Vista/Mac question ?

Hi All,
My friend has a gateway running Vista, He burned me a CD-R with pictures on
it however when I put in my Mac, It came up with a unreadable disc message.
Anything at all I can do? Thanks for any ideas.
Thkdif

There's a well-known bug in Vista that is defaults to writing DVDs in the Vista-only-readable LiveFS filsystem instead of UDF or ISO9660.
Ask your friend to manually burn the disk in ISO9660 or UDF (both should be readble on the Mac).

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back from work (for which I had to leave this morning...
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From the requirements listed, I would guess that "medal of honor war chest" is a PPC game, which means it will probably run on the Intel Macbook, but under emulation. I think usually the newer Intels are fast enough that running PPC stuff under emulation should be fine, but I don't do much of that so I can't speak from experience.
I sometimes install Windows on a second partition on my Macs so I can dual boot, just for games. So there's that option too.

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I've just bought Microsoft Office for Mac (student teacher version) for my new 20" iMac. I seem to remember reading somewhere that I need to uninstall the test version that comes with the iMac before installing the "real" software.
Is this true, & if so, how do I do it?
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In the MS Office folder is a folder named Addtional Tools. Inside that folder is the uninstaller. You must uninstall the Trial version (if you have installed it) before installing the normal version of Office. If you have never installed the Trial version then simply drag the entire Trial folder to the Trash and delete it. Then install your normal version of Office.
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I am getting ready to switch from PC to Mac and have a question I am hoping I could get some advice on (I have a lot of questions actually, but will start with this one).
I have a large library of photos and videos and plan on getting an imac for my wife and macbook pro for me (I do the tagging/organizing and video editing).
Based on what I read, I am planning on keeping the masters on a separate drive and the aperture library on my macbook pro.
Question is, am I better off keeping the masters on the imac and access that folder as an external folder on my macbook pro for the masters, or should I use a NAS drive for them?
I have an older NAS that I can probably reformat for this purpose, but I often run into complications using a NAS (offsite backup issues, connectivity issues, can't use Time Machine, ...) and have read on the forums about people having issues writing to files on NAS's...
I have a buffalo terastation pro ii, it is about 3 years old. It is 2 terabytes. I would get the imac with 2 terabytes and the 256gig ssd drive so the 2 tera could be dedicated to media.
Thanks in advance for any advice, appreciate it.
Peter

plampione wrote:
I am about to buy the macs, so both the desktop and macbook pro will be fast. I plan on buying the fastest processor, 8gig of ram on the macbook, debating 8 or 16 on the imac, though from the previous thread sounds like it should be 16, and ssd on both (imac with 256 ssd + 2 TB HD, macbook with 512 sad).
I suggest ordering both Macs with the minimum RAM and adding 3rd party RAM yourself. The task is trivial and will save you heaps. I bought my iMac with 4GBs (that's two 2GB modules plus two empty slots), and then added two 4GB modules into the empty slots. So I have 12GBs. My plan is to try to live with just 12GBs until 8GB modules become affordable, and then replace the two original 2GB modules with two 8GB modules, bringing it to 24GBs. If needed, I'd ultimately go to 32GBs by replacing the two 4GB modules I have just installed.
I think the MacBook Pro (MBP) still has only two slots, so using 4GB modules, you are limited to 8GBs. If the architecture of the MBP supports it, you may be able to go to 16GB when 8GB modules become affordable. But you'd need to check this.
- using an attached harddrive on the macbook pro - Definitely a reasonable idea, but I was hoping to be able to bring up the library from anywhere in the house. I do have gigabit ethernet throughout the house and can wire in as needed, but again, was hoping to be able to sit on the sofa and do some tagging.
Another way to achieve this still has your Aperture Library and Masters on the iMac as I recommended above. You could use the MBP to share the screen of the iMac. It's a standard OS X function, no software to buy. You enable sharing on the iMac and log in from the MBP. That way you have the function on your sofa, but the power and capacity of the iMac for your actual work. This works fine over wifi for me via an Airport Extreme using 802.11N
- Backup - by putting the masters on the imac i was planning on using time machine to back them up onsite, and crashplan to backup offsite.
Good plan. TM and Crashplan are good products and free.
I'd also recommend making a second onsite backup by cloning to a pair of external drives, and periodically send one of these drives offsite. You may find that Crashplan for offsite backup over the internet is too slow if you have a big photo shoot.
What if I plug into the gigabit ethernet whenever I am going to run aperture? Would that allow the imac/macbook model to work? Concerned about the performance issues described above though, even for the machines themselves. Would copying the library nightly to my wife's computer work? How big does a 20+k library get with referenced masters?
Size of the library depends on many factors such as choices for previews, and the amount of editing (adjustments) you do, but here is a data point. I have 47K images, many RAW and the Library was about 60GBs, the referenced Masters another 280GBs. I say "was" because I have let it grow by importing recent images into it.
Today we are on PCs and I use windows live photo gallery and tag all my photos, which are stored on a NAS, my wife also runs WLPG and can see all the tagging I do. This works pretty well and is simple, I just import from the camera, show all 'untagged' photos/videos, and tag them. I also move them to a basic folder structure to be safe.
I understand this is not as feasible on mac, and if you are wondering why I am switching, it is because I have been having a lot of stability problems with the pc's and have had enough. I use iphones, ipads, and apple tv's. Recently got a macbook air and really like it. Just need to figure out how to manage the photo/video library.
A lot of my concerns about your plan are because I'm impatient. On my MBP, it was taking about 5 seconds to render each image as I reviewed them. I typically take a very short time to tag the images, so the computer was slower then me. Now, with the iMac, I'm the slow link in the chain.
It may be that you are used to a leisurely tagging process, but I have no experience with WLPG.
The great things about Aperture that I really love, having come from a Photoshop background are that Aperture is always non-destructive in its editing and it is non-modal in the UI.
There is a price to be paid for non-destructive editing. Aperture often has to go back to the Master and then apply your adjustments. This takes resources. But it saves you time. And you don't have to muck around creating another external folder structure yourself, as it seems you do with WLPG. I just import my images into "Projects" in Aperture (the Masters are Managed), and when I want to selectively change Managed Masters to Referenced Masters, I just tell Aperture to do this and that it should utilize my Project structure as the external folder structure. Aperture does all the folder creation for me, yippee!
Finally, you may even find that the MacBook Air is good enough to do the tagging on with the shared screen approach I mentioned above, and then maybe you don't have to buy a MBP.
HTH. Happy to discuss further

Switching from Windows to Mac Questions

Hi again,
I am considering replacing my current windows machine with a MacBook Pro and need answers to several specific questions. I hope this is the right forum:
1) Will I be able to access my stored files (mostly photos) from an NTFS formatted external hard drive?
2) Will I be able to move my iTunes files from my Windows machine to the Mac?
3) Will I be able to sync my iPod to the Mac since I've only used it on the Windows machine?
I don't want to run Windows on the Mac so assume that won't be an option.
Thanks in advance for the answers...

1) Yes. Just be aware that NTFS volumes will be read-only on a Mac.
2) Yes. There are better and worse ways to do this however at a minimum all you need to do is copy of your music directory from the PC to your mac and add it to iTunes on the Mac. Itunes will handle the rest.
There are tools and methods that will assist is getting your playlist etc over though I can't think of them off the top of my head at the moment.
3) You will need to reset your iPod for use with a Mac. However, once you've set up iTunes then resyncing your tunes is simple.

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Hello Everyone
I have been lurking in the forum for some time, and now have a question. I did a search for it without any luck, so here goes.
I have a website I created using iWeb, with a domain I purchased from GoDaddy. I have domain forwarding and domain Masking both enabled. The issue I have is that each page shows only the purchased URL. In other words, I cannot direct someone to an individual page. I would like the pictures page to show up as purchased domain/pictures, and the links page to show up as purchased domain/links.
We had a discussion involving this on a MMUG I belong to. There are 3 of us who all have domains purchased from GoDaddy. The 2 of us hosting on .Mac have the above mentioned issue with the URL. The one person hosted elsewhere (not GoDaddy), has distinct URL's for each page. This leads me to believe the root of the issue resides with .Mac hosting. Does this make any sense?
FWIW, I asked the same question to .Mac support and got nowhere. They just sent me a response explaining what domain forwarding is.
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The masking feature that you describe is just that.... it masks the actual URL with whatever URL you give it...in this case the URL for your domain. So if you type in http://www.yourdomain.com and have it masked and forwarded to your .Mac pages, that URL is the only URL you will ever see in the address bar of your browser. This is the expected behavior for masking.
There are some different things you can do with your domain, though...
Remember that your forwarded domain basically replaces the relevant portion of your .Mac address. I will use my domain name and .Mac iWEb address for example.
http://www.dirtdoog.com ==> forwards to http://web.mac.com/jwtseng/iWeb
So anytime I see my .Mac URL, I can replace the whole initial section with my domain name...
http://web.mac.com/jwtseng/iWeb/kate/MyWorld/MyWorld.html
can be directly replaced with...
http://www.dirtdoog.com/kate/MyWorld/MyWorld.html
And because I have masking turned on, this is the URL that will stay in my address bar.
For your purposes, you might be interested in assigning subdomains. This feature is located under "Total DNS control". It lets your replace the "www" with a sub-domain that again can be forwarded to any URL. You can use this to forward directly to your photos page using this...
http://photos.yourdomain.com
That would work too, if you had a page that you commonly like to give out to people.

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