Tag: Tips

Update: I found a solution over at vafer.org My LinkSys WRT54GS just happens to run Sveasoft’s Talisman firmware (1.0.5) and it worked! Sveasoft has come under fire for their GPL practices which I don’t like either, but their firmware is good. For the record, the steps this fellow suggests work fine. I had to ditch… Continue reading Need some AirTunes ideas

So about a year ago I was using Apple’s Compressor, a video encoding application that comes with Final Cut and DVD Studio Pro. I was getting weird red blotches, glitches, skipping frames, etc. After a week of debugging I just gave up, too much else to do. iDVD worked, so alright. Last Thursday I was… Continue reading Bad Dual G5 RAM

How many times has someone sent me information about themselves and I have had to copy/paste it into my address book? too many times Did you know that if you open address book, you can drag your card, with all of your data on it, into mail.app very easily? Just: Open Address Book Choose “Go… Continue reading Address Book and vCards – Use them!

This document from NIST covers some cd/dvd basics. Like don’t use markers! The solvents actually eat through the label side and ruin the disc. You can mark on the little clear spindle area. No adhesive labels either. Ouch.

MadOnion posted a review of SUSE Linux 9.1 (site down, slashdotted) and while I skimmed over it, curious about what is going on in the Linux world, some quotes in the summary caught my eye… “SUSE LINUX 9.1 is an excellent Linux distribution for the price. At $89.95 USD, you would be hard pressed to… Continue reading Interesting Linux Review

You can apply comments to the wrong photo by accident by doing the following: Select an album or Last Film Roll that has more than one photo Drag your photo zoom slider all the way to the right so you see just one photo Select photo 1 Type in some comments for photo 1 Now… Continue reading Nasty iPhoto 4 comments bug

If you are having problems getting iPhoto 4.0.1 to update your thumbnails, check the permissions on your Pictures and iPhoto Library folders. In my case, both folders had a group of “unknown” instead of “staff” Changing that allowed me to update my photo library! And no, using Disk Utility’s Repair Permissions did not fix this,… Continue reading iPhoto 4.0.1 failure to update fix

This Apple Discussion tells how to fix the slow boot issue. Copying the text from the web page may introduce odd spaces, so you can copy from here: sudo cp /System/Library/Extensions/BootCache.kext/Contents/Resources/BootCacheControl /usr/sbin Then reboot twice.

Found this on the Apple Discussion Board, thanks to Ron for this! Somehow the line out rate got st to 32,000. “I found this in the Panther forum, and changing my sound out rate WORKED! “Find your way to the Applications folder and open “UTILITIES” OPEN THE AUDIO MIDI SETUP APPLICATION SET YOUR LINE IN… Continue reading A Fix for crashing iChat and other audio issues on Panther

So I made a movie in Final Cut Express and went to burn it in iDVD. Two days later, four kernel panics, 100 failed burns, crashes, etc, iChat getting corrupted and crashing when sounds were played, I have done a Archived Install from the G5 discs, installing jaguar, then upgraded to panther, and now I… Continue reading Ahhhhhh Even Macs can suck time

After the Apple Store Grand Opening, I had to move some photos from the laptop to the G5 and I wanted to preserve my comments. So I broke out the trust Caption Buddy, which gave me errors. After some wasted time, I found that on a system using FileVault, “/Users/yourname/Sites/index.html” as posix file becomes “:yourname:Sites:index.html”… Continue reading FileVault breaks some applescripts

Apple released Java 1.4.1 for Panther but it does not seem to be there in Software Updates (Shouldn’t panther have already had 1.4.1?) Anyway, there it is.

I plugged my stalwart 3G iPod into my g5 dock yesterday, iTunes launched and then gave me a -36 error and failed. Ok, so now my song list on the iPod was hosed. I tried again, same thing. I tried to restore the iPod but that locked up – even Panther. I had to hard… Continue reading When your mac gets pissy, check your hubs