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Leopard installed on laptop

By Dennis Guten on February 1, 2008 No Comments

On Tuesday night I installed Mac OS X Leopard on my Powerbook G4 laptop.

I wish I could say it went 100% without casualties, but nope, not true.

The installation went just fine from the upgrade dvd that came with mom’s new Mac Mini.

A few minor shareware apps stopped working, but the main casualties I have are Fireworks MX and Flash MX. I don’t do a lot of work in Flash, but I work daily in Fireworks.

I have other programs with feature sets similar to Fireworks, but nothing that will open the already created .png graphics files I have with the original layers intact.

This is a problem since I have tons of those, for work and personal use.

I’m currently trying the 30-day trial of the Fireworks CS3 program and may have to break down and buy the program! Oy.

Categories : Apple, Flash, Software
Tags : Apple, Fireworks, Leopard, Mac, Upgrade

Update to the Leopard rant

By Dennis Guten on February 1, 2008 No Comments

Just a clarification about the Leopard upgrade…

This is the 2nd machine I have installed Leopard on. The first was my 24″ iMac and it was really scary at the beginning. All that was solved within 24hrs of install. I even figured out why my photo booth stopped working (there were 2 of them and I had linked to the corrupted one somehow?).

This time, the install went without a hitch. It was after trying the Fireworks and Flash that I had problems and after doing a bit of research I now understand why those older versions don’t work now. I’m ok with it (sorta).

But the benefit of having Leopard on the laptop has really made me so much more productive in a great way. I love the new features! After using them on the iMac and not having them on the laptop, I felt like it was way more fun to work on the imac.

One lesson for people about to upgrade…write down your friggin license codes for your programs before you upgrade.

When I bought the laptop (used) the previous owner had left some Apple pro apps (like Final Cut Pro, Compressor and a few pro music apps like Logic Express) on the machine. The only ones I ever used were Final Cut Pro and Compressor (this one just a week ago) for some video work I did for a site I am working on for a musician (www.joiededeux.com).

After putting Leopard on the laptop, now it wants license codes! Don’t have em. Oy.

I’ll live and like I say, Leopard just rocks!

Categories : Apple, Software
Tags : Apple, Leopard, Mac, OS X, Software, Upgrade

Mostly wonderful, one casualty with Leopard

By Dennis Guten on December 7, 2007 No Comments

Small update on my use with Leopard on the Mac OS.

Everything is working just fine. I only lost a few 3rd party small apps that I was not using anyways. The biggest casualty has been the loss of function of the Photo Booth software. It is an Apple application that uses the built-in camera on the iMac to take odd photos you can distort like in the post new convert to skype.

I just need to find a copy to re-install and that should work again soon. Otherwise, Leopard is great!

Oh yeah, I almost forgot…Happy Pearl Harbor Day!

Categories : Apple, Shareware, Software
Tags : Apple, Mac, Software, Upgrade
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