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Comment on Macbook Pro audio irritation by andrew

andrew — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:05:41 +0000

Hi Rachel,

Take a tooth pick and gently push it into the audio out port on the left hand side of your MBP and just wiggle it around a little bit.

HTH.

Comment on Macbook Pro audio irritation by Rachel Olschan

Rachel Olschan — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:04:30 +0000

Where exactly do I stick the toothpick. I’m having the same problem. VERY frustrating. Help! -Rachel

Comment on Macbook Pro audio irritation by ivi

ivi — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:49:57 +0000

thanks!! amazing! it worked simple as that!!

Comment on Macbook Pro audio irritation by Marco

Marco — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:25:27 +0000

Hi Andrew,

I think it did the trick. I just wiggled the toothpick inside and after a few seconds it stopped shining red.

Thanks

Marco

Comment on Macbook Pro audio irritation by andrew

andrew — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:03:34 +0000

Hi Marco,

As near as I can recall, there is a sensor inside the audio out port on the MBP. All that I did was put the toothpick from my Swiss army knife into the audio port and wiggled it around for a few seconds. The sensor inside the port is there to try and work out whether the jack that’s put into the port is normal line out or optical out. In my case, it assumed that there was an optical out jack plugged in and it didn’t believe my protests until I broke out the bloody toothpick…

Good luck

Comment on Macbook Pro audio irritation by Marco

Marco — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:53:48 +0000

Hi,

What did you do with the toothpick? Is there something you have to bent?
Ass you will guess I have the same problem with the audio output!

Thnxs

Marco

Comment on Dialup with Quicksilver and Applescript by Stii

Stii — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:17:51 +0000

Wow! Okay, I’ve been impressed with Quicksilver since I started using it, but every day I learn something new that is simply more and more impressive.

Being a relative n00b in OSX I haven’t played with Applescripts too much. In fact, never. It does do some impressive stuff when I look at the Adium Applescript plugins… If only I had more time. You should write us a bit more about Applescripts on here.

Comment on Dialup with Quicksilver and Applescript by Nathan Carter

Nathan Carter — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:39:30 +0000

Trying what you suggested: I use the Quicksilver hotkey and type “Intern” and it finds Internet Connect. I hit enter to launch. It has my password there (well, a line of dots) so I hit enter to connect. Same problem results: Authentication failed.

So I use the menu-bar shortcut to connect (the one that looks like a phone with 0101 coming out of it) and everything connects fine.

So the results are sort of what you suspected, but not quite. Opening IC with QS makes it look like it has my password, but it can’t seem to use it.

Thanks for the help.

Comment on Dialup with Quicksilver and Applescript by admin

admin — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:43:33 +0000

I doubt it. I’ve found before that Internet Connect and the Networking Preferences configurations don’t always sync up. Open up Internet Connect with Quicksilver and make sure that your password is set there and try to connect from within Internet Connect (you can kill it once it’s connected and it won’t drop the connection). Assuming that this works, the above Applescripts should connect you without any further problems.

Just as an addendum, the above scripts would sometimes kill Quicksilver - if you encounter that, please write another reply and I’ll have another hack at the scripts.

Comment on Dialup with Quicksilver and Applescript by Nathan Carter

Nathan Carter — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:17:31 +0000

This is exactly what I wanted to know, but have the following problem with it: When I connect using this script, it immediately disconnects with the error message “Authentication failed.” But connecting using a mouse click on the menu works just fine. Some sort of permissions issue?? Thanks!