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A podcast about Macs done by a Mac geek for Mac geeks. Show 57. All Mac models now shipping with Tiger, Tiger not playing nice with Windows, Apple releases Bonjour for Windows, OS X Tiger 10.4.1 seeded to developers, MacDevCenter offers Tiger tutorials, iPod Shuffle grabs 58% of flash based MP3 market, Pod2Go Developer releases SpodLight to add Spotlight indexing to iPods, iTunes Australia launch held up by record company and new Oasis album released 4 weeks early on iTunes Germany. Special Report on using Tiger continues. I discuss my Tiger issues with iChat AV and wake from sleep. Also a tip on using the new dictionary in Tiger. Darrell’s Guide for New Mac Geeks #5, questions about MacCast voicemail, how to burn Mac DVDs on your PC, Bluedogbanter.com promo and Spotlight and indexing Entourage. I debut a new opinion segment from Curt covering his thoughts on Apple’s advertising. I will be at the 2nd annual MacGathering in Hollywood California on Sunday May 15th, please come out if you can. Updates on the MacCast contests. New music, The Fall by Innocent Noise. Your ears will never be the same. Shownotes in HTML or OPML
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I wanted to speak about the Disk Image thing because no one has yet. If I am wrong in my explanation someone please correct me as I am not an expert, just experienced. One thing that confuses many people, especially Win-Tell users, is that unlike DOS based systems, MACs deal with Volumes and not Drives. This allows there to be multiple Volumes on a single disc (I know DOS can too) and helps the operating system keep track of removable volumes (like CDs) better than the Win-Tell systems. As anyone who has seen the error “Can not read drive A: Abort, Retry, Fail?” knows, simply removing the disk doesn’t let the OS know anything. Having to unmount Volumes keeps everything under control of the OS, causing less errors, although it is frustrating for Win-Tell users who want there CD back and cant find the button.
This background is useful in understanding the Disk image files. There are several reasons for using them. It is a convenient compression format, doesn’t require 3rd party software, and you don’t end up with a ZIP and the folder it crates. Also, I have downloaded more than one file that was a compressed disk image rapped in a ZIP file. It ended up being 3-4 times the size of the ZIP package.