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    Downgrade new MBP to Snow Leopard possible?

    Good morning, I bought a new MBP, and it came with Lion pre-installed. There are a fair number of things about Lion that annoy me, and I would like to install 10.6 instead. Before I attempt to do so however, I was wondering if it was possible with whichever latest firmware came on my MBP...
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    Swapping drives between Mac's

    I keep both computers completely up to date, so that's kind of what I was hoping was that it built a generic install. I mean really, the only possible differences are the video card. One has a 8800GT (MacPro1,1) and the other has ATI. I'm hoping to move the video card at the same time...
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    Swapping drives between Mac's

    I know the hard drives are swappable between computers (providing it has the same interface). My question though relates to formatted OS drives however. I have two Mac Pro's (MacPro1,1 and MacPro3,1). Can I swap the drives between them without losing software or reformatting? The reason...
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    Best Mouse for iMac?

    While I've never been fond of Logitech wireless mice (always had issues where they consumed batteries WAY to quickly compared to Microsoft wireless mice), the latest mouse I bought from Logitech is awesome. The MX518, combined with USB Overdrive (so I can program the buttons to do what I want)...
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    Second Life

    Don't use Second Life if you have an addictive personality. :) Fair warning.. that goes for World of Warcraft as well.. speaking from experience here. :) It's much MORE than a 'game' because it really isn't a game at all.. Second Life is many things to many people, but ultimately it's a...
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    Bootcamp (Windows) not using all available memory

    That confirms my suspicions, it's a Windows issue. Thanks!
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    Bootcamp (Windows) not using all available memory

    I swapped the 512MB FB-Dimms and 1GB FB-Dimm positions on the carriers and XP still only reports 2G of free ram. I gave up on Vista since its a real dogs breakfast.. nothing to see there other than frustration of being treated as a 2yo asking if I really want to do something. Yeah, I know I...
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    Bootcamp (Windows) not using all available memory

    Here's an odd one.. I have a Mac Pro (2x dual core) with 4x512MB and 4x1024MB FB-Dimms (6 gigs ram total). Mac OS X recognizes it as 6 gigs, Windows (under boot camp) only says I have 2 gigs both under XP and Vista. The memory is installed correctly (as in 2x512MB in slot 1 & 2 and 2x1024MB in...
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    iTunes: How to nuke Sound Check's changes?

    I had to run to the basement and pull out the original CD again to cross compare the original verses the encoded AAC file. The CD seems to be filled with a multitude of pooly volume levelled tracks (extremely poor engineering imho on Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms). Suprisingly soundcheck...
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    iTunes: How to nuke Sound Check's changes?

    I've checked the volume settings in the info and they're all set to +/- 0 default. I also tried examining the ID3 tags with media rage, but it would seem the volume setting is hidden and not readily obvious unfortunately. There's plenty of people mentioning to fix the ID3 tags, but nobody...
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    iTunes: How to nuke Sound Check's changes?

    Hey everyone, I was going through some of my music library today and noted some of the songs I ripped off my Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms CD were way quiet. I discovered that soundcheck was turned on and is screwing around with the playback volumes. I've turned soundcheck off, but it's...
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    [How To]Creating Divx Files

    I highly recommend buying a DVD player that will play divx movies.. there are plenty to choose from, they are dirt cheap and alot easier to deal with than recoding into mpeg2. If you have kids that like to chew on dvd's, you can take up to 4 regular DVD's and easily fit them onto one divx...
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    "Open With" Issues..

    I found the solution late last night: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031215144430486
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    "Open With" Issues..

    Ever since I installed Tiger I've been having oddities with the "Open With" contextual menu option.. specifically, some of the programs that show up are listed twice! When I upgraded to Tiger, I installed it to a new partition. Once installed, I copied over my primary apps from the...
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    Disk icon - Won't let me add one

    I haven't had to do that before. I don't even know if there's a updated Tiger utility to do that yet.
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