ben huebscher

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  • Why doesn't apple just buy delicious monster and get the whole damn staff and another solid piece of software for its portfolio?
  • It seems abundantly clear to me how to solve the copy and past problem. Apple already has a gesture to accomplish dragging. For years (even before the multi-touch track-pads) Apple has provided the tap-tap-and-slide method. If you double-tap the …
  • I'm suprised that no one has gone here yet ... what about abandoning the Macintosh name all together. They was I remember is that my Macintosh ran System X.X on a PowerPC processor. A new operating system and chip latter maybe it's time to move on…
  • What exactly makes Intel's production facilities that much better than IBM and AMD?
  • A) Once the transistion takes place, how easily could Apple switch to AMD processors if Intel starts flaking out? Could Apple release Intel and AMD machines simultaniously to provide users with more choices? C) What are the advantages of Inte…
  • well i finally got it to boot into the MacOS Tiger CD ... and ... drum roll please ... Disk Utility: The drive has reported a fatal hardware error to Disk Utilitiy If the drive has not failed completely, back up as much data as you can and …
  • Quote: Originally posted by Mr. Me What are you talking about? The QuickTime player has been able to fast-forward and reverse since forever. yea but in Mplayer when you hold down the forward key it fast forwords ... the forward key in quickti…
  • One other question ... is there anyway to alter quicktime so that it has the fastforward and rewind functions of MPlayer? I love being able to quickly scrub through files by holding down the forward or reverse arrows
  • Quote: Originally posted by Mr. Me Endless QuickTime codecs? Oh, please! We are talking about porn, aren't we? Well, if you have the DivX codec installed, you can play darned near every AVI file on the 'Net without VLC's audio track issues. w…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Algol What's the rest of that joke? An eccentric billionaire wanted a mural painted on his library wall, so he called in an artist. Describing what he wanted, the billionaire said, "I am a history buff, and I woul…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Endymion Uncheck the "Open 'Safe' files after downloading" checkbox. Yea, but I still want it to automatically open when it is downloaded well other than the fact that it automatically moves into my user's widgets …
  • We are talking Safari 2.0 (412) ... and yea it could be considered a nice feature other than two problems: (A) It is random ... sometimes it warns me ... other times it just downloads (B) There is no option to turn it off if I'm downloading a nu…
  • Quote: Originally posted by brujaz Of those of you who didn't receive your copy of Tiger on time, I suggest you call their customer service reps. I just called and came away with a free copy of iLife. I just called and asked why I hadn't receiv…
  • i have a dual 1.24 GHz G4 with 2 Gigs of RAM and a GeForce4 Ti 4600 NO RIPPLE EFFECT!!!
  • Quote: Originally posted by bobo28 No Tiger for Me this weekend! I ordered my copy of Tiger at 5:46am on April 12th. Up until 9:30pm last night, Apple insisted I would be getting my copy on the 29th. Here is my routing from FedEx: Apr 29, …
  • Quote: Originally posted by jacinto46 I'm in the same boat; I ordered on the 14th (I think) from the education store and mine just shipped, to arrive May 2. Yeah, it sucks, but it's not the end of the world. Having to wait a couple extra days for…
  • Quote: Originally posted by Mr Skills If you convert them outside iPhoto, will iPhoto still recognise them? Yea, that's my secound question. I would really hate to corupt my library. The reason I want to convert them all is so I can back-…
  • Finally, you can get high and go to the Apple store legally. No more picking up sh*t weed in Washington Square Park and heading down to SoHo!
  • On a side note, I think it would be very intuitive of Apple to replace the arrow keys on the keyboard with a click wheel. Up, down, left, and right would all still be clickable but you could also use it to scroll through a document, a list of files…