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Apple interactive ad.

2009-11-19T13:21:54Z

Check out the new Apple ad on the Onion’s homepage. http://www.theonion.com

Canon v Nikon

2009-11-12T12:40:11Z

I am getting my wife a digital camera for Christmas and have narrowed it down to a few. Has anyone here had experience with the following models?

Nikon D5000

Canon XSI

Canon T1I

Paul Allen has Cancer

2009-11-17T15:47:17Z

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/16/paul.allen.cancer/index.html

Copying same data to multiple drives

2009-11-09T19:25:30Z

Does anyone have a suggestion for an easy way to copy the same set of data to several drives at once?

I’m working in an education setting where some teachers have a class set of flash/jump drives, and want to put the same data on all of them without dragging and dropping to each one separately.

I am thinking in terms of having a couple large hubs with all the drives attached, and imaging them all with one click. Any thoughts on how to script this, or suggestions for existing software that would do it?

The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time re-released OS X

2009-11-10T10:30:44Z

I’m a point & click adventure game fan. I just can’t play action games for the life of me. I don’t like the adrenaline rush or the way playing them makes me feel. But adventure games, I really love.

One of the best point & click adventure games I’ve ever played, along with Myst and Riven, is The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time.

It was a very rich game with a long gameplay and scenario. The original game was on 4 CDs. Not an action game, by any means.

Anyway, it’s being re-released for Mac OS X! At a very decent price on top of that. I’m very happy because recently I gave away all my adventure games I had, they were for OS 9/Classic and while there are a few adventure game titles out there, they don’t bring as much pleasure as some of those older games I had.

For anyone interested, check it out here: The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time.

However, it will need Rosetta to run under Snow Leopard. As soon as I can, I’m buying this one.

Tips creating media server

2009-11-09T09:50:50Z

The talk of AppleTV in the forums made me think about using an old G4 I have to run as a media server. I’ve got a leftover MDD G4 1GHz with 2GB or RAM. I was thinking of jamming as many ATA drives in it as I can and setting them as a single volume RAID, then serving up iTunes and iPhoto stuff through my TiVo Desktop. Now that my new iMac has wireless I was thinking of relocating the Airport and DSL modem to the basement to reduce clutter and I could stick the G4 there, serving up content to TiVo through the Airport Express. Any tips on how to set it up as a server, or if this would be a good idea?

Thanks.

Gmail vs. MobileMe

2009-09-22T10:59:27Z

I have multiple personal email addresses and all used to go to a paid web host where I ran my own IMAP server. For the sake of reliability I moved it all over to Gmail a few months ago. However, MobileMe has its appeal and I am torn on which one to use.

Gmail Pros: Proven reliability from personal experience, fast, has lots of quick keyboard shortcuts.
Gmail Cons: Tags don’t necessarily translate well into folders. Do I want to trust Google, the giant information cataloging and searching business, with all my personal info?

MobileMe Pros: Push notifications to my iPhone. Web interface is integrated with my contacts and calendar. Has real folders instead of tags.
MobileMe Cons: I’ve never used it as my main mail provider before so it doesn’t have a track record of reliability for me (yet), and it’s not free… though that is kind of a moot point because I was already paying for it anyway.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and other pros/cons you may have for either service. Thanks!

iLife ‘10 Speculation

2009-11-05T12:08:11Z

I have iLife ‘08. It does everything I need. iLife ‘09 has some neat features, facial recognition in iPhoto is interesting, The big thing I use is iWeb and ‘09 didn’t change much to iWeb as far as I could tell. I just don’t use Garge Band and iDVD and because of that I couldn’t justify the $99 (Canadian price) to upgrade. Well I came into a few bucks extra and have been thinking of upgrading. My questions are

Any rumours/speculation/wild guesses about when iLife ‘10 might come out?
Any rumours/speculation/wild guesses about changes in iLife ‘10?

Who uses 1Password and what do you think about it?

2009-09-26T09:36:51Z

I downloaded the trial, but would like to hear what any long time users think about it.

Convenient, a pain to use, good place to store and retrieve vital information?

Just your thoughts.

Thanks,

George.

Router Suggestion

2009-09-18T16:43:06Z

My current setup is an old Belkin G router with the wireless turned off. I have Ethernet out going to an Airport Express which gives me wireless. I’m not sure why, but I think the old Belkin is taking a crap. I keep having to power it off all too often. I recently updated my dsl to 6.0 Mbps, so I don’t know if that has anything to do with it or not.
I have my xbox, imac, and Directv hooked up via ethernet to the Belkin. I use the airtunes feature on the Express. My wife has a MB and I use my work PC at home some.
So, I’m in the market for a new router. Should I just get a new wired router-it seems so antiquated. I’m leaning toward an Airport Extreme. I have read about gigabit and am still confused. Will I see some benefit from that? Should I just buy a $60 N wireless router and let my express be a client so I can use the airtunes feature? I also have another express in another part of the house-it would be nice to have this act as an extender instead of just a client.
Is anyone using a hard disk connected to the extreme for TM backups? Does the hdd stay mounted and rejoin on restarts?
Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.