The Ultimate OS X Thread

[Spectre]

Originally Posted by Derek

The only disappointment is that for whatever reason my Exchange account works perfectly fine with my iPod touch (calendar and email wise), yet on an Apple computer, iCal still isn't part of the whole Exchange deal. So I still have to use Outlook on my other computer to not miss out on that.

That's coming in 10.6. For now, you can use Microsoft Entourage as the gateway to Exchange, or one of the other iCal plugins.

See this slightly old blog post:

http://vyshemirsky.blogspot.com/2007...-exchange.html

Originally Posted by Derek

Ok, how the HECK do I disable the Apple Remote functioning with my Universal Dock? Everytime I want to just control the computer, it also kicks in the iPod.

HALP!

See if this helps:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1619

If that doesn't work, just block the IR sensor on the front of the Dock with something. A small piece of tape would do well.

[Derek]

Originally Posted by Spectre

That's coming in 10.6. For now, you can use Microsoft Entourage as the gateway to Exchange, or one of the other iCal plugins.

See this slightly old blog post:

http://vyshemirsky.blogspot.com/2007...-exchange.html




See if this helps:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1619

If that doesn't work, just block the IR sensor on the front of the Dock with something. A small piece of tape would do well.

Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

[thevictor390]

A small piece of tape would do well.

Tape > all.

Has Camino been suggested? Mozilla project for OS X, I know a few people who use it and they say it's great.

And for the third unrelated thought, anyone know a way to get OS X Tiger cheap? My brother and sister got some old iBook G3s from a school but you needed a username and password to login to OS 10.2, so I ended up wiping it for Linux. Everything I try is extremely slow however, and these things won't run Leopard (500 MHz G3, 256 MB RAM, 10 GB HDD).

[Shawn]

Originally Posted by thevictor390

And for the third unrelated thought, anyone know a way to get OS X Tiger cheap?

Well, you can't get much cheaper than free.

[thevictor390]

Originally Posted by Shawn

Well, you can't get much cheaper than free.

No, but you can get much better than 'jump through hoops to get a .dmg burned from windows only to end up with an install disk that's not bootable.'

[Shawn]

Well I had a dream where I downloaded a copy of Tiger when it was released and I never had any trouble running it on my MBP.

[Spectre]

Originally Posted by thevictor390

No, but you can get much better than 'jump through hoops to get a .dmg burned from windows only to end up with an install disk that's not bootable.'

eBay or Craigslist. There's always someone selling one for $10-20 because they upgraded.

[Cosworth]

Just installed the CS4 Master Suite, so far find it runs much faster than CS3 anyway, but I'll be giving it a proper work over in the coming weeks with college work to see if it is actually faster or just a first impression novelty !

[Alok]

Originally Posted by Cosworth

Just installed the CS4 Master Suite, so far find it runs much faster than CS3 anyway, but I'll be giving it a proper work over in the coming weeks with college work to see if it is actually faster or just a first impression novelty !

Did you buy it or did you "buy" it?

[Cosworth]

Got it from Adobe bud

[Prost264]

Originally Posted by thevictor390

Has Camino been suggested? Mozilla project for OS X, I know a few people who use it and they say it's great.

Do you know if Firefox extensions will work with Camino?

edit: nevermind, its not that good. I'll stick with FF3.

[evoWALO]

For Tiger try eBay. I'm sure someone would gladly sell it seeming Leopard's 10.5.5 already

[Derek]

Hmm, I am unsure as to whether this is normal or not. But it appears as if one of my programs has a memory leak of some kind. I start the day with 1.25GB memory free, and when I end the day there is about 500Mb memory left. Is this normal?

Also, can somebody make any recommendations for an usenet grabber app?

[cvrefugee]

Originally Posted by Derek

Hmm, I am unsure as to whether this is normal or not. But it appears as if one of my programs has a memory leak of some kind. I start the day with 1.25GB memory free, and when I end the day there is about 500Mb memory left. Is this normal?

Also, can somebody make any recommendations for an usenet grabber app?

"It just works"

[THGL]

Sad news. I got my issue of Macworld in the mail yesterday and there was a little article stating that Techspansion, the maker of iSquint and VisualHub, has thrown in the towel! The company's website doesn't give an insight as to why, but says that the code is now open.

I really hope someone picks up where this guy left off. iSquint has been invaluable for converting funky video formats to mpeg4.

[cl191]

Originally Posted by THGL

Sad news. I got my issue of Macworld in the mail yesterday and there was a little article stating that Techspansion, the maker of iSquint and VisualHub, has thrown in the towel! The company's website doesn't give an insight as to why, but says that the code is now open.

I really hope someone picks up where this guy left off. iSquint has been invaluable for converting funky video formats to mpeg4.

I've heard about them throwing the towel, but didn't know they were gonna make it open source, at least there's some how that the community will pick things up.