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[SunnyChahal]

A general question here,do HD videos need a good GPU or CPU?Will HD videos run well on my iMac?Core2Duo 2.8 Ghz 45nm and ATI Radeon 2600 Pro 256 MB DDR3?

 

[nish_higher]

netgear looks good man.

plz tell me where to buy apple usb keyboard online(india)

@arya - if u still interested in that bluetooth headset,i'll update u with the price within a day or two

 

[goobimama]

Man, Netgears look great!

Also hiding it under books means means less signal from internal antenna

Well I'm just saying, if he is so interested in keeping it all-apple, why not just hide the unit somewhere and leave the antenna poking out inconspicuously.

As for the MobileMe, the family pack costs $150 which if split into 5 becomes $30 each. Also, if we act quick, Amazon.com is selling .Mac family pack for $130 bringing down the price even further.

The master account gets 20GB of storage (I think) while the sub accounts get 4GB of storage. Otherwise they are all the same, allowing push email, mac-to-mac syncing and all that.

As it stands now, I want one, my friend Axel wants one.

@din: Not sure if you want this. Push email (and all the other stuff) works with Outlook and Windows, but it is much more awesome when you have a mac or an iPhone. Also, I think you mistook cooldude's avatar for Aayush...

A general question here,do HD videos need a good GPU or CPU?Will HD videos run well on my iMac?Core2Duo 2.8 Ghz 45nm and ATI Radeon 2600 Pro 256 MB DDR3?

CPU CPU CPU. Your Mac will run the best of the best HD video so there is no problem. Unfortunately you cannot play a Bluray or HD DVD cause there is no hardware support nor is there software support.

I saw iWoz at the stands today, 250/- is it good?

Want me to post it to you? Or I can send it along with Axel if you are in Mumbai.

Do you guys have any apps to make my mac shine?

Hang in there for a bit. There's something in the air...

 

[jamesbond007]

@goobi

Wow less than 50$ for year !! I am on, I don't care who holds the 20gb main account, all i want is 4gb account for less than 50$. Goobi, I should be second on your list..

 

[goobimama]

Awright! Sure you can be second If you guys let me know fast I can get the package from amazon.com costing just $130.

 

[din]

Also, I think you mistook cooldude's avatar for Aayush...

Aaaw CRS disease again. Sorry

 

[cooldudie3]

@Goobi
Are you going to the main account?

 

[dinesh72]

Let me be the fifth. Act fast get 130$ account.
dineshnandoskar@mac.com is my account

 

[goobimama]

@Goobi
Are you going to the main account?

Personally I don't care. But hey, if you guys are giving it to me as a birthday gift, then why not!

@dinesh: You are fourth. So one more seat remaining (So far Myself, Azeem, Axe, dinesh). Even four is enough so I'm going ahead with the buying of the $130 package if I can.

 

[cooldudie3]

I don't have no interest now
I don't think .mac is for me

CAn my macbook pro watch bluray videos? Is this computer a HD?

 

[preshit.net]

I was going to spend $99 anyway. Do you guys mind if I chip in around $60 and take the main account?

 

[aryayush]

WOW! A lot went on here in my little absence. Here’s my massive post addressing all the FUD going on here (and in Milind’s presence too).

I hear a lot about Quicksilver

what kind of Application is it?

If you prefer keyboard shortcuts to using the mouse, you’ll love QuickSilver. It allows you to do all sorts of tasks using just the keyboard. For example, you can attach a file to an email addressed to someone, enter a subject and body and dispatch it, all without ever touching the mouse and using very few keys on the keyboard. There’s a learning curve though, before you’ll become a maestro at it.

In the Tiger era, it was particularly useful as a luncher—enter a couple of letters from the name of any application, it would show up and hit return. However, now that Spotlight is on steroids and works well as a launcher, I’ve left QuickSilver behind when I upgraded from Tiger.

Is there any way Quicktime can show full screen videos without upgrading?

The days of having to pay for the privilege of watching fullscreen movies using QuickTime Player are long gone. Hitting Command-F should play a movie in fullscreen. It doesn’t on your Mac?

P.S.: Send me an email at aryayush [at] mac [dot] com and I’ll help you purchase QuickTime Pro, if you know what I mean.

I'd say go for a x86 version.

I hate you, man. I hate you.

Couldn’t you simply have asked me to use the 32-bit version? I wasn’t sure whether x86 meant 64-bit or 32-bit and, since I’d already started downloading the 64-bit version, I let it complete. I even burned it to a CD and it’s now wasted. I’m downloading the 32-bit version all over again now.

I want to kill you. Why can’t you use simple non-geek-speak?

(DM me your phone number, will you? I could use your help with this Window-sy nonsense on occasion, now that I’m going to have to install it on my iMac for the games and stuff. Yeah, I know, it’s practically killing me.)

This page should help you with that. Note, my experience on the hackint0sh (Leopard) for writing on NTFS has not been that great, however, it was different on Tiger.

I know about MacFuse and this article. But someone on this thread mentioned some other way to make Mac OS X NTFS compatible and he’d claimed this this method was better than MacFuse. I wanted to know what this other magical method was.

If I am not mistaken, Leopard has default 'Read' capability for NTFS.

Yes, it does, and so did Tiger, for that matter.

Any easy way to get my PC's files to my mac? I have many of my pics and music on my PC

Connect both of them via an ethernet port, turn on file sharing on your Mac and spend half the day figuring out how to do it on Windows. Give up.

At least, that’s what happened to me a couple of days ago when a friend brought an HP notebook and asked me to give him my Friends collection. Try as I might, I couldn’t get the Windows machine to interface with my Mac.

I have three Macs in my house today and all of them are wonderfully communicating with each other, both over wired and wireless connections. Windows sucks!

Uh… so yeah, I don’t know how to do your thing.

should I put my music on .mac and then get it back from my idisk?

[sarcasm]Yeah, that’s a great idea![/sarcasm]

Dude, depending on the size of your music collection, you’ll spend somewhere between… err… two-five lives uploading all of it onto the .mac server. Don’t try it at home, or anywhere else, for that matter.

Setup your router on ground or first floor to get the range on all floors. It's always better not to keep it on upper floors. At least that's my experience.

I've Netgear WGR614v9 & it has excellent range & covers every nook & corner of our home.

Here are some resources on how to get better signal:

Thank you!

You never told you have 3 Macs.

Yeah, because as much as I wish I did, I don’t.

Your MacBook Pro,Your Sis's MacBook and if I am not mistaken,your future family iMac

She’s my cousin so hers doesn’t count and the other Mac is a friend’s. The iMac hasn’t made its appearance yet.

One stupid querry,how to sign up 60 days .mac trial on Apple site?I can see only Mobilemee ads

By clicking on this big fat link.

Even I have got one

Why? What do you need a .mac account for?

Parallels Desktop vs VMware Fusion.Which one is better?I am using Parallels right now,looks quite good.What about VMware Fusion?

Parallels generally has more features and VMware makes better use of resources. You should use VMware Fusion since you have a lack of resources.

Does you sister has any specific needs for Retail, Corporate or x64 versions of XP ?? If there is no specific need, I suggest to go with XP Pro SP3, retail or corporate won't make a big difference.

Thanks! This is the drawback of having so many freakin’ versions. And Vista has even more of them! It’s amazing how much ridiculous crap these Microsoft-ians put up with. 8)

(Hey, it’s my one big reply, let me have some fun.)

Where and for how much did you get TC ??

I had it bought from the Apple Store in San Francisco, CA for Rs. 14,000 (approximately).

@aryayush

Yeah, I know. I’m well aware. It will be up in a week or so. Pardon the inconvenience. Might I suggest MacUser or Goobimama’s Soggy Blog to keep you occupied in the meantime?

I have high res images of 3000x2000 ( stuff like that ), I want to create a Marching end selection of, say 1280x800 on to those images, so that I can cut the best part of the image and save it as my wallpaper. I know how to resize the images and that is not what I want.

Suggest the method in any app in Mac, Irfan View does this on Windos

The only solution I know is to use Adobe Photoshop or one its various imitators—Acorn, Iris, Pixelmator, etc.. Milind is more knowledgeable about stuff like this.

That is completely opposite to what I read on Lifehacker blog. It is best to place it at the top floor if you want to get connectivity across multiple floors.

@Aaryayush
It is strange that the Apple Time Capsule has so limited connectivity, read up some reviews on net to confirm that there is no problem with your device.

Oh, there isn’t. It’s my house’s construction. It’s a semi-duplex bungalow and I’ve placed the router in one room in the corner, next to a brick wall and lots of other electronic devices. I’ll have to figure out a way to keep it somewhere more appropriate. The problem is stupid DataOne’s tendency to stop working every 24-hours and require a restart of the modem.

Also the antenna should be placed at 45 degrees or 0 degrees (parallel to floor) in multi-storey buildings. Even Netgear suggests this.

The only problem is, Apple hates ugly antennas sticking out of their precious gadgets, so the Time Capsule has none.

@aayush: trying to make this fully apple seems a little stupid and arrogant to me.[/qupte]Hey, I’m a Mac user, I’m supposed to be arrogant (not sure about the stupid part though).

If all one needs to do to extend the range is to Ise a router that one already has then I wouldn't hesitate in using it. If it bothers you so much hide the netgear under some books or something. Of course its a different matter if it doesn't work properly...

Yeah, well, I’ll need to think of a way to figure it all out. I was hoping I would be able to make do with one router. Plugging two of them into inverter powered electric outlets might drain the battery in case of a power outage, leaving me stranded for fifteen minutes without access to the Internet. Oh, the sheer agony!

@everyone: I see all of you have got trial accounts of .mac. What say we all chip in for a family pack. Even if three of us go in for it each account will cost just $50. And 5GB is more than enough space that most of us need. And next year we could either contnue with the same or each get a separate account. What say?

Copyright © 2008 Aayush Arya. All rights reserved.

I saw iWoz at the stands today, 250/- is it good?

Depends. Personally, I would choose iCon over iWoz any day of the week, if only because the former has been authored by a professional author.

Apple noob here. Will this be of any help for me ? I mean the MobilMe account - as I do not have a Mac / iPhone yet.

I was just checking the push email, calendar etc ...

It will be useful but not worth $99/year. If you can get in on it with Milind and the gang though, I think Rs. 2,000/year is pretty decent.

Arya, pricing here - *www.apple.com/mobileme/pricing/ - if thats what you meant.

Yeah, as if I would need to be informed about the pricing of an Apple product in the United States.

Man, Netgears look great!

As long as you don’t place a Time Capsule or AirPort Extreme next to it. Then it starts to look really crappy (by comparison).

if u still interested in that bluetooth headset,i'll update u with the price within a day or two

Totally. Thank you!

(I was planning to buy it off eBay and have it shipped to India but that didn’t pan out. I’ll pay you via bank transfer.)

The master account gets 20GB of storage (I think) while the sub accounts get 4GB of storage.

No, the sub-accounts get 5GB each.

Hang in there for a bit. There's something in the air...

Yeah, and I hear it’s gonna be awesome!

 

[goobimama]

^^ awright! Sure thing! So its settled then. I'll buy the pack and preshit gets the main account for $50.

 

[iMav]

Guys, anyone of you read Inside Steve's Brain by any chance?

Mav, seems great from the reviews. Have you read iCon : Steve Jobs?

It is all part of my 'World Domination' plan. One by one I shall read 'em all.

Want me to post it to you? Or I can send it along with Axel if you are in Mumbai.

And Alex would be your friend you mention on your blog, who you gave a total photoshop makeover?

Sure, I guess that would be better, then I might even pass it on to Pathik, if he wants it.

Hang in there for a bit. There's something in the air...

Too much of pollution & Hookah smoke. Man, it's suffocating!

I hate you, man. I hate you.

Couldn’t you simply have asked me to use the 32-bit version? I wasn’t sure whether x86 meant 64-bit or 32-bit and, since I’d already started downloading the 64-bit version, I let it complete. I even burned it to a CD and it’s now wasted. I’m downloading the 32-bit version all over again now.

I want to kill you. Why can’t you use simple non-geek-speak?

Oh! I'm sorry . 32 bit has more softwares & much better driver support.

(DM me your phone number, will you? I could use your help with this Window-sy nonsense on occasion, now that I’m going to have to install it on my iMac for the games and stuff. Yeah, I know, it’s practically killing me.)

Gaming! Did I read the word that is spelt as G A M E S!

I know about MacFuse and this article. But someone on this thread mentioned some other way to make Mac OS X NTFS compatible and he’d claimed this this method was better than MacFuse. I wanted to know what this other magical method was.

Me is unaware of such a magical method.

Yes, it does, and so did Tiger, for that matter.

Tiger is history in my mind. Don't remember a thing about it.

 

[aryayush]

Gaming! Did I read the word that is spelt as G A M E S!

Yeah, I have a couple of younger siblings and they want to waste their time playing games. Plus, my sister needs to run Turbo C++.

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In case you guys didn’t know (fat chance though given that there have been several Digg front page stories about this), iPhone plans are being announced by carriers. So far, Canadian and Swedish plans have been announced and both of them cost a bomb. There’s huge uproar on the Internet.

Didn’t everyone see it coming? I knew this was what would happen. What did people think? Apple had suddenly decided to slit their iPhone profits to near zero and was offering the phone at $199 with no hidden costs? N00bs.

 

[cooldudie3]

^^
What do you mean by purchase? I haven't opened Quicktime in my mac but I remember that you need Quicktime Pro to view fullscreen when you use a PC

Can my Macbook Pro watch any Blue Ray Disc movies or view HD?

 

[goobimama]

Since some few months back you don't need QT pro to go fullscreen. In any case, if its bothering you, just use Quicklook (Spacebar any file) and go fullscreen from there!

 

[aryayush]

Can my Macbook Pro watch any Blue Ray Disc movies or view HD?

You cannot watch Blu-ray disks (because your Mac does not have a Blu-ray drive) but you cana watch high definition movies.

In other news, Mac OS X 10.5.4 has been released.

And WTF is wrong with the forum! There’s this advertisement that has words flying across the screen.

 

[goobimama]

And WTF is wrong with the forum! There’s this advertisement that has words flying across the screen.

At first I thought I was seeing things! Then I thought my iPhone has caught a virus!

10.5.4 eh! My net is just come back and I'm looking forward to the update! Thanks for the heads up.

 

[iMav]

In case you guys didn’t know (fat chance though given that there have been several Digg front page stories about this), iPhone plans are being announced by carriers. So far, Canadian and Swedish plans have been announced and both of them cost a bomb. There’s huge uproar on the Internet.

Didn’t everyone see it coming? I knew this was what would happen. What did people think? Apple had suddenly decided to slit their iPhone profits to near zero and was offering the phone at $199 with no hidden costs? N00bs.

According to analysts (Indian) the iPhone would be costing above 21k. Their reasoning is that in India the iPhones aren't subsidized and the call charges are very low as compared to the US. The US Cell cos. make their money through their call charges which are way higher than India.