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FYI: Mac OS X 10.6.3 - Update Released
by Doug Hamilton 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

Today Apple released their 10.6.3 maintenance updates for both client and server. Here are the details... Mac OS X 10.6.3 update (client) http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4014 Mac OS X 10.6.3 update (server) http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4015 Cheers, Doug

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FYI: Apple Tech Series - Client Management: Apple Remote Desktop
by billing 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

> > > Apple Tech Series - Client Management: Apple Remote Desktop > Thursday, March 25 2010 9:30AM to 4:00PMAdd to iCal > You've been invited to an event > Please join us for a workshop on how to manage Macs on your Network. The objective is to help you and your organization discover and better understand Apple Remote Desktop as an important tool to efficiently manage, control and inventory Macs that are in your labs and classrooms. > > Please use the reply-to address in this e-mail to register for the event. > > > Holiday Inn - Winnipeg South > > 1330 Pembina Highway > Conference Theatre Room > Winnipeg, MB R3T 2B4 > > Get Directions > > > Copyright © 2010 Apple Inc. 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014. > All Rights Reserved / Keep Informed / Privacy Policy >

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Aperture 3 - Released
by Doug Hamilton 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Hello, Apple released Aperture version 3.0 yesterday (9th Feb). We've since received our educational pricing and are now taking orders; the Aperture 3.0 academic price is $109.95 + plus applicable taxes. Here is the Aperture product page maintained by Apple. http://www.apple.com/aperture/ Here is the Aperture tutorial page, also maintained by Apple. http://www.apple.com/aperture/how-to/ Regards, Doug ------------- Doug Hamilton, BA, MA, APP Senior Computer Consultant Computers-on-Campus; Univ. of Manitoba 204-474-6196 (Ph.) 204-474-7556 (Fax) http://www.umanitoba.ca/bookstore/

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FYI: Migrate a Time Machine backup
by billing 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

...from: http://www.macworld.com/article/146085/2010/02/migratebackups.html?lsrc=nl_… Feb 5, 2010 8:00 am Migrate a Time Machine backup Move to a larger disk without losing your existing backups by Joe Kissell, Macworld.com If you’ve been using Time Machine for backups, there may come a time when you outgrow your backup disk. It’s easy enough to plug in a larger disk or buy a Time Capsule (or a larger Time Capsule) and choose that as your new Time Machine destination, but doing that means starting over. If you want to move to a larger disk while maintaining the continuity of your backups, you can. It just means taking quite a few steps. PEOPLE WHO READ THIS ALSO READ: Build your own home media server iPhone loses market share, but the devil is in the details Bugs & Fixes: Apple admits, fixes iTunes 'remember password' bug Rotate user images in many OS X apps Five System Preference tweaks everyone should know Lithium-ion battery life could reach 20 years Recent Working Mac Posts Feb 8 Get quick access to recently used items Feb 5 Migrate a Time Machine backup Feb 3 Troubleshoot your DNS Working Mac home View all Macworld blogs Move your backups to a new Time Capsule To move your backups from a local disk to a Time Capsule, do the following. Set up your new Time Capsule (according to Apple’s instructions), but leave your current backup disk mounted in the Finder. If possible, connect your Mac to your Time Capsule using an Ethernet cable, which will speed up the transfer process considerably. Open the Time Machine pane of System Preferences, click on Select Disk (or Change Disk, in Leopard), and select your Time Capsule disk as the destination. Click on Use For Backup. Choose Back Up Now from the Time Machine menu in your Mac’s main menu bar and allow Time Machine to begin backing up your Mac to the Time Capsule. Once the Time Machine preference pane shows that the program has finished preparing and is actively copying data, turn Time Machine off by doing clicking the On/Off button in the Time Machine pane of System Preferences. Select your Time Capsule in the sidebar of any Finder window and double-click on the folder inside it (which may be named “Data” or “Backups”) containing your Time Machine backups. If the disk doesn’t mount automatically, click on Connect As, and supply your user name and password if prompted to do so. This folder should contain a single disk image, which holds your recently aborted Time Machine backup. Double-click on this disk image to mount it in the Finder. Open Disk Utility (in /Applications/Utilities). In the list on the left, select your local Time Machine backup volume and click on the Restore tab. Drag your local backup volume (the indented volume name, not the disk name) from the list on the left into Disk Utility’s Source field. Drag the mounted disk image (named “Time Machine Backups”) from the list on the left into Disk Utility’s Destination field. Make sure the Erase Destination checkbox is selected, as it should be by default. Click on Restore, and click on Restore again to confirm. Now be prepared to wait while Disk Utility copies the files—this process could take hours or even days. When the restoration is finished, quit Disk Utility and eject the disk image from your Time Capsule. You can then turn Time Machine back on, and your backups should proceed normally. If you’re moving from a smaller Time Capsule to a larger one, you’ll follow essentially the same steps, except that you should connect both Time Capsules at the same time, using the old one as the source and the new one as the destination. To switch from one Time Machine destination, or turn Time Machine on or off, use the Time Machine pane of System Preferences. Move your backups to a larger local backup disk If you want to relocate your Time Machine backups to a larger (but still local) backup drive, do the following: Open the Time Machine pane of System Preferences and turn off Time Machine. Make sure both your current backup disk and your new disk are connected and mounted in the Finder. Open Disk Utility (in /Applications/Utilities). In the list on the left, select your new disk (the topmost icon, not any indented volume names) and click on the Partition tab. From the Volume Scheme pop-up menu, choose 1 Partition. Click on Options and select either GUID Partition Table (if you’re using an Intel-based Mac) or Apple Partition Map (for a PowerPC-based Mac). Click on OK. Enter a name for your new backup volume (your choice), make sure the Format pop-up menu is set to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and click on Apply. Warning: this erases the entire disk! Click on the Restore tab. Drag your current local backup volume (the indented volume name, not the disk name) from the list on the left into Disk Utility’s Source field. Drag your newly attached and partitioned disk from the list on the left into the Destination field. Make sure the Erase Destination checkbox is selected, as it should be by default. Click on Restore, and click Restore again to confirm. Now be prepared to wait while Disk Utility copies the files—this process could take hours or even days. When the restoration is finished, quit Disk Utility. Return to the Time Machine preference pane, click on Select Disk (or Change Disk, in Leopard), and select your new disk as the destination. Time Machine backups should then proceed normally. Joe Kissell is the senior editor of TidBits and author of the e-book Take Control of Mac OS X Backups.

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Podcast Producer FREE 2-Day Seminar
by Doug Hamilton 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hello, There will be a FREE 2 day seminar on Apple's Podcast Producer at Holiday Inn Winnipeg South on March 2nd and 3rd (9:00am - 4:30pm on both days). The presenter is Bruce Hough (Consulting Engineer) from Apple Inc. Podcast Producer is a complete, end-to-end solution for encoding, publishing, and distributing high-quality video (including podcasts) — ideal for university lectures, presentations, employee training and more. For further details please see this link, http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/podcast-producer.html TO REGISTER, please follow this link (also contains a syllabus of this seminar). http://www.apple.com/ca/chatterbox/09/11/podcast_producer_ce/Winnipeg.html Regards, Doug ------------- Doug Hamilton, BA, MA, APP Computers-on-Campus; Univ. of Manitoba 204-474-6196 (Ph.) 204-474-7556 (Fax) http://www.umanitoba.ca/bookstore/

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INTEREST: Microsoft’s Creative Destruction by an ex-Microsoft VP
by billing 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

...from: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/opinion/04brass.html?th&emc=th OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Microsoft’s Creative Destruction By DICK BRASS [Dick Brass was a vice president at Microsoft from 1997 to 2004.] Published: February 4, 2010 San Juan Island, Wash. Maye Webb AS they marvel at Apple’s new iPad tablet computer, the technorati seem to be focusing on where this leaves Amazon’s popular e-book business. But the much more important question is why Microsoft, America’s most famous and prosperous technology company, no longer brings us the future, whether it’s tablet computers like the iPad, e-books like Amazon’s Kindle, smartphones like the BlackBerry and iPhone, search engines like Google, digital music systems like iPod and iTunes or popular Web services like Facebook and Twitter. Some people take joy in Microsoft’s struggles, as the popular view in recent years paints the company as an unrepentant intentional monopolist. Good riddance if it fails. But those of us who worked there know it differently. At worst, you can say it’s a highly repentant, largely accidental monopolist. It employs thousands of the smartest, most capable engineers in the world. More than any other firm, it made using computers both ubiquitous and affordable. Microsoft’s Windows operating system and Office applications suite still utterly rule their markets. The company’s chief executive, Steve Ballmer, has continued to deliver huge profits. They totaled well over $100 billion in the past 10 years alone and help sustain the economies of Seattle, Washington State and the nation as a whole. Its founder, Bill Gates, is not only the most generous philanthropist in history, but has also inspired thousands of his employees to give generously themselves. No one in his right mind should wish Microsoft failure. And yet it is failing, even as it reports record earnings. As the fellow who tried (and largely failed) to make tablet PCs and e-books happen at Microsoft a decade ago, I could say this is because the company placed too much faith in people like me. But the decline is so broad and so striking that it would be presumptuous of me to take responsibility for it. Microsoft has become a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator. Its products are lampooned, often unfairly but sometimes with good reason. Its image has never recovered from the antitrust prosecution of the 1990s. Its marketing has been inept for years; remember the 2008 ad in which Bill Gates was somehow persuaded to literally wiggle his behind at the camera? While Apple continues to gain market share in many products, Microsoft has lost share in Web browsers, high-end laptops and smartphones. Despite billions in investment, its Xbox line is still at best an equal contender in the game console business. It first ignored and then stumbled in personal music players until that business was locked up by Apple. Microsoft’s huge profits — $6.7 billion for the past quarter — come almost entirely from Windows and Office programs first developed decades ago. Like G.M. with its trucks and S.U.V.’s, Microsoft can’t count on these venerable products to sustain it forever. Perhaps worst of all, Microsoft is no longer considered the cool or cutting-edge place to work. There has been a steady exit of its best and brightest. What happened? Unlike other companies, Microsoft never developed a true system for innovation. Some of my former colleagues argue that it actually developed a system to thwart innovation. Despite having one of the largest and best corporate laboratories in the world, and the luxury of not one but three chief technology officers, the company routinely manages to frustrate the efforts of its visionary thinkers. For example, early in my tenure, our group of very clever graphics experts invented a way to display text on screen called ClearType. It worked by using the color dots of liquid crystal displays to make type much more readable on the screen. Although we built it to help sell e-books, it gave Microsoft a huge potential advantage for every device with a screen. But it also annoyed other Microsoft groups that felt threatened by our success. Engineers in the Windows group falsely claimed it made the display go haywire when certain colors were used. The head of Office products said it was fuzzy and gave him headaches. The vice president for pocket devices was blunter: he’d support ClearType and use it, but only if I transferred the program and the programmers to his control. As a result, even though it received much public praise, internal promotion and patents, a decade passed before a fully operational version of ClearType finally made it into Windows. Another example: When we were building the tablet PC in 2001, the vice president in charge of Office at the time decided he didn’t like the concept. The tablet required a stylus, and he much preferred keyboards to pens and thought our efforts doomed. To guarantee they were, he refused to modify the popular Office applications to work properly with the tablet. So if you wanted to enter a number into a spreadsheet or correct a word in an e-mail message, you had to write it in a special pop-up box, which then transferred the information to Office. Annoying, clumsy and slow. Related Times Topics: Microsoft Corporation So once again, even though our tablet had the enthusiastic support of top management and had cost hundreds of millions to develop, it was essentially allowed to be sabotaged. To this day, you still can’t use Office directly on a Tablet PC. And despite the certainty that an Apple tablet was coming this year, the tablet group at Microsoft was eliminated. Not everything that has gone wrong at Microsoft is due to internecine warfare. Part of the problem is a historic preference to develop (highly profitable) software without undertaking (highly risky) hardware. This made economic sense when the company was founded in 1975, but now makes it far more difficult to create tightly integrated, beautifully designed products like an iPhone or TiVo. And, yes, part of the problem has been an understandable caution in the wake of the antitrust settlement. Timing has also been poor — too soon on Web TV, too late on iPods. Internal competition is common at great companies. It can be wisely encouraged to force ideas to compete. The problem comes when the competition becomes uncontrolled and destructive. At Microsoft, it has created a dysfunctional corporate culture in which the big established groups are allowed to prey upon emerging teams, belittle their efforts, compete unfairly against them for resources, and over time hector them out of existence. It’s not an accident that almost all the executives in charge of Microsoft’s music, e-books, phone, online, search and tablet efforts over the past decade have left. As a result, while the company has had a truly amazing past and an enviably prosperous present, unless it regains its creative spark, it’s an open question whether it has much of a future.

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FYI - Apple iPad - tablet computing device.
by Doug Hamilton 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

Hello Everyone: Apple released their tablet computing device today, details can be found here,http://www.apple.com/ipad/ Link to the presentation, http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/specialevent0110/ Pricing in Canada isn't available as yet (nor are part numbers), but the U.S.A. pricing can provide some direction. iPad WiFi 16GB $499 / 32GB $599 / 64GB $699 iPad WiFi+3G 16GB $629 / 32GB $729 / 64GB $829 Apple stated this product will be shipping in sixty days (i.e. April). We are unaware of the availability of the iPad WiFi+3G in Canada as these models will require partnerships with cellphone service providers in Canada. If you would like to be added to our waiting list, at your earliest convenience, please let me know which model you'd be interested in obtaining. Regards, Doug ------------- Doug Hamilton, BA, MA, APP Senior Computer Consultant Computers-on-Campus; Univ. of Manitoba 204-474-6196 (Ph.) 204-474-7556 (Fax) http://www.umanitoba.ca/bookstore/

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FYI: problems accessing gmail via IMAP from OS X?
by billing 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

...from: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=known_issues.cs My account has been locked out for exceeding IMAP bandwidth limits when using Apple Mail on the Snow Leopard OS To resolve this issue, upgrade to Mac OS 10.6.2. For information regarding this upgrade, including how to check for the update, visit:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3874. Wayne Billing Classroom Technology Support Audio Visual and Classroom Technology Support 123 Fletcher Argue Building 474-6649 474-7598 (fax) Wayne_Billing(a)umanitoba.ca

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Apples tablet (picture)
by Montana Quiring 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Hello, If you haven't seen it yet, here is a picture of Apples tablet PC: http://i.imgur.com/NTh8q.jpg Montana Quiring IT Systems and Admin U of Manitoba 204.474.8694

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INTEREST: NFP on iPhone... and 3D
by billing 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

...from: http://blog.nfb.ca/2010/01/21/online-video-stats/ Canada's National Film Board (NFB) has been on the web for quite some time and for the past little while has been making their films viewable on the web. The NFB also posts stats on which and when their movies are being viewed. Here's a sample: The 10 most popular films on the site this year (Note the running times for each film). A Sunday at 105, (13:20) 155,183 views The Cat Came Back, (7:41) 87,735 Carts of Darkness, (59:34) 82,230 The Log Driver’s Waltz (3:00) 71,148 The Sweater (10:21) 39,404 The Big Snit (9:54) 39,161 Ryan (13:57) 37,371 RiP! A Remix Manifesto (Chapter 1) (5:23) 37,212 Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows (93:33) 34,937 How to Build an Igloo (10:32) 30,996 It's also interesting to note that, of the 3.7 million online views of their videos, 1.45 million of them were international viewers (the rest being films viewed within Canada). Another milestone for the NFP was the introduction of the NFB application for the iPhone/iPod Touch late in October of 2009. This free application can be obtained at the iTunes Store: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/nfb-films/id329353638?mt=8 Here's the overall viewing stats for, 2009: * We grew from an average of 3,000 film views per day (Jan ‘09) to over 20,000 film views per day (Jan ‘10). * As you can see in the above graph, the release of the iPhone app increased our view numbers on the web too * Our content library grew by nearly 1000 videos this year – from 500 films, clips and trailers when we launched to nearly 1500 today. Now the NFB is starting to make 3D and HD versions available on the web and on the iPhone: ...from: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2010/01/21/nfb-online-3d-hd.html http://www.nfb.ca/playlist/nfb-3d/ NFB puts 3-D, HD content online Last Updated: Thursday, January 21, 2010 | 3:20 PM ET CBC News 3-D technology is gaining buzz, helped by hit movies like Avatar and new TV models displayed at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images) With 3-D film Avatar dominating the box office and 3-D TVs hogging the buzz at technology conventions, Canada's National Film Board has decided to test the waters and share some 3-D material with the public. The NFB announced Thursday it will post a sampling of 3-D content — the acclaimed shortsDrux Flux and Falling in Love Again as well as excerpts from the production Facing Champlain — in its online screening room as well as via its iPhone application. The special glasses required to watch the productions can be ordered online from the NFB website. "Normally, organizations don’t share their experimental processes," NFB chair Tom Perlmutter said in a statement. "But we want to start changing that — letting Canadians into the creative workshop. It's a little retro at the moment with the funky glasses (free for the asking at http://preview.tinyurl.com/yhm4yuj), but it's a playroom, it's the skunk work of testing things out while we figure out how to make this fully part of the NFB online experience."

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