I was quite annoyed by the Apple logo watermark on every DVD menu I made with iDVD. It turned out that removing is was suprisely simple.
Apple logo in iDvd menu
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general
apple, idvd, imovie
Today I added a new Mac section on http://www.basvandijk.eu/mac/. This section might be helpful for people who just started using a Mac and do not yet know which software can be useful.
Software
apple, mac, OSX
If for example Pages crashes telling you and error occurred with the SFWordProcessing plugin. The steps below might be a solution:
- Make sure all applications are closed!
- Open Font book.
- Scroll down to the Hoefler font and ctrl + click on it.
- Choose “Remove Hoefler Text Family”
- Download the new Hoefler font.
- Extract the Hoefler.zip file and place it in: Macintosh HD/Library/Fonts
- Launch Pages or iWeb and the everything should work as usual.
Hoefler
Software
apple, font, iweb, OSX, pages
If you are wondering about whether your software will run on the new OSX Snow Leopard this is definitely a site to check out. Wikidot listed lots of OSX software and the how they run on Snow Leopard.
general
apple, OSX
Xbench is a tool which benchmarks your Mac. It runs several tests like: harddisk, memory, cpu, graphics and more. The nice thing: it is free 
Results after running xbench
Software
apple, OSX
The monitor I am working on is a Samsung 244T. This monitor has the capability of rotating from landscape to portrait mode. OSX supports rotating the screen, but to do so you need to go trough a lot of menus.
Display Rotation menu icon
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apple, OSX
