Muskoka Mac User Group » 2007 » February
YouTube currently is featuring a lot of Macintosh entries. This is a great one of Steve Jobs (before black tee shirt) introducing the 1984 Macintosh. This was my original Mac! Worth looking at.
Bill
1984 Apple’s Macintosh Commercial
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Elsewhere on this web page I have been commenting on my frustrating efforts
to build genealogy DVDs this winter.
I gave up the attempt to use Keynote when I learned that Keynote is
designed (brilliantly) to make presentations using the Mac as its engine. It does
not burn onto a DVD for use in another medium. This was the source of my frustration.
I turned to using iDVD. This worked well, but not as fancy as Keynote. Basically, you build a sequential slide show with one picture after another.
Happily, you are not limited to the number of pictures you can use, e.g. 99 as in iPhoto.
You can fill a whole DVD, including sound track(s). For example, one of my projects
included 325 images, scanned from old B&W snapshots and 35 mm slides, plus titles and charts.)
One weakness of iDVD is that there is poor control for using the allocated space to
title/comment on an image, e.g. paragraphing. I worked around this by composing on the
yellow “stickies” in Dashboard. I then copied and pasted them into the appropriate space
on an image.
To burn the project, I took the advice of the iLife guru, Jim Heid, and did not
use the burn function in iDVD. Instead, I created a Disc Image from the File menu,
and burned from there at the slowest possible speed (1x). (See pages 310-311
in Heid’s book.) This easily and successfully gave me DVDs which will play on a PC
or Mac and any commercial DVD player, including musical backgrounds.
Good luck in your projects.
Bill
As many of you probably don’t know – Daylight Savings times for most of us are changed this year!
I’ll bet even if you did know that, you didn’t stop to think about whether your computer would handle it ok or not…
The best summary I’ve seen for a Mac user is this tidbits article.
It’s worth reading, and spells out what will happen if your computer isn’t updated pretty clearly.
It turns out Apple is being pretty dumb about this…. Here’s the short summary – if you are using Tiger and have all your updates installed, you are ok (unless you use Entourage – see below). If you are using Jaguar or Panther, you aren’t !
While I’m not surprised they are not doing anything about updating Jaguar, I’m a bit shocked they are ignoring Panther.
UPDATE – Apple now reports they have updated Panther as well! Be sure to run software update in the next week or so to pick up all the changes. See the detailed documentation here.
I’m glad Apple went ahead with Panther updates – but they’d save themselves a lot of bad press if they were more open about what they plan to do. It ended up looking like they only updated Panther because a lot of people yelped about it, whether that’s true or not.
I will be testing the Jaguar patch mentioned in that article shortly, so those of you wanting to apply that update yourself feel free to drop me a line and ask how it went.
UPDATE – I have run the patch on four Jaguar machines – it seems to have worked fine in my quite limited testing. Please note that software using Java might still have issues – it doesn’t update Java’s internal timezone information.
Also of note is that Microsoft is not updating the Entourage that came Office v.X and older – You’ll really want to either move to a newer version of Office or over to Mail and iCal for your calendaring….
Don McCormick has promised to come this time and show us the software he has found which calibrates the colour between the monitor and the printer so that WYSIWYG. Other stuff will be happening. Keep coming back to find out more.
Does anyone know a good method of converting VHS tapes to digital so we cn make DVDs of them? I have a number of VHS tapes of my grandchildren which would better be preserved digitally.
On Dottotech today, he recommended downloading a program called HandBrake, which converts DVDs to MPEG4 for downloading to an iPod. Is there something similar for VHS?
Bill
Hi folks:
just a reminder about our meeting
Always on the second monday of the month. At the Digital Life Centre at macs@work. Bring a chair.
7:30-9 ish.
Don M. has some software to show us. Meg has some further information about our ongoing struggle with disc burning. Anyone else? We can always look at the Leopard Sneak Peak Brian mentioned and discuss pros and cons. Any other ideas?
We keep hearing that Apple is about to unveil its new operating system called Leopard. Have you checked their sneak peek page?
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/
Bill
Thanks, Brian. This is very helpful. I had not seen it on the Apple sie.
Bill
Getting your pictures out of iPhoto to view on a non-Mac PC is sometimes confusing. Another common use is to make a CD or usb stick copy to take to the store to print.
If you use Apple’s convient ‘burn CD’ option you get an iPhoto library, which does a Windows or Linux user no good at all.
If you use Excel a lot, every once in a while you might end up with a file that has white text on a white background on the sheet tab at the bottom of the screen. And there’s no command anywhere that lets you change the font or colours of those tabs! I finally figured out the fix.
Quit Excel. Start Excel from the Applications folder. Start a new document using the File menu, and make sure the tabs there are regular black lettering. Now open your problem file using the File menu in Excel. Tada! No more white on white!
It’s a bug that corrupts the file apparently, and it only shows up when you open the file by double clicking on it all the time… I’m using MS Office X, but from postings around the net I think it affects 2003 as well.
Hope this saves some hair pulling for someone else.