Software
Rapidweaver 4 hanging/crashing
05/02/09 10:01
Rapidweaver
4
I came across an issue with Rapidweaver 4 last night while trying to update my daughters webpage with photos that we took during Christmas and Novemeber. Every time I tried to publish the site, Rapidweaver would crash and lock up the whole computer, it was basically using 100% of both CPU's and around a GB of memory. The only way that I was able to bring the computer back to life was to ssh into it from my iPhone and reboot it as just killing the process for Rapidweaver didnt fix it.
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I came across an issue with Rapidweaver 4 last night while trying to update my daughters webpage with photos that we took during Christmas and Novemeber. Every time I tried to publish the site, Rapidweaver would crash and lock up the whole computer, it was basically using 100% of both CPU's and around a GB of memory. The only way that I was able to bring the computer back to life was to ssh into it from my iPhone and reboot it as just killing the process for Rapidweaver didnt fix it.
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iPhoto 09 opinion and bug found!
05/02/09 09:59
iPhoto 09
This has been one of the most hyped apps from the new applications that Apple released and also has received most of the attention in the coding department too (except for maybe iMovie?), with some new features added that seem that they could be generally useful for most people. Needless to say I was curious and so I launched this first in order to take a look.
After first launch, a dialogue pops up informing you that you current library needs to be converted to the new format, I'm making the assumption that this allows it to add the new meta-tags for faces and places. The library conversion took only a couple of minutes for me on a library with around 6000 photos, once done the faces process starts running in the background and scanning your photos, this can take a good while though, so you may want to run it overnight or when you dont need your computer for a while. In my case, it told me that it would take almost 2 hours and in reality it took around an hour and 45 minutes, so pretty close.
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This has been one of the most hyped apps from the new applications that Apple released and also has received most of the attention in the coding department too (except for maybe iMovie?), with some new features added that seem that they could be generally useful for most people. Needless to say I was curious and so I launched this first in order to take a look.
After first launch, a dialogue pops up informing you that you current library needs to be converted to the new format, I'm making the assumption that this allows it to add the new meta-tags for faces and places. The library conversion took only a couple of minutes for me on a library with around 6000 photos, once done the faces process starts running in the background and scanning your photos, this can take a good while though, so you may want to run it overnight or when you dont need your computer for a while. In my case, it told me that it would take almost 2 hours and in reality it took around an hour and 45 minutes, so pretty close.
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iWork and iLife arrived
02/02/09 09:56
New iLife and
iWork
I received my discs on Monday this week, they had actually arrived at my parents house a few days earlier but it took a couple of days for my brother to send them to me. Read More...
I received my discs on Monday this week, they had actually arrived at my parents house a few days earlier but it took a couple of days for my brother to send them to me. Read More...
Macbook and Parallels
28/05/08 21:35
Migrating a windows laptop to a
Parallels Virtual Machine Read
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Microsoft multitouch demo in Windows 7
28/05/08 21:33
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/27/microsoft-shows-off-snippet-of-windows-7-at-d6-reveals-multi/
Seems that they ported the software they used in the table to
desktops and laptops. Not a big surprise but still kind of nice to
see where we could be in a couple of years time, though hopefully
this will be a stepping stone to bigger and better things.
OpenDNS provides free filtering
27/05/08 21:42
Im sure that some of you may have
heard of OpenDNS but perhaps like me, you were just using them for
their DNS service.
(OpenDNS provides name servers that contain an index of sorts for sites on the internet so that your computer can find them when you try to access them - at least thats the over simplified version)
I found out though that if you go and register with them for free, you gain access to a whole load of other options, reporting for example, content filtering (you can filter by categories, e.g. Pornorgraphy, Nudity, Religion and so on) or by domain. I think its great for anyone with kids who wants a bit more control over what they are up to online.
As you are making these changes on the OpenDNS server, its quite easy to keep track of things and slightly more difficult (though not impossible) for someone to circumvent. It helps of course if you configure the DNS addresses on your home router and then distribute the IP address to the other computers via DHCP or static DHCP.
Anyways, take a look perhaps some of you will find it useful(?)
(OpenDNS provides name servers that contain an index of sorts for sites on the internet so that your computer can find them when you try to access them - at least thats the over simplified version)
I found out though that if you go and register with them for free, you gain access to a whole load of other options, reporting for example, content filtering (you can filter by categories, e.g. Pornorgraphy, Nudity, Religion and so on) or by domain. I think its great for anyone with kids who wants a bit more control over what they are up to online.
As you are making these changes on the OpenDNS server, its quite easy to keep track of things and slightly more difficult (though not impossible) for someone to circumvent. It helps of course if you configure the DNS addresses on your home router and then distribute the IP address to the other computers via DHCP or static DHCP.
Anyways, take a look perhaps some of you will find it useful(?)
Playing with Twitterific
27/05/08 21:40
Decided to give in and finally try
twitter and see what all of the fuss is about - any of you on
there?
http://www.twitter.com/aproudlove
http://www.twitter.com/aproudlove
Front Row Plugins
20/04/08 21:46
I came across a couple of really
useful Front Row plugins today totally by accident while browsing
for something else.
The first addresses something that I mentioned in a previous post which is the ability to show posters and movie info for files in your movies folder, just as the movie trailers do in Front Row. Its called Sapphire and can be downloaded from here, make sure to check out the screenshots and the manual.
The next plugin(s) are for EyeTV and Front Row, it basically adds menu options in Front Row and EyeTV to allow you to switch between the two gracefully, its called PyeTV and is available from here.
The final plugin allows ads to be skipped in EyeTV recordings but I havent had opportunity to try this yet but it can be found here.
The first addresses something that I mentioned in a previous post which is the ability to show posters and movie info for files in your movies folder, just as the movie trailers do in Front Row. Its called Sapphire and can be downloaded from here, make sure to check out the screenshots and the manual.
The next plugin(s) are for EyeTV and Front Row, it basically adds menu options in Front Row and EyeTV to allow you to switch between the two gracefully, its called PyeTV and is available from here.
The final plugin allows ads to be skipped in EyeTV recordings but I havent had opportunity to try this yet but it can be found here.
Quicktime focus issue - spacebar etc not working
26/03/08 22:13
One issue that Ive came across with
Quicktime (and judging by the number of posts about it that Ive
came across on the internet Im not the only one), is the issue
where Quicktime stops responding to keyboard commands, for example
the spacebar no longer plays or pauses and so on.
It mainly seems to occur if you put a video into fullscreen and then for whatever reason, close fullscreen but still live the window with the video open on the desktop. Afterwards it will not respond to any keyboard commands unless you put it back into fullscreen.
Tabbing between applications until you get back to Quicktime does not resolve the problem, neither does moving it to a different workspace.
Other posts on the internet suggest reinstalling Quicktime by downloading the standalone file from Apple. Although I havent tried this yet, I have found a workaround that seems to fix the issue temporarily.
It appears though, that minimising Quicktime to the dock and then restoring it, is enough to put the focus back on the application.
Update : It seems that my solution may not be as reliable as I first thought, Ive tried it just now and it didnt work... will take another look at it and post anything I find here.
It mainly seems to occur if you put a video into fullscreen and then for whatever reason, close fullscreen but still live the window with the video open on the desktop. Afterwards it will not respond to any keyboard commands unless you put it back into fullscreen.
Tabbing between applications until you get back to Quicktime does not resolve the problem, neither does moving it to a different workspace.
Other posts on the internet suggest reinstalling Quicktime by downloading the standalone file from Apple. Although I havent tried this yet, I have found a workaround that seems to fix the issue temporarily.
It appears though, that minimising Quicktime to the dock and then restoring it, is enough to put the focus back on the application.
Update : It seems that my solution may not be as reliable as I first thought, Ive tried it just now and it didnt work... will take another look at it and post anything I find here.
Noise Ninja
22/03/08 22:15
If you take any photos in higher isos
- say 400 upwards or just in dim light, you should really check out
Noise Ninja, it does an amazing job of removing noise from the
photos. I bought a license for it today as it really impressed me
with what it did for our photos.
Syncserver Crash
22/03/08 22:14
Every time I opened mail.app (under
Leopard 10.5.2), I got a dialogue that syncserver had quit
unexpectedly. I couldnt find anything wrong though and a quick
search on google also didnt turn up anything that seemed to relate
to me. I did see a post about someone getting the error while using
.mac though and this caused me to check my .mac syncing.
Funnily enough it had been disabled which was weird, so I reenabled it and then had to tell it to rewrite the items on .mac with what was on my computer but afterwards it synced ok and also took away my mail.app problem.
Funnily enough it had been disabled which was weird, so I reenabled it and then had to tell it to rewrite the items on .mac with what was on my computer but afterwards it synced ok and also took away my mail.app problem.