Stan's List

As indicated in the license agreement for Boot Camp Beta, the Boot Camp Beta program expires when Mac OS 10.5 Leopard becomes available publicly in October, 2007.

Boot Camp Beta 1.3, 1.4 expiration
The license to use Boot Camp Beta expires when Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is available to the public. To continue using Boot Camp at that time, upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. More …

Bob Shayler ordered AppleWorks from the Education Store this weekend, with a delivery date of 3 to 4 weeks. He received confirmation today that AppleWorks had shipped. Bob went on to say that at a meeting of the East Bay User Group, two Apple employees stated that AppleWorks would ship from the Education Store as long as supplies last, then that is it. All support for AppleWorks has been discontinued

With iWorks ‘08, which includes a spreadsheet, it appears to be the end of AppleWorks. Last updated January, 2004, even AppleWorks User Group has moved over to iWorks. Apple has started re-directing AppleWorks links to iWork, though you can still access the AppleWorks download page.

You can always search for file with Command-F. What if you wanted to fine file install after the last index by Spotlight, files related to an install you wanted to remove? Macworld: Mac OS X Hints Weblog has all the commands necessary to find the files you are looking for. More …

This KB article lists the keystroke and the description for Startup, Finder window, Menu, Universal Access and VoiceOver, Mouse Keys and other commands. More …

Not only what is supposed to happen with each key stroke, but that some programs do not follow Apple GUI guidelines. One software company is a surprise and another is not. More …

On doorstops Office programs do not recognize Home and End, and thus do nothing. Very annoying, especially since the software company makes the OS. Just in case you didn’t know..

Adobe has announced Creative Suite 3 (CS3), which the company is spinning as a best of collection of Adobe and Macromedia products. Now we should see a jump in Mac market share.

Here are the application’s bundled and individual prices:

Upgrade is any Creative Studio or Macromedia Studio. A upgrade from CS2 is a further reduced price.

Macromedia Studio 8 Win/Mac, Amazon.com $599.99

Design Standard ($1199/399) (full/upgrade)

* InDesign CS3 ($699/199)
* Photoshop CS3 ($649/199)
* Illustrator CS3 ($599/199)
* Acrobat 8 Professional ($449/159)
* Plus: Bridge, Acrobat Connect, Device Central, Stock Photos, Version Cue

Design Premium ($1799/$599)

* All of Design Standard
* Photoshop CS3 Extended in lieu of Photoshop CS3 ($999/349)
* Flash CS3 Professional ($699/199)
* Dreamweaver CS3 ($399/199)

Web Standard ($999/$399)

* Dreamweaver CS3 ($399/199)
* Flash CS3 Professional ($699/199)
* Fireworks CS3 ($299/149)
* Contribute CS3 ($149/79)
* Plus: Bridge, Acrobat Connect, Device Central, Stock Photos, Version Cue

Web Premium ($1599/$499)

* All of Web Standard
* Photoshop CS3 Extended ($999/349)
* Illustrator CS3 ($599/199)
* Acrobat 8 Professional ($449/159)

Production Premium ($1699/$799)

* After Effects CS3 Professional ($999/299)
* Premiere Pro CS3 ($799/299)
* Photoshop CS3 Extended ($999/349)
* Flash CS3 Professional ($699/199)
* Illustrator CS3 ($599/199)
* Soundbooth CS3 ($199/new app.)
* Encore CS3 (included with Premiere Pro)
* Plus: Bridge, Acrobat Connect, Device Central, Stock Photos, Dynamic Link

Master Collection ($2499/$1399)

* Every application (includes Photoshop CS3 Extended)

InformationWeek’s John C. Welch, picks 22 applications which he thinks will add to your productivity. He has BBEdit (19), iChat AV (16) and AppleScript (15). I like these lists, as I know he has one I either have been looking for, or didn’t know how I got along without it. I will post the second part when announced. More …

Apple Matters’ Devanshu Mehta walks through how easy it is to connect your Tivo to your Mac. A couple of Mac software mentioned make it much easier. To start off with you must have the following:

You have a stand-alone Tivo Series 2.
Your Tivo is on the same home network (wired or wireless) as the rest of your home computers.
You have a Mac with OS 10.4 or higher.

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Carbon Copy Cloner enables you to make a bootable copy of your hard drive. The new version will:

* Support for backing up across the network
* Ability to drill down into folders to select exactly what gets copied and what doesn’t
* Ability to stop the clone and pick up where a previously aborted backup task left off
* More responsive interface
* Advanced scheduling capabilities

Glad to see this utility coming back, more info here.