Friday Morning Release Party 104
usermilk writes "Apple has released an update for iMovie 3. It provides improved performance and stability, you can get it from the Software Update preference pane." Hopefully this resolves many of the complaints about what could be a really cool program. maxentius writes "The beta .7 version of
Camino has been released. Once Chimera, this tabbed browser and Apple's Safari might start a real browser war. Which one do you prefer?" And on that note, an anonymous user writes "Safari v64 is making the rounds according to macrumors. Safari v62 brought us Tabs, and this new version (v64) appears to provide increased stability, improved tab appearance, loading status for tabs, and enhanced autocomplete."
Ken Burns Effect and How to Turn it Off (Score:5, Informative)
Mac OS X Hints has this well documented. You can change two settings in the KBE settings, or you can disable auto-application of KBE to stills with a plist change.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20
or
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20
Safari v64 Download (Score:5, Informative)
Safari v64 (Score:5, Informative)
The loading info is very useful too. All in all the perfect tabs-implementation. Only nit-pickers care which direction the tabs face
Oh, and auto-complete from Adress-book. Trés cool!
Re:Imovie performance, camino... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:What is this, "Ken Burns Effect"? (Score:5, Informative)
It's "Ken Burns Effect." See, there's this guy, Ken Burns. You may have heard of him. Made a couple of documentaries or something, including one about a war. Didn't have any video of the war-- I guess it happened before CNN or something-- so he had to use lots of still photos. The way he used them, panning across them while telling the story, got him some kind of recognition or something. So now whenever anybody pans across a still photo in a movie, it's called the Ken Burns Effect.
(Sorry for all the snideness. Up late last night, up early today. Bad combo.)
Re:Safari v64 Download (Score:1, Informative)
Dumped IE and then went to download safari with...........? How did you end up figuring that one out ; )
Re:Safari v64 (Score:5, Informative)
That's not non-standard. It's a standard Cocoa widget used to close a pane or other window part, although in all honesty I'm too lazy right now to look it up and give you more details. Suffice it to say that the x-in-a-circle close-widget has been used in Project Builder for months, at least.
Re:Multiple Homepages (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Safari v64 Download (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.deepapple.com/downloads/index.phtml?
and once again if you haven't enable the debug menu, quit safari, open terminal and type:
defaults write com.apple.safari IncludeDebugMenu 0
relaunch safari, the debug menu is on the right and you can turn tabs (etc.) on there
Re:Safari v64 Download (Score:5, Informative)
this turns debug on:
defaults write com.apple.safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
this turns it off:
defaults write com.apple.safari IncludeDebugMenu 0
Re:Safari v64 Download (Score:5, Informative)
and then use curl or wget in terminal.
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Re:internet explorer (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Imovie performance, camino... (Score:3, Informative)
There is a way to do this - it's a bit clumsy but does work. The key is to use still frames as shims between KBE shots, and to alternate between doing KBE animations forward and in reverse to avoid having to re-zoom and re-position the photo.
So, if you want to, as you say, scan from face to face, you can create a KBE zooming into the first face, then save that clip. If you preview the clip in the main screen, when it gets to the end of it (the zoomed in face) you can create a still frame of that (if it takes a still frame of the wrong thing at first (for example, the unzoomed photo), keep trying - it can be finnicky). You can then drop that frame into your timeline after the first KBE and it will hold the shot on that face for a few seconds with the exact zoom and positioning settings you initially set. Then go back to your photo, and you will notice that it remembers your KBE settings. What you must do now is leave the end positioning the same, but alter the begin positioning to move on to the next face you want to show and tell the KBE to animate in reverse. This will leave your zoom and positioning settings for the beginning of the next KBE to be exactly where your last frame ended, and you will have a nice pause in between animations. You can repeat this process over and over, and while it may be a bit tedious, it does give you the exactness you desire. You do not have to approximate anything, and it will look clean.
Re:internet explorer (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Safari v64 Download (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Safari v64 (Score:3, Informative)
Enable pipelining in Camino (Score:5, Informative)
First, make sure Camino is not running. Then open the prefs.js file, located in Library(the one in your user directory)/Application Support/Chimera/profiles/default/.slt
Paste these lines into it:
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
Note: I got this information from Mac OS X Hints [macosxhints.com] some time back. A handy thing to know.
Re:What is this, "Ken Burns Effect"? (Score:5, Informative)
That is a little harsh. One of the reasons the effect is so appealing is that human vision is tuned to picking up motion. The other thing is that a TV is not designed to display still pictures, so a moving still picture will look better on a TV than a stationary one.
And yes, it is the same Ken Burns of "The Civil War" et al. "The Ken Burns Effect" was the developmental name for Apple's pan & zoom effect, but when they showed it to Ken Burns himself, he gave his blessing to use his name in the finished product.
download manager (Score:2, Informative)
Which is where these new "standard" close buttons come in. Each download panel has its own button; when all are closed, the 2-inch window tells you there's nothing to display. Very pVT.
The red stoplight closes the whole thing, of course. I'm mostly irritated by the beanstalk window; it could be very easily refined with a preference setting or two. In the meantime it leaves me pining for the IE download manager. Yuk.
Sorry about that widget mistake. I've been running Macs since 1985. First time I'd ever seen it -- and I've happily adapted to OSX.
Re:Multiple Homepages (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Safari printing is awful! (Score:2, Informative)
Safari scales the printout to match the window on the screen (someone's idea of WYSIWYG I guess).
Look carefully at the screen and the printout, the lines breaks in the text match exactly. If you want bigger text and graphics in your printout, make the your window narrower.
"TextEdit" does the same thing, if it is wrapping text to the window width (seeing this in TextEdit is the only reason is the only reason I figured it out in Safari).