Friday Morning Release Party

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."

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Ken Burns Effect and How to Turn it Off

[Spencerian]

I know we'll have a few people who'll still grouse about the Ken Burns Effect of panning and zooming stills.

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=200 30 207070603841

or

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200 30 204065235938&query=ken+burns+effect

Safari v64 Download

[ihatewinXP]

Get it here http://www.deepapple.com/ Just go to the "Downloads" section. Seems much more stable the v62. Should be nearing real 1.0 status soon (even the beta 60 is being installed now as default on Apple demo machines as opposed to IE).

Re:Safari v64 Download

[he1icine]

the URL to the actual file is this:

http://www.deepapple.com/downloads/index.phtml?S ES SION=8de6521251f3347e6cc0bdcde14e304f&oid=705&type =source&SESSION=8de6521251f3347e6cc0bdcde14e30 4f

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

[he1icine]

oops, I fscked up

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

[selderrr]

it's not that hard : go to another machine and write down the url (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/camino/releases/Camino -0.7.dmg.gz)

and then use curl or wget in terminal.

Safari v64

[Erik K. Veland]

Tabs are much improved and seem a lot faster too. You can now use your regular bookmarks as tab-collections by command-clicking a folder in your bookmark bar or choosing the Open in Tabs-option in it's menu.

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:Safari v64

[Twirlip of the Mists]

On the other hand, the Safari tabs each have their own close button, albeit a non-standard "x" in a circle

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:Imovie performance, camino...

[mbbac]

I've used iMovie's Ken Burns effect on my PowerMac G3 450. It seemed quick enough to me. Note that I haven't used iMovie's DV capability because I don't have a DV camera.

Re:What is this, "Ken Burns Effect"?

[Twirlip of the Mists]

And, is it Ken Burns Effect (no apostrophe, as in : Ken is burning) or Ken Burn's Effect (with apostrophe, as in belonging or pertaining to Ken Burns)

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:Multiple Homepages

[Atomizer]

Mozilla has it, I'm using it right now. The only annoying thing I find with it, is that if you have two (out of three) of your home pages open and you click home, you get another three tabs. It would be cool if there was an option to only load the pages you didn't already have open.

Enable pipelining in Camino

[Draconix]

This will greatly increase browsing speed, though it supposedly reduces stability, I've been using it for a long time, and haven't noticed a reduction in stability.

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 some time back. A handy thing to know.

Re:What is this, "Ken Burns Effect"?

[dhovis]

The problem was that if you have a voice over with no motion going on, people get restless and don't pay attention. (This being the MTV based concentration deprived generations)

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.