We have a Canon i9900 that works really well for us and can do up to 13x19, which is a bonus for presentation work.

Kelly

My first source for Mac software is always http://macupdate.com/ You can set your choice to only see freeware or everything and the search function is reasonable. http://www.macupdate.com/search.php?arc ... &os=macosx links to a search for 'screen capture'.

Hope this helps the Mac folk.

Kelly

We have a small firm that has specialized in churches in Western Canada for over 30 years. The firm has done over 300 and I have been involved with over 50 since I joined here in '88. We do other things, but our bread and butter is working with large committees of inexperienced people on a tight budget and bringing them successfully through a complicated and expensive process to a product that they will use and love for a generation.

We meet a lot of nice people.

Kelly

Did you make your own lines too? They seem to be much more controlled and finer than the ones I've explored in the included packages.

Kelly

This is great work. What did you render in? Why the mystery name with out profile data? Promise we won't bite because it seems that you have some great stuff to show off. You also might want to post it in the Gallery instead of the Bar.

Welcome anyway!

Kelly

@unknownuser said:

From the old forum, same login name:

Boo - my wife's cat.
Fred - my cat
Lay - my last name

Thanks Eric - that's always puzzled me! Kelly

Jeff that sounds disgusting! An instant mouth full of curds of sour cream - bet you don't do that twice.

Kelly

Any of the corn products have a high glycemic index - their starch turns to virtually instant sugar.

You actually can make a good cheesecake. I had an Atkins recipe that used ground almonds for the crust and just a touch of Splenda for the sweetening and berries for the surprises in the middle. It was so nice that non Atkins family liked it as much as I did. You only get 1/16 size slice, but that is rich enough that it satisfied. Kept you from feeling deprived too.

Kelly

What is the CAD replacement Lewis?

Kelly

Having married a South African girl 30 years ago, we have had this tea whenever we could get friends or family to send it over. Now it is all over the place and it is no longer a novelty when we entertain. Losing the exclusivity hurt a bit - sort of like when Google released the free SU!

Kelly

The iPhone runs OSX and the Apple browser for OSX is Safari - so the iPhone comes with Safari. What has hit the news is that Apple has said that the only way for programmers to run custom apps on the iPhone is to do it thru Web 2.0 type apps that will run thru Safari. So to let the whole world play at making things for the iPhone, they released Safari for Windows for the rest.

Kelly

(Ripped that Canadians have to wait past the 29th to get one!)

Mike

I think that if you use the Boot Camp partition as your Parallels disk, the same authorization applies to both. There is some talk about this on the Parallels site in the FAQ I believe - or in the forum. I seem to remember that you have to install the Tools package in Boot Camp before you authorize because that package changes the drivers which awakens Windows paranoia again.

I'm using the VMware solution even though I bought the latest upgrade to Parallels because I have a graphics problem with Revit under Parallels that I don't have with VMware. You might want to try the latest Fusion beta to see if it gives you the graphics performance that you need without going into Boot Camp. It's nice that there are two ways to do things without having to reboot.

Kelly

@santiagom said:

I got to scene 7 ok, scene 8 would go into bounding box, but would refresh inmediatly after orbit, 9 the same, 10 some lag (about 2-5 seconds) and refresh, and 11, really choppy, even in bounding box mode.

macbook, core2 duo, 2 GHz, 1 GB ram 80 GB hdd

That is quite surprising to me, since the Book doesn't even have a dedicated graphics card! Not bad at all.

Kelly

PC = Personal Computer - now a generic term for a (usually) Windows box

Mac = some sort of Apple created product - there are no clones. Originally, they used a unique operating system, but since OS X, the operating system is a cleverly hidden form of BSD Unix, which is a powerful mainframe era system that has been hacked at for decades in universities and has most of the loopholes nailed shut.

Things have gotten complicated in the last 2 years since Apple changed to using Intel chips. Now Mac hardware is similar enough to PC hardware that it can run Windows directly, which is fast and efficient enough to allow CAD and other intensive software to perform reasonably. By running Windows though, the generally immune Mac OS is now by passed and users have to worry about viruses and spyware again.

Hope this helps

Kelly

@unknownuser said:

I wish they would just let it die already, it's like a sick cat on your back porch... it won't eat, it just sits around taking up space and drooling all over the place...

LOL - I thought you were talking about Vista!!!

I have 3 Macs at home and am trying to potty train 8 PC's in the office but they just keep drooling and cr@pping out all over the place.

I guess you know what I prefer.

Kelly

Console yourself Mike with the thought that in 6 months the people buying today will be in exactly the same spot. Computers are a moving target - if you can buy it today, then the model is already obsolete compared to the one in the lab. The best you can do is make enough money with this one so that you can pay for the next one.

Kelly

But then you have all the crap from the old one and screwed up registry and the spyware and all the OLD stuff still there on the new drive. We usually want to do a CLEAN install to get back to peak performance on the hardware.

Kelly

kdjanz

When working on a Mac, you do things the Mac way. Since this is generally the most intuitive and straight forward way, this is usually not a hardship. With the Unix underpinnings, the folder structure is basically fixed - you are in a multi-user environment and you are not allowed to make messes in other people's sandboxes and they try to help you keep your area straight as well. If you follow their lead and keep your documents in the Documents folder and music in Music and photos in Photos (you get the picture)- it is pretty simple to find things. It is also dead simple to make backups or even move to another machine.

Last night I wiped my daughter's old hard drive and installed the new OS. The machine used to be a family machine and it had 5 years of 6 different users junk on it, so she was running out of space. I backed up her user folder and the Applications folder to an external drive, then wiped the drive and did the system install. The OS took 45 minutes (how long would Vista take to install on a 5 year old machine? ). I then copied her folder and the Apps folder back and she was ready to go - all her email in place, all her preferences the same - no down time at all. Tonight I will let the automatic update install all the patches etc. that have come out in the 3 years since my install DVD was made, but that will happen while I sleep - the machine will reboot itself and be ready for me in the morning. I have to do this at work on the PC's and it involves a full day and a whole binder full of master CD's for each program, (since they spread themselves all over the hard drive ) and then another day to get all the settings and preferences back to the way it used to be - that is too much like work for me, thank you very much. Don't even get me started on viruses and spyware - the hours I waste keeping everyone in the office up to date!!!

So if you insist on doing it your way and swimming against the current of the OS, you will find Mac (and any form of Linux) very frustrating. But if your goal is to get work done and use the machine as a tool that you don't think about very much...

Kelly

kdjanz

@unknownuser said:

pictures post pictures.....

No Kris - we don't post pictures anymore. We post links for people to go to the other space so that Coen isn't paying for it.

Kelly

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/sas/Materials/EQC-BOAT/
is the actual directory, but inside, there is a file called Targa8 with no extension. I added the JPG extension for you so that everyone can see your work:

301 Moved Permanently

(www.sketchucation.com)

Adding the link to the picture makes it easier for everyone.

Kelly