Posts by robo

I've had to resort to 'Jon's Phone Tools' to enable autodialling up to OS 10.3.9. I'm hoping that Tiger will allow autodialling but I cannot find any mention of it in the descriptions. Anyone know? Thanks

So is this 5th Avenue Apple Store going to be beside the FAO Schwartz? Expensive toys for adults and children, a perfect match!

In the dysfunctional early-mid '90s, Apple made all kind of crazy products. Scanners, digital cameras, natural keyboards, external hard drives, external speakers, external CD drives, not to mention a whole line of printers (mostly...

What's tacky about carbon fiber? It's a material, not a fashion trend. Admittedly, what is unspeakably tacky is that fake carbon fiber silver/black checkered look that was slightly popular a few years ago. Real carbon fiber is way too...

Does technology to allow the holographic display even exist? However, i think the concept is good. When i saw the Bose iPod dock thingy, i immediately thought 'it should have a projection of the iPod's screen onto the wall behind it....

Nevermind, i figured it out. You have to take the DVDPlayer framework from a pre-10.3.3 Panther install and replace the copy in your /System/Library/Frameworks folder. Then it works.

I have an older iMac that doesn't have a built in DVD drive, but has an external Firewire DVD-ROM drive. In this situation, OS X's DVDPlayer app will usually refuse to start up, citing the fact that the machine doesn't have a DVD...

Quote: Originally posted by cybermonkey I think your both right. i checked out the price of ram and for a 512 kingston stick it's a about £90!!! It wasn't too long ago that one of those would of cost £40. The only other conclusion...

Nice looking mockups, but i'm 99.9% sure you just saw a regular Cinema Display reflecting the light funny or something. It's not the first time that the Cinema Display has been mistaken for aluminum in a photo. I do not think many...

Quote: Originally posted by onlooker I didn't think the render looked that good at all. It was real blurry with every camera move, but the beams, and stuff was over sharp, and the fire looked like sh*t. That's for starters. THe...