If you’ve updated to 10.6 (Snow Leopard) then you’ve likely noticed that the binding between documents and the applications that created them is frequently broken. That is, create a document in BBEdit and save it to the desktop. Now double-click that document. It may open in Safari, in Textedit, in Word, or, if you’re lucky […]

Part 4, and we’ll begin with Mark’s question. Mark profoundly confuses physical print size with image size. (Which is likely why he asked me to start this missive in the first place…) As pointed out in Part 3 of this Encyclopedic treatise, a graphic image has a fixed size, say 3000 x 4000. The size […]

Bruce asked some questions (below) that can easily be answered now, and not really as a detour, either. (The answer to part two of his question, about paper, will come separately.) But, as to how the eye/brain reacts to dpi/ppi… First Dots per Inch is strictly a printing term, and should not be (but often […]

OK… continuing (this too will have to be modest, as I’ve just discovered an issue with one of my websites that needs fixing today.) If you were really paying attention last night, you might see something wrong with the definition I signed off with: Meanwhile, here’s a definition: A pixel is a picture element; the […]

(This is a four-part series on picture/image, screen, and printer resolution and how they all work together, with the hopes that it will clear up Dots Per Inch (dpi), Pixels Per inch (ppi) and why things look different on your computer monitor than they do when you print them out. Taken from a list I’m […]

If so, then you should take a look here: http://www.indev.ca/ One of the most frustrating issues for those of us who “live in Mail” is that its “rules” (I prefer “filters”) are so minimal. In fact, most email software these days suffers from that condition. Filters can be immensely helpful, but Mail doesn’t even have […]

Apple will charge you $99 to renew your MobileMe account. However, you can shop around (Amazon, JR, etc) and find it for as little as $57. It looks like a new signup (“MobileMe Individual” or “MobileMe Family”) but what’s really in the box is a slip of paper with a number on it. All you […]

Today I updated VMware Fusion to 3.0 on my MacBook. My installation of Vista Ultimate didn’t like that, and promptly announced that this copy wasn’t “genuine” and likely pirated. Now, I’ve owned, and paid for: Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows ME Windows XP Windows XP Professional Windows 2000 Professional Windows Vista Ultimate. A small fortune […]

Issues with forgotten passwords come up all the time. First: know that generally speaking, if you forgot your password, you’re screwed. Second: do not choose a word for a password. For example: Ford, Billy, password, Iloveyou and secret are all passwords that can be cracked (guessed) in about 1/1000 of a second. Billy1234 is also […]

OK… little mini-report here. (I usually write these if I’m either really happy, or really not… sharing to help or warn.) In this case I’m really happy. I’ve had for a while an EyeTV 250 which has worked just fine. Then I got the EyeTV iPhone application. What this does is transfer whatever EyeTV on […]