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Mac App Store Articles

• Mac App Store licensing and copy protection, explained
• ‘Installed' apps, the Mac App Store, and you

Mac App Store Troubleshooting

Purchase Failures

• An unknown error occurred (100)
  The solution is typically a simple one: Quit the App Store and wait a few seconds. Then relaunch the App Store and try again.
• App purchase doesn't appear to complete
  Just try again—clicking the Buy, Install or Resume button as relevant. If you cannot find a previously purchased app in the Purchases list, and you are correctly signed in to your account, press Command-R to refresh the page.

Sign in Failures

• Sign in sheet does not appear, or does not accept typed text
  The likely problem here is third-party system enhancement software. Apple specifically cites Unsanity’s FruitMenu and APE (Application Enhancer) as causing this. The solution? Disable the third-party software. Hopefully, a future update to the software will resolve the conflict.
• Unresponsive after clicking Updates icon — App Store app freezes
  This is a rare symptom, triggered by “certain third-party Mac NTFS software and/or connected partitions with versions of Microsoft Windows that contain the NTFS filesystem.” The solution is to remove the NTFS drive/partition from the Spotlight search list. As an alternative, if you can determine the specific utility that is causing the symptom, you may be able to disable it from the utility’s own preferences.

General Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting the Mac App Store
• First, if a problem is specific to an individual app, delete the app from your drive and select to reinstall it from the App Store
• Next, try to Restart your Mac
• Next, reinstall Mac OS X 10.6.6 via the combo update
• As a very very last resort, reinstall Mac OS X 10.6 from your original install media

Launched in 2007, Apple’s iTunes U is a powerhouse of knowledge. Currently more than 800 international universities maintain active sites and the digital library houses some 350,000 free lectures, videos, films and other resources available for download on the iTunes store.

Here are five reasons iTunes U is better than actually going to college.

1. Affordability
2. Quality of materials
3. Diversity of offerings
4. Scheduling flexibility
5. Lifestyle tolerance

Do you have the opposite experiences?

[Cult of Mac: 5 Reasons iTunes U is Better than College →]

You need to transfer files. Maybe to an FTP or SFTP server, or the cloud via Amazon S3, or using WebDAV. You maintain a website, do backups, or upload photos. You need Transmit.

[Panic: Transmit]

iMovie '11 Reviews

• Macworld: iMovie '11 Video Software Review
• Cult of Mac: Release Your Inner Spielberg with iMovie ’11

iMovie '11 How to

• Mac|Life: How To Use Audio Effects in iMovie '11

[Apple iLife: iMovie]

Links

• Can Apple Mail be optimized to perform well when I have 30k messages in my inboxes?
• Vacuuming your Mail.app index still works wonders
• How to make Gmail work well with Mail
  “The crux of the conflict when using Mail as a client for Gmail is labels, Google’s alternative to traditional e-mail folders. Instead of filing messages into single folders like Mail and most other clients, Gmail essentially lets you tag e-mail messages with multiple words like you can with photos on Flickr or bookmarks at Delicious. Because you can apply as many labels as you want to a message, and Google creates an All Mail folder to collect every message in your account, working with Gmail in Mail can get clunky, and fast.”

[Apple: Mail]