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All Mac models shipping with Tiger

Along with new iMac and eMac introductions on Tuesday, Apple also announced that its entire line of consumer-oriented CPU-based products is now shipping with Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger.

Tiger not playing nice with Windows

Several reports of issues with SMB and ActiveDirectory networking

Supposed to offer improvements, but looks like that is not coming true.

Apple released Bonjour for Windows

Includes a plugin to discover advertised HTTP servers using Internet Explorer

Bonjour for Windows

The Bonjour Printer Wizard, allows Windows computers to print to Bonjour networked printers, including USB shared printers connected to the AirPort Extreme and AirPort Express Base Stations.

OS X Tiger 10.4.1 seeded to developers

Fixes over two dozen bugs

Several issues with Address Book have been corrected, as well as crashes related to iSync, iCal, iDVD, and h.264 video playback. Sleep issues with some iMac models have also been remedied.

Possible mid-May release.

MacDevCenter Offers Tiger Tutorials

Write your own Automator Actions

Write Automator Actions

Build a Dashboard Widget

MacDevCenter

www.macdevcenter.com

iPod Shuffle has 58% of flash based market

In a meeting with Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said iPod Shuffle's share of the flash based MP3 market is 58%, based on data by The NPD Group.

Pod2Go Developer releases SpodLight

Spodlight from Kainjow lets you index your iPod so it is searchable in Spotlight

Spodlight 1.0

Normal Spotlight ignores invisible files.

iTunes Australia launch held up by record company

Supposed to launch last Thursday with 4 other European stores.

One unnamed major record company refused to sign the agreement in time.

Album released 4 weeks early on iTunes

The new Oasis album showed up 4 weeks early on the German iTunes Music store and is already available on some P2P networks

Could cost the record label a ton. Thought that someone misentered the release date as 03/05/05 instead of 30/05/05. This data is entered by the record labels so it is unlike Apple will be held responsible.

Having issues

iChatAV

Not enough bandwidth when there is. I more then meet the 100Kbps up/down bandwidth limit for a 1 to 1 video chat.

This should require 1/4 the old bandwidth.

Apple Discussions Thread

Insufficient Bandwidth Discussion

Wake from Sleep

For me seems to happen if put to sleep with an external device attached and then removed while asleep.

Dynamic Dictionary Panel Tip

Hold down Command(Apple) + Control + d

Darrell's Guide for New Mac Geeks #5

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Force quitting should be a last resort

Press spacebar after Apple+Shift+4 to get camera icon, lets you select specific interface elements. Press 'esc' to cancel.

Screen shots are saved as PDFs at root of your hard drive.

For more flexibility try SnapzPro from Ambrosia. $29.00/$69.00 USD

www.ambrosiasw.com—snapzprox

Greg - Question on Voicemail

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K7.net

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Chris - Burning Mac DVDs on a PC

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You will have to convert the disk image file created by iDVD to the .iso image format (making it compatible with almost any PC disk burning application, such as Nero or Roxio). To do this, follow these steps:

Open Disk Utility (located in Applications>Utilities folder).

Drag your disk image into the left-hand pane (where all your drives are listed) of Disk Utility.

Click on the file you just dragged into Disk Utility (should appear in the left-hand column).

Click on the 'Images' menu, then choose 'Convert...'
When the 'Convert Image' dialog pops up, select 'DVD/CD Master' from the 'Image Format' pop-up menu.

Name your file, with '.cdr' at the end of the filename, then click 'Save.'
Disk Utility will convert the file to an ISO image. After this finishes, replace the 'cdr' at the end of the filename (in the Finder) to 'iso'.

Now, the disk should be burnable on a Windows PC (simply copy the file to your PC by either copying it across a network or using some other means of transferring the data).

Note: This works burn any Mac .dmg or .img files on a PC.

Bluedogbanter.com Promo

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Clint - Spotlight and indexing Entourage

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Scott Erickson of Microsoft in a MacWold interview (1/11/2005):

"Spotlight will index and search Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, but
unfortunately it will not work with Microsoft's email and information
manager, Entourage.

"It won't index Entourage and that's simply due to the way that Spotlight
was made versus Entourage," said [Scott] Erickson [of Microsoft]. "Entourage
saves everything in a database format and we are working with Apple to see
how Spotlight can index the database."

Tiger and Microsoft - Macworld

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