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The sun is out and Hapy has the top down on his roadster. I changed the oil in all of the motorcycles but I must be getting old because I didn’t ride in to work this morning once I looked at the temperature and saw that it was 25 degrees. Remember last year, when I had all the difficulty with my red motorcycle and its charging circuit? I took it out of storage at my mom’s condo up in Burlington and had a hard time getting it started. It’s a long story but we ended up taking the sidecar off the bike and loading the bike into the trailer to take to the dealer for some repair work. While it was there, I asked them to see if they could figure out the charging issue. It turns out that there was a bent bracket in the primary case that was shorting to the stator which in turn had fried the voltage regulator. Long story short, the bike is ready to roll! I’m heading over to Enfield, New Hampshire, to pick it up on Saturday.
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This week, Chad and Tim talk with Bob Dr. Mac LeVitus, almost a year to the day since our last podcast with him. We phone the winners of our contest this week. Our contest sponsors are Case-Mate.net with the iPod case, and the latest iPhoto 6 – The Missing Manual. Sgt. Perry returns to answer some questions, and Tim and Chad look at the latest in Macintosh news with Dr. Mac.
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Super.fi 5 Pro (available in white, black, or clear)
Company: Ultimate Ears
Price: $250
http://www.ultimateears.com/superfi/superfi-5-Pro-white.htm
(Specifications, user’s manual, and informative FAQ are available from links at the above page — well worth reading if you are interested in learning as much in advance as possible)
FS1 High Definition Earphones (available in white or black)
Company: XtremeMac
Price: $150
http://www.xtrememac.com/audio/earphones_recorders/fs1.php
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(Specs do not appear to be posted on the company’s web site)
Recently, I was helping a friend install Mac OS-X onto some Macs that were donated to his school. While doing this, I figured I’d take some pictures of the monitor and write an article about how to install Mac OS-X onto a Mac. The steps described below also work for upgrading Mac OS-X (i.e. going from Jaguar to Panther), or reinstalling Mac OS-X for those rare times that you just need a fresh start. The pictures are from a Panther install, and might vary slightly with other Mac OS-X installs.
If you are installing Mac OS-X 10.2 or higher on a Mac that has never had 10.2 (or higher) on it before, you want to make sure your Mac has enough memory and the latest firmware installed. Mac OS-X through 10.3 requires a minimum of 128mb of RAM, while 10.4 (Tiger) requires a minimum of 256mb of RAM. I suggest having at least 512mb with any version of OS-X. Not sure what your machine has? In Mac OS 9 or Mac OS-X go to the Apple Menu in the top left and click “About this Mac.” The window that comes up will tell you how much memory you have in your computer.
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Grace and I awoke to the screams of a fisher cat in our yard at about 1:00 AM. Knowing that Mothra, our cat, was outside (she has decided that in the warm weather she is an outside cat) we hoped that she had a safe hiding place. The dogs leaped out of bed and started barking, but Hammerhead was so scared that he immediately jumped back into bed between us and shivered. What a baby! Fortunately, Mothra was waiting at the door in the morning, but with spring come all the critters and we are going to have to try to convince her to stay inside at night.
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This week, Chad and Tim talk to both Daphne Kalfon and John Martellaro. We are also joined by Guy Serle with the Dashboard Minute, as well as John Nemo with a new feature, the No Snooze Reviews. Even better, the contest has returned, and this time we are giving away not one item, but two.
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Case-Mate
Company: Case-Mate
Price: $24.99 – $29.99
http://www.case-mate.net/
If you are looking to buy a new case for either your iPod nano or the full size iPod Video, you can’t go wrong with a Case-Mate. Both the nano and Video iPod versions are identical to each other in craftsmanship and esthetics; the only difference is size and $5.00 in price. So rather than talk about each separately, I’m combining them into one review.
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Global Motion 1
Company: Action Backs
Price: $79
http://www.actionbacks.com/gm1.html
What do you do when you have a video project that calls for, in this case, a selection of spinning and / or motion globes? If you are a 3D animator, you spend hours painstakingly creating, rendering, and outputting your video. If you are like me, however, you don’t have any 3D rendering skills at all. The only option for you and me is to find stock footage you can buy and use in your projects. That’s where Action Backs comes in.
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rfKey
Company: Macally
$69.00
www.macally.com
What goes well with a wireless mouse? How about a wireless keyboard? Macally’s rfKEY (which I am typing this review with) is a nice wireless keyboard with TONS of features.
Let’s start with the basic features of a keyboard that an Apple user might look for. Most importantly, are there drivers for the Mac? Yes. The keyboard comes with drivers for OS 10.1.5, 10.2 and higher, and 9.2. There are no Intel drivers, but they are under development. While there is basic functionality without the drivers, I would not spend $70 on a keyboard without full functionality.
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TVMini HD
Company: Miglia
Price: $249
http://www.miglia.com
A box slightly larger than a pack of cigarettes, an extendable antenna, a remote, and two cables. That’s all there is to the TVMini HD from Miglia, the company that is bringing television to your Macintosh.
The TVMini HD is the latest product to come from Miglia, and it’s impressive. If you’re looking to watch over-the-air High Definition (HD) and Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) content on your Mac, with the ability to record, then look no further. The TVMini HD does just that, using the best Mac DVR software out there today, EyeTV.
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It’s finally here! The final part of the Finder Window article. This week’s installment will discuss how to use and customize the Toolbar.
The Toolbar
As I mentioned before, the top of the Finder window is called the Toolbar. The Toolbar can help you navigate through windows, and it also is where you can change how applications and files are presented in your windows.
By default the Toolbar looks like this:
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It was Passover on Wednesday, Good Friday today, Easter on Sunday, and Tax day on Monday. Here in New England, we get an extra day to file our taxes this year because Monday is Patriot’s Day in Massachusetts where we file our taxes, so the deadline is the 18th. There are signs of spring all over, including the flock of about 25 wild turkeys that were causing a ruckus in my yard early in the morning. The best sign of spring for me was that they graded my road and I was able to get the motorcycle out for the first ride of the year!
iSale 3.0.7
Company: Equinux
Price: €34.79 (incl. German VAT), US$ 39.95
http://www.equinux.com
System Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher (Some features will require 10.4 or later); an active internet connection
Universal Binary
eBay is a worldwide phenomenon and while my Mother would be hard pressed to name more than two online retailers, she will quite happily joke that I should sell some of my “junk” at eBay. Obviously I do not own junk, it is all highly sophisticated electronics and some of it just needs some fixing Continue reading »
This week Tim and Chad talk with Robert Pritchett of macCompanion magazine. We also hear from our buddy Sandro.
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HiFi-Link for iPod nano
Company: Xitel
Price: $69.95
www.xitel.com
Few of us are fortunate enough to have a major stereo sound system, TV of some kind, and a computer workstation co-located and wired up. So, for many, the only alternative is to connect an iPod nano to a PC or Mac and play the songs via iTunes through the computer’s speakers. In many cases, I suspect, the computer speakers pale in comparison to those of even a decent home stereo system. Another technique might be to go wireless, but that requires a base station, an additional Airport Express with AirTunes, some expertise setting all that up, and some additional capital.
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rfMOUSEJR and rfMOUSE
Company: Macally
Price: $29.99 Each
www.macally.com
Do you have too many wires cluttering your desktop? If so, one of these mice by Macally might be for you.
Macally’s rfMOUSE (rf) and rfMOUSEJR (rfJR) are two great wireless mice. The rf is an oversized mouse which fits nicely in your hand, while the rfJR is a smaller mouse (a little shorter than the standard Apple Mouse, but with more bulk) geared toward the laptop market, but perfectly usable on a desktop machine.
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miniStack v2
Company: Newer Technology
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80 GB HD-$129.00,
160 GB for $159.00,
250 GB for $189.00,
320 GB for $219.00,
400 GB for $309.00,
500 GB for $439.00
No Hard Drive – Enclosure only- $79.95
What do Apple Computer and Macspiration have in common? Both just turned 30! For Macspiration 30, I am going to continue last week’s article and discuss one way to customize your Finder windows to make your computer experience a little easier.
When you look at a Finder window, you probably will see some button icons at the top of the window and a column of icons going down the left of the window. The top of the window is called the Toolbar, and the side column is the Sidebar.
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It took eight airports, six airplanes, two rental cars and 48 hours to get home from Hawaii but we finally got home this week. It’s no wonder that Delta’s Comair commuter airline is rated near the bottom of the pack. We flew from Hilo to Honolulu, spent the 8-hour layover with Hapy and Jessica who where on the way to Maui and then flew to Atlanta where things began to get positively weird. The plane from Atlanta to Cincinnati was delayed because they didn’t have a flight attendant so we missed the plane to Burlington so they sent us to Cleveland but the pilot for that plane got sick so we missed the plane to Burlington again. This time we had to spend the night in Cleveland and flew the next day to Dulles Airport but the flight attendant for the plane to Burlington was late and by the time we got to Burlington, the plane tried to land but ended up getting diverted to Albany where they were going to put us on a bus. Grace and I rented a car for the last part of the journey and were relieved that our luggage actually made it to Burlington before we did!
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