CNN PipeLine for the Mac! -- sorta: Parallels

Awesome!!!! I have wanted to run CNN PipeLine on a Mac since it first came out. The Mac version is amazingly weak when compared against the Windows version, since the thing is written mainly for the Windows world.
Now I can... This MacBook is certainly the most versatile notebook computer on the market. Maybe my enthusiasm rules over reason, but with Parallels powering my Windows XP, now I can! Full graphics, even the limited graphics that Parallels offers offers no penalty at all. This thing works marevelous.
In the "background" on the Mac side, I have PhotoShop Elements running, along with some stuff I'm needing to do in Excel. Oh yes, Entourage is humming for my e-mail.
What can I say? Simply as amazing computer. I think I'm biased totally now.

I used to run Parallels in full screen mode, but now, have backed it to XP to 1152 * 720, so if fits perfectly in a smaller window on my Mac desktop. Like an application in its own window, kinda like PhotoShop.
Anyway, I agree. I have 2 gigs of ram, so I can easily keep Windows happy (is that possible???) and the Mac smoothly humming.
Basically, Windows XP is a mere appliation for me.
But, honestly, I figured that with all the graphics which Pipeline uses, Parallels would choke. But, it really works wonderfully.
I am so pleased with this computer...

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I recently bought Parallels for my macbook to download windows xp.
I am taking a class at the local college.
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to work on my files w/ the online class?
need help

You will need Windows programs to run under Windows on a PC or in parellels.
You can open Microsft Word, Exel files from Windows in the same programs on a Mac and vice versa. If the tuition is being done in say Word in Windows and you are using Word on a Mac then there might be some differences in menu item locations.
With Parelles you can run both OS's at the same time and just toggle from one to another, this is what I do. I have an alias of my user folder and my desktop folder on the WIndows desktop so I can pull things back and forwards between the two OS's... it is really neat. I never thought it would be so easy using the two operating systems together.
Hopefully this is helpful or solved your problem. Consider rewarding some points!
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Need a Firehand Lightning emulator for the Mac

My daughter's wedding pictures were put together by the photographer with a program called Firehand Lightning. Is there an emulator for the Mac for this software? The photographer has given permission for me to use an emulator to open these pictures.

Ya, he's giving you the BS treatment. After doing a bit more reading, Firehand basically allows someone to take a set of pictures they have and package them together in a single .exe file that becomes a sort of slideshow presentation. You need to go back and read what your contract with this photographer said, because if you paid him to take pictures and provide you with those pictures for said price, then he needs to provide those pics to you. If the contract read something along the lines of you're paying him to take pics which he will provideo to you in an album or slideshow encapsulation for said price, then you're hosed because he's basically getting away with charging you for doing half-*** work really. Any professional photographer should be giving his/her clients full rez JPEGs of the work they're doing and getting paid for, not some bundled junk presentation/slideshow, unless you asked for that specifically. Either way, you need to go read your contract with him/her. If you didn't have one, then you need to confront him/her with your demands. Paying an additional $1500 just for him/her to take some pics off a card and put them on a CD or DVD for you is outrageous and ground for taking him to small claims court in my book... unless a contract was signed or verbally agreed upon that allowed him to swindle you because you didn't understand what he was selling you on.

Purchasing help for the mac

hi all.
new to mac and relatively new to adobe. hoping for some guidance.
i run a small design build firm and recently ported to the mac os while still running a couple of boot camp installs of windows and parallels with windows 7 on the laptop. I am currently using Aperture to get my images organized and have been reasonably happy with it.
i am in need of a "poster - workflow" using something like indesign but i am sure i could also use photoshop (which I am familiar with) and illustrator (for various vector manipulations i imagine). i'll also be doing some modest print material, keynote presentations and i have a wordpress website/blog and will be updating a very old blog at some point in the future. i would also /love/ to have a way to manipulate 3D files into my print work in creative ways.
can anyone give me the lowdown as to whether I should be buying the InDesign CS5 Suite that includes Photoshop, ID and AI (for the mac) and whether I need to look at Acrobat 3D (for Wind 7 because there is no Mac option for this)?
I mention some tangential issues in case anyone can offer tangential advice and apologies if this is not exactly the right forum as I am just getting started on figuring out where to enter the discussion over here.
TIA for any help.
Jon

thanks very much John.
sorry, i have been trying to work my way through the mud over here.
so the "poster workflow" would be something along the lines of a 24 x 36 inch set of poster boards for a competition and I'd ideally like to be able to set the images, update them and then have the poster update. I had a really pleasant experience with the ID demo a number of months ago so I'm totally sold on ID.
i also do a lot of 3D modeling and expect to include "vector-based" images in some of these presentations. since i am familiar with photoshop i am also sold on photoshop. i've been on the mac for a year and a half and editing images has been a mess quite frankly without it. so i'm hoping to solve a number of problems.
do you by any chance have any experience with the mac?
i mean, i guess "CS5.5" is the suite of products mentioned above is that right? do i have any deals that i can work if i purchase this (pricewise)? I don't think I can hold off until 2Q 2012 which I assume means somewhere around March?
Anyway, the other issue is that I am organizing images in Aperture and I can't quite figure out if I get a more economical workflow by moving to something like Lightroom. It would be great to not have to always export images out of aperture to get them into the AI, ID, Photoshop workflow. But I am not sure how Lightroom works with these three, either.
Lastly, my look at Acrobat 3D /seemed/ like it was pretty robust. It appears that I can insert a 3D model into a pdf document and let others rotate it around in real time. It also appeared that it would let me do an "exploded axonometric" in a rather easy manner. the pain for me here is if it is only available on the windows platform.
anyway, i realize some of this is rather specialized and that some of it is rather obtuse as I try and hack my way forward.
any advice you can offer I'd be grateful for...
regards.

Surround Sound For the Mac?

Hello. I use my PC for games, I have a Creative Labs Xi-Fi card and 7.1 surround sound speakers there. I'd like the same quality on my Mac for movies, but especially for WoW. Is there a sound card or other surround sound solution for the Mac?

Hello, frustrated!! I empathize with you totally!! I own one Dell and 4 Mac's (for my creative work) including one top of the line MacPro, and I, too, have the 5.1 (and beyond!) sound problem issue. I agree with you that it is terrible that, in my case, after spending $12,000 for this bleeding edge technology, it only comes with stereo capability! When I used my older G-4, I was extremely happy for years with the Revolution 7.1 Surround Sound Card, by a great company called M-Audio. This card worked seamlessly right out of the box.....the software was so easy to use, too. So, naturally I was really shocked and bummed out a few months ago, when I learned from their tech support and sales team there, that no, this card will NOT work on the MacPro.
From the M-Audio website: Re: Apple Intel Mac Pro & DualCore PowerMac G5 desktop compatibility:
The new Intel based Mac Pro desktop computers, as well as the latest generation DualCore PowerMac G5's, have PCI-Express slots, and not PCI or PCI-X (Like the Delta/Revolution Series cards). Not only are the data rates on PCI-Express different from PCI/PCI-X, but PCI-Express uses serial data transfers versus PCI/PCI-X transferring its data in a parallel fashion. For these reasons, a PCI-Express type motherboard connector (or "slot") is physically different from a PCI or PCI-X type connector. Therefore a PCI-Express adapter will not physically fit in a PCI or PCI-X slot, and vice-versa. This is true regardless of the adapter card's manufacturer.
All of our current USB and FireWire interfaces are compatible with the new Intel Based Mac Pro and late model DualCore PowerMac G5 computers.
Please use their link: http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.family&ID=recording
Of course, I prefer the efficient elegance of an internal card, rather than an external box providing more desktop clutter, but at least this is a solution for us! Best of luck to you!!

What is the best spyware/virus protection program for the mac?

I'm new to the whole virus protection thing, and I know there are very few viruses out there for the mac, but better safe then sorry right? Plus i'm mainly getting it for the spyware protection anyway. Does Leopard already have some protection for it? Or would it be better to buy a new program? Thanks.

Normally the best defense against Virus and other scrap on the net is the User. Never agree to open something you are not sure about. Don't visit dangerous sites, and think twice before make a gesture.
After almost 25 years on Mac, and with X system, the only use for a AntiVirus is you can pass Virus to PC user but that ot effect your Mac. If you use Parallels or Bootcmp (or booth) you need a AntiVirus and Anti what the need on the PC, because that take 20 minutes on PC to be infected.

Multixterm for the mac???

Has anyone gotten multixterm to work for the mac? Multixterm is a fantastic Linux-based utility that allows you to spawn many xterms and control them from one window. This is great when you have to do the same thing on 5 hosts. See http://freshmeat.net/projects/multixterm/ and http://expect.nist.gov/example/multixterm.man.html for more data.
I got expect, Aqua Tk-tcl and the other prereqs working for it. The last error I am trying to work through is "stty: stdout appears redirected, but stdin is the control descriptor." Can you offer any suggestions on how I might sort out were this coming from? I feel like I am very close because I see a xterm window pop up and then disappear when I launch it.
Any help would be appreciated.

I have a solution if anyone is still interested.
You were very close by installing Aqua Tk-tcl, but for multixterm to work, you need the TclTkAquaBI because the standard TclTkAqua does not include expectk, but TclTkAuaBI does.
Here are the steps that worked for me on: OSX 10.3.9 and OSX 10.5
1. download and install TclTkAquaBI from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcltkaqua/
2. get multixterm from: http://freshmeat.net/projects/multixterm/
3. edit multixterm to point to the expectk that was installed from TclTkAquaBI
a. #$ vi multixterm
b. #$ replace: exec expectk "$0" ${1+"$@"} with
exec /Library/Tcl/bin/expectk "$0" ${1+"$@"}
4. change permissions and copy multixter to /usr/bin path:
a. #$ chmod +rx multixterm
b. #$ sudo cp multixterm /usr/bin/
5. Test it:
a. open xterm and type:
/usr/bin/multixterm -xc "ssh -X %n" \
[email protected] \
[email protected]
Note: the backspace and return to work press
Backspace: "Ctrl"+"Delete"
Return: "Ctrl"+"Return"

Adobe Acrobat 3D for the mac?

I've been looking at the Adobe Software and expect to be picking up some suite that includes Illustrator, Photoshop and Indesign in order to do "posterboard" workflow along with some vector editing.
Does anyone know if there is a Adobe Acrobat 3D capability for the mac? This software shows as being available for Windows and since I do a lot of 3D work I'd really like to be able to find out what is available for 3D file extensibility on the mac.
TIA

Thanks Tom.
Regards and thanks as always.
I have started to take a look in the Acrobat forums. Thanks. I realize some of this is sort of non-topic to the forums but I couldn't find a good place to post some of them. I find the Adobe suite of software a little confusing and they are not really great at letting you know when you have mac vs. windows info on the site.
My understanding is that "Acrobat3D" (to be honest I am not sure I have even found the right web page on the Adobe site for this) allows me to embed 3D data in a pdf in a manner that will let me rotate it around in real time. There was also some functionality that automatically "exploded" a 3D file into parts in a sort of engineering type drawing. File formats vary but I imagine there is some restriction on which kinds of files it can work with.
Anyway, I have started to think that there is a plugin to one of the Adobe Acrobat softwares that allows for 3D embedding and I was hoping to thrash around on the forums a bit to see if there are any alternatives or even a bona fide product from Adobe that will work on the mac.
I run windows on the mac so I can buy the windows version but ideally it would sit in the same folder with my other mac applications if at all possible. I know there is not a lot on the forums for this kind of thing but again I was just hoping to kind of get the question out there and see if I can get some hard info and advice on it.
Thank you as always.
- Jon

I would like to know if you have to back up a macbook hard drive, can I use a external hard drive that has been previously used to back up several pc 's, or is it best to have a separate external drive for the Mac?

I would like to know if you have to back up a macbook hard drive, can I use a external hard drive that has been previously used to back up several pc 's, or is it best to have a separate external drive for the Mac?

In the Mac side of things, backups usually come in two flavors: clones or incrementals.
A bootable clone is a bit-for-bit copy of all essential files in the startup volume. If using the Lions, clones can be made using CarbonCopyCloner or just plain old Disk Utility. These backups represent the safest protection of your info, but take the longest to do. Recovery is an inverse process: you copy the clone back into the internal drive.
Incremental backups start with a complete backup of the startup volume and only copy whatever changed from the previous run. OS X includes the fully integrated Time Machine backup utility to do this. It is extremely easy to do and takes the least amount of time. Recovery is another matter altogether since you have to start with a freshly installed instance of the OS and have to apply all intervening backups to bring the result to the latest saved version.
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Holler if you need specifics on how to do each. This was just an executive summary.

I am trying to play a DVD on my MacBook Pro and transmit it to my TV (use my TV as the monitor) utilizing a VGA cable and adapter for the Mac but the only image that shows up on the TV is the MacBook wall paper, any ideas on how I can transmit to my TV?

I am trying to play a DVD on my MacBook Pro and transmit it to my TV (using my TV as the monitor) utilizing a VGA cable and adapter for the Mac but the only image that shows up on the TV is the MacBook wall paper, any ideas on how I can transmit the movie from my MacBook to the TV? I also tried an HDMI cable and had the same issue.

you are probably seeing the extended display.. to see ur main display go to pefrences then display steeings and turn mirroring on.
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Office for the Mac - file open slowness, freeze, or crash

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I spent an hour yesterday with Microsoft Support on the problem. The conclusion of the tech was that I had too many files in my Documents folder. I pointed out that other programs such as FileMaker Pro didn't have this problem. The tech's response was that Office has to scan the entire Documents folder every time the File Open window is opened, but that FileMaker Pro stores a list of the last files in the Documents folder and doesn't rebuild the list every time.
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My computer is a MacBook Pro 2.3gHz with 16 GB of RAM and a 750GB hard drive which has about 500GB free. This is a fairly fast machine with a Geekspeed of 10688. I was running the latest Mac OS Yosemite 10.10.1. The problem first surfaced with Office for the Mac 2008 about 3-4 months ago running Mac OS 10.10.1. I installed Office 365 yesterday, and and Mac OS Yosemite 10.10.2 today, and nothing changed.
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When this question was posted to the Microsoft Community, I was directed to an article talking about problems with Office and Mac OS. None of the solutions worked, probably because the article considered only Office X and Office 2004 for the Mac and OS 10.2 and 10.3.
Help, please!

1) Verify that Office is fully updated. v14.4.7
2) I suggest you run Font Book and vailidate your Fonts. Microsoft installs duplicate fonts and after you clean up your fonts, this has often fixed odd issues with Office.
Office 2011 Duplicate Fonts to Delete
3) Delete the com.apple.LaunchServices file in your User's Library/Preferences folder. Log out under the Apple in the Menu bar and test. More info
If this fails to fix....
Testing in a new User will quickly tell you if the problem is system wide or if it's your User's folder that contains the problem.
Put a few test files in the Shared folder. Data in the Shared folder can be accessed by another User. When you "Switch Users", you can access the files in the shared folder. After you log into the new test User, drag from Shared (it actually copies). Put the test files in Documents.
Open Word. It won’t be in the Dock in the new User. Go to Applications to open.
Do you still see the issue?
If yes, you can eliminate the number of files in your Documents folder.
If no, then you might want to do a clean up in Documents.
*Remember to drag files back from Shared when you log into your main User.
**(Fair disclosure: OfficeforMacHelp is my site. I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from links on my site.)

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Looking for software that allows you to make "who wants to be a millionaire". Must be able to put in your own questions and HAS to be for the Mac. Help!

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You may possibly find something here:
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I have a mid 2011 27 inch iMac and a late 2012 mac mini. I am using the 27 inch iMac as the display for the mac mini with a thunderbolt cable. I was trying to use bootcamp on the mini but after I started downloading windows I can't get it to display on the iMac.

Hi there,
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I recently bought a Macbook Pro. I have been using windows my whole life. I installed Quicken 2006 for the MAC. I backed up my windows quicken on a disk and it just doesn't open it. Is there a trick? or am I screwed?

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