Apple stuff - Mac, iPad, iphone
Glossy screen only = DOA for me 
Now if you could get the guts of the thing in a compact housing, a la Mini, I would have my credit out but I fear that will not happen. I guess Steve knows what is good for us.
Now if you could get the guts of the thing in a compact housing, a la Mini, I would have my credit out but I fear that will not happen. I guess Steve knows what is good for us.
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Some useful snippits for Macintosh users:
To have more control over which websites can automatically load and start flash content:
ClickToFlash
This makes Flash content on websites show up with just a button in the middle saying Flash, and will always do so, i.e. the Flash content is blocked until you click it. You can whitelist websites so that their content is automatically loaded if you wish. It provides a convenient way of stopping those annoying Flash based animated adverts from popping up all over the place.
Next on the list:
To stop other types of adverts from appearing:
GlimmerBlocker
This blocks advertising web servers. It uses filters that can be downloaded from various websites linked from the GlimmerBlocker website. It is system wide, i.e. it isn't a Safari add-on. It acts as an HTTP proxy, and therefore works with most web aware apps. Some may need manual tweaking, like FireFox.
That is all, MacBoero... Out!
To have more control over which websites can automatically load and start flash content:
ClickToFlash
This makes Flash content on websites show up with just a button in the middle saying Flash, and will always do so, i.e. the Flash content is blocked until you click it. You can whitelist websites so that their content is automatically loaded if you wish. It provides a convenient way of stopping those annoying Flash based animated adverts from popping up all over the place.
Next on the list:
To stop other types of adverts from appearing:
GlimmerBlocker
This blocks advertising web servers. It uses filters that can be downloaded from various websites linked from the GlimmerBlocker website. It is system wide, i.e. it isn't a Safari add-on. It acts as an HTTP proxy, and therefore works with most web aware apps. Some may need manual tweaking, like FireFox.
That is all, MacBoero... Out!
Using snow leopard I'm now having a problem with Mail. I added a gmail account I need to use and now have problems with outgoing messages freezing and incoming messages having nothing in the title or from lines when opened.
Any ideas appreciated.
Any ideas appreciated.
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Hi guys, ive been wanting to ask for a while now. Can anyone tell me what are the advantages I would get from buying a Mac instead of a PC. I use my PC mostly for games, Work stuff(MS Project, Peachtree, Office in general) and browsing. I have 2 friends who cannot stop dissing Windows and its getting irritating. They wouldnt give me a good reason for me to change to Mac so I wanted to ask here. It should be really really good and give me much more than what I already have with windows to pay twice what I would pay for a PC of similar specs. (Other than, there are no viruses, you dont need a casing cause ur pc's in ur screen or you have those cool aps that you dont have in windows cause I couldnt care less about these things).
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iTunes 9.0.2 and Quicktime X on Snow Leopard on MBPro
Recently I upgraded my software. Now MOVIES won't play. I hear the audio but video is dead as a dodo.
Anyone out there with this problem? Thanks.
Anyone out there with this problem? Thanks.
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Problem Solved. Jeez - Mac Software is getting flakey.
Went to iTunes preferences / Playback and just selected Play Movies to be in the iTunes Window. Problem is that either QT10 or Snow Leopard won't allow full screen playback.
Went to iTunes preferences / Playback and just selected Play Movies to be in the iTunes Window. Problem is that either QT10 or Snow Leopard won't allow full screen playback.
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QT 10 will play full screen if I double click an MPEG-4 file - no problems there. iTunes will also play full screen if I set the play window inside the iTunes frame then click on View/Full Screen. Odd behaviour indeed.
I have been in a couple of Apple Discussion Groups and some have this problem and some don't. The thick plottens!
My advice to friends is to hold off on Snow Leopard for a few more months. Strange stuff happens with iLife as well - I discussed a problem earlier on with some others on this forum.
Thanks.
I have been in a couple of Apple Discussion Groups and some have this problem and some don't. The thick plottens!
My advice to friends is to hold off on Snow Leopard for a few more months. Strange stuff happens with iLife as well - I discussed a problem earlier on with some others on this forum.
Thanks.
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iPhoto Exporter for Facebook
Quite happily for a year or so I've been uploading photos out of iPhoto and onto Facebook using the iPhoto Exporter for Facebook without any problems until about 3 months ago, an update was installed and now it won't work. Every time I click on "login", the webpage pops up, I login successfully, but then when I click "continue" back in iPhoto it says "Connection Error - There was a problem retrieving your user information". I have tried uninstalling the exporter, rebooting and then installing it again but still with the same result. There is no way to install the older version that worked.
Does anyone know if its a Mac issue or Facebook Application issue and how to resolve it? I've tried e-mailling the Facebook team (about 2 months ago) to notify them of the fault but have had no response.
I have iPhoto ver 7.1.5 running on a Macbook Pro using Safari browser.
All help appreciated, thanks.
Does anyone know if its a Mac issue or Facebook Application issue and how to resolve it? I've tried e-mailling the Facebook team (about 2 months ago) to notify them of the fault but have had no response.
I have iPhoto ver 7.1.5 running on a Macbook Pro using Safari browser.
All help appreciated, thanks.
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I've never owned a Mac, although I've used them from time to time.
My daughter owns and uses both Max (plural of Mac?) and PCs for work, and has clear views. She reckons that for graphical stuff, arty stuff, and the like then the Mac is well ahead. For word processing and office-type stuff, the PC is preferable. She doesn't play computer games, so has no comment on that bit.
You pay a lot more for a Mac than for an equivalent PC. You get more features for the extra money, if you happen to want what's offered. I don't, which is why I've never bought one. They do look good, if such things bother you.
HOWEVER ... there is a very powerful "cult" of Mac-worship. True Mac users wouldn't dream of going within 50 yards of a PC (or anything Microsoft) because they would be infected with the dreaded lergy. They won't allow PCs in their homes. I don't detect any similar puritanism in the other direction.
Mac lovers will tell you Mac is more reliable. Said daughter has TWO dead Macs on her shelf waiting for her husband to repair them. Her third Mac (the oldest one) is still in use. There appears to be no hurry to fix them - she's not doing much graphical design work at the moment. Both her Windows PC and laptop (my old one) are working fine and have done, without pause, for several years. I am assured by all Mac lovers that she's the only person ever to have a Mac fail (apart from all the others).
Mac is indeed virtually free from virus infection. Partly, I think, because there aren't enough Macs around for it to be worth the virus-writers' efforts, and rather more because the operating system is a lot more robust. I've got decent virus protection on my PC, and have little reason to be concerned.
The other handicap of the Mac is that in some arenas, Apple decrees how things shall be, and you have little opportunity to choose. It's not as bad as with the iPhone (a brilliant bit of kit, but spoiled by some seriously wacky limitations imposed as policy by Apple).
I'm sure Mac lovers all will want me excommunicated for sacrilege, but there's one man's perspective.
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OSX and Windows together
You can also have the best of both worlds by purchasing a Mac and then running Parallel on it. Parallel allows you to run Windows AND OSX concurrently.
My bet is that you will drift more and more to OSX as time passes. We have a die hard WINDOWs support engineer at work. After a year of Parallel and OSX we always see him use OSX and he is very scornful of WINDOWS indeed.
My bet is that you will drift more and more to OSX as time passes. We have a die hard WINDOWs support engineer at work. After a year of Parallel and OSX we always see him use OSX and he is very scornful of WINDOWS indeed.
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The other handicap of the Mac is that in some arenas, Apple decrees how things shall be, and you have little opportunity to choose.
Hey Keef! If a PC punches the right buttons for you and turns you on, why, you must stay with it!
BUT . . . .
Would you care to elaborate a bit on the above statement? I have been using Macs now for about 22 years -- and have not come across any such instance!!
As I said: Stay with the PC, if you must, but why bad-mouth the Mac?
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Well, I agree, I'm using a new imac with dual-bootcamp Win 7, and it seems to be the best combo so far, apart from some apps I use which only go as far as XP. I understand Snow Leopard has some similar ishoos, and I'm half with Keef about exclusivity..
To make it clear, I have used Macs and PCs in industry and education for many years, and can appreciate both sides of the discussion. Keef - Mac folk are indeed evangelical..
To make it clear, I have used Macs and PCs in industry and education for many years, and can appreciate both sides of the discussion. Keef - Mac folk are indeed evangelical..
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As I said: Stay with the PC, if you must, but why bad-mouth the Mac?
Thing is that Mac builds its rigs itself and has no other third party component that isnt specifically built for Mac. PCs offer an extremely wide range of 3rd party components which offer endless possible combinations at very competitive prices. Its amazing that it still works with all the different possibilities. Im pretty sure that if Mac worked the same way they wouldnt be as 'fast' and reliable.
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PCs offer an extremely wide range of 3rd party components which offer endless possible combinations at very competitive prices. Its amazing that it still works with all the different possibilities.
But be realistic, you're not really saving anything and you'll never put together a hardware package that's as well built as a Mac for the same money. Apple spend a lot of time and many, many $$$ designing their hardware, and I'm not just talking about looks !
If you have to buy a PC, buy an HP branded unit.... HP hardware engineering is the nearest equivalent to a Mac.
Personally, I say get a Mac, a copy of VMWare Fusion and a legal Windows license.
As for people who say Mac is for "arty stuff" .... I say rubbish. Maybe in the old pre-Intel days where software choice was limited .... but now with "Intel Inside" that excuse of an excuse is gone with the wind because you can run Windows on your mac at native speed..... best of both worlds.
Its amazing that it still works with all the different possibilities
And if you look hard enough within microsoft.com, I think you will find lists of "supported" hardware. Everyone has to draw a line somewhere.
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Well, I run XP (for games), Mepis Linux and Mac for serious stuff and OpenSolaris for fun (oh and BSD for NAS) so I guess I'm pretty catholic!
"I read that hackers decided to make viruses for windows because they were unhappy with something that Microsoft implemented in their OS so they decided to plague the whole bloody earth like little cry babies that didnt get what they wanted....its just that they want to punish Microsoft."
Well they don't punish MS, they punish the users! Naw, virus writers range from the real pros to script kiddies - they couldn't care less whose OS it is, they just aim at the biggest target. And, alas, one where 95% of users run with administrative privileges and make it easy for 'em.
"I read that hackers decided to make viruses for windows because they were unhappy with something that Microsoft implemented in their OS so they decided to plague the whole bloody earth like little cry babies that didnt get what they wanted....its just that they want to punish Microsoft."
Well they don't punish MS, they punish the users! Naw, virus writers range from the real pros to script kiddies - they couldn't care less whose OS it is, they just aim at the biggest target. And, alas, one where 95% of users run with administrative privileges and make it easy for 'em.