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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."
I haven't tried imovie3 yet, suprised though by the high sys req. Anyone with a G3 700 try it, how's it run? I must say I'm a little annoyed that any low end MAC can't run software made 6 months after you buy it. Apple always makes their new builds to the lowest MAC at the time. This is great if you have a high end mac, as the software stays cutting edge, but if you have a low end MAC you are doomed to keep it with the current software only. (I'm not fishing for flames here I have had low end macs for sometime and I love them they're great but it is a bit annoying)
Also I used camino exclusively and have switched to safari after the advent of tabs, anyone with me?
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I know we'll have a few people who'll still grouse about the Ken Burns Effect of panning and zooming stills.
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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
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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).
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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.
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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!
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"Friday Morning Release Party" is everybody elses "Thursday Afternoon Release Party".
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OK, slap me for my ignorance; but being as I'm just a lowly programmer and I don't have a digital camera, nor do I have a mighty digital video thing -- I've never used iMovie, nor have I even fired it up.
But, I keep hearing about this reviled "Ken Burns Effect". All I can do is guess it's like Homer star-wiping those handicam shots of Flanders when he was trying to pimp him out to the singles scene.
So, anybody care to educate me on this one? I'm baffled.
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)
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I'm loving Safari, but I really want Apple to implement a feature that enables a user to have multiple homepages, which are displayed in different tabs at startup. I'm not sure if another browser has this feature, but I think it would be killer.
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.)
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I cannot get autocomplete to work at all, despite having both options selected in the debug menu. Can anyone suggest a site this works on, as it maybe requires specially coded forms? Oddly enough... keychain asked if it could decrypt Safari or something along those lines, so I guess somethings happening in the background. Anyone getting autocomplete to work!??!??
One interesting tidbit is that they've announced that this will be the last Chimera/Camino release to be based on the 1.0 Mozilla branch. They'll finally be pulling up to the current Mozilla 1.3 branch, which should fix alot of bugs(Including one I find really annoying, which both Chimera and Safari share, the inability to copy/paste japanese text with most carbon apps, yay!), as well as provide some performance increase. This leaves only one big feature on my wishlist for Camino: Native text fields, with spell checking and all. Safari has spell checking, but it still has to be manually enabled for each field, which I consider a bug. Safari meanwhile is advancing at a breakneck pace. Beta62 had tabs, although there were some really annoying bugs (like the close tab command occasionally closing the whole window instead. DOH!). Hopefully today's b64 will fix that, in addition to adding tab support to bookmarks.
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when is MS going to update its IE for mac? it seems that they are falling behind even more every day. or is MS going to pull out of the mac browser market, which they previously had a large claim to. i cannot see that happening though, but i can see a MS browser on par with MS's flagship mac product, Office v.x. if IE played as nice as office on the mac, wed have a nice three way browser war, chim... err camino vs safari vs ie v.x. but seriously, ie for the mac is getting dusty its so outdated.
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No, they use the same key combos as Camino. Cmd-W closes a tab, or the window if there are no tabs, while Cmd-Shift-W closes the window if there are tabs (and oddly does nothing when no tabs are open, that's probably not optimum behavior).
They just hadn't finished implementing their custom menu/command keys in beta62.
In beta64, you can just open a tab and look in the file menu to see what I mean, the key combos are properly shown.
"The worst tyrannies were the ones where a governance required its own logic on every embedded node." - Vernor Vinge
In the release notes for Camino / Chimera, it mentions that they have added the functionality for proxy autoconfiguration (.PAC files). There is no preference pane for it, but I did find documentation about editing the user.js file in ~/Library/Application Support/ / though it still doesn't work.
Anyone else running an autoproxy and had better luck?
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Thank you!
I don't mind the snideness so much -- but, you should consider that not everybody watches everything on TV which you have. I never saw that documentary; & I pretty much don't watch television (barring simpsons reruns and conan o'brian). I certainly don't have cable, nor have I ever.
Anyway, thanks for the explanation. Also, now I realize that the slideshow screensavers must use this "ken burns effect".
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If you do have a presentation and want to keep people's attention, it really does work.
As for *why* it works, I actually think that it probably comes from our primitive past when we noticed motion as a possible preditor ready to attack us or possible prey ready to feed us. Our eyes and brain are trained to focus more on change than stasis.
Twirlip's talking about the documentary series "Ken Burns Civil War". It was an outstanding series, IMHO, and well worth watching if it comes on PBS again, or if you can borrow a DVD set from someone.
And the effect was highly effective.
or any app wars where the artillery is actually features! Much better than browser wars or other wars centered around competing standards, poor functionality, and corporate greed, IMO. ;)
Is Ken Burns the guy who did that Civil War documentary?
The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, et cetera. He's completely different from but right up there with Errol Morris, in my opinion.
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After using Safari, Camino felt a little pokey, not so much in rendering speed as in scrolling speed and general responsiveness. On the other hand, if I go back to OmniWeb, the scroll wheel feels too responsive, and I often overshoot what I'm looking for.
I'm not a fan of Tabbed Browsing so far. I have plenty of memory and DSL, so I don't see much need for them.
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Browser wars leave behind battlefields full of gratuitous incompatibilities. A browser war on Mac OS might drive people back to Internet Explorer.
Remember, Javascript is one of the craterfields left behind from the Netscape/Microsoft browser war.
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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.
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That last directory that shows as .slt is a generated number followed by .slt, such as s345f3.slt
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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.
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Yes, you're right that the x-in-a-circle appears to be a standard widget. Sigh. Even Camino uses it in the redesigned download manager. Strangely, I preferred the old way Chimera did downloads -- you clicked, a window opened, showed the progress, then went away. Now, in Camino, a download opens the manager, and a two-inch deep panel describes the download in progress ... and then stays open. The next download adds another two inches to the manager window. Etc.
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.
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The thing is many non-Americans are already hacked off about the wastebasket being renamed 'trash', and more seriously, about the lack of offline printing support for iPhoto. You know, those nice bound photo albums you can order if you live in the States? Can't get 'em where I live. My PC owning friends can order something similar even if they are using crappy PC software. Grrrr...
I'm not anti-American, just a little peeved ;-)
I switched back to Camino after printing several pages from Safari. Safari's notion of printing is actually worse than printing in Netscape 4 was, a hard act to follow.
The thing is many non-Americans are already hacked off about the wastebasket being renamed 'trash'...
...the lack of offline printing support for iPhoto.
It seems to me that many non-Americans need to get a hobby or something. Sounds like they don't have enough to worry about in their lives.
What lack of offline printing support? Export your JPEGs from iPhoto and send 'em to the printer of your choice through whatever means that service provides.
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What do you mean there's no video? I thought this was the release party for iMovie?
Javascript is a tolerable language, and Javascript per se is not all that unportable. The problem is the API/DOM that connects Javascript to its browser environment - that's where the gratuitous incompatibilities gallop in.
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3.0.2 still does not solve the audio problems described here, although the workaround of extracting the audio does solve the problem.
Ken Burns makes a lot of historical documentaries for PBS. Since most of his source material is old photographs, he pans over the pictures while zooming in and out to make the TV a little less lifeless while the narrator is speaking. It actually helps you keep your attention span up fairly well, but gets annoying if it is overdone.
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1. The currently official released Safari beta (v60) turns itself off on July first this year. When do the leaked versions expire? 2. What happens on the expiration date of the last beta version? I can see Apple starting asking for cash for post-beta Safari versions, just as they have for OS X. This may not be an altogether bad thing as long as the price is reasonable and earnest efforts are made towards bugfixes, speed enhancements, and functionality improvements (in that order).
Safari oddly has a hell of a time opening certain sites like msnbc.com . v62 didn't, mozilla doesn't (even loading at the same time).
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And Ken Burns's Effect would be pertaining to Ken Burns. The Ken Burns Effect is the effect of Ken Burns on something. Which is pretty much an apt way to describe the Ken Burns Effect. When Ken Burns is near photographs that go into a movie, this is what happens to them. The Ken Burns Effect.