By: The Philosophical Fish|28 July, 2009|Categories: Mac-Attack!|Tags: mac
NOTE: Upgrading to Snow Leopard broke the ability to perform this action as the option to save as a plugin is gone. If you are running Snow Leopard and want to do this, go to this blog post for instructions. I have been cleaning and organizing information on my Mac (shocking, I know) and I found that I wasn’t getting…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|24 July, 2009|Categories: Mac-Attack!|Tags: computer . mac . photography
I’ve played around with this for a couple of years now, but I’ve only switched to the Mac in the last year and geotagging has been trying my patience ever since. I used to use Trips and Pics ont eh PC, but the software doesn’t run on the Mac OS. Of course a query to the software manufacturer merely resulted…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|23 July, 2009|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: computer . mac
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I was asked for a pdf archive of my recent course presentations…”sure, no problem”. Except that I had just switched to Keynote and it didn’t print 6 slides to a page the same way Powerpoint does…so after a little digging, I found out how to do it and have copied that information here from another blog as a reminder to…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|22 June, 2009|Categories: Mac-Attack!|Tags: computer . mac
I bought the first Mac 10 months ago…the laptop 7 months ago. The love affair has not ended. My Toshiba laptop has becomes Kirk’s machine (for the most part, although from time to time I still need it for odd things…like…ohhhh, taxes…) Last night the Toshiba (and I might add that this is a very high end, very expensive Toshiba…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|21 April, 2009|Categories: Mac-Attack!|Tags: computer . mac
OK, I’m annoyed by this tax season. The first annoyance was discovering that there is no tax software for the Mac. No QuickTax, No UFile. Both companies say “We serve the Mac Community well through our online tax software” I don’t mind NetFiling. In fact I think it’s great. But I’m leery about actually doing my tax preparation and storing…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|14 November, 2008|Categories: Mac-Attack!|Tags: computer . mac
At least once a day I send a message (now using iChat rather than MSN!) to Kirk telling him that I love my Mac. Why? A number of other reasons: #1. It just works! #2. It’s not Windows! #3. The ton of free and really useful applications out there. For example:
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|29 September, 2008|Categories: Mac-Attack!|Tags: computer . mac
Oh I love my new Mac! Why did I wait so long. Well, the fact that I have two virtually new computers could probably be one reason…but the headaches just didn’t justify the continued support of the PC based system. No, I am a convert. I’ve hit a few snags. My Creative Zen Vision won’t run the same way, the…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|17 September, 2008|Categories: Mac-Attack!|Tags: computer . mac
OK, I’ve done it. I ordered a Mac! Now I am impatiently awaiting its arrival and frantically trying to find replacement software for a few programs. I think I have it mostly ironed out, I guess I’ll find out when it arrives finally. Probably the funniest thing is that everyone who finds out I am switching says one of two…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|09 September, 2008|Categories: Mac-Attack!|Tags: computer . mac
So here I stand, on the precipice of a monumental decision. PC or Mac. I’ve been a PC user from the earliest days of the Tandy 1000 dad brought home. That machine didn’t have a hard drive, it used a cassette deck to run and record information! The first time I saw colour on a computer screen was a brief…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|06 May, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: computer . mac
I always wonder how much information people lose because they don’t back up important files and pictures. I’ve seen colleagues lose valuable data and I’ve lost things in the past. As a result I’m relatively anal about backing up things. I regularly back up my photos, music, important work files etc. They go to a variety of places.All my pictures…
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