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OS X Lion: Recover iLife Suite After Reinstall | How-To | The Mac Observer
OS X Lion: Recover iLife Suite After Reinstall | How-To | The Mac Observer
John Martellaro
John Martellaro
2:40 PM, Aug. 9th, 2011
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The newest Apple MacBook Air and Mac mini have no optical drive, and there is no physical media included in the box. That raises the question of how to recover and install the iLife suite if you have to reformat or replace the internal Flash drive or hard disk. Here’s how to do it.
Previously, all Macs included an optical drive and a DVD that would allow you to boot from it and reinstall the OS X. The latest version of iLife was included on that DVD.
Nowadays Apple is moving away from clunky, rotating plastic discs. In addition, Lion’s hidden recovery partition allows you to boot, examine the main partition, do modest repairs, reformat if necessary, and reinstall OX X Lion. (Hold down the Option key at boot.)
Alternatively, your problem may be so severe on one of these new Macs (an unlikely event) that you need to boot from Apple’s servers and have it check your hardware. (Hold down CMD-R at boot.)
Either way, a Lion reinstall begs the question: with no DVD in the box and no copy of iLife on the recovery partition, how does iLife (iMovie, Garage Band, iPhoto*) get reinstalled?
The details are buried in Apple’s Knowledge Base Article # HT4718. Here’s a recap.
- After you’ve reinstalled Lion, restart the Mac
- Double-click the App Store in the Dock or select Apple Menu -> App Store.
- Authenticate with your Apple ID and password.
- Select the “Purchases” tab.
- You should see the iLife suite appear in the “Accept” section. You can download it free of charge.
Although Apple doesn’t mention it, we at TMO suspect that you need to register your new Mac under your Apple ID when you first boot up. That way, the Mac App Store knows that it should present you with the option to download iLife in step #5 above.
Finally, if your Internet connection is very, very slow, you may need to take your Mac back to an Apple retail store or find a fast Wi-Fi hot spot to accomplish this free download.
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* iLife ‘11 no longer includes iDVD and iWeb. With no optical drive, iDVD is less useful unless you’ve bought one of the external USB MacBook Air SuperDrives. But that’s a separate article.
iLife images: Apple, Inc.
Google Docs - Add Support for Offline Mode
Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs Add Support for Offline Mode
Chrome: Google's adding offline support to Gmail, Calendar, and Docs. The offline support comes via the Offline Google Mail extension, available now in the Chrome Web Store.
Chrome: Google's adding offline support to Gmail, Calendar, and Docs. The offline support comes via the Offline Google Mail extension, available now in the Chrome Web Store.
Offline Gmail
To get started with Offline Gmail, install the Offline Google Mail extension. Once installed, Chrome should open a new tab; click the newly installed Gmail Offline button, select Allow offline mail, and click Continue. Once everything's up and running, you'll be able to read, respond to, and search your email when you don't have an internet connection. When an internet connection is available again, the extension will sync your messages and other "queued actions" with Gmail.
The other thing you'll notice off the bat is that the offline version of Gmail uses the attractive, two-paned tablet version of Gmail (similar to the one you can enable in your inbox using Gmail Labs). Some of your muscle-memory will still work there—for example, the j and k shortcuts still navigate between messages—but beyond that it's mostly a point-and-click affair. (Hopefully they'll add more shortcuts in time.)
Offline Calendar
To enable Offline Calendar, visit Google Calendar, click the settings cog in the upper right corner, and click Offline. You'll be prompted to install the Google Calendar extension for Chrome. Currently, when you're offline in Gcal, you can view events and RSVP to appointments. Not bad, but that doesn't appear to include creating events, which seems like an important option. Look for that improvement in time.
Offline Docs
To enable Offline Docs, visit Docs and, likewise, enable Offline from inside the settings cog. You'll be asked if you want to enable offline mode, then you'll be prompted to install the Google Docs extension for Chrome. Like Gcal, the offline options are limited. You can only view docs and spreadsheets when you don't have a connection. But Google says they know editing is an important feature, and they're working on adding it.
This Is New?
If you previously used the now-defunct Google Gears to get offline access for Google Apps, this may seem like we took one step back, then another forward. The difference, as far as I can tell, is that the new offline support uses local storage features added in the HTML5 spec. So it's in many ways the same as a feature we had and then lost, but it's a little more future proof.
It's unclear whether or not other browsers (like Firefox) will get these features via extensions, but if I had to make a guess, I'd say probably not. At least not from an official Google extension.
Using Gmail, Calendar and Docs without an Internet connection | Gmail Blog
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