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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1686562" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>Join me at 7:00 p.m. tonight for the <a href="https://plus.google.com/" target="_blank">Mac-Forums Sunday Video Chat</a>. As usual we'll have the forum roundup, an Apple/Mac new roundup, as well as a few tips and tricks to make your Mac use easier. We'll include a bit of info about this week's issue with the Mac App Store.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">Members 283,128 Welcome to our newest member, <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/member.php?u=364451" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e4af09">KrystalBro</span></a></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">The iPad Pro has launched. there is a discussion of the pros/cons <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/ipad-hardware-and-accessories/329672-ipad-pro-launched.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e4af09">here</span></a>,. It includes a link to the Ars Technica review and a discussion by some of our distinguished forum members. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">You might also find this Cult of Mac Leander Kahney's first impressions the iPad Pro helpful. <a href="http://www.cultofmac.com/396992/ipad-pro-is-big-and-beautiful-unboxing-and-first-impressions/" target="_blank">First impressions with the big and beautiful iPad Pro</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">MacWorld’s Glen Fleischmann looks at the changes <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/2987201/operating-systems/hands-on-with-disk-utility-in-el-capitan-tool-for-storage-devices-gets-a-facelift.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e4af09"> that have been made to Disk Utility under El Capitan</span></a>. These changes include loss of the ability to set up a RAID. CD/DVD burning has also been removed. In a thread started by Mac-Forums member tired retired the question gets asked on whiter Apple has lost its competitive edge. I mention this thread because it has some information about<a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/os-x-operating-system/329713-apple-lost-edge.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e4af09"> whether or not the RAID features which used to be present in OS X are missing</span></a>. Apparently they aren’t if you boot normally but are if you boot from the recovery partition. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">if you press Command-L, iTunes, the<a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/3004001/streaming-services/ask-the-itunes-guy-itunes-match-metadata-playlist-graphics-moving-album-list.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e4af09"> currently playing item is displayed</span></a>.. If you've started listening to music, for example, from your Music library, iTunes will show you the currently playing track in the overall Music library. If you're listening to a playlist, iTunes beams you back to that playlist.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">Learn to use the power of Command-L, and iTunes will be just a tiny bit better.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">Even though the new Apple TV contains either 32GB or 64GB flash storage, you can’t “send” files from your current library to the Apple TV.<a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/3004925/streaming-media/how-to-stream-content-from-your-itunes-library-to-the-apple-tv.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e4af09"> You have to rely on Home Sharing to get content to the Apple TV</span></a>. The upside to this is that one can access libraries access multiple devices. For example, you may have your music library on the computer you use regularly, but store your videos on a dedicated device, such as a Mac mini. If so, you can select either device from the Apple TV and access its content. In fact, if you’re running out of storage on your Mac and have another older Mac, it would be useful to convert it to a media server. Set up iTunes on the old Mac, perhaps add an external hard drive, and add, say, all your videos to that iTunes library. Since videos take up so much space, you could still have room on your main Mac for your music.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">But there are also different codecs. Unlike music, where the codecs don’t change very often, video compression is constantly being improved and tweaked. The new Apple TV has, in particular, a limitation regarding what types of videos using the MPEG-4 codec. But I doubt many people have used MPEG-4 in a very long time. If you do use have videos encoded with MPEG-4, you may need to convert them to H.264, which seems to be the codec that will be </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">Michael Tsai Spam Sieve, About This Particular Mac has a bit to say about the problems some users experienced with <a href="http://mjtsai.com/blog/2015/11/12/no-one-minding-the-store/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e4af09">apps purchased from the Apps Store that wouldn’t launch</span></a>. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1686562, member: 131855"] Join me at 7:00 p.m. tonight for the [URL='https://plus.google.com/']Mac-Forums Sunday Video Chat[/URL]. As usual we'll have the forum roundup, an Apple/Mac new roundup, as well as a few tips and tricks to make your Mac use easier. We'll include a bit of info about this week's issue with the Mac App Store. [COLOR=#454545][FONT=Helvetica]Members 283,128 Welcome to our newest member, [URL='http://www.mac-forums.com/member.php?u=364451'][COLOR=#e4af09]KrystalBro[/COLOR][/URL][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=Helvetica]The iPad Pro has launched. there is a discussion of the pros/cons [URL='http://www.mac-forums.com/ipad-hardware-and-accessories/329672-ipad-pro-launched.html'][COLOR=#e4af09]here[/COLOR][/URL],. It includes a link to the Ars Technica review and a discussion by some of our distinguished forum members. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=Helvetica]You might also find this Cult of Mac Leander Kahney's first impressions the iPad Pro helpful. [URL="http://www.cultofmac.com/396992/ipad-pro-is-big-and-beautiful-unboxing-and-first-impressions/"]First impressions with the big and beautiful iPad Pro[/URL] MacWorld’s Glen Fleischmann looks at the changes [URL='http://www.macworld.com/article/2987201/operating-systems/hands-on-with-disk-utility-in-el-capitan-tool-for-storage-devices-gets-a-facelift.html'][COLOR=#e4af09] that have been made to Disk Utility under El Capitan[/COLOR][/URL]. These changes include loss of the ability to set up a RAID. CD/DVD burning has also been removed. In a thread started by Mac-Forums member tired retired the question gets asked on whiter Apple has lost its competitive edge. I mention this thread because it has some information about[URL='http://www.mac-forums.com/os-x-operating-system/329713-apple-lost-edge.html'][COLOR=#e4af09] whether or not the RAID features which used to be present in OS X are missing[/COLOR][/URL]. Apparently they aren’t if you boot normally but are if you boot from the recovery partition. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=Helvetica]if you press Command-L, iTunes, the[URL='http://www.macworld.com/article/3004001/streaming-services/ask-the-itunes-guy-itunes-match-metadata-playlist-graphics-moving-album-list.html'][COLOR=#e4af09] currently playing item is displayed[/COLOR][/URL].. If you've started listening to music, for example, from your Music library, iTunes will show you the currently playing track in the overall Music library. If you're listening to a playlist, iTunes beams you back to that playlist.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=Helvetica]Learn to use the power of Command-L, and iTunes will be just a tiny bit better. Even though the new Apple TV contains either 32GB or 64GB flash storage, you can’t “send” files from your current library to the Apple TV.[URL='http://www.macworld.com/article/3004925/streaming-media/how-to-stream-content-from-your-itunes-library-to-the-apple-tv.html'][COLOR=#e4af09] You have to rely on Home Sharing to get content to the Apple TV[/COLOR][/URL]. The upside to this is that one can access libraries access multiple devices. For example, you may have your music library on the computer you use regularly, but store your videos on a dedicated device, such as a Mac mini. If so, you can select either device from the Apple TV and access its content. In fact, if you’re running out of storage on your Mac and have another older Mac, it would be useful to convert it to a media server. Set up iTunes on the old Mac, perhaps add an external hard drive, and add, say, all your videos to that iTunes library. Since videos take up so much space, you could still have room on your main Mac for your music.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=Helvetica]But there are also different codecs. Unlike music, where the codecs don’t change very often, video compression is constantly being improved and tweaked. The new Apple TV has, in particular, a limitation regarding what types of videos using the MPEG-4 codec. But I doubt many people have used MPEG-4 in a very long time. If you do use have videos encoded with MPEG-4, you may need to convert them to H.264, which seems to be the codec that will be Michael Tsai Spam Sieve, About This Particular Mac has a bit to say about the problems some users experienced with [URL='http://mjtsai.com/blog/2015/11/12/no-one-minding-the-store/'][COLOR=#e4af09]apps purchased from the Apps Store that wouldn’t launch[/COLOR][/URL]. [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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