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For a e-reader the iPad is a expensive device. Here's some adoption rates among computer users (PC and Mac) of similar Apple products. iPod (various types except Touch) adoption rate: 36% price: $59 to $249 2 GB to 160 GB of storage iPo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Nice play. I bought them in 2009, too. Not as low as you, but I've done well. My only regret is not buying Palm when they first started advertising the Pre in January 2009. I think that went up about 14x in a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Because if owned AAPL you'd complain about record sales and a skyrocketing stock price. I think some Museum Glass® may have bonked you in the head. I bought Ford at $2 a share instead, hee hee. ht…
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The new MacBook Pro's with their higher screen resolutions and anti-glare screens are especially nice machines. I think a brand new 15" MBP for my power use and a Ubuntu 10.4 netbook for my light portable use would be a great combination. Ubun…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Seems overly paranoid to me, if they wanted to leave a deliberate security hole, they wouldn't make it as obvious as a buffer overflow exploit. Those kind of exploits happen through programmer errors because you…
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You can't do anything except randomize the photo's yourself by name and then tell the desktop to rotate them in order. Randomize in Apple's way is true randomize, meaning it will somehow pick the same sequence. How it does it remains a mystery. …
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Guess the same spooks who have gotten Microsoft to keep their software so insecure all these years have also gotten to Mozilla and Apple. The Apple I used to know would take concrete steps to prevent any sort of vulnerability, not dance around th…
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US CERT issues advisory Quote: Apple Safari Vulnerability added May 10, 2010 at 10:57 am US-CERT is aware of a vulnerability affecting Apple Safari. By convincing a user to open a specially crafted web page, an attacker may be able to execut…
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Quote: Originally Posted by technohermit Roadmaps are important for business reasons. If Apple wants to enter into the corporate world, they definitely need to ease up on the secrecy. Apple, under Steve Jobs, no longer cares about the corpo…
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If you had a issue with your machine and worked around people that uses Macs clearly you could have gotten local support before deleting all your files. Time Machine should have a copy of the files, I would make them give you a new machine and th…
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My Safari only takes about 35MB of real memory, about 1 GB of virtual memory (on disk) with a regular page loaded I loaded two Flash games in tabs and it bumped up to only 136MB real and 1.08GB virtual. I guess if I loaded 16 pages of Flash ga…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aiolos Is using Disk Utility and "Verify Disk" good enough to check a disk for bad sectors? I just bought a new external hard drive and want to check to see if it has bad sectors. Thanks in advance, Aiolos V…
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Quote: ...Flash is not suitable for the current generation of mobile devices. O.K. fine it isn´t. Neither does Flash run well on a 3 year old new XP Dell I set up today for a friend neither. (was siting in a box unused for all that time) No…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AshRain This has happened on multiple websites. When prompted to enter my postal code I cannot. I type in my postal code and when I click outside the box (or in another field to fill in) the postal code changes to to…
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Download the videos or screen capture them using something like SnapProZ X and convert to a iPod friendly format using software if necessary, import into iTunes and sync them.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Punky921 Hey guys, So my old Macbook is looking a little jammed up and long in the tooth, so I'm considering picking up a 2.5" SATA laptop HD to expand it a bit. I have a few questions: 1. How big can I go? I'm…
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Quote: Originally Posted by zindako Whats with this misinformed hate filled thread? http://www.hamptonu.edu/news/051010_...ma_speech.html Link to the original presentation, none of what this thread is implying was said. Your link do…
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The iPad, hardware speaking, is below a netbook on the computer scale of things. Ergonomically speaking, tablets suck big time. Sure Apple came out with the first, widely selling tablet device, thus claiming a premium price and all, but when t…