Camcorder question

Hi Scott -

There are several PC-based video editing packages.

The most popular & easiest to use is Pinnacle’s Studio suite. You can learn more about this software here:

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Products/Consumer+Products/Home+Video/Studio+Family/

Windows XP and Vista actually includes a program called Movie Maker, but it’s extremely limited, and would not recommend it.

All of these are inferior to Apple’s iMovie (beginner), Final Cut Express (advanced) and Final Cut (professional) packages, but these are only compatible with Mac OS.

Thank you for contacting us.

Best,

hunter greene Brainspiral Technologies, Inc.

Buffalo NAS Storage Devices and AFP

> As per your server issues: > > This is an ongoing problem related to AFP and non-Apple NAS devices > that has been plaguing users since at least 2002. (http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=46638 > ) > > There is currently no official fix that I could find. Survey says: > > 1) Files/Folders saved to the NAS from OS X through a programs ‘Save- > As’ option will be set invisible in the extended attributes. > 2) Files/Folders saved per point 1 will not be visible accessed via > AFP in Finder, but will be visible via SMB/CIFS, FTP, Terminal(even > if mounted AFP), etc. > 3) Folders can still be accessed via AFP/Finder using ‘Go to > Folder’, IF you know the Folder name > 4) These symptoms do not occur if you save a file locally and > manually copy/paste it to the NAS device. > > There are two ways to resolve this issue. > > 1) Find each file marked invisible by extended attributes. Change > the invisible bit in the extended attributes. This will work per- > file, network-wide. The downside is someone will be doing this on > an ongoing basis until AFP/Apple releases a fix. > > 2) Edit the com.apple.finder to turn ShowAllFiles on. This will > work per-client, on all shares. The downside here is you have to > put up with seeing all the “invisible” files on all shares and on > the local system. > > For anyone severely interested, there is hours (I mean hours) of > reading available if you Google “afp some files not visible” > > Matt, I’ll stop by tomorrow to check in and see how you want to > proceed. > > -Jackie >

Mac Trojan Spotted

This doesn’t attempt to exploit a weakness in MacOS but rather user ignorance (downloading and installing the software rather than being infected automatically). So watch out.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Peter Charbonneau > Date: July 12, 2009 4:40:55 PM GMT+02:00 > To: OIT > Cc: Mary Bailey , Jay Dube >, Hunter Greene , Jacklyn Matts > > Subject: Fwd: Daily Watch Report 07-10-2009 >

> > > Begin forwarded message: > >> —– >> >> New Mac malware attack spotted >> http://www.securecomputing.net.au/News/149686,new-mac-malware-attack-spotted.aspx >> >> “Known informally as ‘Puper’ the trojan attack disguises itself as a >> video program for OS X systems called ‘MacCinema’. According to >> researchers at McAfee Avert Labs, the attack appears as a disk image >> which then launches an installer application for the fictional >> ‘MacCinema’ software. Once the installer completes its task, the user >> becomes infected with a script file named ‘AdobeFlash’. The malicious >> script then launches itself every five hours at attempts to download >> and launch other malware on the infected system.” >> >> —– > > > PeteC > > Peter Charbonneau > Sr. Systems and Network Administrator > Williams College > (413) 597-3408 (D) > (413) 822-2922 (C) > > >