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Tag Archives: OSX

101 things you (maybe) didn’t know about MacVector: #20 – Customizable Toolbars

By Kevin | Published: November 6, 2012

This is more of a Mac OS X tip than anything specific to MacVector. However, it does come up again and again and it illustrates just one way that MacVector is tightly integrated into the Apple operating system. If you right-click on the toolbar of any MacVector window, a drop down menu will appear (ctrl-click [...]

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MacVector 12.6 and Mountain Lion

By Chris | Published: July 31, 2012

The eagerly awaited Mountain Lion was released last week in the App Store. We’ve conducted initial testing with MacVector 12.6 on Mountain Lion. Our testing has found only a single fairly minor issue concerned with installation. So far there are no issues with any day to day functionality. The downloadable disk image does not automatically [...]

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Choosing the default application to open a file type

By Chris | Published: March 1, 2012

Sometimes you’ll find that when you double click on a document (for example a protein sequence) that it opens in the wrong application. Generally this has resulted from recently installing a new application that has registered itself as the default application that you normally use to open that document. This will overwrite your default application. [...]

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Running old versions of MacVector on Lion.

By Chris | Published: January 23, 2012

Only MacVector 9.5 and later versions will run on OS X 7 Lion. Apple started transitioning their processor architecture from PowerPC (PPC) to Intel’s x86 in 2006. The Macbook Pro and the iMac being the first Intel Macs. When they did so they gave Xcode (the OSX development environment) the ability to create Universal Binary [...]

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Activating a license on Lion for older copies of MacVector

By Chris | Published: January 6, 2012

With the release of OS X 10.7 Lion Apple made significant changes to the structure and permissions of various important folders. For example the Library folder in the user’s home folder is now hidden. A consequence of this is that on Lion older versions of MacVector do not have the correct permissions to create the [...]

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Problems with DMG appearing not to mount.

By Chris | Published: October 8, 2011

Sometimes when you download the MacVector disk image and try to mount it nothing appears to happen. Generally this is because although it has been mounted a Finder window has not popped up. It also affects those of us with messy desktop (not me of course!). If you have many files then you might miss [...]

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Steve Jobs RIP

By Chris | Published: October 6, 2011

Steve Jobs RIP Credit: Matthew Yohe Technorati Tags: apple Tweet

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MacVector 10.6 and earlier and Lion

By Chris | Published: September 19, 2011

If you have upgraded to Lion and you’re running MacVector 10 to 10.6 (earlier versions will not run) then anytime MacVector displays an error message it will crash. MacVector 10.6 was developed before even Snow Leopard was released and is quite long in the tooth now. Why not take this opportunity to upgrade to MacVector [...]

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MacVector and upgrading to Lion.

By Chris | Published: August 12, 2011

The latest version of OS X, Lion, has been out for a few weeks and it’s a great operating system. MacVector 12 has been tested and although not yet officially supported, it works great.. Nonetheless even though we’ve not yet come across any issues we are committed to fixing bugs. So if you are running [...]

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MacVector on OS X 10.7 Lion

By Chris | Published: July 20, 2011

Lion was released through the App Store earlier today. Although MacVector has not gone through a full round of testing, our initial tests on development builds and the released version shows that there are no bugs, or at least no obvious ones! Here’s the coolest feature of Lion, Mission Control. Technorati Tags: MacVector Tweet

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