road to the leopard (iii)

blog-2008-02-08
Today, the installation work of the Leopard has been almost completed.
However I have a small problem on the .Mac mail system.
Also I have version problem on the GIMP and the LilyPond. But it seems that time will be solved to these problems.
Of course, the Xcode and the RapidWeaver v3.6.5 has been already installed. And today the remaking of my Web site ( this Web site ) had been completed. Therefore, I could publish this article. ( However I have to remake more than 2 Web sites I'm managing... )

After installing the Leopard and the RapidWeaver v3.6.5, I checked the PostcardViewer plug-in first because some users reported to me that the PostcardViewer plug-in did not work correctly under this environment.
However the PostcardViewer plug-in was working on my environment without any problems.
To the user who uses the PostcardViewer plug-in, will you report to me how the PostcardViewer plug-in is working on your Leopard and RapidWeaver v3.6.5 ?
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road to the leopard (ii)

blog-2008-01-26
Today I purchased the Mac OS X Leopard and the iLife '08 at the Apple Store Ginza.
It was Saturday today, but the Apple Store is be crowded with a lot of people who make window-shopping (Also a lot of people was purchasing the Macs and iPods). I could not avoid a sense of explosion in popularity of the Apple in Japan.
Apropos, about installing the Mac OS X to my iMacG5.
I have a lot of movie files and sound files in my hard disk. For that matter, the most of the movie files are DV and the most of sound files are AIFF. Yes, almost files that should be backed up are very huge. This means it takes long time to the backup these files. This is not so interesting task for everyone.
Of course I plan to install the Mac OS X Leopard by clean install because it stands to reason that clean install is best way.
I will make backup copy while sleeping tonight. I hope it to be finished by tomorrow morning.
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road to the leopard

blog-2008-01-22
I'm using still the Mac OS X Tiger. Upgrading the operating system is difficult because some application may not work for compatibility problem.
For example, I'm using a video capture unit I-O DATA GV-1394TV/M for timer programmed recording. This video capture unit works with a special software which provide programed recording function. This special software wakes up the iMac from sleep mode automatically on programed time, then capture unit will be recording programed TV show. Afterwards, this software does the iMac in the sleep mode. It's working very fine on the Tiger. I feel it's very useful video recording system.
So I was afraid it would not be worked on the Leopard because it seems that it's using critical API (depends on the version of the operation system) for the processing that wakes up from sleep mode.
Also I'm managing 3 web site by the RapidWeaver ( I'm using still RapidWeaver v.3.5.1 ). If I would upgrade the Mac OS X Leopard, I have to upgrade RapidWeaver too. In this case, I'm afraid about compatibility of the RapidWeaver because each web site is not so easy.
But I received decisive comment in the other day from Mr. Lieven as shown in follows.
Mr. Lieven wrote :
the postcard viewer plugin for rapidweaver doesn't work any more on the latest rapidweaver 3.6.5. when you touch a setting in postcardviewer, the thumbs get oversized and there is no way to fix it. people on leopard have to upgrade to RW3.6.5, they cannot use the current postcard viewer plugin any more.
I will go out to Apple Store in Ginza to buy the Leopard and iLife '08 at the end of this week.
Please advise to me for information about compatibility information of RapidWeaver from guru of the Leopard !!
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