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The new MacBook!

  • OMG! OMG! OMG! Everything I dreamed of!

    Votes: 17 36.2%

  • This is what we waited for?

    Votes: 23 48.9%

  • What's this about? I was too busy polishing my nails…

    Votes: 15 31.9%
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aryayush

aryayush

Aspiring Novelist
What? You couldn't resize the window? I'm confused. How can someone not be able to drag the corner of a window and resize it?
 
krazzy

krazzy

Techtree Reviewer
aryayush said:
What? You couldn't resize the window? I'm confused. How can someone not be able to drag the corner of a window and resize it?
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I was able to resize it. But that didn't make it go full screen. I want it to go full screen like all the other browsers can. If you press F11 in other browsers, they go fullscreen.
 
goobimama

goobimama

 Macboy
no full screen possible on windows Safari.

@aayush: That's exactly what I was thinking. It must have been pretty painful going through all those videos with iTunes!
 
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aryayush

aryayush

Aspiring Novelist
I used to download them, extract them from the archive, open them in QuickTime Player, save them as QuickTime movies, copy them into iTunes, convert and then tag them. Now, it's just extract, convert and tag. Plus, the file sizes are way smaller and tagging, for some reason, is instantaneous (it used to get stuck when working with large files in the iTunes method). It's saving me a lot of time and space.

I will re-encode all my TV episodes through VisualHub though. I can't afford to allow that much space to be wasted. I just need to find that motivation thing… it must be around here somewhere. :p
 
goobimama

goobimama

 Macboy
Oh, and you don't have to drag the Safari window to the top left of the screen and then drag the bottom handle in the Windows version of Safari. Its resizable from all sides.

And tagging H.264 files is a little different from normal files so they take longer to get tagged which is why iTunes used to take a stroll while tagging those files.

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Anyone check out the Fujitsu all-in-one desktop on Engadget?

Fujitsu's F-A50 all-in-one escapes a terrible, terrible heritage

*www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/04/fujitsu-all-in-one-01.jpg

Nice eh! :D
 
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aryayush

aryayush

Aspiring Novelist
I hope you were sarcastic. Man, how can they actually sell such a butt-ugly machine!

goobimama said:
And tagging H.264 files is a little different from normal files so they take longer to get tagged which is why iTunes used to take a stroll while tagging those files.
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Oh, but I have the H.264 Encoding option enabled in VisualHub too. It takes a tad more time but it saves a load of space. 660MB got squashed to just 250MB, with absolutely no quality loss (none that I could tell on my 17-inch screen anyway). It's awesome.

I've already started re-encoding everything. The only problem is that the resultant file loses all the ID3 tags I'd so painfully entered and the high quality album art I'd gathered from all over the place. I'm trying to figure out a solution for that…
 
goobimama

goobimama

 Macboy
I hope you were sarcastic. Man, how can they actually sell such a butt-ugly machine!
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Yep! I mean, white bezel! Common! That is so lame! :D

And about that h264 thing, well I guess I was wrong then. Just that I read about this somewhere when I was searching for why iTunes takes so long to tag a file. Maybe its just iTunes created h264. In any case, I guess I'll try that option from now on. Saving space is top priority on my iPhone :D

Oh, and btw, Logic Studio is awesome! I had it installed, but never really used it owing to Garageband and it's ease of use. Then yesterday this guy (some kind of firangee) came who had done a studio recording of my brother's band using his macbook pro + Logic. And since I was the only one they knew with a mac, he popped in with the project file. The thing is super neat. And super easy as well. I might try my hand at creating some music. And of course you macboys will have to force yourselves to listen to and say "hmm...nice stuff".

And while you guys are at it, check out AudialHub for your music conversion purposes. Pretty neat interface and you don't have to think too much. Currently converting all those FLAC files I had lying around...

*www.techspansion.com/audialhub/audialhubhero.png

And my uncle who breaks stones gifted me this copy. You could ask him for yours.
 
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goobimama

goobimama

 Macboy
^^ That's just half the story. All their apps have these hilarious little tit-bits thrown in all over the place. "Don't touch anything. You will screw it up!" when you click on advanced settings. :)
 
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aryayush

aryayush

Aspiring Novelist
LOL! I was about to post a screenshot about this thing only now. This is what appears when you hit Cancel:

*i25.tinypic.com/ivwdbr.png

LOL! :lol:

(Milind, dude, you're supposed to be working on something…)
 
goobimama

goobimama

 Macboy
For those of you who use multiple browsers, Allbookmarks has been updated to 3.0. Looks pretty nice. And still is free.

AllBookmarks installs in your Mac’s menu bar and provides you with access to all your bookmarks. Bookmarks from multiple browsers are exposed, including Safari, Firefox, OmniWeb, Camino and Flock. Made by the developers of 1Password, AllBookmarks also provides you with access to your 1Password logins.

The new release has a new user interface, new search bar, can automatically check for updates, and sports better international support, with umlauts now being displayed correctly in OmniWeb bookmarks.

*images.macworld.com/images/news/graphics/133093-allbookmarks.jpg
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Via Macworld

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Wow! Check out this app, FinderPop. Looks to be really useful.

.....The ability to browse a folder or volume via contextual menus. Right-click (or Control-click) on a folder or volume and the resulting contextual menu contains a hierarchical list of the folder or volume’s contents; choose an item to open it. You can also browse the contents of an already-open Finder window by right-clicking in any open area of the window. You can choose to have contents appear in a submenu or directly in the main contextual menu, and you can also include, in all contextual menus, submenus for the Desktop and the FinderPop Items folder (see the next item), giving you instant access to files in those locations.

*images.macworld.com/images/weblogs/graphics/132783-finderpopcontextualmenulc.jpg

...read the full article
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And another:

Wallsaver
Quickly run your screen saver as your desktop wallpaper.
- Wallsaver doesn’t have to be running 24/7. You can launch Wallsaver, activate your screen saver, and then quit the program. Restoring your desktop is just as easy. Launch Wallsaver, click “Restore”, and you’re set.
- You can use any screen saver.
- It’s cool. Now you can show off the full potential of your Mac by letting it power through a task that would bring a PC to its knees.
- It’s Universal. Universal Binary, that is.

*images.apple.com/downloads/macosx/icons_screensavers/images/wallsaver_nwwnetwork_20080418114334.jpg
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