Posts by macmad

Hold down the "command" button while selecting songs and you can gather as many as you want.

There are a multitude of ways! Some are free and some cost.
So, first up, free with wired connection. A app included with your OS is image capture. It is more of a image (Photo and Video) traffic cop. It recognizes a video device when it is plugged into your mac. It presents options on what you want to do with you pics, such as select photos to move to iPhoto, aperture, or any other graphic app on your mac.
Lets look at doing it free and wirelessly. Dropbox is a great way of moving ANY files from one device to another. DropBox works on your Mac, iPad, iPhone, and even your PC!
Paid solutions are suppose to make life easy. Well Photosync (1.99) is one of these apps that does exactly that. It allows you to sync photos to and from all of your devices. You can send 1, 10, 100 or all of your photos. It will even let you transfer videos from your camera too! It will allow you to place them in your dropbox.
I really did not want to mention iCloud because it is either on or off and there is no way of moving photos already existing.

I took some video clips with my iPhone. I emailed them to my MacBook. I uploaded them to iMovies. The clips appear upright, but the video plays it sideways. Is there any way to flip the video right side up?

Thanks.

Check out this URL
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/rotate-video-files-mac-pc/
Make sure you scroll to the bottom section of the page.
Don't you just hate it when it is so simple and free on top of it!

Deleting files is a two step process. When you delete a file, it moves it to the trash. Then you must empty the trash. There is software that will empty the trash if it goes over a certain limit. Hazel comes to mind.

Could you please identify your Mac and OS. I am having trouble with the question. What LAN Card. Hardware or software? Are you referring to configuring a LAN network running off of you Mac? Please send more details

There are many ways to create a website. For free.... well, that really depends on what you mean by free. You could take a crash course and learn html code. There are several apps, that will create web pages without any html. These usually retail anywhere from $30 to $80. Mac comes with an app, Iweb, that allows you to create web pages, but you can only publish it if you have a mobile me account.
You can get your own domain, which should only cost you somewhere between $10 to $18 per year. It depends on the domain name (.com .ca .net .org).
Hosting is usually a company that rents you space on their servers to allow people to see your website. The cost can be as low as $5 to several hundreds, depending on what you want. It sounds like you want a relativity simple site so your cost should be in the $5 to $10 range. Contrary to popular belief, your hosting company does not have to be in your area. It can be several thousands of miles away and in different countries. Isn' t the web wonderful, distance doesn't matter although I would recommend you keep it on the same continent.
You do have the option of hosting the website off of your mac. I would only recommend this to someone very experienced in the mac and the web. it takes a lot of work and knowledge to keep the hacking hounds at bay!

The difference between Leopard (10.5.?) and Snow Leopard (10.6.?) is mostly "under the hood". The user interface was hardly touched, but a lot of the old code (PPC) was replaced and the system was overhauled. There are too many sites that go into detail on the changes, including apple. The two main improvements was the size of the install and the performance of the system.
Lion ,10.7 is the new OS coming out, some say by late spring. They have seeded the first build to select developers for testing. This process can take several months and is the way Apple fine tunes their system. Word is that it will have a lot of the ios 4.? look and feel. Time will tell. Personally I hope not.

Stuff missing in my account and/or all my stuff missing. The common thread seems to be that you are booting off of the wrong disk, especially DiFFeReNT.The globe points to a network boot and if unavailable, it will wait. Unplugging the network cable will have it boot to the system drive. Guess what, your files are not there because you are not there! It sounds like you have a big enough shop to have tech support. Did you call them?
Tas, do you have an external drive hooked up to the system and/or several bootable partitions? OSX will not startup from a previous system folder. The previous system folder is created when you do an archive and install option. Check the date of the file and you know when and probably who installed the new system. You are going to have to run software update to get you system up to the latest version.
The archive and install option will not wipe out your user file. Simply do a search for your user name and look at the date of your previous system folder. The one you have is wrong, delete the account using the Save the home folder in a disk image and migrate the one from the previous system folder. Do not trying to copy it as it will not work. That should get you back to where you were. If it isn't, delete the user and create it again and it will ask if you …

Right click on the finder window and it will show several options. Select Change desktop background and it will open up system preference to the Desktop & screen Saver option or go under the apple and select System preferences. The second icon (Desktop & Screen saver) is the one to click on. Pick whatever you like and if you do not see what you want, click on the + button below the selection and you can call up any pic you want. Same thing for the screen saver.

A line of code and no updates for a year. Wow, where do we start. You state that you cannot run Disk Utility. That (hopefully) points to a permission problem. Create another account with administrator privilege and try to run Disk Utility. Should that not work, enable the root account and try again. Should that not work, could be reinstall. It would be nice if you could post the "line of code". We may be able to reverse what you did in terminal. Also, please post the error you get in the system log when you try to run disk utility.
Software updates. You can go onto the apple site and download the latest update. Considering the time lapse, you must be several versions down. Should you take this path, please download the last "combo" system update (Mac OS X 10.5.8 Combo Update). It will have the latest two system updates, but better yet, It will have all the necessary files for your mac. This alone may clear up both of your problems.
These two procedures will not do and damage to your system and may clear up your problems. Please remember to disable root after you finish (Type enable root in help on how to do)!

ps Still like to see the "line of code"

I did a quick link and found it one ebay. Item #330443832387. It is listing at $102.50. Wether you go after this one or not , please keep in mind that you must make sure that it is "Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Retail Universal Install DVD".

Microsoft dropped support for IE on the mac platform I believe in 2004. That would be back in the days of Panther. You state that you are using a apple pro mouse (magic mouse?), so your mac should be rather new. The only way you are going to get IE to work is to Use bootcamp and install windows or use Parallels or Vmware packages.
The mouse is fully configurable (OS 10.6.2) in system preferences>hardware>mouse. I am not sure what you mean by "apple Pro mouse". Do you mean "magic mouse" ie wireless, or do you mean standard mouse ie USB.
Should it be a standard mouse, I would like to know if it has always acted in this manor or is is something recent. I have found that one of the reasons that a mouse misbehaves is the surface that it is on. It should not be a thick piece of glass as it can refract the light or a red surface as it would absorb on not reflect the light. On the wireless side, try replacing the batteries. Also, because it is a bluetooth device, re-pair it (re-sync it).

An OSX server truly kicks butt! The server along with the OS supply all the necessary solution that you might need, but this is on a business level and can run into the tens of thousands of dollars.
I think you want to know if you can run small scale on your desktop. Most of what you need is already on your system and in most cases, anything you need can be found free with a bit of looking and implementing X11, which is provided on you install disk. Yes, it too will kick butt on a smaller scale too!

Spotlight works great for quick searches, but I don't think that spotlight is what you are looking for. Try search (apple f). This utility will allow you to create any search criteria and either save it to your finder window or place it in a folder so your finder window does not get too cluttered.