by: Jason
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#40:
News:
Apple released iTunes 7.6.1 today through the Mac OS X Software Update. This maintenance release includes several bug fixes and improves compatibility with Apple TV 2.0. Meanwhile, Apple has notified iTunes customers through its weekly email, that they will be offering a different $0.99 movie rental every Thursday. The special price is available from Thursday through Monday. Once rented, like all other movies, you have 30 days to watch it.
Apple has dropped the price of the iPod Shuffle to $49 (from $79) today. The $49 iPod Shuffle stores 1GB of songs or up to 240 songs in 128-Kbps AAC format. Meanwhile, a new 2GB model has also been introduced at $69. the Shuffle is still available in the same colors: silver, blue, green, purple and red. The 2GB model won't be available until later this month.
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ForMacEyesOnly Segment:
Michael Potter of the ForMacEyesOnly podcast shows us how to set up a guest account.
Cali Lewis Interview:
I interviewed Cali Lewis from the Geekbrief.tv podcast on what makes her stay with Apple and what her first mac experiences were like. Be sure and check out her great podcast.
Macbook Podcast Episode #39
by: Jason
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#39:
News:
Apple has release Apple TV take 2 update.
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ForMacEyesOnly Segment:
Michael Potter of the ForMacEyesOnly podcast shows us the keyboard viewer.
Macbook classroom:
Erasing Free Hard Disk Space
First open Disk Utility. Then select the hard drive partition on the left of the screen, select the erase tab, then click "Erase Free Space". Choose which option you want (the first option is usually enough) and click the "Erase Free Space" button. The process can take anywhere from an hour to quite a few hours depending on your hard drive size, and the amount of free space.
During the process a "You are running low on disk space" warning may pop up, just click OK on this and ignore it. Disk Utility zeros out the free disk space by simply making a giant file that is nothing but zeros. Reboot if necessary.
Free file of the week:
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They believe that parents should make the decisions about what their children view online. They designed SeeMore’s Safety Browser™ to be a virtual “seat belt” on the information highway. Buckle-up your child with their browser, and you and your child can enjoy hours of worry-free fun together.
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Macbook Podcast Episode #38
by: Jason
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38
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#38:
News:
Apple released 10.5.2
Some of the features it fixes are:
Airport: Improves connection reliability and
stability.
Back to my Mac: Adds support for more third-party routers.
Dock: Updates Stacks with a List view option, a Folder view option,
and an updated background for Grid view.
Desktop: Addresses legibility issues with the menu bar with an
option to turn off transparency in Desktop & Screen Saver
preferences.
Desktop: Adjusts menus to be slightly-less translucent
overall.
iSync: Adds support for Samsung D600E and D900i phones.
RAW Image: Adds RAW image support for several cameras.
Safari: Addresses issues with Safari reliably resolving certain
domains.
Time Machine: Adds a menu bar option for accessing Time Machine
features (the menu extra can be enabled in Time Machine
preferences).
Time Machine: Improves backup reliability when computer name
contains slash or non-ASCII characters.
Time Machine: Addresses issues in which some external drives are
not recognized by Time
Machine.
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ForMacEyesOnly Segment:
Michael Potter of the ForMacEyesOnly podcast shows us how to quit the finder.
Here are the terminal commands from his segment:
defaults write com.apple.Finder QuitMenuItem 1
killall Finder
Macbook classroom:
How to create Smart Folders
1) In Finder select the "File" menu and then "New Smart Folder"
2) Click the "+" sign on the right side of the window to add filters specific to what you want the smart folder to do.
3) Sort files in your smart folder by kind, last opened date, last modified date, created date, name, contents, or other.
4) You can set up multiple filters to narrow down the search that the smart folder creates.
5) Click save when finished and name your smart folder.
Free file of the week:
Are you looking for something on eBay but tired of eBay's slow web site? Finally there is a better way! Now you can use a slick, full-featured client application for all of your search and purchasing on eBay. Welcome to GarageBuy.
Finally, an application that looks the way it should (using the Mac's native interface) to help you find and purchase items on eBay.
GarageBuy can be dowloaded and used at no cost. You can download GarageBuy for free. All that's required is an eBay account and a Mac running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
GarageBuy is Universal! You can run GarageBuy natively on your new Intel- and PowerPC-Mac.
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Macbook
Podcast Episode #37
by: Jason
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#37:
News:
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ForMacEyesOnly Segment:
Michael Potter of the ForMacEyesOnly podcast shows us some OS X keyboard shortcuts.
Macbook classroom:
Backing up multiple macs:
Select the hard drive that you wish to partition in the left hand column. Once you have select a hard drive to partition, the Partition tab will now appear along with the other tabs near the top of the window.
1) In the Partition tab select the number of partitions that you want from the 'Volume Scheme' drop-down menu.
2) Once you have set the number of partitions in the Volume Scheme' drop-down, select one of the partitions.
3) Name your partition and then select your format. You'll want Mac OS Extended (Journaled) for a partition that you will want to serve as a boot (start-up) volume. Select Mac OS Extended (No Journaling) for volumes that will be used as media or data storage drives. You can change the alloted size of the partitions by dragging the little button found between the the partitions in the Volume Scheme section, up or down.
4) Select each partition and then name and set the format. When you are done, click on the 'Apply' button.
Free file of the week:
WeatherDock displays weather information based on xml-feeds supplied by weather.com. It displays textual weather information as well as icon-based. Next to the current conditions it contains 10 day forecasts with 2 day-part's weather information.For the current conditions it displays the current temperature and feels like temperature and the current sky conditions. It displays the current pressure, wind speed, wind direction, the humidity, Dew point, visibility and UV-index.The forecasts for today and the upcoming nine days, contains per day-part information on the temperature, condition, wind speed and direction, the humidity and the chance of precipitation, as well as sunrise and sunset information for that particular day. weatherdock can display information in your dock or in your menu bar.
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