What is an elephant ?

Hi,
So, there's a chance I can edit some video from a safari in Africa ! Wow ! Like a whole trip, for some stuff shot by a pro on the safari.
Soooo, when I was asked about it the quesiton of how I felt about , you know , ... this hunting thing......I said I wasn't bothered by that..had no effect on me....that when I hunted it was just to eat what I hunted and didn't hunt for sport.... I think I just said, " No, it doesn't bother me. When I hunt it's to eat only but that doesn't bother me."
So, honestly , it doesn't bother me that there's an elephant in the room ...
But now I don't think I can play the elephant walk music and make this thing a pet almost... well, at least like a horse ...... and then shoot it !
How do you tell a good story about an elephant or two ( I have no idea if he got anything whatsoever, and pray their isn't a lot of blood ) ...and a safari ? I think I need a script !
Rod

The MS WAV allows for several (actually) encodings. I always use the PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) WAV in the uncompressed form. Many audio programs will call this WAV (Uncompressed).
For the music, you might want to look into SmartSound. They have several musical compositions in there various "World" libraries, that would work for your production. The beauty of SmartSound is that the final score can be as long as you need. Also, with their Strat (multi-layer) series, and their Sonicfire Pro software, one can do many marvelous things with that one score. When you watch the demo, or Kirk watches it, you will be astounded at the flexibility. This ARTICLE will also give you a bit more background on SmartSound, its power and uses. BTW - SmartSound is having a sale right now. Do not recall if any of their World music is included, as I have not stopped by yet. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I have an extremely large collection of SmartSound music, so a "sale" is not as likely to be interesting to me, as I own most of it already! If you have any questions on SmartSound, let me know, and I'll do my best to clarify and answer those. I've used their music for many years, and love it. With those Strata discs, and Sonicfire Pro Scoring Edition, there is nearly nothing that you cannot do with it.
Over the years, I have ripped the audio from many and various video tapes that I have shot, and gathered a pretty broad range of SFX files. Maybe send me a PM, and we can talk about getting some potentially useful SFX files to you. These would be free of royalties and fees, and are from my personal library of audio snippets from other productions. I'd be glad to share with you.
Good luck,
Hunt

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Colour Management - who does what - Some thoughts now the smoke is clearing

First up, thanks very much to everyone who contributed their ideas and expertise to my recent query here, when I was seeking help for a problem with colour management issues when printing a magazine I edit. I have a ton of suggestions to work through and study but the smoke is slowly clearing and it raises some interesting points which I think are worth recounting.
First of all, I have been editing short run magazines now for 25 years, at first part time and later on a professional contract basis. I am not a trained graphic designer nor a trained printer. I did start out training as a graphic designer, many years ago but gave it up for a career in IT (as a networking specialist). That was full time until 10 years ago, although I did some freelance writing and editing in my spare time.
And yes, I did start originally with scissors and cut and paste, and moved on through black and white with spot colour and Pagemaker software to full colour and InDesign today. One thing which may be different about my experience to most of yours is that I am a PC user and always have been. All my editing and graphics work has always been done on a PC - Pagemaker was our DTP package of choice for a long time and we supplemented this with Corel-Draw (which has a range of graphics handling options). All my software is legal and I always register it and keep it up to date. I have used the same graphic designer for quite a few years now and whenever we upgrade our software he goes and gets trained on the latest release.
Around 10 years ago I was offered the chance to edit a specialist short run magazine (not the current one). This was a chance I took and gave up the day job and became a full time freelance. Editing is not my main or only source of income. I am also a freelance writer and photographer and heritage consultant and I have a specialist image library.   I sell my own sell my work - articles and pictures - to the national and local press. I also write books (non fiction) on commission. The magazine editing is really an extension of my interest in historic landscapes. I have never had any complaints, or problems, with the freelance work, photos and archived images I sell. Clients include national newspapers here in the UK, national magazine groups and my books are available in national bookstore chains. I supply my work digitally, naturally, and it includes photos I have taken myself and items which I have scanned into my library of historical images and store on line. No reported colour management issues there.
I have always enjoyed a good relationship with my publishers and printers because I seek to be as professional as possible, which means delivering my stuff on time, to the required standard so that minimum intervention is required from them. This does assume that I have a clear brief from them on what they need from me.
Recently this approach has not been enough to avoid colour management issues with the short run magazine I currently edit. I have been wondering when and where things went astray and date it back to the upgrade to InDesign two years ago. However it may have its roots in my earlier decision to use PCs not Macs for my work.
Until 4 years ago I had used the same printers for magazine editing for many years. They were a well respected firm specialising in short run magazines. They were not far from where I live and work and if there was a problem I would go over and discuss it with them. They were happy, and competent, to handle Pagemaker files generated on a PC and convert my rgb images to cmyk if there was any concern about the colour balance. On a few occasions I paid them to scan a photo for me. However 4 years ago the owner decided to retire and shut up shop. I needed to find a new printers and it had to be someone who specialised in short run magazines and could meet the budget of the charity I edit for. Also someone who could handle copy generated using Pagemaker running on a PC. I chose a printers I had used briefly in the past where I knew some of the staff and was promised PC based Pagemaker would not be a problem. I even got this in writing. I started to send them proofs generated using Pagemaker v7 on my PC.
I soon found that although they had agreed they could handle Pagemaker on a PC in fact they had only a few PC based clients and were using a single ageing PC running Pagemaker to proof their work. In fact nearly all their jobs were Quark based. I was also told we had to supply CMYK images although not given any further requirement so I now did the conversions from rgb to CMYK using my PhotoPaint software. (There are quite a few settings in Corel for the conversion but there was no guidance by the printer on which to use so to be honest it did not occur to me that it might be a problem).
Now of course I understand that the drive to get customers to supply CMYK images was a Quark driven requirement back in the late 1990s. I did not and do not use Quark so knew nothing for this. I did have some early colour problems and font incompatibilities with the new printers and was pressured by their senior Graphic Designer (who designed for their own contract clients) to upgrade to InDesign and provide them with a .pdf, which I was assured would solve all my problems. The .pdf would be the same as the final printed magazine because "it would not require any further intervention by the printers".
I expect you are collectively throwing up your hands in horror at this point, but I think he was speaking genuinely. The creation of a .pdf using InDesign, is widely promoted as the ultimate answer to all printing issues.   I have encountered it recently with a lot of printers' salesmen and my friend, who edits a learned journal, has just been told the same thing by her printers, to get her to upgrade to ID. Incidentally she also uses a PC.
So we upgraded our design process in house to InDesign and our graphic designer went on a course, two courses in fact. When we came to produce our first .pdf using ID, the printers' Senior Graphic designer came on the phone and talked our designer through the ID Export function. I think he may at that time have told him to create a preset profile with MPC and the defaults, but to be honest I don't recall. We were never sent anything in writing about what settings we needed to match theirs. I continued to have intermittant colour management problems but put this down to my photos. Things came to head with the most recent issue where the colours were badly out on the cover, supplied by a press agency and taken by a professional photographer. The printers seemed to have little or no idea about possible causes.
Initially I thought that part of the underlying cause must lie in some mismatch between what I was sending the printers and what they expected to receive so I asked them to specify what I should send. All they said was use Profile preset as MPC setting and accept the defaults which accompany it.
So I came on here looking for a solution. A lot of people were keen to offer their own experience which I really appreciate. However the messages could be conflicting. Some of you suggested it was the underlying cover photo which was at fault, some that it was my monitor which needed better calibration.
Many of you here said that part of the problem, if not the whole problem, was the way I was generating my CMYKs for the printer and I should use Photoshop to do this. You also mentioned a number of possible colour management settings which I should try.
At times the advice seemed to change tack. There were suggestions that the colour management issues I had were nothing to do with the printers, that it was up to me not them. Quite a lot of you said I needed to be better informed about Colour Management issues. I agree, but I had never had any previously (maybe good luck, maybe good support from my previous printer) so I was not even aware that I needed to be better informed. Some of you mildly chastised me for not finding out more and doing more to manage my own colour management with the switch to ID. To which I can only say if I had needed to train up, I would have done. I did not realise I needed to. Nor was my designer aware of the issues as colour management was not really covered on his ID courses which were about typesetting and design.
Some of you even seemed to hint that unless I was prepared to use an expensive high end printer or effectively retrain as a print specialist or get my graphic designer to do so, then I probably shouldn't be in the magazine editing game at all. OK maybe that is a bit harsh but you get the drift.
The fact is that printing is much more accessible these days to all sorts of people and in particular to people with PCs. My brother lives in a large village in an isolated area and produces a village magazine which has been a great success. It is in black and white with spot colour but he would like to move to an all colour issue. He is a bit nervous of the colour management issues as he has no experience of graphic design and is his own designer using a low end entry level design package. He too uses a PC. The printers reps all tell him the same thing they tell me, that all he needs to supply is a .pdf using InDesign.
Somewhere I feel a black hole has developed, maybe back in the 1990s with Quark 4.11. A lot of printers standardised on that, and set up a work flow and prepress dependent on CMYK images as provided by the clients. They assumed the the clients would doing their own colour management. This approach also assumes everyone is using Quark on a Mac with the full range of Adobe software. When it became possible to generate .pdfs using InDesign, this was held out to users as the Holy Grail of magazine printing, even though their workflows and prepress were still based on Quark 4.11 principles. Any underlying colour management issues the clients now have to tackle themselves.
So now we have the situation in which I find myself, having to learn from scratch a good deal about colour management issues so that I can tell the printers what is needed for my magazine. Meanwhile all the printing salesmen, the ones I encounter anyway, are still busy pushing the InDesign to .pdf as the "be all and end all" solution. Some re-education is needed for all parties I think.

I am glad to see that the sun is peeping through the clouds.
I apologise for my Aussie-style straight talk earlier, but as I said before it was not directed personally at you but in the direction of others whom you epitomize, repeating a conversation I have had many times over the last 10 years or so where respectable, well-meaning photographers, designers and other contributors refuse to accept that colour management is being thrust upon them.
It is a simple fact of life, there is this 'new' thing that has butted into the very root of our trades and changed the most basic principles of printing and photography. We expect that this kind of thing does not happen but the industry we now work in is not the same one we trained in twenty years ago.
Many printers are still struggling with the same conflict, so many tradespeople cannot accept this change.
This is exacerbated by the fact that colour management is so complicated to learn and implement and confounded by the fact that the default settings and a clumsy workflow often yield acceptable results with incorrect, generic settings, hence the old 'use InDesign and make a PDF and it will be ok' route.
When the chain of colour management includes the photographer, the photographer's client, the designer, the other designer maybe, the prepress person, and the platemaker, and a single incorrect click by any one of those can kill the CM it is not surprising that in the end when someone is looking back to see where it fell over they usually never find out.....   They will meet someone who says ' I never touched it, I simply opened the file and scaled it and closed it'. And that person will be a reputable photographer or designer (and CLIENT) who has no idea they just broke it. So what do we do? We go with the generic setting that seems to yield adequate results therefore avoiding the confrontation.
You need to understand the situation of the printer who took his business through the 'early' days of colour management, we had all kinds of very reputable sources supplying incorrect files, we did not have the expertise yet to be able to address the entire workflow, it would have meant training photographers and designers all through the best design houses and national institutions, because they blamed the printer. Only in the last few years have I seen these people coming around to the fact that they bear responsibility for implementing their own cm and maintaining it through their own work.
Sadly, many high end sources are still not there, and I mean HIGH end! Probably the ones that don't even visit this forum because they want to keep blaming the printer... They tend to live with the poor quality reproductions and just pull up the worst ones and fiddle with those and try to avoid the 'elephant in the room'.
I am sorry to say that it was not practical for a printer to reject mismanaged files for fear of losing clients who would happily accept less than perfect results in order to avoid the painful truth that was being told to them. The best thing we could do was to gently make those clients aware that their workflow was imperfect and hope to show them how we could help... Many print shops do not have someone knowledgeable enough or patient enough to do this, or the boss does not understand the issue either and tries to work around it to keep his jobs flowing in the expectation that all those experts in the chain will eventually tame the thing.
The many experts on this holy forum are waaaaayyyy ahead of the printing industry in general and photographers and designers in general in their understanding of colour management workflow. I have seen first hand how reputable local industry people and trainers alike are spreading misinformation and bad techniques, when I discovered these forums back in about 2002 I found that they opened up a whole new galaxy of knowledge and facts that actually worked and made sense, unlike what I had been told locally.... This forum taught me what the Adobe text books did not, the Tech' teachers did not, local 'experts' did not!
I tell all interested people to join these forums and learn to discriminate between the good and bad information.

Replace what?

I am working on (well likely screwing up) a PowerBook G4 15" which I sent into Apple awhile back. Their response to me was there was water damage... well they could have told me an elephant stepped on it and I would have believed that over the water. The also told me they would send me pictures, and of course they never did. I did not pay for the repair/and they let this go without a problem.
I decided to get the 15" out, mostly to take it apart - I like puzzles, except when they have these cheap screws that are stripped right away. When I sent it in initially, it was for the optical drive, plus when you went to boot it, you would hear a chime, the optical making a bit of noise (there is still a disk stuck inside) then it would just go black. So now that I have it apart, I have no idea what I should replace.
I sent my iBook in today for service and asked if they had any history on the 15". My 17" just came back - won't go there - any idea if the extra ram from the 15" would fit the 17"?
If you have any ideas, I would appreciate them - please don't say you have to just have it all tested, 'cause I likely won't do that. For some reason I thought if I took it apart and put it back together it would work. A bit Lame! HA!
Does anyone know where to find cheap used parts? It's not worth a big investment for me.
Thanks
P.s. I haven't seen any sign of water damage... unless there is a secret dot that changes color (like a cell phone) - my 16 year old did it in and said she did nothing! (I kind of believe her). The oldest did something to the iBook, where she says she did nothing - sad to say, I'm not believing her!

- As far as I know, there are no water detecting dots in the Powerbooks or any other Apple product.
- Depending on which 15 and 17 you have, yes, the RAM might fit the 17. Check the specifications of the RAM for each one here - http://support.apple.com/specs/powerbook/
- <pre>drutil eject</pre> might work, but failing that, I'd start by replacing the optical drive. http://www.ifixit.com is highly recommended, as is a good, sharp, #00 philips head screwdriver and a spudger (both available from ifixit.com too)
MBP 2Ghz/256MB Graphics/1GB RAM/120GB Mac OS X (10.4.8)

In C4: What determines the max number of slide one can successfully publish?

Using C4.
I am required by policy to use an original PowerPoint file. The total number of slide equals 72 (file size 38,201 KB when completed). The internal customer wants a "kicky" presentation based on her slides, so I must use some of the Captivate tools (e.g. zoom area, highlight box -- about the limit of my skills). And there must be spoken narration, not the text to speech feature. Total time for the 72 slides is 22.5 minutes when all is done. When published the narration is good, but the "kicky" part fails. Specifically some highlight boxes do not appear on many slides.
I deleted the table-of-contents feature. The most unusual tools that I'm using are the certificate widget, and a page turning widget.
I tried breaking the presentation into two parts. Part 1 was 58 slides and I experienced the same behavior. I've not tried part two yet.
In the past, I practiced, on my computer, with the aggregator. Is this the best route? We have no experience hosting an aggregator project on our server. Are there any special concerns about doing so? (I'm not the person who does this. He is out of the office at this time). Would daisy-chaining be a better route? (if so, what is the best source for instruction to do this?)

Again, I did not see the elephant in the room. I neglected to notice a default setting. Once corrected, everything works. My bad.
But, I would still like to know what determines the maximum number of slides on can successfully publish without Aggregator or daisy-chaining.

What's all the fuss about iOS6 maps???

For starters, I'm not an iFan... My first smartphone was a BB and I used to swear by it. I found (and sometimes still do) that the iPhone was more of a toy while the BB was a professional tool. I still prefer the BB Bold's keyboard for typing emails than the iPhone's touchscreen keyboard. I ended up buying a 4S earlier this year (March) only because BB had no Outlook Exchange license available where I lived (Maldives) and it was either Android or iPhone, so the choice was clear there. Since then, I've come to grow quite fond of it and am quite happy with the integrations and functionality of the phone albeit it being slightly more time-consuming to send out emails.
The iPhone 5 launch event came out and I looked at all the details. Here's my conclusion: an extra row or icons, a slightly faster processor and most of all 4G. Now, I don't really need an extra row of icons... In fact, I sometimes find the 4S a little too long (jeans pockets along with a pack of cigarettes: cigarette pack usually loses and looks like it's been trampled by a herd of elephants...). So, I'm not in for a bigger screen as the current one's just fine. I never found my 4S to lack speed so I don't really care about the faster processor either. 4G? I love it! But I live in China now... It will be a while before it'll come out here, so why bother for the moment? It's complicated enough as it is as China Mobile (biggest network and best coverage, which I am also currently on) doesn't even have 3G for the iPhone. Only EDGE, but I make do... China Unicom offer 3G for iPhones but not as good a coverage... So, what to do? So in the end, a 4S with the brand new iOS6 update to me sounds better than going out to buy a new iPhone 5.
Update has been out for 3 days now. And before I went ahead and updated I checked the reviews, comments and discussions... WOW! It would seem Apple has opened the wraths of **** upon the world and that the Apocalypse is upon us when reading on about all the bugs and issues. And everyone goes on and on about the maps... It's made it onto CNN, BBC and just about anyone with an iota of grey matter and a keyboard. There are even comments mentioning that Asia is practically mapless with the new native app. I froze! No way in **** was I going to update if I was going to lose such functionality. I've just arrived here 2 months ago, don't speak a word of the local language, feel like getting an audience with the Pope is simpler than giving a cab driver directions and the Google Maps app has often been a lifesaver for me here so far... As much as I want to get my hands on the rest of the new functions, it was a risk not worth taking.
Today I bump into a colleague of mine at work and he's just updated his iPad (2nd gen) to iOS6. I tell him all I've heard about the maps and he brings it up to the restaurant for lunch. I'm scrolling through the new map app and honestly don't find much of a difference. Now, seeing as everyone is whining about the uselessness of the directions the new app gives, I give it a test. I search for the Park Hyatt in Beijing. The Google Maps app used to give me 3 different results. The new app gives me one result only, it's correct and gives me the right directions to get there...
So, what is all the fuss on the new update??? So Apple got rid of Google Maps... Yes, it'll take time to get better but Apple so far have usually managed to do a pretty good job at doing that. At first, everyone was complaining about battery drainage... Nobody mentions it anymore... Strange... Is this intentional Apple bashing?... From what I've seen so far, I still don't get what all the fuss is about.
I'm going ahead with the update... Will let you know how it goes!

Hi,
What's the worst that I've spent 100 Eur alltogether for GPS map based applications for several sports - golf, bike, ski, etc. These applications use data from iPhone Map application and its disaster after my update onto iOS 6. These are pictures of 2 of my favorit golf resorts:
And here one example from a place where I use to bike:
Very nice, isn't it?
And unfortunately this problem won't disappear even when Google put stand alone map application into iStore.
So I have only way to downgrade to 5.1.1 immediately to not throw away money I already spent.
Ivan

What makes a plugin unique?

This is another possible subject line for my post:
"I guess it is too easy for plugins to conflict with one another"
What I am trying to do is equivalent to performing surgery on Siamese twins.
As we know, programming inside code written by somebody else (specially plugins) is like walking on broken glass...
My application attempts to properly retrieve all Elements of type "Path" and push them into the Windows clipboard. Per wise forum advice (thanks again, guys!) I am basing my (derivative/forked) plugin on one of the provided samples, which is very similar to mine: SelectionServer.
Naturally, I'd like to verify that newer versions do not introduce unintended consequences (typing an "x" instead of a "y" is extremely easy), so here's the plan:
I need one menu with two menu items. One of them will refer to the latest/current version of my plugin. The other, to the previous version. They will dump their results into the clipboard, where they will be readily available for "diff" comparisons.
This is what I have so far: I figured how to create the 2 *.api files.
(to be continued)

Ramon F Herrera wrote:
NB: It is important to mention that all my source code changes have been done in the "SelectionServerInit.cpp" (*) file.
I have made trial&error modifications in the region below:
but alas, I am getting one menu (as expected) but only one menu item (I want two). See solution in the post below.
The following modification is critical: it finally caused TWO separate menu items to appear.:
In a deliberate way, I am making one change at a time and observing the effects (or lack thereof). Scientific Method kind of operation.
That is where I am so far: The GUI looks okay, except that the check marks next to the menu items work in unison: They are either checked or unchecked simultaneously and only one of the plugins is actually being executed (when either of the menu items is selected). The Siamese twins are close to acquiring individuality, but not quite yet.
Note: The original, Adobe-provided "SelectionServer" plugin or its implementing DLL "SelectionServer.api" are nowhere near my computer. They have morphed into my "Copy&Paste" code. Yes, I will rename my product. But, like I said above, I am making changes like a prudent elephant in a China shop: very carefully, one step at a time.
I have had more than my share of frustration after wholesale modifications, WHICH is precisely the motivation for these paired plugins strategy.
TIA

What is the software for Apple that is a software that cleans up space on hard-drive

It had a cartoony looking elephant as it's icon and it did similar stuff to what CleanMyMac did for Mac but the software is free. I can't think of the name of it and I tried googling it. I was hoping someone on the Apple messageboards would know. I know if i asked this elsewhere some tool would bash me for using a Mac. People like to troll on the internet a lot because their real lives are pathetic. This software works with Mac OSX Yosemite.

You are very wise.. !!
It can be awfully hard restoring the Mac from TM.. as many posters here have discovered.
IMHO.. for certainty.. get an external drive.. they are not expensive.. do a full backup to it.
I would even download superduper and make a clone of the existing drive and boot from it.. this means when the Mac is returned if all else fails.. you can use the external clone as a boot and have exact OS as you have right now.

What's the right monitor for my mini?

I have recently plunked down all my savings and bought this..
Product Description: Apple Mac mini - Core i7 3 GHz - 16 GB - 512 GB
and have also bought a monitor for it as follows..
Product Identifiers
Brand
Philips
Series
5000 Series
Model
26PFL5522D
MPN
26PFL5522D/12, 26PFL5522D12
EAN
8712581314729
Key Features
Type
Flat-Panel
Display Technology
LCD
Screen Size
26"
Definition
HDTV
Screen Format
14:9 Enhanced, 16:9, 4:3
Resolution
720p (HD)
Display Resolution
1366 x 768 pixels
3D Technology
3D Not Supported
Smart TV Features
Not Supported
but the mini doesn't fill the screen on any of it's settings.
which of the above monitor specs do i need to change, when I go looking for a replacement?
I am hoping to get the replacement from the same dealer - who will refund me the money i paid for the first one.
PS - I'm using an HDMI cable straight from the mini to the monitor

couldn't figure out how to edit my post above to add the following information..
I have another tv/monitor in the house which DOES display the full screen.. it's specs are
32 in; LCD; HD Ready
Product information .
Product Product name.
ISI-32-900-TVBU .
Digital TV HD-Ready .
Yes .
LCD Screen Size .
32 in .
Picture Full HD (1920x1080) .
No Frequency .
50 Hz THX Certfied Display.
No 3D-Ready .
No 1080p24 Support .
No N/A.
Pixel Response Time.
6 ms Progressive Scan .
Yes Resolution .
1366x768 Widescreen.
Supported Picture Formats.
480i/p; 576i/p; 720p .
is it the larger Picture Full HD specs that makes the difference??
and why is the text "fuzzy" on all the settings?
and what exactly does "overscanning" do?
Sorry to be a pest but I spent an elephantful of money on this little mini and I really want it to be properly visible.
Is the whole problem that I am trying to use a TV/Monitor instead of a proper computer monitor?

Given a free 07 MBP 3,1 15 inch what now? Sell or repair?

My question on the last line...background first.
Have been given a MBP 07, A1226 ..one fo the Nvidia 8600GT ones
It had ben in a cupboard for 3-5 years ..dead.   108 cycles onteh battery from new.
It had been dropped
Graphics glitch ...wold boot to apple logo with marks around it and then a message behind that was barely readable.
Booted instantly from 10.8.4 USB instal stick. and all went well.
For two days then back to weird graphics issue.
At this point I had not heard of the Nvidia issue..never having owned a MacBook the issue had passed me by..I assumed the drop and the dent below the CD drive were the issue..maybe they are and this is not the Nvidia issue ?
google brought the Nvidia issue and the 'bake the logic board' / reflow trick to my attention.
Nothing to loose..so   8 minutes at 200deg C and all good.
Untill some Terminal "yes device null" threads to get the thing hot   ..fans speeding up   ..CPU die temps (istat menu) showing constant 94 deg C.
All good then weird graphics again...keyboard and mouse frozen...hard power button Press and hodl to shut down.
re booted again perfectly
So bearing all the above in mind, it was a free machine, what should I do with it?
1). Buy new 'Repaired " logic board from ebay or similar and hoep the new board does not still have the Nvidia issue.
2.) Sell it for spares for ? what would I get $200 ?if lucky I guess and put that money with money i would spend on new logic board/ RAM/SSD and buy a better 'different ' machine.? It wil be for the GF for Notes/pages/E-mail and facbook.no games heavy graphics or any processor intensive apps.
Scanning ebay shows many Airs selling for what it would cost to potentially fix this and add ram and ssd.
Interested to see what others think

LowLuster wrote:
Not worth the effort to fix even for free. System will eventuall fail again because all logic boards from that model year series will eventually fail for the same reason, GPU failure. Apple and NVidia never FIXED the issue. They just replaced the board with the same exact model GPU for a relitively short period of time, 4 years from date of purchase which has now ended.
Well if it was for free it has to be worth it even if it only lasted a year or so.
Interesting to know that they replaced it with exact same model with same problem. I had been lead to believe that the fix was a differrent Nvida chip that although had the smae model number, was a good fix.as the 'new' chip wasa a different batch number. I understood tht the fault was not a design fault, but a batch fault.....dodgy silicon wafe or similar on a certain production run of the grpahicd ships.
Yes, I did read that the free replacement had ended, so was not expecting a free fix, From what I had read it was a Serial Number thing and some were not affected, by that batch of dodgy chips and some were, and it took some hardware test at an Apple store to determine if it was an affected model or not.
Would not dump it at a "recycling ' centre...I'd rather sell it off for spare. Already have had an offer from a friend for the battery and the screen. But while it works will keep it and the GF can use it. Her Pages work instanly goes up to iCloud...so even if it does die..not an issue
OGELTHORPE wrote:
Neil Paisnel wrote:
Do you know if the Apple Store has a specific hardware testing 'device' or if it is just diagnostic software or checking of serial numbers etc ?
They do have their own equipment and software. If resellers are privy to that, I do not know.
On a feeling of pure and futile optisim, I phoned up the iQ reseller and spoke to someone, who as expected would not put me though to someone on the tech side, and who did not know anything about this issue.
I asked about the hardware testing and she assured me. that "yes, they coudl do it" . I did not actually believe she even knew what I meant about the Nvidia graphis issue.
So in I went, spoke to one of the lads, and told him it was an old machine, what I expected the problem was and could they confirm this or not. I was happy to pay for the repair or the parts if a fix was available.
He took it to the tech guys in the back, to see if ut could be checked with the 'app" ...but no..The app apparrently is hosted on the Apple servers, and is not available for download, and no they coudl not test it to find out if it was an affected model and there was No way they woudl ever be able to find out.
I find it quite comical that people can now call someting that 6 years old 'Vintage"
No more than I expected anyway so nothign lost and getting out the house was no inconvienence, but it does rather back up what I had read recently about Apple stores,associated re-sellers and Mac users , that they are happy to believe that, and I quote from another site that I can't find now; "They are happy to believe that their Apple Macs run on Pixie dust and purple elephant dung"
The general reliability of OS-X means that to most users they don't need to know, but it si a bit poor that the store reps are the same
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Unfortunately don't support us here in Jersey...part of UK ..as far as they are concerned we don't exist.
Perhaps you should do what the Scots are doing, set up your own parliament and threaten secession.
Ciao.
Apple don't believe we exist as part of the UK, with UK system postcodes and phone numbers, even less chance if we were independant. But considering that 80% of the islands population is now English and not local, true Jersey family, that woudl never happen.

At a glance what is new in Safari 5

This should give a little in sight:
http://lifehacker.com/5557731/first-look-at-whats-new-in-safari-5

I missed the 'Blue Bar', I'm glad it has returned

What happens on iCloud (ex. contacts) when multiple family members use the same Apple ID?

What happens on iCloud when multiple family members use the same Apple ID? For example if we all choose to use iCloud for contacts, are they all merged together? We use the same Apple ID so we can use find my iPhone to keep track of the whole family.

Of course if you are both connected to the same iCloud account you have the same contacts - what did you expect?. The contacts live on the server and are read from there by the devices; so as you've both managed to sync your contacts up to iCloud they are now inextricably mixed. You can only delete your contacts by deleting individual ones, and doing that will delete them from your phone as well.
You can only unravel this by
1. In the iCloud contacts page at http://icloud.com, select all the contacts, click on the cogwheel icon at bottom left and choose 'Export vCard'.
2. Sign out of System Preferences>iCloud
3. Create a new Apple ID and open a new iCloud account with it for your own use.
4. Import the vCard back into the iCloud contacts page.
5. Go to http://icloud.com and sign in with the original ID. This is now his ID. Work through the contacts individually deleting the ones you don't want him to have. When done sign out and advise him to change his password.
6. Go to the new iCloud account and delete his contacts individually.
Of course if you have also been syncing calendars and using the same email address there are problems with doing this.

Macbook4,1 10.6.8 and firmware update - what went wrong?

Macbook 4,1 2008 2.4Ghz (not unibody). I recently reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled 10.6 from the Retail DVD and all seemed to go well. The MB was working fine up to that point. I then set up the MB (network, date and time, etc.) and repaired permissions.
I then checked Software Update and downloaded and installed the recommended updates to 10.6.8.
Again, all seemed to go fine. System booted and I repaired Permissions again. I went to the Apple web site, a couple of other web sites, and Software Update found another update to install: Firmware. Though I don't remember what version.
I clicked OK and it installed.
Upon reboot, it seemed to install okay.
But then I left the Macbook and it went into Sleep.
I didn't come back to it again until the next day.
When I pressed a key to wake it, I got what I now know is the screen that appears after you wake it from SAFE SLEEP. As per this Apple KB article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1757.
And this is where the problems started.
After the MB woke to the Safe Sleep screen, which shows the desktop a little "out of focus", the progress bars started filling in from left to right, BUT before they completed, the screen went BLACK.
And it has had a problem with black screen ever since. I can boot the MB from internal or external HD or from DVD, and it seems to boot fine. Boot chime, Apple logo, spinning wheel, then at the point where it pauses, blue screen, then goes to desktop, instead the screen goes black.
It finishes booting, but seems to go into Sleep.
I can wake it by pressing a key, but the screen either comes on and goes black again after 10 seconds, or I get the Safe Sleep wake screen, and then it goes black after 10 seconds.
And at boot or when waking the MB, the front LED flashes 5 times. There are no error beeps.
I've tried changing RAM, but problems remain.
So what's all this? Any ideas?
The display doesn't seem dead, as it works to boot and wake. The MB works fine with external monitor.
It's weird, but I can't think of anything apart from the Firmware update. The problems started right after installing it.
Unfortunately, this model of Macbook doesn't have a Firmware Restoration image to download and burn to CD. It is the ONLY Mac at this point that doesn't have this!
I called Apple support and even bought the 49 Euro Pay Per Incident service, which proved to be the same as throwing 49 Euro out the window. The only "technical" support they provided was to Reset the SMC, which you can find out about FOR FREE at the Apple website. And which I'd done anyway. I'd also reinstalled the MacOS. Don't want to beef too much, but sheesh, you've already got a Macbook that might need costly repairs, and they make you pay 49 Euro BEFORE they even ask you about the problem and what you've done to try to solve it. I'm tempted to say "ripoff". I mean, if all they can offer you is the advice to reset the SMC - which Apple offers for free at their website - then that's pretty poor service for 49 Euro, to say the least.
Apart from the wasted 49 Euro, I'm pretty peeved about the Firmware update (or so it seems) wrecking a perfectly working 2008 Macbook. I don't know how to convince Apple of this, but I'm certainly going to try.

Thanks for the reply.
Re. the Displays setting, the Macbook display isn't recognized and mirroring isn't an available option.
I've scoured the net and the idea of replacing the PRAM battery may be something to try. I read a post by a guy with a Macbook logic board screwed up by a Firmware update, which he solved by replacing the PRAM battery, as when you disconnect it you reset the logic board.
Which capacitor?
No luck so far with talking to Apple. I will try to get hold of someone a little more tech savvy and/or in a position of authority, as it seems that the Firmware is the culprit. Obviously a million other things could go wrong with a Macbook, but given the timing here it looks like the Firmware. Firmware updates can and occasionally do screw up a computer, as most manufacturers will warn you before you apply the update: PC makers, printer makers, etc. And they probably warn you that it's all your responsibility if anything goes wrong. But re. the Apple Firmware update:
1) it came thru Software Update
2) there was no warning
3) to make things worse, there's no Firmware Restoration image that I can burn to a CD to reflash the logic board: this is the only Apple computer that doesn't have a Firmware Restoration option
I'll try to get thru to a manager and convince him/her that the firmware may have been the cause.
Do you think an authorized Apple tech might have access to some way to do a firmware restoration? Something not avaiable to mere mortals? Because if not, the only solution looks like a new logic board.

Format C drive, what steps to take for retaining all data of iTunes?

Hello
I want to format my C drive of Laptop and shift my itunes to E drive. I'm on windows 7. C drive is having itunes and in that I have synced my 2 iphones and 1 ipad.
Now I want to format the C drive and want to retain all the data, backup, media etc of my synced data with the itunes.
What I've done is that I transferred my music location from C to E drive by using apple forum discussion. I changed destination to E drive in ADVANCED TAB in Edit-Preferences. Then orgainzed data. That was successful.
Now please help me on what to do next so that i can retain my all my data of itunes safe before formatting my C drive.
Thanks in advance

This definitely isn't intended as a substitute for tt2's tutorial (which is comprehensive and more detailed - in case of any differences I'd follow what's stated there), but in summary you should be doing the following. I've assumed that, as per your original post, you've changed your media location to E:\iTunes and consolidated the library. You now have a "split library" where:
E:\iTunes contains a folder called iTunes Media which in turn contains several subfolders such as Automatically Added to iTunes, Audiobooks, Music, ...
C:\Users\your user name\Music\iTunes contains the following folders and files:
Album Artwork (folder)
Previous iTunes Library (folder)
iTunes Library Extras.itdb (file)
iTunes Library Genius.itdb (file)
iTunes Library.itl (file)
iTunes Library.xml (file)
I'd suggest making sure that you're running the latest version of iTunes before proceeding - by default, this will be the version that you download and install when you rebuild your PC.
Before you change anything else, exit iTunes. Now copy all of the folders and files in C:\Users\your user name\Music\iTunes to the same folder on your external drive (E:) that contains your media folder. You should now have this:
or something very similar. Now restart iTunes while holding down the SHIFT key. You will see this dialog:
Select "Choose Library ..." and navigate to the folder on your external drive with the content as described above. Select the iTunes Library.itl file and click OK. iTunes will load - check that everything you expect to see is there.
You now have a "portable library", i.e., all your media and the files that iTunes uses to organize them. You can use this in conjunction with any PC running Windows and iTunes (noting limitations regarding your iTunes account and authorizations). As tt2 suggested in his response, before you go any further:
Make a backup of your new portable library to another device.
De-authorize your iTunes account.
Back up everything else you need to retain from the C: drive of your PC (this is beyond the scope of this forum - there's plenty of help out there on various Microsoft sites, etc.). Just remember that once you take the plunge and reformat the C: drive anything that you haven't backed up is gone ...
Once you've reformatted the drive and reinstalled Windows, install iTunes. As befpre, hold down the SHIFT key when you start it up and select the iTunes Library.itl file on your external drive. You can then re-authorize iTunes and be back in business ...

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Hi Gopi,
This is purely depends on the function configuration, which would be done MM consultants. Kindly check with them.
thanks & regards
Kishore Kumar Maram

Adobe Bridge in Photoshop - How to install Bridge and camera raw? And what is it all about?

Hi everyone! I am actually in love with this adobe photoshop. I used PSCS2 before, but later on upgraded to CS4. But I feel tired in upgrading to CS5.
One time, I found a tutorial in youtube about camera raw, and would really want to use it. But I was wondering how to install the camera raw. I believe camera raw is a plugin? so I downloaded the plugin here, installed it in my PS. I downloaded a file Camera Raw.8bi and paste it on my C drive - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS4\Plug-ins\File Formats.
I now am very confused, how will I open it? I do not have adobe bridge! After I installed the camera raw, I opened my PS. I clicked the file>then browse in bridge. I had an error, it's "error 2 photoshop11 undefined". Which is what I thought, I might have done something wrong with installing it.
My question is, do you still need adobe bridge installed in order to use camera raw?
If yes, how does it work? How am I suppose to open camera raw?
If no, how am I going to open camera raw without bridge?
And also, where will I download adobe bridge? I cannot find one here for CS4, only adobe bridge for CS5. I am wondering, is it okay to install adobe bridge CS5 and use it with my PS CS4?
I badly need help!

WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is a set of extensions to HTTP/1.1.
The main difference from FTP as far as I can see is that it allows you to edit documents on a remote web server.
WebDAV was used by the Apple server - MobileMe but is not generally supported by hosting services.
Using WebDAV you can mount a directory locally. This was how iDisk worked on your Mac and you could drag files onto it to upload them to the remote directory.
With WebDAV, a number of users can share a directory which is why its used in local networks but presents security problems when using a remote server.
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