The Mac Attack #75

On this episode of The Mac Attack - A look at Apple's latest software and firmware updates. What happens when you hit the power button on your Mac? Listener emails, Mac tips and more...

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outlook2ical

Joost

move Outlook 2003 contacts to Address Book

SmartDisk FireLite

G-Tech G-Drive mini

LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive

Western Digital Passport drives

SmartDisk ByteSize USB drives

Quicksilver

Quicksilver Google video

SimplytheBest Fonts (free)

Chank fonts (free/pay)

Mac Font Vault (free)

Fonthead (free/pay)

Alien Fonts (sci-fi fonts - free)

Fixing a "stuck" 'Automatically reduce brightness' setting:
1) Manually edit the plist file for PowerManagement.  It’s located at /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist.  Under Custom Profile -> AC Power (and you have to do it under the Battery Power one, too if you have that set up), create a Child (if it doesn’t exist already) named “Display Sleep Uses Dim� and set it to Number and the value to 0.  That seemed to do the trick on my iMac.
2) If you still have issues, the system may be ignoring the plist setting.  You can create a little one-line Applescript and dump it on the desktop to run whenever you need it.  Just put this line in it (but, be aware that even if you save it as run-only, your admin password can still be seen if someone opens up the file as text): do shell script “sudo pmset halfdim 0� password “� with administrator privileges

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