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Hi everyone, I work at a small company. It's not a single company, as such. It's sort of half-way between an ad agency and a rent-an-office sort of space. We're a bunch of people all running our own companies, but we do a certain degree of work together as well. Up until now, we don't actually...

I wasn't sure whether to post this here, or in Displays. If this is the wrong place, can a mod perhaps move it? :-) Anyway. I'm planning on buying a new TV this year. Due to the size of the room and such, I'm thinking in the 40"-50" range. The idea is to build a HTPC or something similar...

I've currently got a 2008-model Macbook Pro (the first of the unibody ones) with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, and it's been a good laptop for my needs, with (for the time, anyway) reasonably powerful GPU and CPU, a decent amount of memory, and relatively low weight. I'm looking to replace it, and I'm...

I'm moving in with my girlfriend, and her current network situation is basically a single Cat 5 cable coming out of the wall going into her laptop. I assume there is some kind of switch system in the building, but we have no control over it (obviously). As far as we're concerned, all we have is...

I've got the Samsung SyncMaster 245B, and while it was really cheap, the color reproduction is absolute shit. I'm having a very hard time getting it calibrated properly, and I never get the expected output and I'm almost to the point of throwing the fucker out the window! Ideally, I'd replace it...

Am I SOL? It doesn't seem to be playing ball. Every time I try to launch the utility, it just goes "blargh," and it doesn't even detect the wifi card. :(

And don't suggest QuickTime Alternative, because I need something that can actually export. I don't have any issues with QuickTime Player itself, it's just that it keeps crashing whenever I open the video codec settings for QuickTime in just about any application. QuickTime Pro crashes, modo...

I don't really have a large enough room to warrant a 5.1 system, or indeed even a 2.1. Besides, living in a flatshare means I can't play music all that loud anyway. However, I am starting to feel that my iBook's built-in speakers are simply not up to par (quite frankly, they're horrible, even...

A bit of an odd request, but I figured it might be worth a shot. Basically, I need to do a 3D model of one and all the images I've found are from the front. I don't really have any good references from the back. So if you've got one, do you think you could take some pictures of it? Preferably as...

(Yes, I did search first, but I didn't find a good answer.) So, basically, it seems I'll be staying here in London for a while. I kind of miss my old PC that's still in Sweden, so I decided to ship it over. But what do you think is the best way to ship it? I still have the box the case...

I'm somewhat ambidextrous (I use both left-handed and right-handed scissors, for example), but I'm finding it utterly impossible to use my pen tablet with anything but my left hand. This is a problem, because it makes it very hard to use keyboard shortcuts at the same time. Most applications are...

I'm selling my Pentax K100D with its kit lens. It's a good camera, and in perfect condition. Good starter out DSLR. Still under warranty for another six months or so. I've got the box and everything. £350 if you come to central London to pick it up, otherwise a bit more with shipping. I'll...

Windows XP SP2, Geforce 7600GT, yadda yadda. For some damn reason, VLC's output is all screwed up. The colors are oversaturated, and it appears to be in linear gamma so it's all dark. Only VLC, as far as I've seen, behaves like this. Yeah, I know, "just use the others then," but VLC's better...

System specs: ASUS D5W DH Core 2 Duo E6300 (overclocked to 2.6 GHz) Corsair memory with big-ass heatsinks Antec Sonata II case & PSU According to AiBooster, my CPU temp while stressing the computer is about 45°C when the room is a comfy temperature (read: low 20s). That strikes me...

I'm not entirely sure this is the right part of the forum, since it concerns all the parts of the system. But since the one constant in it is the E6600, I figured this would be the place. If a moderator disagrees, I apologize in advance. Also, I did check out the first few pages of the...

This one seems to be a big one: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303771 Go and download!

A bit of a hassle, I suppose, but if someone out there has the time to help me, I'd greatly appreciate it. What I want you to do is first download the modo 103 evaluation copy (it's a universal binary, btw), available here (you'll have to fill out a short survey). Then download this file. The...

... to 1.83/2.0/2.16 gigahertz and is shipping now! Check out the Apple store!

I'm doing some basic HTML editing. OmniWeb has this nifty regular expressions search-and-replace-every-instance feature that I want to take advantage of to remove all silly img alt tags that are completely unnecessary to this page. Well, how do you use regular expressions for that, anyway? I...

Can it be done? If so, how? I tried using Toast's Mount disk image command, but the computer thought I just inserted a blank disk. Thanks in advance.

I've just "acquired" (it was free!) a 21" Apple Studio Display! I haven't gotten it yet, but damnit, this sucker's huge! It weighs about 35kg (or 77lbs) and draws a fairly impressive 180 watts. I'll post images when I get it. Pwnz0r. ;) :D

20 gig, 4G, FAT formatted, reporting 3.17 gigs used space in total, but all songs add up to 100 megabytes. Last night I added about three gigs, but it seems to have lost them from the library file. Anyone got a solution other than resetting the damned thing? Readding songs manually that are...

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosxupdate1041.html Go get it.

Turns out my broken iPod was unrepairable, and I got a new one (finally). I went to pick it up yesterday. There was much rejoicement. However, it has some pretty severe problems. First off, it wouldn't mount in my PowerMac. It was as if it wasn't even there. I connected it to our old iMac (slow...

I reformatted my 4G 20 gig iPod to Windows format today, so it'll work without Xplay in my girlfriend's computer... When I brought it back home to add some music to it again (didn't bring my AC adapter so I couldn't complete it at her place), it suddely stopped blinking. iTunes hard crashed (top...

F1-4 for virtual desktops, F5-11 for various Lightwave-stuff, all screen corners used for mouse functions... Argh! Is it possible to connect several keyboards and map any buttons to any keystrokes of your choice? Anyone has any idea about stuff like this? Having a separate keyboard for shortcuts...

At school, I really have to have a working web browser to do a lot of the things I have to do, and really, this extremely broken Internet Explorer 5 simply doesn't do. JavaScript won't run most of the time, you can't open links in new windows, it has a hard time loading most things, etc etc...

I got an iPod mini for my birthday (yay! :D), but I'm having some doubts about the earbuds. They're a whole lot better than my old Sony ones, but there are probably better ones... I also got some Koss "The Plug" or whatever it's called. The ones with the extra bass thing sticking out. But I...

(this is Morty's brother, for those who would care) My poor G5's video card, a Radeon 9600 Pro, went black-screen-of-death on me this weekend. So I need to buy a new card, and I figured I shouldn't get the same card, and could use this "opportunity" to upgrade to the 9800 Pro. I'm looking...

I'm using my mother's 800Mhz iBook G4 right now. It's a sweet machine, I must admit. I want one. Badly... However, this one has a peculiar problem. When you move the display back and forth, it sometimes turns off the backlight. It mostly occurs when you bend it back more than ~120 degrees or...

Yeah, I know, this is an old topic, and it's really hard to help someone with such things, and in the end, it's still my decision, yadda yadda, but I'll post this anyway. I need a new computer. Ever since my 400MHz Yosemite died in january (or whenever it was), I've been stuck with a) an...

I think the problem started with 10.3.5... iTunes can play music perfectly fine, but after some time, all the trademarks of a hard drive overheating starts to appear... menues won't work, new apps can't be launched or documents opened, such things, after maybe ten seconds, the music and UI...

The CD-ROM was working less than a week ago, but whatever CD I insert is treated like an audio CD, and it wants to play the music. Now, as a genuine noise fan, listening to pure data is always nice, but the sound card is busted, so I can't even do that. I've tried updating the drivers and such...

The exec osascript command in the terminal (or shell scripts, whatever) lets you run AppleScripts directly from the command line interface. You can combine it with a normal shell script and save it in /bin and just execute it, of course. However, when I execute an AppleScript from the CLI, it...

I recently got an old PIII 733MHz from a friend who bought a new computer, but the sound card seems to be dead... So I'm trying to find the cheapest possible sound card that doesn't produce too bad sound (ie, no constant static or anything like that). I have a rather good amp and speakers (but...

For both new and experienced Mac OS X users, there is always some piece of nifty software you haven't heard of... got any suggestions for the rest of us? Post the lumps of golden code here, please! Here are some of my suggestions: Internet, WWW: Safari is an ok browser, quite speedy...

I'm what you might call a nut about setting up stuff the way I want it, system add-ons, cool/useful applications... So I'm curious what, if any, you people use to customize everything. Even though the 192 megs of RAM in our iMac limits me somewhat, I still use quite a lot of different apps and...

I want a portable computer for "school". That includes the following: Typing (I absolutely hate writing "manually" with pen and paper). Some primitive Photoshopping (or GIMPing, whatever, but nothing big), but a substandard monitor = no go. Maybe playing music, but no real need for a huge...

...and I got all misty-eyed about the nostalgia. Well, not really, it was from 1999. Not really THAT long ago... But one article in it made me a bit, well, sad really. It was about Halo. Some interviews with Bungie people, who talked about how they worked long and hard to make it unique...