Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk for 11 January 2010
In this week’s discussions, readers seek help with exporting movies from iMovie, transferring all of one’s data to a new Mac, and hosting BitTorrent seeds of the venerable (and now free) “If Monks had Macs” project. Also this week, is it acceptable to say “right-click” when referring to the action that displays a contextual menu, and what could be the cause of poor iPhone reception in northern Virginia?
Request Help: iMovie HD and 08 Export Problem — iMovie projects in two different versions of the video editor are crashing on export and reporting odd file sizes. (2 messages)
Cloning a Mac? When moving from a PowerPC Mac to an Intel-based model, does Migration Assistant do a clean job, or are there other ways to transfer one’s data? (12 messages)
Clicking the Right Button — Readers discuss the use of “right-click” to describe the action that displays a contextual menu on the Mac. (16 messages)
If Monks had Macs FREE CD-ROM torrent SEEDers wanted — Now that “If Monks had Macs” is becoming freely available, the developer is looking for sources to host the BitTorrent download version. (9 messages)
iPhone in Northern VA? A reader reports poor phone coverage with new iPhones; is the problem AT&T, the location, or something else? (5 messages)