Re: Wondering about issues with this particular iMac

2010-09-27 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 26, 2010, at 5:45 PM, Jack Suggs wrote: If there was a Like button for all the above, I'd click it. I have no idea what you're referring to, since you didn't quote anything above. Josh -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those

Re: Wondering about issues with this particular iMac

2010-09-27 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 26, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Steven wrote: I only used the term imaginary as a sort of insult to digital files. Yes, they may technically exist, but only in the same way that a song on the radio exists, not in an immediately available physical form (I can't very well remove my hard disk

Re: Wondering about issues with this particular iMac

2010-09-27 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 26, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Tina K. wrote: The issue I have with digital files is that regardless of the media you store them on, be it a HDD or flash drive, both of which are subject to magnetic damage; or writable optical media, which seem to degrade simply by existing; they are subject

Re: ITunes 10

2010-09-27 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 27, 2010, at 7:02 AM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote: What everyone seems to be missing is the fact that the iTunes 10 UI VIOLATES Apple's own guidelines in that ALL applications have to present the same UI as the Mac OS. What you seem to be missing is that Apple has been doing this for

Re: Wondering about issues with this particular iMac

2010-09-27 Thread Malcolm O'Brien
I'd rather have the ability to make lossless backups of my photos They likely come out of the camera lossy (jpg). -- Malcolm 800MHz 17 flat panel iMac running Leopard (1GB RAM, 500GB HD) -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple

Re: Wondering about issues with this particular iMac

2010-09-27 Thread Bill Chapman
Store them as PNG (.png). Lossless On 27/09/10 10:43 AM, Malcolm O'Brien wrote: I'd rather have the ability to make lossless backups of my photos They likely come out of the camera lossy (jpg). -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those

Re: Wondering about issues with this particular iMac

2010-09-27 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/09/26 19:11, Matt Rhinesmith wrote: Flash drives aren't susceptible to magnetic damage... While that may be correct, they are subject to spontaneous catastrophic failure which in the end is even worse. Factory pressed optical disks don't spontaneously fail. Tina -- You received

Re: Wondering about issues with this particular iMac

2010-09-27 Thread Malcolm O'Brien
Store them as PNG (.png). Lossless Your camera will do that? What's the brand? -- Malcolm 800MHz 17 flat panel iMac running Leopard (1GB RAM, 500GB HD) -- 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: Wondering about issues with this particular iMac

2010-09-27 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 27, 2010, at 7:43 AM, Malcolm O'Brien wrote: I'd rather have the ability to make lossless backups of my photos They likely come out of the camera lossy (jpg). That only happens once. There's no *generational* loss as with analog copies. Josh -- You received this message

Re: ITunes 10

2010-09-27 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/09/27 02:00, Joshua Juran wrote: I originally objected to the traffic light colors because the functions in question have nothing to do with traffic signals I can see a correlation. Green = Go (big, continue working in the window) Yellow = Pause (minimize, continue working in the

Re: ITunes 10

2010-09-27 Thread Bill Chapman
I agree with you assessment On 27/09/10 11:09 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/09/27 02:00, Joshua Juran wrote: I originally objected to the traffic light colors because the functions in question have nothing to do with traffic signals I can see a correlation. Green = Go (big, continue working

Re: Wondering about issues with this particular iMac

2010-09-27 Thread Bill Chapman
I don't have a digital camera... I meant once you download onto your computer, save them as png in Preview or Photoshop, or whatever. PNG retains pixel info, and have also replaced GIF format On 27/09/10 11:11 AM, Malcolm O'Brien wrote: Store them as PNG (.png). Lossless Your camera will

Re: Wondering about issues with this particular iMac

2010-09-27 Thread Bill Chapman
I've always understood that jpegs continually lose pixels every time you save them. On 27/09/10 11:13 AM, Joshua Juran wrote: On Sep 27, 2010, at 7:43 AM, Malcolm O'Brien wrote: I'd rather have the ability to make lossless backups of my photos They likely come out of the camera lossy

Re: ITunes 10

2010-09-27 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/09/27 02:00, Joshua Juran wrote: I originally objected to the traffic light colors because the functions in question have nothing to do with traffic signals I can see a correlation. Green = Go (big, continue working in the window)

Re: ITunes 10

2010-09-27 Thread Bill Chapman
Just call the 'traffic-lights' a kind of 'paraphrase' of the real deal. They are a brilliant adaptation, close enough. Simple, elegant. If MS came up with that they would make them octagons and about 4 times larger. On 27/09/10 11:46 AM, Joshua Juran wrote: On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Tina

Re: ITunes 10

2010-09-27 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
On 27/09/10 09:40PDT, Bill Chapman wrote: Just call the 'traffic-lights' a kind of 'paraphrase' of the real deal. They are a brilliant adaptation, close enough. Simple, elegant. If MS came up with that they would make them octagons and about 4 times larger. They did, but they used squares.

Re: ITunes 10

2010-09-27 Thread Bill Chapman
Do you mean Win7. I've not seen it... I do have WinXP SP2 sandboxed on 2 Macs (via Virtual PC 7). Instead of those ugly squares with totally unappealing icons, I might have at least suggested the red, yellow green from their logo, keeping the flag shapes. On 27/09/10 12:58 PM, Dennis B.

Re: ITunes 10

2010-09-27 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
On 27/09/10 10:09PDT, Bill Chapman wrote: Do you mean Win7. I've not seen it... I do have WinXP SP2 sandboxed on 2 Macs (via Virtual PC 7). Instead of those ugly squares with totally unappealing icons, I might have at least suggested the red, yellow green from their logo, keeping the flag

Re: ITunes 10

2010-09-27 Thread Bill Chapman
I only need WinXP to check my site designs in IE6/7... I do that locally... I don't venture online with XP. There's no point. On 27/09/10 2:11 PM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote: On 27/09/10 10:09PDT, Bill Chapman wrote: Do you mean Win7. I've not seen it... I do have WinXP SP2 sandboxed on 2 Macs

Re: Leopard?

2010-09-27 Thread Steven
Sorry for replying so late, but I just realized that your description sounds a lot like a Photoshop drawing I did of Mac OS 9.6. Lots of shiny blacks and glowing blues. http://www.flickr.com/photos/obi1kenobi1/3017206820/sizes/o/ After looking at it again, mine probably wouldn't work so well

Re: ITunes 10

2010-09-27 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-09-27 9:46 AM, Joshua Juran wrote: I agree that the colors are aesthetically pleasing, but they don't function similarly to the traffic light on which they're presumably based. I am somewhat lost in this thread because my children have always referred to the Apple traffic lights. Kids

Re: ITunes 10

2010-09-27 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
On 27/09/10 12:16PDT, Walter Sheluk wrote: I am somewhat lost in this thread because my children have always referred to the Apple traffic lights. Kids say the darn dist things as someone once said. What should we call them ? Technically from left to right they are called: Close button

Re: ITunes 10

2010-09-27 Thread Bill Chapman
I didn't mean that it did, only that I have seen XP and not Win 7 On 27/09/10 2:50 PM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote: On 27/09/10 11:15PDT, Bill Chapman wrote: I only need WinXP to check my site designs in IE6/7... I do that locally... I don't venture online with XP. There's no point. The

Re: ITunes 10

2010-09-27 Thread Bill Chapman
Call them Apple's version of traffic lights... moving through windows is 'traffic'... right? Kids get the idea... adults want to nit-pick ; ) On 27/09/10 3:16 PM, Walter Sheluk wrote: On 10-09-27 9:46 AM, Joshua Juran wrote: I agree that the colors are aesthetically pleasing, but they don't

Best independent Apple forum

2010-09-27 Thread Jonathan
This is of course down to personal choice, but I have nothing to go on here. Your opinions are welcome. I am a member of the official apple community forums, which is good in it's own regimented way and here or course. But I am looking for an independent community forum that covers all things

Re: Best independent Apple forum

2010-09-27 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Jonathan jonathan.newcas...@googlemail.com wrote: This is of course down to personal choice, but I have nothing to go on here. Your opinions are welcome. I am a member of the official apple community forums, which is good in it's own regimented way and here

Re: Best independent Apple forum

2010-09-27 Thread Walter Sheluk
On 10-09-27 7:10 AM, Jonathan wrote: Which do you use http://68kmla.net/forums http://forums.macworld.com/ http://www.maclife.com/forums/ -- 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: Best independent Apple forum

2010-09-27 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/09/27 07:10, Jonathan wrote: But I am looking for an independent community forum that covers all things apple and mainly current apple technology free from the controlling nature of apple themselves. There is a lot of good people and good information at the MacNN forums:

Re: Wondering about issues with this particular iMac

2010-09-27 Thread Elliott Price
Any *real* camera will save images as RAW... :) No loss of anything there. If you save JPG's with no compression, you don't loose virtually no pixel data. My camera saves uncompressed JPG's, and when I save them from Photoshop, I save them at maximum quality, which is basically uncompressed.