Posts tagged Mac

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Posted 4 months ago
PROBLEM: Apple Bluetooth Magic Mouse tracking is glitchy SOLUTION: Take the batteries out of your mouse, and then put them back in again. This seems to reset the bluetooth settings on the mouse.

PROBLEM:
Apple Bluetooth Magic Mouse tracking is glitchy

SOLUTION:
Take the batteries out of your mouse, and then put them back in again. This seems to reset the bluetooth settings on the mouse.

(Source: bradbell.tv)

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Posted 7 months ago
Gamma: FCPX - QT7 - FCP7 A frame of the same movie shown in Final Cut Pro X, Quicktime 7, and Final Cut Pro 7. Traditionally, FCP7 would display movies differently than QT7 because it was emulating for TV or something. And then Quicktime would alter the gamma again when we compressed for the web. It was confusing and led to guesses at overcompensation, for example, making the images too dark and colourful, knowing at the next stage the life would be bled from them, rendering them as lifeless the husk of an image, grey and thin like dead skin. The horror. The horror. So it’s nice FCPX sorts this out. (Granted, I haven’t tried editing anything for TV with FCPX. I expect it just translates when it encodes a TV-based format like Mpeg IMX.) Read more from Apple on gamma. Zoom

Gamma: FCPX - QT7 - FCP7

A frame of the same movie shown in Final Cut Pro X, Quicktime 7, and Final Cut Pro 7.

Traditionally, FCP7 would display movies differently than QT7 because it was emulating for TV or something. And then Quicktime would alter the gamma again when we compressed for the web. It was confusing and led to guesses at overcompensation, for example, making the images too dark and colourful, knowing at the next stage the life would be bled from them, rendering them as lifeless the husk of an image, grey and thin like dead skin. The horror. The horror.

So it’s nice FCPX sorts this out.

(Granted, I haven’t tried editing anything for TV with FCPX. I expect it just translates when it encodes a TV-based format like Mpeg IMX.)

Read more from Apple on gamma.

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Posted 12 months ago
Mac users: if Safari hangs, open Activity Monitor, search for “flash.” Select Flash Player and click the Stop button.

This will simply quit the Flash Player plugin. And you get to keep the 12 tabs of pages you have open! Hurray! (or is it hoorah!?)

(It seems that most of the time Safari problems are actually Flash Player problems.)

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Posted 1 year ago
The data seems to subtly imply that the iPad may be the new PC. Zoom

The data seems to subtly imply that the iPad may be the new PC.