MacGroup: Quicktime 5.0

[Lee Larson]

On Feb 21, 2005, at 10:31 PM, Jerry Ethington waffled:

> I'm not sure about other 3rd party browsers like Opera or OmniWeb - 
> maybe someone else can chime in about versions that would run on MacOS 
> 8.6.

I used to use Opera 6.03 under Mac OS 9, and I'm pretty sure it ran 
under Mac OS 8.6. It's a good browser, although a bit dated by today's 
standards. I used it because it was faster than the other browsers that 
ran under Mac OS 9.

<http://www.opera.com/download/>

OmniWeb is a purely Mac OS X product.

There are going to be problems running any of the really old browsers 
because they don't support the XML and newer HTML constructs that are 
in so many of the fancy Web pages. I also doubt whether there's an up 
to date Flash plugin.

Also, Java support has much improved since they were written. None of 
the older browsers were very good with Java. All the browsers under Mac 
OS X work quite well with Java because Apple has integrated it into Mac 
OS X instead of leaving it as a sorry afterthought, as in the old days.
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MacGroup: dish

[Rex Baldazo]

> Now, if I would even buy a Tivo, would I not be charged a monthly fee 
> anyhow, or could I then do as I please. Right now Dish gives you the 
> machine, but charges you $ 5.00 a month to do your recordings for so 
> many hours. 

Yeah, there is a monthly charge for TiVo as well.  You'r subscribing to
the channel guide service, essentially it's like buying a subscription
to TV Guide.

--- Rex.



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MacGroup: Web browsers

[Rex Baldazo]

Somebody on the list mentioned iCab to me earlier, and I've tried it.
It's www.icab.de (yes, the company is German apparently but the Web site
is mostly in English and they have an English version of the software).

On my hardware, it's not all that fast a browser but it does seem to be
good enough to support pages like My Yahoo which are pretty complicated
these days.

--- Rex.

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What are the latest web browsers that 8.5 can use.
I have seen Safari among  and others, but they say at least OS 10.
I may just have to get another computer to be able to get online
anymore!
Thanks
Jan


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MacGroup: dish

[Alex Whitman]

> Yeah, there is a monthly charge for TiVo as well.  You'r subscribing to
> the channel guide service, essentially it's like buying a subscription
> to TV Guide.

TiVo gives you a choice between a monthly fee (~$13) or a product 
lifetime subscription (a one-time payment of ~$300). It's not just TV 
Guide; it also allows you "season passes" and the other goodies that 
you can't get with some other services like Insight.

My first TiVo unit is in the loving hands of UPS and should be here by 
the end of the week. :-) I'm sick of missing my favorite shows because 
they were pre-empted by basketball games and rescheduled for some 
unknown time.

Alex



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MacGroup: PowerBook 100 the greatest gadget ever?

[Rex Baldazo]

Mobile PC apparently came up with a list of the greatest gadgets ever,
and the PowerBook 100 topped the list:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4284501.stm

--- Rex.



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MacGroup: dish

[Marta Edie]

Thanks for all your helpful info. I  shall be much more informed when I 
finally get around to buying all that great stuff  . And then I shall 
probably need help in setting it all up.
Marta
On Feb 22, 2005, at 8:31, Rex Baldazo wrote:

>> Now, if I would even buy a Tivo, would I not be charged a monthly fee
>> anyhow, or could I then do as I please. Right now Dish gives you the
>> machine, but charges you $ 5.00 a month to do your recordings for so
>> many hours.
>
> Yeah, there is a monthly charge for TiVo as well.  You'r subscribing to
> the channel guide service, essentially it's like buying a subscription
> to TV Guide.
>
> --- Rex.
>
>
>
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