Author: Nick Ganga

Apple Remote Desktop 3 Tutorials

Apple today announced an upgrade to their systems management suite, Apple Remote Desktop 3. As with all Apple products, I take the time to check out every aspect of the website Apple puts up for it.

Apple today announced an upgrade to their systems management suite, Apple Remote Desktop 3. With over 50 new features, Apple has done it again stepping up a notch. As with all Apple products, I take the time to check out every aspect of the website Apple puts up for it. Remote Desktop 3 was no exception. I did notice something interesting though. On the tutorial listed “Easy Setup” , if you move the play head button to just past the triangle under the Finder face, the video is setting up a client computer and there is an additional System Preferences button I haven’t seen before. It says Processor and has a picture of a chip. Is this from a new Mac that has yet to be released, or a special development style one? Could they be installing it on a non-Apple computer?!

EDIT (April 21, 2006)
So one of my Apple Genius Bar friends clarified what the icon is for. When you install the XCode and other developer tools the processor icon shows up so developers can control how their applications work in multithread environments. Cool none-the-less.

From my friend Erik

The bar has a robot bartender.Therobot serves him a perfectly prepared cocktail, and then asks him,”What’s your IQ?”The man replies “150” and the robot proceeds to make conversation aboutglobal warming factors, Quantum physics and spirituality,bio-mimicry,environmental interconnectedness, string theory,nanotechnology, and sexual proclivities.The customer is very impressed and thinks, “This is really cool.”

The Bartender

A man enters a bar and orders a drink. The bar has a robot bartender.
The
robot serves him a perfectly prepared cocktail, and then asks him,

“What’s your IQ?”

The man replies “150” and the robot proceeds to make conversation about
global warming factors, Quantum physics and spirituality,
bio-mimicry,environmental interconnectedness, string theory,
nanotechnology, and sexual proclivities.

The customer is very impressed and thinks, “This is really cool.” He
decides to test the robot. He walks out of the bar, turns around, and
comes back in for another drink. Again, the robot serves him the
perfectly prepared drink and asks?

“What’s your IQ?”

The man responds, “about 100.” Immediately the robot starts talking, but

this time, about NASCAR, super models, favorite fast foods, guns, and
women’s breasts.

Really impressed, the man leaves the bar and decides to give the robot
one more test. He heads out and returns, the robot serves him and asks,

“What’s your IQ?”

The man replies, “Er, 50, I think.”

And the robot says… real slowly..”So…………… ya gonna vote for
Bush again?”

Apple BootCamp

As a funny side note, the BootCamp site has a silly disclaimer on the side: Word to the WiseWindows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC.That means it’ll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world.So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes.

After the major announcement last year that Apple was going to switch to Intel processors and the surprise announcement of the Intel iMac and MacBook Pro in January (six months ahead of schedule), Apple has done it again. Shortly after a few programmers were able to get BIOS emulation to work on the Mac, Apple released a new product BootCamp.

More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply
irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac
OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system
on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta
today.

Obviously only compatible with the new Apple computers with Intel chips (MacBook Pro, iMac, MacMini), BootCamp not only allows users to setup and install Windows XP, it even burns a CD with the core drivers (Graphics, Networking, Audio, Airport Wireless, Bluetooth, The Eject Key, and Brightness Control) for Windows. This was the main problem with the hack-around method before as users were faced with unstable performance.

The real question now is, how well does it perform. Shortly after the announcement of BootCamp, I downloaded and installed Windows XP on my 20′ iMac with an Intel Core Duo processor running with 2 GB RAM. The install went very quickly and as I began to install applications (Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Macromedia Studio 8) I noticed that they were installing faster than on my PCs. I launched Adobe Photoshop and began working with some RAW images. I applied some filters and effects and the results were astounding. The performance completely blew my current PC setup out of the water! Illustrator and Flash gave similar results. The verdict? Not only does the iMac perform amazingly with OS X, it simply fies with Microsoft Windows.

As a funny side note, the BootCamp site has a silly disclaimer on the side:

Word to the Wise
Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC.
That means it’ll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world.
So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes.

🙂 Apple, you never cease to amaze me.


April Fools Day

Dissapointment from Apple -After all the speculation that Apple was going to do something (i.e. Although some may say that Apple didn’t need to announce any new products or do anything special for their birthday, they really could have made a media day out it.


Dissapointment from Apple –
After all the speculation that Apple was going to do something (i.e. announce a new product, have a aniverasry sale) for it’s 30th birthday, they did not. In the grand scheme of things though, I guess they do have until 1Pm EST (10AM PST) to make some sort of announcement, although prospects are looking dim now. Although some may say that Apple didn’t need to announce any new products or do anything special for their birthday, they really could have made a media day out it. Oh well, their loss I guess.

Some funny April Foolgle Jokes:
Area 51
Google Romance
Google Rooms

Well, it looks like the day after I make a post ab…

Well, it looks like the day after I make a post about Apple not releasing the Universal versions of Final Cut, today they are shipping.

Well, it looks like the day after I make a post about Apple not releasing the Universal versions of Final Cut, today they are shipping. Go figure.

Apple Final Cut Studio – Intel

Is anybody other than me a little concerned that we have yet to see the light of day for the Universal versions of Final Cut Studio? I sent in my Soundtrack Pro over a month ago and still have yet to hear anything, although Apple keeps saying the universals will be shipping March 2006.

Is anybody other than me a little concerned that we have yet to see the light of day for the Universal versions of Final Cut Studio? I sent in my Soundtrack Pro over a month ago and still have yet to hear anything, although Apple keeps saying the universals will be shipping March 2006. With the end of march approaching, I am getting a little nervous…

Port Scan + Comcast Business Server = No No

So this past weekend, I had just finished up doing some work at a client, mostly remotely via Remote Desktop, and I wanted to check to make sure there weren’t any unnecessary ports open to the internet.

So this past weekend, I had just finished up doing some work at a client, mostly remotely via Remote Desktop, and I wanted to check to make sure there weren’t any unnecessary ports open to the internet. So I ran a port scan, saw that only the ports I wanted to be opened were open, and then went to connect back to the server. To my surprise, I couldn’t connect! So I tried another port scan, request timed out. Same results with ping. It wasn’t until I left the IP alone for about 20 minutes that I could connect again. Looks like a cool feature. I tested it on a few Comcast home internet users, but I was able to continue to ping, port scan, and connect. Looks like its a business only feature. Cool eh?

Apple Airport Express – AV/HD Product?

Ok, so since we all know the iPod Video 2nd Gen is coming, and so is the iTunes Movie Store, isn’t it logical to think that some sort of Airport AV product is coming too? If Apple is going to start charging $9.99 for feature length films on the Movie Store (that have strict DRM on them and no burning rights), I can’t see consumers being too happy about only being able to watch it on their iPods (whether or not you can connect the iPod to a TV).

Ok, so since we all know the iPod Video 2nd Gen is coming, and so is the iTunes Movie Store, isn’t it logical to think that some sort of Airport AV product is coming too? If Apple is going to start charging $9.99 for feature length films on the Movie Store (that have strict DRM on them and no burning rights), I can’t see consumers being too happy about only being able to watch it on their iPods (whether or not you can connect the iPod to a TV). After the recent updates to Airport Express (allowing you to play at multiple speakers simultaneously), I think they have some sort of Airport HD-AV product coming soon. I mean, what better way to ensure consumers are happy with the iTunes Movie store than to embed it into both the portable market and the living room. That would be quite a birthday present from Apple come April 1 🙂
Thoughts anyone?