Virtual PC works so far. But I thought I could easily go back and forth between my Virtual PC and Apple. I am having to shut down Windows 2000 to go back to Apple. Also, so far I've only put a mapping program I use. How do I copy a map. Normally I would right click the mouse. Apple only has one clicker and the 'apple' key plus 'c' doesn't work with this software. I need to copy then paste into my Apple Word.
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Okay, I can go to my apple programs by hitting the command (apple) key, but still don't know how I can copy and paste from the mapping program.
Windows uses ctrl-c instead of apple-c, try that and see if it works. If it doesn't, is there an Edit menu in the mapping software you use? There should be a Copy option there, too.Advance The Man said:
If that fails it could work to do a screencopy to the clipboard. To do a screencopy hit apple+ctrl+shift+4, drag to select a rectangle on the screen to copy, switch to Word, and then select Edit -> Paste.
Thanks. CTRL-C didn't work and there isn't an edit option as there is no menu on this software (Delorme Street Atlas 2005).
I will try out the software on my office Windows machine and try to figure out a way.
I will try out the software on my office Windows machine and try to figure out a way.
If you've got VPC set up in Windows mode, you should be able to drag and drop. I could be wrong though, it's been ages since I've used it.
Advance The Man said:
I'm a bit late to the party here, but I want to show you something
Technically, it's not Expose, it's Exposé. Want to know how I typed that é? Hold the Option key and press e. You will see ´ on the screen. Now press e again, and it will change to é. You can use other combinations too, like Option-` to get `, Option-I to get , and Option-U to get ¨. Plus other combinations like Option-2 will get you and Option-3 will give £. Try them all and see what you can come up with
If you use them enough, you'll memorise them pretty quickly, they can be quite useful.
I want to learn how to do something with automator. I would like to rename photos to correspond with the month and year they were taken.
So I would want it to be named like this... April2005-1.jpg, April2005-2.jpg and so on.
Is this possible and how would I set this up?
So I would want it to be named like this... April2005-1.jpg, April2005-2.jpg and so on.
Is this possible and how would I set this up?
Yes - best way is to create a test folder and then just play around. tho I don't think you can rename images that are already in iPhoto from outside iPhoto. If they are generic files outside of iPhoto, then you'll be fine.
You need to open up Automator and use the actions in the 'Finder'
You'll have a 'Get Specified Finder Items' (if you save it as a Finder plugin, this is where you'd highlight the files in the Finder and then right click to run the plug in)
Then drag over the Rename Finder options which I think you'll have to do in two stages. First one will add the date, second one will add the sequential numbers. You might want to add a 'sort' in between to make sure that the files are in sequential creation date order...
Then save your workflow as a Finder plug in, go to your test folder, right click and run the plug in and see what happens. I'll confess at this point to not having run this particular one...
You need to open up Automator and use the actions in the 'Finder'
You'll have a 'Get Specified Finder Items' (if you save it as a Finder plugin, this is where you'd highlight the files in the Finder and then right click to run the plug in)
Then drag over the Rename Finder options which I think you'll have to do in two stages. First one will add the date, second one will add the sequential numbers. You might want to add a 'sort' in between to make sure that the files are in sequential creation date order...
Then save your workflow as a Finder plug in, go to your test folder, right click and run the plug in and see what happens. I'll confess at this point to not having run this particular one...
I'm buying the video camera in the next few days. Appreciate any feedback. As you'll see in this attached thread, I want simple over quality. My wife has to be able to learn the software and how to download, edit, copy to dvd. I'm not the most literate and she is less than me. Here's the thread. With the recommendations, I am considering a Panasonic. But I really only got replies on the quality of the video, no one discussed the ease of the video transfer, editing, etc. Suggestions?
I'm not really sure about ease of use, but my impression is that, if you're intending to use it with iMovie etc, then any firewire camera that's on the list of products supported by Apple will be roughly the same -- i.e. you plug in the firewire cable and it imports. And once the video is on the computer, ease of editing is not a function of which camcorder(s) you used. Does that help at all?
^ Yes it helps. Looks as if every manufacturer is on the list! I wish there was one clear above all the rest. Think I'll just have to bite the bullet and try one of them out.
On Windows on the keyboard there is a "Delete" button and "Backspace" button. On Apple there is only a Delete button that acts like the Backspace button from Windows. I would rather the Apple Delete button to act like the Windows Delete. Is there anyway to change this as an option?
Well, on my iBook, if I press fn-DELETE it'll delete forwards like it does on Windows. And I just worked out that if I press CONTROL-DELETE it deletes everything preceding the curse back to the start of the line. How cool is that!
A couple questions that didn't look like they were answered.
For a simple drawing program try Ragtime. Should be able to create the simple drawings like the one you showed us. Another possibility is just using PowerPoint.
When copying a file and replacing a file with the same name, if the two files are identical, then the Finder just asks if you want to replace one with the other. If one is older or newer, it will tell you which is which. So if you're given no information about the difference between the two files, you can rest assured that they are the same.
For a simple drawing program try Ragtime. Should be able to create the simple drawings like the one you showed us. Another possibility is just using PowerPoint.
When copying a file and replacing a file with the same name, if the two files are identical, then the Finder just asks if you want to replace one with the other. If one is older or newer, it will tell you which is which. So if you're given no information about the difference between the two files, you can rest assured that they are the same.
wordmunger said:
Just to clarify, this doesn't happen if you're drag-and-dropping from some applications (iTunes springs to mind) into the Finder. It simply wont copy across and it wont tell the user that it hasn't worked either. I think it's a bit of an oversight on Apple's part.
Thanks, I'll check them out.wordmunger said:
wordmunger said:
I have yet to see it show me which one is older/newer. Maybe there is a setting for it.
With 2gb of RAM, you shouldn't have to shut down VPC each time.Advance The Man said:
I'm on a Mac mini w/ 512Mb RAM and use VPC 7.0.1. I'm running a WinXP w/ SP1 and have 192Mb allocated for it and can leave it open and use a couple of Mac apps (Safari, Entourage X) at the same time without hardly any slow down.... so long as I'm not installing a program over on the VPC/WinXP side (it took 2 hrs to install ActiveSync 3.8 this last weekend).
The way I copy files back and forth is: On the Mac side, I open a Finder window to the place where I want the file to go.
On the VPC/Windows side, I open up Windows Explorer and navigate to the folder where the file is that I want to copy.
I click on that file (sometimes you have to click twice - once to activate the window and change the mouse cursor to the Windows screen) and the drag it to the Finder window on the Mac side.
This was a lot easier than trying to set up shares under the VPC Windows side. The only gotcha is when you copy from Mac > VPC/Windows, if the file is too long, it will get cut off. I've had a few of those so far and have had to rename the file to it's original name (using cut and paste works for me)
^ I should of updated my experience with VPC. I simply didn't know how to go back and forth. I figured it out (i.e. press the apple key and simply move the mouse).
What I haven't figured out is where are the files I save on my 'Windows' virtual drive. I saved a few maps and some word documents under My Documents and when I searched for them on the Mac they were no where to be found. I wanted to open them up with Mac Office Word.
The only way I've been able to do it is bastardized. I save to my keychain memory, eject it, go to Apple, put the keychain memory back in usb and then copy it to the Apple hard drive. There's got to be a better way!
What I haven't figured out is where are the files I save on my 'Windows' virtual drive. I saved a few maps and some word documents under My Documents and when I searched for them on the Mac they were no where to be found. I wanted to open them up with Mac Office Word.
The only way I've been able to do it is bastardized. I save to my keychain memory, eject it, go to Apple, put the keychain memory back in usb and then copy it to the Apple hard drive. There's got to be a better way!
Advance The Man said:
Isn't the VPC virtual drive a big disk image file somewhere inside your home dir?
The files under a VPC session (ie. WinXP) are under an image file that gets created when you install an OS under VPC. Those files are only available when you boot the OS under VPC. That may seem limiting, but since Windows files are stores differently then Mac files, it's the way it has to be. At least that's my understanding of it and since a basic google search turned up no other options.Advance The Man said:
I have my WinXP VPC formatted as NTFS, although the native install leaves it as FAT (at least it did for me when I installed it).
FWIW, VPC ver. 7 is so much nicer than previous versions of VPC, even before Microsoft bought the company. I had ver. 5.0 running Win98 on an older PPC 180Mhz OS 9.1 and this thing solves a lot of usability issues, including file trasnfer between the OS's.
The ease of use of clicking and dragging the files between the two sessions (windows and Mac) is pretty seamless.
And opening up a file on the Mac side from the Windows side is pretty easy... even with the app open. Just drag the file onto the open application and if it knows how to open it, it will. Works very well for Word and Excel files.
I have only a Virtual PC 6 version that I very rarerly use, so this might not apply to VP7.
mkrishnan is right that the "Windows PC" lives inside a big disk image file in your OS X filesystem.
By default these two file systems are separate and can not access each other.
The drag and drop approach when sharing files is the easiest I have found. Hit Apple+Enter to toggle between full screen mode and windowed mode. In windowed mode you can drag from the Windows PC to your OS X desktop or to OS X applications. If your Windows PC fills the whole screen while in windowed mode you can start dragging and then hit F9 or F11 to activate Exposé while still dragging, then find your destination and do a drop.
If you don't like the drag and drop way, you can enable shared folders in the Virtual PC menu Edit -> "Some Name" Settings ...
Windowed mode also lets you do the screen capture that I wrote about earlier with Apple+Ctrl+Shift+4
mkrishnan is right that the "Windows PC" lives inside a big disk image file in your OS X filesystem.
By default these two file systems are separate and can not access each other.
The drag and drop approach when sharing files is the easiest I have found. Hit Apple+Enter to toggle between full screen mode and windowed mode. In windowed mode you can drag from the Windows PC to your OS X desktop or to OS X applications. If your Windows PC fills the whole screen while in windowed mode you can start dragging and then hit F9 or F11 to activate Exposé while still dragging, then find your destination and do a drop.
If you don't like the drag and drop way, you can enable shared folders in the Virtual PC menu Edit -> "Some Name" Settings ...
Windowed mode also lets you do the screen capture that I wrote about earlier with Apple+Ctrl+Shift+4
This is how I run VPC 7... Windows mode is pretty easy to move stuff back and forth. I run my Mac mini in 1280x720 and my WinXP in 1024x768.gekko513 said:
As for the screen capture hint, thank you. Didn't know that I could do that.
PB Heat
I always thought my Compaq laptop was screwed up b/c it would get unbearable hot underneath. Now with the PB, I'm thinking it's normal b/c you literally could cook an egg on it. Granted it might take 20 minutes to do it, but it could.
Is this normal? I have to put a pillow between me and the laptop after say 15 minutes of use b/c of the heat. Anyone else or everyone else have this same problem?
I always thought my Compaq laptop was screwed up b/c it would get unbearable hot underneath. Now with the PB, I'm thinking it's normal b/c you literally could cook an egg on it. Granted it might take 20 minutes to do it, but it could.
Is this normal? I have to put a pillow between me and the laptop after say 15 minutes of use b/c of the heat. Anyone else or everyone else have this same problem?
Unfortunately, yes. All modern laptops with a decent amount of computational and graphics power do use a lot of electric power and must dissipate heat as a result. The metal shell of the powerbooks are good for dissipating heat, so that the fans don't have to work as hard as if they had been plastic, but it also means that if you use a powerbook on your lap, it will feel hotter sooner.Advance The Man said:
Less powerful laptops do not get as hot, but then again aren't as useful for all computer tasks.
How are you doing with Mac OS X? Are you starting to get used to it? How do you like it compared to Windows?