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Cursing the cursor
I just purchased my first Mac after using Windows for many years. I would like to replace my arrow cursor with something bigger and perhaps with a different picture. How do I do this?—Joe Robertson
Joe, better that I break it to you than a passing stranger in a Wi-Fi coffee shop: most Mac users would no more replace Apple’s elegant black arrow cursor with some pixelated sparkler than we would slap rouge and lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
But que será, será. You can change your Mac’s cursor with the help of Unsanity’s Mighty Mouse ($10). This haxie, or small bit of code written to tweak OS X, allows you to customize the Mac’s built-in cursors, turning your wait cursor into a wiggling mermaid or a purple bouncing alien, for instance. Mighty Mouse lets you choose additional cursor images from sites such as ResExcellence. You can even import cursors designed for Windows XP.
If, after reflection, all you want is a big cursor, change it by going to the Universal Access preference pane, clicking on Mouse, and adjusting the Cursor Size slider.
Mail time
How do I make Apple’s Mail display a 24-hour format for messages that appear in my inbox?—Brian Shin
On the Clock Give an American Mac a 24-hour clock by using the International preference pane’s Customize option. |
You can make this happen through System Preferences. Open the International preference pane, click on the Formats tab, and click on the Customize button next to Times. In the resulting sheet, select Short from the Show pop-up menu. Click on the hour numeral in the text field below to reveal a pop-up menu that begins with 1-12 (see “On the Clock”). Choose 1-24 and click on OK. You’ve now created a Custom region. When you next open Mail, you’ll find that message times are in the 24-hour format.
Maintenance must-haves
After many years of using Symantec’s Norton Utilities, I’ve got to find another diagnostic tool for Tiger. The company’s Web site says that Norton Utilities for Macintosh 8.0.3 is the last version Symantec will release, and that it will not revise the suite for OS X 10.4. What other application has features most like Norton’s?—Dave Brady
There are a variety of diagnostic and repair tools for the Mac, including OS X’s First Aid (part of Disk Utility in /Applications/Utilities), Alsoft’s $80 DiskWarrior 3 ( ), Micromat’s $98 TechTool Pro 4.0.1 ( ), and Prosoft Engineering’s $99 Drive Genius 1.0.1 ( ). DiskWarrior is completely unlike Norton Utilities, but that’s not a bad thing. TechTool Pro and Drive Genius offer features similar to some of Norton’s components. The comparison shakes out this way:
Disk Utility’s First Aid is free, and free is good. You can boot from your Mac OS X installation disc and run Disk Utility to try to repair your startup drive. Doing so isn’t always effective, but it can’t hurt.
DiskWarrior does one thing, but that thing is crucial: the program repairs low-level hard-drive corruption with a skill no other utility can match. Every Mac user should have a copy of it. TechTool Pro, on the other hand, performs many services. It tests your Mac’s hardware components—RAM, processor, and FireWire and USB ports, for example. It also performs many of the tasks Norton Utilities does—repairing corrupt volumes, protecting files from accidental deletion, and recovering data if the drive goes kablooey.
Drive Genius also performs a variety of chores, many of which focus on disk functions. For instance, you can use it to optimize your drive, much as you could do with Norton’s Speed Disk. You can use it to expand or shrink disk partitions without reformatting your hard drive. Drive Genius will also clone volumes and check the integrity of your hard drive. As for Norton Utilities-style repair, in addition to repairing permissions, Drive Genius will attempt to rebuild one of a volume database’s trickier objects, the Catalog B-tree (something Norton never did well). And like Norton, Drive Genius allows you to edit data sectors, something other utilities won’t do.
I wish I could say “Get this one and you’re done,” but I’d be doing you a disservice if I did. All of these utilities have something to offer. If I had to prioritize their helpfulness, I would recommend DiskWarrior for its one really good trick, Drive Genius for its all-around drive-maintenance and data-repair goodness, and finally TechTool Pro for its repair and data-recovery charms.
Making your (Power)Point
I need to create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that includes QuickTime videos for someone who uses Windows. More than one person will use the presentation, so I don’t want to assume they all have QuickTime Player for Windows. What’s the best way to handle this?—Jan Bobbett
Wonderful as Apple’s QuickTime is, it’s not on every Windows PC. To make sure Windows users get the most from your presentations, convert your QuickTime movies to either AVI or MPEG-4 format—both of which will play within a PowerPoint presentation on a Windows computer. Then embed those movies in your presentations.
To convert the movie files, open them in QuickTime Player Pro ($30) and choose File: Export. In the resulting Save Exported File As dialog box, choose either Movie To AVI or Movie To MPEG-4 from the Export pop-up menu.
Movies exported at the default AVI export setting don’t look all that great. To improve their appearance (although you’ll also increase their file size in the process), click on the Options button in the Save Exported File As dialog box, and then click on the Setting button in the Video portion of the AVI Settings window that appears. In the resulting Compression Settings window, move the Quality slider up to High or Best.
Special Export Be kind to your PC-using colleagues. When creating PowerPoint presentations, export embedded QuickTime movies in a format that’s compatible with Windows PCs. |
If you’re using MPEG-4 instead and are unhappy with the look of the default export, click on the Options button in the same Save Exported File As dialog box. In the MPEG-4 Export Settings window, make these changes: choose MP4 from the File Format pop-up menu, and select MPEG-4 Basic from the Video Format pop-up menu (see “Special Export”). If the movie’s frame is too large to fit your presentation, use a smaller image size when you export the movie—change it from 640 by 480 to 320 by 240 for standard QuickTime movies, for example, or to 320 by 180 if it’s a DV movie (DV movies have a different aspect ratio). Doing so will reduce not only the movie’s dimensions but also the amount of storage it requires (thus making your PowerPoint package a little more easily transportable). Set the Frame Rate pop-up menu to Current and the Key Frame option to Automatic.
By default, the Data Rate field is set to 64 Kbps, which is really low if you want to maintain the quality of the original video. You may need to play with settings in this field to get it right. I’ve found that a setting of 1,000 Kbps or higher gives me quality that closely matches the original movie’s. I wouldn’t use such a high rate if I were streaming video across the Internet, because all but the fastest connections would choke, but for a PowerPoint presentation on a hard drive, it’s fine.
Offline site seeing
Is there an easy way for me to download an entire Web site so that I can view its contents even when my Mac is not connected to the Internet? That way, I could jump on my next flight, launch Safari, and then browse the fully downloaded pages.—Tyler Moynihan
Second Site Want to catch up on your reading when you don’t have Internet access? To view just a single Web page offline, use your browser’s File: Save As command. |
There are several ways to suck out the contents of a Web site and store it locally. If you simply desire a single page, use your browser’s File: Save As command to save it as a Web page, or a Web archive in Safari-speak (see “Second Site”). Once the page and its contents download, you can read it when your Mac’s not connected to the Internet.
If you’d like to grab more than just the page you’re viewing, you must turn to other tools, such as Microsoft’s free Internet Explorer. Use this to navigate to the site you want. Then choose File: Save As and make sure Web Archive appears in the Format pop-up menu at the bottom of the Save window. Click on the Options button, select the Download Links option, and tell the program how many levels deep you’d like it to save. For example, two levels would save the home page and any pages on that specific site to which the home page links. Click on OK and then on Save. Internet Explorer will download the Web site. To read it later, just open the Web archive.
Rick Cranisky’s SiteSucker (free [donations accepted]) is another good option. In addition to allowing you to set the number of levels it downloads, SiteSucker lets you queue up sites so you can easily grab a number of them. And then there’s Limit Point Software’s Blue Crab ($25). It offers more-extensive options than Internet Explorer or SiteSucker—for example, you can instruct it to download HTML files only, to skip images, or to grab pages exceeding a certain number of kilobytes. You can even configure it to enter login information for protected sites.
If you want an even more complete solution and are willing to pay for it, check out Soft Chaos’s $80 Webstractor ( )—a utility that, among other things, can automatically capture Web pages as you browse.
Meeting Notes - Apr 21, 2004
X11 Overview & Demo by Pieter Bowman
General InformationX11 successor to X10 developed during the mid 1980s. You used to have to download the source, compile it and then configure it for your needs. X10 and now X11 has grown so much that unless you really know what you're doing, you had get it from a vendor like Apple, don't compile it yourself.
While Sun, DEC, and IBM were the originators, development was carried out by a number of minor players. Development slowed a bit until the xfree86 people started to push it.
X implementations are now available for any platform now including Windows. In the last five years, the X.org Foundation has been the guiding body of future development of X.
Architecture
Architecture of X has always been based on the idea that the window and system should not be tied to the physical machine. Both should be available on a network-wide environment.
This means that the X windowing system is composed of two parts, the client and the server. Traditionally, most are used to "Client" to be the desktop and "Server" locked away in a closet somewhere.
In X11 these rolls are reversed X Server sits on desktop talking to the mouse, or the display, or the keyboard. The client can sit anywhere in world as long as you can communicate with it via TCP/IP and/or DECNET (which is not widely supported anymore).
Architecture of X has a number of critical operating pieces, the Session and Windows Managers together with X Server build up the working environment for the user:
- Session Manager - Logs you in and starts up apps including Window Manager.
- Window Manager - Allows you to interact with system and implements windows menus. (NOTE: X apps will have their own menus within the active window. Its all a part of how the app is generated and run).
There are issues with how X apps "decide" how they look and feel in terms of the fonts and colors used.
Traditionally X apps use X Resources which come in form of a file in a user directory or system file. It can also be based on a set of defaults copied into app or a set of defaults that operate externally to it in some system file. Another location to store resources is in X Server itself.
The X server recognizes font information and passes it onto the clients. X recognizes a broad range of font types including true type and bitmap. Originally only bitmap fonts were recognized. Fonts come out of the system's directory structure of X or the user can specify font directories in their own home directory. To access fonts this way gets to be a bit funky in how the files are distributed through X.
X is integrated to some degree with products like Open GL for higher quality graphics. Pieter has had trouble getting Open GL demos to run so there may be some support issues for X based Open GL apps on Mac OS X.
Security
X is network-centric so security is a big concern. X and X11 security is not exactly boor but its not really all that great. To a certain degree, it is trusted that the network is generally secure. Security is based on either "cookies" or host authentication. The "cookies" are certificate-like but are not validated. In general, host based is pretty good unless multiple users can authenticate and log into the same machine. Basically this creates a situation where any one can technically gain access to X Server.
If someone can make connection to the X Server, they can access any of the events such as mouse movement and keystrokes. Technically, this person can then monitor authorized users' activities behind the scenes. The intruder can monitor keystrokes for passwords or PINs, monitor private work, etc. The intruder can redirect the "focus" of the X application so making it essentially "commandeered" away from its operation by an authorized user.
On a Mac when you open an X11 port you can Firewall that port and it's secured. The security can be broken, however, if two people can log on at the same time. If there are no other active services and its an "isolated" desktop you are relatively secure as X11 runs on one port.
SSH can provide some additional security for doing remote X clients because it supports X11 connection forwarding. Since SSH is encrypted through the network, you can have X connections encrypted without using VPN or similar secured connections.
Buliding X Applications
In the past, this has involved using tools that are quite often OS specific. Newer development tools are designed for greater widespread distribution. They are not as platform or operating system based. Unfortunately, the viability of these tools are not available on Mac OS S but are wanted
Upside: When done well, the app is thing of beauty.
Downside: When done poorly, well... There are certain instances where the app developers are not as "clean" in their planning and in their subsequent development so the operational results can be quite interesting.
Java apps on remote machines have very poor performance. The native version of Maple for OS X can be run on Solaris. When it is run on Solaris and displayed remotely on an X Server, the new Java based GUI has speed and performance issues especially over network.
How about an X native version of emacs running on OS X?
Operation
X apps can be launched from terminal.
X took to the idea that a three button mouse is ideal. Left Click is generally select and copy in one motion. Middle Click is paste. Right Click allows you to extend the cut/copy operation. For these operations, no additional keyboard commands are necessary. Depending on the X apps, in the windows you can combine mouse buttons with meta keys such as the "Control" key for more functionality.
Because X is network-centric, network instability can be a problem. For example, sitting at home with a cable model can get interesting because of latency issues. Overall, a reasonably stable network will work well. It is recommended that users save and save often. Or use X apps that can be programmed to automatically save at regular intervals.
The Window Manager can be configured to run as the foreground app no matter where the mouse pointer is. This means that where ever the pointer is, that area gets keyboard/mouse priority.
X clients want to know where the display is. This is typically set by an environment variable called "display". In order get displays forwarded to remote machines, it sets it up transparently for the user. The user can can also set it up outside SSH by knowing the IP address of remote machine.
On Campus
In a normal campus environment, departments require their students to use specific specialized apps. Because they are specialized, however, they are usually available only in the department computer labs.
This creates a situation where one app is needed by large volume of students in labs that are small and have limited hours. One solution is to run these apps remotely so that they can be accessed either from home or from a larger, general use computer lab.
If departments or programs are requiring that their students use X apps, and they would like them more widely available to the students, please let us know so we can see about having the app distributed in our labs.
Contact us here.
In addition, some departments don't have the funds to run a X Server. They can "use" or "rent" space from another department and then run their software remotely.
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USB Flash Drives Overview by Mikio Moriyasu
USB Flash drives represent one of the hottest trends in microsized portable data storage devices. This shift away from the magnetic storage media found in floppies and Zip disks towards nonvolatile electronically encoded Flash Memory, however, has gone under-the-radar. With several companies manufacturing or marketing them, one has to ask "What are they?" and "How reliable and safe are they?"Mikio's presentation is based on a more detailed evaluation he conducted for the Student Computing Labs Mac Support Group. His complete report is available for viewing on the Mac Managers web site in the "Mac Managers - Documentation" section at: http://www.macos.utah.edu. You can also select from the options listed below:
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TechTool Pro 4 Overview by Scott Doenges
Built from the ground up in Cocoa, TechTool Pro 4 is designed for stable and efficient use with Mac OS X. In addition to its existing suite of repair and diagnostic features, Version 4 features disk optimization, emergency volume creation, and S.M.A.R.T. tools.Scott's presentation is based on a more detailed evaluation he conducted for the Student Computing Labs Mac Support Group. His complete report is available for viewing on the Mac Managers web site in the "Mac Managers - Documentation" section at: http://www.macos.utah.edu. You can also select from the options listed below:
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Big Buy 2004 - Time for people on campus to think about what their hardware requirements are for the next year. Factors to consider:
- The price point/per machine
- The type of machine (Power Mac G5s, iMacs, Laptops, eMacs, etc.)
- Desired features or modifications
- Desired accessories
- The number of machines
- Are people willing to sacrifice a monitor for a better CPU?
- People who need displays: Flat-panel vs CRT
- Are Zip drives still a necessity
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macosxlabs.org Webcast - April
- Subject: RsyncX 2.0
- Presenter: Kevin Boyd, University of Michigan
School of Art & Design, University of Michigan - Moderator: Peter Hoffman, Apple Compute
- Viewing Instructions: Click here for instructions on how to view the webcast archive.
- Location: Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Date: June 20-23, 2004
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- Date: June 28-July 2, 2004
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- Subject: Print Accounting - UniPrint
- Presenter: Pharos Software
- Date: Tuesday May 18th, 2004
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If there is a topic you would like to see discussed at a future Mac Managers Meeting, please let us know here.
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Cirrus creates Lightning-headphone dev kit
MicroMat quietly begins shipping TechTool Pro 4
- updated 07:25 am EST, Mon November 24, 2003
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by MacNN Staff
TechTool Pro 4 ships
"Anyway, the CD I received is version 4.0.1 and I installed it in my PBG4 running OS 10.2.8. I am not planning to update to Panther until the bugs are fixed next year. In the meantime, this version of TTP4 seems updated since the image of the computer they used is the G5. Upon installation and startup the software warned me that I have 30 days to report to MicroMat if the CD is unable to be used as a startup disk. Again, since I'm using 10.2.8 it was able to start my computer without any problems."
:I'm wondering if there are others using Panther and have received their TTP4 in the mail. I hope your readers can report if they are also successful in their end to prepare for others wanting to upgrade to Panther in the near future. I hope this works so I won't have to buy a new TTP4 update CD, again!"
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That's the problem with reselling to existing customers. They always want more, more, more. If you already have TTP3, why do you need a manual for v4?
Save a tree, dude.
I'm awaiting my copy. I hope it works well....
So is this only ready now for Jaguar? Does that mean it won't work on Panther's Journaling File System?
And why are you waiting until next year to upgrade? 10.3.1 just came out, if you're still not satisfied, upgrade when 10.3.2 comes out (soon). I haven't had a problem yet. Just don't use FileVault and everything else will work fine.
In the meantime, this version of TTP4 seems updated since the image of the computer they used is the G5.
Wow, it must have really been updated, if they have an image of the G5 on there. I just figured they were repackaging v3 as v4. Now we know what took so long (they had to wait for the G5 to ship, so they could get one, take a picture of it, and throw it in their software).
Oh, and waiting for the bugs to be 'fixed'? The bugs aren't going to be fixed. Some will, some new ones will crop up. Its an OS. It'll be buggy. (Oh, no problems here, either, with Panther).
Panther has no problems. Users have problems. Don't forget that.
Journaling was part of Jaguar; it just didn't have system GUI access in Client (you had to use terminal or 3rd party GUIs.
The problem with Jaguar and a utility like TTP4 is that there were separate G5 and non-G5 versions of the OS for 10.2.7 and 10.2.8.
I hope the startup CD is based on 10.3. We bought a copy of TTP4 today, and 7 of our 15 Macs are G5s.
TTP4 is fully compatible with both Jaguar and Panther. The product didn't go into GM until after the G5 had been released.
TTP4 is a complete redesign of the program, being OSX native, and incorporating elements of both TTP3 and DriveX. This is much more than just an update of TTP3.
I've been waiting for years to pirate TTP4 after the POS Drive 10 hosed not one but two of my HDs...
It would be nice to have at least one disk utility that actually works with panther. (DW still hasn't been updated yet.)
Don't Drive 10 owners get TTP4 for free?
and I ordered drive 10 a long time ago!
i have a ttp4 key...
i think its lame that they haven't provided online delivery.
i mean they know who we are.
they know who owns ttp4 keys.
anyways i'm looking forward to it :)
It's Jan 8, 2004 and I haven't gotten mine either... I must be the last guy out here waiting... NUMEROUS emails to tech support and info@micromat.com
Those guys must all be at Macworld. What gives, man? Anyone else here still out in the cold?
Now AAPL Stock: The symbol you provided ("AAPL") doesn't appear to be registered
Apple supplier Cirrus Logic has introduced a MFi-compliant new development kit for companies interested in using Cirrus' chips to create Lightning-based headphones, which -- regardless of whether rumors about Apple dropping the analog headphone jack in its iPhone this fall -- can offer advantages to music-loving iOS device users. The kit mentions some of the advantages of an all-digital headset or headphone connector, including higher-bitrate support, a more customizable experience, and support for power and data transfer into headphone hardware. Several companies already make Lightning headphones, and Apple has supported the concept since June 2014. http://bit.ly/29giiZj
The Apple Store app for iPhone, which periodically rewards users with free app gifts, is now offering the iPhone "Pocket" version of drawing app Procreate for those who have the free Apple Store app until July 28. Users who have redeemed the offer by navigating to the "Stores" tab of the app and swiping past the "iPhone Upgrade Program" banner to the "Procreate" banner have noted that only the limited Pocket (iPhone) version of the app is available free, even if the Apple Store app is installed and the offer redeemed on an iPad. The Pocket version currently sells for $3 on the iOS App Store. [32.4MB]
Porsche has added a fifth model of vehicle to its CarPlay-supported lineup, announcing that the 2017 Panamera -- which will arrive in the US in January -- will include Apple's infotainment technology, and be seen on a giant 12.3-inch touchscreen as part of an all-new Porsche Communication Management system. The luxury sedan starts at $99,900 for the 4S model, and scales up to the Panamera Turbo, which sells for $146,900. Other vehicles that currently support CarPlay include the 2016 911 and the 2017 models of Macan, 718 Boxster, and 718 Cayman. The company did not mention support for Google's corresponding Android Auto in its announcement. http://bit.ly/295ZQ94
New features included in the forthcoming watchOS 3 are being tested by Apple retail store employees, including a new activity-tracking feature that has been designed with wheelchair users in mind. The move is slightly unusual in that, while retail employees have previously been used to test pre-release versions of OS X and iOS, this marks the first time they've been included in the otherwise developer-only watchOS betas. The company is said to have gone to great lengths to modify the activity tracker for wheelchair users, including changing the "time to stand" notification to "time to roll" and including two wheelchair-centric workout apps. http://bit.ly/2955JDa
SanDisk has introduced two 256GB microSDXC cards. Arriving in August for $150, the Ultra microSDXC UHS-I Premium Edition card offers transfer speeds of up to 95MB/s for reading data. The Extreme microSDXC UHS-I card can read at a fast 100MB/s and write at up to 90MB/s, and will be shipping sometime in the fourth quarter for $200. http://bit.ly/294Q1If
Apple has advised it will be issuing its third-quarter results on July 26, with a conference call to answer investor and analyst queries about the earnings set to take place later that day. The stream of the call will go live at 2pm PT (5pm ET) via Apple's investor site, with the results themselves expected to be released roughly 30 minutes before the call commences. Apple's guidance for the quarter put revenue at between $41 billion and $43 billion. http://apple.co/1oi1Pbm
Twitter has introduced "stickers," allowing users to add extra graphical elements to their photos before uploading them to the micro-blogging service. A library of hundreds of accessories, props, and emoji will be available to use as stickers, which can be resized, rotated, and placed anywhere on the photograph. Images with stickers will also become searchable with viewers able to select a sticker to see how others use the same graphic in their own posts. Twitter advises stickers will be rolling out to users over the next few weeks, and will work on both the mobile apps and through the browser. http://bit.ly/29bbwUE
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