Want to Stop Transmission Opening Dialogue Box Window For Each New Torrent Added?
Transmission is a great piece of software, but in its default settings state it does have some quirks that can be a little annoying. To learn how to stop this you can watch the below video, or continue reading.
When adding a new torrent, a dialogue box ALWAYS opens, even after you have set your default download locations for both complete and incomplete files.
Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t get that window, and downloads just added and started automatically without you having to click the “Add” button every time?
Here’s how to stop this annoying behaviour once and for all!
Open Preferences, and click on the “Transfers” tab. Make sure you are looking at “Adding” and not “Management”.
To stop it from opening that annoying window make sure ALL of these options are unchecked.
**NOTE** – Be sure that EVERY option is unchecked! I found in my testing that leaving one checked (as shown below), and un-checking the parent option still made the window appear, even though the check was greyed out
As always, make sure you are using the latest version of Transmission BT which can be downloaded HERE.
If the power goes off, or I need to reboot my WDTV for any reason, when it comes back on my screen is always tainted with a pink hue, it seems to be called the “Pink Screen Issue”. From what I can gather, its caused by a mismatch in frame rate when using HDMI. Here’s how I fix it on my unit. I hope this works for you as well.
Start at the home screen
Scroll through and select the “Setup” option
Then select Audio/Video OutputThe next step is to select HDMI
Now select AUTO
Next, choose OFFPINK BE GONE! Click OK to save the changes
Close out of setup by pressing the Home button on your remote
All of a sudden, when I turn on/log in on my Macs that are running OS X Mavericks, I am getting a window that asks me to input the password for FaceTime. This really started driving me crazy, as I don’t use FaceTime, and I don’t even have a camera connected to my Mac Pro.
To stop this from happening, I just turned FaceTime off. To do this, open a new finder window, and then open your Applications folder. Now click/open FaceTime. Click and drag down the “FaceTime” menu option and simply select “Turn FaceTime Off”.
At least three times a week my phone will ring between 11pm and 4am, repeatedly. When I answer it, there is someone there, who (with a very strong Asian accent) asks for what sounds to me like “Allan”. I have responded pleasantly saying “wrong number’, “not Allan’s phone”, “sorry, you have the wrong number” etc etc etc, to no avail. I hang up and 5 minutes later, the phone rings again…..”Allan…Allan…”……
Your probably saying “Just Turn The Ringer Off”, which is what I do when my wife is at home, but her job requires her to spend on average 1 or 2 weeks a month away from home. When she is away, I really like to leave the phone on so if there is a problem, and she needs me, she can reach me. Not unreasonable.
I set about finding a “Blocking App” in the Apple App Store, and I must say, I was really disappointed not only at the amount of fake apps that are available for purchase, but the fact that Apple has allowed them to be made available for purchase in their store.
After further investigation it seems that Apple doesn’t allow access to the particular part of the iPhones software that would need to be accessed in order to intercept and block an unwanted call…
If you choose to Jailbreak your phone, you have options, but for the 95% of people who use their iPhone as it came, anything you purchase from the App store to block an unwanted number is going to disappoint you!
In short, at this point in time, I can only offer a “Workaround” – A way to deal with the situation. And as my mystery caller shows me no respect, I will now return the favor and publish their number on this site – please call them at 3am!
My mystery caller phones me from two different numbers. They will try two or three times from one number, and then switch lines and try a few more times from another number. To begin handling this problem I created a contact for my unwanted caller with both of the numbers, and called it “Spammer”,
Now that I have created a contact for my phone spammer, I needed a way to silence them! The best I could come up with was a “Non Ring Tone”. A ring tone that doesn’t make any sound. After a bit of searching (and finding fake files, popups, porn links etc) I did find a silent ring tone. To make your life easier, here it is:
Once you have downloaded the zip file, extract it so you have the “SilentRing.m4r” in front of you, then open iTunes and connect your phone. On the top left side of the iTunes window, select “Tones”. Once you have Tones open, drag and drop the SilentRing.m4r file into the open field window.
Once the silent ring tone has copied into iTunes, you can now drag it from the iTunes window to your connected iPhone. When you drag the “SilentRing” file over your iPhone in the device menu, I have noticed that all categories seem to highlight/illuminate (in my case a blue color). It doesn’t seem to matter where you drop the ring tone file, it is automatically copied to the right place on your phone.
After dropping the ring tone file, you will need to click the “Sync” button in the bottom right corner of the window to make your changes stick. You may also have to click “Apply” if a pop up window appears.
Once you have successfully copied your new ringtone to your iPhone you can then choose to apply it to your unwanted caller only, that way when they ring at 2am, you don’t hear it, but if your loved one calls with an emergency, your phone will ring normally. To do this, select your unwanted caller/spammer from your contacts, open their information window, and in the top left corner select edit.
A new window will open with more details. As you will see, the ringtone will be set to your phone’s default ringtone.
This is where you can assign different ringtones to different callers. Now that you have a “Silent” ring tone on your phone, it is just a matter of changing this from “Default” to “SilentRing”.
Once you have made your changes (I changed the text message tone to silent as well), click “Done” in the top right hand corner, and your all set. Next time they call, you wont hear a thing! Your phone may still vibrate though, so it might pay you to disable that feature as well if your a light sleeper.
I know that dialogue warning boxes are there for a reason, and they protect us from accidentally deleting stuff we don’t really want to delete, but I work with dozens of files, and dozens of versions of files at a time. If you are someone who has the need to delete files a lot, and likes to see the “Empty” trash can icon (like me) it is possible to disable that annoying “Are you sure you really want to empty your trash can, even though you just specifically right clicked on the icon and purposely selected the “empty trash” option?” dialogue box.
Click on your desktop to activate the finder, then under the “Finder” menu, select preferances.
Once you have selected “Preferences” and the preferences pane is open, its just a simple matter un-checking the “Show warning before emptying the Trash” option.
Its only a little thing I know, but if you are a true “Power-User”, this is a godsend that can save you a lot of extra clicks.
A recent addition to WordPress 3 is the “Admin Bar”. It allows you to view your site, and at any time skip to your dashboard, add a new post, and a plethora of other handy “Shortcuts” to places you will likely want to go after viewing your site. Initially, I hated it. I looked for, and found plugins such as “Global Hide Admin Bar” to remove it, so I didn’t have to look at it ever again. Although there are still a few sites I have the admin bar disabled on, it does remain on this site. I guess the reason is that on other sites I am the admin/creator/god, and I have no need for the options it offers, so it’s a pain when I am trying to see if my DIVS are correctly aligned. On this site however, it does come in handy when I look at a post, and realise that I have written gibberish that nobody but me could possibly understand, and I need to go back and edit my posts. Yes, I am admin/creator/god on this site, but I am primarily an editor/user, hence in this capacity the bar is slightly more appealing. My feelings towards the admin bar are definitely on a site by site basis. It depends on if I am the creator, or a user of a site. For the most part, I don’t like it, and I could go on living quiet happily without it, even though it has proved useful at times on some sites.
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