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[infra_red_dude]

Those of you who are defending a wired network setup and prefer it over wireless, use the later for a month and then report back. Let’s see you going back to the messy, tied down nature of the wired world after that. Going wireless is right up there, just after the decision of switching to a Mac, in the list of the best technology related decisions I made in my life.

Try transferring about 1-2GB data over wireless and then "report back". And you don't even need to do it for a month!

But if you aren't into heavy data transfer then Wifi is the way to go. My home is completely wireless, the desktop/laptops/smartphones etc. But when I need to transfer some heavy data I use an external hdd as I can't afford to run wires across my home. Tho I hate all the wires thingy I won't deny the fact that nothing beats a gigabit wired connection when heavy data transfers are involved.

 

[MetalheadGautham]

Those of you who are defending a wired network setup and prefer it over wireless, use the later for a month and then report back. Let’s see you going back to the messy, tied down nature of the wired world after that. Going wireless is right up there, just after the decision of switching to a Mac, in the list of the best technology related decisions I made in my life.

Wireless is OK if you just want to sync a little data. But not for other use. I think its good if you have highly encrypted wireless connection for Internet and laptops, but for desktops which you KNOW will be sitting at the same place, wired is the way to go. A mixture of wired and wireless is damn useful if you ask me.

If you are building a house, you can try more "innovative" stuff like these common telephone point in every room thing. Just replace the telephone point with a data access point.

Try transferring about 1-2GB data over wireless and then "report back". And you don't even need to do it for a month!

But if you aren't into heavy data transfer then Wifi is the way to go. My home is completely wireless, the desktop/laptops/smartphones etc. But when I need to transfer some heavy data I use an external hdd as I can't afford to run wires across my home. Tho I hate all the wires thingy I won't deny the fact that nothing beats a gigabit wired connection when heavy data transfers are involved.

+1

 

[goobimama]

Woah woah woah! What's this about transferring and all that? I transfer stuff from my Wireless iMac to the Wired PC all the time and it has never bothered me in any way. Speed sure is not the greatest, but its not that slow either. And I transfer huge files, usually 4.3GB or 8GB ( ).

The thing with Mac desktops is that there is only 1 wire coming out of it. So adding another is really heart breaking. That's why I didn't bother adding another wire on my PC which has upwards of 50 wires crawling around.

Although I will give you this. Axel came over the other day with his notebook and wanted to transfer a lot of stuff from my iMac to his Vista notebook. However, when the time remaining thing showed 4 hours we immediately succumbed to connecting it over a direct PC-to-Mac LAN connection .

One more thing that makes this wireless world really good for Macs is the firewire connection. If you ever need to transfer a huge amount of data from one mac to another, just connect it over Firewire. And that's not all. You can even do this after you have started the transfer over Wifi and decided that its too slow. FW is the fastest way to transfer anything and the cable isn't usually long and weildy to manage. Of course you can also keep a metre long Ethernet cable for the purpose.

 

[hellknight]

Hey Macboys.. Just wanted to know that Mac's Mighty Mouse and Wireless Keyboard will work in Linux or Vista?? I want to buy them... the keyboard looks gorgeous.. and is that keyboard backlit.. like one on Macbooks?

 

[goobimama]

Not sure about the keyboard (which is not backlit), but the mouse definitely works. Although it is pretty expensive so I don't see why you would want to go in for one.

 

[hellknight]

yaar.. i took a demo of iMac in Chandigarh a month ago.. and I was pretty impressed.. the keyboard was cool.. If the mouse is expensive.. then definately i'll go for the keyboard..

 

[MetalheadGautham]

Not sure about the keyboard (which is not backlit), but the mouse definitely works. Although it is pretty expensive so I don't see why you would want to go in for one.

well, most distros have support for mac hardware. So it makes lots of sense to get a mightly mouse so that you can enjoy the mouse which is MEANT to be customised with the MOST customisable OS.

Price is no bar when it comes to enthusiasts

 

[goobimama]

Ultrathin laptop showdown

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...To find out how these thin notebooks really rate, we asked the usability experts at Perceptive Sciences , an Austin user experience testing firm, to run the Air and two Windows-based ultrathin laptops -- the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 and the Toshiba Portege R500-S5002-- through a gamut of hands-on tests with 20 independent users.
So how does the much-ballyhooed MacBook Air stack up against its competitors? Here's what we learned.

Read more...

A nice read when you having nothing spectacular to do...

 

[infra_red_dude]

Hey Macboys.. Just wanted to know that Mac's Mighty Mouse and Wireless Keyboard will work in Linux or Vista?? I want to buy them... the keyboard looks gorgeous.. and is that keyboard backlit.. like one on Macbooks?

Mighty mouse works great in Linux. Keyboard is all confusing if you've never used a Mac before that you'll end up searching for keys all the while

Both work in well in Linux and Windows provided your hardware doesn't haf any incompatibility.

 

[prasadvenkatraman]

Thanks Milind... will try the upgrade option first and then can always do a fresh install if things dont work out well ("things dont work out well" <-- Windows talk )

NeoOffice is the OpenOffice port for Mac OS X. So you don't need X11 and all that. So yeah, go for NeoOffice if you don't find iWork awesome enough.

NeoOffice is a great option for handling other Windows based Office files. Specially when you work in a all Windows environment.

No, I don’t think it can. Please let me know if you can figure out a way to do it, either using QuickTime Player or any other application.

been using a great App for converting videos to Iphone. It allows for cropping resizing and setting Vidoe and Audio bitrates...
called ISquint found at www.isquint.org
been working great for me

@milind... Windows software for DVD to Iphone movie
Used to use DVD43 to remove protection
www.jodix.com has a couple of softwares to convert movie to Iphone
*www.ipod-video-converter.org/

and rip audio from DVD's to mp3 format
*www.dvd-mp3.org/

Have not tried the video one but have tried the MP3 one and it works

 

[cooldudie3]

The mouse and the keyboard look really cool. But I don't need one since I have a macbook pro!
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@Aayush,the command is not working, any problems here?

 

[prasadvenkatraman]

You need a new iPhone 3G.

I am sure you guys already have this on the IPhone... but just tought I would mention it anyway.
Poor man's version of GPS with Google maps integrated
LocateMe App for IPhone
uses the Cellular towers to triangulate your position
not highly accurate but at least gives you an idea of where you are on a non GPS enabled IPhone

 

[cooldudie3]

on my ipod touch I have this wifi thing in maps to guess where your area is. At my home they were nowhere close! They use your wifi to guess

 

[narangz]

Remember: Amateurs...built the ark. Professionals...built the Titanic

Nice signature

 

[prasadvenkatraman]

@narangz...thanks.

 

[gxsaurav]

Try transferring about 1-2GB data over wireless and then "report back". And you don't even need to do it for a month!

Lolz.


You also forgot that going with WiFi is also more costly then Wired Lan.It does sounds ncie to go with a completely Wireless environment but it is also not justified everywhere.

 

[jamesbond007]

When you have a laptop, Wifi at home is very reasonable, but for internet only.
I use Wifi for my Vaio and MacBook but my PC is wired lan. Also , since MacBook is my primary computer, whenever the need arises to transfer files ( 8GBs ) from MacBook to other computers, I will always trust and use Crossover cable. I made a very small cross over cable of around 32cms.
I have the Wifi and wired stats with me :

On Wifi, the max avg speed I got when transferring files is 900kbps
On Wired, the max avg speed is more than 7Mbps.

Coming to security, I don't care as I know that I am the only techie, in 10km radius of my house

BTW, this discussion sucks, for one Wifi or Wired is a personal choice and secondly, its an apple thread.

 

[aryayush]

been using a great App for converting videos to Iphone. It allows for cropping resizing and setting Vidoe and Audio bitrates...
called ISquint found at www.isquint.org
been working great for me

I already have VisualHub, which is the elder, paid sibling of iSquint. Do you know how to crop videos in iSquint?

the command is not working, any problems here?

Just launch terminal, copy paste the whole thing, hit return and relaunch Safari. There’s no reason why it shouldn’t work. Are you sure you’re using Safari 3.1?

 

[prasadvenkatraman]

I already have VisualHub, which is the elder, paid sibling of iSquint. Do you know how to crop videos in iSquint?

Though I have not cropped vids in Isquint, when you click on the Advanced tab it first swears at you and then opens up this box to the side where the first options are "Crop"

Enter the values for Top,right, left and down, and the resulting vid is that much smaller or cropped...
you can also set the height and width below this
Just did it with a small .Mov file and it seemed to work

I attached a screen cap of the Isquint control panel... But not sure if it shows up in the thread

 

[goobimama]

Btw, you can crop videos in VisualHub. Just select Advanced Options (not used to it right?) and specify how much you want to crop.

Lolz.


You also forgot that going with WiFi is also more costly then Wired Lan.It does sounds ncie to go with a completely Wireless environment but it is also not justified everywhere.

Wifi costs hardly anything these days. A Linksys WRTg2 router costs just 2.8k and can support both wired and wireless networks. What's the point of getting a notebook if you're going to hold it down with wires?

I am sure you guys already have this on the IPhone... but just tought I would mention it anyway.
Poor man's version of GPS with Google maps integrated
LocateMe App for IPhone
uses the Cellular towers to triangulate your position
not highly accurate but at least gives you an idea of where you are on a non GPS enabled IPhone

The google maps application itself does this. The locate me button in the Maps application brought it down a 1km radius on the map which I'm sure will be much closer in a city or some place where there are more towers...