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  • Quote: Originally Posted by F1Turbo No, I haven't. So you have to have that to be able to chat with people on Blackberries? No, you don't have to have it, but it's built into all recent (all?) BlackBerrys and it works well. Of course, there …
    in blackberry like chat app?? Comment by mikef March 2009
  • What I need to do is convert an non-encyrpted home DVD recording to DV for editing. Handbrake doesn't convert to DV and Transcoder Redux choked on the DVD image. Any ideas? I'd rather not pay for software to do this if I can avoid it. Thanks.
    in Something better than ffmpegX? Comment by mikef March 2009
  • Good for them! The product seems sound, though I have no personal experience. They seem to have a pretty loyal following of users and I've yet to read a story of unrecoverable data and/or outright failure. I wish I could justify the expense to …
    in Drobo sells 60k units Comment by mikef March 2009
  • Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM I don't know if that's possible yet, if when it becomes possible, I would bet it's a $99 converter. If you're not hung up on the current version, just want the Apple brand screen, reconditioned ones might show …
    in Apple drops 20-inch Cinema display, 30-inch may follow Comment by mikef February 2009
  • All I really want is a way of connecting my non-unibody MBP to the 24" display... anybody?
    in Apple drops 20-inch Cinema display, 30-inch may follow Comment by mikef February 2009
  • Mucho expensive but if they get too noisy, I guess I'll have to replace them. Thanks for the info. I never thought to look at ifixit.
    in Laptop making funny noise Comment by mikef February 2009
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Bryan0725 yea that is a little tricky.. im right about the 5400rpm right? it seems the same as the 7200 right? I think the 7200rpm drive was about $20 more if I'm not mistaken... I was more worried about incr…
    in MacBook Pro HDD Upgrade Comment by mikef February 2009
  • My MBP has fan noise... I cleaned them last week when I had it open for a HD upgrade but it didn't help. Any ballpark idea what Apple charges to replace a fan?
    in Laptop making funny noise Comment by mikef February 2009
  • I just put a Seagate 320GB (5400rpm) into my MBP C2D 2.16 last week... paid $91 CAD for the drive at Canada Computers. Installation was not nearly as painful as I was expecting. The difficult part for me was getting the top lid unsnapped from the…
    in MacBook Pro HDD Upgrade Comment by mikef February 2009
  • You can use the "Export" functionality in iPhoto to export the original files to the appropriate location(s) and then remove them from the iPhoto library.
    in Storing photos other than iPhoto? Comment by mikef February 2009
  • Too late now I don't want to take my MBP apart again. I was happy that it came back alive after installing the upgraded drive. On a side note, the machine seems faster than before presumably due to the newer/faster drive.
    in Will it fit? HDD in MBP Comment by mikef February 2009
  • Quote: Originally Posted by tonton So... let's say data corruption is caused by a power outage, for instance. Wouldn't the corruption only affect one drive in the mirrored RAID setup, and that drive would be repaired by the mirror drive? The p…
    in Drobo blows up Comment by mikef February 2009
  • Quote: Originally Posted by FuturePastNow I'm currently building a new fileserver using an Atom motherboard. I'm looking at FreeNAS but I might just use Linux like I did with my current fileserver. Atom + WD Greenpower drives should make for some…
    in Drobo blows up Comment by mikef February 2009
  • Dubious source... if this were true, this wouldn't be the first time we heard about it. You did hear Steve Jobs' comments about Blu-Ray, right? http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/14/s...a-bag-of-hurt/
    in Blu-ray already in new MBP's? Comment by mikef February 2009
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin ummyeaaaa it will fit. You might notice more vibration but it depends. Some drives are worse than others. You really have to try it out and decide if it annoys you enough to be a problem. The extra disk perfo…
    in Will it fit? HDD in MBP Comment by mikef February 2009
  • Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison A Core Duo based NAS running O. Solaris and ZFS shouldn't be too bad. Been tempted to do the same myself with an Intel Atom-based machine... should get decent performance and reliability.
    in Drobo blows up Comment by mikef February 2009
  • Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison Hopefully Drobo will add anti-corruption features to their proprietary setup. How would they do this? My understanding is that the Drobo can accommodate any file system (hence it works on Windows, Mac, L…
    in Drobo blows up Comment by mikef February 2009
  • Looking for a fix for the intermittent freezing problem when running 10.5.2 on the MacBook Pro http://discussions.apple.com/thread....readID=1390673
    in Apple begins widespread testing of Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update Comment by mikef March 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Brian Green mikef, would you be so kind as to point me in the right direction regarding these third-party companies? How do they get maps onto the Garmin GPS's? Sorry, I didn't imply that the third-party software i…
    in Garmin releases POI Loader and WebUpdate for OS X Comment by mikef April 2007
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Brian Green I thought so too, but then again there has to be something substantial keeping them from releasing their Mapsource software for the Mac. I would guess lack of resources in their OS X development team. F…
    in Garmin releases POI Loader and WebUpdate for OS X Comment by mikef April 2007