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I had just completed a movie on iMovie and wanted to make a DVD of it for my mother. So I clicked ?Share? > ?iDVD...? and a ?Preparing project...? message box appeared. After about an hour of processing, a ?Choose Application? message box dropped down with a list of applications - iDVD nowhere to be seen amongst them.
The truth of the matter is that iDVD is not included with OS X Lion which is very disappointing considering that when I was researching whether to buy an Apple for my next computer, I was led to believe that OS X Lion included the iLife suite and the iLife suite included iDVD and iWeb (which is also missing).
It seems Apple have decided that optical media are ?old hat?, ignoring the fact that DVDs are still the most popular format for distributing videos. How many people do you know who don?t have the means for playing a DVD?
The only way you can get a copy of iDVD is by buying the boxed set of iLife which - guess what - comes on optical media. I am very reluctant to pay 46 (70 for a family licence) for a suite of programs when three of the five programs are already installed on my computer and I have no use for the fifth.
If you don?t want to buy iLife, you will need export your movie by clicking ?Share? > ?Export?, selecting the size of file and using a third-party DVD burning program such as Burn which can be downloaded from:
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html
27 April 2014
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27 April 2014
One of the problems for Apple newbies is that some of Windows? keys seem to be missing. An example of this is the Hash or # key - also know as the Pound key in the US.
The hash sign on a UK Apple Mac keyboard can be typed by pressing the ?alt? and the ?3? key together.
27 April 2014
Royal Mail has announced the last posting dates for Christmas 2011.
First Class - 20 December
Second Class - 17 December
Standard Parcel - 14 December
Airmail Western Europe - 12 December
Airmail Eastern Europe, USA and Canada - 9 December
Airmail Rest of World - 5 December
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27 April 2014
Universities will pay cash incentives of up to 3000 to bright sixth formers to compete for high-quality students.
The non-means tested academic rewards are in response to new Government rules which allow universities to take unlimited numbers of sixth formers gaining at least two As and a B at A-level - known as AAB+ students.
With the new freedom to recruit more high-achieving students, less prestigious institutions fear that good quality applicants will increasingly be poached by higher ranking universities.
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27 April 2014
?You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.? G.K. Chesterton
27 April 2014
Based on recent experience, I have listed a number of books that may be useful for those who are educating or contemplating education their children at home:
Home Education booklist
27 April 2014
Formal schooling should be delayed by at least 12 months because an over-emphasis on the three-Rs at an early age can cause significant long-term damage to bright children.
Dr Richard House, a senior lecturer at Research Centre for Therapeutic Education at Roehampton University, said that gifted pupils from relatively affluent backgrounds suffered the most from being pushed too far, too fast.
He quoted a major US study ? carried out over eight decades ? that showed children?s ?run-away intellect? actually benefited from being slowed down in the early years, allowing them to develop naturally.
Many bright children can grow up in an ?intellectually unbalanced way?, suffering lifelong negative health effects and even premature death, after being pushed into formal schooling too quickly, he said.
Most British schoolchildren already start classes earlier than their peers in many other European nations. Children are normally expected to be in lessons by five, although most are enrolled in reception classes aged four.
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27 April 2014
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