Color Controls for Calibration?

Is there any way to access color controls so that I may calibrate my 23" CD with a Colorvision Spyder and PhotoCal software? The Apple calibration routine is pretty vague, and I need the CD to match a calibrated CRT sitting next to it. Thanks.

"...if some software can adjust the colors, why can't I?"
You can if you want to run the Apple color calibration tool (Sys Prefs / Displays / Color / Calibrate). But if you want to use the Spyder, you have to use the Spyder software which is designed to work with the device.
DD

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Hello Friends,
May be it has already discussed in many forums but somehow I got confused about different solutions of the questions and due to this asking once again here.
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I am a photographer who uses Photoshop for the editing as well as Canon Software.
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I am not using any External Calibration tool. I have manually calibrate the screen but somehow I am not 100% confident on that.
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contain ICC profiles in the default mode in Firefox, Firefox (as well as
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enable the "1" color management mode, Firefox will translate every image to
the monitor profile. This will make the colors on your display more
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really are) for many sites including many photographic ones. This is most
important on a wide gamut display and not that big of a deal on a standard
monitor, which usually is closer to sRGB.
It seems you are suggesting that for a wide-gamut display it is better to
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assuming on images posted with a wider gamat it will get you more color
range while there would be nothing lost for images posted in sRGB.
Indeed. The point of color management is to make the specific
characteristics of your monitor not a factor anymore and to make sure that
you see the correct color as described in the working space (almost always
sRGB on the web). This only breaks down when the color to be displayed is
outside of the monitor's gamut. In that case the color will typically get
clipped to the monitor's gamut. The other way around, if your original is in
sRGB and your monitor is closer to adobeRGB, the file's color space is
limiting. For your monitor, you want to make the system (Firefox in this
case) assume that untagged files are in sRGB as that is what the entire
world works in and translate those to the monitor profile. When you
encounter adobeRGB or wider files (extremely rare but does happen), it will
do the right thing and translate from that color space to the monitor
profile.
Wide gamut displays are great but you have to know what you are doing. For
almost everybody, even photographers a standard gamut monitor is often a
better choice. One thing is that you should not use unmanaged browsers on
wide gamut displays as your colors will be completely out of whack even on
calibrated monitors. This limits you to Firefox and Safari. Firefox has the
secret option to enable color management for every image. Safari doesn't
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