drawback for me with iPhoto is cropping. I would create an album for getting 4x6 prints, crop all the photos, export and send to photo lab. However, all those photos would be cropped in the main library and unless you use...

Fast User Switch from AppleScript

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