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Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
from macosxhints.com: Share one Address Book among multiple users Fri, Dec 3 2004 at 9:17AM PST • Submitted by Anonymous This is how to share the Address Book on a single Mac with each user of the machine. No syncing is needed -- all users will work on the same data. Have a separate partition with "Ignore permissions"… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
Batteries should last months and months, I would think. I know the keyboard said 9 months normal use, I didn't read about the mouse batt life. Command-W just closes the window. If the application is hung, that will do nothing to help it, most likely. You want to command-q (quit) or, if that doesn't work,… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
Ok, so in the case I've done personally, these weren't images, they were audio clips... and the filesystem used much larger chunks (2M) so a file that was 1.9M vs 2.1M saved me a full 2M. In that case, I made more files fit by slightly reducing the quality of the files. 240kbit encoding instead of 256kbit for most of them,… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
So, I just finished reading iWoz, and at the end of the book, he's talking about the late 90's, when the Mac was suffering from instability. Everyone was complaining about it seemed. One day, his son is surfing in iCab, not IE. Well, everyone was pretty much using IE back then, especially because it was bundled with the… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
Nothing deep, David. The thing starts and shuts down a lot faster. No major bugs, some minor oddities that aren't chronic. I've been spared Patch29's unexpected shutdown problem. I don't like playing Windows video files on the 'net, it's a pain, even with FlipforMac. And I wish I had software for removing the bugs I just… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
I went shopping this past weekend and got Leopard and so far everything I have played with I love! Even more exciting (at least for me) is that I also bought the 30" HD Cinema DisplayIt is going to make life so much easier! I have it hooked up to my 17" MBP I know I am already not taking full advantage of my mac yet but… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
Mac help I did do a search (search is my friend) and looked through recent threads but didn't find the help I was looking for. I've been a PC user for years (but owned a mac in the early 1990's - ancient history). I just bought a new Dell screamin' i7 processor, 6gb ram, Vista 64, desktop machine. It is fast but I'm still… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
Got this via PM: Here are the things I would check: * Free space on your drives. You should have at least 10% free space. * Memory. The more RAM, the better, although that doesn't really explain a slow-down. Upgrade to at least 2GB of RAM. * UNIX CRONS. These are housekeeping routines that any UNIX machine (OSX included)… -
Re: Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread
Well, don't necessarily ditch Aperture purely on account of its renderer. I have plenty of complaints about it now that I have started using it for a lot of images (sometimes it does a great job, other times it just sucks, and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of in-between) but Aperture has other strengths that make it…
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