Adobe Phasing Out "PostScript" Type 1 Fonts
Adobe stopped developing new Type 1 fonts in 1999, and introduced its first OpenType fonts in 2000. As we converted our type library to OpenType, we made the corresponding Type 1 fonts much less prominent on our web site. Now that we have our whole library in OpenType, people really have to go out of their way to get Type 1 fonts. This has been true for several years now. Continued here...
Burning Multiple Times to the Same CD
G
enerally, when you burn files to a
CD once, you’re done — you can’t burn to that CD
again. Unless you use this little trick: First create
a new folder and give it a descriptive name
(something like “burn baby burn!” Kidding). Now put
the files you want to burn into that folder, then go
to the Applications folder and open the Utilities
folder. Double-click on Disk Utility. When it comes
up, go under the File menu, under New, and choose
Disk Image from Folder, and then when the Open dialog
appears, find that folder with the stuff you want to
burn and click the image button. A Save dialog
appears in which you can leave the name as is or
choose a new name (leave the other controls alone),
and then click Save. In a few moments, a disk image
of your folder’s contents will appear in the list on
the left side of the Disk Utility dialog. Click on
that icon, and then click the burn button at the top
left of the Disk Utility dialog.
When you click the Burn button, a dialog will appear
asking to insert a disc. Do so, and then click once
the blue downward-facing triangle on the right side
of this dialog to show more options. Click on the
checkbox for Leave disc appendable, then click the
Burn button. Your data will now be written to that
CD. To add more files later, just insert that same CD
and then you’ll use this same process all over again,
but when you get to that final burn dialog, the
button won’t say “Burn” this time, instead it will
say “Append” because you’re adding these files to the
same disc. By the way, don’t forget to remove the
files you already burned to this disc from your “burn
baby burn!” folder (and the DMG file it creates)
before you make your next disc image.
Mac OS X: About This Mac window provides computer serial number
You
can use the About This Mac window to find your
computer's serial number when started up from Mac OS
X 10.1 or later.
Follow these
steps:
Choose About This Mac from the Apple Menu.
Double-click the version text,
for example "Version 10.1".
Your computer's serial number now
appears where the version text had been.
Note: Some earlier Mac OS X-compatible computers do
not have their serial numbers stored in a way that
allows this feature to work.
Lack of this feature on your computer does not indicate any software or hardware failure.
How to change the volume on your Mac without that little sound
D
epending on the type of keyboard you
have, you may be able to use the volume keys on your
keyboard (the ones with a speaker icon) to change the
volume of your computer’s speakers. When you press
one of these keys, normally you hear the alert sound
play to let you hear the new volume. If you want, you
can prevent the alert sound from playing when you
change the volume.
To turn off the volume keys’ sound feedback, choose
Apple menu > System Preferences and click Sound.
Click Sound Effects and deselect the “Play feedback
when volume keys are pressed” checkbox.
To temporarily turn off the volume keys’ sound
feedback, hold down the Shift key when you press a
volume key. Not all keyboards have volume keys. If
you don’t see keys with speaker icons, you cannot
change your computer’s volume using your
keyboard.
Who Says Macs Aren't Used In Businesses?
Arik Hesseldahl
I was at the Hewlett-Packard analyst's meeting today and a funny Mac-related thing happened. I happened to sit right behind a four people folks from Soleil-Cross Research, three of whom were typing notes on MacBook Pros.
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Read More...Where Did That Download Come From?
If
you download a file from the web, you can usually
find out exactly where that downloaded file came from
(including the exact web address) by pressing
Command-I when you have the file selected.
Once the info dialog appears, click on the
right-facing arrow beside More Info to expand that
panel and it will display a Where from header, and to
the right of that it will show the exact web address
from which the file was originally
downloaded.
U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights
Cell phone owners will be allowed to break software locks on their handsets in order to use them with competing carriers under new copyright rules announced Wednesday.
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Apple's New Mac Pro Blows Away The Competition
Nov. 16, 2006 By Richard Hoffman - Courtesy of InformationWeek
A
fter two weeks with one of the new Mac Pro desktops, I've got only one word: "Wow. The new Apple Mac Pro desktop is one of the best-designed, highly-performing desktops currently available at any price. Not only does it run Mac OS X and OS X applications at absolutely blazing speeds, but if you install Parallels Desktop for Mac (or Apple's Boot Camp), the Mac Pro makes a better Windows workstation than almost any other Windows desktop out there.
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The best keyboard Apple ever made rises again.
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Apple To Deliver Seamless iPod Integration
To Deliver Seamless iPod Integration
CUPERTINO, California - August 3,
2006 -
A
pple® today announced it has teamed up with Ford Motor Company, General Motors and Mazda to deliver seamless iPod® integration across the majority of their brands and models, making it easy for iPod users to enjoy and control their iPod's high-quality sound through their car's stereo system. With the addition of these models, more than 70 percent of 2007-model US automobiles will offer iPod integration.
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