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Quote: Originally Posted by aryayush WOW! That was totally out of the blue. Though it is absolutely no match for Parallels right now, I'm sure they will be adding more features to it and improving the interface. And it is hard to beat the price. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Visual Hub actually has two options, mpeg-2 and DVD. The DVD option makes an image that will play on a DVD player and you can specify a number of chapters. The DVD option doesn't have menus though, it will just …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin It's frustrating if you buy Toast under the assumption that the encoding feature will actually be usable. Yes. I thought it was a "one stop shop" -- and it is... it's just not a very efficient shop. Quot…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Visual Hub or ffmpegX... Which produces better results? Thanks for your help. I can't believe Toast takes 3+ hours to do what these other tools can do in minutes.
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Okay. You might be right. I thought that it has been burning for the past few hours... it has only been encoding! ACK! It is now burning at 3x (which is still super slow!)... so I am guessing that Toast itself is the bottleneck.
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Quote: Originally Posted by f0nd004u The max write-speed of the MBP 17" is 6x. Chances are, your xp machine is a desktop, and has a much faster dvd-burner in it. DVD burning isn't so much a processor drag as it is a drag on the optical hardware. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by matracer This can't be good news for Microsoft Frankly, as in the "Bloated" ad by Apple, I wish Dell would sell blank machines and let us install XP from scratch without all the BS. Frankly, I am a new Mac owner…
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I agree. This was the first Mac forum site I visited but have since found three others simply because they DO NOT HAVE POPUPS! I understand the need to make money but I'd rather us all pay $7 per year which is MORE than AI will get from me with a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by studiostud Little Snitch - this app will tell you when anyone at all is trying to connect to your computer from anywhere on a network or the internet and gives you the option of allowing or denying them It also turn…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Soul_Survivor It's the 24" iMac with 2 GB of RAM, 500 GB hard drive. I've already ordered 2 Fantom 500 GB external hard drives (Firewire) to go with it. 1. Welcome back from the dark side! 2. Can I borrow your bank…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lfe2211 Acrobat Writer on the Wintels, built in PDF printer on the Mac. Recently, I've been using the PDF function in Papers , a great little Mac App for us scientists. There's a BUILT IN PDF printer on my MacBook …
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Quote: Originally Posted by lfe2211 Icy, I rarely ever print to paper anymore. Except for days like yesterday (IRS day), almost everything gets printed to a PDF file. You use Acrobat or something else?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Soul_Survivor I just ordered my 24" iMac with 2 GB RAM, and a 500 GB hard drive. Sweet! That is a nice animal there!
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Quote: Originally Posted by HandMade Monster What bothers me is that I own a licence to a product, and I now have to buy that product again. What is the compelling reason to upgrade? Is a saving few seconds with optimized code worth a thousand…
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Quote: Originally Posted by icfireball Edu has extremely reasonable pricing, and that's where they get their sales. Is there a site for this? Someone posted an educational link a few days ago but that was for Windows software.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Arnel And finally put that darned 10.4.oh-my-gosh-what-shall-we-call-it argument to rest for good. Uh, that would be... 10.4.oh.my.gosh.what.shall.we.call.it
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Quote: Originally Posted by MajorMatt I guess the best captchas would have you read a word and perform an operation and append them together somehow. For example, Put "5-3" after the fourth letter of the word you see. There must be a plugin fo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Soul_Survivor I'm not originally from Maine... I don't know the areas you're talking about. I pretty much hang out in my area. You've got to get out more.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Soul_Survivor I'm in Lewiston, about 50 miles from Portland. My cousins live in Scarborough now. I love Oakland. I know all the fishing holes on Messalonskee. Buy from Apple.com (through their educational link).
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Quote: Originally Posted by Soul_Survivor I live in a small town of Maine, so my options for local stores are rather limited. I thought of the new local Best Buy store since it is close. I called, and they don't carry Macs. I don't trust the B…