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Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:44 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Daly Jessup" dalyjessup
For many years now I have paid a small annual fee to maintain my own domain. You can make an iWeb web site and "publish" it to a folder on your Desktop, and then upload that folder to your domain.
Thanks to a long-ago suggestion from Randy Singer, I have kept a domain and hosting at ICDSoft.com.
The folder you "published" to your Desktop can then be sent by FTP to your own domain and then viewed by others just as it was earlier. I think I pay about $31 a year, and it totally worth it. I also get a generous space for FTP uploads so I can easily put files there for others to download, plus you get a lot of extra email addresses if you want them.
Anyway, if you go to icdsoft.com and buy a domain and a year (or more) of hosting, you will be able to continue to use iWeb.
Okay, MobileMe was about $100 a year.
But now, you can easily share files with DropBox, and you can for about $31 a year (or less) have your own domain where you can still upload your published iWeb art works just as you did before.
You're the winner.
Daly
On Aug 20, 2012, at 7:27 AM, James Robertson wrote:
> I just returned from a group bicycling vacation abroad, and I'm trying to decide what to use to replace the iPhoto-iWeb combination that used to work so well to generate a multimedia travelogue to which I can invite my traveling companions. Initially, I assumed that using iWeb would still be best, because the "Share" menu in iPhoto still includes iWeb, but IT'S NO LONGER FUNCTIONAL (the menu item is there but "greyed out)."
>
> What I'm hoping to do:
>
> 1. Create a travelog website that offers some of the really attractive formatting effects that used to be so easy to accomplish in iWeb (skewing pictures a bit, or putting little frames around them, or moving them around on the page at will).
>
> 2. Placing text next to, or wrapping part-way around a picture.
>
> 3. Relatively painless DISPLAY of lower resolution images on the web, but availability to the invited viewer of the site of full res images.
>
> One of the suggested replacements for iWeb is Sandvox. I've downloaded a trial version and cannot understand why it's so well regarded. The publishers say that it creates clean HTML, but it does so at the expense of enormous constraints. For example, if one selects one of its fancy template pages but doesn't like the positioning of the site author's name in the "footer" of the page, there's no way to change it because such elements are hard-coded into the design. Even more distressing, when it imports photos from iPhoto, sometimes it rotates them 90 degrees, and even their own tech support doesn't seem to know why it does this. Remarkably minor "adjustments" to the look of a page require LOTS of knowlege or html, or bravery, or both.
>
> Basically what I'm looking for is something that "plays nice" with iPhoto, allows me to create a web site in which some pages tell a story, some simply offer photo galleries. I've considered the work-arounds for hosting an iWeb-created site in my Dropbox account, as David Pogue and others have suggested, but because my trip was to a non-English-speaking country, I'd like to include a Google Map feature in the site so that my fellow travelers can remember where pictures were taken. Even though the "prettiest" pages seem to come from iWeb, I fear this won't work (others have reported that some of iWeb's "widgets" don't work any longer when they've been hosted somewhere other than MobileMe, and anyway I don't think I can use iPhoto as the source of low-res web images that are backed by web-server based downloadable images.
>
> Does anyone have favorites among either the "easy to use" or "consumer friendly" web design packages or the photo sharing sites that actually WORKS to play well with iPhoto and Mountain Lion? Please don't suggest facebook. I may be "snooty" here, but the whole ethos of that product bothers me. Picassa has been suggested by some, with the notation that it creates mobile-app friendly pages. That's not a requirement for me, but I've not looked at it from the other perspectives I've listed as yet.
>
> As I've been struggling with this the past day, I think I've come to some understanding of why MobileMe Web Galleries are gone but iTunes match is here. Clearly Apple has the server storage space host ENORMOUS amounts of "user content." I suspect that they simply have little interest in using that space to host stuff that doesn't bring them income. iTunes match is a compromise that permits customers to put their "own" (not purchased from the iTunes store) music there because they're betting that at least a good bit of what they host they WILL make money from, but they don't have a model for doing so for peoples' pictures of their travels, or their grandkids, etc. I have little hope of seeing a replacement for the iWeb/MobileMe galleries added to iCloud for exactly this reason; it's not technical (it worked BETTER than everything else that's available); it's solely monetary. JMO.
>
> Thanks so much,
> Jim Robertson
>
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Thanks to a long-ago suggestion from Randy Singer, I have kept a domain and hosting at ICDSoft.com.
The folder you "published" to your Desktop can then be sent by FTP to your own domain and then viewed by others just as it was earlier. I think I pay about $31 a year, and it totally worth it. I also get a generous space for FTP uploads so I can easily put files there for others to download, plus you get a lot of extra email addresses if you want them.
Anyway, if you go to icdsoft.com and buy a domain and a year (or more) of hosting, you will be able to continue to use iWeb.
Okay, MobileMe was about $100 a year.
But now, you can easily share files with DropBox, and you can for about $31 a year (or less) have your own domain where you can still upload your published iWeb art works just as you did before.
You're the winner.
Daly
On Aug 20, 2012, at 7:27 AM, James Robertson wrote:
> I just returned from a group bicycling vacation abroad, and I'm trying to decide what to use to replace the iPhoto-iWeb combination that used to work so well to generate a multimedia travelogue to which I can invite my traveling companions. Initially, I assumed that using iWeb would still be best, because the "Share" menu in iPhoto still includes iWeb, but IT'S NO LONGER FUNCTIONAL (the menu item is there but "greyed out)."
>
> What I'm hoping to do:
>
> 1. Create a travelog website that offers some of the really attractive formatting effects that used to be so easy to accomplish in iWeb (skewing pictures a bit, or putting little frames around them, or moving them around on the page at will).
>
> 2. Placing text next to, or wrapping part-way around a picture.
>
> 3. Relatively painless DISPLAY of lower resolution images on the web, but availability to the invited viewer of the site of full res images.
>
> One of the suggested replacements for iWeb is Sandvox. I've downloaded a trial version and cannot understand why it's so well regarded. The publishers say that it creates clean HTML, but it does so at the expense of enormous constraints. For example, if one selects one of its fancy template pages but doesn't like the positioning of the site author's name in the "footer" of the page, there's no way to change it because such elements are hard-coded into the design. Even more distressing, when it imports photos from iPhoto, sometimes it rotates them 90 degrees, and even their own tech support doesn't seem to know why it does this. Remarkably minor "adjustments" to the look of a page require LOTS of knowlege or html, or bravery, or both.
>
> Basically what I'm looking for is something that "plays nice" with iPhoto, allows me to create a web site in which some pages tell a story, some simply offer photo galleries. I've considered the work-arounds for hosting an iWeb-created site in my Dropbox account, as David Pogue and others have suggested, but because my trip was to a non-English-
>
> Does anyone have favorites among either the "easy to use" or "consumer friendly" web design packages or the photo sharing sites that actually WORKS to play well with iPhoto and Mountain Lion? Please don't suggest facebook. I may be "snooty" here, but the whole ethos of that product bothers me. Picassa has been suggested by some, with the notation that it creates mobile-app friendly pages. That's not a requirement for me, but I've not looked at it from the other perspectives I've listed as yet.
>
> As I've been struggling with this the past day, I think I've come to some understanding of why MobileMe Web Galleries are gone but iTunes match is here. Clearly Apple has the server storage space host ENORMOUS amounts of "user content." I suspect that they simply have little interest in using that space to host stuff that doesn't bring them income. iTunes match is a compromise that permits customers to put their "own" (not purchased from the iTunes store) music there because they're betting that at least a good bit of what they host they WILL make money from, but they don't have a model for doing so for peoples' pictures of their travels, or their grandkids, etc. I have little hope of seeing a replacement for the iWeb/MobileMe galleries added to iCloud for exactly this reason; it's not technical (it worked BETTER than everything else that's available); it's solely monetary. JMO.
>
> Thanks so much,
> Jim Robertson
>
> ------------
>
> Group FAQ:
> <http://www.macsuppo
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
Thu Aug 23, 2012 3:30 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf
Most ISPs give you a limited amount of space for your own website, at least
in the UK, so this would be another option.
Otto
On 23 August 2012 01:44, Daly Jessup <jessup@san.rr.com > wrote:
> For many years now I have paid a small annual fee to maintain my own
> domain. You can make an iWeb web site and "publish" it to a folder on your
> Desktop, and then upload that folder to your domain.
>
> Thanks to a long-ago suggestion from Randy Singer, I have kept a domain
> and hosting at ICDSoft.com.
>
> The folder you "published" to your Desktop can then be sent by FTP to your
> own domain and then viewed by others just as it was earlier. I think I pay
> about $31 a year, and it totally worth it. I also get a generous space for
> FTP uploads so I can easily put files there for others to download, plus
> you get a lot of extra email addresses if you want them.
>
> Anyway, if you go to icdsoft.com and buy a domain and a year (or more) of
> hosting, you will be able to continue to use iWeb.
>
> Okay, MobileMe was about $100 a year.
>
> But now, you can easily share files with DropBox, and you can for about
> $31 a year (or less) have your own domain where you can still upload your
> published iWeb art works just as you did before.
>
> You're the winner.
>
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in the UK, so this would be another option.
Otto
On 23 August 2012 01:44, Daly Jessup <jessup@san.rr.
> For many years now I have paid a small annual fee to maintain my own
> domain. You can make an iWeb web site and "publish" it to a folder on your
> Desktop, and then upload that folder to your domain.
>
> Thanks to a long-ago suggestion from Randy Singer, I have kept a domain
> and hosting at ICDSoft.com.
>
> The folder you "published" to your Desktop can then be sent by FTP to your
> own domain and then viewed by others just as it was earlier. I think I pay
> about $31 a year, and it totally worth it. I also get a generous space for
> FTP uploads so I can easily put files there for others to download, plus
> you get a lot of extra email addresses if you want them.
>
> Anyway, if you go to icdsoft.com and buy a domain and a year (or more) of
> hosting, you will be able to continue to use iWeb.
>
> Okay, MobileMe was about $100 a year.
>
> But now, you can easily share files with DropBox, and you can for about
> $31 a year (or less) have your own domain where you can still upload your
> published iWeb art works just as you did before.
>
> You're the winner.
>
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Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:50 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"T Hopkins" todhop
Because Apple pulled 10.5 from the shelves and 10.6 won't work on G5's, Leopard is actually worth about twice what it retailed for originally. There are people out there who really want their G5s running Leopard.
But wait! I'm remembering some advice I heard. Call Apple directly (customer support), or better yet, go to the Apple Genius bar with your machine, and ask, beg, cajole. I'm told that Apple will still sell Leopard to customers who request it and can't run later OS's. And the Apple Geniuses really like to please customers. Do a full backup before you go and see if you can convince them to nuke and pave with Leopard.
Find a friend with a retail Leopard disc. Maybe the local MUG.
Hmmm... I see active torrents. Caveat.
cheers,
tod
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins-at-hillmanncarr.com
On Aug 21, 2012, at 7:32 PM, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
> On 21 August 2012 23:35, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@me.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > It listed for $129 when it was released nearly 5 years ago.
> > Amazon lists it for $270 at this time.
> > MacMall and MacConnection don't list it at all.
> >
>
> I would look for a second hand 10.5 or Mac Box Set that is no longer in
> use. There must be people here who have that. (I have a 10.5 Box Set but
> 10.5 is still in use here on an iBook.)
>
> Otto
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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But wait! I'm remembering some advice I heard. Call Apple directly (customer support), or better yet, go to the Apple Genius bar with your machine, and ask, beg, cajole. I'm told that Apple will still sell Leopard to customers who request it and can't run later OS's. And the Apple Geniuses really like to please customers. Do a full backup before you go and see if you can convince them to nuke and pave with Leopard.
Find a friend with a retail Leopard disc. Maybe the local MUG.
Hmmm... I see active torrents. Caveat.
cheers,
tod
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins-at-
On Aug 21, 2012, at 7:32 PM, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
> On 21 August 2012 23:35, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@me.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > It listed for $129 when it was released nearly 5 years ago.
> > Amazon lists it for $270 at this time.
> > MacMall and MacConnection don't list it at all.
> >
>
> I would look for a second hand 10.5 or Mac Box Set that is no longer in
> use. There must be people here who have that. (I have a 10.5 Box Set but
> 10.5 is still in use here on an iBook.)
>
> Otto
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:51 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"hflaxman001@yahoo.com" hflaxman001
By holding option when savlng, duplicste turns into 'save as'. Pretty neat!
Harry Flaxman
via ::gulp:: android
Harry Flaxman
via ::gulp:: android
Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:37 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"T Hopkins" todhop
On Aug 23, 2012, at 12:51 AM, hflaxman001@yahoo.com wrote:
> By holding option when savlng, duplicste turns into 'save as'. Pretty neat!
>
Be careful though. As I read, "Save as" does not work quite the same in Mtn Lion as traditionally expected. The key difference is that "Save as" not only makes a new document but also automatically "Saves" the original in it's current state. In other words, it works like duplicate. The new Save As does not leave the original un-saved as the traditional Save As command does. If you want the original to go back to the state when you opened it, you must roll back the changes in the original. In theory, the new save routines, including the auto-save and rollback functions, give you more control, not less, but it does require new thinking, and it can be fouled by opening documents across a network.
You will find extensive writing on this topic online. It's confusing to me as I cannot yet experiment with this myself.
Cheers,
tod
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins-at-hillmanncarr.com
On Aug 23, 2012, at 12:51 AM, hflaxman001@yahoo.com wrote:
> By holding option when savlng, duplicste turns into 'save as'. Pretty neat!
>
> Harry Flaxman
> via ::gulp:: android
>
>
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> By holding option when savlng, duplicste turns into 'save as'. Pretty neat!
>
Be careful though. As I read, "Save as" does not work quite the same in Mtn Lion as traditionally expected. The key difference is that "Save as" not only makes a new document but also automatically "Saves" the original in it's current state. In other words, it works like duplicate. The new Save As does not leave the original un-saved as the traditional Save As command does. If you want the original to go back to the state when you opened it, you must roll back the changes in the original. In theory, the new save routines, including the auto-save and rollback functions, give you more control, not less, but it does require new thinking, and it can be fouled by opening documents across a network.
You will find extensive writing on this topic online. It's confusing to me as I cannot yet experiment with this myself.
Cheers,
tod
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins-at-
On Aug 23, 2012, at 12:51 AM, hflaxman001@
> By holding option when savlng, duplicste turns into 'save as'. Pretty neat!
>
> Harry Flaxman
> via ::gulp:: android
>
>
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Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:59 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Bob Cook" cookrd1
On Thursday, August 23, 2012, hflaxman001@yahoo.com wrote:
> **
>
>
> By holding option when savlng, duplicste turns into 'save as'. Pretty neat!
>
Thank, Harry, I hear it isn't the Save As though?
And, what Android device are you using?
Bob
--
-Bob
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> **
>
>
> By holding option when savlng, duplicste turns into 'save as'. Pretty neat!
>
Thank, Harry, I hear it isn't the Save As though?
And, what Android device are you using?
Bob
--
-Bob
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Wed Aug 22, 2012 10:56 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Barb Adamski" bkadamski
Thanks, Peter. I'll try that on the weekend when I have a bit more time.
Best,
barb
Barbara K. Adamski
Sent from my iPad
On 2012-08-22, at 8:33 AM, "gicleeman" <gicleeman@mail.com > wrote:
> Barb
> I went ahead and tried to create an action myself to see if I could figure this out.
> Keep in mind that I'm using OS 10.4.11 and PS CS4, but it shouldn't make any difference if you're using a different version.
> After you've created and saved the action, open a photo and then the actions palette window. Click on your newly created action to select it, and then go to the "action options" in the drop down menu in the upper right corner of the actions palette and choose a function key to make the action work. I picked f13 for my test since it wasn't being used for anything else according to my Sys Prefs. That should do it. Hope it works for you.
>
> Peter
>
> --- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com , Barbara Adamski <adamski@...> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Peter.
> >
> > That's part of the problem, though. I don't know what command to assign the key, since the author missed that little detail. Had she given me the terminology to accurately assign a function, I would know what to do (I hope). Or is "run the action" all I need to tell it to do?
> >
> > Barb
> >
> > On 2012-08-21, at 8:23 AM, "gicleeman" <gicleeman@...> wrote:
> >
> > > First I'll qualify my answer by saying I haven't done this myself, so I'm really just throwing out a suggestion based on my quick read of the instructions you linked to.
> > > Where the author says to choose f11 to run the action, instead choose a different key that isn't already used by the OS. If you go to your System prefs > Keyboard and Mouse, you'll see that f11 is used to show your desktop. You can assign a different key or key combination for Photoshop specifically. So assign a key and enter that in the dialog box for the watermark automation.
> > > Please let us know if it works or if you run into other problems.
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > --- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com , Barbara Adamski <adamski@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I went through the steps on this site to figure out how to automate watermarks in Photoshop http://www.photographyblog.com/articles/how_to_create_a_watermark_in_photoshop/2/
> > > >
> > > > Everything was fine until I got to Step 18:
> > > >
> > > > 18. Now it's important to test that your action works. Open a different photo and click F11, which should add your copyright instantly. If it adds the copyright watermark you created, you've done it!
> > > >
> > > > F11 on my computer clears the desktop. How can I perform the task they intend for me to do? They give me no indication of what exactly I'm supposed to do.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any insight you can provide. I am using CS5.
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Barb
> > > >
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Best,
barb
Barbara K. Adamski
Sent from my iPad
On 2012-08-22, at 8:33 AM, "gicleeman" <gicleeman@mail.
> Barb
> I went ahead and tried to create an action myself to see if I could figure this out.
> Keep in mind that I'm using OS 10.4.11 and PS CS4, but it shouldn't make any difference if you're using a different version.
> After you've created and saved the action, open a photo and then the actions palette window. Click on your newly created action to select it, and then go to the "action options" in the drop down menu in the upper right corner of the actions palette and choose a function key to make the action work. I picked f13 for my test since it wasn't being used for anything else according to my Sys Prefs. That should do it. Hope it works for you.
>
> Peter
>
> --- In macsupportcentral@
> >
> > Thanks, Peter.
> >
> > That's part of the problem, though. I don't know what command to assign the key, since the author missed that little detail. Had she given me the terminology to accurately assign a function, I would know what to do (I hope). Or is "run the action" all I need to tell it to do?
> >
> > Barb
> >
> > On 2012-08-21, at 8:23 AM, "gicleeman" <gicleeman@.
> >
> > > First I'll qualify my answer by saying I haven't done this myself, so I'm really just throwing out a suggestion based on my quick read of the instructions you linked to.
> > > Where the author says to choose f11 to run the action, instead choose a different key that isn't already used by the OS. If you go to your System prefs > Keyboard and Mouse, you'll see that f11 is used to show your desktop. You can assign a different key or key combination for Photoshop specifically. So assign a key and enter that in the dialog box for the watermark automation.
> > > Please let us know if it works or if you run into other problems.
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > --- In macsupportcentral@
> > > >
> > > > I went through the steps on this site to figure out how to automate watermarks in Photoshop http://www.photogra
> > > >
> > > > Everything was fine until I got to Step 18:
> > > >
> > > > 18. Now it's important to test that your action works. Open a different photo and click F11, which should add your copyright instantly. If it adds the copyright watermark you created, you've done it!
> > > >
> > > > F11 on my computer clears the desktop. How can I perform the task they intend for me to do? They give me no indication of what exactly I'm supposed to do.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any insight you can provide. I am using CS5.
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Barb
> > > >
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> > > >
> >
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Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:05 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Randy B. Singer" randybrucesinger
Apple released OS X 10.8.1 this morning:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/apples-first-mountain-lion-available-154351116.html
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Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
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http://finance.
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