10.6: Set Printer Presets from the Terminal

If you want to set the printer preset from the terminal in 10.6 (or from an AppleScript via a 'do shell script' command), it's different than how it's done in previous versions of OS X.

Assuming you have a printer called 'Copy Room Printer' and a preset called 'double-sided, stapled,' you would run the following two commands:

defaults write com.apple.print.custompresets.forprinter.Copy_Room_Printer com.apple.print.lastPresetPref 'double-sided, stapled'  defaults write com.apple.print.custompresets.forprinter.Copy_Room_Printer com.apple.print.lastPresetPrefType 3
Just set the parameters to match your own needs.

[crarko adds: I haven't tested this one. If this works in Lion or you find an equivalent, please post it in the comments.]

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Google 'Supercharging Android' with Acquisition of Motorola Mobility


Google today announced that it will acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, giving the Android developer a significant new hardware arm to help drive the platform forward. The deal brings $40 in cash for Motorola Mobility's shares, a 63% premium over Friday's closing price.
Larry Page, CEO of Google, said, ?Motorola Mobility?s total commitment to Android has created a natural fit for our two companies. Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers. I look forward to welcoming Motorolans to our family of Googlers.?
While Google will be able to make a direct move into the hardware business with Motorola Mobility, the company claims that Android will remain an "open platform" and that it will continue to support all vendors offering Android products.
Andy Rubin, Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google, said, ?We expect that this combination will enable us to break new ground for the Android ecosystem. However, our vision for Android is unchanged and Google remains firmly committed to Android as an open platform and a vibrant open source community. We will continue to work with all of our valued Android partners to develop and distribute innovative Android-powered devices.?
In a blog post regarding the deal, Google CEO Larry Page reveals that Google felt compelled to make the acquisition in order to address the patent threats facing the company with a number of companies having recently cooperated to acquire large patent pools that could threaten Android.
We recently explained how companies including Microsoft and Apple are banding together in anti-competitive patent attacks on Android. The U.S. Department of Justice had to intervene in the results of one recent patent auction to ?protect competition and innovation in the open source software community? and it is currently looking into the results of the Nortel auction. Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening Google?s patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies.
Google plans to run Motorola Mobility as a separate business and expects the transaction to close by the end of the year or early next year after appropriate approvals from Motorola Mobility shareholders and regulatory authorities.

Update: In a conference call discussing the acquisition, Google revealed that it will be acquiring 17,000 patents and an additional 7,500 filed patent applications in the deal, substantially strengthening its position in the mobile patent arms race.


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Google?s Motorola buy won?t give it what Apple has

Google wants to "supercharge" Android with its acquisition of Motorola Mobility, but what exactly does that mean? Some think we'll see Google try to provide a hardware/software platform combo to rival Apple, but there are a few big reasons why that won't happen anytime soon.

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Apple surges iPhone orders, plans 26m iPhone 5s in late 2011

Apple is significantly increasing the production of iPhones for the back half of 2011, most of which will be the iPhone 5, part suppliers divulged Monday. Volume was going up 12 to 13 percent to over 56 million phones, nearly half of which would be the iPhone 5. While it had trimmed back its iPhone 5 production for the summer down from seven million to no more than 6 million, Digitimes saw that it would more than compensate for this by surging orders in the fall from 14 million to 20 million....

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10.7: Disable Resume on a per-application basis

Lion's new Resume feature is great, but sometimes, you don't want it to happen, or maybe just for some applications.

First: To disable Resume for one time only in any application, Quit the app while holding the Option Key. This works from the menu or with Command+Option+Q.

Now, what if there's an app you never want to restore to its previous state, but you still want resume turned on? You can easily accomplish this with Terminal.

Open Terminal in /Applications/Utilities and type:

defaults write com.[vendor].[AppName] ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES

For example with Safari you'd type this:

defaults write com.apple.Safari ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES

It's not guaranteed to work on apps that aren't updated for Lion (though they're not guaranteed to work with Resume either). Sometimes it's tricky to find how the vendor spells their name in this format so you can locate the preferences file for ...

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