On this episode of The Mac Attack: The good, the bad, the ugly of Leopard (so far)... What works? What doesn't? What's great? What's not so good? What's in it for you?

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New Mac Roundtable is out

Today in iPhone

MacFixIt.com Leopard install troubleshooting tips

Application Enhancer

MacRumors - List of apps not compatible with Leopard

Path to user created mailboxes - ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes

3d to 2d dock command (cut and paste in to terminal)
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

dockswitcher (3d to 2d dock)

Run Leopard on a PC

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Leopard finally has an official release date and I talk about the things you need to do before the big cat pounces, listener emails and more on this episode of The Mac Attack.

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Reducing cable strain on your MagSafe power adapter

How to disconnect the MagSafe power adapter

Mac 10.5: iChat system requirements

SuperDuper

cdbaby.com

tunecore.com

Things to do before the big cat pounces check list:
- Backup and test your backups
- No need to do a clean install
- Do system maintenance (correct permission, run maintenance scripts, etc.)
- Disable any Finder, System, & Safari Add ons
- Take a look at your "Login items" and temporarily disable the apps you added from starting up at boot
- Disconnect any external HDs and other peripherals
- Check developers web sites for shareware/freeware Leopard updates or compatibility
- Does your Mac make you money? Then DO NOT load Leopard onto your production machine until you know you won't run into problems.

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Listener emails on this episode of The Mac Attack. More options for moving your Outlook info to your Mac, dimming Mac screen, boot speed differences between two almost identical Macs, Getting your music on iTunes and more...

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Outlook2Mac

Airset

Thunderbird, export mail to Apple Mail

Caffeine

Getting your music on iTunes

Rember

tutorial - "Yellow Star Wars Opening Crawl"

Apple's Web Apps list

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On this episode of The Mac Attack - A look at Apple's latest software and firmware updates. What happens when you hit the power button on your Mac? Listener emails, Mac tips and more...

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outlook2ical

Joost

move Outlook 2003 contacts to Address Book

SmartDisk FireLite

G-Tech G-Drive mini

LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive

Western Digital Passport drives

SmartDisk ByteSize USB drives

Quicksilver

Quicksilver Google video

SimplytheBest Fonts (free)

Chank fonts (free/pay)

Mac Font Vault (free)

Fonthead (free/pay)

Alien Fonts (sci-fi fonts - free)

Fixing a "stuck" 'Automatically reduce brightness' setting:
1) Manually edit the plist file for PowerManagement.  It’s located at /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist.  Under Custom Profile -> AC Power (and you have to do it under the Battery Power one, too if you have that set up), create a Child (if it doesn’t exist already) named “Display Sleep Uses Dim? and set it to Number and the value to 0.  That seemed to do the trick on my iMac.
2) If you still have issues, the system may be ignoring the plist setting.  You can create a little one-line Applescript and dump it on the desktop to run whenever you need it.  Just put this line in it (but, be aware that even if you save it as run-only, your admin password can still be seen if someone opens up the file as text): do shell script “sudo pmset halfdim 0? password “? with administrator privileges

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