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  • Quote: Originally Posted by Feynman The only thing I want in iTunes is a kiosk mode so when I have parties people can play music and not delete playlists/songs by mistake. How about switching on the visualizer and going into full screen mode? …
  • Okay, well let's take a look inside those apps shall we? Inside Keynote.app the two biggest folders are: Frameworks - 100MB Resources - 143MB 'Frameworks' is most likely huge because iWork is compatible with both Tiger and Leopard, so App…
    in file size Comment by yama March 2008
  • Simple, all the Microsoft products have shared libraries spread across multiple different folders in both the 'Office' and 'Library' folders. The iWork apps on the other hand are entirely self-contained. If you right-click on iWork and choose "show …
    in file size Comment by yama March 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by roostajoe P.S. Speaking of UNIX...what does that stand for? It doesn't stand for anything. It's just a silly pun on Multics. Much in the same way that Linux is a pun on Unix.
  • If you work for IBM there are so many acronyms used that they have an internal website just for listing them all. There's even a plug-in you can get for Lotus Notes that searches for acronyms for you.
  • You can use VLC to play back DVDs. It can be a bit flaky at times though... Edit: The DVD player that comes with Leopard allows you to skip to any section of the DVD. There is a progress bar at the bottom of the window which is normally hidden un…
  • I find it increasingly difficult to seriously recommend Graphic Converter to new users just wanting a basic image editor. There are so many other nifty little shareware apps out there that are much nicer to use than GC. GC really is starting to f…
  • Go into Edit > Preferences and make sure the Radio option is checked. If the Radio icon does show up in the source list, but there is nothing in it, there might be some kind of network issue.
  • Hold down the ALT key while choosing File > Open With... and it will change to "Always Open With..." Or, you can choose File > Get Info... change the Open With: app and then click on "Change All..." The final option is to install RCDefua…
  • Have a look at The Iconfactory and InterfaceLIFT.
  • 1) Select the home icon in the Finder 2) Choose File > Get Info... 3) Click on the icon in the info window 4) Paste an image onto this and it becomes your new icon You can also copy other icons and paste them onto the home icon in this mann…
  • I knew Super Monkey Ball was coming - that game was made for the iPhone. Overall it's great to have Sega on board. Hopefully we'll also get stuff like Chu Chu Rocket further down the road.
  • I've experienced this with a few different apps after a new version of the app is installed. This is how I solve the problem: 1) Quit iPhoto 2) Open System Preferences and remove iPhoto from the list of allowed apps 3) Relaunch iPhoto and cl…
  • Automator will do this for you as well if you set up a re-naming workflow. You can then save it as a contextual menu, AppleScript or Folder Action. You can do stuff like sequential naming, etc. There are existing AppleScripts which will also batc…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Oh my God. They let Pakistan have the YouTube button? I hope they also have MySpace and Facebook buttons
  • http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7262071.stm Quote: Pakistan's attempts to block access to YouTube has been blamed for an almost global blackout of the video website for more than an hour on Sunday. BBC News has learned that the outage was…
  • Er, you might be missing something here: From a review on ArsTechnica: Quote: The advent of Xbench 1.3 and Cinebench 10 make comparison with the original MacBook difficult, since that computer was benchmarked using prior versions of those appli…
  • One step which is always worth trying is to create a new user account and see if it will launch when logged in as a new user. There were a couple of weird problems with CS1 which would cause Photoshop to fail at launch. Check the following: 1)…
  • Yeah, we went all the way around the island It was absolutely lovely. It's a shame about the hoofing great big power station they built on the north end though...
  • Some pics from a recent vacation: Seems like I have an unfortunate habit of tilting the camera slightly.