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I'm trying to decide between two airport express(es) or one airport extreme. My belkin craptastic $19 router isn't cutting it anymore, managing a paltry 24% signal strength two rooms away and frequently going dead (different channel then other visible networks, no cordless devices in my...

Any thoughts on how the new iMac Intel Duo 2Ghz will stack up against a Dual G5 powermac?.. assuming same ram, etc. thanks -esr

I'm looking for a good mic pre for recording to my laptop (dell, 1.7ghz centrino, 1gb ram, 80gb hd, etc etc). I'm currently using adobe audition. right now im thinking to channels is all i'll need, as anything hard core (say 8+) will be handled by a DA-38 or two. This is just for the event...

So i spent the last hour looking for apps to convert a mov file to 3gp then i realized, hrm, maybe QT7pro will do this. it does. i'm happy - if a little absent minded - to now have my favorite music video on my cell (amerika). just wanted to tell people incase they were considering converting...

so i'm impressed with it's ability to compress really pretty stuff and make it small but i'm beginning to notice it's not scalable down to very small video (320x240 from a s400), basically mpg4 is showing better visual quality and smaller size. does anyone have any input? I'm using imovie...

I'm thinking about doing a large buy and I'm wondering how many people would be interrested in a 20" imac for $999, you'd have to be a so-cal person and be willing to drive to riverside to pick it up at the university bookstore there. -esr

Hey all, I need to extend the range of my powermac G5's airport extreme... which it doesn't have but i will be adding when the damn thing reaches my new place next week. two questions (please answer if you're sure, no speculation :D) 1) i don't recall and apple doesn't have great pictures...

Can anyone advise me on what kind of DVD player to use on OSX to avoid region coding? I just recieved a dvd i ordered and yeah, it's not region 1. thanks -esr

looks like apple did a bit of tweaking to quicktime, 7.1 now runs 1080p trailers without any dropped frames *unlike before. now I want more then 9 trailers... lol -esr

Has anyone noticed isync not seeing their ipod in tiger. granted, itunes will update calendar and contacts but i still want to know why isync can't seem to find it. -esr

So i decided to play around with H.264 today. I ripped a film i made for class, 700+MB in DV format, 50MB in H.264 format. no noticable degrading of quality. period. to say i am impressed is putting it mildly. i dont recall the exact settings on quicktime, i was just farting around, perhaps...

Hey all, still waiting for more memory, working with 512 right now on the DP powermac... anywho... looking at activity monitor, i realistically have around 20~50MB free at any given time. 90 or so MB are alocated to "wired", 240 or so MB are alocated to "active" and 170 or so tend to be...

Just downloaded widget the world watcher to deal with that nasty safari auto install issue... am i the only one who remembers the cartoon off which it's based? lmao. -esr

I'm at the store, staring at the Dual G5 powermac and 20" ACD... pics in about an hour when i get home... only 512MB but i'll add 2GB monday, I'm soo stoaked. -esr

Hey everyone, I'm having a problem with iChat AV (as i notice many people are) and was hoping someone could provide some ideas. Currently i'm connecting through my Airport Express to the internet. I am under the impression port 5060 needs to be forwarded to allow for video chatting...

Hello all, I need a webbased mail client a customer can run for a site im working on. I dont want to use the horde or neomail clients included as they require logging into the cpanel and associate witht he master account for the site, instead i just want something secure i can place in a...

well, i did it, i gave in. the mini is on ebay and i'm buying a dual 2ghz g5... damn you apple and your apple branded crack :D. anyone else "upgraded" their mini to a g5? -esr

so i just got a news report from my contact in apple that they will be upgrading the specs (computer details for the neophytes) for the PowerMac G5. they'll now all be coming with 768mb of ddr500 ecc registered ram and upping the proc speed to 2.3, 2.7 and 3.0 respectively. and the final...

Hey all, A friend of mine is trying to find a pc application that will allow him to generate cds on the fly for customers, after recording them, and inserting their footage in between their marketing info on the vcd... any ideas what suite to use? -esr

Apple has cut a special deal to education stores and the UCR Bookstore will be passing it own to it's customers this saturday from 10am to 2pm, the first 75 copies of tiger will be sold for $39.99 -esr

hey, so yeah, just updated to the newest patches and now azureus will not start, legality aside, i just want to know what would cause a program, upon being double clicked to pop up on the dock like it's starting then shrink away? thanks -esr

I'm using the express on a college network and currently have a 802.11g powerbook and mini, the problem i'm having is that our network authentication works in relation to the computer's mac address... if I uncheck "distribute ip addresses" then the router works fine, the powerbook can get...

I can't figure our how to get dual display to start up on the mac mini, i tried the dvi splitter from radio shack but it's just not working... any ideas? :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: please help, thanks in advance! -esr

Hey, If you've upgraded to a 1GB dimm for your mini... what brand, model,and price did you pay? thanks -esr

Soo... who can find an 802.11g usb adapter that has OSX support... and is one of those smaller thumb drive sized ones... i took me about 20 minutes of scouring the net to find one (belkin - which shares the same tech with airport) but the drivers are only on the companies non-us sites... very...

Well, apple has finally released the camera connector, and I'm wondering what everyone's impression is. so far, i've received this anecdotal impression: a fellow photographer commented he wasn't impressed. i asked him why, battery life or transfer speed? he responded battery life. I...

So, I seem to tell people switching all the time that apples are expensive but worth it. well. i was forced to eat my own words today. While getting ready to go through a screener at the airport, i filled three little plastic bins with my stuff, and in the process of doing so, and due to lack...

I've had the pb for a few months now and have finally attempted to start liking iphoto, however it's a little sluggish for my tastes when dealing with albums of a gig or larger. do you all fell that upgrading to 2gb (since it's not 'that' expensive now around <$400) will significantly help...

Has anyone noticed the balanced output on the airport express sounds better then just jacking a pair of powered speakers into the pb? just curious here. -esr

just a basic question i've already googled so i thought i'd ask the experts for a quick reply :p. I've logged onto my campuses vpn through the cisco 4.6 vpn client (as reccomended by my campus). once i've logged in, all in and out bound traffic will just automatically go through the vpn...

So yeah, I've bought only Nikkor glass up to now, but now that I'm having a hankering for f2.8 and lower lenses it's becoming a rather expensive idea. the sigma stuff seems dramatically cheaper... thoughts on using generic vs brand name lenses? I'm specifically looking at the 28-70mm f2.8...

has anyone else recieved their mac mini yet? i can't believe how tiny this damn thing is. that's about it -esr

So i've had my powerbook for about a week or so and i've been very happy with it thus far... however... the SuperDrive is being quite fickle. As i reported before it's rejecting the maxell media (CD-R) i attempted to burn with and is not reading maybe half of the apple branded dvd-r i burnt a...

Hey all, I'm looking to replace my emergency purchased $39 5.1 logitech setup with an average pair of powered 2.0 speakers. At current i'm aware of the Klipsch Ultra 2.0 Pro Media Speakers and M-Audio StudioPro 4s Speakers. Have you used either of these? thoughts? other options? the...

I've noticed something a little annoying with the SuperDrive on my new Powerbook. Specifically, that the PowerBook only recognizes certain brands (thus far, I've only had the PowerBook a week). When I put brand new Memorex 52x 700MB CD-Rs in, the SuperDrive considers them for a few seconds...

i did a search and most threads i ran into ended in debates about when apple would manage to bring the g5 to the mobile sector... something i'm not really concerned with, thus this post. currently i'm using a p4 2.4ghz system with 512mb ddr 400 and 280gb of storage. i already beat hl2 the...

Well, leaves are changing so i cashed in some freq flier miles and headed up north to washington for a weekend away from school. I love it there. Here are a few pics. and i'm kinda partial to this one (also from the weekend) -esr

i'm following SupaDupa's lead. here are a few photos i took over the weekend. hope you enjoyed -esr2

I've tired of the pos s400 and need to purchase a new cam for casual use. my budget is $399. does anyone have expereince with, or a feeling on the: Sony DSC-W1 Nikon 4200 thanks in advance. -esr