I took a big chance a couple weeks ago. I left on an 11 day vacation and left the MacBook Pro at home. Having been tethered to a laptop for the past 12 years,...
... [snip] ... Did it cause a time vortex where time moves in slow motion? I once dropped my Blackberry in the stairwell at work. I'm certain that drop from...
Can you try http://www.Soonr.com ? That should let you use your home-based computer to browse through Office documents. They have recently integrated their...
Niraj N Shah
nshah@...
Aug 3, 2007 12:35 am
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tHe bIll just keeps selling. aS reported in the wSJ he sold approx 5,103,000 shares for approx $147M per the Thompson Financial data presented. That makes...
Gifford Rodine
grodine@...
Aug 4, 2007 7:19 pm
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Hi folks, In iTunes, in the Radio section that features streaming audio, I'd like to be able to save an audio stream to a file so I can load it on my iPod and...
A quick search at versiontracker.com reveals a few apps that have been pretty popular for capturing audio from different sources: Audio Hijack comes in two...
Mike Shulman
tripod2@...
Aug 5, 2007 5:00 pm
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Hello, Our fellow MacHACer, Allison, has a nice comparison of the two apps, WireTap and Audio Hijack, on her blog-podcast web site: http://www.PodFeet.com (Use...
Niraj N Shah
nshah@...
Aug 5, 2007 8:05 pm
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I use Audio Hijack Pro to do just that. It has a timer feature so you can have it come on when you you want to record specific shows. I have not used...
This may be too obvious - but just in case - have you checked to see if what you want to record is already available as a podcast? For example, many NPR radio...
Apple is introducing a new series of iMacs as I write this. They're similar to the existing iMacs, but are thinner and use glass and aluminum in place of the...
... I thought the "articulated arm" iMac was the best of the various designs they have used. It was the most iconoclastic (even more so than the original iMac)...
Hey Everyone, i would like to upgrade the memory (RAM) in my PowerBook G4. i currently have a total of 768 MB (256 built-in + 512 added on from an earlier...
All: A quote from Walt in todays WSJ: "Macs have essentially no virus problem, and thus don't need antivirus software." MacHacers- Is this currently correct?...
Gifford Rodine
grodine@...
Aug 9, 2007 3:18 pm
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Here's the deal - there have been no active viruses in the wild that have affected >50 users (I checked Symantec's website thoroughly). However, that's OSX...
Allison Sheridan
asheridan@...
Aug 9, 2007 4:24 pm
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Listen to Len! I've always done 3rd party mem and haven't a lick of trouble. OWC also has a great memory picker so you can be sure you have the right one....
Allison Sheridan
asheridan@...
Aug 9, 2007 4:55 pm
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Thanx for the input, everyone. BTW, i already checked out those sites & ended up ordering the 1 GB module from OWC, they do have a really good memory picker....
Apple does not make RAM, they resell RAM, at high prices. You are much better off purchasing your RAM from a memory dealer, such as some of those listed in...
Mike Shulman
tripod2@...
Aug 10, 2007 12:02 am
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OWC has installation videos (Quicktime movies) on their tech support page: http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/installation.cfm. It's a fairly simply...
Today's WSJ, page A6, indicates there was an estimated $49 billion of losses by individuals to identity thieves in the United States last year. The WSJ...
Gifford Rodine
grodine@...
Aug 10, 2007 8:07 pm
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Just my $.02. OS X does not stop people from stealing your personal data from websites, their back-end systems, etc. :-) It does not stop them from stealing...
Hello, Just adding onto Matt's claim that protecting the Personal Computer is simply a fraction of the overall necessary security .... The thieves have turned...
Niraj N Shah
nshah@...
Aug 11, 2007 2:51 am
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One thing I do to reduce the likelihood of identify theft and credit card misuse is to use a Virtual Account Number (VAN) when making online purchases. Several...
Carl Cullings
ccullings@...
Aug 11, 2007 4:27 am
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Closer to home, a lot of people on this list use the Kinecta credit union. Why they make their initial login page insecure is beyond me. When you go to...
Very good point.. How many people don't even look for the secure icon in the browser and the https url?? I don't use Kinecta, but I have noticed that Bank of...
Umm .. the BofA site doesn't work that way for me. I am a customer of theirs, and if I hand-type the simple URL listed below, I am automatically redirected to...
Charles South
south3@...
Aug 11, 2007 2:12 pm
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Allison, et al... The anti-virus software is scanning for Microsoft Word Macros (which can and do affect MS Word on the Mac) as well PC viri which may be ...
When it comes to selling, he's got it down. As reported in the WSJ on 8.11.07 the bIll sold 6,685,000 shares for $196,802,000 bringing his total since October...
Gifford Rodine
grodine@...
Aug 11, 2007 4:09 pm
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Oh -- you're right, I forgot about sitekey. For me as well, the intial site accepts my username and then sends me to the sitekey page w/the image.. The second...
By the way, even Microsoft agrees with unix_fan that https logins on an http page are a bad idea: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/04/20/410240.aspx ... ...
