Apple’s iPhone 2.0.2 software update didn’t fix much
By Seth Weintraub | August 20, 2008
I've had very few problems with my iPhone 2.0 and subsequent 2.01 releases. The Internet has been abuzz lately with people who are having lots of problems with it however. 2.0.2 was supposed to help alleviate these problems....it didn't.
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iPhone firmware update woes continue
By IT Blogwatch | August 20, 2008
In Wednesday's IT Blogwatch, we wonder whether Apple's iPhone has jumped the shark with its firmware updates. Not to mention today's favorite waste of time...
Gregg Keizer reports:
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Copy only the first slide of a group in Keynote
By MacOSXHints.com | August 19, 2008
In Keynote (I’m using version ‘08), when working in Navigator view, you can indent or group multiple slides under one slide via drag’n'drop or by pressing Tab (Shift-Tab to outdent or ungroup).
If you need to copy an entire group, close the group by clicking the disclosure arrow to collapse the group, select the first slide and press Command-V.
If you need to copy only the first slide of the group, open the group first (by clicking the arrow to expand the group), select the first slide and press Command-C.
I just realized the difference between the two actions this morning, and it has already saved me a good amount of presentation development time.
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Create bookmarks on the iPhone but organize them on your Mac
By MacOSXHints.com | August 19, 2008
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Amid MobileMe failures, a star is emerging
By Seth Weintraub | August 19, 2008
MobileMe is having some serious issues, however, I see where MobileMe is going, and it is exactly what Apple should be doing.
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The iPhone kill switch - it KILLS you
By Ken Gagne | August 18, 2008
Your iPhone’s kill switch doesn’t remove undesirable software — it kills you. Stephen Colbert reports.
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Turkey and Russia looking to join iPhone union, at two carriers each
By Seth Weintraub | August 18, 2008
Earlier this morning news came in the the iPhone was probably going to be coming to Russia via two of its largest carriers. Now Turkcell is making overtures for the iPhone in Turkey.
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Make Spotlight results easier to read
By MacOSXHints.com | August 18, 2008
By default when viewing a Spotlight “all results” window or a Smart Folder or Search, the view is set to “icon view” and the file names are truncated, making it very hard to find the exact file you want.
You can switch the search results to “list view” but you may find that the setting doesn’t stick. Well, there’s good news. Under Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, there’s a way to make the view settings for all Smart Folders and the “All Results” search window stick.
- Open the Finder.
- Under “Search for” in the sidebar, click on one of the search items (for example, All Documents). (If you don’t have any smart folders there, just do a Spotlight search and choose Show All.)
- Switch the view to “List view” or whatever view you are comfortable with.
- In the menu bar, click View > Show View Options, or press Command-J on your keyboard to open the View Options windo…
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Dell going after iTunes/iPod ecosystem with openness…FAIL
By Seth Weintraub | August 17, 2008
Dell is using former Apple executive Tim Bucher to lead a 120 strong crew that will try to form an alliance of Apple's enemies to usurp the king of digital music. This has no chance of succeeding.
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EXTRA: Microsoft triumph; OOXML appeals quashed
By IT Blogwatch | August 16, 2008
Welcome to a special IT Blogwatch EXTRA: where appeals fail to stop Microsoft's Open XML becoming an ISO/IEC standard. Not to mention a self-test for idiocy...Elizabeth Montalbano drinks alphabet soup:
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Pixar’s rendering software - big on Linux servers, not Mac
By Eric Lai | August 15, 2008
A reader of my recent story on Pixar announcing that its popular RenderMan Pro Server software would start to support Windows clusters questioned why I hadn't noted whether or not RenderMan already ran on Mac and Linux server clusters, known as 'render farms' in the animation biz.
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What iDVD ‘08 Compression Options Really Mean
By MacOSXHints.com | August 15, 2008
Every time I've used iDVD '08 and reached the point of checking the Project Info pane's Encoding options, they never make complete sense, even after searching the web for answers. I'm in the process of transferring my Laserdiscs to DVDs and have now built up enough experience that I think I've figured this all out. Here's what seems to be going on.
The gist of the confusion about encoding is that the word "quality" is used in two different ways. There is the quality of the rendered video to be burned on the DVD, which is really what is important. But, unfortunately, the word quality also appears in the naming of the compression algorithms used, Best Quality and Professional Quality. This latter use is ill-advised, because the amount of compression applied to your video may or may not affect the quality of the video you end up with.
We all understand the meaning of picture quality, and iDVD '08 usefully indicates final DVD video quality via a color grading scale, from g...
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What iDVD ‘08 Compression Options Really Mean
By MacOSXHints.com | August 15, 2008
Every time I’ve used iDVD ‘08 and reached the point of checking the Project Info pane’s Encoding options, they never make complete sense, even after searching the web for answers. I’m in the process of transferring my Laserdiscs to DVDs and have now built up enough experience that I think I’ve figured this all out. Here’s what seems to be going on.
The gist of the confusion about encoding is that the word “quality” is used in two different ways. There is the quality of the rendered video to be burned on the DVD, which is really what is important. But, unfortunately, the word quality also appears in the naming of the compression algorithms used, Best Quality and Professional Quality. This latter use is ill-advised, because the amount of compression applied to your video may or may not affect the quality of the video you end up with.
We all understand the meaning of picture quality, and iDVD ‘08 usefully indicates final DVD video quality via a color grading scale, from g…
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Make iPhone stay in UTC Regardless of Current Time Zone
By MacOSXHints.com | August 15, 2008
For international travelers who cross many times zones each day, such as those in aviation and those in the military, it is common to live by Coordinated Universal Time (also known as UTC, Z or Zulu, and GMT or Greenwich Mean Time). An earlier hint noted that the iPhone can display UTC in the World Clock, but you can also set your iPhone to stay on UTC.
To change to UTC you must first select Settings > General > Date & Time. Turn off Set Automatically. You should also turn on 24-Hour Time, which is optional but is most likely used by anyone who needs to live by UTC. When you turn off Set Automatically, you are shown the Time Zone option. Select Time Zone and type in UTC in the search box. Select UTC from results list. The iPhone will now stay on UTC regardless of your location in the world.
[kirkmc adds: No iPhone here, but on the iPod touch you can set the time zone to UTC if...
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Make iPhone stay in UTC Regardless of Current Time Zone
By MacOSXHints.com | August 15, 2008
For international travelers who cross many times zones each day, such as those in aviation and those in the military, it is common to live by Coordinated Universal Time (also known as UTC, Z or Zulu, and GMT or Greenwich Mean Time). An earlier hint noted that the iPhone can display UTC in the World Clock, but you can also set your iPhone to stay on UTC.
To change to UTC you must first select Settings > General > Date & Time. Turn off Set Automatically. You should also turn on 24-Hour Time, which is optional but is most likely used by anyone who needs to live by UTC. When you turn off Set Automatically, you are shown the Time Zone option. Select Time Zone and type in UTC in the search box. Select UTC from results list. The iPhone will now stay on UTC regardless of your location in the world.
[kirkmc adds: No iPhone here, but on the iPod touch you can set the time zone to UTC if…
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Install Aperture 2 with 256 MB RAM
By MacOSXHints.com | August 15, 2008
I decided one day to try out Aperture 2 and found that it won't run on machines with less than 1 GB of RAM. Tinkering around, I stumbled onto some files that can fix this.
First you need Aperture 2 or the trial version from Apple. Once you have it, you need to drag the Aperture package and packages folder to the Desktop. Right-click the package and choose Show Package Contents. Open Contents and right-click Aperture (trial).dist; choose Open With and then Other. In the window that displays, choose TextEdit (or your favorite text editor) and scroll all the way to the bottom of the window. Now slowly scroll back up untill you see:
Change the required RAM to:function checkRAMRequirement(RAM) var requiredRAM = (RAM * 1012 * 1012); var actualRAM = system.sysctl('hw.memsize');function checkRAMRequirement(RAM) var requiredRAM = (RAM * 256 * 256); var actualRAM = system.sysctl('hw.mem...
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Get iPhones through SOME AT&T business accounts
By Seth Weintraub | August 14, 2008
Today, AT&T is allowing its AT&T premiere business account holders to order and set up their employees with iPhones without having to wait in line for them at AT&T stores - where they likely are wait listed. Well, that is if you are the right company.
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Add keyboard shortcut for iPhone and iPod sync in iTunes
By MacOSXHints.com | August 14, 2008
In order to streamline syncing my iPhone, I wanted to add a keyboard shortcut to make it quicker. One way to sync is to choose the File > Sync “User’s iPhone” menu item in iTunes. I found that you can create a shortcut to this menu item using the name of my iPhone. One problem is that the menu item in iTunes uses smart quotes. So you can’t just type in the menu item; you need something like TextEdit (or any word processor that supports smart quotes).
To enable smart double-quotes in TextEdit, make sure they’re enabled in the Edit > Smart Substitutions > Smart Quotes menu item. Then just type in the iTunes menu item.
If you have a single quote in your iPhone’s name (like I do), you need to disable smart quotes for that. You need to have something like:
Sync “User’s iPhone“
Where the double-quotes are “smart” and the single quote is not.
Copy the text and paste it into the Keyboard Shortcuts preference pane dialog, and ent…
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Sync Tasks on iPhone using Safari Bookmarks
By MacOSXHints.com | August 14, 2008
Like others, I have been annoyed by the lack of Tasks synchronization on the iPhone. This hint is a very basic workaround, but one that can give you with a rudimentary Tasks list, of sorts, which can be edited on either an iPhone or computer and can be synced. This works with the iPhone and Safari on Mac OS X; I haven't tested it on Windows.- In Safari, create a new Bookmarks Bar folder; I called it To Do.
- Choose Bookmarks > Show all Bookmarks.
- In the new folder, made in Step 1, add a number of bookmarks: I did this by dragging the current URL from Safari into the folder. I did this about 10 times. The URL used is unimportant.
- Edit the names of the bookmarks, and just name them "." (period, but the name can be any characters).
- You now have 10 "blank" bookmarks. Edit each of the names to correspond to a task. For example: "Fill in Tax return by 12/10", "Kill Bill", etc.
- The bookmarks in the 'To Do' folder ar...
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Sync Tasks on iPhone using Safari Bookmarks
By MacOSXHints.com | August 14, 2008
Like others, I have been annoyed by the lack of Tasks synchronization on the iPhone. This hint is a very basic workaround, but one that can give you with a rudimentary Tasks list, of sorts, which can be edited on either an iPhone or computer and can be synced. This works with the iPhone and Safari on Mac OS X; I haven’t tested it on Windows.
- In Safari, create a new Bookmarks Bar folder; I called it To Do.
- Choose Bookmarks > Show all Bookmarks.
- In the new folder, made in Step 1, add a number of bookmarks: I did this by dragging the current URL from Safari into the folder. I did this about 10 times. The URL used is unimportant.
- Edit the names of the bookmarks, and just name them “.” (period, but the name can be any characters).
- You now have 10 “blank” bookmarks. Edit each of the names to correspond to a task. For example: “Fill in Tax return by 12/10″, “Kill Bill”, etc.
- The bookmarks in the ‘To Do’ folder ar…
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