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Posted: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:07:13 PDT
It turns out not to be the case. iTunes 10 finds the ATV; clicking on it gets you to Photos; choosing albums and clicking Apply gets you no response. The albums do NOT transfer. iTunes needs to be upgraded to provide syncing to the old ATV. (The ATV forum is quite active on this point!)
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Posted: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:54:57 PDT
The command in Terminal brought everything back to normal - menu items, keyboard shortcut - everything seems back to normal. Problem machine: iMac 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM - Model Identifier: iMac6,1 - will email more info later.
Thanks,
Bob
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Posted: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:55:38 PDT
Hi. The ebook announced in this article, assumes you've already gone through the comparison process that you describe and purchased the PDFpen software. I'm sorry to hear that you were disappointed with an older version of PDFpen. Smile has posted some information about how PDFpen compares to Acrobat on their site, and I'd be happy to help you get in touch with them if you want to follow up in person.
http://smilesoftware.com/PDFpen/compare.html
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Posted: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:45:08 PDT
I get a good discount on Adobe Acrobat Pro. I bought an early edition of PDFpen after a glowing review of the program, only to find Acrobat just as capable and less buggy. I'm interested in workflow, though, so I need to know whether PDFpen deserves a place on my computer. I believe that any review of third-party software for wannabe PDF pros needs to address the pros and cons of the software with respect to the actual professional application, but I can't figure out from the preview whether you do an adequate job of comparing PDFpen to Acrobat. Is it easier to use? What does it do better? What capabilities does it lack? I'd be far more willing to pay $10 for a document that tells me a priori which software I need (and what I can do with it) than one that give me gee-whizzery about a program that ultimately doesn't do what I need it to do; then I've wasted $10 plus the cost of the cheaper software.
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Posted: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:29:14 PDT
Anyone else having login problems after installing this update?
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Posted: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:44:50 PDT
Will give it a try and report back. Thanks.
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Posted: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:50:49 PDT
After talking with Christian, it seems likely that something else happened at roughly the same time, since many of these settings are simply unrelated. To undo everything that Savescreenie does, issue the following command in Terminal:
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screencapture.plist
and then reboot the Mac.
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Posted: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 05:58:01 PDT
That's very odd, since I wouldn't think that Savescreenie would even have the capability of affecting those settings. I'll ask Christian about it. I presume you've restarted to make sure everything is starting fresh?
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Posted: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 05:55:02 PDT
That comment about the previous security updates being included is only on the outer listing page for the download, so I strongly suspect someone just copied and pasted from a previous description and didn't delete it.
As far as Server goes, the description of the security changes specifically says it's available for Snow Leopard Server, and there's only one download, so I think it's safe to assume that it's the same. Generally there are separate downloads when the Server changes require fixes to Server-only components.
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Posted: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 02:28:54 PDT
I tried this savescreenie 2.0 on my home computer running 10.6.4 and it worked great!! Installed it on my work computer running 10.5.8 and not only did it not work, but it disabled the keyboard shortcut for capturing selected area and my menu clock disappeared and system preferences cannot bring it back! Any way to reverse it?
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:18:59 PDT
Some thoughts. Appe states on its download page that this security update includes previous security updates, which isn't true 2010-005 was over 80MB and this update weights only 2MB and only updates AppleFileServer and its man page. Also, does anyone know is this update the same for Snow Leopard and Snow Leopard Server?
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:34:47 PDT
You don't have to start out with "I think..." to be polite, you know. I always bow to your superior technical font knowledge! And, of course, you're right; I was seduced by Font Book's sample display when I thought I had set it to my custom alpha-numeric example.
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:00:07 PDT
I think Web/Wingdings and Symbols are in fact Unicode compliant, the former having their characters at Private Use Area codepoints, and Symbols having them in the appropriate Unicode symbols ranges.
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:37:21 PDT
I'm getting simply the √ square root/checkmark character that Option-V is supposed to get. Are you getting something else?
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:06:18 PDT
This is probably more appropriately covered in "Take Control of Syncing Data in Snow Leopard" so I'll ask Michael Cohen if he knows anything about iTunes 10 and the old Apple TV.
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:06:05 PDT
Hi:
It is also interesting to see how Safari handles these option characters, such as entering option v into the address bar. Try it to see what I mean.
Cheers,
tedd
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:49:00 PDT
Sharon,
A common and universal way of life. Mine is aggraveted, as I do have to « switch » in an almost continuous manner, from English to French, namely in the naming of Apple MacOS components (my system is French-Canadian, very similar to the french (France) one.
Tourelou,
Bertrand
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:47:02 PDT
I always try to give readers ways to do things within the OS (read: "free") even when there's an alternative. However, not only do I mention PopChar, but the book includes a 20% discount on the purchase of PopChar. (Though too late for you, apparently!)
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:17:53 PDT
You are, of course, correct, and I do know the difference (I've corrected other people) but I was a) in a careless hurry and b) Using a hi-res MacBook which, with its smaller characters, didn't let me clearly see anything other than a smudge over the "a" so I knew it was accented! (And I didn't use Keyboard Viewer, just typed it, which is where the careless hurry took over.)
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:07:04 PDT
Note:
I also use PopChar to enter various characters (letters, symbol, marks, etc.), in many fonts (those in your system). It is worth having a look at. There are alternatives, but I do prefer PopChar.
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:06:20 PDT
Thank you for the demonstration that our site can support Unicode punctuation and characters! It took a long time to make that all work (through JavaScript, Apache, HTML standards, perl, and MySQL)!
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:05:25 PDT
Uh, oh... Chris, does that mean that syncing photos to Apple TV is now Broken??
Kirk, egads!! How can a thorough treatise on iTunes avoid syncing concerns - The 2 are intertwined: For example there is a bug in iTunes 9 which causes Smart playlists to mis-sort, unless you add specific criteria (or jump thru other hoops). Over time my iTunes management has become complex primarily due to the complex and ever-changing interaction between iTunes and my devices.
Perhaps an Addendum:
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:57:33 PDT
COMMENT:
Your « voilá », I do believe, should read «voilà ».
I do have little merit in this note, as I use the Français canadien (CSA, or ISO Standardised)) mapping.. which is very good for both non diacritical English characters and French diacritical ones. As to the meaning of Voilà, « there it is » or close to that, it applies here!
Best regards from Québec.
Bertrand Morin
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:49:51 PDT
You worried me there for a minute - that I had missed a change from some system upgrade, or something, because I whipped out Kbd Viewer and, lo, you were right - I couldn't get accented letters to appear (using my MacBook Pro).
Here's the deal, though: Viewer displays the accented letters (after pressing Option, and then one of the "triggers") only when you can actually type them into something. Picky, picky! So, with my email open, but not a message window - which is how I read your comment - no accented letters show. But open a message window, where text can be entered - and voilá! (Let's see if that accent gets posted correctly)
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:47:16 PDT
Link to Security Update 2010-006 from MacSurfer not working.
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:27:17 PDT
Yes, that's true. I refrained from making extremely disparaging remarks about the downward spiral of Character Viewer's attitude with each system upgrade, so I didn't hammer home how ridiculous it is to provide Latin-mapped non-Unicode compliant fonts and not let them be seen in Viewer. Webdings (all 3), Wingdings, and Apple Symbols are also mapped like that.
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:50:41 PDT
There's other things that can do this sort of work, and even more. For automated web testing we usually record actions with Badboy, then export the script into Jmeter, which can run multiple instances simultaneously.
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:41:20 PDT
it seems to me that some of the portable Mac keyboards behave differently than described. For example on my MacBook 4,1 (black), running the latest Snow Leopard, Option-e does not make Keyboard Viewer show the accented characters available (though it shows the 5 accents). Neither does it show the augmented keyboard map when US international is selected (though the map becomes much larger.
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:53:30 PDT
Good eye - I wonder if a smaller size simply doesn't have room for the iPad to fit in a pocket.
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:32:59 PDT
I've looked at Calibre, but it's tremendously clunky and awkward for anyone accustomed to Mac applications. My impression is that more effort is put into the conversion code than the interface.
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:31:46 PDT
I couldn't face doing another scan, since it takes forever to do if you have a lot of files on your hard disk. Doing a full scan on my main Mac Pro, which has over 1.5 million files on it, took all day.
Personally, I think I'll stick to safe browsing behavior.
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:16:33 PDT
Despite removing the fonts menu from Keyboard Viewer, Apple still does include some non-Unicode fonts with OS X which map symbols to Latin: Bodoni Ornaments or Type Embellishments One LET are examples I think.
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:49:41 PDT
For reading epubs on a Mac--try Calibre.
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Posted: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:19:27 PDT
I don't cover syncing that much. I discuss the different ways of syncing media, but I don't look at photos at all. In any case, syncing photos to an Apple TV is just like syncing them to an iPod: choose the albums or rolls in the Photos pane that you want copied
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Posted: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:11:41 PDT
I had no problem purchasing it, but I found that you get what you pay for. While it appears to find 'tracking cookies' (72 of them) and reports that it's deleted them, I've found that it only pretends to delete them. All the tracking cookies it located are still there when I scan a second time.
Arrrrgh!!
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Posted: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:41:23 PDT
I'm fine with the old fashioned RSS readers. Don't need all the pics or whizbang gimmicks.
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Posted: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:21:26 PDT
Selenium is a free plugin for Firefox, and pretty much does the same thing. Perhaps its interface is less Mac-ish than Fake.
http://seleniumhq.org/projects/ide/
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Posted: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:08:15 PDT
Too bad it only fits medium-sized and larger guys, and large women.
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Posted: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:52:48 PDT
Besides the US Extended keyboard layout, Snow Leopard also has a "US International - PC" layout, which reproduces the common layout used on Windows for producing accented characters on the US keyboard.
Most international users migrating from Windows prefer this layout to the Mac's option+character method.
Users of Leopard (10.5) and earlier systems can download the original layout from my site: http://brockerhoff.net/usi
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Posted: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:55:15 PDT
Does it address how to sync iTunes 10 to the "old" Apple TV for photos?
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Posted: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:13:03 PDT
I haven't used Pulse yet, although it seems promising.
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Posted: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:56:04 PDT
Just a quick comment that although no one else seems to be having trouble with this, the in-app purchasing code didn't work for me, and I had to order on the SecureMac Web site, which worked perfectly.
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Posted: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:53:49 PDT
I'm surprised you didn't include Pulse.
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Posted: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:18:55 PDT
The iPad does show more details per inch of screen than a MacBook (132ppi versus 113ppi).
It seems a great device to show catalogs to prospective clients, except when colour accuracy is important.
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Posted: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:16:22 PDT
The original images are left untouched. When "exporting" a photo, Lightroom makes a copy of the image and applies all editions to it, including cropping. That's one of the foundation of the Lightroom workflow; Non destructive editing.
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Posted: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:02:55 PDT
I've been playing with this a bit over the past few days, it is very cool. One thing readers should know is that the limited trial version doesn't allow you to save your workflow -- so don't spend much time making a complicated workflow until you buy it!
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Posted: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:00:03 PDT
Anyone have iPhoto or, better yet, Aperture settings for such a task?
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Posted: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 08:10:03 PDT
this is brilliant!
and if the metabrowser was built with RDF infrastructure (thereby matching syntactic programmability with semantic programmability) then the result would be GENIUS!
i mean: it would be just as seminal as Tim Berner-Lee's very first nextstep web browser!
(which, btw, was also an editor!)
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Posted: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:52:22 PDT
The yet another inbox killed rss for me. Visually appealing for about 5 minutes, with Flipboard I'm like just show me the news without all the whizbang.
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Posted: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:42:09 PDT
Didn't Microsoft do something similar with windows and ie?
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Posted: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:34:06 PDT
The manual suggests that other NiMH AA batteries can be charged in the Apple Charger, but I have not had success with other than the Apple supplied batteries.
This is the only AA battery charge I have that can work with multiple voltage input - great for travelling.
Does anyone know why there is a "magnetic" tug when inserting batteries positive end first?
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Posted: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:53:01 PDT
I visited the www.TactilePro.com web site and viewed the various photos of the keyboard. On the non-US keyboards the F14 and F15 keys show brightness adjustment icons. On the US keyboard, they are absent. Does it not adjust display brightness in the US?
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Posted: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:56:24 PDT
Sad to see another example of the dilution of the Mac brand. CNET completely destroyed Ted Landau's great MacFixIt site. And there is no doubt that they will again take another valuable service to the Mac community, VersionTracker, and add it to the visual nightmare and confusing mess that Windows computers offer. Unfortunately, Apple has a hand in all this too, by becoming a phone and music player company, relegating the Mac OS to backseat status in its priority list. I have a sad feeling that one of these days we'll all wake up and find the Mac OS gone and integrated into one big "Windows OS for everybody" world!
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Posted: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:28:18 PDT
I installed ios 4.1 on my wife's iphone 4. She had experienced Bluetooth connectivity issues prior. iOS 4.1 appeared to have fixed it initially but now she appears to have similar issues with the phone. She has tried a Motorolla and a Jawbone Icon with no success. I guess iOS 4.1 does not completely fix this issue.
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Posted: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:12:31 PDT
They also got rid of the BURN button toward the bottom right corner. It was not in anyone's way. So now you have to go from the FILE dropdown menu.
DUMB. IMHO.
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Posted: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:38:55 PDT
Speaking as a developer, I think CNET is a huge step down from the original VersionTracker. They didn't manage to move any of our applications over correctly, making changes and notifying them of updates is amazingly difficult and seldom works the first time, and their tech support people don't seem to care at all.
I'm done with CNET--they can pick up my changes from MacUpdate if they want them.
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Posted: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:42:29 PDT
I am in complete agreement with the author although I am only an advanced amateur who started at age 13 with an Argus C3 35 mm camera and started digital photography about 8 years ago after using 35 mm Nikon film SLR cameras for 45 + years.
I am unaware whether or not any digital camera manufacturers have ever had real input from advanced amateurs and professionals about how menus and knobs etc should be place etc.
I am currently using a Canon G9 and I am content with its capabilities with the exception of its lousy viewfinder ( also true of all digital non SLR digital cameras). After all these years I got tired of carrying 2 camera bodies and 3-5 lenses.
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Posted: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:05:57 PDT
Crop my image for the convenience of such a device??? You must be kidding. So you must shoot with the intention of cropping?
Sad.
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Posted: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:54:20 PDT
Digital Cameras are Microsoft Word with full menus when you want NotePad to create an essay. I can take its output and bring it into any other editor/word-processor later. Computers that take pictures, not cameras.
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Posted: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:20:12 PDT
Agreed. As soon as I upgraded from a 3G to iPhone 4, I started forgetting our Canon point-n-shoot because for non-pro use it just hasn't been missed. Not even sure where the Canon is at this point! Part of that is convergence, of courseΓÇöthe Canon can't do appsΓÇöbut part of it is also the pleasure of simply tapping the screen on the object I'd like in focus, or the ease of getting family pictures where I'm not always missing using the front-side camera.
The other day I saw something that suggests a trend that should have Canon, Olympus, et al quaking in their boots re: their futures in the amateur market. Watching my daughter in a summer camp play, I looked around the room and noted 9 parents taking snapshots and videos. The score? Canon-3; Sony-1; Flip-1; iPhone 4-4.