The Mac Experience in Business & Home: Help, Tips, Discussion & Radio Show Notes

In essence, this is a discussion about Quality of Service on the internet. Ultimately, the internet is based on working interconnections between people and organizations, and I believe this interconnection *is not* fundamentally threatened regardless of whether Congress mandates “Net neutrality”, or not.

“Network neutrality” means: the service to people and organizations using the internet is not differentiated based on the destination/origination, content or amount of bandwidth used. This means that currently, for example, you’re not charged, and I’m not charged, for your reading this blog, nor are you charged for video conferencing with your friend using .Mac or AIM just because it’s audio and video. You are not charged for sending an e-mail, nor is anyone for receiving one.

My friend Joe came to our office today, he’s been trying to use Yahoo Messenger on his 12″ PowerBook to communicate with his friend in Italy, on her Windows system.

Here’s a tutorial he’s going to try, let us know how it goes:

http://www.mvldesign.com/video_conference_tutorial.html

Juan called in asking about a sticky Mighty Mouse (sic).

Apple has a cute tongue-in-cheek intro to its recommendations here:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302417%22

Here are pictures of how to open the Mighty Mouse:

http://www.applematters.com/index.php/gallery/category/C4/

Alcohol (not drinking!) and cotton swabs have also been recommended by some people, including posters at:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060210115417864�

We have a caller tonight that is having problems opening Pagemaker files, from OS 9, in InDesign.

InDesign CS 2 should open Pagemaker files from 6.x -7.x. If you have InDesign CS (not version 2), and you have a version of Pagemaker between 6.0 and 6.5, you may have to update to InDesign CS 2 to open those files.

Other things you might try include standard operating procedures:

Open a document as a copy:

A. Start InDesign & choose File > Open.
B. Select Copy & find your file.
C. Select your file & click Open.

For those people in search of alternative web browsers for Mac OS X, and for Windows, too, we keep recommending Firefox and Opera to Mac users, along with Apple’s Safari , but we haven’t yet talked about how to synchronize your bookmarks, or even just move them over! once you’ve made the switch to a new web browser. Given many people horde, er, I mean collect many, many bookmarks (”favorites”), this is potentially an important issue we’ve neglected to address, as my family was quick to point out.