warning to leopard/keynote users
Posted by Ian Holsman
I upgraded to leopard, and it has frozen/paniced twice in 24 hours.
I also discovered that keynote doesn’t do a auto-save/recovery. Naturally I discovered this on 20 slides into the deck.
removing static from a quicktime movie
Posted by Ian Holsman
anyone know of any good tools (I can’t afford Final Cut Pro) which can edit a quicktime movie’s sound track?
I’m trying to remove some static coming (and don’t want to spend another hour or two redoing the entire movie)
Thanks!
cool screencasting tool for the mac
Posted by Ian Holsman
I just found this cool tool for screencasting on a mac IShowU it’s $US20. and it works on my macbook pro.. unlike the ‘other’ screencapture tool which didn’t work with my USB microphone ;(
now.. If I could actually learn to stop saying ‘um’ so often.
How to turn 'on' the fan in a macbook
Posted by Ian Holsman
I know it sounds like a funny question to ask.. how to make my machine more noisy.. especially since the Sun T2000 arriving on monday is going to make me deaf..
but my shiny powerbook is burning my legs, and my desk isn’t designed to act as a heat-sync so this thing will probably burn it.
Is the solution to just get a piece of aluminium and sit the the laptop on that (a kind of brute force external heatsync) ?
my hard drives are running at about 43c/109F at the moment.
It’s not helping that Melbourne is having a hot spell at 30c for the last couple of days either.
Filesystem security and disk space
Posted by Ian Holsman
I just turned off filesystem security on my mac, and get about an extra 7G of free diskspace.
for someone who constantly hovers at ~95% utilization on their PC.. this is a big deal for me.
Did apple make the wrong choice?
Posted by Ian Holsman
when it chose which x86 processor to put in it’s new macbook pro?
CNET recently did a benchmark comparing the AMD and intel dual core offerings, and AMD won them all.
Don’t get me wrong.. for most people (including me) you won’t be able to tell the difference in speed when you use your word processor, but still it does say to me that the choice wasn’t a technical one, I wonder how much apple is paying for it’s intel chips.
Cisco VPN+Mac
Posted by Ian Holsman
Lazyweb..
can anyone confirm if 10.4.3 and the Cisco VPN client work together?
I’m scared to upgrade and loose vpn access to school ;(
A Feature request for the next OS/X
Posted by Ian Holsman
I hate restarting my mac, and lately it seems like I have to do this once a week thanks to security fixes and iTunes releases.
I would like to have an option to restart and have it so that all the apps are running and loaded to the same point in time before the restart. ie.. make it less of a hassle.
now.. before you say.. thats impossible, I belive the capability is already in the mac. you know when a application crashes, and it allows you to reopen them to the same spot just before it crashed? well.. the ‘invisible-restart’ could use what ever magic the crash dialog boxes uses and resume itself on boot.
I understand this won’t work 100% of the time for all upgrades, but I’m sure it would remove the hassle for 20-30% of them.
Tagging in Mail on your mac (MailTags)
Posted by Ian Holsman
I’ve just installed Mail Tags and It looks great. It allows me to add tags and comments to emails, and makes use of smartfolders so I can view by tags.
note.. I couldn’t get the installer to work, I had to recreate my ‘~/Library/Mail/Bundles’ directory, and then fire off the following in a terminal session
defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles 1
defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion 2
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