MacGroup: OpenOffice without X11

Thought this might be of interest--if anybody's going to be at the Apple Expo Paris next month there's going to be a demo of an Aqua-native version of OpenOffice. No X11 window manager required. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/30/aqua_openoffice_goes_public/ | The next meeting of the Louis

MacGroup: $899 iMac for Education?

According to the News.com article: http://news.com.com/2110-1041_3-6090628.html the education iMac has half the hard drive space and a cheaper video chip system than the regular low-end 17" iMac. --- Rex. On 7/5/06, Greg Schoettmer wrote: > Looks like Apple introduced an iMac for Education. It

MacGroup: iPod accessory stores go brick-and-mortar

Bucking a trend, apparently a number of iPod accessory stores are going brick-and-mortar instead of online: http://techrepublic.com.com/2100-1035_11-6045837.html (If you get a membership pop-up when you visit this link, just click the "close" button that appears in the upper-right corner of the p

MacGroup: Photo gallery from yesterday's Apple announcement

A fairly lengthy photo gallery of shots taken at yesterday's Apple announcement: http://news.zdnet.com/2300-1040_22-6044137-1.html --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is

MacGroup: Apple among most-admired companies

ary 28, 2006 8:40 PM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: Apple among most-admired companies Kinda dilutes it when you notice that Dell and MS are ranked above it. Rex Baldazo wrote: >Apple is number 9 on Fortune Magazines Most Admired Companies 2006 list: > &g

MacGroup: Apple among most-admired companies

Apple is number 9 on Fortune Magazines Most Admired Companies 2006 list: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/globalmostadmired/top50/ --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is

MacGroup: next meeting

Speaking of the meeting, could somebody remind me what the dues are for the macgroup? I've been leeching off this email group for well over a year now, without paying any dues. My Catholic guilt is finally building up to the point that I think I need to pay the dues this year. --- Rex. -Or

MacGroup: PC case that looks like a giant iPod

In case you want to build a PC but have it look like a giant iPod, they've now got the case for you: http://news.com.com/2300-1042_3-6042476-1.html --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is

MacGroup: Problem for Safari Users

Just thought I'd mention on News.com urls you don't actually need to include the path. Our publishing platform actually only cares about the numbers at the end, the path is strictly for Google optimization (pages rank slightly better on Google results when keywords appear in the path as well as in

MacGroup: Ipod Shuffle, Nano or ????

Agreed. I have a shuffle I bought for the gym, and if you're listening to audio books that would be fine. But I'm mostly listening to music so I find it a bit limiting to not have a screen I can look at to browse the music. Hadn't realized it would be such an issue but it is. So I'm also thinki

MacGroup: Reading DVDs

A lot of the PC's and laptops I've seen switch component manufacturers seemingly at will. Two supposedly identical laptops may both have, say, an 8X DVD bruner. But it turns out one is from Toshiba and the other from LiteOn or some other manufacturer. Don't know if that's the cause of your G5 t

MacGroup: Apple may be eliminating the iPod shuffle

Always dangerous to read the tea leaves over at Apple, but they've just dropped the prices on iPod shuffles and have pushed out a low-end 1 GB model of the iPod nano: http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6035974.html The speculation is that they intent to phase out the shuffle. So all iPods will once

MacGroup: MIDI connection question

I've never used this device so I'm not vouching for it. But companies do make USB-to-Midi adapters like this one from Yamaha: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Recording/Computer/Hardware?sku=3 32007 Again, never had any need to use it so I can't tell you if it's any good or not. Simply th

MacGroup: things to carry laptops in

I think those dual pocket contraptions are called panniers, or I've also heard them called "saddle bags". Most of the ones I've seen are just fabric, they aren't generally padded to protect the contents. If you're gonna put a laptop in there you should probably first put the laptop in some kin

MacGroup: MS Word lite?

Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:49 AM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: MS Word lite? Rex, Do you find that you have to fiddle with the display/font selection to get abiword to display correctly on screen? Bill Holt On Jan 24, 2006, at 8:21 AM, Rex Baldazo

MacGroup: MS Word lite?

If all you're after is the word processor feature, NeoOffice may be a bit of overkill. For opening just basic MS Word documents, I find AbiWord more than capable: http://www.abiword.com/download/ Plus it's open source so it's free, and best of all cross-platform so you can have the same software

MacGroup: iWork is the top competitor to Office

Corel used to hold the number 2 spot in office suites, with WordPerfect Office, but Apple's iWork has taken that crown: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-6030011.html I think this is just retail though--WordPerfect Office is bundled with a lot of cheap PC's so I would expect overall it's still h

MacGroup: $17 printer at Target

On Jan 23, 2006, at 8:26 AM, Rex Baldazo wrote: Somewhat off-topic but I was at Target this weekend and they had a little Lexmark ink-jet printer, I think the model was Z517 or something like that, and it was on clearance for just $17. Of course the ink is what kills you--the combo pack that has

MacGroup: $17 printer at Target

Somewhat off-topic but I was at Target this weekend and they had a little Lexmark ink-jet printer, I think the model was Z517 or something like that, and it was on clearance for just $17. Of course the ink is what kills you--the combo pack that has both a black and a color cartridge runs about $35

MacGroup: DVD/CD label question

I know this is not a good solution for you, but on PC's there's a new kind of burner called "Lightscribe": http://www.lightscribe.com/ You know how the part of your DVD that's been recorded onto has a different color than the rest? Lightscribe uses the same basic effect to "burn" a label into th

MacGroup: Job Opening

edu] On Behalf Of Rex Baldazo Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:03 AM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: MacGroup: Job Opening Just thought I'd pass along this job posting for our Louisville office: http://careers.cnetnetworks.com:80/candidatebench/jobdetails.jsp?reqId=1 4943

MacGroup: Job Opening

Just thought I'd pass along this job posting for our Louisville office: http://careers.cnetnetworks.com:80/candidatebench/jobdetails.jsp?reqId=1 4943&type=ALL&accessKey=55!56!55!66!66!83*100!118*118!115*114!117!119 If you or anybody you know matches the qualifications, go ahead and apply thru th

MacGroup: Less-capable DVD burner in the MacBook Pro

Just FYI for those of you considering a MacBook Pro. Seems the SuperDrive DVD Burner is not only slower than the current PowerBook (4x vs. 8x) but it does not support burning to dual-layer media: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/index.php?p=74 If DVD burning is something you plan to do a lot with yo

MacGroup: Any product plans for modern-era Duo-Dock?

If I had to make a bet I'd say you will never see similar products again. Simply because interfaces like USB 2, WiFi, and Bluetooth mean you can do most of that stuff over standard connectors rather than requiring a specialized dock. The economics of a two-piece computer like the old Duo just doe

MacGroup: apple store

rom now on. --- Rex. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Rex Baldazo Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:32 PM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: RE: MacGroup: apple store Some analysts are expecting

MacGroup: apple store

Some analysts are expecting an Intel-based iBook. News.com has an article that will update as the keynote progresses, just reload the page periodically: http://news.com.com/2100-1040_3-6024731.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville

MacGroup: Diacritic marks

Unicode is an encoding that allows all characters from all languages to be identified uniquely: http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html Remember that to a computer, these letters you're seeing are represented internally as just numbers. In the bad old days, what would happen is that d

MacGroup: Microsoft hoping to set a standard dock for media players

Part of their drive to unseat Apple's iPod, Microsoft is rallying their OEM partners to try and define a standard media dock that all the various portable players could use to connect to the PC: http://news.com.com/2100-1013-5975839.html Interesting that Microsoft feels the iPod is an important e

MacGroup: Bad capacitors in some iMacs

Apparently there are some new iMacs experiencing video failure and system shutdown problems related to some bad capacitors. Photo here to show how to identify the bad capacitors--their tops bulge up ever so slightly, instead of being flat like they should: http://news.com.com/2300-1041-5940552.ht

MacGroup: Apple tries to patent tamper-resistant software

Apple is filing a patent application for methods to ensure software runs on specific hardware: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5942107.html Clearly part of their plan to make sure the Intel-based OS X software only runs on Apple's Intel hardware, not generic (and cheaper) PC Intel hardware. -

MacGroup: Ubuntu Linux for PowerPC

Just wanted to mention that if you have an old PowerMac that you're not using, you might experiment with loading a Linux distribution on it. I installed Ubuntu Linux on an old Blue-and-White G3 this weekend: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/download/ This old G3 used to have OS X Panther on it, and I

MacGroup: Music moving to the Web

Thought this might be of interest--a lot of Apple's competitors in the music space have apparently decided to stop chasing the iTunes model. Instead of delivering their music thru an integrated application (a la iTunes), they're adopting Web-based music stores instead: http://news.com.com/2100-102

MacGroup: strange event with iTune

I've had similar problems. One thing I found helpful was that I took the "60's Music" smartlist which I never use anyway and changed the name to "Recently Added". Then I changed the rule behind the smartlist so that it displays the last two week's worth of new music. That way if I come back and

MacGroup: Pix of the new Sony Walkman

Just FYI, photos of Sony's upcoming hard-drive based iPod competitor: http://www.atraclife.com/index.php?showtopic=242 --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is . | Li

MacGroup: Once again, video iPod rumours

There's pretty frenzied speculation in the press that Apple's invitation-only event next week is for the unveiling of the long-rumoured video iPod: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/06/BUGCMF30K61.DTL&; type=tech But given the number of previous false rumours I wouldn't count o

MacGroup: Mac blogger

Jason O'Grady, one of those party to Apple's lawsuits last year related to the leaking of Apple new product info: http://www.eff.org/Censorship/Apple_v_Does/ is now blogging on our ZDNet.com site about, of course, all things Apple: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/ --- Rex. | The next meeting of

MacGroup: FW: fix for an annoying problem

This came across one of our internal Mac mailing lists, thought it might be of interest to some of you. --- Rex. -Original Message- From: Guy Ferraiolo Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 11:23 AM To: mac-users Subject: fix for an annoying problem Folks Something in a recent update ma

MacGroup: Problems with the iPod nano screen

Just FYI if you're considering the purchase of an iPod nano--seems there's some quality problems with the new screen: http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5880307.html --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The

MacGroup: bandwidth speed test

Don't know for certain if this one will have the same problems, but we've also got a bandwidth meter running on our site: http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html --- Rex. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behal

MacGroup: Screenshots of the Windows Vista install

I know, really esoteric but it's always good to keep an eye on what the enemy is doing. So here's a photo gallery of screenshots one of our editors took while installing the latest Windows Vista beta: http://techrepublic.com.com/2300-10877_11-5866619-1.html --- Rex. | The next meeting of the

MacGroup: Internet Acronyms Dictionary

Another useful online resource for looking up computer terms is the Wikipedia: http://www.wikipedia.org/ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Marta Edie Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:31 PM To: MacU

MacGroup: iPod nano does not support firewire

Interesting side-note to the new iPod nano--it apparently does not support syncing via a Firewire cable: http://news.com.com/2061-10793_3-5857236.html It's the same dock connector as on other iPods but you can only sync via a USB port and not firewire. A sign that Apple is thinking of dropping f

MacGroup: Ipod Nano cracked open already:)

Pure speculation of course, but some analysts believe that Apple's cost-of-goods went up substantially when they switched over to the Flash-based Nano's. As compared to the Minis: http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5853497.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macg

MacGroup: iPod Nano

In case anyone's interested, News.com posted some photos from today's Apple announcement: http://news.com.com/2300-1041_3-5852779-1.html --- Rex. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Rex Baldazo Sent:

MacGroup: iPod Nano

The Apple.com site is a bit slow right now, probably being hammered by a lot of folks. Apple just announced a couple new products, the long-rumoured iPod phone and the iPod Nano, a super-small version of the iPod Mini: http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/ http://www.apple.com/itunes/mobile/ Here's

MacGroup: Adobe CEO speaks about the Mac/Intel switch

A short Q&A with the CEO of Adobe, about the Mac/Intel switch: http://news.com.com/2100-1046_3-5844899.html --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is . | List posting

MacGroup: Apple hints at big music announcement

p://tinyurl.com/by3wb rob Rex Baldazo wrote: Apple is inviting reporters to some kind of big event next week. Might be the video iPod: http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5844112.html --- Rex. | The next meeting of

MacGroup: Apple hints at big music announcement

Apple is inviting reporters to some kind of big event next week. Might be the video iPod: http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5844112.html --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is

MacGroup: 4GB flash iPod Mini?

Rumour is that Samsung has offered to cut their price on flash memory to make it competitive with the little hard drives Apple uses today in the iPod Minis: http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050819_164307.html --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August

MacGroup: Quake III Arena gpl

If you're into game programming, id software has just released under the GPL the source code for their old Quake III Arena game: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/08/19/news_6131614.html Includes a link to a page where you can download the ZIP file. Supposedly includes instructions how to compile

MacGroup: iPod subway maps

For those of you travelling with an iPod Photo, there's now subway maps for various cities you can download into your 'Pod: http://www.ipodsubwaymaps.com/ Not enough to convince me it's time yet to replace my wheezing old 3G iPod. Gonna hold out to see if there's a video iPod next year. --- Rex

MacGroup: The last PowerPC PowerBooks?

Sorry, that should of course have been "G4" and not "G5". -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Rex Baldazo Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 4:01 PM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subjec

MacGroup: The last PowerPC PowerBooks?

r for some reason can't stand the notion of > an intel box...jf > > On Aug 12, 2005, at 3:07 PM, Rex Baldazo wrote: > >> Rumour of course, but the scuttlebutt is that we may have only one >> more upgrade to the PowerPC-based PowerBooks and then that's it, &g

MacGroup: The last PowerPC PowerBooks?

Rumour of course, but the scuttlebutt is that we may have only one more upgrade to the PowerPC-based PowerBooks and then that's it, nothing until the Intel-based PowerBooks: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1229 I thought Apple wasn't planning on an Intel-based laptop until 2007, which

MacGroup: OS X for Intel dev kit supposedly cracked

Despite Apple's efforts at securing the OS X for Intel dev kit, it appears as though some hackers have cracked the DRM to allow OS X to boot on generic, non-Apple Intel computers: http://www.hardmac.com/niouzcontenu.php?date=2005-08-10 Of course Apple will do something to respond, toughen up thei

Scroll wheel on laptop (was RE: MacGroup: Hell froze over again! (and More))

> Now if only they would put the scroll wheel on the laptop too :) Haven't seen it on Apple products but my HP laptop has a mousepad where a narrow strip on the right is in fact a scroll strip. If you slide your finger vertically along the right-hand edge of the mousepad it scrolls the window jus

MacGroup: Creative's latest effort against the iPod

Creative has started taking orders for the Creative Zen Vision, which supports video, photos, and music: http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5817467.html It supports TivoToGo for those of you who use Tivo. Couple photos of the device, must admit the screen looks pretty good but these are publicity p

MacGroup: Mighty Mouse reviews

Engadget has collected links to a bunch of reviews, some from bloggers some from "regular" media, for the new Apple mighty mouse: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000450052910/ | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 25. The LCS Web page is

MacGroup: Hell froze over again!

ROFL is shorthand for "Rolling on floor laughing". It's also sometimes ROTFL meaning "Rolling on the floor laughing". From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Marta Edie Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 6:07 PM To: m

MacGroup: Screenshots of Windows Vista

If you're interested, screenshots from the beta release of Windows Vista (the Microsoft OS formerly known as Longhorn): http://news.zdnet.com/2300-9590_22-5806815-1.html --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 26. The LCS Web page is

MacGroup: Sony releases PSP update that supports AAC

It wasn't really clear to me that this means for sure you'll be able to play songs purchased from iTunes Music Store on a PSP, but apparently sony has released a patch (for the Japanese version only so far) that enables AAC playback on a PSP: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07/27/news_6129825.ht

MacGroup: Yahoo acquires konfabulator

Konfabulator, which made those cool Mac gizmos that were clearly the inspiration for Tiger's Dashboard feature, has been purchased by Yahoo: http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-5803092.html --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 26. The LCS Web page is

MacGroup: MSN Virtual Earth

Speaking of Google Maps, MSN has launched their competitor called "Virtual Earth": http://virtualearth.msn.com/ I'm at work so I haven't been able to verify if this works on a Mac. It does work though in Firefox for Windows so at the very least it ought to work on Firefox for the Mac. I love th

MacGroup: Google Maps

I think the scary part with the Google Maps photos is how good they really are. Remember these are the ones that can be licensed for public use. Can you imagine the resolution they must be able to get in the top-secret military version of these photos? --- Rex. -Original Message- From:

MacGroup: Windows has a new (and stupid) name

Microsoft has announced the name they will use to market the next version of Windows. It will be called Windows Vista: http://techrepublic.com.com/2100-10877_11-5799734.html This is the OS formerly known as "Longhorn". Possibly the dumbest name ever for a version of Windows. Dumber even than W

MacGroup: Fwd: CDs no longer recognized when burned

I assume you haven't changed to a different brand of CD? It's always possible there's a manufacturing problem if this is a different batch of CD-R's than what you've used in the past. --- Rex. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu

MacGroup: .doc file

If those aren't able to open the .doc file, there are a couple free open-source options. I particularly like AbiWord, because you can download just the word processor: http://www.abiword.com/download/ There's also a fairly decent Mac version of OpenOffice now: http://download.openoffice.org/1.1

MacGroup: Video iPod

More rumours of an impending video iPod, including possible plans for selling music videos for $1.99 on iTunes: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8614723/ --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 26. The LCS Web page is . | List posting addr

MacGroup: Tinybooks

There's also some online small-business accounting services, which have the advantage that you can access your ledger from any Internet-enabled computer instead of having the software on one computer. But they are a bit pricey--QuickBooks Online is something like $240/year. A review of a couple

MacGroup: Mac Mini named a winner of the 2005 IDEA

Stands for "Industrial Design Excellence Awards": http://biz.yahoo.com/special/idea05.html --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 26. The LCS Web page is . | List posting address: | List

MacGroup: iPods go all color

In case you haven't seen it yet, Apple has eliminated the black-and-white screens from the standard iPods. Basically they only offer the color-screened iPod Photo, and they've cut the price: http://news.com.com/2100-1041-5765983.html iPod Minis continue to have the black-and-white screen. --- R

MacGroup: iPod-as-voice-recorder?

Anybody ever used your iPod with one of those microphones, like the Griffin iTalk? I've been thinking about getting a voice recorder to take minutes at the meetings I run here at work, and realized that the models with USB upload capability cost more than getting an iTalk for my iPod. But I was w

MacGroup: Safari Emulation

me in.That extra log-in and warning has recently > disappeared and one gets right in with the first and only click. I > don't understand all this, but my question : if a browser is not > supported, what does it do to me the user? In fact, what does > "support" mean an

MacGroup: Safari Emulation

r ones they will allow you to use? ( Testing matrix?) Marta To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. -Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887) On Jun 21, 2005, at 8:50, Rex Baldazo wrote: > I hate to side with a bank but I've been in their sh

MacGroup: Safari Emulation

I hate to side with a bank but I've been in their shoes and I understand their position. The testing matrix to support two browsers is large enough--the resources to test every darned browser would be too much for any organization. You have to pick which ones you support, generally the ones with

MacGroup: WebObjects free for Tiger Xcode users

Apple's Web application engine is now available free for Tiger's Xcode dev tools: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=11860 --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 26. The LCS Web page is . | List posting address:

MacGroup: What is a used iBook worth?

three weeks ago :0 On Jun 16, 2005, at 8:25 AM, Rex Baldazo wrote: > I'm going to be selling my old iBook and I'm trying to figure out what > a reasonable asking price would be. It's a 3-1/2 year old dual-USB > G3, 600 MHz, 640 MB RAM, 30 GB hard drive, Airport card ins

MacGroup: What is a used iBook worth?

I'm going to be selling my old iBook and I'm trying to figure out what a reasonable asking price would be. It's a 3-1/2 year old dual-USB G3, 600 MHz, 640 MB RAM, 30 GB hard drive, Airport card installed, DVD-ROM/CD-RW (tray-loading, not slot-loading). I'm seeing similar models on eBay that are c

MacGroup: Entourage question

Unfortunately the two easiest tools I could find that actually check email addresses are Perl or Visual Basic: http://www.codeguru.com/vb/vb_internet/article.php/c1629/ http://search.cpan.org/~ilyam/Mail-CheckUser-1.21/CheckUser.pm

MacGroup: MSN may seek right to clone any iTunes-purchase songs for you

This article is primarily about MSN's plans for a subscription-based music service, a la the new Napster: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39196413,00.htm Another case of Microsoft competing with their own partners. But buried in the article is one interesting tidbit--MSN may be

MacGroup: Intel Inside

Your G5 won't ever run the MacTel stuff. The real question is, will new software be produced that still runs on PowerPC chips like the G5? The answer is yes, for a while. If the software you rely on gets re-compiled as a fat binary then it should run on both the PowerPC and the Intel versions of

MacGroup: it's official! ... and it's a shame

I understand the aprehension and maybe I'm being a bit too optimistic about this but what I keep thinking about is power consumption. Even those badly-engineered laptops you were looking at probably had decent battery life--can you imagine how much battery life Apple's engineers will be able to sq

MacGroup: Early attempts at Mac-on-Intel

We've reprinted an excerpt from "Apple Confidential 2.0" that details an early attempt about a decade ago to create an Intel version of System 7. It's fascinating reading if you have the time: http://news.com.com/2100-1045_3-5734189.html It's four pages, so if you'd rather view it as one page the

MacGroup: it's official!

MacGroup: Apple Intel rumors

I think the switch to Intel is going to happen. Stephen Shankland is reporting it on News.com and he's pretty hooked in to these kinds of things: http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5731398.html The open question is whether we're talking actual PC's (i.e., Intel chips, a compatible BIOS, etc.) or

MacGroup: Mac OS X Hints has been assimilated by MacWorld

If you didn't see the post last night, MacWorld has hired on the guy who runs Mac OS X Hints: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050601001239978 He'll apparently though keep running the site as a standalone entity, it won't be integrated directly into MacWorld.com. --- Rex. | The

MacGroup: New address for MacTown?

know the exact address. But its now in the building on Breckinridge Ln, were Quest Outdoors used to be. Its across the street from St. Matthews Station, just south of the intersection with Shelbyville Rd. I think BicycleSport is still in the building as well. On Jun 1, 2005, at 8:23 AM, Rex Baldazo

MacGroup: Tetris for iPod Photo

Rumour has it the next software update for you lucky iPod Photo owners will include a color version of Tetris: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1101 --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 24. The LCS Web page is . | List pos

MacGroup: New address for MacTown?

What is the new address for MacTown? Their Web site still shows the old address. Thanks, --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 24. The LCS Web page is . | List posting address: | List W

MacGroup: iTunes 4.8 changes iPod file names

Shouldn't really impact anybody, but interestingly the new iTunes 4.8 apparently changes the file names that it writes into the iPod: http://foodisworse.typepad.com/hackpod/2005/05/itunes_48_and_i.html The theory is that this might make directory look-ups more efficient since the new file names a

MacGroup: Apple exploring use of Intel chips

Apple is apparently again flirting with the idea of using Intel chips: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7951114/ http://www.macobserver.com/article/2005/05/23.5.shtml Not clear though if this would be in addition to, or instead of, the IBM PowerPC chips they're using today. --- Rex. | The next me

MacGroup: question for insightbb users

Now isn't InsightBB phone service a Voice-over-IP (voip) solution? Is there any concern about the fact that many VOIP solutions do not connect to the 911 emergency phone network: http://news.com.com/2100-7352_3-5713446.html I'd hate to need 911 and not be able to reach them because I'm on a VOI

MacGroup: Apple recalls Powerbook/iBook batteries

If you recently purchased a G4 Powerbook or iBook, link in the past six or seven months, you might want to check the serial numbers on your batteries. Apple just recalled a bunch of them for overheating problems: http://news.com.com/2100-1005_3-5715002.html | The next meeting of the Louisville

MacGroup: Apple.com's front door thru the ages

Wow, somebody was a digital pack-rat and took screenshots of the Apple.com front door throughout the years. They posted them as a Flickr photo set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kernelpanic/sets/283374/ --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 24. The LCS We

MacGroup: Remote control may be coming to AirTunes

In the new iTunes 4.8, if you fire it up while you have a firewall running you supposedly get an error message that strongly implies there's a remote control coming soon for AirTunes: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000257043526/ --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society

MacGroup: Password generator Dashboard widget

Hey, one of the O'Reilly bloggers has created a simple little Dashboard widget to help you generate login passwords: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7061 --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 24. The LCS Web page is . | List postin

MacGroup: Red screen of death

Appropos of the earlier discussion around the Blue Screen of Death (Mac and PC), apparently the current Longhorn betas emit a new Red Screen of Death: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1814654,00.asp A screenshot of it is here: http://joi.ito.com/archives/2005/05/07/bsod_upgrades_to

MacGroup: Dastardly Dashboard

Yeah, Dashboard sounds a lot like ActiveX and those of us on the PC side know how un-safe those controls turned out to be. --- Rex. -Original Message- From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee Larson Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 10:03

MacGroup: Network-attached storage

Wasn't somebody on this list thinking about replacing an old file server with one of those dedicated network-attached storage devices? I just got a promo email from Iomega, they've put their 160 MB NAS on sale for just under $400: http://tinyurl.com/9pz3h That seems like a pretty good deal, espe

MacGroup: A PC that thinks its an iBook

Monday, May 09, 2005 8:18 AM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: RE: MacGroup: A PC that thinks its an iBook Rex, the web page has expired, do you recall the name of the PC? >From: "Rex Baldazo" >Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >To: >Subjec

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