This is a picture of a chair on my porch that I’m using to demo a photo and blog post from the old iiphone.
C’est fino.
I was going to Blog about iPhone 2.0 software and the radical hit on battery life in my iphone
but I figured I’d get all worked up and then start a secondary rant about mobileME and how it’s
not quite there yet-partially because anything less than a 5mbs internet connection makes it creep
slowly and is prone to stuff like sendmail failures and flaky redraws, and various Browser incompatibilities.
no no no I’m simply posting a list of links to Apples updated Mac101 “one sheets” which are succinct
and useful to the new (and old) Apple user.
so Here they are:
Mac 101: Address Book
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2486
Mac 101: Automator
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2488
Mac 101: Dashboard
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2492
Mac 101: Dictionary
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2496
Mac 101: DVD Player
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2499
Mac 101: Expose
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2503
Mac 101: Font Book
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2509
Mac 101: GarageBand
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2510
Mac 101: iCal
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2513
Mac 101: iChat
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2515
Mac 101: iDVD
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2516
Mac 101: iMovie
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2479
Mac 101: iPhoto
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2481
Mac 101: iSync
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2484
Mac 101: iTunes
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2489
Mac 101: Mac Essentials
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2477
Mac 101: Mail
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2500
Mac 101: Modify Your Windows
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2487
Mac 101: Preview
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2506
Mac 101: QuickTime Player
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2507
Mac 101: Safari
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2521
Mac 101: Spotlight
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2531
Mac 101: TextEdit
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2523
Mac 101: The Desktop
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2472
Mac 101: The Finder
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2470
Mac 101: VoiceOver
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=HT2529
With all the iPhone junk out there I was wondering when wordpress would have a portable entry client. MTedit has one and that was available from day 1.
But I’m swamped with social apps right now – it’s like the tower of Babel – emphasis on the babble. Maybe I can integrate all the SOapps here. Hmmmm.
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the Ctrl key has a solid diamond on it
the Alt key has an open diamond on it
the Esc key has a white × inside a black circle
the Tab key has double arrows on it
the Tilde key has a tilde on it
the Frame key has an open rectangle on it
the F1 key is the same as the Neighborhood view key
the F2 key is the same as the Group view key
the F3 key is the same as the Home view key
the F4 key is the same as the Activity view key
the Delete key is the same as Fn-Erase.
the Page Up key is the same as Fn-up-arrow
the Page Down key is the same as Fn-down-arrow
the Home key is the same as Fn-left-arrow
the End key is the same as Fn-right-arrow
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Keystroke Description
Alt-Tab Ctrl-Tab Cycle forward through running activities
Shift-Alt-Tab Shift-Ctrl-Tab Cycle backward through running activities
Ctrl-Tilde (See discussion) Cycle forward through running instances of the current activity
Shift-Ctrl-Tilde Cycle backward through running instances of the current activity
Ctrl-c Copy to clipboard
Ctrl-v Paste from clipboard
Ctrl-x Cut (and copy to clipboard)
Ctrl-a Select all (current input/dialog/text box )
Ctrl-q Quit activity
Ctrl-Esc Quit activity
Alt-Enter Toggle full-screen mode
Alt-Space Toggle tray visibility (works in Browse but not in Record)
Ctrl-u View source in Browse (opens copy of source in Write)
Fn-Space View source (system wide, although not enabled in all applications yet)
Ctrl-Alt-Erase Restart Sugar
Alt-1 Screen capture saved to Journal
Ctrl-Alt-F1 Console 1
Ctrl-Alt-F2 Console 2
Ctrl-Alt-F3 X Windows
Esc-Frame-RightArrow-Fn (the four corners keys on the keyboard)
Recalibrate touchpad (AKA Four finger salute); Fn should be pressed last.
Fn-UpArrow Page Up
Fn-DownArrow Page Down
Fn-LeftArrow Home
Fn-RightArrow End
Ctrl-BrightnessDown Backlight off black & white mode
Ctrl-BrightnessUp Full brightness color mode
Ctrl-VolumeDown Mute
Ctrl-VolumeUp Full volume
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Browser Stuff
If you’re using a Mighty Mouse you may want to be careful about that scroll ball- the horizontal scroll is page back/forward when used to view a page. I switched mine out for a Kensington rf Mouse with scroll wheel and it works pretty well. I actually bought it because it was orange colored.
Use the space bar to scroll a full page and the up/down keys to scroll slowly.
Backspace does NOT run back to the last page viewed, and bookmarking is scant at best (save stuff to the journal if you need to) Of course this will keep the kids out of much of the internet’s “funky” side- but I’m not sure if that is good or bad.
I think actually it would be better to have a full out version of Seamonkey (formerly the full version of Mozilla) available to users. I kow Firefox/Opera is available but
the advantage of having Web/Mail/Composer in one place might be useful.
This Browser crashes especially while trying to switch from one Richly endowed page to the next.
Forget reading mail on .Mac. Flash will load but it is oh so not pretty, and higher demanding video crashes stalls or sputters.
So keep it simple on this browser. Newpapers and Google searches and of course the OLPC wiki work fine.
Hi folks –
I added a new category dedicated to my personal journey with the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop.
My experience/advice/hints and associated tidbits of information are derived from
a background of attempting to manage *nix operating systems and applications.
(BSD Unix/Apple mainly with a smattering of Ubuntu and a kickstart from having an
opportunity to work at MIT for 10 years from 1987-1996.)
I have an G1G1 XO laptop and after spending a couple months with it, I thought I’d post some hints about using it- what i like or don’t like about it and just some general thoughts about computing in general that specifically relate to this interesting and controversial topic.
I’m not sure if I’ll just simply add stuff here or create a new section, but I suppose I can do whatever I like since I am the MASTER of MY DOMAIN.
Hugs and Kisses, Everyone!
No no no no no no…this isn’t about hugs and kisses.. although what a nice sentiment.
I’m talking about the XO laptop. 
I’m waiting for this box to show up with a lovely little green laptop inside , which kind of replaces the 12″ G4 that I sold off last year, and though for my purposes- the iphone does what I needed a laptop for, i’m looking forward to a device as small and useful as the EMATE
The eMate was a Newton in “user friendly clothing”. Without an XO on hand to accurately talk about the experience, I can talk about the emate since I used one as a laptop from 1996-1999. It was quite a wonderful device. In an era of 10bt ethernet getting upgraded to 100bt- the emate had two pcmcia ports which allowed dialup and networked capabilities with a Farallon card. It also used IR (like a Newton) to print to particular IR laser printers. And the software set was awesome, a text editor, spreadsheet, calendar, addressbook and draw program. Tons of Newton Games (i liked startrek the best) and user friendlyness, Very good handwriting recognition (but it had a keyboard) and tons of battery life. It had a web browser and AppleSpeech – so it could announce
meetings! But -in retrospect- the coolest part was the development environment. I’m not a programmer but anyone who
opened up the Newton Dev kit and read through the process would get a great running start at object oriented development.
Persistent memory, Soups, and GUI all integrated to make a foundation for programming a Newton easy- and understandable from a non programmers perspective.
I know the XO will have various environments for programming. It’s not meant to be an “adult” laptop but i can see the adoption coming once these things (and especially Mesh Networking) become sociable. Social websites, like MySpace and FaceBook, LinkedIn and etc etc. could get a meaningful extension once collaboration via Mesh becomes commonplace (indeed the computer revolution is turning the corner on the MY COMPUTER generation- we’ll be using MY NETWORK instead-
the extensible computing ENVIRONMENT)
So even though the XO is primarily an education device- i think we’ll see it extend beyond that- not in commercial capacity (leave that to Intel) – but in a social capacity- a geek toy for kids- that will ultimately, not necessarily, be used
to extend the network of the world.
The Fed-Ex guy showed up with my copy of Leopard yesterday morning, so of course, I immediately popped it into my iMac and began the upgrade. Now, as a guy who upgrades computers for a living, I should have run a backup, but I’m kinda out of extra disk space-my
important mail is on .Mac, iTunes music is on completely different computer (and mirrored nightly), and I have archives of photos and
docs which are safely backed up elsewhere on the aforementioned disks (in various forms). So I booted into the installer/ran Disk repair
(which didn’t need any repair) and Permissions repair (twice-just to be sure) and then went into the installer selecting “Archive and Install” So I’d have a nice fresh system and all my stuff put back in.
Well, about t-10 minutes, the installer balked on Epson printer drivers and gave me the instruction to run the install again. Rats! I thought. So I went back to the installer selected the Archive and Install again- but went under options and turned off all the printers except Canon and Gutenberg (and turned off the language translations-this is about a gig of files you don’t want if you use your mac in one language) And reinstalled. Of course it finished up- and rebooted….and when it booted up-
TA DA – A brand new OS, but the archive/reinstall was bungled and my typical user account was vacant. A quick looksee in the disk hierarchy showed a previous systems folder with TWO archived systems – one from the first attempt- and one from the second.
To make a long story short…I immediately made an Admin/support account- logged out of my (empty) user account/deleted it and then moved my old user folder to the new Users folder
Recreating the account it asked me if I wanted to reimport a user folder with the same name. So i did.
Indeed, this is what I wanted to do- however- I have about 30 gig of Samples and plug-ins I use regularly and these are not stored in the User account but in the Library folders. Also-none of my old apps made it. (200 +)
After logging out and back in…I went to Applications/Utilities and found the Migration Assistant. I ran that- but here’s the rub- I had
-48.6 gig of space to move the stuff to. After deleting some unnecessary folders (like the second installs’ archived system folder and a temp folder of pkgs.left nakedly outside the Previous folders) I did what I do for a lot of folks- upgrade my Library and Applications by hand.
This involves a lot of password invoking drag and drops and reading the “do you want to replace the file” notices very carefully-
you don’t want to update a Leopardy new file with a Tigery old one. I had to wait till I got home from the days work (picking up some repaired guitar amps from Stan, checking on iPhoto printing with a customer, and fixing a FW issue in windows and protools.)
I’ve done it by hand many many times for lots of folks- and myself before- but I will say that this went pretty well since there’s a lot of potential to lose key settings and files if they aren’t put back in the right place. Apple systems are very very sensitive to having the hierarchy having the right permissions for Users, Applications and Libraries talk to each other. Changing things like folder names/ Hard disk names after an install can blow up everything if you change the wrong thing (and even if you move stuff ever so slightly) so you have to be careful doing this. Folder by Folder- compare and think what is being added/replaced or
So now I have a working system- but it did take quite a chunk of time (about 1.5 hours for the install/reinstall of the OS) and then another 3-4 hours of moving testing and checking serial numbers of my pro apps to make sure they worked.
After moving some types of files it’s helpful to reboot every now and then to make sure they take correctly.
Considering I used to install Unix stuff by hand using nothing but a terminal…this is still a much better way ( i know some geeks would have resorted to the terminal to fix this bad install) then what used to pass for a failed installation routine.
Good Bad Scorecard:
Apple installer – bad- for the bad epsondriver issue- turn off unneccessary items like printers and languages you don’t need.
Reinstall – bad -for not recognizing an archived system already there. (i know why- it should have just skipped the driver install if it was bad)
Leopard in general- Good- easy to drag and drop- friendly to files moving into the “upper” hierarchies
The Dock- Bad- i turned the shelf off. I can’t get to all my apps- My Gumby app folder icon is now an alias, the fan is stupid.
Speed- Good – Leopard is snappy
The battle is on. This playlist represent a conglomeration of current events that seem to point toward a DRM free world.
But what will that mean? Bands put out their own releases for free and folks can share the music? Vendors like Apple and Amazon and Universal sign exclusives with folks who release stuff you can’t get for free and without restriction? Private networks usurp public networks to create “local” file sharing peers? New music excluded from being “used” in internet radio?
Artists make less money than ever? Will the RIAA dissolve into a muddy toxic puddle of self-implosion?
Think and then think again.
1) Radiohead releases “pay what you will” album.
2) RIAA gets a big win against p2p filesharer.
3) Amazon mp3 download store selling DRM-free music at “lower than iTunes” prices.
4) Apple iTunes store lowers some prices on DRM-free higher bit-rate music.
7) Internet Radio under seige- will it all be Creative Commons licensed music?
8) The iPod evolves into a more than a portible music device. Who can compete with that?
All of these issues add up to one big competitive mess in the music business. Hopefully nobody will try to license brainwaves
anytime soon.
By the way -all the music at MY music site is free: theIntensions