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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...

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...

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...

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...

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

I'm using an illustrator drop show on some text for print design. I can't figure out how to rasterize the drop shadow only and make it a high dpi like 600 or 1200. I tried using expand appearance and flatten transparency, but the image AI makes from the dro pshadow seems low res a pixelated...

I'm using Maya more and more especially hte use of IBL with HDRI images in my Mental Ray renders. However the only app which used to work was cinepaint. Sinc eupgrading several versions of OS X to the latest version, cinepaint always crashes whenever I try and modify an HDRI image. Does anyone...

I'm thinking of getting iSight because I deal with people overseas. Thing is I use a CRT monitor with my G5. Does iSight come with an attachment for a CRT? or maybe a stand to just sit on the desk? Thanks

After diving into High-End 3D with Maya this year I discovered HDRI files and image based lighting. It is a great tool for achieving photorealistic renderings. Problem is there is no support for HDRI in photoshop and the few apps for OS X either don't work, run under X11 unstably, or are just...

I bought a dual 2Ghz G5 in january and since I first got it I've had problems reading PDF files in browsers. The browsers use quicktime to display the PDF and so only the first page appears with no controls available. I even have Acrobat Professional which alerts me whenever I launch it that the...