Posts Tagged ‘Snow Leopard’

Rotating movies in Quicktime

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

You recognize this situation? Shooting a vid with your point an shoot or iPhone, and instead of holding it in landscape you capture the vid in portrait. No worries!!, here is how to simply correct this.

First of all, open Quicktime 7 on your Mac, then:

  1. open your movie
  2. goto the ‘movie’ menu and down to ‘get movie properties’
  3. select ‘video track’ on the left side of the pop up menu that appears
  4. then on select ’size’ on the right hand side of that menu
  5. you can then rotate, adjust size etc. with the buttons on the bottom of that menu and preview in the main window
  6. in the ‘file’ menu select ‘export’ and choose the file format, codec etc that you want.
  7. or just save!

Simple enough for you?

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Startup key combinations for Intel-based Macs

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Today I needed to dump my Macintosh HD to an external HD using Carbon Copy Cloner. For backup issues I needed to boot from the external HD afterwards. These handy boot options helped me pick the right one. Note these options are for Intel Macs only!

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Run your Lightroom 2 in 64 bit mode

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

If you are  using Lightroom on a 64 bit capable Mac you will be glad to know the latest update to Snow Leopard (10.6.2) fixes the bug that crippled the sending of multiple photos from Lightroom to Photoshop for editing. Previously, if you selected 3 or more photos in Lightroom and tried to send them to Photoshop for panorama stitching, HDR merging or opening as layers Photoshop would open but no photos would appear. The short term fix for this was to run Lightroom in 32 bit mode and all functionality for sending to Photoshop was restored. The downside being that you couldn’t run Lightroom in 64 bit mode.

So, install the 10.6.2 update from Apple, then right-click on the Lightroom icon in your Applications folder and uncheck the Open in 32 bit mode box, then launch Lightroom and give it a test drive. You should be back in business!

Courtesy from Lightroomers

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Mac OS X v10.6: About Wake on Demand

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

A short post about my experiences with the new Snow Leopard feature Wake on Demand. I found out that my 2007 MacBook Pro and Macbook were not visible when they were in Sleep Mode. According to Apple, Laptop Computers should also be visible in Finder, even if they are in Sleep Mode. So what is the deal here, after some research I found out that these MacBooks do not support the new feature, when they are connected to the local LAN wirelessly. They should be connected by ethernet, which isn’t very useful for Laptops with 802,11N onboard. So how can you check if your MacBook is able the use this new feature. Do the following:

  1. Open System Profiler (located in /Applications/Utilities).
  2. In the Network section, select AirPort.

If you see “Wake On Wireless: Supported”, your Mac supports Wake on Demand when connected to a wireless network and registered with the Sleep Proxy Server. If you do not see this entry, the Mac will only Wake on Demand when connected to your network with an Ethernet cable.

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Apple WWDC 2009: New iPhone, new MacBooks, Snow Leopard

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Check this spot for  live coverage of Apple’s (AAPL) World Wide Developers Conference.

Read this information about Snow Leopard, Worlds most advanced software! Snow Leopard is available in september 2009.

Also:

Apple: Next Mac OS X unlocks chip power

SAN FRANCISCO–Apple wants Mac OS X to do a better job dealing with the new directions that Moore’s Law has taken computer chips.

At its Apple Worldwide Developer Conference here, Craig Federighi, vice president of Mac OS engineering, shed light on technology called Grand Central Dispatch that’s designed to make Mac OS X 10.6, called Snow Leopard, take better advantage of multicore processors and graphics processors. More here…..

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Apple Is Approaching a Defining Moment

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

 The NYT has an interesting article today regarding the coming three months at Apple. It states that Apple watchers and enthusiasts are positive about the new (possible) products, to be launched in the months to come (eg the new iPhone, iPhone OS 3.0, the Snow Leopard OS and a Apple Style NetBook). Here is an excerpt from the article:

“Come Wednesday, it will be Apple’s turn to discuss its results for the first three months of 2009. But among the crowd of Apple watchers, the discussion has been simmering for months, with the tone shifting from pessimism about recession-whacked sales to cautious optimism…………….”


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Will Snow Leopard Be On Display At Macworld?

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Now that Apple has revealed CEO Steve Jobs won’t be giving his traditional keynote at next month’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco and after this year the company will be pulling out of the event altogether, it’s tempting to assume that Apple won’t be coming out with any major news at the event.But Thursday, The Guardian (U.K.), citing sources close to Apple that claim development of OS X 10.5.6 Snow Leopard is progressing ahead of schedule, suggested Apple could use the Macworld pulpit to show off the upcoming version of OS X.

Two new technologies in Snow Leopard have garnered the lion’s share of attention since Apple first started talking about OS X 10.5.6 in June: Grand Central, which adds support for multicore processors and parallel computing; and OpenCL, which lets applications tap into unused GPU computing power.

Some Apple resellers have speculated that these technologies could help Apple capture a larger share of the enterprise computing market. According to Forrester Research, Mac business adoption stood at 4.2 percent at the end of 2007.

Parallel processing will be difficult for Apple to sell, but it’ll give users snappier performance across the board in terms of moving around files, launching applications and using system utilities, according to solution providers.

Larry Stram, CEO of Mac Resource, a Huntsville, Ala.-based Apple reseller, doesn’t see parallel computing having a huge impact in the consumer market, but says it’s fast gaining favor in government and research sectors.

“Computers are so fast now that most consumers don’t really need the speed behind parallel processing,” said Stram. “But for Apple, parallel processing in OS X could represent a real marketing advantage over other consumer-based off-the-shelf operating systems, like Windows,” Stram said.

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