Turned on my macbook and found a whole vertical line of white on the left hand side of the screen. The entire line of pixels was stuck.
I went to JScreenFix and ran their java applet (I also turned on Caffeine to stop the screen blanking). 20 Minutes later the screen was back to normal.
It was an easy fix, but I am worried about the life expectancy of my macbook screen now. This puppy is still less than a year old.
With a background in unix systems I still find myself in terminal a lot. After the last apple security fix ssh/sftp/rsync was giving me a segfault. Very annoying. I spent lots of time cursing Apple before I realized I could if necessary still run ssh as root, but I was still no closer to finding the problem.
After a bit of searching I found this: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1447915&start=50&tstart=0 Turns out it was third party software. Still no idea what the problem was but an update of Airfoil and the problem was solved. But at least it wasn’t apples fault after all.
I like iPhoto, and I like the book and card layouts. For a project I was recently doing I needed a few hundred postcards. I was happy with the iPhoto design templates, but printing was cheaper with literally anyone else for this kind of quantity.
Rather than buying the card through iPhoto, I layed it out and went to the print dialog and simply chose PDF-X from the PDF drop down. This allows you to save your project as a PDF which includes printing information that most commercial printers can use. My cards cost less than a fifth they would have with Apple.