Is a PC or Mac required?

I am considering getting an Apple TV for my mother's house.
She only has an iPad on WiFi-- no computer.
Will an Apple TV work for her?
Will she be able to use airplay from the iPad to the Apple TV withour a PC or Mac connected to the network?

You can stream direct from an iOS device, no computer needed.

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Is an intel mac required to use iPhoto'08?
I understand that it is required to use iMovie'08.
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That's interesting. My dual 1.25 G4 does just fine with iPhoto 08. In fact, I believe it is faster. I've noticed that when I edit basic things like crops and go to the next image, it doesn't wait to apply the changes to the last image. It appears they are doing more things in the background which make my dual processor better suited than the faster G5 in your iMac.
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HT1338 Do mac require antivirus

Ido mac require antivirus

Aduri wrote:
[Do] mac require antivirus
Not unless your employer or ISP require it, but I'm not really clear on what Mac you are talking about. You are posting to the forum for OS X 10.3 (Panther) or earlier, but your profile doesn't show any Mac platforms, only an iPad.

MAC Requirements for iCLOUD

Among the different requirements that allow a MAC to be found in case of lost, is:
“The Mac system must have a local OS X Recovery partition.”
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Thank you

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This OS seems very recent to me, especially since I have 10.4.11 installed on my intel-based macbook
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You can try calling the Apple Store and asking if they still have copies available. They did for quite some time after Snow Leopard was released, but they may have finally run out. If they did, you'll have to search for a private seller, on eBay or some such site, or at a dealer that carries discontinued software. Make sure you purchase a retail copy of 10.5 (black-labeled disks). The set that shipped with a Mac (grey labels) will not work and is not licensed for such use.
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Sharing an address book over a local network - is .Mac required?

We have a smal Mac ethernet network of 4 or five macs all running OSX 10.3 or above and all with Administrator access. Each mac is used by one member of staff only. One member of staff maintains our client/supplier contacts database as an Excel worksheet on one of the macs, for mail merging with Word, marketing mail shots and other correspondence etc.
Other staff on the network need access to those up-to-date contacts on a daily basis and it is a pain accessing the Excel file all the time accross the network. I have my own pesonal .Mac membership account and I have successfully experimented with exporting the Excel file as a formatted text file (.txt) and importing the relevant fields from the file into Address Book. I intend empowering the 'contacts maintainer' to import the Excel contacts into her macs address book at periodic intervals....
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a) Can other staff access/share her address book contacts over the network in their local copy of Address Book without a .Mac account?
b) If she is set up with a .Mac account on her Mac...
i) I can subscribe to her address book through my copy of Address Book as I have a .Mac account already - how will this display in my Address Book (Will it automatically creat a new Group?)
ii) Do other staff have to have individual .Mac accounts in order to subscribe to her Address Book contacts (and do they need the full .Mac Membership) – Could they not simply enter her .Mac member details in their macs System Prefs>.Mac>Account and then synchronise Contacts (and possibly iCal Calendars) as this is all they would require it for?
c) Is there a simpler way to achieve all this at minimal cost?
d) Is Directory Access>Contacts involved in a possible alternative solution or am I 'barking up the wrong tree'?
Would appreciate some help with this ASAP!
DMC

Hi Dozza,
The good news is YES, sharing an Address Book group(s) is easily done without .Mac
Since you are on an ethernet network, all you need to do is:
1. Enable Sharing thru System Preferences from your "main" computer you wish to transfer data from/with.
2. Drag your AB group(s) or individual cards to the desktop of your main computer - the one you have all the info in... (the cards will convert to vCards automatically.
3. Place those groups or cards in your Drop Box folder which is: Hard Drive>Users>your "Home" folder>Public>Drop Box
4. All networked computers will be able to access your Drop Box folder even if you do not want other info shared.
Of course .Mac is pretty darn handy too!
Good Luck
John

What OS does a Mac Require?

Hey folks,
Is there any way to determine which OS a machine REQUIRES in order to run. I know, often what ships with the unit isn't what is required. Since I like to keep all my machines on a standard install, I often find myself installing a slightly older OS on machines that ship with newer. Many of my users aren't ready for 10.5 either and it would be nice to know if their newer machines COULD run 10.4.11.
Is there any hardware or utility that would tell me this information?
Thanks,
Remo...

WowsaRemo51 wrote:
Hey folks,
Is there any way to determine which OS a machine REQUIRES in order to run. I know, often what ships with the unit isn't what is required. Since I like to keep all my machines on a standard install, I often find myself installing a slightly older OS on machines that ship with newer. Many of my users aren't ready for 10.5 either and it would be nice to know if their newer machines COULD run 10.4.11.
Is there any hardware or utility that would tell me this information?
Thanks,
Remo...
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If you get a machine with Leopard preinstalled, I suggest letting those who are ready for a new experience use those.
In truth, while Leopard has many new features, etc., it is not much different from the user viewpoint as Tiger was. Some things are a bit different, some things like Sherlock and Classic support are gone, but overall, unless you actually start looking for the new 300 features, it's still just a Mac.
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Do mac require antivirus

Please let me know if the macbbok air (or any apple product) requires antivirus ?

Hi
No you shouldn't have to install any virus protection on apple products but it all comes down to personal choice there are anti virus software out there for mac but most people leave it to the general OSX to protect them see here for more info:
http://www.thesafemac.com/mmg-antivirus/
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Mac required for upload to appstore?

Is a Mac ultimately required to upload an app to the iOs appstore?
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If all your certificates and provisioning profiles are in order its a really fast process, basically as fast as you can upload, although there is one crazy step you have to go through and thats changing your .ipa file name to a .zip then extracting that inside that extracted folder find the .app file (might be .ipa) and then zip that to upload. Just zipping your finished .ipa will not work even if everything is right. This wasted a good few hours of my life before I found this out.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/727471?tstart=30

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Okay, I've worked up a dynamic animation which will
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Unfortunately, the text only animates automatically on a Mac
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Firefox) or intermittently after a compleat reload (on a PC running
IE <v8) --- it works in IE v8 on a PC.
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it into an e-mail. Once the mail is retreived a click
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Dear Folks:
I make stuff in Photoshop CS on Mac. I open it on a PC afterwards and the fonts I've chosen are "substituted" with others by the Windows version of the same software.
How can I get this under control? How can I tell which fonts are happy in both platforms?
Can Font Book help?
Thanks
Raoul

Hi, Raoul.
There's info missing from your question, such as the version of Photoshop you are using on each computer, if your sending .PSD files to the PC, etc. However, assuming you're sending the .PSDs, I suspect the font substitution is occurring because you're using fonts on the Mac that are unavailable on the PC in question. You'd need to either use fonts that are common to both computers, or assure both computers have the identical fonts installed.
Where Font Book can help is that it will tell you what fonts are installed on the Mac in the default font locations employed by Mac OS X: see "Mac OS X: Font Locations and Their Purposes." However, Adobe products also include fonts that they install in their own font-related folders, outside of the default font locations managed by Font Book.
If the above does not help, I suggest you try yuor questions on the Adobe Photoshop Mac Forum, where Photoshop questions are answered.
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Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

Mac requirements for Photoshop/Illustrator

This probably gets asked Ad Nauseum, but we're PC users who now need a new computer and have decided to go to a Mac, with the principle purpose of working with Web Premium CS5, in particular Photoshop and Illustrator.
We want something robust enough to work with these programs at a better than minimum performance level, especially with 3D rendering involved.
So my question is if the following specs for the New iMac at $1699 CAD will be sufficient. My concern might be the 512MB for the Graphics controller ... and how much better is 3.1 Ghz for the Processor ?
27-inch: 2.7GHz
2.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5
2560 x 1440 resolution
4GB (two 2GB) memory
1TB hard drive1
AMD Radeon HD 6770M with 512MB
Thanks!

3.1 is what, 10% faster than 2.7? It's pretty much that straight up when looking at the same processor, isn't it?
Illustrator, up to CS5 anyway, could care less about your graphics card. CS6 is rumored to be 64 bit and as such might also have been written to take advantage of modern things like graphics cards.
RAM - Up to CS5, about 2gb was all Illustrator could use itself so beyond that, you're only helping multitasking, (which is important to a degree). Pshop will take whatever you give it. Not sure about inDesign and the others. I think ID uses more, but I'm not sure. CS6 though, if it is 64bit, will use all you give it (which will be awesome)
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