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Re: Omniweb question - 15 years ago

Your preferences don't "work" because the links are really links to a new window that loads the referenced URL, not links to another site in the regular sense. You'd need an option to not open new windows to stop the behavior. One (old-school) workaround would be to command-click the links to open in a tab. Works for all links, not just other sites.

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Re: Best app for viewing AVIs - 15 years ago

>whenever I DL an .mpg file it's huge and not nearly as good in quality or sharpness. >Mpg type files take up a LOT more space to achieve the same quality as .avi files. You're confusing the avi container with the encoded content within it. The movies you are downloading are more than likely divx or mp4s that are put into an avi container for broadest acceptance. The garbage comment i

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Re: google and buy.com scam? - 15 years ago

Strange, I ordered a bunch of stuff (flash drives, DVDs, CDs) the night of the original deadline (10/31?) and been getting a package or two a day since last Friday which is really surprising me considering your experiences and since it's mostly media mail for the DVDs and CDs. Still waiting on two things but it's been less than the quoted 7-8 (business) days for shipping.

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Re: Help! My TiVo is giving me the silent treatment - 15 years ago

I think I had a similar problem a while ago -- I remember the same "show recorded 3 days ago is fine but last night's isn't and cable looks fine but Tivo doesn't" scenario). Fixed mine by either doing a reset or shutting down the Tivo, letting it rest for a little while then plugging it back in. PS - Sam probably thinks you've got a direcTivo

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Re: Where's the Folding@Home page that... - 15 years ago

The Extreme Folding site has team/individual overtake stats. Here's the Macresource team page as a starting point, click the Team Overtake for team info, or click on an individual name then the Individual Overtake for individual info.

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Re: An appointment is required now?!! - 15 years ago

Having to make an appoint for the Genius Bar is going to depend on how busy your local Apple store is. I know the one in Pentagon City, VA is typically booked so you can pretty much never get a walk-in appoint (and the last two times visited, they weren't accepting any more appoints that day). Unfortunately, one of the side effects of selling more Macs is going to be more people wanting to visit

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Re: Took family out to eat. Son disappointed with burger. - 15 years ago

>Some places have taken the risk of not well cooked beef pretty seriously. Sometimes it's not genuine concern about the consumer's risks of eating undercooked beef per se. But rather a mandate from the local health department after a sub par inspection that they cannot serve anything but well done until they clean up their act. I interpret any place that says we can only cook the burger

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Re: Possible to set up Mail.app to send email from different addresses? - 15 years ago

You don't. For that account, just enter the multiple emails, separated by a comma, in the email address field. Email Address: mattkime@abc.com, matt@abc.com, mk@abc.com

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Re: a question for the folks who own a newer iMac - 15 years ago

Quotemlfrank One question I have is if it is possible to turn the LCD off while still having the computer on? <snip> Am use to a seperate monitor - what you say sounds good enough though Whoa, hold on there. I think Michael's intention is to use the iMac with an external monitor with the built-in screen off. If that's what you were wondering Michael, it's a no. The ability to dim the d

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Adobe Soundbooth Beta - Intel Macs only - 15 years ago

Adobe just released a public beta of their new Soundbooth application (a modern SoundEdit if you will). Interesting thing is it's going to be Intel Mac only: The company is offering the solution for Intel-based Macs only, saying that "Apple is quickly moving its focus towards Intel Macs, and no longer sells Power PC systems in many places. By focusing on Apple's future, we have been able

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Re: resume question - 15 years ago

Unless it's a position that requires expert/advanced knowledge of Photoshop, go with "Experienced with" blah blah blah. While the other suggestions may be more accurate as to your skill levels, in the hyperbole of resumes, phrases like "familiar with", "working knowledge", etc. read like "someone showed me how to do something in PS and that's all I know".

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Re: C'mon Folks I need a bad joke. - 15 years ago

While walking through the woods a man comes upon another man hugging a tree with his ear firmly against the tree. Seeing this he inquires, "Just out of curiosity, what the heck are you doing? "I'm listening to the music of the tree," the other man replies. "You gotta be kiddin' me." "No, would you like to give it a try?" Understandably curiou

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Re: Any DC metro users here? (visitor question) - 15 years ago

If you only travel once a day (there and back) in mostly non-peak hours from Arlington or CC, it will probably be cheaper to buy as you go (we are talking like $20 vs $32 for the pass). However, I'd probably just go for the 7-day pass because there's no worrying about only one-metro trip a day, adding fares, peak hours, etc. Just hop on the train and enjoy your time here. I've never been a fa

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Re: Can SATA drives be used in external enclosures? - 15 years ago

Here's another case alternative. It's not as cool looking as the OWC case and no firewire but it is under $50 and it is super quiet (I've got one):

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Re: Any easy way to convert protected AAC files to MP3? - 15 years ago

1) burn audio CD and re-rip as MP3 2) Create project in iMovie and add protected-AAC as soundtrack. Export audio-only MP3 and import into iTunes 3) Roll the dice with Hymn/Harmony/etc to strip the DRM and convert to MP3.

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Re: Job Satisfaction survey form...what's your score? - 15 years ago

I'm down with you Steve & Stephanie with a 33 and ruminating Steph's course of action before it drops to the "postal" satisfaction level.

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Re: Apeture requires an INTEL mac, right? - 15 years ago

The system specs have changed with the latest revision. The NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (default card in the early G5 towers) is now supported so it'll run on a factory dual 1.8 G5 now. Won't help Sam's son-in-law though For reference, here's the system requirements from Apple: One of the following Macintosh computers: Mac Pro Power Mac G5 with a 1.6-gigahertz (GHz) or faster PowerPC G5 pro

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10.4.8 update available - 15 years ago

I'll be waiting for the combo update but the incremental update is available via Software Update now.

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Re: ATI 9600XT vs 9600 Pro??? - 15 years ago

That's the card I was referring to (and is the card in the barefeats link). I forgot about the other version (which is funny cause I've got one in my rev A dual 2.0 G5). Keep the XT in your G5, you won't see any improvements with the other flavors of the 9600 (the OEM cards from Apple or the retail Mac/PC version). You're gonna have to jump to a Radeon 9800 or X800 or Nvidia 6800 to see any

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Re: one pet peeve with craigslist... - 15 years ago

I thought you were gonna refer to the contradiction that if it wasn't used since he had it/never used, how'd it get scratched?

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Re: ATI 9600XT vs 9600 Pro??? - 15 years ago

No. While it has more memory, the 9600 Pro is only a 4x AGP card rather than the 8x the 9600 XT is. Performance is roughly equivalent between the two but the XT edges out the Pro in pretty much everything. If you were upgrading to the 9600 family from a lesser card, I wouldn't fret between the two too much but if you've got the XT, don't bother with the 9600 Pro. Here's a link to some barefea

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Revised requirements - 15 years ago

Looks like they loosened the hardware requirements a bit. I noticed my 1.6GHz G5 with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra now meets the system requirements . I don't think either the Mac nor card made the cut previously. Cool. Also noticed the RAW support has some additions also (FUJI S2 and S3 among others).

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Aperture update is free - 15 years ago

For existing customers, the Aperture 1.5 update is free. That's nice. Supposed to be available this week I think (the google translation says "The update is to appear still in this week "). Looks like it was an Aperture only event. For those hoping for updated MB/MBPs, there's always next Tuesday... Update: Apple's site is updated for Aperture 1.5:

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Re: Apple Special Event @ Photokina - 15 years ago

So far, here's the scoop on aperture -- no word on availability or upgrade pricing yet... - images can be stored on DVDs or other media - previews are shown in high quality even if they are stored on DVDs/"offline" - Aperture Library can be used in media browser of iLife/iWork (iDVD for ex.) - open API for example for the online ordering of images via internet (through non-Apple s

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Re: Apple Special Event @ Photokina - 15 years ago

Sorry... There's an Apple special event on September 25th, right before Photokina. Begins 10:30 am EST if my calculations are correct: "Apple Special Event Presentation: September 25th 16:30~18:00h Gürzenich Köln, Martinstraße 29-37 50667 Koln Cologne, Germany Registration: 15:30h and reception to follow presentation."

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Apple Special Event @ Photokina - 15 years ago

The event should've started at 10:30. Any news from it yet or is anyone covering the event live?

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Re: How to open a 20-year old MacWrite or Word file? - 15 years ago

Try the free version of Corel WordPerfect 3.5 for Mac. It's stuck in a timewarp (circa 1995) and may still open older Word/MacWrite format.

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Re: Limitations of Photoshop Elements vs Photoshop? - 15 years ago

For most folks entering the realm of digital photo editting Elements is good enough. The big differences to me are Photoshop gives you "better" tools including curves, color balance, match color, layer masks and a quick mask (I haven't seen the latest version of Elements so if some of these have been added to Elements, my apologies in advance). But these pages should give better ins

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Re: Downloading iTunes 7... - 15 years ago

I'm not seeing any shared libraries (usually 1 or 2 folks are always sharing here at the office). Did they move the shared libraries? Or did they change the requirements that with iTunes 7 you can only share with other iTunes 7 users?

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Re: Downloading iTunes 7... - 15 years ago

It's analyizing my library now for...GAPLESS PLAYBACK!! Didn't see that mentioned anywhere else. Wonder if it'll transfer to the iPod. PS - icon is now a blue note

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