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I had emails on my system I was passing from workstation to workstation over the years and recently realized that I had emails from 2004 still in Apple Mail. I now use MailSteward so I backed up everything into databases and now just keep the current year's emails in Mail.app so it's tidier...

Hi I wanted to run some benchmarks on my hardware for high-end audio, video and 3D tasks. Can anyone recommend something good that shows more detailed info than the standard activity monitor? If there is something that shows the number of files loaded, their size, hard drive info, etc. I...

Hi I am looking to setup a file server for my small business and would like to know about compatibility. I do a lot of visual FX work, video and other high-end design and need something reliable and something that I can use between Mac OS X powerpc, intel mac pro and windows xp pro x64...

okay, I tried and retried and tried again all the suggestions. I tried shutting off indexing for my bootcamp volume of windows xp x64 but the indexing still doesn't complete, it just nears the end of indexing sooner. Onyx fails. twice, after deleting the plist file and restarting and running...

btw, here is what spotlight looks like

Well I let this run all day and it's still running. Activity monitor shows that a process called mds is using 100% CPU which I assume is part of that utility. If you know any other ways of trying to fix this please let me know, I'm going to try in Onyx right now. I'll try that with mail. I...

I recently purchased an 8-core (3.2) Mac Pro and noticed 3 major problems that I can't explain because they were always there from day 1. 1) Spotlight is unusable from the menu bar. It always says it's indexing and shows a progress bar with the constant bars moving fast like it's preparing to...

No, not 3D apps, hence the reference to Maya in my post. 2D apps is what I'm asking about. I know how to do this in maya but I'm trying to find an alternative 2D app/plug-in that can do it for a specific project I have. Thanks D

Hi I'm trying to find the name of a software app someone told me about last year. I'm not sure if it's a standalone app or a plug-in for after effects or shake. It lets you add spline IK systems, like that in 3D software such as maya, to 2D shapes and images and apply forces to make things...

this was one example for a splash page, but when creating HTML sites tables are the easiest thing for me and I'd rather stick to using them and not have to start messing with CSS code, even though that can help position an image. Besides, even when I make flash sites, it is very easy to create a...

I'm making the tables in dreamweaver, I'm not writing the code by hand. Below is an excerpt from the body code from the HTML document. In INternet Explorer it works fine as always, but ever since I've used safari it doesn't handle percentages right, unless you have to code them differently...

For some reason safari doesn't like it when dreamweaver tables use percentages. I don't know why this is since every other browser supports it. Is there a work around for this because it's a real pain that the browser of the OS I develop web sites on doesn't even support my damn tables. I'm...

Did you try rendering from command line? Do a test with command line. Setup a Maya file with mental ray renderer and in terminal type this then drag your file from the finder after "mr" to place the file path. render -r mr /filePath/mFile.mb if you want to try a batch with maya software...

Hey people I run Maya 6.0.1 on a Dual 2GHz G5 with 3.5GB RAM. I'm hesitant to buy Tiger until I see how Maya and other graphic and 3D apps perform. If anyone plans to upgrade to Tiger when it's released please post any issues you come across. Thanks TA

That's a lie. You can burn CD's. AND with a simple audio editing app that lets you digitize your CD's, you can take the music off the CD and put it on anything you want. pretty simple actualy. Not necessarily legal, but it works flawlessly. I personally have an ipod but I needed to do this to...