*Megathread* All things Mac

Her

• Wise One

Status: Offline

Joined: Mar 07, 201113Year Member

Posts: 583

Reputation Power: 3

SethYaBoi wrote

SixZeroNinee wrote How to connect any dazzle to your mac.

What you need:
> a Macintosh computer
> any Dazzle
> Standard AV Cables
> HDTV
> Xbox 360


Part 1:
w/ Xbox 360, Dazzle, HDTV, and AV Cables


1. Plug all the AV Cables into the back of your HDTV

2. Plug the Yellow Cable into your dazzle (if you wish to have audio, unplug the white cable from your tv and plug it into your dazzle)

3. Turn the switch on the other end of the AV cable from HDTV to TV, then plug it into your xbox

4. Take the USB end of the dazzle and plug it into the USB port of your mac

Part 2:
w/ Mac

1. Goto [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] and download 'VideoGlide Capture'

2. Perform Regular Installation

3. Open 'VideoGlide Capture'

4. If you have a serial number enter it, if not click 'Demonstration'

5. Goto the top of your mac, and on the tool bar click 'Digitizers' than 'VideoGlide'

6. Your xbox screen should show up

7. Your done!


Other Notes:

To record either hold Command+R
or
Click Record on the top bar than Record

If you do not have a serial number the company's logo will be on the video, I do know where you get a free code, but I am not allowed to post them on The Tech Game


Hope this helped you!

sanddy wrote With the different audio and video formats available, there is often the need for Mac users to [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] between various formats. To have your favorite clips how you want themwhether that's on your [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] , [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] , [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] or desktopyou need the right utility to convert them into the format that works for you. Here are 10 of best Mac video encoding apps that you can use to achieve the inter conversions on your Mac.

Best Mac video encoding Apps Top 1- HandBrake
Price: Free
Requires: Intel CPU; Mac OS X 10.5 or above
Developer: HandBrake
Originally only a DVD ripping tool, Handbrake evolved into more of a universal video converter with its most recent release. Now it can handle pretty much anything you throw at it and then spit it back out in a new format. It's well-polished, solid, reliable, and just an overall pleasure to use.
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Best Mac video encoding Apps Top 2 EasyWMV
Price: $19.99 (demo available)
Requires: Intel CPU; Mac OS X 10.5 or above
Developer: Patrice Bensoussan
EasyWMV is not, as the name suggests, just for handling WMV files. In fact, it's a multi-format video converter allowing you to convert to a range of codecs. It accepts a variety of formats, and even provides options for resizing video in app. This Mac video encoder can also converting more than one file at a time.
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Best Mac video encoding Apps Top 3 iFunia Video Converter Pro
Price: $35
Requires: Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
Developer: iFunia
All-in-one Mac video converter is here! iFunia Video Converter for Mac is a groundbreaking Mac video format converter you can use to convert video(including HD) into numerous video/audio formats for use on personal computers or popular portable players such as iPad, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, PSP, BlackBerry, PS3,etc.
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Best Mac video encoding Apps Top 4 RipIt
Price: $24.95
Developer: The Little App Factory
RipIt is a DVD ripper for your Mac. RipIt takes your DVD and rips or compresses it and allows you to watch them from anywhere. The idea is to avoid your disks getting scratched or lost by making them readily available on your Mac in a native formats.
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Best Mac video encoding Apps Top 5 QuickTime X
Price: Free
Requires: QuickTime 7; Mac OS X 10.4.10 or above
Developer: Apple
QuickTime X is Apple's latest video-playing incarnation, released as part of Snow Leopard. If you're looking for an app you know is stable and will work with your configuration, this might be your best bet. QuickTime X is completely free. It converts into Apple's preferential formats for various portable devices.
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Best Mac video encoding Apps Top 6 Permute
Price: $14.99
Requires: Intel CPU; Mac OS X 10.6 or above
Developer: Fuel Collective
Permute is "the perfect A/V conversion tool for those of us that are not A/V experts". It too has a simple, drag-and-drop interface with presets for your iPod, Apple TV and even your Xbox! It's fast and functional design matches a great user interface for an enjoyable media conversion experience.
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Best Mac video encoding Apps Top 7 ffmpegX
Price: Free
Developer: ffmpegX
Requires: Mac OS 10.2 or later
ffmpegX has a huge range of advanced features packed inside its single interface window, however this app would definitely not be the most intuitive to use. With over 30 different target formats, ffmpegX looks like an excellent option for those looking for a wide range of export options.
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Best Mac video encoding Apps Top 8 Miro
Price: Free
Requires: Intel CPU; Mac OS X 10.5
Developer: Miro
Miro is one of the newer apps to make this list. It's a video player at heart, but also offers some transcoding features underneath with its free video converter app. It supports video output to a plethora of devices, from a range of Android phones to your iPod and your PSP too.
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Best Mac video encoding Apps Top 9 RoadMovie
Price: $29
Requires: Intel CPU; Mac OS X 10.5
Developer: Bitfield
Like with HandBrake, this encoding choice maintains subtitles and chapters and metadata for iTunes.
The feature set for RoadMovie is lengthy and includes a range of export options and also upload options to services like MobileMe and YouTube. You can also customize and automate RoadMovie via AppleScript.
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Best Mac video encoding Apps Top 10 iMovie
Price: $14.99 (on Mac App Store; bundled in iLife which is probably already installed on your Mac)
Developer: Apple
iMovie isn't really a fully fledged encoder, but it does provide a range of input and export formats. By importing, and then immediately exporting back out from iMovie, you can change a video's encoding to Apple's preferred formats to gain compatibility for your devices.
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Related Article
* [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
* [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
* [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
* [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
* [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

-WiiMoDz- wrote for people that want to mod MW2 but you dont have a pc? well i made a program for mac! heres the link 8)

rjv4512.thetechgame.com/cvar-tool.html

TO GET IT TO WORK MAKE YOUR DATE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!
--------------------------------------------

Change your mac's Date & Time back to 5/25/10

hope this helps!

ajhockey88 wrote 1. ONLY REQUIRED IF YOU ARE ON 10.5.8!
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

*to check if you are above 10.5.8, click on the apple(top left corner) and "About this Mac"*

Click to View Content

First off make sure you have Java 6 downloaded. (If you haven't done a software update in a while you should)
Go to your minecraft app, right click and choose "Show Package Contents".
Next open the contents folder and open "Info.Plist".
Once it's open look for the line that says

JVMVersion
1.5+

Once you have found it change the 5 in 1.5 to a 6, then save and exit.
Once done with that open a new finder window and go to Mac > System > Library > Frameworks > JavaVM.framework > Resources > Mac OS and then copy the file named "JavaApplicationStub".
Now go back to the contents folder and go into the "MacOS" folder and paste "JavaApplicationStub".
Mods should now work with minecraft. (Reply if they don't, I may be able to help.)

2. Open a new finder window, go to your username, Library<Application Support<minecraft<bin
3. Right click on minecraft.jar or it might be minecraft
4. Open with... Archieve Utility
IF ARCHIEVE UTILITY IS NOT THERE

Click to View Content

Click Other... and click on the System folder<Library<CoreServices and it should be in there

5. Delete the old Minecraft.jar file
6. Rename the folder created to minecraft.jar
7. Find the META-INF folder and delete the 2 Mojang files
8. Put all of [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] files into the bin folder replacing all
9. Find your desired mod and paste all of the files into the same folder(bin)
10. Play MINECRAFT!

If you have any questions just ask!

BinLaden wrote

11 Ways to Improve Your Mac's Speed
By : BinLaden

1. Clean out Startup Items

Some applications automatically (or when asked) set themselves as a "startup item", which causes them to open at every restart or login. You can find out what is in your startup items list by navigating to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items. You may be surprised at how many there are.

To remove them, simply select the item by clicking on its name and then hit the "minus" button at the bottom of the list. However, be sure that you know what you're removing; otherwise you may kill some critical function for the next time you restart.

2. Turn off Universal Access, Bluetooth, Speech Recognition, and Internet Sharing if you don't use them

While System Preferences is open, take a look at a few other things. Apple has generously included a number of very useful features as preferences. Some, however, may not be useful to you, such as Universal Access (which offers help for visually and hearing impaired users) or Bluetooth (which allows certain devices to be used wirelessly). If you don't use these features, verify that they are turned off. This will save you some valuable RAM and processor resources.

3. Clean Out 'Other' System Preferences

Don't close System Preferences yet! Take a peek in the bottom section of your System Preferences window, labeled "Other". How many items are down there? Do you know what they do? Do you use what they do?

If there is a Preference Pane that you don't use or that you use only occasionally, disable it (either turn it "off" within the Preference Pane itself or remove it from the folder "~/Library/PreferencePanes").

4. Check out what 'build' your software is

If you're running an Intel Mac, some of your software may be running under the "Rosetta" translator, which allows applications built for a PowerPC processor to run on an Intel chip. Rosetta is surprisingly efficient, but don't use it if you don't have to! There may be a patch for your favorite application that will upgrade it to a "universal build". By making sure you're running the latest version you can be confident you're not using Rosetta in vain (a utility like the App Update widget will help with this).

5. Clean out unnecessary code

You're either running a PowerPC or Intel processor. You don't have to understand what this means, but you should know that, with both being options, most recent software comes programmed for both. But you don't need optimization for both - you only need optimization for your computer. Fortunately, there are utilities like XSlimmer (and Monolingual - more on this in a minute) that will strip out unnecessary code in your software. This not only helps the applications run faster; it also saves hard drive space (sometimes a lot of it).

Editor's note: If you're using a PowerPC Mac and anticipate migrating to Intel, you might want to defer "slimming" your programs until you've made the switch. Otherwise all the programs you've slimmed for PowerPC will be running under Rosetta on your Intel Mac - unless you take the time to do a fresh installation.

We've also hear horror stories of XSlimmer eviscerating Rosetta, so if you use it on an Intel Mac, be sure you don't strip the System frameworks. dk

6. Get rid of languages and translations you won't use

Apple is very considerate in providing language localizations for many, many languages. But the chances are you aren't using the Catalan, Farsi, or Klingon language localizations on your Mac. And even if you are, you can strip out the other ones you aren't using and gain more efficiency and drive space using a utility like Monolingual.

By the way, the latest version of Monolingual will also strip out unnecessary architecture from your system - but not your applications - so it also performs a function similar to XSlimmer, yet different.

7. Cool off

The new MacBooks got a bad rap at first for running very hot; the truth is, every Mac will run more efficiently with a cooler processor. Even though they've largely fixed the cooling issue in the MacBooks, I use a utility called Fan Control on mine, which allows me to change the threshold for when my MacBook's fan turns on and off. This allows me to keep my 'Book running cooler, which maximizes performance (though it does shorten battery life a little bit).

8. Evaluate your Widgets

If you're using Mac OS X 10.4.x "Tiger", you have probably played around with the Dashboard. There are hundreds of useful widgets available, most for free - but there are many that you won't use, even if they are very helpful to others. This includes some that came with Tiger.

It takes RAM and processor power to keep these widgets running, even when Dashboard is hidden - so a judicious evaluation of what widgets you do use can boost computing efficiency nicely. Do you really need that Ski Conditions widget or the Clock widget running? If not, disable them to conserve RAM and processor use.

9. Keep an eye on Activity Monitor

There may be other things hogging your processor's attention or sucking up RAM. How will you know about them? By using Apple's Activity Monitor, which comes with OS X. Activity Monitor will tell you about CPU usage, RAM requirements, virtual memory usage, and whether a given application is a PowerPC or Intel (Universal) build. Check it occasionally to see if there are any red flags - or keep it running for a few days (with one of the useful Dock icons or floating windows enabled) to keep an eye on when things are spiking.

10. Clean off your hard drive

It doesn't matter how large your hard drive is - eventually it will begin to fill up. Whether it is a huge iPhoto library, some videos you're editing, or simply accumulation of lots of "stuff", a full hard drive can cause problems. (One colleague couldn't figure out why her drive was so full - until she realized that she hadn't emptied her Trash in almost four years!)

You may not realize that Mac OS X (and the Classic Mac OS, too) uses the free space on your hard drive as "virtual memory", and it depends heavily on that virtual memory to run efficiently. If you're starting to feel sluggish, it may be because your drive is too full. There are lots of ways to clean it off - maybe a different article will cover that - but sometimes a little more free space is all you need to be a peak performance again.

11. Run OnyX

Whenever things get slow on my Mac, one of the "go to" solutions is to run a utility like OnyX. (There are several, many of them free; I've found Cocktail and TinkerTool to be other good and popular options.)

These utilities offer a variety of "jobs" and "repairs" to the system, and while some are skeptical about how much this is necessary, my experience has been that they do bring a good level of optimization back to my Macs. I tend to run the whole battery of tools - both the maintenance and the cleaning options in OnyX - at the same time, but you may prefer to set them to run as scheduled routines in a certain order.

By the way, check out fellow Low End Mac writer Charles Moore's words about the value of these routines in his recent article on Applelinks, Yes, Running System Maintenance Routines Really Can Help.

It's not quite like getting a brand-new Mac - after all, the "next new thing" will always be faster than the current offerings, and no one can keep up all the time. But giving some attention to these optimization tasks won't take long - probably 2-3 hours for all of these, if you did them at the same time - and it will pay big dividends in speed.

You might even put aside those thoughts of upgrading - at least for a few days!

-Jamesboy- wrote Lets hope for a sticky

--

Welcome to my tutorial

how to dualboot Mac on windows

Lets get started,

Requiments:
At least 512mb of RAM
Kalyway 10.5.2 ISO DVD
GParted Live CD ISO ( Link Below)
One blank DVD and one blank CD
A copy of Windows XP
uTorrent


Kalyway 10.5.2 ISO DVD Download Link : [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
uTorrent : [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
GParted Live CD ISO: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

:!: Disclaimer :!:
If YOU mess you pc up its not my fault, this guide works 100%.



Lets get started:
Windows XP Installation

Click to View Content

1) Start your computer up and inset XP Disk to install.
2) Boot from the CD and follow instructions until you get to the Partition screen.
3) Delete all partitions there. To delete a partition, highlight it with the arrow keys and press D, then L.
4) Select the unpartitioned space, then press C to create a new partition.
5) Now, think about how much space you need for both XP and OS X. It depends on your hard drive. you should have 20GB of space for your OS X partition AT LEAST, as the iLife applications etc. take up a fair bit of room.
6) Now, type the size in MB for your Windows install. Remember, 1024 MB is a gigabyte. ;) If your hard drive is 80GB, leave 20GB for your mac. That gives you 60GB to work with on the PC side which is 61440 MB. So if you have an 100 GB drive, enter 61440.
7) Press enter.
9) Now, select that partition and press enter. Then choose NTFS.
10) Press enter and follow through all the setup steps.
11) Once Setup is completely finished and you have activated Windows, open a command prompt by clicking Run in the start menu and typing CMD.
12) Now type: diskpart and hit enter.
13). Then type: select disk 0 and hit enter (assuming this is the only hard drive in your machine).
14) Type: create partition primary id=af and hit enter (it should respond after a few seconds that it created the partition).
15) Type: exit and hit enter (this will exit diskpart).
16) Close the command prompt window.
This is copied but simplified(So as for next tutorial)

Partitioning

Click to View Content

ONLY do this if you already have XP installed and you haven't done the above steps.
1) Restart your pc and put in your GParted Disk you burned
2) watch the video how to make a partition: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
3) Remember, it's in MB (1024 MBs to a gigabyte) so have at least 20 GB for your new Mac partition. (20480 MB)
4) Follow instructions until it says that you have to restart. Restart your computer at this point and wait for the process to finish.

Now that that's finished, let's move onto the next step.

OS X
This bit is easy so copy paste

Click to View Content

Keep your GParted and Kalyway CDs handy during this part of the install.


1) Reboot your computer with the Kalyway disk in the drive.
2) Press any key to boot from the CD.
Note: If your computer boots into XP, you must restart and hold down DEL until you enter BIOS setup. Find the section where it lists your first second and third boot devices. This is usually inside the first link on the main menu. Use PGUP/PGDN to change the first boot device to CD, then the second to HDD. Press F10 to save settings (type Y in the box that pops up) and then exit setup. If you need further BIOS help, search for it on another site.
3) When it says "Starting Mac OS X Installer", press F8.
4) Type -v and press enter.
5) Grab yourself a coffee or a biscuit. You've done well so far, this part may take a while.
6) When all that text has gone, you should have come to a language selection screen. Click the arrow to use English as the primary language.
7) When the welcome box pops up, don't click Continue. Click Utilities in the menu bar, then Disk Utility.
8) Select the Mac partition. You should easily be able to tell which one it is by clicking a partition in the sidebar, then looking at the size down the bottom. If the Available is more than a few MB lower than the Capacity, then that is your Windows partition. DO NOT SELECT THIS ONE. Select the other partition which should be above or below this one in the sidebar and have almost no difference between the capacity and avaliable space.
Note: Even if you have checked this, make doubly sure! There should be around a 2GB difference between the Windows partition's capacity and available space.
9) With the correct partition selected, click the Erase tab.
10) Open the drop-down menu and select Mac OS Extended (Journaled). "Make no mistakes here. We are turning a previously tailored FAT32 partition into Macs native file system. Failing to do this will most probably lead to this error at later stage of installation - can not copy some files to /volume/name* "
11) Enter a name* and keep it simple. Some examples are "mac", "leopard" and "osx" (without quotes and *). DO NOT USE A SPACE OR A SPECIAL CHARACTER LIKE ! OR & IN THE NAME!
12) Click Erase and then Erase again in the box that comes up.
13) This shouldn't take long at all, and then you'll find the partition you selected to erase is now called whatever name you gave it. Exit Disk Utility by clicking the red button in the corner. You're now back at the Welcome screen.
14) Click Continue and then click agree.
15) In the Installation Destination screen, click the partition that has the name you just gave it. Then click continue.
16) In the next screen, click Customize. As long as you are using the 10.5.2 disk, you should have not much to worry about. You don't need to select MBR like in the previous release. Don't select a different kernel unless you know what you are doing, the default one is good. There should be a section called Applications, which has some great apps you can have installed by default, eg Adium (an amazing instant messaging client) VLC (one of the best media players) and much more.
17) Once you're finished click Done. Then click install.
Note: The media check will begin after you have finished the install. This ensures that the disk has all the necessary files to install OS X. If you REALLY want to, you can skip the check, however, checking the media is the best way to ensure a safe install.
18) The media check takes a fair while and depending on the amount of RAM, so will the install. If you have 1GB, then the actual install should complete in about 15 min.
19)Once it's done, you'll have to reboot. As it reboots, put the GParted CD in the drive.
20) Wait for it to load (window and all) then right-click on your Windows partition (it has a file system of NTFS). Click Manage Flags.
21) Tick the box for boot. Click OK.
22) Click quit on the desktop and when prompted, take the CD out. Reboot.

You should now be in Windows. If not, repeat steps 19 to 22. If so, move along to the next section!

Bootloading

Click to View Content

As of now, we have a working Windows install, but we haven't got any way to get to OS X. We'll fix that in this section. But first you will require either "chain0.zip" for primary partition or "tboot.zip" for logical/extended partition.

1) Open My Computer.
2) Double-click on the C drive.
3) Click Tools, then Folder Options.
4) Click the View tab, then in the scrolling box, select "Show Hidden Files and Folders".
5) Uncheck "Hide protected operating system files (recommended)".
6) Click OK.
7) Now, you should be back in the C: Drive. Look for a file called boot.ini. Right click on it and select Properties.
8) Untick the Read-Only checkbox.
9) Now press OK, then right click again on boot.ini.
10) Click Open With... then select Notepad.


11) Make a new line at the bottom and copy and paste this code:


C:\chain0="Mac OS X86"


12) Save the file and exit Notepad.
13) Now we have to copy a file called "chain0" to the C: drive. This is apparently on the Kalyway disk, but it is very hard to get. Instead, download it from here (RAR file) or here (zip file). Extract it then put the resulting file (chain0 without any extensions) into the root of the C: drive (the same place where boot.ini is located.)


Alternatively, you could get this advanced tboot. A revised version of chain0 loader that supports multi HDD as well as booting OSX from extended ( logical ) partition. tboot file also goes in C:\, adding the following line to boot.ini

c:\tboot="Mac OSX Leopard"

14) Reboot.

Final Result: (Right)
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

If this helped you please give a bit of rep? Ill be making a video shortly just incase people dont quite understand this.

-James