Tom gave the latest news, the big news is that Tiger is coming out soon, as well as a new version of office.
John demonstrated VLC.
What VLC does is let mac users watch some of the movies that PC people can watch, but QuickTime gives a nice error message.
Download VLC off of their Webpage or download it here. (you might have to right click and save as)
You can download a movie that works only with VLC and not QuickTime, it summarizes what might be wrong with the RIAA.
Jeff presented PhotoRescue which will let you undelete pictures from you camera chip on you digital camera.
The activity monitor is in your utilities folder, you might not know how useful it is.
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First off, you can see which programs are eating up all your CPU, here is my computer, and it shows that if I would just turn off AOL, and the WindowServer (which is networking to work with windows) My computer would feel a little faster. |
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Here you can see that Mozilla is a real memory hog, and if I didn't have much RAM, Safari would be a lot quicker. Surprisingly, AOL does not use as much ram as Mozilla!
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If you switch to the System Memory tab, you can see that I'm in good shape. The used memory of 492.64 is less than 512. Also the Page ins/outs is not going up very fast, if you get lots of Page ins that means you need more memory as well. Wired: Memory that can not be paged out. |
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If you go into the terminal and type "top" you will see where apple got its idea for the activity monitor! Every unix or linux has had "top" for quite a while. One use was to find out which program was misbehaving and kill it, instead of rebooting to get rid of the misbehaving program. |