Muskoka Mac User Group

If you haven’t already – be sure to check out Nicolle’s website.
It’s at nicolle.muskokamug.org – and looking good!
It’s built primarily with RapidWeaver and those of you looking for an alternative to iWeb should ask her about it.

Oh, and be sure to leave her a note with what you think. It’s often tough to spend time working on the content and then wonder if anybody is looking at it

As I mentioned at a few meetings, I’m quite the podcast fan. And, one of the ones I listen to regularly is CBC Radio’s ‘Quirks and Quarks’ science show.

Well, just the other day I’m driving along and I hear a voice that sounds familiar… See if you can figure out what I heard. Download this mp3 file yourself and take a listen.

If you want to spoil the suprise, then you can cheat. (But don’t! Remember how much fun opening Christmas presents are?)
Start with this link and scroll down to the fourth article.

If you want to subscribe to CBC’s Quirks and Quarks show yourself, there are two choices.
Click here to get each show ’segment’ separately or here for each week as one complete episode.

Finally found my own answer. I can delete from the Pictures file by going to File, Move to Trash. Simple . . . once you find the answer.
Bill

Having scanned several hundred pictures into my G5 and made DVDs of them, I would now like to clear them out of my computer. But it does not want me to do this. What do I do?
When I scan them in, they are saved in my Picture Folder. I then transfer them to iPhotos, where I edit and use them. But the Picture Folder is now massive and I would like to clear them out. It does not want me to Delete them or drag them into Trash. Help does not seem to have an answer. Any ideas?
Bill

In frustration, and because I was running out of time before Christmas, I have given up trying to burn CDs or DVDs from Keynote.
Following Meg’s suggested process at MMUG (Export from Keynote to QuickTime; Ussing QT Preferences, select Custom, then use Full Quality plus Audio; Save to Desk Top; under File, use Create OneStep DVD.) This process gives a satisfactory quality QT movie but will not render sound on the same track. Grrr.
My alternative has been to use iDVD to create a new project — fairly satisfactory but not as good as Keynote. (Select a new project; select a theme; Apply presorted slides from an iPhoto Album into the project; Apply music from an iTunes Album. Burn.) iDVD has many of the features of Keynote, e.g. dissolve, flips, ability to apply comments, titles. But not as classy.
First Burn of a project takes about an hour to render. However, subsequent Burns are less than 15 minutes if done immediately.
I could not export Keynote presentation to iDVD. And, if I used Toast to Burn the Keynote pesenation, I either could not capture the sound; got a slide show rather than Keynote production; or I was told by my DVD player that it was a not an appropriate disc for the player. Sigh!
Perhaps someone else will have better luck.
Bill

Hi everyone:
I’m a bit surprised to see that the Google Calendar says nothing scheduled. We do have a meeting tonight. I hope everyone knows that.

Brian–You are going to make another presentation about security. Right?
I am going to present an introduction to basics of iWeb.

We are all going to come with learnings to share and questions to pose right?

7:30- 9:30 p.m. The Digital Life Centre at macs@work
Please remember to bring a folding chair.

See you tonight.

Meg

Here’s a potential fix! I didn’t figure out – just did some googling and put two and two together.

The fix:

1. open /Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup
2. check the properties for Built In Output. It might be set to 96KHz.
3. Change it to 44.1KHz and audio in Flash will return immediately.

I’d be interested if somebody can explain why the problem occurs in the first place though….

I got it from this club mac link, which is dead right now.
You can get it from the google cache
here.

More frustration:

At the last meeting of MMUG, Don McCormick inspired us with what can be spectacularly done with Keynote.
Subsequently, I have made two beautiful Keynote presentations, complete with musical soundtrack, of slides I have scanned. I want to present them to my kids or Christmas.

HOWEVER: I have no luck in burning (a) CDs; (b) DVDs; (c) QuickTime movies.

a. CDs: I have been using Toast 7.2.1. They work beautifully on the Mac. However, on a TV set or a PC, they show as separate pictures, without sound, but not in Keynote

b. DVDs: same . . . work fine on the Mac, but not on TV or PC, and without sound;

c. QuickTime Movie: major loss of picture quality, no sound; does not work on TV or PC.

I have become a major student of the Help and articles on Apple.com. I have also tried, and failed (cannot drag a Keynote presentation into another Mac program) to write it using the Burn features of the Mac.

So far nothing has resolved my problem, all I want is a nice CD in Keynote, with sound.

Anyone have any ideas?
Bill