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David
L. Hart, SignonSanDiego.com
Dec.
27, 2004 -
I'm
considering a change to Mac, but I have
a lot of questions concerning the shift
from a PC. Can you suggest a book or a
place to look that will answer such questions?
One
place to look is Apple's own "Switch"
site, at
www.apple.com/switch.
It may be a bit heavy on the marketing,
but be sure to check the description of
the
Move2Mac software from Detto Technologies.
For
a book, read "Switching to the Mac"
by David Pogue from O'Reilly's "The
Missing Manual" series. According
to Amazon.com, a new "Panther edition"
of this book should be out by the time
you read this.
As
a PC user with deep roots, I relied on
your columns for lots of help as I made
the transition to Mac. I have some questions,
though. I'm frustrated with the "accounts"
issue. My wife and I can't share our iPhoto
libraries easily. Is it possible to store
all images on an external drive and access
them from both accounts?
iPhoto
itself doesn't let you do this, but my
wife and I do this with a utility that
lets you create additional iPhoto libraries.
Have
a look at iPhoto Buddy (http://nofences.net/iphotoBuddy),
iPhoto Librarian
(http://www.scruffyware.com/products.html)
or iPhoto LibraryManager
(click
here).
In
my case, I opened iPhoto Library Manager
in my account and created an iPhoto library
on my external hard drive and made it
my default library.
Then,
I logged into my wife's account and made
the newly created iPhoto library her default,
too. Now we both see the same library
when we start iPhoto.
I
have an eMac with iPhoto. Is there a way
to write text into the picture directly?
Not
with iPhoto. You have to open the photo
in another graphics program that will
let you do this. In the iPhoto Preferences
(General), you can tell iPhoto to open
a photo in your graphics program of choice
when you double-click the photo.
If
you do this, you can still use iPhoto's
built-in editor by selecting the Edit
button to switch to the editing view.
When
I click on a Web link in an e-mail message,
a box pops up that says "Locate Web
Browser." How do I get to the Web
site?
This
message means your e-mail application
can't find your Web browser and needs
help. In the dialog box that pops up,
you should navigate your way to the Web
browser application that you want your
e-mail program to open Web links in, and
click the "Open" or "Select"
button when you've highlighted it. You
shouldn't see the dialog box again.
David L. Hart is the author of "The
Cross-Platform Mac Handbook." Questions
can be sent to him at dhart@macbooks.net
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