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[narangz]

Sony catalogues are available free of cost with Sony exclusive dealers. They are nice & pretty big. I don't see any spelling or grammatical mistakes! Also they have Sony like.no.other tag line. I haven't ever read "Redefining future"

That catalogue might be printed by your dealer.

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I see krazzy has already mentioned it. I am too slow!

 

[aryayush]

Oh, it’s definitely the official catalogue. I don’t think I’m a fool enough not to be able to recognise the difference. The quality of the paper is OK and they do have “like.no.other” printed all over the place. That’s the company slogan and it’s pretty decent too. The “Redefining the Future” thinf is just a tagline for this particular catalogue. They also have the address of the official Sony HQ in New Delhi printed on the back, not of the Siliguri dealer’s. It’s the real deal, man.

Bought a 1TB Time Capsule only to find that it cannot be partitioned!!Any help on that?

It can be partitioned. Once it’s connected and you can see it on the Desktop, launch Disk Utility, select it from the sidebar on the left, click on the Partition tab on the right and do your thing.

Why do you want to partition it though? And when you only have 320GB of hard drive space in your Mac, what’s the point of buying a 1TB drive for backup? 512MB would’ve sufficed mighty fine.

I still haven't opened my .mac box.As the mobilemee is coming,is it the right time to unbox .mac?

Use it, dude. What are you waiting for? When MobileMe is launched, you’ll automatically be upgraded to it. No worries in that department.

I would suggest signing up for a free trial of .Mac first and using it for two months though. After the trial expires, use your activation code to extend it. You’ll get 365 days from that point, so you’ll basically get to use it for fourteen months.

Also, yours is a family pack. You get an account with 20GB of disk space and an email inbox, plus four accounts with 5GB of disk space and an email inbox with each one. If they are of no use to you, might I suggest sharing them with the likes of Milind and Preshit? They are going to buy .Mac accounts for themselves but I don’t think they need all that disk space (Preshit said he didn’t). They can pay you a certain amount if you want. Think it over.

 

[narangz]

Have they really printed "Redifining the future." ?

 

[aryayush]

No, it’s “Redefining the Future”. For some reason, the iPhone didn’t correct that typo.

If you’re so surprised that they could make that mistake, maybe you should read the preface. It has more grammatical errors than I can count on my fingers (no spelling mistakes though).

 

[krazzy]

These are the pics of the actual Sony catalogue:

Pic 1

Pic 2

Pic 3

And this is what You probably have:

Pic

 

[aryayush]

What I have is very similar to the first one. Make no mistake, the visuals within are just as good-looking as the ones you’ve pictured. Even the design of the pages is the same, with that triangle thing at the corners. But what I’ve said previously is also true. You want pictorial evidence?

 

[jamesbond007]

Quicktip:
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This isn't a quicktip really!! There is a way around in Safari to download youtube videos, this tip details those steps, however it has two parts to it. The first part is via macosxhints.com, the second part, which is an extension to it, is my discovery ( okay a pussy cat discovery..).

Before I begin let me make it clear that this isn't a neat and simple way, when compared to firefox, but it works!!

part 1:

In Safari, open youtube and click the video you want to download. Now open the Activity Monitor by pressing cmd+option+A. Activity Monitor has a line for every tab opened in Safari, click the one which says about youtube. Actually you need to click on the small arrow before the line to reveal tons of info about the page. In that line look for a line that ends with flv and since the video is playing in the background its size will keep increasing.
Just double click that flv line and your flv video should start in Safari's download window.
Check in the Safari's download window by pressing cmd+option+L. You should see your video downloading...

While this works great, this doesn't work for all the flash video ( flv/swf ) websites. Here is my extension to this hint that will enable you to download flash videos for any websites. I checked for 11 video sites and it worked in all of them

part 2 :

In Safari, open the video site of your choice and click on the video. As the video starts to play open the activity monitor, look for that flv/swf line, double click it. When you double click on the flv line in AM, a new Safari windown opens with some garbage text. let the window finish loading the garbage text completely. Once its done, press cmd+s to save it. It will most probably save it with an .dms extension. Rename it to .flv or .swf. And enjoy.
I don't have a teacher way of explaining things but trust me the entire process is easy..

@goobi

Thanks for your link. I will try it and report back..

@aryayush

The script that you said doesn't really work for me. Did it work for you ??

 

[goobimama]

It can be partitioned. Once it’s connected and you can see it on the Desktop, launch Disk Utility, select it from the sidebar on the left, click on the Partition tab on the right and do your thing.

Why do you want to partition it though? And when you only have 320GB of hard drive space in your Mac, what’s the point of buying a 1TB drive for backup? 512MB would’ve sufficed mighty fine.

Uh. Baba. I don't think it can be partitioned just like that. Time Capsule mounts as a shared volume and not a physical drive.

Although yes, Sunny boy, why would you want to partition the drive?

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About the .Mac, I had suggested that we get a family pack and use that instead. Would be cheap enough, I don't use much space and all will be well. Well Aayush certainly wants to have the high road here, but that's cool. What say Preshit, Sunny and the goobi boy and whoever else use this one splitting the cost ($150 I think) equally? Whoever wants to continue next year can buy the thing again and split it.

Aayush. Need some inside info on this:
1. How private are the individual accounts?
2. Is it possible for me to go for a separate account next year if I so choose?
3. What else sucks in the family pack?

 

[aryayush]

@aryayush

The script that you said doesn't really work for me. Did it work for you ??

That’s because I didn’t give you the script yet.

Just make a new bookmark, manually, and enter this in the URL field:

javascript:if%20(document.getElementById('download-youtube-video')==null%20&&%20!!(document.location.href.match(/http:\/\/[a-zA-Z\.]*youtube\.com\/watch/)))%20{var%20yt_mp4_path='*www.youtube.com/get_video?fmt=18&video_id='+swfArgs['video_id']+'&t='+swfArgs['t'];%20var%20div_embed=document.getElementById('watch-embed-div');div_embed.innerHTML=div_embed.innerHTML+'%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cspan%20id=\'download-youtube-video\'%3E%3Ca%20href=\''+yt_mp4_path+'\'%3EDownload%20as%20MP4%3C/a%3E%20'+%20%20((navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari')!=-1)?'(control-click%20and%20select%20%3Ci%3EDownload%20linked%20file%20as%3C/i%3E)':('(right-click%20and%20select%20%3Ci%3ESave%20'+%20(navigator.appName=='Microsoft%20Internet%20Explorer'?'target':'link')%20+'%20as)%3C/i%3E'))+'%3C/span%3E';}void(0);

Name it whatever and add it to the Bookmarks Bar. Now, whenever you are on a YouTube video page, just click on this bookmark and a direct download link will directly appear on the page. Right click on it and save have it downloaded to anywhere on your hard drive. Enjoy.

 

[narangz]

Hey Aayush have you moved your blog? It's showing Apple .Mac page. I am getting this error:

We're sorry but we can't find the iWeb page you've requested.

 

[SunnyChahal]

@Goobi,absolutely correct!It cannot be just mounted like a physical drive unless you connect it to the iMac's motherboard through SATA cable which you obviously wouldn't like doing.
I thought that Time Machine formats Time Capsule as backup drive but it doesn't.It just creates a backup folder in TC and gives us the rest of the space.Hence,the problem solved.

 

[aryayush]

@narangz,
Yes, I reposted every thing on the new blog and uploaded it on .Mac too but then, due to a glitch in the application I was using, RapidWeaver, I had to undo everything and will now have to wait for the bug to be fixed before I can get my website up and running again. The fix is planned for the next release but I don’t have any specific date.

 

[narangz]

OK. May I know the exact error messages? If you want, I am willing to help you.

I see Rapidweaver is something like Dreamweaver. You can PM me if you need help.

 

[aryayush]

Oh, it’s not an error on my part. It’s a bug with the software and the only people who can help are the ones making the software. You can learn more about this bug here: *xrl.us/gyqdq.

I’ve posted in that thread, reported the bug using the bug reporting tool and tried to draw their attention to it on Twitter. Apparently, the RealMacSoftware guys are moving to their new office these days and are therefore unable to fix it right now.

I’m so pissed.

 

[goobimama]

^^ Rapidweaver is nothing like Dreamweaver. DW is a professional app. Rapidweaver is more like iWeb on steroids. Still, I wonder what the bug is...

 

[narangz]

Oh, it’s not an error on my part. It’s a bug with the software and the only people who can help are the ones making the software. You can learn more about this bug here: *xrl.us/gyqdq.

I’ve posted in that thread, reported the bug using the bug reporting tool and tried to draw their attention to it on Twitter. Apparently, the RealMacSoftware guys are moving to their new office these days and are therefore unable to fix it right now.

I’m so pissed.

^^ Rapidweaver is nothing like Dreamweaver. DW is a professional app. Rapidweaver is more like iWeb on steroids. Still, I wonder what the bug is...

OK. So you can't use any other app for that?

 

[goobimama]

Well I think it has a lot to do with .Mac syncing. So far only iWeb and Rapidweaver are supposed to be able to do that...

 

[aryayush]

Sandvox does it too, but it’s quite basic, pretty much in the same league as iWeb.

 

[narangz]

Strange. Dreamweaver is a professional application. It should be able to do that.

Aayush, can't you use iWeb for the time being?

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I don't know if it's possible. Can't you create your site in RapidWeaver & publish it with iWeb or manually?

 

[aryayush]

I can but even that has some issues. Plus, I’ll have to keep re-uploading the whole website manually every time I want to publish a new post. I’ll keep losing all the comments and stuff.

I cannot use iWeb because it’s far too newbie-ish. I’m a bit more advanced than the sort of user iWeb is aimed at. Plus, if I use it for the time-being and then switch to RapidWeaver later, I’ll again have to create all my blog posts and stuff and, basically, start from scratch.

It’s not worth it. Better to wait it out.

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