Re: ITunes 10

2010-09-24 Thread Walter Sheluk
Is there a haxie to get rid of the nightymare UI in iTunes 10? There was a terminal solution posted at MacWorld a couple of days ago but that just made it a stark black and white UI. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-09-22 8:25 PM, Steven wrote: And also, though apparently many people hated them, I really love the operating system sounds of OS 8 and OS 9. After using one of my old laptops for a while, using Snow Leopard seems startlingly quiet, though there is no way that system sounds could have

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-09-23 10:13 AM, Ashgrove wrote: Same with screensavers --I use Electric Sheep, which is way, way cool. I use My Living Desktop which also colors the menu bar in tandem with the desktop picture but leaves the dock platform at factory default. -- You received this message because you

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Tina K.
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:05:32 -0700, Elliott Price wrote: But you're still greeted by the pink aurora when you log out. That can be fixed as well either using a terminal command that I do not know, or simply by replacing 'DefaultDesktop.jpg' in Core Services. I always modify the login bg with

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-09-23 11:05 AM, Elliott Price wrote: Actually - They're still in the default desktops in the Desktop system preference... How do i get that in Leopard or Snow Leopard ? -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Tina K.
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:47:57 -0400, Bill Chapman wrote: As a graphic designer, working on subtle desktops is an advantage. I don't need any distracting colours competing for attention. I used to use a solid medium grey desktop until it became so mind numbing that it ended up being a

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-09-23 3:02 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Uhh, dude, you DO know you can change the desktop backgroun? I've got a folder of about 100-150 pictures gleaned from the web (mostlyhttp://apod.nasa.gov/apod/,http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/, andhttp://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/) and cycle

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread epic93dude
Just gonna throw my two cents in... I prefer no gui. I tend to find that the mouse slows me down too much... Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Tina K.
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:53:03 -0700, Joshua Juran wrote: The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw (My apologies for the gender-loaded

Re: considering a used iMac

2010-09-24 Thread Charles Lenington
On 9/20/10 10:06 PM, Midnight rider wrote: That was just my line of iMacs. Here's my entire list of 16: And John Carmonne, I know you have 28, please don't rub it into my face about your collection Power Mac 6100/60 OS 9.1 500MB HDD Powerbook 540c Motorola 68030 33Mhz = snip

Re: considering a used iMac

2010-09-24 Thread Charles Lenington
On 9/21/10 10:22 PM, Bill Chapman wrote: Good idea for another reality show. You guys should post those numbers on PCWorld... and watch the Mac-bashers have a field day. Any topic with the word 'Apple' in it draws PC fanboiz and Fandroids like bees to honey. I got tired of listing my Apple

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-09-23 9:31 PM, Ashgrove wrote: As a late switcher from the other side, I find the Dock useful, elegant, and hard to live without. I prefer LaunchBar because after using a hot key to bring launch bar into action i simply type in name of the application, folder, or iTunes song and away it

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Walter Sheluk
On Sep 23, 9:28 pm, Midnight ridercoolmar...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any system app i can download that i can use to change the system theme in Mac OS X? Unsanity haxies have ShapeShifter but will not work reliably in SnowLeopard. -- You received this message because you are a

Re: Printing to PDF

2010-09-24 Thread N.Shani
Dan, I was referring to print-to-PDF, not to a physical printer. I have no problem configuring my Brother printer with the page set-up selection as you indicated. My issue is with print-to-PDF: there zero (0) selection options - even when page set-up is configured, the print-to-PDF seems to

Re: ITunes 10

2010-09-24 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
On 22/09/10 19:20PDT, Walter Sheluk wrote: Is there a haxie to get rid of the nightymare UI in iTunes 10? There was a terminal solution posted at MacWorld a couple of days ago but that just made it a stark black and white UI. I upgraded to iTunes 9.2.1. -- Sincerely, Dennis B. Swaney

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
On 23/09/10 20:39PDT, epic93d...@gmail.com wrote: Just gonna throw my two cents in... I prefer no gui. I tend to find that the mouse slows me down too much... Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Then you must LOVE MS-DOS! -- Sincerely, Dennis B. Swaney Windows is a command-line OS

Re: Printing to PDF

2010-09-24 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
On 24/09/10 04:52PDT, N.Shani wrote: Dan, I was referring to print-to-PDF, not to a physical printer. I have no problem configuring my Brother printer with the page set-up selection as you indicated. My issue is with print-to-PDF: there zero (0) selection options - even when page set-up is

Re: Printing to PDF

2010-09-24 Thread N.Shani
Darn, I was hoping to hear a more positive answer. Now this is a very long shot: anyone has any idea how to ask Apple (nicely!) how to add such features? On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:07, Dennis B. Swaney ro...@aol.com wrote: On 24/09/10 04:52PDT, N.Shani wrote: Dan, I was referring to

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Bill Chapman
I was referring to the menu bars, etc... I like Tiger, Leopard the way Apple designed them... for the background, I use the default Leopard/Tiger images. In my case, it's psychological... signaling my better-late-than-never entry into the modern Mac era (in Jan 2008). When I was on 7-8 I used

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Bill Chapman
A penny for your thoughts... I guess somebody owes you one cent ; ) On 23/09/10 11:39 PM, epic93d...@gmail.com wrote: Just gonna throw my two cents in... I prefer no gui. I tend to find that the mouse slows me down too much... Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -- You received this

Re: Printing to PDF

2010-09-24 Thread Bill Chapman
It's Adobe Acrobat Professional, actually... and for complete control of your output, you should convert the original document to a Postscript (.ps) file first, then open in Acrobat Distiller... then set up your parameters. On 24/09/10 10:07 AM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote: On 24/09/10 04:52PDT,

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 23, 2010, at 5:01 PM, Walter Sheluk wrote: Cool, would you please help me: how do use them as desktop pictures: most site dedicated to desktop pictures have a download as desktop and also allow you to select a screen size. Your help very much required and will be appreciated. Nope

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 23, 2010, at 10:25 PM, Walter Sheluk wrote: On Sep 23, 9:28 pm, Midnight ridercoolmar...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any system app i can download that i can use to change the system theme in Mac OS X? Unsanity haxies have ShapeShifter but will not work reliably in

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 23, 2010, at 8:39 PM, epic93d...@gmail.com wrote: Just gonna throw my two cents in... I prefer no gui. I tend to find that the mouse slows me down too much... Hey epic93dude, the 80's called, they want their troll back... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Ashgrove
On Sep 24, 12:31 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Sep 23, 2010, at 8:39 PM, epic93d...@gmail.com wrote: Just gonna throw my two cents in... I prefer no gui. I tend to find that the mouse slows me down too much... Hey epic93dude, the 80's called, they want their

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Ashgrove
On Sep 24, 12:27 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: It's too much work to worry about it manually, vastly easier to just let the computer do all the scutwork for me...this is why we invented the damn things. Anal-retentive that I am, I do download all those desktop pics

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Midnight rider
I was wondering if there is a patch for the OS 9 theme to make it look like leopard or at least jaguar. My Power Mac 6100 machine has my favorite startup chime of all time and it feels dated to have an OS 9 desktop... -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Midnight rider
Besides GUI, I am definitely a person who uses really large monitors. I need at least 20 monitors to consider is decent, 17 usable. I also use multiple monitors on my computers, in fact my sawtooth has 3. I am very productive and do much photoshopping, flash gaming and website managing, so a big

Re: considering a used iMac

2010-09-24 Thread Midnight rider
At my friend's store, he said that for a new years present he will sell all of those macs he has that no one is buying for only $300. when that happens, i am getting: 27 iMac G5 RevB machines 2.0Ghz 20 1GB RAM all 160GB HDD's... A Power Mac G4 sawtooth A G3 BW machine LC II Quadra 650 AV Centris

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Elliott Price
I hear you! I just got a 13 Macbook pro for work (as a computer tech) because of the portability factor. Let me tell you, it feels TINY, even compared to my 17 iMac from 2006. Working with Illustrator and Dreamweaver feels like a 600x800 screen... Yikes. I never do any real work on laptops -

Re: considering a used iMac

2010-09-24 Thread Elliott Price
Dang. All that for 300? And are they all NIB?? That's awesome. -Elliott On Sep 24, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Midnight rider wrote: At my friend's store, he said that for a new years present he will sell all of those macs he has that no one is buying for only $300. when that happens,

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Midnight rider
On my G4 sawtooth, I have a 32 LCD screen (actually a TV) plugged into it using HDMI with a 8600x6400 resolution. It is good for my photoshop, but the menu bar is too small. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs.

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Ashgrove
On Sep 24, 2:47 pm, Elliott Price callmemrp...@gmail.com wrote: I like to be very close to the screen I'm working on, so I don't use TV's - The large pixels (meant for viewing farther away) are a bit distracting. Oh, the problems of being near-sighted! Ain't that a bitch. But the joy of

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 24, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Sep 23, 2010, at 10:25 PM, Walter Sheluk wrote: On Sep 23, 9:28 pm, Midnight ridercoolmar...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any system app i can download that i can use to change the system theme in Mac OS X? Unsanity haxies have

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Midnight rider
Well, earlier i had an ATI Radeon 9800 pro card in it that had 128MB of RAM, but my jeff's friend has expirience in soldering things, and he was able to give me a 1GB ATI Radeon HD 5300 card that goes into AGP. The only drawback though is that it was meant for AGP 8x and the sawtooth can only use

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Steven
That's the way I work too. I don't just have a Cars folder in my Wallpapers section, not even just American Cars or Sedans, but folders like 1960s Sedans and 1980s Muscle Cars, leading down a long, winding path of folder hierarchy. It may seem obsessive compulsive, and it is quite a hassle when

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Steven
Somehow I doubt that. For one thing, even the experimental custom built million dollar Ultra High Definition Television sets only display a resolution of 7680x4320, which can require as much as twenty-four gigabytes per second of bandwidth, so I have no idea where you could have found that kind

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Midnight rider
OOOPS The screen is not 8600x6400, it was 2860x2640. Why did i forget the two and add the zero? The video card however is an ATI Radeon 9800 pro 128MB. The other Radeon HD card i was talking about was a upgrade in a friend's machine for his PCI-e Dual 2.7Ghz Power mac G5. Sorry for the

Re: ITunes 10

2010-09-24 Thread Midnight rider
iTunes 10 works for me, but the thing that you guys call a Nightmare UI is the same way people felt about switching over to OS X on the days of classic for their UI. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list

Re: ITunes 10

2010-09-24 Thread Bill Chapman
I used to include Classic with Tiger/Panther... but it was butt-ugly on my OS X machines. On 24/09/10 7:00 PM, Midnight rider wrote: iTunes 10 works for me, but the thing that you guys call a Nightmare UI is the same way people felt about switching over to OS X on the days of classic for

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Elliott Price
If anyone finds A-Dock, post a link! That sounds like a handy OS9 hack, I always miss the dock when I use my machines running OS9. Icon shortcuts on the desktop? Tacky... Navigating apps from the Apple menu? Tedious. Although, I remember when that was the cool way to access your apps ;)

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Steven
I guess my phrasing was a little misleading. Aquamakeover is the one that is hard to find. A-Dock is still available online, here is the homepage: http://jerome.foucher.free.fr/ADock/ADock.html One thing I really like about it is that you can set a key combination to switch it on and off, just

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 24, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Midnight rider wrote: OOOPS The screen is not 8600x6400, it was 2860x2640. Why did i forget the two and add the zero? What brand and model TV is that that you have that runs at that resolution? I've never seen a 32 that went beyond standard 1920x1080 HD. That

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Bill Chapman
I have A-Dock, it's a 256Mb file (Stuffit)... anybody want it, send me an email On 24/09/10 7:45 PM, Elliott Price wrote: If anyone finds A-Dock, post a link! That sounds like a handy OS9 hack, I always miss the dock when I use my machines running OS9. Icon shortcuts on the desktop?

Wondering about issues with this particular iMac

2010-09-24 Thread Kevin
I considering buying one of these model iMacs for my wife to use. She does, web surfing, email, iTunes and a little bit of iPhoto. I know that some of the iMacs around this era had a bulging/burst capacitor issue. Does anyone know if that was a problem with this version iMac? Are there any

Re: Wondering about issues with this particular iMac

2010-09-24 Thread Steven
I have this exact model (except mine only has 1gb of RAM), and it works great. The only problem I have had with it is that the slot loading CD drive became misaligned, causing the disc to jam against the inside of the case unless I guide it out with an index card. Judging by the reactions of

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-24 Thread Malcolm O'Brien
Wow! Did that ever remind me of Amiga screens! Aside: One of the other editors at Transactor for the Amiga had a NeXT and said he liked it as much as he liked his Amiga. -- Malcolm 800MHz 17 flat panel iMac running Leopard (1GB RAM, 500GB HD) -- You received this message because you are a

Re: ITunes 10

2010-09-24 Thread Midnight rider
I started using macs since the days os OS 7.1, and the UI switch to OS X was fairly easy for me, in fact i accepted the new UI, and am glad that Aqua cam around. Now, Aqua has been twisted around with leopard and SL so much, i wouldn't even call it aqua any more. I might as well call it graphite.

Re: Wondering about issues with this particular iMac

2010-09-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 24, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Kevin wrote: I know that some of the iMacs around this era had a bulging/burst capacitor issue. Does anyone know if that was a problem with this version iMac? No, the Capacitors of Death were pretty much confined to the G5 iMacs; the Core 2 Duo iMacs are