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Quote: Originally Posted by carvercasey I am an avid fan of iPhone due to its fantastic appeal and very impressive features.Sometimes I wonder why other vendors like to make iPhone killer rather than trying for making a good smart phone without a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Undo Redo Yes, it has to do with the viewing angle of the monitor. Some are better than others at more extreme angles. I expect to see a daed picture at an angle, but I was surprised to see it shaking and shimmering.
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox There are a number of flavors of looping noise tracks on the iTunes Store (just search for "White Noise"). I prefer "Brown Noise" because it's biased toward the lower frequencies and sounds more like surf th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MagicFingers I use a small desktop cd player, and made a cd from a white noise sound from itunes. I used garage band to extend the white noise sound to about 75 minutes and faded in at beginning and out at end for …
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MPlayer OSX Extended didn't work very well but Perian did and VLC is the best of all of them. I like it so much I am going to view clips with VLC instead of Quicktime. Video is clearer and there's no annoying control panel blocking the view. Thanks…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rokcet Scientist That's clever! So how did you do that without Time Machine...? You should Repair Permissions once a month for timely maintenance in any case! What is "T/W"? I meant that the internet c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H They don't conflict with each other so you can install all three. Perian is useful as it's a QuickTime plugin so enables anything that uses QuickTime (e.g. iMovie, Final Cut etc.) to read a load of weird and wond…
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Quote: Originally Posted by talksense101 Look at login options in the accounts page and make sure automatic login is off. search for disable automatic login in system preferences to get there quickly. Thanks. I find it odd though that when I …
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Thanks guys, I am going to get either the Perian, VLC, or MPlayer extended. Any preferences? As for Quicktime, I really hope Apple does away with that intrusive control bar-whatever reason they have for doing it, it's a bad idea IMO. I won't insta…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin You don't really touch the metal while typing but I can understand the discomfort with the keys. I'm the opposite though, I don't like the high keys and wanted low-profile desktop keyboards for years. The low pr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by KingOfSomewhereHot You can install have BOTH QTX and QT7 installed at the same time. For playback, QTX is made for Snow Leopard and much "prettier". And you can still use QT7 if you wish to do any of the "QTPro" task…
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I tired them at work and it just feels wierd, also the metal is cold.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hudson1 I believe Dell's keyboards are the traditional high-travel key type... at least they used to be. I recommend just going to a computer store and trying a few to see what you like. I can't buy anything with t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H Send your feedback to Apple. If enough people complain, maybe they'll listen and change it. In the meantime, you can install QT7 and use that instead. I took your suggestion and just complained about it. I …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rokcet Scientist I'm not sure what happened there, but I think that, for you and for immediate practical purposes, it's more important to 'repair' that behavior ? 'make it go away' ? then to understand intimately what …
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Its bizarre. Why would we want the controls to cover the clip? It should be under the active window. I wonder if anyone else has mentioned or complained to them about it?
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It says ethernet is connected and active, plus all the lights on the cable modem are on as if nothing's wrong but I can't connect to any websites. It actually happened without the screen saver coming on or the computer going to sleep. Out of nowwh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wiggin Welcome (but minor) updates to the mini line, but too bad they couldn't get the base model back down to the $499 price point like the original mini was. Psychologically, a sub-$500 Mac would be a good selling po…
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Just when my ibook G4 decided to stop connecting to the internet for no apparent reason. Now, which model do i get? If I just surf the internet, watch video clips and use office here and there , is there any need for 4Gb of RAM?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Yeah, I can't stand glare either. It makes the casing look nice but it's distracting. The 3 displays mentioned above have matte bezels. The 16:9 Samsung is the cheapest: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc..…