Archives for posts tagged ‘Apple’

OS X Leopard Airport Scanning Driving You Crazy? A Possible Fix

[UPDATE 2: 10 Nov. 2008: Downloading the AirPort Extreme Update 2008-004 (1.0) did the job for me.  Two days in and no drops, much faster load speeds. From the Apple Downloads site: "This update is recommended for all Intel-based Macintosh computers running Mac OS 10.5.5." NOTE: I don't have Airport Extreme. I have an old [...]

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Mac Users: Have a Few Gigs of HD on Me (and Monolingual)

Just spreading the love to my fellow Mac users by sharing Monolingual, a free open source program that saved me 4Gb of hard drive by removing the hundreds of languages localized on all my software, and by stripping the PowerPC files from my Intel MacBook.  (If you have Adobe Creative Suite, you’ll easily save 2 [...]

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Fine-tuning the “Cutting the Crap” Movie-Making Tutorials

Dean Shareski and Cindy Barnsley gave me valuable (though tactfully veiled) criticism for my original “Cutting the Crap (from Student Movies)” video. To paraphrase, “That first part was really good.” I took the hint. I’ve divided the original into two shorter efforts, and added end credits attributing the Flickr photos I used to model that [...]

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