Entries in the 'Apple' Category
iPhone photos PNG vs. JPG
I noticed that some of my photos that I downloaded from my iPhone are PNG and some are JPG.
All those that I set to send directly to facebook are PNG. They are also 720 x 540 (or 540 x 720) whereas the photos kept on the camera are 2048 x 1536 (and the ones I have with a special 7 Megapixel app are 3180 x 2385! Wicked.
Lightroom doesn’t like the PNG files. Why? That’s another story.
So I just wrote a quick action in Photoshop that is a “Save As” JPG.
Then I threw all my PNGs into a folder called _PNG tank and ran a batch on that folder and voila – done.
iPhone photo management for Apple computers / Mac
The best way to remove photos, archive on computer, keep select photos on iPhone.
Answer:
Remove photos from iPhone using Image Capture
/Applications/Image Capture.app
HOW TO: [Read more →]
USB 2.0 for my old G4 Powerbook laptop (Titanium – black keyboard)
I have a 667 MHz PowerPC G4 – purchased in 2002 – which I don’t use often enough to warrant getting a new one. For what I need on the road – it works fine! Like the love and lore of an aging truck (yes I have one of those, too) I have been compelled to just tinker with the unit I have and put my money elsewhere (like into food). For this laptop I have done the obvious – upgraded the RAM to 1 GB – I believe that is the max amount. When it failed I replaced the original 30 GB hard drive with a 120 GB hard drive, and so on.
PCMCIA card
OK, the USB 2.0: I purchased a 2-Port USB 2.0 PCMCIA Cardbus PC Card from Amazon.com.
I put it into the slot. I connected the cable that goes from the middle of the card to one of the 1.x USB slots in the back – to supply POWER. Good as gold – right as rain. Done.
These are a few of my favorite things
Raindrops on Roses and Whiskers on Kittens … plus related software and hardware. This is a Mac list – not Windows …
I consider these items must have / must use:
- Time Machine – software included with Leopard+ for backing up files.
- Backblaze – on line backup service (if you have decent internet connection speed)
- 1Password – password management software
Some new prospects:
- Dropbox – file synchronization service
iCal + Inspector Window
I love using iCal – simple to use and in combination with [Read more →]
Blue and white Mail folders explained | E-mail and Internet | Mac OS X Hints | Macworld
If you use Mail and organize your messages into folders, you might find that some of your folders have a white folder icon, while others have a blue folder icon …
Blue and white Mail folders explained | E-mail and Internet | Mac OS X Hints | Macworld
I’m an Apple guy …
I got a call today to help a client whose email just stopped sending. Bad news, since I personally just set up her new email accounts a handful of days ago. I rearrange my day, drive over; check it out. Yep, it won’t send. The email client (Outlook) on their desktop machine constantly asks for the login info. I finally eliminated all other possibilities (including deleting the account I so very recently installed) and since the error persisted I concluded that it MUST be the ISP – give them a call. So the client called them. To make a long story short – the ISP made changes without telling anyone. My client called and there was a voice mail stating the same. Sigh. Thanks.
All this time, while my client was on the phone, I was exploring their brand new Windows 7 laptop – looking for the email client – such as outlook – so I could setup email on that new computer. I looked, and looked and looked. Am I dumb or what? I can’t find any email client. Feeling quite low IQ, I searched the internet. It seems Windows 7 doesn’t have an email client installed …. 
Downloading Thunderbird and installing. Nice.
Back to the 21st century.
What IS Microsoft thinking with that?
iPhone iPod touch Calendars and Mobile Me sync
According to
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3634
You can’t get your birthday calendar onto the ipod touch or iPhone, but here’s a workaround as per:
iPhone 3.1: Explaining Subscribed Calendars and Mobile Me | MyAppleGuide
I pulled this off successfully. Here is the summary from the page mentioned above:
Font Management on Snow Leopard
Today has been a most incredible day of learning about fonts, specifically, font management in the context of Snow Leopard.
Once upon a time, I thought it was cool to have fonts – so I gobbled them all up – every one that came my way and kept them on my computer. Not wanting to mix them with system fonts, user fonts, I put these guys in separate font folders. I once even had special software for font management. Then, as OSX developed, a new thing came along – Font Book. Good bye 3rd party software and hello font book. Well, somewhere along the way I changed computers, maybe once or twice. Moved all my fonts from here to there, and now, some 10 years along the road, I have found that my fonts have multiplied! [Read more →]
Scientific American – How the Brain Reveals Why We Buy