Jim Heid's Apple Discussion post deleted: Follow-up

Jim Heid's Mac iLife 04 Site: iTunes, iPod, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand

Apple Deleted My Post, So I'm Publishing It Here: Never Use iPhoto's 'Erase after transfer' Option

Yesterday, I posted a reply on Apple's discussion boards. A user had suffered a trauma: he imported some photos into iPhoto, and had checked the 'Erase camera contents after transfer' box. Alas, for some reason, iPhoto didn't import the photos -- but it did erase the camera's contents. Ouch....

....This morning's email brought notification that my post had been deleted because it was inappropriate. Whatever. It's Apple's sandbox, and Apple can and clearly does set and enforce its own rules.

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Although I feel that the censorship level on Apple's Discusson board is excessive, I'm obliged to update this blog with a few points in their favor:

1. In an Apple discussion it was pointed out that Jim's post may have had an "active link" to his book, Apple guidelines prohibit that.

2. My posting complaining about this was "locked" but not removed; it contained an active link to this post.

Blogger links are no longer permanent -- a VERY bad design decision

Blogger: Dashboard

Blogger was redesigned. As part of the redesign each post can have its own archive page. That's great, except Google made a boneheaded, even ludicrous, mistake.

Persistent URLs used to contain a meaningless identifiers, a long number. That's the right way to do things. The used to look like this:

om/2004_05_01_googlefaughnan_archive.html#108467222968450155

But if you enable the new single post/archive page option, persistent URLs look like this:

http://doctorfaughnan.blogspot.com/2004/03/orton-gillingham-approach-to-teaching.html

The title has become the URL.

If you change the title, the URL changes.

So the URLs are only as persistent as the title. They are no longer truly persistent URLs.

That's one of the biggest design errors I've seen in some time. I can't believe no-one caught it.

USB HotSync and Charger Cable for CLIE?

USB HotSync and Charger Cable (PEG-T/TJ/SJ/NR/NX/ TH55 Series) - Proporta If this works with the TJ-27 it would go a long way to compensating for the defects of that device. UK company!

Diversified Systems Group, Inc. - Media & Services - CD-R/DVD-R - Bulk CD-R/DVD-R - Mitsui

Diversified Systems Group, Inc. - Media & Services - CD-R/DVD-R - Bulk CD-R/DVD-R - Mitsui

Sell "gold" and other longer lived Matsui media.

Issue 12 - Which Brands of CD-R Discs are Best for Long-Term Data and Photo Storage?

Issue 12 - Which Brands of CD-R Discs are Best for Long-Term Data and Photo Storage?

6. Typically, Japanese made CD-Rs tend have better quality control, IMO.

Once they move production to Taiwan/Mexico, forget em.

Top Quality Name-Brands, in order of preference:

A. Mitsui Gold CD-R & Kodak Gold Ultima - Phthalocyanine dye + Gold.
B. Kodak Gold Silver+Gold - Phthalocyanine dye + Silver & Gold.
C. Mitsui Silver, Ricoh Platinum - Phthalocyanine dye + Silver.
D. Mitsubishi/Verbatim - Azo + Silver.
E. Taiyo Yuden - Cyanine + Silver.

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Last updated in 2001, but little seems to have changed. There's new interest in longer-lived CD-R so maybe we'll learn more.

Ultimately we need Google to go into the off-site backup business.

NAV on OS X deletes entire Eudora mailbox files

MacInTouch Home Page: "Notes and Tips

Alan Claver offered some good tips for avoiding Norton AntiVirus's bad habit of destroying entire mailbox files:

The problem is that the virus signature appears in clear text within the mailbox file and/or spool files of Eudora. This text is matched by NAV and depending on your options the file is either deleted or quarantined (with predicably bad results).
Not every definition file appeara to have these signatures but when they are downloaded and incorporated into NAV, these issues occur.
The fix for this is to exclude the folder which contains the IMAP and/or SPOOL folders from NAV real-time and scheduled scan configurations. For the standard Eudora 6.x installation on OS X:

* POP mail folder: {home}/Eudora Folder/Mail Folder
* IMAP folder: {home}/Eudora Folder/IMAP Folder/{mailbox folders}
* SPOOL folder: {home}/Eudora Folder/Delivery Folder

Don't just exclude the entire IMAP folder because the Attachment folder for the particular IMAP account is located there and that folder must be scanned (since that's where the virus files are dropped)."

resolving iPhoto blurring?

iPhoto 4, Macintouch

Terrell Smith

Indeed, iPhoto does do far too much blurring. It can be corrected simply by clicking on one of the brightness/contrast sliders in Edit. You will then see the picture snap into focus."