The Official Mac Chat Thread

[JeShUa]

Originally Posted by chibianh

shift-cmd-3 to take the whole screen
shift-cmd-4 to take only certain parts of the screen. you can use the pointer to select what you want, or hit the space bar and you can choose certain elements of the screen.

The ppics will be saved to your desktop.

Cool, what about selecting URL? I always hit apple + D and it wants me to save the page :P.

[JCool]

Originally Posted by mitsukaiSI

first step is open imovie and import all the footage into the program . . . should ask you automatically when you connect your camera then you can piece the footage together and add music and whatever else you fell like doing

ok i did that but I've been having problems with trying to work iDVD. I just don't know how to set up the menu. when i click and drag the Movie clips from iMovie in to iDVD it shows them all as separate movies not one.

[Special Ringpop]

Had a weird problem this morning.

Got to class and turned my new MacBook on. It showed the screen with the "loading" cursor, but when it got to the enter password area, the screen turned black. I went to hit the brightness adjustor, and when I did, it would show the screen briefly before going back to black.

I hard rebooted it. What the hell was that.

[arisenfury]

So I stumped one of your guys' Mac Genius today, thought that was pretty funny, kinda glad the only thing I got from Apple is my iPod Touch... and they can't even fix it!

[FunkPnut]

Originally Posted by Special Ringpop

Had a weird problem this morning.

Got to class and turned my new MacBook on. It showed the screen with the "loading" cursor, but when it got to the enter password area, the screen turned black. I went to hit the brightness adjustor, and when I did, it would show the screen briefly before going back to black.

I hard rebooted it. What the hell was that.

Dude the same thing literally just happened to my PowerBook right before I looked this up!

[FunkPnut]

Originally Posted by arisenfury

So I stumped one of your guys' Mac Genius today, thought that was pretty funny, kinda glad the only thing I got from Apple is my iPod Touch... and they can't even fix it!

I think if you stump a genius, you should win some sort of prize or a 20% discount...

[Special Ringpop]

Originally Posted by FunkPnut

Dude the same thing literally just happened to my PowerBook right before I looked this up!

What the hell happened?

I don't get it .

[arisenfury]

Originally Posted by FunkPnut

I think if you stump a genius, you should win some sort of prize or a 20% discount...

Haha that'd be nice. My Ipod Touch doesn't sync smart playlists if the live updating is turned off. So I either have the playlist automatically update itself with new songs that fit in the parameters and not have it sync to my iPod... or I turn off live updating, have it sync with my iPod and have a smart playlist that is no longer smart. Aside from having no idea what I was even talking about he said he had admitted that he had no idea how to fix it lol.

[FunkPnut]

I've heard there seems to be a lot of bugs w/ smart playlists and live update.

It sounds mainly like a software problem, so I'm a sure an update in the near future will alleviate your pain. Make sure to keep up on your updates and firmware.

Just curious, can you turn off live update and run a manual sync instead?

[arisenfury]

Well the automatic syncing works fine... the live update is say you have the Recently Added playlist, that automatically updates the playlist when a new song is added. I have to disable that automatic updating, otherwise the playlist won't sync onto my iPod Touch. So I then have to turn on automatic updating so the playlist updates itself with all the current songs I've added, then turn it off and then sync the iPod. Or leave it off altogether, in which case I then have to manually add all new songs to the playlist and therefore negate the benefit of having a smart playlist to begin with. So there are definately ways to get around it but it's just annoying as hell. It seemed to be working fine until I got iTunes 13.6, but I've also just updated to 1.1.3 and iTunes 13.7 for the January Apps package and it didn't fix it, although others in the apple.com forums have said it fixed it on theirs... craziness lol.

[FunkPnut]

* head explodes *

LOL!

[arisenfury]

That's pretty much what the guy at the Apple store did, haha.

[damien6669]

Originally Posted by chibianh

shift-cmd-3 to take the whole screen
shift-cmd-4 to take only certain parts of the screen. you can use the pointer to select what you want, or hit the space bar and you can choose certain elements of the screen.

The ppics will be saved to your desktop.

and if you hit control at the same time as these combinations:

ctrl-cmd-shift-3
ctrl-cmd-shift-4

instead of creating a file with the image, it copies it to your clipboard.

a lot of these commands are found in the Keyboard & Mouse System Preference under the keyboard shortcuts tab.

[elementofhoops]

Hey guys! Ive been on 8th for like a year and a half and I had never seen this thread :)
I also am a mac tech and i am in ohio, if anyone has any questions you can also PM me. (I dont work with the ipods or phones, just computers.)
Just bc everyone is giving their computer specs ill give mine:
15 in MBP 2 Ghz Intel Core Duo 2 GB SDRAM, It was free, my work gave it to me :) Free stuff FTW!!!

[damien6669]

I am excited, I am getting a Mac Pro, making it Intel #4 (and I thought I wouldn't like the transition from PPC) So now I have my 2.4GHz MacBook Pro, 1.8 GHz Mini (for the TV) and a 2 GHz MacBook for the wife. It's a nerd paradise at my house.

oh and I can handle iPod questions, I fix Macs during the day, and iPods at night.

[JCool]

whats so different with the new leopard

[Cookstar]

Originally Posted by JCool

whats so different with the new leopard

There are some minor tweaks which I don't pay attention to but my very favorite new addition are the "spaces". Basically, they are like having four different screens you can work from. I usually put my chat windows in one space, internet in another, itunes in another, etc. That way, you don't have all your windows cluttering your screen.


Time Machine is also another new feature. You can back up all your past info on an external hard drive and recall it if you need it later. I don't use this feature though.

[JCool]

thanks that sounds cool, I also like the back-up feature.

[JCool]

ok I was thinking about upgrading my macbook to a macbook pro and was looking on ebay and found this MacBook Pro 15" 2.16 Intel Core 2 Duo, MATTE display - eBay (item 220193877493 end time Jan-29-08 20:12:02 PST)
dose anyone think that this sounds like a good buy?

[cderalow]

Originally Posted by arisenfury

Haha that'd be nice. My Ipod Touch doesn't sync smart playlists if the live updating is turned off. So I either have the playlist automatically update itself with new songs that fit in the parameters and not have it sync to my iPod... or I turn off live updating, have it sync with my iPod and have a smart playlist that is no longer smart. Aside from having no idea what I was even talking about he said he had admitted that he had no idea how to fix it lol.

this is a known bug within the iPhone and iPod touch software and how it handles smart playlists.


As for me, I converted to Mac when they released the first MBP's, so I've got a 15" 2GHz with 2 & 80....

Also in my stable:

iPhone 8GB (Since 6/29/07 6:13pm)
iPod Nano (gen 3) 8GB
iPod Mini (gen 2) 4GB

Airport Extreme (802.11n)
Airport Express x2

Several keyboards, several mighty mice, and a plethora of accessories.



My brother works for Apple Corporate, so I get a nice discount whenever I go to the store, or order something through him.