Posts by VanDeWaals

First off, are you using encryption at all (WEP or WPA)? If you are using WEP, the password that you would enter into the wireless settings on your mom's comp is the hexadecimal WEP key, not the password you might have used on your...

I'm _pretty_ sure all the songs sold on the iTunes store are 128 kbps Protected AAC (.m4p files). I've found (in a couple instances) the song off the iTunes store sounds better than if I ripped it from the CD. I had heard that it was...

Just as an aside... I was checking out Mac mini's on the Apple homepage, and I noticed that they have already replaced the wired pro mouse with the Mighty mouse under the options for mice/keyboards.

I think the big problem is that the OpenGL implementation that Blizzard is using sucks. People have bitched about this for a while, but the fact of the matter is that it just seems to run better using DirectX on Windows versus OpenGL on...

Quote: Originally posted by sunilraman damn apple's brilliance. taking the fun all out of playing with automator Yeah...I was toying with the idea of keeping quiet and letting you guys try and figure it out....sorry to rain on...

Or.....you can use Mail.app. When you have a message open, attach a picture. In the status bar at the bottom of the message window there will appear a drop-down menu that will allow you to compress and shrink the image if needed to...

Run away from Norton ASAP. Get DiskWarrior. Far superior app....and it won't screw up your system.

Quote: Originally posted by Mr Skills Is the range one of the things that is part of the B/G standards? I thought that the range was part of the standard - hence my wondering if putting it in 'B' mode would reduce the range. If it...

Quote: Originally posted by Mr Skills Thanks for the advice, but I actually just bought the Netgear, so I'm not too keen to change it! 8) I'm not that worried about the speed dropping to normal airport speed because it is much...

iPods are bootable already. As the above poster noted, Apple highly recommends that you don't do that. The constant spinning a boot drive is subject to will fry such a small drive in short order.