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Should I Choose Shut Down at the End of the Day, or Can I Just Turn Off My Computer?
Most definitely you should choose Shut Down. When you go to the Finder’s Special menu and choose Shut Down, the Mac properly closes everything and updates the hard disk’s directory and Desktop “catalog.” It more or less jots down that everyone is fine and tucked into bed. Failure to do so will slow down booting [...]
Continue reading...Mac Wins Olympics
4. December 2007
The centennial 1996 Summer Olympics were awarded to Atlanta, Georgia, as you already know. Did you also know that the Mac had a big part in determining this site? Many people thought it would be held in Athens, the site of the first Olympiad! An interactive video, created using MacroMind Director, made it possible for members [...]
Continue reading...Tina Turner, Mac Fanatic
4. December 2007
Vivacious Tina Turner’s What’s Love Got To Do With It Tour is entirely Macintosh based. Photoshop sketches preceded every stage item. A Quadra 950 with a 1.2 gigabyte drive was used. The hydraulics used in staging the show was designed in ClarisCAD. The lighting director uses a PowerBook 170. The Tour Manager uses a PowerBook [...]
Continue reading...Cache CD-ROM File Directories
4. December 2007
If you have a CD-ROM drive, take a look at CharisMac ($80). It caches the CD-ROM file directory for fast access. it also includes audio CD software. Expect more third-party CD-ROM speed-up devices soon. That’s because CD-ROMs are slow as molasses, and this provides a window of opportunity for small developers to do us all a [...]
Continue reading...Norton Utilities and Quark
4. December 2007
QuarkXPress conflicts with Norton Utilities’ DiskLight and Directory Assistance II. No fix that I know of, except not to use them together. (DiskLight has a long history of causing problems! I recommend that you don’t use it at all. — PT)
Continue reading...Quark Troubles?
4. December 2007
If you have trouble with a Quark 3.3 file, try opening it with the Command key pressed. This forces Quark to re-import all photos. And, alas, Norton’s Directory Assistance II is still incompatible with Quark. (The Eficolor XTension is the culprit.)
Continue reading...Do Not Name Any File .Sony
4. December 2007
I recently came upon a reference to the old “.Sony” filename warning. You know, the “don’t name any file with the character string
Continue reading...Expand or Collapse a Folder
4. December 2007
When in a list view in the Finder, you can select a folder and press Command/Option/Right arrow to expand the folder or Left arrow to collapse it instead of clicking on the folder’s triangle. This is a quick keyboard shortcut for expanding or collapsing all the folders in a directory. Command/a to select all the [...]
Continue reading...MacroMind Director
4. December 2007
Test your movies on the slowest machine that may be used for playback, and after getting thins tweaked for that machine, lock the playback rate. Sounds should be embedded to keep load time to a minimum. Also, preload them into memory. If you intend to mix sounds, use a third party application like SoundEdit Pro. Bitmapped text [...]
Continue reading...5,000 Yellow Page Directories on a Single Disk
4. December 2007
American Business Information, Inc., has a $49 CD-ROM disk with 13 million businesses listed. It’s the Yellow Pages! In fact, it is 5,000 Yellow Page directories on a single disk.
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Apple News 
Antiglare Display Option For 15-inch MacBook Pro Now Available
If you prefer a display with antiglare coating for a matte rather than glossy viewing experience, an antiglare display is now available as a configure-to-order option on all 15-inch MacBook Pro models. This display has a silver aluminum bezel, which is the same as the 17-inch antiglare MacBook Pro display.Google CEO Schmidt leaves Apple board
In a statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs cited potential conflicts of interest in explaining Schmidt’s resignation.
“Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings,” he said.
Apple is racing to offer a portable tablet-sized computer in time for the Christmas shopping season, in what the entertainment industry hopes will be a new revolution.
via Financial Times.
Apple updates MacBook Pro firmware
Apple has released an update for its newest MacBook Pro notebooks introduced at its Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month.
via CNET News.
4. December 2007
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