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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1689904" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>Been a little bit of a hectic day but we'll do a short <a href="https://plus.google.com/" target="_blank">Sunday video chat</a> tonight at 7:00 p.m. as usual. Look for a forum roundup, and a few tips and tricks as usual. Show will probably be audio only unless I figure out whatever is tripping up Google Chat and my FaceTime camera between now and the start of the show.</p><p></p><p><strong>Show Notes</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">Members 284,202 Welcome to our newest member, <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/member.php?u=365749" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e4af09">gordonlw</span></a></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"><span style="color: #454545">How to archive email using the Apple Mail app. <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/switcher-hangout/330001-macbook-pro-mail-program.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e4af09">http://www.mac-forums.com/switcher-hangout/330001-macbook-pro-mail-program.html</span></a></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'"><span style="color: #454545">Use symbolic links to help manage space on an SSD <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/2148490/slim-down-your-ssd-with-symbolic-links.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e4af09">http://www.macworld.com/article/2148490/slim-down-your-ssd-with-symbolic-links.html</span></a></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">Rob Griffiths doesn’t like the single line of characters used to enter passwords on the new Apple TV. He has figured out how to<a href="http://robservatory.com/use-grid-style-password-entry-on-new-apple-tv/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e4af09"> bring back the password entry grid </span></a>that has been on other versions of the Apple TV. The solution is to wake the Apple TV with one of the older remotes (silver 0r white) not with the Siri remote included with the Apple TV 4. You can use the Siri remote once the grid appears. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">John Kelt at Mac Observer has a piece declaring the <a href="http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/the-new-mac-pro-is-a-failure" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e4af09">2013 Mac Pro a.k.a “trash can” a failure</span></a>. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">And for good reason. Those machines are just better than the trashcan Mac. Right now, a cMP simply spanks the trashcan Mac's performance. For example, with regard to top end performance, processor-wise, you can get a maxed out 12-core 3.46GHz cMP model that is <a href="http://barefeats.com/tube16.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #E4AF09">just as fast</span></a> as the top end 12-core 2.7GHz trashcan Mac.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">In most every other important way, the cMP simply trounces the trashcan Mac. For storage, you can get larger capacities (<em>e.g.</em>, 2TB, 4TB, and up) as well as <a href="http://barefeats.com/hard210.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #E4AF09">way faster SSDs</span></a> (<em>e.g.</em>, running at near 6GB/sec). <a href="http://barefeats.com/tube18.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #E4AF09">Video card options for the cMP</span></a> obliterate the top end <a href="http://barefeats.com/gtx980ti.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #E4AF09">options on the trashcan Mac</span></a>.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">Is <span style="color: #e4af09">Adobe foreshadowing the end of Flash</span>? (dead link removed) Not quite but they do acknowledge some issues and seem to be starting to suggest that content creators move to other web standards such as HTML 5. It seems likely that future support will be confined mainly to security updates. </span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">Tip to help if you are rebuilding the iTunes library.remember to export the xml file from the old library. This should allow you to reload playlists without having to recreate them from scratch.</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'">The good news is that (assuming it isn't the playlist files that are the problem), once you have re-imported the music into this new library, you can export the library file from your old library (under the file menu, this will result in an XML file) and them "import playlist" from the File menu while you're in the new library (File->Library->import playlist) and it will import all the old playlists. <a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/showthread.php?t=329907&p=1689776&viewfull=1#post1689776" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e4af09">http://www.mac-forums.com/showthread.php?t=329907&p=1689776&viewfull=1#post1689776</span></a></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #454545"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica'">If you find that some video editors like MPEG Streamclip are having difficulty saving video files you have edited try editing the file in QuickTime Player X. If all you need to do is trim video and save the result it can handle even some files that other editors complain about. Scroll to the first place you want to edit and press Command Y to split the clip. Move to the second point and do the same thing. Swlwct the area to delete then press the delete key, For more editing tips see <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201066" target="_blank">here</a></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1689904, member: 131855"] Been a little bit of a hectic day but we'll do a short [URL='https://plus.google.com/']Sunday video chat[/URL] tonight at 7:00 p.m. as usual. Look for a forum roundup, and a few tips and tricks as usual. Show will probably be audio only unless I figure out whatever is tripping up Google Chat and my FaceTime camera between now and the start of the show. [B]Show Notes[/B] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=Helvetica]Members 284,202 Welcome to our newest member, [URL='http://www.mac-forums.com/member.php?u=365749'][COLOR=#e4af09]gordonlw[/COLOR][/URL][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=Helvetica][COLOR=#454545]How to archive email using the Apple Mail app. [URL='http://www.mac-forums.com/switcher-hangout/330001-macbook-pro-mail-program.html'][COLOR=#e4af09]http://www.mac-forums.com/switcher-hangout/330001-macbook-pro-mail-program.html[/COLOR][/URL][/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=Helvetica][COLOR=#454545]Use symbolic links to help manage space on an SSD [URL='http://www.macworld.com/article/2148490/slim-down-your-ssd-with-symbolic-links.html'][COLOR=#e4af09]http://www.macworld.com/article/2148490/slim-down-your-ssd-with-symbolic-links.html[/COLOR][/URL][/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=Helvetica]Rob Griffiths doesn’t like the single line of characters used to enter passwords on the new Apple TV. He has figured out how to[URL='http://robservatory.com/use-grid-style-password-entry-on-new-apple-tv/'][COLOR=#e4af09] bring back the password entry grid [/COLOR][/URL]that has been on other versions of the Apple TV. The solution is to wake the Apple TV with one of the older remotes (silver 0r white) not with the Siri remote included with the Apple TV 4. You can use the Siri remote once the grid appears. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=Helvetica]John Kelt at Mac Observer has a piece declaring the [URL='http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/the-new-mac-pro-is-a-failure'][COLOR=#e4af09]2013 Mac Pro a.k.a “trash can” a failure[/COLOR][/URL]. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=Helvetica]And for good reason. Those machines are just better than the trashcan Mac. Right now, a cMP simply spanks the trashcan Mac's performance. For example, with regard to top end performance, processor-wise, you can get a maxed out 12-core 3.46GHz cMP model that is [URL='http://barefeats.com/tube16.html'][COLOR=#E4AF09]just as fast[/COLOR][/URL] as the top end 12-core 2.7GHz trashcan Mac.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=Helvetica]In most every other important way, the cMP simply trounces the trashcan Mac. For storage, you can get larger capacities ([I]e.g.[/I], 2TB, 4TB, and up) as well as [URL='http://barefeats.com/hard210.html'][COLOR=#E4AF09]way faster SSDs[/COLOR][/URL] ([I]e.g.[/I], running at near 6GB/sec). [URL='http://barefeats.com/tube18.html'][COLOR=#E4AF09]Video card options for the cMP[/COLOR][/URL] obliterate the top end [URL='http://barefeats.com/gtx980ti.html'][COLOR=#E4AF09]options on the trashcan Mac[/COLOR][/URL].[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=Helvetica]Is [COLOR=#e4af09]Adobe foreshadowing the end of Flash[/COLOR]? (dead link removed) Not quite but they do acknowledge some issues and seem to be starting to suggest that content creators move to other web standards such as HTML 5. It seems likely that future support will be confined mainly to security updates. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=Helvetica]Tip to help if you are rebuilding the iTunes library.remember to export the xml file from the old library. This should allow you to reload playlists without having to recreate them from scratch. The good news is that (assuming it isn't the playlist files that are the problem), once you have re-imported the music into this new library, you can export the library file from your old library (under the file menu, this will result in an XML file) and them "import playlist" from the File menu while you're in the new library (File->Library->import playlist) and it will import all the old playlists. [URL='http://www.mac-forums.com/showthread.php?t=329907&p=1689776&viewfull=1#post1689776'][COLOR=#e4af09]http://www.mac-forums.com/showthread.php?t=329907&p=1689776&viewfull=1#post1689776[/COLOR][/URL][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#454545][FONT=Helvetica]If you find that some video editors like MPEG Streamclip are having difficulty saving video files you have edited try editing the file in QuickTime Player X. If all you need to do is trim video and save the result it can handle even some files that other editors complain about. Scroll to the first place you want to edit and press Command Y to split the clip. Move to the second point and do the same thing. Swlwct the area to delete then press the delete key, For more editing tips see [URL='https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201066']here[/URL][/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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