Fix for slow fullscreen playback on xp = firefox

Ever since updating, i had a similar problem to alot of people; Apon full screening, the player ran like crap. At first, i thought it was fire fox, but i tested i in chrome, and it had the same problem.
this method worked for me>
http://www.help2go.com/Tutorials/Web_Browsers/Force_Flash_Movies_and_Animations_to_Low_Qua lity.html
Its an addon for firefox, plus a script, that forces the flash players gui to go into low quality mode, and improves the framerate of vidoes on hulu/youtube/etc extremely well in fullscreen.
The other side of the sword is that watching flash movies or games, you have to manually select a higher quality; A fine sacrafice considering youtube/hulu/etc don't even allow you to select the quality of the player itself.
The last few upgrades caused sever degerdation in framerate each time i upgraded when it came to fullscreen, streaming vids. This is a work around for firefox users, not a fix. The cause lays withen the program itself.
And i would like to personnally say, the whole "make sure your drivers are up to date" statement, has been cliche since the late 90's, and is just as useless now as it always was.What, you need the GUI to be in HD now too? If i wanted to watch HD, id use my TV and blue ray player, not watch youtube.
The problem is with your program, it is degrading preformance over every update for a large group of users, with no concernable gain from it. As it is, you are making silver light look like a very well programmed and executed video player, which is terrible. Why don't you "update" again and add a new "feature" that randomly stops half your consumers from even using the program? "Check my drivers?" Yea, go to hell, this isn't 1999 and as widely used as your program is, trying not being a ****** about it.

I don't know which versions of photoshop need to check/contact the network printer...
For volumes of image processing via the batch commands I often need to use our old Photoshop 6 which, even with the network (a fairly large corporate network) the files open up almost instantly... every time... unless they're huge print resolution images...
On the same network for such a task (batching hundreds of images) PS CS3 is unuseable to us unless we implement the local printer 'fix'... and even so, there is more of a delay than with our old photoshop...
And why does it need to contact the printer for each file that is opened? For the first one, sure... check it, done... I'm not printing dammit, just opening files.
If it needs printer information the local OS already has drivers loaded up, couldn't it check those? It shouldn't have to look for other network devices on there unless it's using them... but I'm no tech... so there must be a reason that it simply MUST do it...
And even so... why is this 'fix' so damn hard to find on the net? Tons of people with issues and a lone, difficult-to-find blurb as an obscure fix...?

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Adobe Flash Player 10 Fix for WinXP and Vista, IE7, IE8, Firefox, ect.(New Fast Fix)

(This is a possible solution for most users) I have found that inside the folder C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash (WinXP Home/Pro) (Computer > C: Drive > Windows > System32 > Macromed > Flash for Vista) there should be a file named FlashUtil10b.exe (IF NOT YOU SHOULD UPDATE AS SPECIFIED!) (or FlashUtil10a.exe or for older versions something similar depending on your version), which is the update utility for flash player. Click on this and if it updates, you will have to restart your computer. This should fix any missing files, and update you to the latest version.
On a side note to all those who read this, I downloaded and installed 5 different times, the same version, from different websites, all for the "new" flash version, and they didn't work (this also included trying to update Shockwave player itself). Apparently, going directly to the website and downloading a new version of Adobe Flash Player, and installing, doesn't uninstall the older version, (though it says it does nor does the uninstaller work directly from the website) nor fixes the problem. I assume they are aware of this problem, because they included this bug fix in revision 10b. This fix should work for those of you whom cannot view/see flash images as well. There also appears to be a bug/reference problem with the installation of IE8 giving the error "Missing Shockwave Decompression XTRA", when trying to play a Shockwave/Flash file, which seems also to affect Firefox and other browsers. It doesn't recognize that the folder or files that it needs in it, exist. I never had his problem before, until IE8 was installed. I checked which version I had in the system32 folder and found this updater built in to Adobe. Version 10a does NOT automatically update, but version 10b includes this fix. I currently had version 10a when I received this error, and began digging for a solution. Doing the update as described above fixed the problem, and updated it to version 10b.
The new flash version 10b has some new features, such as volume control, auto-updating, and several rendering options for those who may have a faster or slower computer/video card.
I found this works great for XP users but unsure of the Vista users. The process is the same for Vista and the update should still work the same, as long as you run it as Administrator, I assume. I have this also posted on wwwdslreports.com at http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22115254-IE-IE8-and-Adobe-Flash-Question and here http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22361930-Adobe-Flash-Player-10-Fix-for-WinXP-IE 8-Firefox-ect. It appears to work for everyone so far. I have not heard of any problems from users with this problem running the RC (Release Canidate) for Windows 7 yet.
I hope this works to your benefit.
Please leave a reply to help Adobe and other users know if this fix worked for you or not. If not, please explain what you did, and the effects your seeing, including operating system, site of the flash file trying to view, browser type (ex. IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Opera, ect.), and I will try to help you as best I can.
(I would strongly recommend those not using IE8, or Firefox 3.5, get the updated versions)
If your looking for uninstallers go to this site: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html
If your looking for a true full install, you can download this developer version for Windows and Mac: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/10/flash_player_update2_flash10.zi p (44MB) (If you download this, I would recommend you still follow my instructions for the Flash Utility before restarting your computer.)

I would recommend all users having problems try the above solution first.
I have posted this on a couple of websites, and so far it has fixed everyones problems.
Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 has Adobe Flash Player coding built into the browser so that it not only loads faster but works better.
You still need to have the Adobe ActiveX plug-in and Adobe Flash Player for both browsers.
I would also recommend you download Shockwave Player 11.
IE8 has tried this as well, but it still has a couple bugs in it.
If you have IE8 or FireFox 3.5 Beta 4, and you are still having problems, then I recommend that you go to www.windowsupdate.com and get all of the latest updates (including SP3), then try this fix again.
Your auto-updater built into windows (If you even have it on) doesn't always pull down every update available for your computer. It only pulls down the manditory ones.
Sometimes you HAVE to go to the website and manually get them yourself. I recommend when you go to the website, you click on custom install and pick every last one of them to install, which includes, hardware and software fixes for your computer.
What a lot of people don't know is that when you have installed and tried all of the recommended fixes that Adobe gives you, and it still doesn't work, is that you are having registry conflicts within your Operating System (OS ex. WinXP, Vista, Linux, ect.), and that it is not the Adobe software at all.
Those are usually repaired by making sure your computer stays up to date.
The fact is the computer world is changing so rapidly that everyone can't keep up. You have to check for updates weekly.
If you fall behind on those updates, then you start having problems with your computer and/or software.
One problem then can turn into many and people get frustrated when something all the sudden just quits working.
Take a day or two at least once a month, and make sure you update and maintain your computer.
This includes disk defragmenting, disk cleanup, and making sure you have all the lastest updates.
You can get to Disk Defrag, and Disk Cleanup by going to Start, All Programs, Accessories, then to System Tools.
I would do Disk Cleanup first, then Defrag.
I hope you take this advise into consideration, and that it is very helpful for you.
If you find this useful, please come back and reply to this forum, and let everyone know so that others will be encouraged to do this.
Thanks and goodluck, from another user like you.

Fix For Slow Printing To IPP Printer Pool

Here's a fix that might help someone out there:
I have a printer pool with two HP Laserjet printers that's shared via IPP on an Xserve running Mac OS X Server 10.5.
One of the printers is offline with a fuser error, so as expected, the server is sending all jobs to the other printer; however even small jobs are now taking an extra 1-2 minutes to get to that printer. Before one of the printers went offline, small jobs would print almost instantaneously.
Since printing speed was normal for other, non-pooled printers shared by the server, I figured the delay was probably related to the server taking too long to decide that the offline printer was actually offline.
I figured that the fastest way for the server to determine that a pooled printer is busy is when it has a job in its queue waiting to print. So, I logged into the server and sent a job directly to the offline printer's queue; the job will just sit there and won't print, but the server will think the printer is busy.
That eliminated the delay. It's annoying that the delay is there at all, since the whole point of the printer pool is too have redundancy if one printer runs out of paper or malfunctions. If anyone has any ideas on a more concrete way to eliminate this delay, please share them.

Hi,
Do the programs freeze for about 2 minutes each time when attempting to print something?
Do we use spooling? If not, we can enable the setting
Spool print documents so program finishes printing faster and its sub-setting
Start printing immediately to see if it helps.
Regarding this setting, the following article can be referred to for more information.
Setting print spooler options
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc739118(v=ws.10).aspx#feedback
Besides, the following article provides some workaround for slow network printing and can be worth taking a look.
Workarounds for slow network printing
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/workarounds-for-slow-network-printing/
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Potential fix for slow/unreliable network on Macbook Air running Mavericks

Hi all,
I work in IT support at University of Manchester, UK and have found a fix for for network issues we were experiencing with Macbook Air laptops running Mavericks. These Airs were having issues connecting to our WiFi and experiencing slow downloads, even when switched over to UBS LAN adaptors.
Anyhow, after trawling these forums without success I stumbled upon this solution myself so thought I'd share:
Basically, if you are experiencing speed/connection issues go into the 'Advanced' network settings and change the IPv6 setting from 'Automatic' to 'Link Local' and then reboot. Hopefully, after doing this you should find your speed levels return to expected levels!
Hope it works for you.
Cheers.

Follow these instructions:
OS X v10.9 Mavericks: Installing and Using the Printer on a Mac HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-One Printer - E709n | HP® Support
If the printer still doesn't work, try this:
OS X Mavericks: Reset the printing system

Fix For Slow Down Worked!

From a previous fix - this worked to eliminate what was a 5 to 10 minute startup and shut down problem for our iMAC using OS X 10.5.8. with the 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo processor - from a thread from a while back (and sorry, I am not going through all the folks that contributed, but the dogs are ready to go outside):
(full excerpt below my procedures)
Procedures -
x - first close all unnecessary applications
1 - go to applications
2 - load the Terminal App
3 - type: sudo chown root:admin /
4 - then press the return key
5 - type in your password when asked (the screen will not show that you are typing)and the press the return key
6 - type: sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
7 - then press the return key
8 - type: sudo kextcache -system-caches
9 - then press the return key
10 - close the Terminal app
I then shut down my computer, started it up, let it fully boot, shut it down a second time, then when I restarted everything was back to normal!!!
Here is the actual excerpt I used to fix the slowness - don't ask me how it works, cuz I am a novice:
From mad84max and user gbvin:
Go to the Terminal App
"It seems that somehow the ownership of my root directory (/) wasn't assigned to the root account anymore, but to myself instead. This made the kernel prelinking fail since it requires that root is the owner. This is how you solve this after launching the Terminal app:
terminal commands
sudo chown root:admin /
sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
sudo kextcache -system-caches
You'll have to enter your password after the first command."
Hope this will help you since it was really frustrating for me.

I had slowness on my 3G after upgrading to iOS 4, but I found a simple fix here:
http://www.davekawalec.com/2010/07/3-steps-to-fix-iphone-3g-slowness-after-ios4- upgrade/
It's basically the same steps you recommend, but then after a reboot, you can turn all of the search functions back on. I haven't had a performance problem since I did this.

My fix for slow boot after Leopard Upgrade

I was having the same issue as a lot of others in posts about extremely slow boot up times after upgrading from Tiger to Leopard. I spent a lot of time on the phone with Apple Support but in the end I stumbled across a fix for my situation.
After power up and getting to the login screen (about 5-6 seconds), it would take about 3 minutes to fully populate the desktop after entering my password. Most of that time just sitting at the login screen. Extremely painful.
My MacBook connects to a Windows Active Directory network. I was able to fix my slowness by disabling the Active Directory service. I was concerned at first but my bound volumes still work. I don't use a lot of AD services from my Mac so I at this point I have not found any issue with this fix.
To disable, go to Directory Utility, select services and if you have Active Directory enabled, disable it.
My boot time increased from 3 minutes to less than 15 seconds. Better than Tiger.
Tech Support is aware of this issue and has reported it the OS team for a fix.

Hi-
Do you have a Tiger volume to test your machine with?
Do you still have video in Tiger?
If you don't have a Tiger volume to test on, I would consider such as an important troubleshooting step
So now I am wondering if it is the PCI slot that suddenly stopped working after the OS upgrade. Does anyone know if this is a documented issue and if there is a fix for it?
There are no issues with the AGP slot in relation to an OS version.

Fix for slow opening files... soon?

We have several stations set up globally in various offices using Photoshop CS...
Image files, no matter how small the file is... even a single small JPG takes a good 10-15 seconds to open (win xp) and we frequently need to work with hundreds of images. This seems to be a major problem and from what I find on Google, not uncommon...
I finally ran into this temporary 'fix' in the archives which involves setting up a LOCAL printer/driver as a DEFAULT...
While that DID alleviate that problem, I can't see that adobe is just letting this be THE fix for the problem... I've done updates to our CS3 products and have a difficult time believing that there is no permanent fix for this yet.
It seems unlike adobe to expect so many clients to have to experience this problem, spending hours or days trying to figure out why their systems have slowed down and asking themselves questions mostly unrelated to the problem, such as 'did i run out of swap space on my drive?', 'how are my history/cache settings?', 'is there some network drive causing the problem?', 'Is there some spyware slowing my box?', etc...
And on top of that having to notify all the offices... 'Okay guys, if you use photoshop you need to do this, this, and that... temporarily'
Please tell me there is a permanent fix soon...

I don't know which versions of photoshop need to check/contact the network printer...
For volumes of image processing via the batch commands I often need to use our old Photoshop 6 which, even with the network (a fairly large corporate network) the files open up almost instantly... every time... unless they're huge print resolution images...
On the same network for such a task (batching hundreds of images) PS CS3 is unuseable to us unless we implement the local printer 'fix'... and even so, there is more of a delay than with our old photoshop...
And why does it need to contact the printer for each file that is opened? For the first one, sure... check it, done... I'm not printing dammit, just opening files.
If it needs printer information the local OS already has drivers loaded up, couldn't it check those? It shouldn't have to look for other network devices on there unless it's using them... but I'm no tech... so there must be a reason that it simply MUST do it...
And even so... why is this 'fix' so damn hard to find on the net? Tons of people with issues and a lone, difficult-to-find blurb as an obscure fix...?

Is there a fix for slow wifi speed on U310?

I bought early july a IdeaPad U310 in Texas, and then I moved to Belgium to study. The wifi speed was awefullt slow. So having read the forums, i rang the support in Belgium, and after long discussion, i sent the laptop for repair. Service was fine, but extremely slow, with no information what so ever of where the pc was, if it was received for reparation... anyway, three weeks after, so that today. i received it back and, according to the intervention report, the wireless controler was replaced. The thing is, the problem ofthe U310 is not a defectuous part, it is something more fundamental. I tested the PC in various speed test website.
I have three laptop, a Lenovo W520, a HP Mini 110, and the IdeaPad U310.
I used speedtest.net and brosdbandspeedchecker.co.uk
the result are
Lenovo W520: Download: 19.64 Mbps Upload: 1.99 Mbps
HP Mini 110: Download:15.72 Mbps Upload: 1.28 Mbps
IdeaPad U310: Download 4.75 Mbps Upload:2.1 Mbps.
Now, the speed on U310 is not that catastrophic (not like the 0.3 Mbps I was getting) but still not great and rather much slower than the two other machines, and not fast enough to watch a movie in streaming, it pauses all the time.
So what should i do? Send it again?
But is there a fix to the problem? Because keeping changing the wifi controller as they did did not fix the PC. The MEDION Repair center, which is in charge to repair Lenovo for northern europe (i guess) stated as well that the test "#winstress#" as been done. What is it? Yes the wifi works, but way too slow.
Thanks for advice.

MrTSX wrote:
Called up Lenovo Support and the tech logged into my laptop and showed me how to increase the wireless power settings. Changed it from low to high. Now downloading at 36Mbps to 45Mbps.
Right click on Intel Centrino Wirless-N 2200 click on properties
click advanced
click on Transit Power and changed the value to 5. Highest
Roaming Aggressiveness change value to Highest
Now downloading at 36Mbps to 45Mbps. FIXED
this has already been shown to have no effect.
In fact changing the pwoer setting on the N-2200 doesn'tt change the amount of power it gets.

Fix For Slow Safari On Windows

A number of people reported that Safari was running very slow for them on Windows. I was someone who was also seeing the same behavior. Web pages that would open up in 2 seconds under IE7 could take literally minutes to fully draw in Safari.
Someone mentioned a proxy issue in one of the other threads, and I got to thinking about that...I made a tiny change, and the problem is gone! Safari is now full steam ahead for me, compared to the snail is was before.
Here is how I fixed the issue.
1 - Click Start and open the Control Panel.
2 - Open the "Internet Options" Control Panel.
3 - Click the "Connections" tab at the top.
4 - Click the "LAN Settings" button at the bottom.
5 - Uncheck the "Automatically Detect Settings" Box.
6 - Click OK to exit the "LAN Settings" window.
7 - Click OK to exit the "Internet Options" window.
Your mileage may vary, but this really did work for me. Nothing else I had tried (clearing the cache, re-installing, etc.) made a difference...but this did. Not sure why it's not affecting everyone, but this doesn't seem to have any negative side effects. IE7 is still working fine for me with the "Automatically Detect" box unchecked.
Enjoy!
-- Matthew Ryan

A number of people reported that Safari was running
very slow for them on Windows. I was someone who was
also seeing the same behavior. Web pages that would
open up in 2 seconds under IE7 could take literally
minutes to fully draw in Safari.
Your mileage may vary, but this really did work for
me. Nothing else I had tried (clearing the cache,
re-installing, etc.) made a difference...but this
did. Not sure why it's not affecting everyone, but
this doesn't seem to have any negative side effects.
IE7 is still working fine for me with the
"Automatically Detect" box unchecked.
Please, report this bug to Radar: http://bugreport.apple.com It's important to notice Apple developers about this issue

Fix for Slow Transfers on Vision

Hello all. I thought I'd just like to give a heads up on a fix I found for the Creative Zen Vision:M and its slow transfer problems. All you have to do is download Windows Media Player . This seems to fix any sort of firmware issue between the player and the computer.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/download/download.aspx
Not only will this fix the transfer rate for indiviual songs, but also large quantities. And on top of that, this version of Windows Media Player is outstandingly awesome.
Enjoy!

A number of people reported that Safari was running
very slow for them on Windows. I was someone who was
also seeing the same behavior. Web pages that would
open up in 2 seconds under IE7 could take literally
minutes to fully draw in Safari.
Your mileage may vary, but this really did work for
me. Nothing else I had tried (clearing the cache,
re-installing, etc.) made a difference...but this
did. Not sure why it's not affecting everyone, but
this doesn't seem to have any negative side effects.
IE7 is still working fine for me with the
"Automatically Detect" box unchecked.
Please, report this bug to Radar: http://bugreport.apple.com It's important to notice Apple developers about this issue

Fix for SLOW Itunes Downloads

First I want to say for the last four years I have been very satisfied with Apple. Until IOS 6 Crashed thier entire system.
In the last four years I have purchased 2 Mac Pros, 9 Mac Minis, 12 Ipads, 6 Iphones, and 4 Ipods.
First of all any compentent person knows when it is the ISP provider and when it is not, anyone can run a speed test.
Here is my FIX.
1. Purchase PC Laptop
2. Download and install Itunes.
3. Rent Movie
4. Enjoy that Movie the same evening.
Apple FIX THE PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

update: its no longer working. even if no security at all or on Wifi B, slow as ****. sometimes only 9kbps. this is insane

Fix for Slow Safari

My Safari suddenly became slow - 1.5 mins to load homepage, redirecting to sites etc, had same problem with Firefox.
Turns out it was a DNS changer Spyware programme - believe it came from youtuby type sight when downloading a video codec.
Solved problem by going to Macscan Website, downloading free removal tool. everything back to normal now both Safari and Firefox fizzing along.
Hope this helps

A number of people reported that Safari was running
very slow for them on Windows. I was someone who was
also seeing the same behavior. Web pages that would
open up in 2 seconds under IE7 could take literally
minutes to fully draw in Safari.
Your mileage may vary, but this really did work for
me. Nothing else I had tried (clearing the cache,
re-installing, etc.) made a difference...but this
did. Not sure why it's not affecting everyone, but
this doesn't seem to have any negative side effects.
IE7 is still working fine for me with the
"Automatically Detect" box unchecked.
Please, report this bug to Radar: http://bugreport.apple.com It's important to notice Apple developers about this issue

Any fix for terrible iTunes playback?

I have several mp3s in my iTunes collection which I recently downloaded from iTunes Music Store and they sounded terrible. Bass was very distorted and treble wasn't that good either. I was of course playing them with iTunes playback. I played these songs through the Mac, my earphones and my sound system and it was the same in each case. I assumed right away that the tunes were just bad recordings and in fact I wrote a review praising the album for its music, but noting that the sound quality was often very poor.
Now, reviewing the threads at this forum, I find that others are having the same problem with iTunes playback on mp3s. As other users found, I tried playing the same songs through Quicktime and they sounded okay. Distortion was gone. Something is seriously wrong here. I'm not talking about a minor flaw that only audiophiles can hear, I'm talking about gross distortion. Users who posted here thought they might have blown a speaker, the sound was that bad.
I will, of course, make a bug report. But meanwhile is there any way to tweak iTunes to get better sound? I can't find any adjustments for iTunes playback at all, but maybe there's away. Thanx

I was able to go a long way to solving my problem by going to Preferences -> Playback, and dragging the setting on "Sound Enhancer" way to the left and un-checking "Sound Check." These features (whatever they are) seem to have been clipping the output sound like running it through a limiter.
Rant: By the way, "Sound Enhancer" and "Sound Check" convey no information. What is "Sound Enhancer" anyway? There is technical language to describe what they do but Apple seems to refuse to use it. It's like the saturation adjustment on my old TV, just called "Picture." How is anybody supposed to know what "Picture" means? "Sound Check" says it "automatically adjusts song playback volume to the same level." Same level as what? I suppose that means that the volume of song A which is loud is adjusted to match song B which is soft. But obviously the outcome is clipping. How can this be achieved without limiting dynamic range? /Rant
Don't know if this fix will work for other users who complain of distortion in playback. Obviously there are users who like Heavy Metal and in that case music and distortion are the same thing.

Video shot specifically for Slow Motion playback

I thought I might try starting a thread for sharing video shot specifically for the purpose of playing it back in slow motion. For the first example, I shot this flag flying on a perfectly clear day. We have had a lot of really clear blue days lately much to my delight.
My Panasonic DMC-GH3 can shoot 1920X1080 at 60 (59.94) frames per second. That is frames, not fields. So interpreted at 29.97 frames per second it plays half speed. This was taken a step farther and played back at 24p. So if my math is correct, it is playing at 40% (close enough).
Funny, but the camera actually has a setting to shoot video to play back at 40% but it seems redundant to me. Perhaps if the video was never going to be edited, just played back, that could come in handy.
I used a recording from the US Army Band because I was in the Army and I am just used to hearing it played by the Army Band. I thought of adding the lyrics since I really like them. All four verses. I just didn't have enough footage to do it right and I love the sunshine and blue skies. So here is a link to the four verses for those who want to play the video four times and sing along. Nobody? Are you sure? I did it. Couldn't help it.
I am probably going to put up a couple more copies. One with the Pledge of Allegiance and one with the first verse of the National Anthem. In the meantime, I am enjoying all that blue sky.
If your camera can shoot at a higher frame rate to play back at 24p, please post some examples. If you are particularly good at using Premiere Pro to modify the playback speed of video, let's see what you've got.
The camera was siting on a GorillaPod shooting at approximately a 30 degree angle. The lens was my 100-300 set for 183mm, the equivalent of 355mm on a 35mm camera.
ISO 200. This video has not been modified in any way other than interpreting it to play at 24 frames per second, to trim off the beginning and the end (to eliminate the shaky setup and take down of the shot), and I also added cross-dissolve transitions at the beginning and the end. No color correction of any kind and no stabilization. This is what the camera saw.
I really love the flag of the United States. If you live in the United States I hope you do too. Today is Washington's Birthday. So Happy Birthday to the Father of our country. Our first President. This is my present to our founding fathers on this day, and I chuckle to think about how shocked they might be at the number of stars on the flag, and I am sad when I think how mad they would be if they knew how far we have strayed from the principles they fought and died for.
(I'll bet old Ben Franklin would love the Internet though.)

Steve, regarding my request getting inside flag and changing shutter speed etc..
I have to admit right off that I don't understand this myself as I should...and I don't have a motion pic camera OR the DSLR ....which I can get in April ...at which time I will be off to the races trying to figure out how to use it.
But the gist of what I was getting at ( though hazy and not understood by me ) I'll try to explain...
Motion pic film cameras with the mechanical gizmo that pulls down the film ( frame by frame ) have a rotating shutter ( the gizmo is typically called a mitchel movement I think ). The rotating shutter has a mirro on the back side which allows a person to 'see' via some magic stuff ( prism ? ) what is in the frame ( eyepiece ). I guess it's similar to a SLR mirror but this one spins.
This is what it looks like
So, a normal setting for that shutter is 180 degrees... and it spins so that each frame gets 'exposed' by the open part of the shutter. Then when the shutter is spun to the closed side ( no light getting to film frame ) the 'next frame of film' is dragged down into place to be exposed. So that happens typically 24 times per second. It is pretty fast.
Some motion pic cameras can shoot even FASTER ( amazingly )...and you can therefore increase the FPS. Then as you know when it's played back at 24 FPS in projector, it looks like slower motion.
Unfortunately if the FPS is increased the 180 degree shutter may not be letting in enough light to get a good exposure anymore... so that shutter can be adjusted ( called the shutter angle ).
So a 45 degree shutter would let a lot more light hit the film ...cause it lets more light through its rotation time. This is the part where I can totally confused....and hopefully I'll learn more when I get the DSLR how this is handled with modern digital camera.
Cause, if you let more light hit the film by adjusting film motion pic shutter it stands to reason there will more " blur " from the longer exposure. However, this is offset by the faster FPS speed... so this is why I am curious about it...
As a point of fact motion pic cameras can be synchd to CRT screens using a mechanism that times the shutter to coincide with the horizontal 'lines' of the CRT ( timing of frames of interlaced signal )... and the shutter has many 'angles' it can be adjusted to ..
So, anyway, I guess this is something to explore when I get that DSLR...
I was thinking it might look cool to have slo mo with more 'blur' to make something look a little ghost like...kinda like my flag picture with time exposure...
crazy idea...

Here's a fix for slow iPhoto 5.0.4 (burst the beachball!)

Hi all,
I've been scanning my back catalogue of photos from about the end of last year. I've never really used iPhoto before, so have no previous with earlier versions. Without a digital camera, I'm forced to use an HP scanner. Owing to the fact that the Cube only has USB 1, this is already not the fastest job in the world, but patience is on my side.
Despite the fact that I've chosen to put the iPhoto library on my ext HDD, I'm faced with one of the infuriating aspects of the HP scanning application, which is its need to put all scanned input into a folder within /home/documents on my Cube HDD. I only discovered this when I poked around after a system warning that my startup drive was nearly full.
I think this critical point caused a few permissions conflicts, because ever since, iPhoto has been screwing (that's less harsh here in the UK) my Mac. I got all the symptoms others have been complaining about with regard to slow system performance after having used iPhoto at all. This was true when switching between applications, as well as using applications after having used iPhoto, not to mention during the use of iPhoto itself. The only way to correct this degradation was with a restart, which itself would take forever, because of the slow system performance.
I had a fairly small library.iPhoto file, so was not assured that the bloat was the same as others had with certain cameras. In looking through the posts, however, I found one which suggested trashing iPhoto 5.0.4 and reinstalling version 5.0. The respondent stated that he/she was at the point of trying something 'as drastic as that'.
So I got to thinking: if the application iPhoto has caused system-wide damage, then that's the damage to treat. I did an archive and reinstall of OSX and the difference is phenomenal. So many have reported massive amounts of RAM in use, as well as GIGABYTES of swap memory. Have we forgotten the background of the Mac as a graphic artist's tool of choice?
I'm here to tell you that a properly seated operating system will run iPhoto quite happily with a gig of RAM, and whilst a 450Mhz processor won't put the fear of god into many in this day and age, it's perfectly adequate for image manipulation in iPhoto.
If you'd asked me this a week ago, I would have concurred that I obviously needed to upgrade to a G5 twin 1.8 or some such animal, but having noticed colleagues in these forums with systems that should eat this kind of workload, I'm at the conclusion (like I'm an expert) that a system reinstall should be at the beginning of the troubleshooting with such huge differences between expected and actual performance.
Go on, give it a try. What's to lose, apart from half an hour installing OSX?
Best of luck,
Matt
G4 Cube 1GB RAM/G3 iBook 640MB RAM; AirPort Express/G3 iMac Rev B 640MB RAM/iPod Mac OS X (10.4.4) iMac OSX 10.2.8

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