Everyone’s making a lot of noise about iMovie’s new Skimming feature. What people seem to be forgetting, or never knew, is that Final Cut Pro has skimming as well for clips in it’s bin. The issue is that it’s hidden, isn’t set up to use right away and it’s not as fluid as in iMovie […]
A lot of people (including me) seem to be having trouble with the new silly dumbed-down GUI for Compressor 3 when trying to figure out how to batch process from FCP. Here’s what I found posted to a forum about it:
Right there is a way to batch export from FCP and this is how:
Instead of […]
This article claims that some parts of Leopard will only be available to certain chips in Macs.
. . . Some of the new Objective-C features will only be available in the 64-bit version, meaning the compiled code will only run on PowerPC-G5 and Intel-Core-2-Duo powered Macs, leaving all those 1st generation Intel Macs (Core-Solo and […]
Here’s a pretty handy way to sort that folder you have full of thousands of unsorted files.
- Launch the Terminal
- Type in cd then drag the source folder into the terminal window, hit return to change to that directory.
- Make a folder someplace (on the same hard drive as the source window) and name it […]
smcFanControl is a cool little app that allows you to adjust the speed of the fans in your MacBook, MacBook Pro and Intel Mac Mini.
I’ve been playing with this for a while now and managed to get (at basically idle) my Intel Mac Mini’s temperature as shown by CoreDuoTemp to 88°F.
Normally at what is essentially […]
Jul 19 17:54:42 NAME kernel[0]:
PowerMac11_2_SlewCtrlLoop::setVoltageSlewIndex - slew request timed out
If you see that in your system log a billion times try two things:
01) Go into System Prefs>Energry Saver>Processor Performance - and change it to Highest
02) Unplug your headphones from the front of your G5
I was playing around with Firefox 1.5.0.4 today to see how it handles Gmail since it’s an approved browser for Google’s Gmail Chat (not Google Talk) features.
Safari doesn’t have full functionality with Google Chat, Firefox does. So, after playing around with the knobs and buttons for a while in Firefox (setting preferences and such, similarly […]
Why isn’t ISO 9660 Level 3 fully supported in Mac OS X 10.4.x yet? That’s nuts. Why make us jump through hoops just to get it to maybe work?
the malware was posted as “latestpics.tgz” to a Mac rumors web site, claiming to be pictures of “Mac OS X Leopard” (an upcoming version of Mac OS X. It propogates through iChat, and can cause applications to not work properly — but requires an administrator password to enact its somewhat innocuous effects, making it a […]
Want the LATEST version of Safari before nealry everyone else? Look no further than here.
you can now build your own version of Safari from code that’s newer than the latest public release.
You can see an example of why you’d want to do this if you use a lot of pages that use “cutting edge” HTML […]