>Apparently that is what happened to him in Berlin and thus his PC could >no longer recognize the camera..!
Are you saying that he connected his camera to a Mac, and then because of that, the PC could no longer recognize the camera? No likely... what is MUCH more likely is that Windows did its usual and just up and decided that it didn't feel like seeing the camera that day. >I would rather do it myself, in my own >software. So do so. You can turn off the auto import feature, and you can alter what it imports into. Apple just has it set by default to be on and use iPhoto... because MOST people would prefer that it be on, and iPhoto is already installed. >Rendevous is just a glorified local IM system -- we could do that since >OS 7 in file sharing....ho hum. Ok, this just shows that you have NO clue as to what Rendevous is. First, Rendevous has nothing to do with IMs (Instant Messages). iChat will do IMs, and iChat will use Rendevous to find other iChat clients, but that is just one APPLICATION that is USING Rendevous. Rendevous is FAR more than just "OS 7 in file sharing". (and not to nitpick, but it was System 7, Apple didn't move to the OS naming until 8). Sure, AppleTalk File Sharing (which was available before System 7, but was brought to the little guys with System 7's personal file sharing), is quite nice. It really is pretty much a "turn it on and it works" setup. Run an AppleTalk file server, run an AppleTalk client, the two find each other and you can mount the server. The same things apply to AppleTalk printers (put an AppleTalk printer on the network, open the choose, see the printer, choose it, print to it). Rendevous takes this already simple system and makes it even better. It enables you to use better protocols than AppleTalk (which is nice, but chatty and doesn't take good advantage of the available bandwidth). It also moves the recognition to a whole new level. Now, you can take your Rendevous capable printer, plug it into the network, and all the Macs on the network will automatically see it, and automatically create a printer resource for it, and automatically make it available for printing to. No more manually opening the chooser, finding the printer, making a printer, and then choosing to USE the printer. Rendevous does all this for you (except forcing you to use it, rather it makes it available in the printer list when you print so YOU can choose to or not to use it). Ok, so you are thinking, big deal, Rendevous shaved only a few minutes off my time/effort for something that was a long term addition to my network and not a big deal to go thru the motions of once. Ahh... but remember this little thing called wireless? With Rendevous, you can walk into a room with a wireless capable network and Rendevous capable printers and file servers (and iChat clients and anything else), and your laptop that you are carrying will suddenly go "Hey look, there is a ton of stuff in here I can use" and get busy making it available. So now, you can walk into an office to show a presentation, and when someone asks for a hardcopy of your slides, you can go "Sure, here ya go" and print them to the printer that is sitting in the corner of the room. No fussing with settings, no making sure you have drivers, no connecting the network, no anything. You just print, and select the printer from your list of available printers. And that is just a basic summary of Rendevous... its uses go beyond that. So to say that Rendevous is just a glorified IM system is almost as big of an under statement as "Linus" in "Ocean's Eleven" who called their heist a "smash and grab job" >And what's with PDF files not opening in >Acrobat Reader? And where do you change that?? Change it. It defaults to "Preview" because that is already installed and can read PDFs. You can either change it in the Get Info and tell it what app should open PDFs, or frankly, the easier way is to install Acrobat Reader, run it, and it will ask you if you want to make Acrobat the default PDF viewer. Say YES and your done. > Like I said, the log in >business, the take over of the user choices, stuff like that, all reek of >PC. Feel free to turn off the Log In. You can have it auto log in to any user you want on boot. I haven't see a choice yet that you can't alter (yes, many things are setup by default, but I would rather have a default choice made than no choice and have to be faced with every new thing asking me what I want to do). The only thing to me that reeks of the PC is the command line... which is easily ignored in OS X. And I'm not a person that only uses Macs and so can't accurately compare to a PC. I use Windows (various versions) all day long. Like I tell people, I fix PC's all day long, THAT is why I use a Mac! -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
