Archive for November 11th, 2008

Apple may turn to carbon fiber for lighter MacBook Air - MacBook Air

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Apple may turn to carbon fiber for lighter MacBook Air - Apple enthusiastically claimed ownership to the world’s thinnest notebook earlier this year with the introduction of the MacBook Air, but is rumored to be unsatisfied with the

Apple to Adopt Carbon Fiber for Lighter MacBook Air?

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AppleInsider claims that Apple has been looking into replacing aluminum parts with carbon fiber parts in an effort to make the MacBook Air even lighter than it presently is.

Apple enthusiastically claimed ownership to the world’s thin…

Apple set to rock the holidays? - MAC.BLORGE

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It’s certainly true that DigiTimes has a spotty at best record vis-a-vis Apple production goals and products. But with the economy swirling ’round the bowl as heads decidedly South, one wonders how much good news the company will be

Parallels Desktop 4 for Apple Mac: Major Speed Improvement

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Parallels have released Desktop 4 for the Apple Mac, and the first thing that you will notice is the major speed improvement. This fourth generation virtualization software features a new user interface along with a number of other

iPhone 2.2 Firmware 10 Days Away?

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iPhoneHellas.gr claims that the iPhone 2.2 firmware will become available on November 21st based on what they describe as a “reliable” source. Meanwhile, Gizmodo also describes the iPhoneHellas site as “reliable” but we at MacRumors have had very li…

Parallels 4.0 Promises Significant Performance Improvements

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Parallels has announced the immediate availability of Parallels 4.0. Parallels allows Intel-Mac users to run Windows alongside Mac OS X.

The latest update to their Windows-virtualization software for Intel Macs promises new perform…

Export iPhoto events into appropriate directory structure

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A common gripe with iPhoto is that it cannot create directory structures for events, albums, etc. during export. However, if you export the photos with meaningful filenames, you can easily post-process them and create the intended directory structure. This can be done by selecting all your events and doing a Batch Change to set the Title to Event Name. Then export your photos using the Title as the File Name. Copy the following code into a pure text editor, save it somewhere on your computer, and make it executable (chmod a+x filename in Terminal).

#	First, in iPhoto select all events and do Photos > Batch Change#	Set Title to Event Name#	With all events highlighted, export events a folder somewhere, for filename use title#	Photos will be exported with filename of "event - number.jpg" (ex: A...
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Avoid a problem caused by a Samsung color printer

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After installing the software for a Samsung CLP-610 color laser printer, we started having issues with the machine (a PowerMac) crashing at random times. It turns out the hard drive was being filled to capacity with files named 49?????????? in /private/var/tmp. Through a process of elimination, I finally determined the culprit was a Samsung application called SPanel. Renaming this application (located at /Library » Printers » SPanel » Samsung » SPanel.app) resolved the problem.

Hope this helps someone save the very frustrating amount of time I spent tracking this down.
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Advancing to the next slide in Keynote

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As explained in the “Controlling a Presentation with the Keyboard” section of the Keynote 08 user guide document (3.1MB download), you can press the ? or / key (no need to use Shift) to display a list of keyboard controls while giving a Keynote presentation.

This list indicates that you can use the ] key to advance to the next slide. But I have found that this doesn’t work if the slide has internal object transitions with set timings — you have to wait until all the timed transitions have finished before the ] key will advance to the next slide.

However, I noticed that the slide will advance immediately if you hold down the Option key and then press the ] key. (I.e. use Option-] instead of just ]). This appears to be undocumented.
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iPodNN | Apple blocks radio app update from App Store

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News on - Apple blocks radio app update from App Store. CastCatcher is used to stream the Shoutcast, Icecast and nicecast stream formats, which are popular on desktops and notebooks but not natively supported by Apple handhelds.