For all the talk of generic Mac themes, it's a wonder that SOOOOOOOOOOOO many of them are thought to be worthy of porting, all the way back to the Kaleidoscope days....
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Mr. Brute, I'm sure if you JUST purchased the Full Pak by mistake then there would be no issue in receiving an Xtreme key. Jorge hasn't survived all these many years in the shareware world by shafting his customers. As a side note: a) You seem lucid enough to post this message (even if you did it twice) so I feel confident you would have little trouble communicating with him of your concerns in a rational manner. b) If you really thought the
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What are your system specs Azrin? I'm running it on a cheap/abused, 4 year old Dell laptop of no special consequence and it behaves fine. I'd think any decent system made within the last 5 years would have no problems running the Winstep software.
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That is one AMAZINGLY ugly computer.
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Save the Southpaws, save the world! ...or, err, something like that.
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Corky_O, well I guess your posts were unclear to me then because you complained about having to use iTunes instead of WMP and were positioning Zune as a better alternative in the same breath - another player that needs it's own software instead of WMP. Didn't make any sense to me... So what you're really saying is that neither the iPod or the Zune are what you really want. --- Xiosan, I think everyone here knows WHY DRM exists. Th
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Corky_O, you seem to miss a BIG difference between the three file formats under your concern. One of them is not like the other. WMA is a proprietary format created by Microsoft for use on Windows and by Windows Media Player. It has virtually no solid or official support on any other platform. MS even pulled their Windows Media player off the Mac, intentionally limiting it's use even further. AAC and MP3 are independent, standardi
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Corky_O, by iPod software are you referring to the "Windows drivers" that must be loaded so Windows recognizes the unit? This hardly counts as anything proprietary or unique and Zune is not immune to this. Currently, you can't even use a Zune on RTM versions of Vista, which is really odd. However, you don't have to use iTunes with the iPod. There are dozens of 3rd party apps out there for Windows, Mac and Linux to interface with the hardware. There's e
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Corky_O, those 2nd two links refer to the Zune SOFTWARE, not the physical device. So it would seem the software will accept a wider range of formats but then will still convert it to the limited options as mentioned in the original link before placing it on the Zune HARDWARE. This is no different than iTunes converting WMA to AAC before loading on the iPod, except that iTunes only does the conversion once. (Do you want to sit there and wait while the Z
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Corky_O, going by the page you linked to... the Zune is a much less desirable, more limited unit. It plays MP3, AAC and WMA files up to 320Kbps ONLY (therefore your lossless WMA files wouldn't work anyway) and doesn't work with ANY lossless formats at all. It doesn't support the billions of songs sold through the iTunes music store and it doesn't even play WMA files protected with MS's own Plays For Sure DRM. How lame is that? ...and the only video it
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dlapoint, I don't think 6.1 million people purchased iPods last quarter simply because they are made by Apple. Otherwise, everyone would have picked up a Mac mini by now, as well. People buy them because they give great UI.
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My guess would be the iPod video will have a nice out port for piping movies to a TV or other display. Steve Jobs has already mentioned previously that few customers would want to watch video on such a tiny display, but if you could load your iPod up with movies and then go and watch them on your friends HD TV...
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Not too much to see at this link anyway... just a Power Mac case with an Intel motherboard slapped into it to give the Developers a head start...
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Sixshot, as far as the end user is concerned - nothing is changing. Macs will be Macs, no different than they are today, just with a cpu made by Intel instead of IBM. It's already been stated by Apple reps that OS X will continue to ONLY run on Apple hardware.
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Lantec, my old brain is getting foggy but wasn't it GEOS (with it's simple Motif look) that AOL used initially?
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WinBrowser is pretty much it for Windows but hasn't been updated in ages which is rather sad. I always loved using it. Linux has several. Of course, Column View in the Finder of Mac OS X Tiger is the closest you're going to get to a NeXT-style file browser considering it's more or less Next/OPENSTEP 6.4.
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Essencay asked for in depth details on Mac OS releases in the last 10 years. Well, here you go. The fact is that MS charges for updates in the exact same way that Apple does but MS is much slower at putting out retail releases (Win95 is v4.0, Win98 is v4.1, Win2k is NT v5, XP is NT 5.1) and 'service packs'. There's really no point in saying "I would definitely be pissed off at Microsoft if they tried charging me for an annual OS upgrade like Mac ha
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No, Paxx, my original statement is correct. I've used OS X since the week of release back in 2001 and am quite aware of the situation. If you even knew what "Opener" was then you wouldn't call it a virus. Likewise the MP3Concept application was an example of a Finder level exploit that has long been patched now. Neither was self-propating and the former required someone to have root level access to install it. There are ZERO viruses for OS X in the wil
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Paxx, why would one NEED Norton on the Mac? There are ZERO Mac OS X viruses / trojans in the wild. Secondly, I'd argue that you should compare to XP Pro not Home. Home is rather crippled compared to OS X.... (apples to apples, right?) OSX + iLife + iWork = 129$ + 79$ + 79$ = 287$ XP Pro upg + Roxio's Easy Media Creator + Works 8 + Norton Antivirus = 199$ + 69.95 + 49.95$ + 49.95$ = 368.85$
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To all the people who claim that each OS X release is just a service pack, please provide the feature listing for a comparable Windows service pack to each of the OS X releases. I might agree that 10.1 was more or less a bugfix release, but then so did Apple which is why you could pick up an upgrade for all of $19.95 via snail mail.
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paxx: Yes, Apple have not changed their bundling methods. OS X has never shipped with the complete iLife suite, anyway, nor AppleWorks...but all the consumer model hardware ships with the above plus quite a few 3rd party apps. The only bundling hole is on their "Pro" machines, actually... no Appleworks or iWork, just a MS Office Test Drive.
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mrbiotech: The default install method is to perform an upgrade. I'd wager this is how a large majority of Mac users do it, especially those that don't wish to lose currently installed applications. As far as the 10.4.1 update goes, I've heard talk that it will be available by the end of May.
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BTW, if you actually WANT a Dashboard widget to stay on screen then hit F12, open the Dashboard dock and, as you drag the widget off the dock, hit F12 again. The Widget will now remain on the desktop until you hit F12 again. Frankly, I can't think of many widgets I'd want on my desktop continuously, though.
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Mormegil & Brad: iDVD has NEVER come with OS X, ever...and it has never been free. It was, however, bundled with new Macs that, also, had a SuperDrive. Mac users who went out and purchased 10.2 did not get it, however. Anyone who upgraded via an Erase & Install had to restore iDVD from their Restore Discs or purchase iLife. Likewise, Panther users had to purchase iLife 04 and iLife 05 to get upgrades to iDVD, iPhoto, or iMovie. However, since
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Actually Douglas, I think part of the reason Apple is doing this is because the iLife suite is on a 12 month upgrade cycle and OS X is now on a 18-24 month cycle, supposedly. There have been two new releases of the iLife apps between 10.3 in 2003 and 10.4 in 2005 neither of which were free to Panther users.
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