Creating child and restricted access accounts in OS X Tiger

macosxhints - 10.4: Create safe, simple accounts without passwords

Nvu 1.0 has been released

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WYSIWYG HTML editing and simple web content management for Linux, Mac, Windows. Based on Mozilla.

Changing Tiger screen capture formats (via Tidbits)

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Calibrating a new LiOn battery: iBook example

Macworld: Secrets: Laptop Battery Smarts

I do this sort of thing unintentionally fairly often, but it's worth knowing about. I suspect a similar procedure might be of value for other LiOn battery devices.

Calibrate the Battery New Apple batteries, those included with a machine and those bought separately, arrive partially charged and need to be calibrated. This procedure provides a baseline for the processor built into the battery, so the processor can effectively regulate power consumption. To calibrate your battery, first plug in the laptop and charge the battery to 100 percent capacity; the light at the end of the Apple-supplied power cable will go from orange to green when the battery is fully charged. Next, unplug the power adapter and let the battery run down. The machine will put itself to sleep and refuse to wake up. Plug the adapter in again and fully recharge the battery. (You can use the laptop as you normally would during the calibration process.) You need to calibrate the battery only once.

The rest of this MacWorld article is excellent. Great advice.

Impressive G5 iMac comparative review with description of a poor fan design

ScienceMan.com - iMac G5 Noise Page

iPhoto 4: the bizarre 4.21 GB 'not enough room' bug

This is one of the most annoying bugs I run into. I'll try to export photos from iPhoto 4, and I get an error messages saying there's not enough space left -- when there's plenty of space left.

This error message arises from many bugs, but the most annoying is the 4.21 GB boundary bug. When that's the amount of drive space left, iPhoto croaks on export. Some sort of 'divide-by-zero' bug.

If I duplicate a large folder to get my free space below 4GB the error goes away and I can export.

Unfortunately iPhoto 5 is unuseable on a G3 machine and has a reputation for very nasty bugs.

When Apple support fails: the customer relations number

iMac G5 (Part 11) notes:

So thanks very much to the folks at the Apple Customer Relations department and to the guys at the Apple Store in Houston. I can't forget the folks at MacInTouch for providing this forum for discussing the problem and possible solutions. And the big thanks go to Stephen Hart for forcing me to call the Customer Relations phone line (800-767-2775). And final thanks go to the companies which make external FireWire hard drives so that people like me can make data backups.

If you're having problems with Apple's service, this is a place to go.