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Mac Leopard Font Trick
Posted on March 17th, 2008 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Skills, OSX.
I just accidentally grabbed the wrong part of a font palette and found this out.
If you pull the little dimple at the top of the palette (which usually means something like a ‘drawer’ is hidden there), it exposes a font preview, so you can see how the font renders, not just it’s name.
The screenshot above is after it’s pulled and you see the preview. The ‘dimple’ is above the ’shadow text’ T.
To get the font palette in most applications, you go to something like an ‘edit’ or ‘format’ menu, and see if ’show fonts’ is an option. Then you get this floating palette. I play with fonts so much, I have it open most of the time in Keynote, Pages, etc.
Enjoy being a font geek!
4 MacBook Pros
Posted on March 12th, 2008 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Apple, Personal, Skills, Internet, OSX.
I was just hired by a friend to help his business and family set up 4 new MacBook Pro laptops… what a blast. And they are a whole ’swithcher’ family.
The Big Unboxing
Here are some of the links I gave them:
Learn, Get Deals, etc:
macosxhints.com - OS X tips and tricks!
Macworld | Apple, Mac, iPod and iPhone News, Reviews, Help and Tips
Apple - Find Out How - Mac OS X
Apple - Support - Discussions - Forum Home
Mac OS X and iPod Troubleshooting, Support, and Help - MacFixIt
TechTool Pro:
Disk Warrior:
Photo Saving/Data Recovery:
Data Recovery: Windows/Mac Hard Drive Data Recovery Software: File/Photo Recovery Software
Lexar - Software - Image Rescue
FlashFixers - Photo Recovery - Photo Organizing - Photo Backup
Good Software:
but it’s been a little flakey for me on burning over 3 CD duplicates
Printfolio — create print designs for your business and personal needs
info.xhead - Password Manager and Personal Database for Mac® OS X
Time Machine Rocks
Posted on January 29th, 2008 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Apple.
This morning I had my Mac hang up oddly and on restarting, my Mail accounts were hosed…
So I was able to dig into Time Machine (Apple’s new backup system that’s build into OSX Leopard) and had a ton of backups to choose from. I just grabbed one from this morning, before the hang and I got all of my files back fine. It only took about 10 minutes to reimport them into the right folders.
Before Time Machine, that would have been a long, stressful job and I would have had to go back days or weeks to my last backup.
CDs and DVDs
Posted on December 23rd, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Apple.
My Dad was just asking about all of the formats for CDs and DVDs. They have a new model iMac, so they can burn anything.
Maybe you wondered too. I’m sure a quick check of Wikipedia will give a more erudite answer, but this is a basic overview for the normal person needind to burn stuff to disk:
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Use DVD for:
Movies
Lots of computer files (holds 5-6 times a CD)
DVD +R and DVD -R are both fine, I usually get -R as they are more common
Any speed that’s currently on sale is fine.
If you see ‘Dual Layer’ you really don’t need that. They hold twice as much, but burn slower and cost more.
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Use CD R for:
Normal computer stuff, photos, backups, etc
Things you want anyone to be able to open on their computer
Holds 700 megs of stuff
CD-R is the normal kind
CD RW are rewritable and stay away from them. They cost more, burn slower, scratch more easily. Just use normal CD-R.
Hope that helps someone.
Photoshop and Leopard
Posted on November 5th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Apple, Photo, Teaching, OSX, Photoshop.
Having a great time with Leopard… Quicklook is amazing (you can see a full-screen look at any document/photo/etc without opening any application…look at a Word doc without opening Word, see a photo preview instantly by clicking the space bar!).
Anyway, I still use Photoshop CS1, since Aperture, I’m more about workflow than the newer gadgets in Photoshop… anyway, if it helps anyone else:
After doing a clean install of CS1 I wanted to get my work spaces back and couldn’t find them in the Photoshop folder with the other settings… They turn out to be in your User folder, then Library, then Preferences and you’ll see a number of those prefs starting with ‘Adobe’ near the top of your list.
Moving those from my previous folder (you did back up, didn’t you??!) to the new folder brought back my beloved Work Spaces.
Everything is running much faster under Leopard and there are only a very few minor bugs (and OKI hasn’t put out new drivers for my office printer yet).
I’m really enjoying it!
Instant Alpha Rocks
Posted on September 14th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Apple, Teaching, OSX.
Apple introduced a super easy way to do knockouts for your Keynote presentations… you just click once or twice on the background color you want to remove and it knocks it out to transparent… sweet, fast, elegant… very Apple.
Keynote is Apple’s presentation software, like PowerPoint (insert your snotty pro-Mac comment here).
In the photo above, the white boxed image is how all of the photos started.. note the top photo being layed over text. And you can then add beautiful drop shadows from the object or reflections.
