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Self-diagnosing Your Sick Mac
Thursday, December 22, 2005 / Support / 0 Comments
When your Mac is sick, the first thing you want to do is to find a utility to console you. Macs are solid computers that some of us have come to think of as being maintenance-free, but any computer is bound to have some trouble within its lifetime. Here are some tricks to solving your problems, or at least finding the cause of them.
What does Apple’s announcement about the move to Intel processors mean?
Tuesday, December 20, 2005 / Apple Culture / 0 Comments
With Apple’s announcement that they will be switching from the IBM PowerPC chip to Intel at the Worldwide Developers Conference last week, many people have been wondering what impact this change will have on the Mac.
From our point of view, there is a lot of good news in regards to this announcement.
First of all, this move reinforces Apple’s commitment to remaining a market leader in all aspects of the Mac platform. It had become abundantly clear that IBM was not able to keep up with the performance increases users have come to demand. On laptops, for instance, Intel simply has much better technology when it comes to low-heat processors; IBM simply wasn’t able to produce the G5 chip in a form factor that would work in a portable computer.
iPhoto in the RAW
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iPhoto has been doing some growing up lately. When it was first released I had great hopes for its potential to “iTunes” my photo collection… hopes that were soon dashed. One of my biggest complaints was that it would make copies of all my photos and organize them as it saw fit. I resisted for a year, not wanting to give up control of my photo filing system. But after discovering my system was not really easier to use, I opted for the visual scan and album method of iPhoto. Little by little, iPhoto changed into an invaluable friend of my photos the way iTunes bonded with my music. Photo albums are published to my .Mac account in minutes, and pictures are compressed for easy email. iPhoto 5 has an abundant list of features, including support for the RAW file format. However, iPhoto 5 only supports RAW taken from some cameras and only if you get them directly from the camera. Not from a folder or older collection.
I Luv Disk Utility
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My favorite Apple application is an often-overlooked program called ‘Disk Utility.’ Found in the ‘Utilities’ folder located inside the ‘Applications’ folder, it has been included in every version of Mac OS X. As OS X has advanced, so has Disk Utility; becoming much more than the hard drive formatting application it used to be. Some of you have used Disk Utility to format or repair a damaged hard drive. Perhaps you have read about ‘Repairing Disk Permissions’ and that’s how you use Disk Utility. All of those things are great features, but with Disk Utility 10.4 there is a world of additional features far more useful than just maintaining a hard drive.
