Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Would rather have one 30"

Running my Dual 1.8 GHz PowerPC G5 with two 15' Dell monitors, its amazing! How did I live without two monitors before!?

I mostly use iWork 09.

Keynote > * for presentation stuff. seriously, it's the one reason to get iWork and the one thing that makes people I show it to cry and ask for it on doze. It drops on powerpoint from a great height indeed.

Pages is acceptable for doing flyers etc. it's pretty good at 'DTP lite' - Not entirely sure I'll write a book with it tho.
Numbers is a bit weird and Object would probably cry if he saw it. but I get by.

I have Openoffice as well - V3 is a HUGE improvement - but would only use the wordpro/spreadsheet part of it.
Neooffice is another option - has been native Mac for ages but is highly based on Openoffice and now 3.x is native... not sure I'd bother.

Mac Office seems fine and certainly has the rep of being the best version of office for any O/S but: it costs... and - do NOT let Entourage do your email stuff for you. Last weekend I spent quite a few hours recovering a lost 12Gb 'mail store' for a friend. no fun. seriously.

Oh, if you're writing a book, novel, thesis, may I recommend Scrivener which is bloody brilliant for big writing projects.

..and if you can't face splashing out for Scrivener then I can recommend Writeroom for true minimalistic focus on the writing excellence.

I think someone earlier said iWorks is bundled - then talked about Garageband. iLife is bundled and includes Garageband (music mixing and podcasts) as well as iTunes, iPhoto, iWeb and iMovie. Consumer apps, but pretty classy for all that.

iWorks I don't think is bundled and the packages are excellent value. If your produce work that's going to stay on Mac then use iWorks.

Unfortunately we do live in an Office world so you may have to get Office too. My only real complaint with Office is the price. I have yet to upgrade to the latest version. Cheap it ain't.

Yeah if you have no reason to send files to Office users, etc. iWorks is pretty good, been messing in it today and it's alright! ALlo completely forgot about Keynote compared to Powerpoint (as I usually present from PDF), Keynote wipes the floor with Powerpoint.

Though I only have macs, lots of the people I work for or with use PC's and MS Office for everything so I deal mainly in that so everything is sure to work. I have no idea how much Office for mac costs, I didn't have to pay for it.

I have used iWork 08/09 and Openoffice in MS Office environments for the past few years - they cope fine unless you are an excel macro tastic person where YMMV.

export to PDF being 'native' in iWork meant people sent me their word docs to make into nice PDFs - much hilarity etc.

I'm going to try the free iWork demo for 30 days and see. MS Office for Mac can be had for £35, by the way.

Anyone got CS5? They appear to have done away with the back-saving facility, or from what I can gather you can only save back to CS4, in InDy certainly.
We've got a whole load of CS4 files saved that we can't open as we're CS3, and we've all used up our CS4 trials.
Guess we'll just have to get the upgrades!
Unless anyone knows different?

you can keep 2 versions on the same machine if only one is running at once so you can work on your old files if needed

Annoyingly, they've always followed a model of down-saving by one version only...

ditto... or a universal format...pdf, eps, etc.
autocad can suck my cock though.

you can keep 2 versions on the same machine if only one is running at once so you can work on your old files if needed

We used trials though and only have 3.

Annoyingly, they've always followed a model of down-saving by one version only...

Bastads

ditto... or a universal format...pdf, eps, etc.
autocad can suck my cock though.

Too late. Temp didn't downsave. FFS.

Am pushing for an upgrade :)

Coming soon, a dating site exclusively for Apple users. http://cupidtino.com/

Cry for help.
I've jus stupidly lost my external hard drive in Argentina and have deleted the original photos i took in japan off the internal hard drive and copied over the images on the sd card.
So question does anyone have a magical data recovery programme they can yousendit to me that will find and restore the deleted photos.
Deleted the photos two weeks ago but haven't used the computer since. It was about 8gb of photos in total, but I only need to recover like the first four.
Got an old g4 Powerpc PowerBook 12" running osx 10.4.11.

Thanking you in advance

is it unethical to put this here?

file salvage is good but you have to pay for it and then run it on another machine with yours in target mode. if you keep using your machine the images will get overwritten.

you also need another drive or at least a lot of space on the other computer as you will probably have to copy every image from your laptop as when i have done rescue jobs for people the images are there but they often get renumbered from 000001.jpeg onwards

I just want to say, I'm using my new macbook right now, and it's fucking ace.
Carry on.

Mr smyth do you have file salvage, is it something that can be yousent?
I'll be in the states in just over a month and hopefully can sort it there.
Is that the only way, as it'd mean not putting anymore photos onto the computer and having to pull them off a pen drive. Slow but worth it i can retrieve the photos.

Its an app that i have on my computer. i prefer it to data rescue (the other reccomended app)
it's a licensed app so you have to buy it.

Question: I'm using time machine to back up my mac. If something goes wrong will it rescue me? I know nothing about it and am putting my trust in Apple.

You'll be able to restore your mac (once repaired) to a specific date. Normally the date of the last backup. All settings, files and everything will be the same...

Ah good, that's what I expected, thanks. Used to clone my PC hard disc to back it up and it was a hassle so I hardly ever did it. Time machine is really easy, I use an external hard drive and it reminds me when it's overdue. It just works!

is it unethical to put this here?

Q: do you have a buy it now price for this item?
A: Yep, £500.00. Best to let the auction run though really. x

Humour is never unethical

my text isn't highlighted when I select all in Illy. Fucking annoying. Any idea how to turn this back on?

View -> Show edges?