Category: Mac Software

  • Spotlight ramdomly started over

    I got on my PowerMac G5 2.3×2 this morning and my hard drives were really going to town. I looked up and saw Spotlight was indexing. I clicked on it and it says it’s indexing my computer and will take 15 hours. That’s really strange. No external hard drives, no new hard drives and no…

  • Adobe CS3- March 27th Release Date

    For those who use the Adobe Creative Suite Software- I’d wait on the purchase. They are announcing CS3 on March 27th and shipping it later this spring. For Mac users, this will be Intel ready. Adobe calls it “the largest software release in it’s 25 history.” http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/03/05/cs3/index.php

  • Backing up Aperture with optical discs

    I’ve joined in on several discussions and blogs talking about the best way to backup your Aperture library immediately and long term. Obviously you can use Aperture’s great backup feature called the “Vault”. That is smart actions that you take to choose a location to where you want to backup Aperture’s files and when you…

  • ok.. so there was Macworld ’07

    I’m a little disappointed with this year’s Macworld. Now granted the new I-Phone is amazing. i mean it really really is probably the best phone, ipod, dohicky i have ever seen. But I don’t have Cingular phone service. And I have a 1 year 1/2 service contact left on my current plan. So steve spent…

  • Macworld ’07 Tommorow!

    His steveness will be showing of all the new stuff. My Predictions: New Cinema Display New I-Pod 8-core Mac Pro I-TV with hard drive I-Life’07 I-Work ’07 I-Phone and maybe just maybe something else.

  • Printing w/ Epson R200 and I still have hair

    After days of trying to print with Aperture to my Epson R200, I wasn’t have much success. I followed all the rules, change the setting in the Epson R200 perfences to Photo RPM, and turn off color management. Back in forth etc. Print borderless was usless and I was having color banding issues and my…

  • #1 reason to upgrade to Microsoft Vista

    The lead article in the magazine “Federal Computer Week” which is a publication for Government-Business Techonolgy has an awsome header that I would love to quote. “There is one reason above all others for agencies and departments to consider shelling out money for Vista, the newest version of Microsoft Windows: There are currently no Vista…

  • Perian- A New Quicktime pluggin

    If you are in the mulitimedia field or ever deal with PowerPoint presentations and movies and AVI’s, and you have Mac and PC or your client has a PC and you have a Mac or something to that degree- well the world has gotten a little bit easier with some good ‘ol open source software.…