February 5, 200718 yr OK, fine. http://db.tidbits.com/article/08405 http://rentzsch.com/tidbits/intelbasedMacBootIncompatibility Or just google "intel macs bootable firewire drive" or somesuch. And actually, reading that second post more closely, it looks like rentzsch figured a way to get a PPC and Intel booting drive on FW. Seems convoulted though. Macosxhints.com has stuff too.
March 12, 200718 yr Just downloaded WebKit, a "nightly build" of a Safari beta, I guess. http://webkit.org/ It renders quite a bit of this SVG very nicely. http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples/ SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) is a cool text based XML compliant graphic format that, I would think, mapper/engineer/architect/statistics people would really appreciate. Not that there are any of those around here.
March 12, 200718 yr Anybody running a Mac between 10 & 10.3.8 There is a DST patch here from UNH http://pss-mac01.unh.edu/howto/DST_fix.html
April 19, 200718 yr "One thing PC users can do that Mac users can't---SHUT THE HELL UP". Classic. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant
April 19, 200718 yr ^That's pretty funny. I've always found the MAC universe to be quite odd. I completely understand that its a better machine for music, art, etc. But if you don't use a computer for those reasons, a PC is better. I've got a MAC at home and i hate the thing. No right-click on the mouse; when it locks up, you can't click out like a PC; and its Excel capabilities are much weaker.
April 19, 200718 yr I kind of agree that Mac users can get a bit obnoxious. I like the Mac - PC ads but they also tend to make me cringe a little. However, where PC users speak most loudly is in ignorant IT departments that frequently run the companies that are supposed to be telling the IT departments what to do. Anyway, Mac supports right clicking & scrolling, Apple just never included a capable mouse before. 3rd party mice work great. My "Mighty Mouse" is currently hooked up to my Dell running FC 6. The weakness of Excel is a Microsoft problem - not a Mac problem
April 19, 200718 yr Well websense blocked your link so I will have to read it later. 3231, don't come into a Apple thread and make ignorant comments. If you don't like Macs, that is your right but you only look foolish when you claim to own a Mac, yet you don't know how to use it. So to comment on some of your remarks... 1. It is a Mac, not MAC. MAC is a make-up company. 2. Macintosh computers have had right click functionality since the original OS X was released. It was only recent that Apple computers started bundling the mighty mouse with right button functionality but if you plugged in any third party USB mouse, the right button functionality works just fine. 3. When an application in OS X locks up and it does happen from time to time, you just need to click on something other than the application and then you will have your system functionality. Now if you have the locked applications window open at 100%, then you just need to click on the little desktop space usually left next to the dock, then you can right click on the application in your dock and quit the application or if you go up to the apple logo on the top right, you can force quit and application. It is basically doing a UNIX kill -9 in the background. The beauty of OS X is that it is UNIX at the core so it doesn't lock up the entire system. A kill -9 in UNIX is more successful then the Windows terminate function.
April 19, 200718 yr I just went through a long ordeal with my company to try and get a MacBook Pro as a replacement for my Dell because the lease was up and it was time for me to receive a new computer. I had several people in my division that wanted to get MacBooks for their replacement when their time came to get a new laptop so I decided to take the request to management. The only reason why it didn't go through is fear. I had lower management on board but ultimately it was upper management that didn't want to deviate from the norm and the excuse I received had no weight. I guess this is one of the negatives of working for a large corporation. Here is a sample of the dialogue with someone responsible for purchasing our laptops. The bold comments were from the person in charge of purchasing laptops and the italic were my responses back to them. Some of the words were X'ed out to keep things somewhat anonymous. I want to make sure that you understand the implications of ordering a non-standard equipment: Corporate IT has the option to charge additional cost to support non-standard computer equipment. This will be the division’s responsibility to pay. Corp IT has never charged extra for a Mac. The team on the 3rd floor has about 12 Macs in their division and hasn’t encountered any support problems. I currently have a Mac connected to our network in my office and have encountered zero problems. Some software covered by the Microsoft Enterprise agreement is not covered on the MACs. It will be the division’s responsibility to pay. Microsoft Office for Mac is available under the company agreement and nothing else is needed for our IT department. Microsoft Entourage for Mac comes with Microsoft Office for Mac and is compatible with the network exchange server. In addition you can run Windows XP or Vista on the Apple Macbook and use all company licensed software at need. In addition the division on the 3rd floor has been assured by the folks developing the new time charging and travel software that it works fully on Mac. The division is responsible for all OS upgrades OS upgrades run about $100 every 18 months. Any additional software needed to connect to the intranet is the division’s responsibility to pay. No extra software is required to connect to the intranet inside the firewall. I personally have XXXXX VPN software for Mac provided to me by corporate IT for my home Mac and it didn’t cost any additional money. The division is making a commitment of 30 months for the allocation of the equipment. If the employee leaves you will still be responsible and I will not look to place it at another location. An Apple Macbook is an Intel based system with the capability of running a Windows operating system natively. Not that I plan on leaving the company but if I did I am sure the division wouldn’t have a problem utilizing the laptop. There are many engineers that would be quite happy to take it for their corporate laptop. The bottom line is that the hard drive can be formatted and used as a Windows machine exclusively. If the laptop is lost or stolen it is the divisions responsibility to pay the allowable and unallowable costs for buyout of the lease. Does the company self insure the Dell laptops? How are the Dell laptops insured currently? Does the lease insure them? There is no approved hard drive encryption software and if the equipment is stolen the process of reporting it stolen is quite extensive and will be the division’s responsibility to work with security and the legal department. This could also cause potential embarrassment to the group and the corporation. Actually that is incorrect. Apple’s Filevault comes built into the operating system and uses the 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm and is fully approved by corporate security. Please make sure that the individual actually needs this for their contract and not user preference. Even though the individual is comfortable on the Mac they still need assistance from the Corporate ICS employees for domain configuration issues. The team is required to be fluent in both the operational and development sense on multiple operating systems. This is the result of the multiple contracts we are servicing for XXXXX (Unix/Solaris), XXXXX (Windows/Solaris), XXXXX (Unix/Solaris), and other XXXXX. The Mac OS X operating system is a UNIX based operating system that provides a more intuitive UNIX environment for trouble shooting customer issues. Windows is DOS based and there are numerous times where we need a UNIX shell and cannot telnet into a UNIX workstation. The Mac OSX platform will allow us to assist our customers during off line times, by providing the ability to simulate the customer’s actions in the correct environment on the laptop. Currently, we have to explain to our customers that we need to get back with them at a later time when they have a specific UNIX or Solaris question. Additionally, the development team is constantly trying to coordinate development on the few Solaris workstations we have in the lab. As you can see by authorizing us to purchase Apple laptops we can decrease our customer support time and decrease the software development time for out Unix/Solaris products.
May 11, 200718 yr I must say i'm a PC fan, but the new apple commercials are making Microsoft look silly.lol
June 12, 200718 yr Apple's Safari browser (built on KDE's Konqueror browser for Linux) is now available in beta form for Mac AND Windows http://www.apple.com/safari/
June 12, 200718 yr I was disappointed with yesterday's WWDC. I was hoping for some new hardware. Oh well I guess the plus is that my 24" iMac is still the best model out there for now ;) Rumors have it that a brushed aluminum iMac is on the way.
June 12, 200718 yr ^ I got pretty much what I expected. A lot of the stuff in the 10.5 OS release seems to just be making existing stuff easier. If the networking part works right - it will be worth an upgrade. "Spaces" has been in Linux for a long time - it is nice when you get used to it. "Stacks" just seems to be an easier way to put a folder of stuff in the dock & then display it in a quirky way. Jobs was pushing the heck out of Keynote. I thought Apple had dropped the app. BTW did you notice Quicktime is no longer in the main navigation of Apple's website ? hmmmm
June 12, 200718 yr Downloading Safari for Windows now... I wonder if you can synchronize the Windows version of Safari with .Mac. BTW, check out the new "Finder" in version 10.5: http://images.apple.com/movies/us/apple/mac/home/2007/finderdemo_20070611.mov
August 7, 200717 yr New iMacs today. Also new: iWork 08 iLife 08 .Mac refresh with 10GB of storage New Apple Keyboards Updated Mac Minis http://www.apple.com/keyboard/
August 8, 200717 yr Loads of people swear by the Matias Tactile Pro keyboard. It's pretty much a recreation of the Apple Extended Keyboard with mechanical keyswitches that give really good feedback. Since I'm not much of a typist, and I'm used to the squishiness of newer Apple keyboards, I don't mind the newer ones. But if you're looking for a new keyboard, you should look there. Unfortunately, no Bluetooth.
August 16, 200717 yr Mac users out there, try this program out: http://plasq.com/skitch#demo There is a video to help explain how it works.
August 16, 200717 yr "One thing PC users can do that Mac users can't---SHUT THE HELL UP". Classic. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant This is probably one of my favorite posts from him!
August 16, 200717 yr From the Desk of David Pogue: Apple Takes a Step Back With iMovie '08 ========================================================== Last week, Apple released a new version of its iLife suite- its $80 package containing iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb and GarageBand. The suite also comes preinstalled on every new Mac. The enhancements in iPhone, iWeb and GarageBand are great. But iMovie '08 is an utter bafflement. Most people are used to a product cycle that goes like this: Release a new version every year or two, each more capable than the last. Ensure that it's backward-compatible with your existing documents. IMovie '08, on the other hand, has been totally misnamed. It's not iMovie at all. In fact, it's nothing like its predecessor and contains none of the same code or design. It's designed for an utterly different task, and a lot of people are screaming bloody murder. The new iMovie was, as Apple admits, designed primarily for throwing together movies quickly. It lets you scan through a clip to see what's in it, isolate the good parts, and rapidly drop them into a sequence. But iMovie 6 was just as good at those tasks; you could scrub through, chop and drag its clips just as easily. Meanwhile, iMovie '08 is incapable of the more sophisticated editing that the old iMovie made so enjoyable. The old iMovie offered the essential tools of professional programs like Final Cut Pro without the cost or complexity. The new iMovie, for example, is probably the only video- editing program on the market with no timeline-no horizontal, scrolling strip that displays your clips laid end to end, with their lengths representing their durations. You have no indication of how many minutes into your movie you are. The new iMovie gets a D for audio editing. You can choose one piece of music to put behind the video, but that's it. You can't manually adjust audio levels during a scene (for example, to make the music quieter when someone is speaking). You can't extract the audio from a clip. The program creates a fade-out at the end of an audio clip, but you can't control its length or curve. All the old audio effects are gone, too. No pitch changing, high-pass and low-pass filters, or reverb. The new iMovie doesn't accept plug-ins, either. For years, I've relied on GeeThree.com's iMovie plug-ins to achieve effects like picture-in-picture, bluescreen and subtitles. That's all over now. You can't add chapter markers for use in iDVD, which is supposed to be integrated with iMovie. Bookmarks are gone. "Themes" are gone. You can no longer export only part of a movie. All visual effects are gone-even basic options like slow motion, reverse motion, fast motion, and black-and-white. And you can't have more than one project open at a time. Incredibly, the new iMovie can't even convert older iMovie projects. All you can import is the clips themselves. None of your transitions, titles, credits, music, or special effects are preserved. On top of all that, this more limited iMovie has steep horsepower requirements that rule out most computers older than about two years old. To be sure, the new version has some cool features. You can send a completed video to YouTube with one menu command; the color-correction and frame-cropping tools are unprecedented in a consumer program; and you can really, truly delete unwanted pieces of your clips, thus reclaiming hard drive space. (iMovie and Final Cut, on the other hand, preserve an entire 20-minute clip on your hard drive even if you've used only 3 seconds of it.) It's also worth pointing out that iMovie '08 creates titles, crossfades and color adjustments instantly. There's no "rendering" time, as there is in Final Cut or the old iMovie. So you gain an exhilarating freedom to play, to fiddle with the timing and placement of things. But honestly. To rephrase (and sanitize) the wailing on the discussion boards: What the [bleep]! What was Apple thinking? Apple says that it was thinking: "It's 1.0. We'll bring it up to par with free software updates, like we always do." Internally, I'm guessing that it was also thinking, "iMovie had gotten pretty old, and it was haunted by some intractable bugs." And also, perhaps, "iMovie was getting so powerful, it was taking sales away from Final Cut." But it must also have been thinking, "Then again, it is a little embarrassing to take so many steps backward." That's why, with what I imagine is a certain degree of sheepishness, the company is offering a free download of the previous iMovie version to anyone who has iMovie '08. In that regard, all the wailing is a bit overblown; Apple is not actually taking away the older version. The only real raw part of the deal is that people who pay $80 for a new software rev expect an enhanced version-not another copy of the old one. I can't remember any software company pulling a stunt like this before: throwing away a fully developed, mature, popular program and substituting a bare-bones, differently focused program under the same name. I've used the real iMovie to edit my Times videos for three years now. The results are perfectly convincing as professional video blog work. But the new version is totally unusable for that purpose. It's unusable, in fact, for anyone doing professional work that requires any degree of precision. I can't help thinking that Apple would have done better to call a spade a spade, and give the new program a different name. Call it FlyMovie, or ByeMovie, or WhyMovie. But one thing's for sure: it sure isn't iMovie.
August 17, 200717 yr I noticed some people complaining about iMovie 08 in the Apple discussion boards.
August 24, 200717 yr iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity, August 24, 2007, 12:00PM EDT http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/
August 29, 200717 yr Good timing. I was not in the mood to create my own p-point template for teaching this semester.
September 1, 200717 yr Watch out, the iPhone is going to have some competition. [youtube=425,350]nRKIDdIaFyE
October 4, 200717 yr These college kids will have a bright future. There's a few bad apples in the crowd, but they won't last. :lol:
November 11, 200717 yr So, anyone using Leopard yet? I am a new Mac owner, having just purchased a MacBook after my PC laptop's screen died. (I have been regularly using Macs at school for a couple of years, though.) I've probably been too casual a user to know the full extent of updates, but nothing seems wildly different. The new features I most appreciate are Quick Look (or sometimes the iTunes-like "Cover Flow" view in Finder) and Stacks, and perhaps Spaces once I actually get going with lots of stuff. Anyway, new OS X version or not, I love the computer! I also installed Windows with Boot Camp, just for the hell of it, but don't have any particular intentions of using it.
November 11, 200717 yr ^Which reminds me, I've got a job coming up where I have to ftp files using a company program that can ONLY run with Windows. I have an Intel Mac and know that the hard drive can be partitioned and all that, but apparently this Boot Camp thing does all that junk for you? I would expect something like this to be buggy as hell and and I don't want to mess up my computer, it works fine as-is.
November 11, 200717 yr I just installed Leopard on my MacBook Pro the other day and I love it. It actually is letting my computer run a little bit faster. I'm flipping out over time machine haha. That is one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I am thinking about getting another external HD just for that. And for Windows, all I ever used Boot Camp for was to get my Windows drivers. There is a program called Fusion that lets you run Windows and OSX side-by-side without having to re-boot. It runs perfectly, too. I have NEVER had a problem with it yet. It is something worth while to check out. If you do decide to go with one of those programs though, I'd advise you to NOT use a program called Parallels because I have heard nothing but negative press about it...
November 12, 200717 yr I just upgraded to leopard this weekend and this is by far the best OS upgrade I have ever used! You guys have got to try this app called piclens ... it's a plugin for Safari! http://www.cooliris.com/site/
February 24, 200817 yr So how many of you Mac users are running Leopard? Any problems? I am encountering a few compatibility issues, one major issue being that my HP Printer is no longer compatible with my computer.. :oops: Anyway, I'm just curious..
February 24, 200817 yr Print drivers have been my main problem. I have two HP printers and I have had print issues since moving to Leopard. 10.5.2 has really help stabilize things but I will never upgrade my OS until after a 10.x.2 release in the future.
February 24, 200817 yr ^ What kind of HP Printer do you have? I have the PSC 1610 and it will NOT work at all.. I also have 10.5.2..
February 24, 200817 yr I haven't had any problems running Leopard so far. Print drivers are working okay, as is Photoshop CS 2, which was designed to run on Panther, I think.
February 24, 200817 yr Yeah.. really the printer issue is the biggest problem. I am planning on replacing this printer anyway but right now, the only way I can use is is if I go through windows and send stuff over to my OSX folders.. It works but it's tedious and I am scanning and printing a lot now.. I love the features Leopard has though. It is a really sweet OS.
February 25, 200817 yr My HP Printer is a Deskjet 6500. My Printer does work but it is inconsistent and sometimes it prints random colors across the page. This did not happen with Tiger.
February 25, 200817 yr yeah.. I'm not too happy. I am looking at a Canon Printer right now.. It's on Apple's page, but before I buy it I am DEFINITELY checking to see if it is compatible with Leopard. How did you get your printer working? My drivers aren't working at all. I think I might be out of luck though. :-(
February 25, 200817 yr ^ You should check out some of the Open Source driver alternatives. http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MacOSX/ It looks like you might need the hpijs package.
February 25, 200817 yr Sorry for the digression from printers, but does anyone else want that time capsule as bad as I do?
October 4, 200816 yr I picked up a G4 mac today. 733 MHz powermac 1.25gb ram with 17 inch monitor. I like it so far. Where did you get a free itouch? In typing this on my $229 itouch :roll:
October 4, 200816 yr Apple had a special during the beggining of the school year where you would get the free iTouch (or something else) if you purchased a new Apple computer. I bought a new 17" MacBook Pro, 2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, 200 GB HD
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