Dreric1kansas Macsightings: The Battle for your desktop

Dreric1kansas Macsightings: The Battle for your desktop

In PC mag, The Battle for your desktop (p.87-92) latest issue March 2008 by Eric Griffin

Rates 9 areas and the performance of Mac OSX 10.5.1 Leopard, Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, Ubuntu 7.10 (Linux)

for Mac OSX scores
Price 4/5
Installation 5/5
Interface 5/5
Bundled software 4.5/5
3rd party software 3.5/5
drivers hardware 3.5/5
networking 4/5
security 4/5
final score 4/5

The winner OSX Leopard
http://www.pcmag.com/appleosx105
"is the pick for the mythical user who wants secure easy installation amd easy to master. " That you can also run windows, linux onthe Intel macs to use all or any of them as you please.

linux was counted ahead of both windows.

The bottom line that was said: if you are happy with your OS you don't have to switch. If you try a different OS back up your other stuff.
Considerations for the Mac OS includes best for: videography, web surfing (any) , Artist/ Musicians

What's New in Leopard
The latest update to OS X makes the strongest case yet for PC users to switch from Windows.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2260668,00.asp

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What music you order on iTunes may not be what you wanted

I download music from Itunes. There are sometimes multiple copies of a song. So which do you choose. As Elmer Fudd on "Looney Toones says "be vewwy vewwy careful.

On iTunes "a careless click may buy you an imposter" by Brian Raftery

Cover story on Jan 2008 Wired p. 84

Interesting article about "re-records" from a label record company called Red Sauce which provides hit songs by a wide range of music artists. Which leads to some error laden downloads from some who are not actually getting the song they really want for the price. Many of the re-songs are the same price as the ones on iTunes (the original ones). For some who do not realize, they pay for that Red Sauce pseudo songs. Most people then don't bother (do they even know how) to try to get their money back but just go ahead with iTunes, search and then buy the one they really wanted.

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Times are changing. Sometimes this newsletter does not go through Yahoo (don't know what 's up) or I run out of time. In the meantime, all of this newsletter and more (cartoons, graphics, visuals that can't go on this newsletter) will appear at my blog as well. So you can see it on the newsletter and on the web. That way you can also do RSS feeds and I can do more for the newsletter and the related blog.
I don't have an iPod yet but I am thinking about getting the iPhone for all it can deliver once I can either contact with anyother carrier other then AT&T. I don't mind AT&T as we just go cable and internet with it (finally we could break out of the Comcast high speed stranglehold - which sucked ). I like the DVR capability (even running shows in the past ), recording more then one movie at a time, all the other channels and the on screen menu and more.
I have not upgraded to Leopard yet, I have tried some RSS feeds, have several blogs and websites. Then again I am trying to do my videos and put them on DVD. It seem strange that Apple has completely overhauled their iMovie but I am not surprised as I have had trouble synching to doing my DVD with iDVD so I am hoping when I get the new iMovie and iDVD things will be better. I will have more to say on my blog (try it ) and more in future issues with reviews.

Meanwhile I wonder whether it would be better to shut down this newsletter and just put it up on the blog or post this on the blog too. Any thoughts?

More about the best products of the year from Macworld and PC magazine.

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from Macworld 12/2007 P.132 " 2007: The Year in Review" by7 John Motlz (crazyapplerumors.com)

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" Truly the "IT" device if 2007- if not the decade, century, millenium, and indeed all of time and space - the iPhone finally arrived on June 29. Its arrival was greeted by a chorus of angels , followed by a solar eclipse , an overflight by a flock of doves , and a dire warning from a strange bearded man who kept mumbling something that sounded like " $200 price -cut."

Hilarious!!

Very cleverly done. I have seen several total solar eclipses and am a big mac fan.

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Creating a time-lapse effect
You can create a time-lapse effect when you import prerecorded video from your camcorder, or when you capture live video from your camcorder or iSight camera. This is useful if you want to show the progression of an event (such as a blooming flower) in a fraction of the time it took in real life.
Note: You can't create a time-lapse effect for video you've already imported into an iMovie project, but you can use special effects to speed it up. To learn how to use special effects, see Related Topics below.

To create a time-lapse effect when importing prerecorded video:
1. Turn on your camera, and connect it to your computer. If you need help with this, see Related Topics below.
2. In iMovie HD, press the camera icon (shown above), and choose Time Lapse from the pop-up menu.
3. Select the Capture Frame checkbox and specify the number of frames from which you want iMovie to capture one frame of video.
4. Click OK.
5. Import your video into iMovie as you normally do, using the iMovie capture controls. If you need help with this, see Related Topics below.
To create a time-lapse effect while capturing live video from your camcorder, connect your camcorder to your computer using a FireWire cable, set your camcorder to Camera mode, and remove the tape. In iMovie HD, press the camera icon (shown above), and choose Time Lapse from the pop-up menu. Select the Capture Frame checkbox and specify the number of frames from which you want iMovie to capture one frame of video, then click OK. Click the Import button at the bottom of the iMovie monitor to start recording. Click Import again to stop recording.
To create a time-lapse effect while capturing live video from your iSight camera, press the camera icon (shown above) and choose iSight or Built-in-iSight from the pop-up menu. Press the camera icon again, and then choose Time Lapse from the pop-up menu. Select the Capture Frame checkbox and specify the number of frames from which you want iMovie to capture one frame of video. If you're recording into an iSight-formatted project, choose whether you want to permanently embed date and time text into the video. Click OK. Click the Record With iSight button at the bottom of the iMovie monitor to start recording. Click Record With iSight again to stop recording.

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Feeder - 1.5
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/25878
Product Description:
Feeder is a fully featured application for creating, editing and publishing RSS and iTunes podcast feeds. Here are just some of its many features:
• Create, download and import RSS 2.0 and iTunes podcast feeds
• Full support for the iTunes RSS podcasting extensions
• Drag and drop enclosure files to create new items
• Automatically tag audio and video files with artwork, artist, etc in all popular podcast formats including MP3s, M4As, M4Vs (iPod video) and QuickTime movies
• Quick and easy feed editing with auto-complete, templates, HTML tags and previews
• Customizable interface easily adapts to the task at hand
• Validates feeds to the RSS and iTunes specifications
• Upload artwork and enclosure files when publishing
• Publish with FTP, SFTP, .Mac or to folders on disk
• Ping online services after publishing to notify them of changes


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• User interface updated for Leopard
• Media RSS Thumbnails for Miro
• Improved performance when tagging MP4 videos
• Enclosure Redirects for podcast statistic sites such as blubrry.com
• Can now publish using Password-less SFTP
• Editing improvements for pasting links and using templates
• Specify default servers for enclosures and images during publishing setup
• Automatic generation of MD5 sums and DSA signatures for Sparkle Appcasting
• Improved AppleScript


Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
• Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
• Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
• Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
• Mac OS X 10.4 PPC


Additional Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.4 or higher

feedback from others so far:


(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)Bobby T (Bobby Thompson) It took me a little time to figure out how to configure a couple things, not everything is intuitive right off the bat... But after figuring out there were additional selections server settings, i was able to get all the files to go where I wanted them...

Otherwise everything seems to work great...


Best of Its Kind - Version: 1.3.6, 8/4/2006 06:26PM PST

(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)mjmorrison As a developer I can say that this is great work. Also, the developer is quick to return email and he really wants to maintain this as a great program.

For podcastsers this is a no-brainer.

Keep up the great work!



Awesome Program - Version: 1.2, 8/20/2005 01:14AM PST

(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)timstree_dotmac Feeder is a full featured program, but simple-enough to use, even for those still learning about RSS feeds. If you don't need a particular feature, you don't have to use it, but it is there for you later on when your needs grow.

Best of all it doesn't take a lot of effort to get a new feed up and running. The validate feature is not something I'd seen in other programs and is reassuring to have especially if you are just beginning.

I recently had a question about something I was unsure about and the developer replied to my question in under two hours! I would happily recommend this program to anyone needing to create RSS feeds.




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Steve Jobs has wife and kids

Did not know this. From Parade magazine, he has three children with Laurene Powell his wife since 1991. Also has a 28 year old daughter by Chris- Anne Brenna whom he did not marry.