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  • Santa's musings... The iPad in 25 years. ? A4 size ? the thickness of a sheet of paper ? made of shape memory plastic/metal composite ? uses ambient light for power ? inbuilt battery wirelessly and light charged ? minimum 360 dpi edge to …
  • G'day I posted this on the other thread, then read this one, so I'll re-post. Have you tried a cursor enhancer (for want of a better word). I've got iCursor 1.4 http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/iCursor.shtml and with the Circle…
  • G'day Have you tried a cursor enhancer (for want of a better word). I've got iCursor 1.4 http://mac.softpedia.com/progDownloa...load-7216.html and with the Circle option picked in the Lighter mode, I have created a shimmering Circle of red…
  • G'day http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html 21.5" is 17.75" high 27" is 20.4" high http://www.apple.com/displays/specs.html 24" cinema display 18.84" high Regards Santa
  • I've used CCC for many years, and find it excellent for what is essentially a free program. Bootable backups, set for as often as you like, and either full or incremental clones. I've got one disk for TM, and one for CCC for double redundancy.
  • Quote: 3. Dynamic (moving) wallpaper A program called Xback lets you use your screen savers as desktops http://www.gideonsoftworks.com/xback.html
  • G'day Darkseid iPhoto started out as a photo organizing tool, and basic photo adjustment capability was added during successive iterations. Also added was the ability to store movies from digital cameras, but if you think photos have a lack of ad…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland Do you use Spaces? I have 4 monitors in front of me at all times. G'day Ireland. Yeah, I use 4 spaces screens as well, but my main screen could do with more real estate than 24" offers. I have Messenger, …
  • G'day read this for drive changing info... http://tinyurl.com/2blwbm Also, there are four small screw in spacers that lock the drive into the G5. These are different heights depending on the drive brand, and new ones (if different) need to …
  • G'day from Oz. The sound out port is on the rear... http://www.crn.com/hardware/205600695 Quote The Mac Pro is outfitted with five USB 2.0 ports, two FireWire 400 ports, two FireWire 800 ports, optical and analog audio in and out, dual Gig…
  • G'day Marine Aquarium runs OK with Xback at 20 fps, using a core 2 duo, and Time Machine has behaved itself for the last two days. Regards Santa
  • G'day I've run Xback overnight, at full frame rate, and found that Marine Aquarium screen saver crashes Time Machine backups. I'm trying it now on limited frame rate (20 per sec.) and will report back. Regards Santa
  • G'day Xback works with Leopard and Serene Marine Aquarium screen saver. http://www.gideonsoftworks.com/xback.html Regards Santa
  • G'day ritbag The same thing happened to me with an eMac. Pop art personified. I set up a new user account with Admin privileges, and it was fine. Then just deleted the old account. Might be worth a try. Regards Santa
  • Quote: Originally Posted by jinix that sounds really nice. But it's a little bit heavy in price for what I was thinking for now. How would you say Western Digital's MyBook series/ LaCie/ Seagate series do compared to G-Drive. I haven't seen ma…
  • G'day 1. Seagate drives. 2. A usb2/ Firewire 400 external box. (if one interface fails, you've still got the other, & usb2 can be used on PC's if formatted in Fat32) 3. Use the freeware Carbon Copy Cloner to make bootable & incremen…
  • G'day Anything you use will take up the same amount of space as iMovie, so just give in & use it. \ iMovie will import AVI files. Import them to iPhoto first, then import to iMovie from there, or Drag n' Drop straight into the iMovie Clip…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by [email protected] I did keep restarting & restarting & finally it let me do an archive & install. But it still keeps acting odd once in a while... The screen will just blip out & sometimes it will jus…
  • G'day Don't know if this will help or not, but this is what a normal Sound Preferences panel looks like. Especially make sure 'Mute' is not ticked. Edit.. I've tried to post an image, but how the @#$%^&&* do you do it Regard…
  • G'day What model of Mac? What OS? What make & model of printer do you have? Have you removed it from the power supply for several minutes? Have you disconnected the usb cable, powered off printer and turned computer off, replaced…