Thu, 12 November 2009
Photography and the Mac (part 2) on this episode of The Mac Attack. Victor Cajiao (Typical Mac User / Typical Shutterbug) joins me to discuss sharing and printing your photos and some addition tools (HDR and geotagging) and web resources that we both find helpful. (behind-the-scenes show note: I apologize for how fast I was speaking during some parts of the show. That might of been a two coffee morning.)
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Digital photography workflow: Make Magazine's "How-to" article on geotagging This Week In Photography (podcast) ------------ |
Thu, 29 October 2009
Photography and the Mac (part 1) on this episode of The Mac Attack. Victor Cajiao (Typical Mac User / Typical Shutterbug) joins me to discuss different ways to use your Mac when it comes to photography. (Show Note: I referred to 'Quick Look' as 'quick view'. My bad… )
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Thu, 8 October 2009
Snow Leopard tips, tricks and hints on this episode of The Mac Attack. It's a quick episode but I bet you'll find at least one tip about Snow Leopard you didn't know about.
Please write a review on iTunes Snow Leopard tips, tricks and hints: Visit the show web site at themacattack.tv for show notes and links to the software, hardware, and products mentioned during the podcast. The Snow Leopard install disc can be used on a blank hard drive. Leopard doesn't need to be installed first. Rearrange user created mail folders in the mail app. Previously we were stuck looking at those folders in alphabetical order. Now just drag the folders into any order. option click Sound menu icon (speaker icon) to select input and output audio devices. option click Sync menu icon to get more detailed sync info. option click AirPort menu icon shows all sorts of info about the current wireless connection. option click Bluetooth menu adds 'Open Bluetooth Diagnostics Utility' option click Battery menu icon shows battery health option click Time Machine menu icon changes 'Enter Time Machine' to 'Browse Other Time Machine Disks. Zoom screen while using "Screen Recording" in QuickTime X (zoom screen: control+scroll wheel or trackpad) Show date in menu bar select via 'Date & Time' preference pane. Minimize application windows into application dock icon set via 'Dock' preference pane System Preferences icon shows list of Preference Panes when right clicked (control clicked) Booting into safe mode now has a progress bar as it verifies the hard drive When "Screen Sharing" with another Mac, hitting command tab to switch apps will switch the apps on the remote computer, not the one you're sitting in front of. ------------ |
Fri, 11 September 2009
I know this probably doesn't affect most of you but I am posting this here because I did mention this issue in the last episode.
Going on what I've seen around the internet that duplicate Arial fonts could cause the Nik plugins to crash I opened up 'font book' and took care of the dups. That still didn't fix the problem. Then going on the assumption that the Arial font was still the issue I started looking at the versions of Arial on my computer. All Arial files seemed kind of old. Using an application called Pacifist I looked at the Snow Leopard installer package. Doing a search for Arial I found that the version numbers were different. Using Pacifist I copied the newer versions of the Arial font to my computer and removed the older versions. There are a few places were fonts live on your Mac. Make sure you find out where your current version of Arial lives, remove and replace with the one from the SL installer. My Nik plugins now work. (I'm also working on the next episode of The Mac Attack. It should be out any day now.) (UPDATE: An alternative fix: Your Snow Leopard install may of installed the updated Arial font with out removing the old outdated Arial font. When you use Font Book check within the Arial listing to see if some styles (regular, bold, italic, etc.) are duplicate. Select one of the dups and press "command i" for info. You want to keep the current fonts and styles (version 5.00) and remove the old.) Category:general
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Fri, 28 August 2009
A fun look at procuring, installing and running Snow Leopard on this episode of The Mac Attack.
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Visit the show web site at themacattack.tv for show notes and links to the software, hardware, and products mentioned during the podcast. TMA # 85 Mac OS X System Maintenance Pre install quick tips:
- Make sure all s/w is up to date (Apple and 3rd party) ------------ |
Sat, 22 August 2009
The Mac Attack will be back with the release of Snow Leopard (if it's actually released this week). Either way there will be a a new show out by next weekend. If you are looking for information on - Getting Ready for Snow Leopard - check out the episode of Typical Mac User I recorded with Victor Cajiao. I also recorded an updated segment to that show with Victor that will be released this upcoming Tuesday night. |
Wed, 12 August 2009
I join Victor Cajiao on TMUP to discuss getting your Mac ready for Snow Leopard. Category:Announcement
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Wed, 17 June 2009
Backup'09 on this episode of The Mac Attack. On the very first episode of The Mac Attack I spoke about backing up and a lot has changed (like a choice of online backup services). Its good being able to talk about backup apps and services that have really proven themselves over the last 4 yrs or so...
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Mon, 8 June 2009
101 will be out this week. Sorry for the delay. -Steve Category:Announcement
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Wed, 15 April 2009
It only took 3.5 years but The Mac Attack finally made it to #100. On this episode Victor Cajiao (Typical Mac User and Typical Shutterbug) joins me for a candid and rather philosophical conversation about Apple, the Mac and technology in general. Robert Hazelrigg is back with his review of the Scoshe ReviveLITE
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