Apple’s award-winning “I’m a Mac/I’m a PC” ads were incredibly popular when they aired between 2006 and 2009. 10 years after the final ad aired, Justin Long has this week sat down with People’s “Couch Surfing” series to talk about the experience of appearing in such an iconic Apple campaign.

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Long played the “hip” Mac user in Apple’s ads, with John Hodgman starring alongside him as the PC nerd. As detailed by Entertainment Weekly, Long shared a few interesting anecdotes about the experience in a recent interview.

For instance, Long says that he filmed “nearly 300” ads for Apple, but that only 66 of them ever aired. Over time, Long says he noticed that the funniest ones would rarely make the cut. Eventually, it was revealed that Steve Jobs would often nix the funnier ads out of fear they would distract from the actual Apple products:

In the latest episode of PeopleTV’s Couch Surfing, Long reveals that, of the nearly 300 commercials shot (66 of them ultimately aired), he “noticed that some of the funniest ones would never air.”

One ad that did not make it to air starred Zach Galifianakis, who Long says played “a drunken Santa Claus.” He explains:

“One in particular, I remember, Zach Galifianakis played, like, a drunken Santa Claus,” Long recalls. “And [Apple] said, basically, that Steve Jobs preferred when they weren’t super funny….because he thought it would detract from the point of the commercial. He thought if people were too focused on the humor in it, they would lose sight of the product.”

Several years ago, some of the creative minds behind the “I’m a Mac” advertisements recounted the experience in an interview. It included intersting details on pitching ideas to Steve Jobs and more. Following his stint in Apple’s Mac vs PC ads, Long recently held a part in a rather cringeworthy Huawei advertisment. You can watch more of Long’s interview here.

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1. Installation

Important Note for macOS users: macOS machines require the installation of XQuartz 2.7.6.

Installing XQuartz

To see what version of macOS you have, click Apple -> About This Mac. You should see something similar to the image below:

To see what version of XQuartz you have, click Applications -> Utilities -> XQuartz. Then X11 -> About X11

If necessary, download the XQuartz installation package and double click it to install.

• XQuartz 2.7.5 (macOS versions 10.6 - 10.9)

• XQuartz 2.7.6 (macOS versions 10.10 and higher)

Installing FreeSurfer

Download the FreeSurfer installation package from this page. Double click the dmg then double click the freesurfer-Darwin-full.pkg to launch the installation wizard:

Couch Surfer Mac Os Download

If you get this error:

Then you need to adjust your security settings to allow applications from 3rd party developers to be installed. To do this go to Apple -> System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> General. Click the lock on the bottom left to make changes and under Allow applications downloaded from: select Anywhere.

After the package integrity has been verified, the introductory screen will appear. Click on Continue:

Next is the Read Me window. Click on Continue:

Next is the Software License Agreement window. Click on Continue:

Next is the Destination Select window. Click Change Install Location... to change the default installation disk and folder (/Applications/freesurfer). Or click Install to go with default:

You may need to enter you password. The installation process will begin to write files and will take a few minutes to complete.

To begin using freesurfer, open a terminal window. The Terminal application is found under Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal:

Type the following lines in the terminal window to source the freesurfer environment:

After you source freesurfer you should see some output similar to the window below:

If you use freesurfer frequently and want to avoid typing the above lines of code every time you open a terminal window, you can create a file called .profile in your home directory which contains those two line. This will cause the terminal window to automatically source freesurfer every time it is opened.

At this point you are ready to begin using the freesurfer software. If you haven't done so already, obtain a license, and copy the license.txt file into your $FREESURFER_HOME (Applications/freesurfer) directory.

See the this page for some example commands to test that FreeSurfer is installed and running properly.

If you receive the following error when running the test_commands.sh.15 script:

Then, you need to install a Freeview patch to have this work with your Mac OS version. Download the patch (~33 MB) from /autofs/cluster/pubftp/dist/freesurfer/6.0.0-patch/Freeview_6_0_0_MacOS_patch.zip follow the following instructions:

Couch Surfer Mac Os Catalina

1)To download the patch, follow instructions on using the ftp file exchange from this wiki page.

Couch Surfer Mac Os X

2) Remove your existing Freeview.app application bundle by sending it to the trash (and then emptying the trash).You can also do this from the terminal by cd'ing to the top-level ./freesurfer subdirectory and then doing

3) Copy the new Freeview.app.zip to where your old Freeview.app was located and uncompress it (so it becomes the replacement Freeview.app in your current FreeSurfer installation).

4) Remove ./freesurfer/lib/gcc/lib/libgomp.1.dylib from your existing freesurfer installation.

5) Copy the ./freesurfer/lib/gcc/lib/libgomp.1.dylib from the patch archive to /freesurfer/lib/gcc/lib in your current freesurfer installtion.

6) Try running the Freeview.app and loading a volume with it.