When you want to send someone a lot of files in an email, the best way to do it is to compress it into one smaller file first, called an archive or a zip file. When the person receives the zip file they just need to double click it and, hey presto, the exact files that you put into it appear on their desktop! Read on to find out how to do it.
SUMMARY: iweb normally publishes your website to your .mac account. But it also has an option in the fiel menu called ‘publish to folder’ which means it saves the entire website onto your computer in your user directory in a folder called ’sites’. So then you just have to manually upload your site from the sites folder to the web and others can see it. That information may be all you were after, but if you need step by step instructions on how to do that, read on!
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1. Go to youtube and start watching the video in your SAFARI browser.
2. Open the “Activity” window (via the Window menu or by pressing option-Command-A).
3. One of the items in the list will be much larger than the rest, and growing as you watch. This is the video file. Double click on this item and Safari will automatically download it for you to your desktop, it will be called get_video.
4. Click ONCE on the get_video file to select it, press enter (not return, enter is the shortcut to rename a file), and add .flv to the end of the filename.
5. You now have it saved on your desktop.
6. Go to http://perian.org, download and install perian 1.0 and you will be able to watch the flv flash files in quicktime player.
Here’s the cheapest way I could find to make a conference call that uses your computer to set up a conference call between any normal landline phones.
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This one is quite an advanced tip.
If you right-click on a file you get a little menu, and if you select ‘open with’ you get a list of all the programs you can open a file with.
After a while of installing new versions of programs, this list can become quite long! Continue Reading…
There are lots of little applications you can add to your menubar to do things such as see recent clipboard items, stop your mac going to sleep (eg for presentations) and so on.
This site has a real good list of them:
http://menu.jeweledplatypus.org/
I’ve been having a problem with mail - I can’t do a search on ‘entire message’. It is greyed out. There are all kinds of ‘fixes’ available on the internet, but most of them didn’t work. Finally I fixed it and here’s a summary of the most useful advice, try it in this order:
1. Have a look in ~/Library/Spotlight and make sure there are no plugins that might be causing problems. For example, I had an old Mailtags Plugin that was 2 years old, so I deleted it.
2. Make sure you haven’t excluded your mail folder in the spotlight privacy tab (spotlight preferences)
3. Reset the entire spotlight database by opening a terminal window and typing
sudo mdutil -E -i on /Volumes/*
(It will ask for your password)
4. Open Mail and click on Mailboxes:Rebuild.
That resets spotlight and mailboxes, which I think just about covers all options.
>if I want to convert some aiff files to mp3 to be downloaded from net…
> what specs should I aim at to keep size down but quality ok…
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