This is our second blog about how nice it is to use Apple Mac computers.
These days we are doing our design work on an Apple Mac Pro with 8 3.0GHz Xeon cores in two CPU chips. It’s a screamer and we love using it.
While Mac hardware is truly excellent, the real beauty and power of the Mac only becomes obvious once you use OS X (that’s pronounced Oh Ess Ten). It does not constantly harass you with idiotic and annoying popup error messages (Oh my Gawd, you have icons on your desktop) and it is not necessary to spend half your time and half your CPU cycles defending from attacks designed to exploit an extremely poor operating system.
The site is hosted on our own dedicated server, I’ve got a real web addiction, it’s true. And it shares that server with lots and lots of other websites that are also designed and maintained using Apple Mac computers.
Below is a partial list of other web sites hosted here under the Steve’s Web Hosting umbrella.
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Shopping
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Camcordium
Big TV 4 You
Dry Lens
The GF Store
Ultra Mega Mart
TextBook Discounter
Anime Canyon
The Celiac Shop
Penguin Audio
Penguin Videos
Penguin Cameras
Penguin 64
Penguin CPU
Penguin Kitchens
OS X Mart
The Very Big Bookstore
Books, DVDs, and More
Cameras and Photo
Geek Bookstore
Great Books to Buy
Just Books for Kids
Plenty to Buy
Stop, Shop, Buy Online
My First Amendment
Politics and Religion
Atheist Fag
Virgin Mary (again)
Party of Jesus
God Hates
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God Hates Crustaceans
God Hates Mixed Fibers
God Hates Vaginas
My Daily Rant
Ain’t No God!
Atheism Rocks
Steve Rider (.org)
Jaheezus
Imaginary Bearded Sky Daddy
Photography
Steve Rider Photos
Steve’s Photos
Steve’s Best Photos
News
UnFox News
News Dolphin
California Dolphin
Leaping Dolphin
Liberal Media News
Steve’s News
My News Site
News and Shopping
Public Service
Teh Gays
I Think I Might Be Gay
The Sensible Celiac
All About Celiac
Apple Hot News
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iPad Available in US on April 3
Apple today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April. Beginning a week from today, March 12, US customers can pre-order both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models from Apple’s online store or reserve a Wi-Fi model to pick up on Saturday, April 3, at an Apple retail store.
Apple World’s Most Admired Company
For the third year in a row Apple has been named the World’s Most Admired Company by Fortune Magazine — this year by the widest margin ever. What makes Apple so admired? Fortune explains: “Product, product, product. This is the company that has changed the way we do everything from consume music to design products to engage with the world around us.” Apple also ranked #1 in Innovation among all companies.
10 Billionth Download for iTunes
The New York Times caught up with 10 billion song download winner Louie Sulcer and asked him about his prize, a $10,000 iTunes gift card. Says the 71-year-old Sulcer,”I don’t think I’ll have to worry about buying birthday and Christmas presents anytime soon.”
iTunes Store Tops 10 Billion Songs Sold
Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over 10 billion songs from the iTunes Store, the world’s most popular online music, TV, and movie store.
Introducing Aperture 3
Apple today introduced Aperture 3, the next major release of its powerful photo editing and management software. Aperture 3 offers more than 200 new features including Faces, Places, and Brushes. A 30-day trial is now available for download.
Architecture in Motion: RTKL and iPhone
In its offices from Baltimore to Shanghai, international architecture firm RTKL uses iPhone to stay in touch, access apps that enable creative collaboration, and travel with ease.
Apple Launches iPad
Apple today introduced iPad, a revolutionary device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, playing games, reading e-books, and much more. Its high-resolution Multi-Touch display lets you interact with content — including 12 innovative new apps designed especially for iPad and almost all of the 140,000 apps available on the App Store. At just 0.5 inches thick and 1.5 pounds, iPad is thinner and lighter than any laptop or notebook. iPad will be available at the breakthrough price of just $499.
Apple Reports All-Time Highest Revenue and Profit
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 first quarter. The company reported its highest quarterly revenue and profit to date and outlined new accounting standards.
Logic Pro 64-bit the talk of the NAMM music show
Last week’s update of Logic Pro to include 64-bit support is getting rave reviews at the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) trade show, according to The Loop. Music industry professionals like audio engineer CJ Vanston tout Logic Pro 9.1 as “a game changer,” noting that “the 64-bit gauntlet has been thrown down by Apple with Logic.”
The Apple App Store Economy: Infographic from gigaom.com
A clever new infographic from gigaom.com shows how the App Store puts more than 100,000 apps at your fingertips — and generates millions of dollars for app developers worldwide.
A Guided Tour in the Palm of Your Hand: iPod touch at the Cooper-Hewitt
“Design USA: Contemporary Innovation” at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York offers visitors an iPod touch on which to access exclusive exhibition content. The iPod touch supplements the physical exhibition with “a wealth of interviews, slide shows and snippets of performances, all related to the 78 architects and designers represented in the show. Available free, this device sends the traditional audio guide the way of the one-horse buggy.”
Apple Releases New MobileMe Gallery App
Today, MobileMe introduced a new Gallery app for iPhone and iPod touch. The app features iPhone- and iPod touch-optimized controls and beautiful gallery displays that make browsing photos and videos easier and more interactive than ever before. The Gallery app is free for MobileMe members and available now on the App Store in iTunes.
Introducing Bento 3 Contact and Customer Manager
Now available for download, FileMaker Bento 3 Contact and Customer Manager is the fast, free, and easy way to get instant access to contact and customer details. View call history, notes from meetings and conversations, upcoming to-do items, related documents and files, important emails, sales opportunities, receipts, and more. This download includes a free trial of new Bento 3 for Mac.
iPod touch + Edu Apps = Happy Students
Julio Ojeda-Zapata (twincities.com) reports that the iPod touch “has taken classrooms by storm” in several Minnesota K-12 schools, increasing student enthusiasm and engagement and offering new ways to teach children with special needs.
Camera Pro Preaches iPhone Photography
Thomas Houston (switched.com) reports that Pro photographer Chase Jarvis has created Best Camera, an iPhone app “that lets you shoot, apply multiple filters and effects, and share via Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, and the Best Camera photography community.” In an accompanying video, Jarvis discusses mobile photography, shooting, and his new app.
Global Mobile U
As one of the largest research universities in the United States, the University of Washington brings together 65,000 students, faculty members, and administrative staff. From the laboratory to the dormitory, this thriving academic community stays connected with iPhone and the university’s proprietary m.UW app, which gives students and staff mobile access to campus maps, news, directories, course schedules, and lectures.
How the iPhone Could Reboot Education
Brian X. Chen (wired.com) reports that Abilene Christian University has just finished the first year of a pilot program in which 1,000 freshman students each received a free iPhone or iPod touch to explore how the always-connected devices ”might revolutionize the classroom experience with a dash of digital interactivity.” Says Bill Rankin, a professor who helped plan the initiative: “I think this is the next platform for education.”
30 Must-Have Games for iPhone and iPod touch
Reviewer Peter Cohen (loopinsight.com) writes that “iPhone and iPod touch both make great handheld gaming systems” and offers thirty reasons why in a select roundup of racing, action, and strategy games available in the App Store.
iPhone Improves Legal Services
DLA Phillips Fox, founded 145 years ago, is one of Australia’s largest legal firms, providing services in 29 countries around the world. With iPhone in the hands of almost every partner in the 1,300-person firm, they can offer faster, more flexible responses to their clients’ legal needs. John Dockett, General Manager of IT, says choosing iPhone was “one of the smarter things we ever did.”
Snow Leopard Server “a tremendous value”
In an in-depth review of Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server, Ryan Faas (computerworld.com) cites “performance gains, improvements to several collaboration tools introduced in Leopard Server, enhanced simple administration for non-technical users and new features designed for mobile access and for supporting the iPhone.” Adds Fass: “Snow Leopard Server is a tremendous value.”
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Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6: How to use Migration Assistant to transfer files from another Mac
You can use Migration Assistant to transfer your files and important settings from an older Mac to a new one.
Mac OS X v10.6: Issues after restoring a Mac from a Time Machine backup made with a different Mac ("Restore System From Backup…")
If you use "Restore System From Backup…" to restore a Time Machine backup to a different Mac than the original Mac used for the backup, issues such as these may occur:
Graphic anomalies may appear during startup, or may follow the mouse pointer
AirPort or Bluetooth may not be available
The Mouse System Preference pane may not display the Magic Mouse or its features
Brief graphic distortion may appear when shutting down an iMac
Other startup issues
Mac OS X v10.6: Sleep delayed if print job is in progress or printer isn't available
Your Mac might not immediately sleep after you attempt to put it to sleep. Or, if you have configured your Mac to sleep when idle for a period of time, it may not go to sleep automatically.
Mac OS X v10.6: Printer and scanner software
Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard includes software for many printer and scanner models. This software can be installed from the Snow Leopard Install DVD, and installed or updated by using Software Update (some models have software available through Software Update only).
This article lists software provided for printers and scanners as of 15 Dec, 2009.
To view the complete list of printers and scanners that are supplied with Snow Leopard Install DVD and by Software Update, see below or use your browser's Find feature to look for a specific name or model number. If you cannot find a driver for your specific model, check the list to see if a driver is available for a series of printers that may include your model. For example, a printer with the model number 5070 might use the driver for the "5000 Series".
For more information about setting up and using printers in Snow Leopard, see this article.
For information about troubleshooting printer setup issues, see this article.
What to ask if you're having issues sending, receiving, or configuring Mail
Are you having issues sending, receiving, or configuring Mail? If so, ask your Internet Service Provider (ISP, such as Comcast, RoadRunner, AOL, and so forth), or email service provider (ESP, such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Apple's MobileMe, and so forth) if it's different than your ISP, the following questions to verify that your account is set up correctly in Mail. You can print (or copy and paste to a text document) and keep this "cheat sheet" to record your email provider's settings for future reference. This sheet can make it easier for you when configuring Mail in Mac OS X or on iPhone or iPod touch, or when contacting your provider.
Mac OS X v10.5, v10.6: About named streams on SMB-mounted NAS, Mac OS X, and Windows servers; "-36" or "-50" alerts may appear
Learn about using named streams over SMB connections in this advanced article.
Named streams are used to store Mac OS X extended attributes and can be leveraged to avoid using AppleDouble files to store the data fork and the resource fork of legacy Mac files.
Mac OS X Server v10.5 and v10.6, as well as many Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, support named streams when you connect to them via SMB.
Microsoft Windows servers with NTFS-formatted hard drives also support named streams when you connect to them via SMB; named streams are called "Alternate Data Streams" in Windows.
Mac OS X v10.5 and v10.6 clients automatically enable named streams support when they have a SMB connection to a Mac OS X Server v10.5 or v10.6-based server.
Mac OS X v10.6 clients automatically enable named streams over SMB when the NAS or Windows server claims to support it. See below for details about how to activate Mac OS X v10.5 client support of named streams over SMB connections to a NAS or Windows server.
You can enable named streams in three different ways, as described below.
Mac OS X v10.5: Digital camera RAW formats supported
Learn which digital camera RAW files are supported by Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard or later.
Many digital cameras offer options to save pictures in digital camera RAW format. Digital camera RAW formats retain more image information than JPEGs and can produce better results when used with imaging applications such as Aperture and iPhoto. Mac OS X Leopard provides system-level support for digital camera RAW formats from the following cameras.
Mac OS X v10.6: Digital camera RAW formats supported
Learn which digital camera RAW files are supported by Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard, or later.
Many digital cameras offer options to save pictures in digital camera RAW format. Digital camera RAW formats retain more image information than JPEGs and can produce better results when used with imaging applications such as Aperture and iPhoto. Mac OS X Snow Leopard provides system-level support for digital camera RAW formats from the following cameras.
Troubleshooting "A connection failure has occurred", "The specified server could not be found" or similar messages
When you attempt to connect to the Internet, you may see alert messages such as:
"The server could not be found."
"The specified server could not be found."
"A connection failure has occurred."
"Connection attempt failed."
"Name servers not responding."
Despite the alert, some Internet (TCP/IP) applications may function normally.
Tip: In Mac OS X v10.4 or later, you can click the "Assist me" button in the Network preference pane, then follow the onscreen prompts for network diagnostics. However, the following information is good for any version of Mac OS X.
Mac OS X versions (builds) included with Intel-based Macs
Learn which versions of Mac OS X ship with Intel-based Macs. If you have a PowerPC-based Mac, see Mac OS: Versions, builds included with PowerPC Macs (since 1998) instead.
Important: Do not use a Mac OS X version earlier than the one included with the computer.
iPhone and iPod touch: Mail may unexpectedly quit if webmail account settings are synced
One or more of the following may occur:
Mail app unexpectedly quits when trying to access mail
or
iPhone or iPod touch displays "Home" screen when trying to access mail
or
Mail account on the iPhone or iPod touch shows blank account title/description in Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars screen as shown here:
Mac OS X v10.5, 10.6: How to capture a packet trace
In this advanced article, learn how to capture a packet trace; for example, you may be asked to do this when troubleshooting a network connectivity issue. These steps use Terminal and the the tcpdump command; if you are not familiar with using the Terminal, you may want to use for third-party software that can perform a packet trace instead.
Aperture 3: Some embedded IPTC metadata may not import from DNG, TIFF, or JPEG images with Mac OS X v10.5
When you import DNG, TIFF, or JPEG images that contain embedded IPTC metadata, some of the metadata does not import:
Creator: Address, City, State, Postal Code, Country, Phone, Email, and Web
IPTC Subject Code
Date Created
Intellectual Genre
IPTC Scene
Location
Country Code
Usage Terms
Aperture 3: "Write IPTC Metadata to Master" does not write IPTC Core fields to masters on Mac OS X v10.5
When you choose Metadata > Write IPTC Metadata to Masters, any IPTC Core fields you have populated are not written to the master images.
Aperture 3: Some Nikon RAW images do not rotate correctly on import when importing RAW+JPEG
When you import RAW+JPEG images from a Nikon camera, RAW images shot in portrait orientation may not be rotated properly but the JPEGs are correctly oriented.
Boot Camp: Installing Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3)
If you attempt to install Microsoft Windows XP SP3 on an Intel-based Mac (Mac Pro, Mac Mini, MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or iMac) that is running Windows XP SP2 via Boot Camp, an "Out of disk space" alert may appear even when there may be adequate disk space to install the update.
Mac OS X Server v10.5, 10.6: Setting a custom umask
This article explains how to set a custom umask in Mac OS X v10.5.3 and later.
Every file or folder has permissions associated with it. When you create a file or folder, the umask setting determines these permissions. The permissions on a file can be represented by a number with three digits of 0-7. When you create a file, the umask value is subtracted from a default value (usually 666 for files, 777 for folders) to determine the permissions on the new file or folder. For example, the default umask of 022 results in permissions of 644 on new files and 755 on new folders: groups and other users can read the files and traverse the folders, but only the owner can make changes. For more information on permissions and their numerical representation, see this article.
When you create a file, the umask value is subtracted from this maximum permissions value to determine the permissions on the new file or folder. For example, the default umask of 022 results in permissions of 755 on new files or folders: the owner has full access, while the group and others can read and execute, but not write to the file.
System administrators may wish to set more or less restrictive umasks for their users. There are several different places in which a umask can be set, each affecting different applications.
Mac OS X v10.4, 10.5, 10.6: How to look up ".local" hostnames via both Bonjour and standard DNS
The Multicast DNS feature of Bonjour allows devices on a local network to connect to each other without a separate DNS server by using the ".local" domain, as described in this article.
This advanced article explains how to make your Mac look up host names ending in ".local" using both Multicast DNS and standard Unicast DNS using the name servers specified in the Network pane of System Preferences.
Some private networks also use ".local" domains for hosts registered with their internal DNS server, even though it is not a valid top-level domain on the public Internet. If your Mac is connected to such a network, you may want it to look up host names that end in ".local" by using Unicast DNS to speak to a DNS server, the same way that it looks up host names such as "www.apple.com" on the Internet.
Boot Camp: iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) displays a black screen during installation of Windows 7 using Boot Camp
When installing Microsoft Windows 7 on an iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) using Boot Camp, a black screen may appear. This can happen because the Windows 7 installer does not include the necessary graphics or Bluetooth drivers for your Mac.
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