Dave and John kick off August with an absolutely overflowing mailbag. Today’s show kicks off with a healthy serving of tips, including solving a frozen mouse and keyboard, reducing the size of PDFs without killing their quality, and a note from an Apple Genius clarifying more about how they choose who to service and when. Then it’s on to your two favorite geeks answering questions about software updates, restoring Address Book backups from Time Machine, solving a few Mail.app issues, and how to install Lion on some unsupported Macs. Cool Stuff Found is thrown in for good measure, and your geeks cover it all! Download today and enjoy.
MGG 345: Mail, Time Machine, Lion, Tips, and More
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Stuff mentioned:
- Kill the Dock to possibly resolve issues
- Reducing PDF file size with a Quartz filter
- docsdiag
- DOCSIS cable modem status page
- Install the Java runtime (JRE) | Mac OS 10.7 Lion
- Four Lion Terminal hacks
- How to manage Safari’s Top Sites
- Mac OS X Lion *does* run on Core Duos/Core Solos
- Startup Mode Selector
- Mail Act-On
- Signature Profiler
- Time Machine Editor
- EagleFiler
- Toddy Smart Cloth
- Digital Innovations Screen Dr. 5 Oz Screen Cleaner with Cloth
- You’re downloading today’s show from CacheFly’s network- BackBeat Media Podcast Network
- MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed - Thanks to Michael Johnston of We Have Communicators (formerly the iPhoneAlley podcast).
4 Comments
Loved the Quartz filter trick in Reduce File Size for PDFs in Show 345. But one small problem, the filter I’m setting up in Colorsync Utility does not show up in the list when I “Export” from Preview (as Lion’s Preview does not have a “save as” option, but the same filters are there as in the “save as” in SL).
Anyone else notice this, and more important, anyone know how to get it to show up?
Thanks!
Joel—Ask and you shall receive… an answer!
So when you create a filter using the ColorSync Utility, it puts it in ~/Library/Filters
Unfortunately, Preview doesn’t look there. It only looks in /System/Library/Filters
The trick is to move your filter there and it works. Doing this is possible with the Finder, though it will ask you to authenticate before letting you write to that system folder.
Thanks, Dave.
What I ended up doing was creating an Automator app that was able to access the Filter I created. I have placed the app in my doc and then I drag the PDF I wish to Reduce onto the app in the Dock. I was pretty pleased at being able to figure that out! The most relevant thing I’ve ever done in Automator.
I took the PDF I wanted to reduce (It was a 470 MB, 20 page photo “book” from Aperture), dropped it onto the app, and out popped a 7 MB version of the PDF. Apple’s Reduce resulted in a 1.5 MB file, it was very poor quality. Mine was pretty good, definitely good enough.
That rocked! Thanks again for the tip. And I will be moving the Filter, and the App will probably fall into disuse as it will no longer be needed.
Ciao. Joel.
Oh, and the “save as” we used to use in Preview to access the Filters is no longer there. Lion uses an “Export” function.
Best wishes. Joel.
PS This is like my own personal page on TMO! Cool!
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