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Turn off the Mac, make sure it is plugged in. While holding down the shift, control, and option buttons on the left side of the keyboard press the power button once. Wait 5 seconds and press the power button again to start the Mac. This is supposed to reset the SMC or power manager. It worked like a charm.

There are times when your Mac may misbehave and refuse to boot into OS X. You may get a sad Mac face, an audible beep, or another ailment keeping your Mac from properly booting. When this happens, you can troubleshoot your Mac by using boot options to run an Apple Hardware Test, or booting with extensions disabled. Sometimes, launching your Mac this way can help save you a trip to the Apple Store.

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OS X tweaks

Keyboard Maestro 5.3 — from agen@tidbits.com (Agen G. N. Schmitz) (TidBITS: Apple News for the Rest of Us) —

Pushing to get one last significant update in before Apple restricts the Mac App Store to apps that can be sandboxed, Stairways Software has released Keyboard Maestro 5.3 with a number of image manipulation and mouse click actions added to the powerful automation utility. On the image front, Keyboard Maestro 5.3 now enables you to create new images; flip, rotate, resize, and crop images; create images out of composites of images, styled text, and shapes; find an image on your screen; and capture one or all screens or a selected window. Enhanced mouse click actions include support for double and triple clicks, dragging with any button, and clicking relative to the center of a window, screen, or image. You can also now type the word APPLICATION (in all caps) within menu selections as an alias for the current application. Other additions include a new Highlight Location action and live reporting of condition test results in action editors. A number of tweaky bug fixes round out the update. ($36 new, free update, $25 upgrade from versions previous to 5.0, 17.5 MB, release notes)

 

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> iPod、iPhone、iPad と立て続けに人々のライフスタイルを変えるほどのヒット商品を出した Apple ですが、この三つの商品に匹敵するほどのインパクトを持つ次の商品としては、iTV（Apple TV を内蔵したテレビ）しかないだろうというのが多くの人の予想です。

テレビ・ビジネスの一番の問題は、その利益率の低さです。常に４０パーセント近い粗利益率でビジネスをしているアップルにとって、テレビ市場でも同じような利益率を確保するのは簡単ではありません。それよりも、利益率の悪いテレビは既存のテレビメーカーに任せ、自分たちは Apple TV を戦略的商品として使って、映像コンテンツの流通に革命をもたらすことに力を集中する、という戦略の方がアップルらしいと私は思います。

そう考えると、なぜこの記事が、iTV のライバルとして、ソニーやパナソニックなどのハードメーカーではなくて、Comcast や DirectTV などの放送事業者を上げているかが良く分かると思います。

アップルが iTV という形のテレビを出して来たとしても、それは決してソニーやパナソニックからシェアを奪うことを目的としたものではなく、それを通して映像コンテンツの流通のさせかたを大きく変えるという映像革命・放送革命を目指したものであることだけは間違いないと思います