Windows user over here, i have a question

Hey everyone i have a question. Is it possible to install Mac OS x 10.4 on a windows computer. as the primary operating system. Or could i bye a new harddrive and install mac os. I really want a mac but i dont want to fork out 1000 bucks. thanks for reading.

Section 2a of the Mac OS X licence agreement:
"2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time."
http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/macosx104.pdf
No need to spend $1000 on a new Mac. A Mac Mini can be had for $599.

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Hi everyone
I bought a macbook last year with leopard and realized that im actually much happier with my macbook then when I use my desktop windows machine.
Now I have been contemplating selling my desktop computer and purchasing a imac 24" with installing windows using bootcamp. Now my question, is there a big computing difference between the macbook I purchased last november with the 24" macbook. Now I use photoshop, office, and plenty of other programs almost daily. Does it make sense to have a macbook and an imac?

Hi Red
It doesn't have to make sense to any one but you. I have three macs right now. I have my own business and I use one for accounting and banking. This one is not available for use to friends, guests and family. One is used for fun, surfing, music for my hubby, some graphics, taking reservations. My MBP is used when I don't want to be stuck in the office, my music and photos video, and traveling. This all makes sense to me, but many people do all that on one computer. I feel safe that if one computer has a problem...my entire life is not disrupted. I used to do everything on one computer, and when it gave me problems or had to go in for service I went into panic mode. Not anymore.
I believe that your purchase of a imac 24" will make you very happy, especially if you are using it to replace a regular pc. As for the difference between it and your macbook...besides size...I suggest pulling up the specs for both on a site like everymac.com and compare them side by side.
There's my two cents worth.
sj

Newbie here, i have a question, i was looking for but not sure how to ...

hi guys, i have a question, hope i'm not doing something wrong here...
well i was wondering if i put all my songs, on itunes, and than transfer to ipod... could i erase all the tunes i have on my computer? i mean, i would love to be able to free the space on my hard drive...
I was wondering if i also remove the songs from my itunes, it would erase the songs on my Ipod as well?
thanks in advance.

You can delete songs from your iTunes/computer hard drive after transferring them to the iPod, and for this you need to set your iPod to manage the songs manually.
However, this is an extremely risky option because when (and not if) there comes a time to restore your iPod, which is a very common fix for iPod problems, then all the music would be erased. If you no longer have the music in iTunes (or any other back up), then all that music would be lost.
What if the iPod were lost/stolen/needed repair? Again, the music would lost. I strongly recommend a back up, and if computer hard drive space is in short supply, you should seriously consider an external hard drive. They are not expensive, and the cost is well worth it when compared to the loss of all your precious music.
At the very least back up your music to either cd or dvd before deleting it, particularly any purchased music/videos, as this would have to be bought again if it were lost. See this.
How to back up your media in iTunes.

Hello everyone. I'm a newbie here and have some questions.

Hi my name is Gary and I am a newbie to Flash player and what it is I can do and not do with it. Actually, I have some time on my hands since I got layed off and I haven't a clue what I am doing and could use some help getting started.
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Internet Explorer 8 version 8.0.6001.18702 not sure what bit version but I'm thinking 32 but.
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Z28Gary

Hi Guys...are these not answerable questions or is the right person to help me not seeing my post yet? Just curious.
I have been up most of the night reading many, many post but haven't yet stumbled on anything that can help with my questions.
How about if I start with this question.
Can anyone recommend a program I can download to download .flv and .swf files to my hard drive?
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New user - Guess what, I have speed questions!

So, Inifinity went in yesterday as planned. All good there.
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However, when I use BT Speedtest I get the following:
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So my questions are as follows!
- Why does BT speed test rate that much higher than anything else?
- What should I believe in terms of speed?
- Why are my actual downloads so much slower than they were with Be Internet which was a copper based service
- Has turning my modem off caused an issue?

That router is a cable router, it doesn't have a modem built in. The downloads are from HTTP and FTP, I'm testing using major sites like Microsoft, Apple, Ubuntu and various other sites where I've seen big speeds from before.
These are the tests I've done, all from a wired connection direct to the Home Hub
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http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/ gave 7.5 down and 8 up
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Meanwhile BT.speedtest gave the following:
1. Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Download Speed
29690 Kbps
0 Kbps
37132 Kbps
Max Achievable Speed
> Download speedachieved during the test was - 29690 Kbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speedsis 12000-37132 Kbps .
Additional Information:
IP Profile for your line is -37132 Kbps
2. Upstream Test: -provides background information.
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0 Kbps
10000 Kbps
Max Achievable Speed
>Upload speed achieved during the test was - 8153 Kbps
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How do I zip file folders to send to Windows users? They can never open!

How do I zip file folders to send to PC users, they always have problems and can't open.

Are you trying to use one of the stuffit formats (like .sitx as you said) or do you actually want to make a .zip file which would be more logical if you are giving it to a windows user (unless they too have stuffit to stuffit expander of course)?
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As I initially mentioned if you have stuffit and the windows receiver has stuffit (or stuffit expander) I don't know why there would be a problem creating a stuffit file on a mac and expanding it on windows (ignoring any possible problems introduced in the method of transmission).

HI i am user for InDesincc TrialVersion now. i have serious question for all guys in here. at first i installed Indesigncc as korean language but now i need to indesigncc english language installation. and then now i cant translate and changing korean lan

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First of all, uninstall it with the uninstaller.
Then:
Install the ENGLISH version.
Change the language in the CC app to Korean.
Install the Korean version. (DON't uninstall the English version)
Change back the langauge in the CC app to English.
When your OS is running in English, InDesign will run in English with Korean functionality added, if your OS is running in Korean it will take the Korean User Interface, so let your OS run in English.
Every installer language will add needed plugins for the work with that language. E.g. If I install Hebrew, I get RTL functionality in German version, only if I would change the OS language it would change the language of InDesign, InDesign takes always as UI language the language of the OS if available, if not (in your case you have uninstalled English before), it takes any version which is available in the order of languages specified in the OS.
If you need to run your program in a different language than the OS but you have installed it in the language of the OS it becomes more difficult. You would have to use some system tools which are able to force a program to open with a different language. Most of those tools are freeware.

LONG TIME FREEHAND USER, I HAVE A QUESTION

Hey gang, Like the post says I'm a loooong time FreeHand user and I love it and I'm finally starting to realize that it may be gone for good (wipes tear away) Recently I've been trying to learn Illustrator and there are certainly things I like (transparancies, LivePaint, Shape Builder tool, Variable Width tool) There are things I like way better in FreeHand (live manipulation of stars and polygons, simpler tools for beizer curves, 3D effects are live and don't require a secondary window, type on a path is much easier) But I'm not trying to start a "which is better" fight. I do have a question about pdf export from Illustrator though:
Recently I had to send a client a pdf for review. It had 2 placed high rez jpegs in it. I exported it from Illustrator and it ended up being 25MB. Way too large for me to email. So I opened the same file in FreeHand and exported to pdf and it was under 3MB. My FreeHand files have always been much smaller than my Illustrator files, but this big of a difference almost makes me thing I'm doing something wrong. How can I get my pdf's exported from Illustrator to be a smaller file size comparable to my FreeHand pdf's?
Thanks again!

There are things I like way better in FreeHand...
live manipulation of stars and polygons
Geometric primitives, otherwise known in the old days as LBOs (Lines, Boxes, Ovals, but includes arcs, stars, polygons, etc.) in Illustrator have never been created as special objects with live geometric parameters (corner radius, number of points/sides, angular sweep, etc.) as they are in just about every other program on the planet. In Illustrator, they are just created as lame ordinary paths. One of many very very basic standard functions taken for granted everywhere except in Illustrator.
...simpler tools for beizer curves...
More precisely, the archaic and cumbersome interface Illustrator applies to selection (in general, not just paths) in combination with its unnecessarily tedious multi-tool routines for manipulating Bezier paths, in combination with its inconsistent interface display logic. FreeHand's interface for this remains best-of-class. Illustrator's remains worst-of-class. Everything else is somewhere in between.
…3D effects are live and don't require a secondary window…
Illustrator's 3D Effect is an entirely different featue from FreeHand's 3D Extrude. Illustrator's 3D Effect actually calculates 3D geometry; it builds an actual 3D model. FreeHand's 3D Extrude is an arguably clever, but strictly 2D "perspective" kind of construction. There is no actual 3D involved in FreeHand's 3D Extrude feature.
As for the modal dialog: Illustrator is chock full of them. One of the dead giveaways of an archaic, outdated program. So 1980s. But the one in 3D Effect arguably makes sense, because 3D Effect is a plug-in which actually is a subset of the functionality of an entirely separate and discontinued program (Adobe Dimensions).
…type on a path is much easier…
Just wait. That's just the tip of the Illustrator text-handling iceberg.
…a pdf…ended up being 25MB.
This is all part of a mostly smoke-and-mirrors marketing ploy that Adobe (owner of Illustrator, PostScript, and creator of PDF) perpetrated upon the industry a decade or so ago in which it proudly proclaimed "PDF is now Illustrator's native format!"
It's a semantics game in which Adobe basically tries to redefine commonly-understood terms like "native" and "file format." In fact, only the basic constructs of Illustrator objects are understood by PDF. For practical purposes, all the former ballyhoo about 'Illustrator and PDF being the same thing' boils down to this:
By default, when you save an Illustrator file, Illustrator writes an entirely separate version of the content as PDF and "tucks it away" inside the resulting file. That's one large chunk of what makes Illustrator's files look so inappropriately large. Other Adobe programs read the PDF content and ignore the actual AI-native content. So, for example, InDesign's interface scheme pretends that it can place an Illustrator file. It's really just placing the PDF content that is tucked away inside an Illustrator file. Save that "very same AI file" with the PDF Compatibility option turned off, though, and InDesign will not be able to place it.
Inversely, Illustrators interface scheme now pretends that it can Save a PDF as opposed to the normally-understood meaning of exporting a PDF. All this means is that by default, Illustrator writes into the resulting PDF an entirely separate version of the content as Illustrator native objects and "tucks it away" inside the resulting file. So again, you end up with an absurdly bloated PDF. Programs other than Illustrator read the PDF content and ignore the actual AI-native content. Save that "very same PDF file" with the Maintain Illustrator Editability option turned off, though, and when you open it again later with Illustrator, you'll find that everything has been dumbed-down to the simpler and more basic constructs that PDF actually handles, contained in a bunch of (often nested) clipping paths. In commonly-understood language, you have not "opened" that PDF; you've imported it.
It's similar to what Macromedia did with PNG and Fireworks. Fireworks doesn't even give its native files a unique file extension. It's "just" PNG. But in commonly-undertood terms, it's not just PNG. The PNG format was written to accommodate a mechanism by which a program that writes the PNG can "tuck away" or "comment out" or "embed" anything its own content. So when Macromedia built Fireworks it just built it to write all its own native stuff (for example, its vector paths) in that "embedded" region of the file, and still save the file as a PNG. So—PNG being the raster image format that it really is—someone uses a raster program (Photoshop, etc.) to open a PNG that some unsuspecting Fireworks user created thinking it's a vector/raster metaformat (after all, PNG is Fireworks's "native" format, right?). The Photoshop user makes some minor edit and saves the PNG. The Fireworks user opens the file and wonders where all his Fireworks-native vector objects went.
Adobe, of course, acquired Macromedia, discontinued the vector program with which it could never functionally compete, and kept the web-centric drawing/painting program Fireworks. But of course Fireworks didn't handle the smoke-and-mirrors the way Adobe did with Illustrator. So now, in the most recent versions of Photoshop, you receive an alert when you open a PNG that says something like "Contains Fireworks content that will be lost when you Save this file." Real elegant, huh?
Such nonsense and confusion is what results when programmers are pushed by marketing to over-insulate the click-and-drag users from what is really going on.
JET

I'm a beginner of CS3 and a mac user, here I got a question need some help.

Hi All Masters,
I'm a beginner of CS3 and a mac user, here I got a question looking for some help.
Does anyone know there's a work for editing the photo to painting styles such as watercolor painting, oil painting, pastel drawing, colored pencil or pencil sketching in Adobe serials ?
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The best overall art styles plugin for PS is probably AlienSkin's SnapArt. I'd say their filters are a cut above Photoshop's which are old and have never been updated.
http://www.alienskin.com/snapart/snapart_examples.aspx
That being said, the best painterly interpretations of photographs I've ever seen are done with Painter.
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1166553885783#tabview=tab0
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I recently spent about a week organizing and getting info correct on all my "millions" of songs. All of my music is in my itunes music folder, and organized.
I went over to my wife's windows user profile, and on itunes the library was incomplete. so i used the "add folder to library" function, to update her library to include all of the songs in the itunes music folder. It worked fine. but when i went back to my windows user profile, i got the "original file could not be found" message, on the majority of my songs. as a quick fix I deleted my library and used the "add folder to library" function, to update.
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the files don't move, the just are not recognized by itunes on more than one "side" of windows.
it goes back and forth like this.
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If I understand correctly, your library file is the good one.
The default path in XP is
C:\Documents and Settings\ username \My Documents\My Music\iTunes
Try this article about multiple libraries, and see if you can open your library in her account:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin/7.6/en/15502.html
You will need to brwose to the path in your account. She needs enough windows privileges to read/write it.
She'll need full access if you're on Vista, and it will be a sightly different path.

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All the cd's I have bought over the years, have all been uploaded into iTunes on my Windows PC. I have tried just copying my iTunes folder across to my new iMac, but it doesn't recognise all of the music (but it does recognise some?). Can someone please tell me the best way to transfer my iTunes library from my PC to my iMac?
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Copy the entire /My Music/iTunes/ folder from your PC to /Music/ on your Mac.

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how do i share then? can she upload music if we share it somehow?
If so how??
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