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Questions and
Answers
Netscape 3.0 running out of memory in Classic
-- Command-I (Get Info) and change Memory settings
-- Try FireFox for a light browser
New iMac G5?
-- Probably hit streets in October
Slot-loading CD/DVD drives? Aren't tray-loaded drives better?
-- Tray load gets more stable writes, slot loads get more errors
ebMUG has a Yahoo Group: ebmug
-- Presentation next month
Jaguar grabs windows and puts them away. Annoying!
-- Preferences: Appearance: Minimize when double clicking a window
title bar
Change language of a Yahoo Group?
-- Come back next month
AppleScript: want Network Change event to trigger a script to run.
-- Walk home and have network settings changed automatically, when SSID
changes?
-- Applescript that runs in the background and checks SSID value.
How to delete a root level folder
-- Which folder: Documents --> OS 9 Documents folder
-- Folder may come back since it's added automatically
-- In Terminal:
sudo rm -rf
drag folder to window, folder name appears, hit return to delete
BE VERY CAREFUL! You Cannot Undo This!
10.3.5: Enabled printer sharing
-- Since then any document printed prints over and over.
-- Printer doesn't matter, computer doesn't matter.
-- Deleted and recreated printers? yes
-- Run repair permissions? yes
-- Try Print Center Repair: look in VersionTracker or MacUpdate
-- Might also be called Printer Setup Repair, the name changes
Calculated size of Trash didn't work. Trash folder owned by different
users. Why?
-- Just the way it is.
-- Might try asking at MacInTouch
Utility to put a minimum system folder with some utilities on a CD
-- BootCD (donationware): http://www.charlessoft.com/
Color Calibration?
-- It's a black art.
-- Print something and hold it up to monitor, adjust monitor.
-- Monitor Spider: hangs in front of monitor and adjusts color
-- ColorVision: PhotoCal and OptiCal
Tip or Trick:
Creating a Second Admin User
-- Useful as a good user in case your regular account is acting up
-- Never create a new user with the same short name as another user,
especially a previously deleted user. Bad Things Happen!
System Preferences: Accounts
+ button to create a new user
Security: Allow user to administer this computer
-- What if on login the machine freezes (for auto-login machines)?
Restart
Hit Command-Shift-Q when status window appears
-- This is window that tells you what daemons are starting up
-- C-S-Q forces login window to appear
You can now login to backup user and fix computer
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ebMUG Intro
http://www.ebMUG.org/
Lots of other things that are repeated every month...
-- Add link to dvMUG calender (for other SIGs)
-- New Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebmug/
-- Next month: 4D
-- Next month may be in a different location
-- Raffle: Take Control
-- 10% off coupons for Take Control
App of the Month:
iClip
-- http://inventive.us/iClip/
-- enhanced Copy/Paste or the Mac Classic Scrapbook
-- small floating icon for easy access
-- put clippings into a bin
-- add by drag and drop or click iClip arrow to add any hilighted item
-- clippings can be movies, PDF, or any other data that can be clipped
-- bins show previews of contents, can auto enlarge as you mouse over
-- can title clippings
-- clipping sets with variable number and size of bins
-- Trialware $20, $15 with coupon or ebMUG discount (at ebMUG)
Utilities Roundup
CandyBar (Panic Software) $12
-- change all system icons at once or one at a time
-- can drag and drop icons to customize each system icon
-- install iContainer to change all system icons at once to the same
theme
Icon Factory: free icons and icon sets (iContainers)
http://www.iconfactory.com/
Get an icon set, install it, change the entire look of your system!
Konfabulator $25
-- Framework for widgets
-- Widgets are floating windows that show data or controls
-- Written in Javascript
-- examples: weather, iCal to do list, clock, iTunes status, and others
-- http://www.widgetgallery.com/
(most widgets are free)
Activity Monitor (installed with Mac OS X)
-- Applications-->Utilties-->Activity Monitor
-- List of running processes on computer (user and system Applications)
-- Can select a process and quit it (using Quit Process button)
-- Can see which processes are using lots of CPU
-- Can see which processes are hogging memory (real and virtual)
-- Inspect a process to see more system statistics
-- Inspect: Sample button to get stack trace/profile of a running
process
-- CPU graph shows how busy your CPU is
-- System Memory shows how much free memory you have
-- Disk Activity: reads and writes to hard drive
-- Disk Usage: free space on connected drives
-- Network: network usage
-- Show floating windows of CPU Usage and CPU History
-- Set Dock icon to show one of the graphs
Disk Utility (installed with Mac OS X)
-- Applications-->Utilities-->Disk Utility
-- First Aid, Erase disk, Restore a disk image
-- For non-boot drive: Partition disk, create RAID
-- Eject media that didn't quite eject using Command-E
-- Blank CD/DVD: Erase CD-RW, create multi-session CD-RWs
-- For Multi-session CD-Rs, try Toast
-- For dynamic partitioning, try Volume Works
Raffle
Take Control: Buying a Mac
Take Control: Airport Network
iClip (two copies)
book: iLife '04
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