Category: Misc

I think Apple’s new Mac Pro desktops should just maybe squeak by as iMovie/iDVD/video editing machines… barely. Oh come on, these are exactly the machines that people have been waiting for. Although it’s unlikely that someone would buy a Mac Pro just for editing in iMovie, they’re more than capable. Here’s what I wrote in ...

Dan Frakes at Macworld does some heavy lifting this week with “Repairing Permissions: What you need to know.” Required reading: The procedure has taken its (rightful) place in the Pantheon of Overused Procedures, next to “zapping the PRAM,” “rebuilding the Desktop,” and “performing a clean install,” with some users acting as if it’s a cure-all ...

As you can see, I’ve gotten off my duff and did a bit of a redesign here. I didn’t like that all the good links were found after scrolling a lot on one sidebar (part of the reason those links are there is that I come here when I need to get to those pages, ...

I’ve updated the links at the sidebar for Apple’s discussion groups for iMovie and iDVD. I mention this mostly as a mini-rant, because this is the third or fourth time I’ve had to do this since starting this blog. I don’t understand why Apple can’t just set up a URL like http://discussions.apple.com/imovie/ and redirect it ...

The US has been pretty hot the last couple of weeks, and it shows in a trio of Mac articles that appeared recently with similar themes (and which were written independently of each other): My latest Seattle Times Practical Mac column, Keep your Mac cool this summer, talks about keeping your laptop cool, as well ...

According to Amazon, the new edition of the book is due to be available next week, and currently it’s priced at $15.74, which is 37% off the retail price (click the book to pre-order it now). In addition to covering what’s new in iMovie HD 6 and iDVD 6, this edition is one of the ...

Mike at HD For Indies links to Barefeats, and because I’m delivering my book to the publisher today (!!), I’m going to save a wee bit of time and just link to Mike. The comparisons look at iMovie HD/iDVD performance among the machines, plus other apps.

David Nagel at Creative Mac throws Final Cut Studio 5.1 at the MacBook and finds it… surprisingly capable! Motion didn’t fare as well due to the integrated graphics processor of the MacBook, but it fared well consideirng that Apple says the whole suite is flat-out not supported—that’s no doubt to minimize expectations. Although you can’t ...