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Hybrids are going to be best when they are purchased and made INSTEAD of an SUV, etc.
I did not purchase my Hybrid to make my carbon footprint zero. I have my Civic because the only options for me at the time was to drive for transportation, and getting 42 MPG instead of the 18MPG I was getting in city driving with my Saturn was a definite improvement.
When I can buy electricity from wind f
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wow - I thought you were talking about my external hard drives (TM backup and archive) - those are in plain view next to my 30" monitor!
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If I had $100k extra in my pocket, I'd buy one... Maybe I'll wait to see what a used one will run in 5 years or so...
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saw it run as a preview this weekend - this was hilarious!
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I go for screen protector but no case for my iPhone. So far, only a single small dent from dropping - and now over a year old.
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handbrake has a quick dual conversion mode that can make a notable improvement in file quality without making the file larger. Only adds about 10% encoding time
I, too, would not rip 500 DVDs for someone else- life is too short!
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QuoteArticle AcceleratorQuotesekkerRIP most to a hard drive via mac the ripper, then make mp4s using Handbrake (the file conversion can be queued this way rather than going directly from DVD)
At first, that seems like a good suggestion but if you use a fast computer I think the process would actually take longer that way. A dual quad Mac Pro running Handbrake and using the built-in "AppleT
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RIP most to a hard drive via mac the ripper, then make mp4s using Handbrake
(the file conversion can be queued this way rather than going directly from DVD)
I would use several computers if available; 2 open computer mac clones would run less than a grand and do this great
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This is one of the advantage of switching - in some cases, this means you can get better light, for less.
Thanks for the LED tip - I'll go by Sam's Club and see what they have!
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There is some hard data to go by, though.
1) Intel has announced new processors. That is not rumor.
2) Students go back to school next 1-2 months, that is also not rumor.
3) Apple has historically upgraded the macbooks after the peak fall education channels have finished.
Maybe there will be updates with no change in form factor use in the next few months. Who cares?
When Apple an
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my understanding is that this only works with mobile me calendars
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Good to go upgrade here, and new apps are coming out everyday. Many are still free.
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The delays by Apple suggests that there is a legal way to do this.
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NYTimes app is amazingly good - MUCH better than google mobile for reading news on the go
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worked great for me!
Love the new wifi protocol so now can connect at work.
(posted from my iPhone 2.0 software)
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Snow Leopard is a great idea - kind of like 10.3, which was clearly a bug-fix OS release that incidentally made things much faster (presumably because it simplified the code to use less CPU per instruction). Even today, I'm still astounded by how much faster the finder and other aspects of the GUI are in 10.3 than 10.2 on G3 machines. Coincidentally, 10.3's speed increase came at the same time Mo
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Purchased a IIci from them in 1992! Back when this was a 'grey market' machine, as they were not an official Apple authorized reseller, but they advertised in the back of MacWorld.
Good to hear they are still around, the machine I purchased came with a much larger capacity hard drive for the same price as Apple was offering for educational customers (120MB!).
I do have to wonder - why are s
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I've used iPhoto from the beginning, as I've had a digital camera for almost a decade. I've tried various iterations of many other photo management software over the years to try to address various deficiencies in iPhoto. None are as practical as iPhoto.
I like the new auto events function; it really does help me by generating a nice autothumbnail collection.
Not sure what Apple is going to
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Sorry, spotlight makes 10.4 an amazing OS. I'm finding time machine also addictive, making 10.5 (warts and all) perhaps even better (though I do not like the changes to spotlight in Leopard).
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The CO2-based bug zappers apparently do work.
I live in Minnesota, and the state bird cannot be avoided. We focus on minimizing them - and I spray once a summer at about this time, which can keep us largely free for the rest of the summer.
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We're considering a Volt - would be a great commuter car for me.
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1080p is a standard that is still early in usefulness. The best bang for the buck is still 720p.
If I were purchasing now for a household, I would go with 720p 42" models or so, with the idea that you may upgrade them in the next 5 years or so (use the 42" in a smaller room in the house, etc).
But then again, I still have a TV that is 19 years old - now in a bedroom, but was a mai
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It can be hard to leave a tip. We recently stayed at a hotel in Berlin, and they did not take the tip we left behind with our note!
In the end, we just left it at the end of the stay.
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The MBA looks like a great machine - and I know several people who have one and love it.
But it's not for me - my laptop is my main machine - with 300+GB hard drives, I can now even take almost everything with me that I used to have on my desktop.
I cannot imagine going back to 64GB storage on my portable - I would have to then add a desktop machine to my desk to keep all the stuff I no lon
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By the way, Apple made a very unusual support promise for the original iphone - basically 1 year hardware, 2 years of software support.
Anyway, you are now giving your dad essentially a brand-new iphone; wait until july 11, install iphone 2 software, and it'll be a slick machine.
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with that configuration, it's better than any apple macbook you can buy new. Congrats.
In terms of the remote, you might not miss it - I haven't used them in years. If you need a remote for your presentation, the IR in the macbook is not good enough to move around as a presenter. So I purchased a combo remote/laser pointer instead.
Even on my mac mini media center, I am using a third party
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I wonder if the fact that Apple embraced muti-core technology years ago wasn't a big factor in the intel deal. They made a decision to go multi-core instead of constantly upping the cycle speed after everyone else showed multi-cores worked better (AMD, IBM, Moto). Intel always cited a few very profound technical concerns in current software design that show multiple cores do not help all that muc
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The best browser I could find for OS9 is iCab.
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I think we have the wrong perspective here (except cutting out SMS sucks).
These plans for the 3G iPhone are the same as other 3G phones such as the Blackberry, Treo or other data-rich smartphones.
I noticed this difference last year when I bought my 2G iPhone - at $599 it was not as expensive because it was $10-15 cheaper per month than a Treo or Blackberry.
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All of the following require basically the same 2 year contract. So the price comparison is valid.
$99 plus basically the same contract gets you a Centro - a palm OS-based PDA phone that can have lots of palm OS apps installed.
$199 gets you a blackberry curve PDA/phone with built-in push email that's better than the Centro, but there are not 10,000 cool apps to install basically for free
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