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Hello all - forgive this one, but some of you seem to know just about everything, so think of this as a brain teaser to test your savvyness! :) The quick and easy question is this - can Tiger have an effect on the speed in which my mac can write files to the drive? More than likely it won't...

Thanks! You explained that very clearly. I have some CD's that are remasters special issues of old vinyl and they sound amazing - from the 60s. Duke Ellington for example. Would it be fair to say the original engineer had his act together? The liner notes on the CD say as much - the whole band...

I realize I am posting about 6 months into this thread, but I am geeked about Automator. I used Quickeys + Applescript for many years for all kinds of things, but with OS X QuicKeys completely destroyed their application (IMO). An app I had used for years was suddenly hard to use, unreliable and...

I thought transfering 8 mm film to video was tough - records sounds tougher to me! :-) How is it going chornbe? I am not a true audiophile, but I have pretty good hifi and time after time when you compare a record with its CD version, the record always wins (as long as it isn't scratched). I'm...

Though I have owned 12 Macs and done lots of things with them, I am having the most fun ever with a computer. You see, my family has about 150 reels of super 8 movies. I am using some dedicated hardware and my DP 1 GHz G4 to transfer all those films to digital. I'm also taking care of old VHS...

Well, in some ways that vision is here today. You see my company has some automated software for our PC maintenence and it has handled the latest 13 Windows security patches pretty well - I only had to reboot 13 extra times in the past few weeks. Ah, to live in this golden age...

Thanks rascol - I ended up with a D-Link and life is good! I had a Linksys some time ago, but actually ended up with a defective unit - it only took about 2 hours on the phone to figure this out! :-) I'm sure Linksys might be fine, but I have been burned and I am adopting a "one strike and you...

Hey Bob - it seems to be working much better today. I actually tried the auto location option just before checking back here. It may be that and/or the airport upgrade that is improving things. I'll keep an eye on it. I don't feel 6 months in Philly gives me the right to be a true fan, but I...

Hey neighbor! Well, some Macs do! Just this little iMac seems to be having real issues (meaning those not caused my me and my lack of understanding!). My wife would love an iBook, so perhaps she is sabotaging her iMac! :-) Really, the only problem I have here in Mt. Airy is all the darn bakeries...

Hello, I have a iMac G3 500 with an airport card (the old one). Ever since upgrading my router to a D-Link 802.11g, the iMac seems to drop its connnection over and over. Signal strength is high, it just drops the network connection and is usually fine with a restart. There was an Airport...

Years ago I used ClarisWorks for everything. I went kicking and screaming to Office. I don't know much about iWork, but the thing that ClarisWorks did really well was integrating differerent doc types into one doc. Text, drawing and spreadsheet - were each treated as a sort of component of a...

Hey everybody! Since we all seem to appreciate innovative technology that brings value to our life, I had to post this. Has anyone been keeping up on the Cassini-Huygens mission at Saturn? It is fricking amazing. The Huygens probe landed on Saturn's largest moon Titan - a place with (maybe)...

Yes, this was soooo much darn fun to watch, and it wasn't the first time Bill had a snafu in public (imagine that?). I posted a link on this in a thread on home automation. I hope Apple, Sony, HP and others just kick MS's butt in this area (home media). I mean, my God, can you imagine...

You know, I can't believe I didn't think of this. My mom has an old Cube, but isn't too keen about spending big bucks on a new Mac. eMac didn't cut it because she likes her current monitor. The Mac Mini is the PERFECT new computer for her. I think I just sold a Mini! :)

I know that! :) - just never ran a mac remotely before and don't know how it is done. I'll search or post on the sw forum.

Also - the Mini might have a lot of potential as a little home media machine. For example, I use Indigo to control a lot of my X10 devices, but Indigo needs to be running. My G4 DP is a bit of a power hog (trust me, I see it on my bills) so I would rather not have it on 24/7. A little dedicated...

Not sure if this was covered before, but as soon as I saw the mini it reawakened my desire to have a little file server here at home, just for kicks. Seems like it would be the perfect little computer for such a thing - no? Maybe? On this same line, how would one run the mini "remotely" from my...

You may have something there! Let's go for a class action suit. Also, I have these old Kodak prints and even though I hold them up in front of my computer, iPhoto won't do anything with them!

Amen Arden! :) Isn't it nice to see Bill himself go through the agony and embarrassment so many of his customers go through every single day!!! And you know they spent a fortune and had a small army there to make sure it all worked! Gees... Any way, that's all we need - Miscrosoft reliability...

Well, here is evidence on why MS cannot lead in home automation and Apple (or anyone) could simply kick their arse with a reliable and easy to use applications/hardware... - check out this video from the consumer electronics show where Bill Gates himself is demoing the MS Media Center and it...