[CGUYS] [Fwd: EFFector 23.3: Some Lessons from the AT&T/Facebook Switcheroo]

~ Some Lessons from the AT&T/Facebook Switcheroo EFFector Vol. 23, No. 3, January 26, 2010 edi...@eff.org A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ISSN 1062-9424 : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : Over the weekend, there was an odd story about people using AT&T

[CGUYS] Garry Trudeau takes on the "Jesus Tablet"

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Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

http://gizmodo.com/306370/what-the-hell-is-a-zune-pad $499 for an iPad. Hooha! That is what my original iPod cost. Can it be used easily while driving? Don't need it, but might want something like that one day. I don't like eBooks unless someone is reading to me, i.e. audio books. Eeeeu

Re: [CGUYS] What the Press Knows About Tech

http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2010/01/26/ Why, thank you for parroting my post from yesterday! Apple story starts with the 1/25 comic and continues with today's comic, http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2010/01/28/. Betty ***

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

Gizmodo too http://gizmodo.com/5458382/8-things-that-suck-about-the-ipad? I have to agree with most of what they say...it is odd it's not widescreen and no HDMI out. My iPod touch doesn't have HDMI, yet I could connect it to our 42" TV to show a video, using the dock connection, composite but

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

> With hdmi you wouldn't need toslink. I feel like this device is trying to do a lot but won't do any of them well. [Forgot about HDMI doing AV.] I agree. However, this device reminds us about the most important thing about technology: **NEVER BUY VERSION 1.0** Apple will change

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

No USB is stupid. I have a cable with the iPod dock plug on one end and a USB plug on the other. Why do you think that won't be possible? Dock isn't portable. Needs to be plugged in. What if I want to use a flash drive or SD card? Sleek and stylish? Not with a dock and a bunch of cables.

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

Still waiting for you link... >> I heard a tech reporter say 'who needs 3g, wifi is almost everywhere'. >> Where do these people live? > > Near a McDonalds. > McDonald's WiFi will be free like obesity starting January -- Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/mcdonalds-wifi-will-be-free-

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

Dock isn't portable. Needs to be plugged in. What if I want to use a flash >> drive or SD card? Sleek and stylish? Not with a dock and a bunch of cables. >> Mine is a skinny little cable about 2 feet long. How is that not portable? And if both the computer and iPad has bluetooth do I really want

Re: [CGUYS] ipad vs Clarke

David D Odell escribió: > Whoa. The book was written by Arthur C. Clarke, not Kubrick. Of course the book was written by Clarke; but the movie, the source of the image, was by Kubrick. Kubrick asked Arthur C. Clarke to write the screenplay for the 2001 movie. Clarke simultaneously wrote

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

... I can't mount the device on my desktop or view the drive anywhere except in limited view in limited apps. Real networking has to work before it's ready for release. ... What if you need two USB ports? Carry a hub? Bummer. What if you need USB and want to use AV out? ... How many people are

[CGUYS] Citrix will have an iPad app to run Windows 7 sessions | Mobilize - InfoWorld

WOOHOO! Windows on an iPad!! http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/citrix-will-have-ipad-app-run-windows-7-sessions-361 * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a me

Re: [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed?

Tom imagines a lot...now he is imagining a world where everyone is controlled. Typically, people like this are really the ones being controlled...as Apple does to it's users. Hey Mike--Tom, too - Cut out the hyperbole. We use Macs and iPods/iPhones because they're good products, in spite of

[CGUYS] iPad dock connector for tethering

You can tether most smart--and not so smart--cell phones to your notebook to use whatever data plan is provided by your mobile provider. Is it technically possible to tether through a dock connection? Can you [theoretically] tether iPad to a Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile phone via Bluetooth? Did

[CGUYS] New SIM, but improved? [was: You Saw the Demo?...]

nonstandard SIM slot It is not non-standard. In is the next generation SIM. Once again, some prefer to be clinging to the past. This SIM card is too small for those of us who switch cards frequently. The micro SIM is about 30% smaller [about the size you need to cut a regular SIM card t

Re: [CGUYS] Apple monitor issues

Apple internally acknowledges more 27" iMac screen issues http://tinyurl.com/yd57t2o Remedy? Soup up a Mac Mini and get one of the large HP displays that uses an S-IPS LG Philips panel, like my son has? Find a 24" iMac instead? In addition to this article at Ars Technica, there's more discus

Re: [CGUYS] New SIM, but improved?

Tell us you have not noticed the trend where everything electronic gets smaller every year. Is it not natural that as part of this process key internal parts get smaller too? Back to SNL-- Remember their skit about the shrinking Nano? That was a joke when the Nano 'improved' and became micros

Re: [CGUYS] New SIM, but improved?

Steve, I was addressing components; you are addressing consumer devices. Increasing component density translates into increasing performance, reliability or capacity/capability (depending on what the engineers focus on). It allows things that were stationary to become faster, mobile or just chea

Re: [CGUYS] New SIM, but improved?

Okay. If you're using multiple SIMs that are small, I would suggest a container system to prevent losing them. As their density increases, is it logical to expect you to use fewer of them, change them out less often? I have a multi-SIM--a card that holds data for more than one network. It doe

Re: [CGUYS] Wireless vs. wired, just a thought to chew on

Where are you getting this? I haven't seen anything about this. This has been talked about for years. Right here, for a recent example: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/01/18/wifi-direct-wireless-ces.html We are already seeing a number of wireless printers, wireless hard drives, w

Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

On Feb 4, 2010, at 1:43 AM, Constance Warner wrote: And, as the participants pointed out, without having the device in hand, there's not a lot you CAN say about the iPad [and similar yet-to-be released devices] in a public forum on the radio, without looking silly. I don't agree. The iPhone g

Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:40 PM, tjpa wrote: On Feb 4, 2010, at 1:34 PM, b_s-wilk wrote: Apple is making their portable devices more closed than their computers by limiting the applications that can be used on them. Of course, there are over 100,000 iPhone apps, does Apple have to approve each on

Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:24:55 -0800, mike escribió: I sort of agree with the storage aspect, but that is relative also...to some 4 gigs is enough, others want 64 gigs and that still isn't enough. With cloud based services many things can be left on the net and accessed as needed from an iphone o

Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

You are changing the parameters to win an argument. No one, least of all me said use the cloud for backup. We are specifically talking about cell phones... Mike, you mentioned the cloud. I rarely consider it since I don't live, work or travel where it's universally available. The discussion

[CGUYS] Micro SIM card [was: apple-stanza-usb]

I wonder how many millions sit on the sideline, awaiting an iPhone for the rest of us. I have no quarrel with Apple preserving its control over apps, fine. It will be interesting to see, once the contract with ATT is ended, whether Apple will make its device more universal, allowing exchangea

Re: [CGUYS] print simple list of albums with artist name without folderol !! ...sheesh!

I have xphomesp3 and wmp10 and would like to print a simple list of albums and artist name without folderol .sheesh! I put on winter 2003 fun pack which contains media exporter which neatly does it but lists every song and every track and belches forth 114 pages to print .all I want is 1 or 2 pag

Re: [CGUYS] print simple list of albums with artist name without folderol !! ...sheesh!

I have xphomesp3 and wmp10 and would like to print a simple list of albums and artist name without folderol .sheesh! I put on winter 2003 fun pack which contains media exporter which neatly does it but lists every song and every track and belches forth 114 pages to print .all I want is 1 or 2 pag

Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

Does it matter what provider? I don't have underground service and I can't afford to switch. It's not a huge loss--I certainly don't lose any sleep over it. The main point is that cell/wireless service isn't as good or as universally available as it's cracked up to be, even in an area that's wi

Re: [CGUYS] apple-stanza-usb

> I have T-Mobile... There's another DC dead zone, I think along Rhode Island Avenue. Curious. I also have T-Mobile. My office is on Rhode Island Ave. No dead zone. The area is a couple of miles north of there, closer to where RI Av merges with Baltimore Av, in a residential neighborhoo

Re: [CGUYS] Apple iPhone reads SD cards with ZoomIt accessory

http://www.mobilemag.com/2010/02/08/apple-iphone-reads-sd-cards-with-zoomit-accessory/ Speculation that this add-on will also allow the iPad to read SD cards. Amazing! Apple iPhones get an oversized, clunky, overpriced add-on to do what most newer phones can do out-of-the-box, at no extra cha

[CGUYS] Financial Times: A fight over freedom at Apple’s core

A fight over freedom at Apple’s core By Jonathan Zittrain In 1977, a 21-year-old Steve Jobs unveiled something the world had never seen before: a ready-to-program personal computer. After powering the machine up, proud Apple II owners were confronted with a cryptic blinking cursor, awaiting in

Re: [CGUYS] Gigabit Broadband To Your House?

It is not unprecedented. It exists in Japan, Korea, and other places I'm not going to look up. I'm not going to cite numbers on how small physically Japan and Korea are. Compared to the US. Finland is also building a national network. It has lots of empty spaces and more weather challenge

Re: [CGUYS] Gigabit Broadband To Your House?

> The liberals just want to make everyone equally miserable. Or, perhaps just more equally situated and hopefully happy, referred to as Communism in some circles. Steve The communist label would be wrong, however. Socialism, as in Scandinavia, is a better description for liberal societies

Re: [CGUYS] Gigabit Broadband To Your House?

Perhaps the new networks should be owned by the public, as it is where it works, instead of waiting and waiting and waiting for private companies to expand the networks, often with assistance through public grants and tax breaks. Once the networks are created with public money, they could be maint

Re: [CGUYS] Gigabit Broadband To Your House?

Steve - You can't taste the food on the Internet. You can't appreciate the special French love of beauty and nature on the Internet. You can't feel the excitement of colors and scents at the weekly outdoor markets on the Internet. Most of all you can't appreciate the wonderful French sense of

Re: [CGUYS] Snow Removal and disposal.

Tony B escribió: Interesting. However, that doesn't mean it makes economic sense. Normally the DC area might get one good snowfall a year; nothing multi-purpose equipment like plows and loaders can't handle. And they can be used year round. Arlington's snow melter(s) would basically sit in the

Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?

"phartz...@gmail.com" escribió: > The iPad is, to the best of my knowledge, lacking in stylus support. I have read that this pretty much rules out the device for drawing purposes. Perhaps the use of the tablet as a platform for such artistic us

Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?

YES, you CAN do that on an iPhone/Touch. iPad too? Probably. Don't need a stylus. I'd lose a stylus, and don't plan to lose my fingers any time soon. Yes, one can use their finger, but a stylus can provide for much finer lines, greater detail and more control if a tablet can provide such deta

Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?

The problem is you can't *see* the detail you are drawing if you have a big fat finger trying to do it. Use your little finger instead. You can see the detail with big or little fingers. Fat fingers? That's a cop-out. If you can draw, you can draw on an iPhone/Touch with any fingers. Try it.

Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?

The problem is you can't *see* the detail you are drawing if you have a big > fat finger trying to do it. Exactly, Mike. Seems like this aspect needs a lot of explaining to get across. This is, in part, why pencils were invented as opposed to using big chunks of sharpened charcoal to try and

Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?

Still waiting for that example of fine brush work on an iphone.. These are painting programs. Some fine results - http://www.flickr.com/groups/brushes/, http://www.flickr.com/photos/fhierro/ For straight lines you calculate point locations and other geometric shapes--use equations not brushe

[CGUYS] Meat as an iPhone [iPad?] stylus

Snack sausages sales are on the increase in South Korea because of the cold weather; they are useful as a meat stylus for those who don't want to take off their gloves to use their iPhones. http://www.gearfuse.com/south-koreans-using-meat-as-an-iphone-stylus

Re: [CGUYS] Yeah, but can you do *this* on an iPad?

On Feb 15, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Chris Dunford wrote: Case made. What a bizarre thing to say. "I don't like styli, so you can't have one." What a bizarre thing to say: "I don't like innovation, so all progress must stop." Since when are touch screens an innovation? Stylus or touch screen or sa

Re: [CGUYS] Meat as an iPhone [iPad?] stylus

Snack sausages sales are on the increase in South Korea because of the cold weather; they are useful as a meat stylus for those who don't want to take off their gloves to use their iPhones. As soon as Apple sees how iPhone and iPad users want to use something other than their fingers, they wil

Re: [CGUYS] Cell phone nos.

Having sent my motorola razor through the wash and dry, I can't get it to work. Now at&t wants to replace my cell no. as well as the phone. what gives? They probably want to replace the SIM card in the phone or use that card in your new phone. I don't think they can legally change your phon

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

Fred Holmes escribió: I suspect that socialist countries simply "decide" (legislate) that the government will provide the infrastructure and the government goes ahead and does it. Tax rates are a whole lot higher in most other countries. In the U.S. it was legislated that "everyone gets a p

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

Leave the country for a while and go where people enjoy a better standard of living--and it's not the US. Why don't you leave the country and emigrate to one of the socialist countries where life is so much better? I'm doing just fine here. I never told you to emigrate. What I said is for

[CGUYS] LABS GALLERY: 25 Decade-Shaping Technologies - IT Management from eWeek

"eWEEK Labs analysts picked the 25 Technologies that Changed the Decade. The products and technologies were chosen based on the impact they had not only on the decade that was but on the decade that will be." http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/LABS-GALLERY-25-DecadeShaping-Technologies-7186

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

At 10:07 AM 2/18/2010, b_s-wilk wrote: I never told you to emigrate. What I said is for you to look at countries that are doing better than the US both financially and socially, and you will find a balance between social good and corporate support through effective but not stifling regulation

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

Not a false premise at all. It's a corollary to "Power corrupts . . ." The power to regulate is the power to destroy. People appointed as regulators are very powerful. You're very confused. We, the people, are the government of the United States. Only when you cede power to the corporati

Re: [CGUYS] Just what is a computer anyway?

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:56 PM, tjpa wrote: Perhaps they will look more like this guitar... http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/c498/ That place does offer some unique items. If I am not mistaken, they are located in Fairfax County, perhaps very near the Kamp Washington

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

I'll bet the "universal" broadband in other countries really doesn't cover everyone. Does it? Even those in very sparsely settled areas? The percentage in some countries is likely higher because a greater portion of the country's population lives in a high-population-density area that in the

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

phartz...@gmail.com escribió: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Eric S. Sande wrote: That's about it for now. Good post. I think that the FCC wants industry to get with the various governmental agencies and really get this issue hashed out...finally. I see that President Obama just signe

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

We, the people, are the government of the United States. Yes, that's the way it is **supposed** to be. But it isn't, really. The federal government does all sorts of extra-constitutional things, and gets away with it. Who is doing anything about it? Fred, The US Constitution gives a l

Re: [CGUYS] Just what is a computer anyway?

So is the innovator the one who came up with 'app phones' or the one who popularized them? YES Invention, creativity and innovation are essential in creating new and/or improved devices with intuitive, seamless operating systems, and also in developing the hype to convince people that they wa

Re: [CGUYS] Creepy or what?

What in the Apple OS allows for this? I'd love it. I have 4 Apple laptops with built in web cams. Also have 2 iMacs with the same. I'd love to be able to take a picture of whoever stole one of them...I guess really I'd love the satisfaction of just nailing anyone who happened to steal my

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

You should look around your neighborhoods, DC is the epitome of badly run Dem stronghold. Face it, government doesn't do much of anything right..or left. The larger the government, the smaller the citizen. If you're talking about Washington, DC, the city, you're mistaken. The city can't do ha

Re: [CGUYS] Password Keeper == Login King -- thoughts?

That brings to mind, how come banks (now they use 2 different passwords and a pictogram for the most part) don't give you a teaser email reminding you, periodically, to change your password... that would be a nice service. I logged into a state payroll system this morning. As soon as I got into

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

At 07:13 PM 2/20/2010, Eric S. Sande wrote: Don't kiss me now, mike, just be glad your freaking phone works. Yeah, but when they come to sell me FIOS, they will at the same time sell me VOIP, which dies four hours after the power grid goes down [frequently]. Not if you have your own larger,

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

Basically yes. If you want a chicken in every pot. Every local switch and tandem switch has to be equipped. Every mile has to be rebuilt. It might be twice my estimate. Or even 6 times as much. After you get done, and the cable companies run their system, then Google comes in behind all of

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

chad evans wyatt escribió: Exactly, Betty. "Why can't they get together?" We have propensity to deploy, with faux-entrepreneurial ideal, the same multiple-gauge railroads that bedeviled 19th century US commercial activity; that is our model, until it no longer can be driven forward. We hav

Re: [CGUYS] Time for a Nation Defense Internet Infrastructure Project?

Sounds lIke a case could be made not to implement any expansion of internet access, and even to curtail, limit or eliminate a lot of what already exists. I'd have to think that were any evidence to come to light that a cyber attack was occurring, that internet access would be

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Co(r)p...

On Feb 28, 2010, at 2:17 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: Why doesn't Apple Corp. develop a means of either preventing or making it difficult for users of their computers to be able to access or use "overtly sexual" material or applications? Because Apple has customers around the world who aren't

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Co(r)p...

Apple isn't ensnared, they are doing this themselves. Apple is bar far the most controlling tech company out there, controlling their customers, controlling themselves.. That's silly. Ridiculous. Apple doesn't control their customers. They provide products that people like, and if there's som

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people

Examples please. Except sometimes the regulation is used to do the screwing. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.or

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls...]

OK I come from this on both sides. As a theologian I view mankind through both eyes. He is basically good, but there is a corrupt part of him that will screw you whenever he gets a chance. Sorry Stewart, I know you're in the business of thinking people are good, but these two statements are co

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people

of the more expensive health plans thus screwing would be smaller businesses wanting to give their employees good plans. In general, do you really think all the lobbying by multinational/multibillion dollar corporations helps them or helps small business? On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:23 PM,

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

mike escribió: And the Constitution is a specific lack of regulation. Madison didn't even want a bill of rights for fear it would weaken the individual by enumerating specific rights, thus perhaps conversely weakening the power of citizens by the absence of other rights. Hardly. The existence

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

The genius of the Ten Commandments--whether intentional or not--is that there are ten proscriptions, and everything else is OK. The Bill of Rights is similar, providing protections, but needed elaboration, hence the current number of Constitutional Amendments to protect the rights of individual

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

Fred Holmes escribió: And I'm sure you're not one of those uneducated who will bring up the lack of tort reform as a reason for high insurance costs. So how much does liability insurance / damage claims add to the cost of healthcare? As a percentage of overall costs? The main problem wit

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people

Fred Holmes escribió: The law that was cited by the guy that drove his airplane into the IRS building in Austin, Texas. The guy was a tax evader. The law he objected to is in common use around the country. If you contract for only one company, you're a de facto employee and subject to with

[CGUYS] combining PDFs

I have 11 1-page pdfs that I'd like to combine into one file. I'm tired. I know I can do this with simple tools, but don't remember which ones. I don't have Adobe Acrobat that runs in OS X. I do have InDesign and a collection of freeware and shareware. [Mac OS X v.10.5.8]

Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

> Trouble is from what was said they knew who had it. Nope, they knew after they had pictures from the webcam, not before. Suspecting someone has something and having proof that same individual has it are two different things and usually two different sets of circumstances too. It should be no

Re: [CGUYS] TinyURLs [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC wants to measure]

With all the protections I have these days (UAC, Spybot immunize, safe browsing warnings, etc), I don't feel the need for this, but if you must you can see where these shortened links go before you click on them. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8636 . Equivalents available in other

[CGUYS] Are Macs Really Cheaper To Manage Than PCs? - CIO.com

Does "I'm a Mac" mean "I'm less expensive to manage?" An Enterprise Desktop Alliance survey says Macs cost a lot less than PCs to manage -- yet Macs come with special challenges for enterprise IT admins. By Tom Kaneshige March 08, 2010 — CIO — Macs in the enterprise aren't just cheaper to mana

Re: [CGUYS] TinyURLs [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC wants to measure]

Please define "burned". What happened? Did your hard drive melt? How is this "burned" experience different from the supposedly innocent URL you sent this week, http://tinyurl.com/X ? No, they don't, in fact many wrap at 72 characters. Actually tinyurls and similar services can be saf

Re: [CGUYS] Your house is a dump!

IS NOT!! This site links to Google Maps, http://maps.google.com/, and does a poor job of showing your house. I'm not sure whether Google deliberately points to the house/building/lot next door to whatever you seek. I checked an old address in Philly and the marker points to our former neighb

Re: [CGUYS] Wing Nuts Oppose Better Broadband

"Considering how frequently unintended consequences of regulation (when we have yet to see any true problems with the current internet system) wreak havoc on things I don't see the rush to go into giving FCC the power over the internet. It is non-centralized at the core, and we should keep it that

Re: [CGUYS] Wing Nuts Oppose Better Broadband

This implies there is no cost of government provided services in the real world. No. That's a big DUH! Of course there are costs to government services, but consider this. How much of your income is disposable income? In countries with free democratic socialist governments like Sweden or Ger

Re: [CGUYS] noPad4me

This is easy. The iPad is a giant iPod Touch. We can open up the Touch to change the battery. Why not the iPad? The biggest problem is finding a source for the right battery, instead of a cheap copy. The battery could cost $50 [the $5 one is worth 90% less], spudger is less than $5, and you sav

Re: [CGUYS] noPad4me

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:05 PM, mike wrote: > When do these new batteries get into laptops? Is it only rumor that the newest MacBook Pro computers contain batteries that are not serviceable by the user? Steve Batteries have been "nonreplaceable" in iPods since 1st gen. We've replaced

Re: [CGUYS] noPad4me

I'm talking about the new tech batteries Tom mentioned. So am I. The unibody MacBooks and MacBook Pros have used the "new" tech batteries--much longer life, holds charge longer, no mercury--since the early 2009 versions. Most likely mfg. to put these in a PC? Your guess. MSI, Sony [but it

Re: [CGUYS] noPad4me

I spent $52 today on weekly food shopping, after $18 in coupons. My point is that the savings from changing the battery yourself vs. paying much more to have the shop do the same thing is like finding free money. You can do weekly shopping with it or you can splurge or you can save/invest it. I

Re: [CGUYS] Apple to charge $107 for iPad battery replacement EarthLink - Technology News

> This is a non-issue. These batteries typically last longer that the useful > life of the product. Quite possibly. What, may I ask, is the difference between the life of a product as opposed to the useful life of a product? Steve My Mac SE [1987] still works. It runs PageMaker 2, maybe

[CGUYS] FreeHand [Was: Apple to charge $107 for iPad...]

Steve escribió: My G3 Mac desktop still runs great, and most importantly to me, it runs Freehand, an application that I just cannot really do without unless I want to spend a lot of money. Obsolete? Definitely. Useful? Absolutely. I think? I think I share your affinity for Freehand. I

Re: [CGUYS] Apple to charge $107 for iPad battery replacement EarthLink - Technology News

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:59 PM, CITY BOY wrote: > On Mar 16, 2010, at 6:33 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Quite possibly. What, may I ask, is the difference between the life >> of a product as opposed to the useful life of a product? > > The internet has made it a lot shorter. Today

[CGUYS] Apple's Code Names

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: I have noticed that Mac owners refer to their Mac's by certain names, Lombards, Wallstreet, G3, G4, etc. Is there someplace where a neophyte can look these evolutions up? Look here, Stewart: http://www.everymac.com/ Macs ha

Re: [CGUYS] LCD HDTV

We have two Philips HDTVs -- one 37" LCD [1080p] and one 42" plasma [1080i], both 4 years old and are excellent. We bought them before prices crashed, so we had to look hard for a decent price. The huge TVs, bigger than 46" are good if you have no life because they dominate the room and are dis

Re: [CGUYS] Cybercrooks take shine to Apple lineup

The claim is that the iPad will soon be pwned. Time for WFBs to put up or shut up. Let's see what happens. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/19/AR2010031905613.html "The iPad is expected to be a target for credit-card thieves and online scammers of all types." The

Re: [CGUYS] Apple security and Charlie Miller

This looks more like he took advantage of a badly written browser, not the OS--and it's been fixed since then. That was over two years ago. Nothing happened. No serious exploits of OS X since then. I think there were a few problems with Windows, though. What's your point? Mike, you use Macs. H

Re: [CGUYS] LCD HDTV

My friend, Kurt, has one of those Samsung TVs. It's LCD with LED backlight. It's beautiful. It's ridiculously thin. I think it's 46". I want one. He bought it online and made sure that he was home for delivery. First TV had broken screen; second TV was also damaged; third is fine. He's lucky

Re: [CGUYS] Wing Nuts Oppose Better Broadband

rleesimon escribió: Cellular internet in Belgium is around $90/mo and only around major cities do you get 3g ...the land line internet is around $60/mo with basic TV (around 50 channels) and is "DSL speed" ...not that fast ...it is transited over the phone lines ...now they are saying it is bum

Re: [CGUYS] Wing Nuts Oppose Better Broadband

rleesimon escribió: PROBLEM is there have emerged competitors to nationalized TV,phone,net service (Belgacom) but not available for all 3 outside population areas ...still stuck with Belgacom ...wifi 3g also only in population areas or else I would gladly dispense with cable internet and use w

Re: [CGUYS] LCD HDTV

Who is he ordering from? One of the big online vendors. Don't recall which one. What idiot company is delivering? Fed Ex - not an idiot company. The big flat TVs are too big to take all the tumbling they get in regular delivery vans, even when they are packed well. FWIW, I bought my LCD

[CGUYS] DVD recorder - .VRO file

I recorded a TV show with a Samsung DVD recorder. The file is VR_MOVIE.VRO located inside a DVD_RTAV folder. How do I convert it on my Mac or on a PC so that it can play on a regular DVD player or a computer? It refuses to even copy to the Finder. It crashes Toast. It just sits there doing not

Re: [CGUYS] DVD recorder - .VRO file

I recorded a TV show with a Samsung DVD recorder. The file is VR_MOVIE.VRO located inside a DVD_RTAV folder. How do I convert it on my Mac or on a PC so that it can play on a regular DVD player or a computer? It refuses to even copy to the Finder Wow. Something I might actual

Re: [CGUYS] what DVD-R to buy

For single-layer DVDs, I recommend the Taiyo Yuden brand. For dual-layer DVDs, Verbatim has done well for me. I usually buy from http://www.meritline.com/ but there are a lot of listings on eBay. Taiyo Yuden brand are usually very good, but there are 2 or 3 different levels of quality. http:

Re: [CGUYS] DVD recorder - .VRO file

I'm so glad I'm done trying to get self recorded dvds to play in my DVD player, buying blanks, worrying about if they will be good a year from now. 1.5 TB's in an inexpensive system behind my tv running free media center software with an ipod touch for a remote is the bomb. I don't often try to

Re: [CGUYS] Cellphone choices [WAS It's an app world...]

I read this, but again it is a faint rumor. NO one has verified it, and these have been going for a bout a year. A CDMA iPhone makes a lot of sense, but not necessarily because of Verizon. Both Japan and Korea also have CDMA service. The CDMA iPhone might appear in Japan first. However, since

[CGUYS] Wow, Apple is kicking Flash off the Web

...and is not wasting any time about it. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/01/apple_highlights_ipad_ready_adobe_flash_free_web_sites.html Since most Flash on websites is superfluous and annoying, in addition to being slow and a memory hog, I welcome the change. Few things are more annoy

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