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Jimduncan69
| | Posted on Sunday, November 04, 2007 - 08:00 pm: | 
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i am not sure of the exact model # of the camera. but quicktime will play the audio but no video. when i try to drag the video into imovie it wont let me.
i think everything is up to date. but am not completely sure. |
Hexangler
| | Posted on Sunday, November 04, 2007 - 09:00 pm: |
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FinalCutPro?
Hex |
Danger_dave
| | Posted on Sunday, November 04, 2007 - 09:13 pm: |
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>>FinalCutPro? <<
I'm just going through some issues trying to get that to run on my G5. Seems I can't - it's a PCI box and...anyway it uses quicktime.
If QT player won't open it Doon is right - codec.
There are some that don't work.
Try the camera maufacturer's site? |
Reepicheep
| | Posted on Sunday, November 04, 2007 - 09:41 pm: |
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Videolan (vlc) will indeed transcode... its actually one of the best transcoders out there. Not intuitively obvious, but very powerful. It will also stream across a network while transcoding... |
Thesmaz
| | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 01:53 am: |
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Court,
Be sure that you go to the downloads section on apple's website and download the Nikon RAW plug in for Aperture. It may already be loaded in the latest version (1.5.6) but I'm not certain since I don't have a Nikon. I'm currently shooting with a Pro level point-n-shoot but I'm planing on moving up to DSLR soon. I'm really liking the reviews new Canon D40 though. Good luck and have fun! |
Corporatemonkey
| | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 04:41 am: |
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What are you guys running for e-mail management? I have all my contacts, all 4500 of them, in Outlook . . . they are synched to my Blackberry. I assume there is a version of Outlook or something I can run?
Court do you use full hosted blackberry (BES)?
If you don't you really need to look into it. Mac Office has a program called "Entourage" it is comparable to Outlook. It has full exchange support. If you subscribe to an exchange service your black berry can be managed automatically wirelessly.
I have used hosted exchange for quite some time, it is one of the best services I have every used (not joking).
http://www.intermedia.net is the company I use. I use their Windows Mobile service, but they also offer Blackberry service. Intermedia is one of the few hosted exchange companies that supports Mac. When you subscribe they "give" (lease) a copy of Entourage. This is a great deal, as Mac Office is $500. Any computer (win/mac) you have setup will have real time synced email/calander/contacts.
If you have ever used Outlook in an office environment this will be the same except someone else is managing the server.
Now the next question who is the biggest Mac geek here? Who has the oldest mac? Latest Mac? Most interesting mac goodies?
Me:
First mac = Powerbook 100, 1990ish
Latest = Dual quad core Mac Pro, new macbook on order
Interesting goody = I have a Newton 2100, and a Quicktake 150 (first digital camera) |
Danger_dave
| | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 06:37 am: |
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Me:
First mac = 11" B&W Might have been a IIe at work - bit fuzzy - late 80s - life was fuzzy.
I was working in the design office for a building company and it drew bricks - or brickwork. Changed my life. Draftsmen will understand.
Lived in front of one since. Work and play.
Centris 610 at home. Stonking 25mhz and business' used to hire me to access the rare 2x CD reader
Latest = G5 - added to network which includes ibook, G4 and G3.
Interesting goody = I 'think' mine was a Quicktake 100 (first-er digital camera ;-P).
I have an 8mb memory simm that cost more than 4 gb today.
Not mac, but I have a set of Word 1.0 floppy discs somewhere too.
I have 4 ipods. |
Slaughter
| | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 06:40 am: |
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First program I ever wrote was to drive a 2-axis template cutter - written in Applesoft Basic... you say Apple's been up to some changes since then? |
Blake
| | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 06:57 am: |
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Just more window dressing. I miss Norton Commander. 
My old Dell laptop is long in the tooth. I cannot see my way to going mac though. I just suffered too much pain in dealing with them in the past, plus I'm way too used to using a PC, going on for over 20 years now.
Tell me why I should reconsider. |
Danger_dave
| | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 07:07 am: |
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>>First program I ever wrote<<
that's pretty good. hard to top.
>>you say Apple's been up to some changes since then?<<
All relative. I've enjoyed pretty good success from using them all along.
I've gone from a schmuck pushing rotring pens to a schmuck designing motorcycle magazines on the back of 'em....or in front of them.....been quite a ride - wherever I was sitting..... |
Danger_dave
| | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 07:13 am: |
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Tell me why I should reconsider.<<
'relative' immunity to virus and subterfuge. The OS does not recognise .exe files.
iLife is brilliant.
But it's down to your existing software and the investment you have made in it.
If you have a heap of bucks already laid out in windows gear hard to argue for change. |
Reepicheep
| | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 07:45 am: |
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The Mac platform will have some significant additional native resistance to security threats over a PC, because it is based on an operating system with a rational security architecture (Unix).
The microsoft platforms can't seem to wean themselves from the crack cocaine that is deep integration of application and OS. This is a "bad thing" as you have extended the attack surface of the OS with every MS application. It also means that all of these apps can crash the whole OS.
The analogy I use is meeting a stranger. When a Unix machine meets a stranger, they politely shake hands. When a Windows machine meets a stranger, they hand said stranger a scalpel and say "here, cut into my brain stem". When it goes well, it goes well, but when it goes badly, it goes *really* badly.
Microsoft claims this is not the case anymore... but I still note that when outlook is having trouble getting access to an exchange server or something... my dual core multi process OS suddenly stops doing *everything* until Outlook decides to return to consciousness. Ditto some of the wireless networking stuff.
You will never see a Unix box behave like that unless you are dealing with a badly written hardware driver, or when there is something *really* serious going wrong (like a bad hard drive or bad memory).
Now that being said, one of the myths is that the Apple machines are invulnerable. That ain't the case. An effective mac virus proof of concept was in the wild just last week. It's about marketshare... why write a virus for a machine that is a slightly harder target and only represents 10% of the market, when you can go after an easier target that is 90% of the market.
But Mac has probably already passed the threshold of being worth attacking... so new attacks will emerge. And some will be successful. You will soon need anti-virus and anti-spyware (why these two packages are two packages instead of one ticks me off to this day) for your mac just like you need it for your PC.
That being said, like I mentioned at the start, the Mac (because of it's unix roots) is a FAR FAR more defensible system... so it will always be "more secure" then windows. Today, more secure = secure. Soon, more secure will just mean more secure.
Any computer you have the rights to install a program on and have said program executed on your behalf will never be fully secure, at least not if that program can do anything interesting or meaningful.
Back on topic... I shot a lot of pictures with a Quick Take 150. Quite a challenge, especially in low light. That was a Fuji camera under the covers, and I am now using a Fuji F31d... a fairly run of the mill point and shoot *except* for the fact that it can operate at ISO 3200 in a pinch, can do ISO 1600 "decent", and looks great at ISO 800. It replaced my CoolPix 950... a killer camera in it's day. |
Slaughter
| | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 07:34 pm: |
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I buy throw-away computers. I'm hard on equipment and can buy surplus from work cheap.
Buy laptops on ebay to use for engine programming. Last one was $25 for a Gateway that would take my old hard drive, CD and floppy drives. Good to go for another couple years. Greasy hands are kinda hard on the keyboard. |
Henrik
| | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 09:22 pm: |
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Been a Mac user since I started using computers, prolly around 1990. I'm currently forced to also use Windows, and still don't like it. Life's just too short.
I use Entourage - part of Office Mac for all my email. I can check and manage all my email accounts from there. The new version of Office Mac should be out sometime early 2008 and unless there's a deal to buy now, get the new version free, I'd say it'd be worth waiting.
Mac and Buells forever 
Henrik |
Sparky
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 02:06 am: |
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Macs have been my personal choice at home ever since Apple came out with the 128k Macintosh in 1984. I guess it was playing with the graphical interface and being able to double click on a file "icon" to open it instead of typing a cryptic command line at the C: prompt that made me realize, I think they got something here! This is really cool!
Ah, but at work, the company went PC all the way, complying with some gov't edict that required standardization, thus ridding all their Mac Pluses and SE30's much to my dismay. But the company has kept a high standard, employing the best automatic virus updates and security enhancements not to mention a marching army of IT techs just to keep the company's networks from crashing. So, they've managed to make using a PC at work almost, dare I say, Maclike in being trouble-free and useful.
One feature about the Windows machine I like is I can alt-tab to go through all the open files of open apps in sequence to select the file I want, whereas with OS 10.3.9 I can only do the equivalent Command-tab to go through open apps but not all open files.
But I still love my Macs, dinosaurs that they are now: Mac Plus (broke), IIVX, 6500, iMac slot loading G3, and for my youngest, I bought him a 17" iMac G4 and a MacBook for college. Just because I can, the 6500 and both iMacs are hardwire networked and his MacBook is WiFi'd in -- fun for the whole family! Fun for me too is being able to beam my iTunes surf music to the Airport Express connected either to the living room stereo or to the garage boom box. Yeah baby, that's Apple innovation! |
Blake
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2007 - 03:08 pm: |
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I don't use MS Outlook or any form of PC based email app anymore. Bill (Reepicheep), you converted me to GMail some time ago. It ROCKS! My laptop typically runs behind hardware and software firewalls.
I'm perfectly please with Win2000 Pro. It pretty much runs indefinitely only requiring a forced shutdown of MSIE and sometimes Adobe Acrobat Reader on rare occassions. Very rarely, like maybe thrice a year, have I had to reboot the machine due to problems.
I'm not to worried about virus attacks.
My issue is that I need more power. 
The only visible (to me) enhancement offered by XP that I find valuable is the automated photo/image handling built-in to the OS. And that really isn't such a huge factor.
Sounds like for me, the PC is the way to stay for now.
Michele was happy to get a new Mac at work yesterday. Some new dual processor Intel-based machine with a nice big high res LCD display. |
Microchop
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2007 - 03:13 pm: |
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I made the jump this week too. Our new Imac is due on our doorstep on Friday. |
Corporatemonkey
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2007 - 03:19 pm: |
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Blake, it you are a fan of W2k (I am as well), you will LOVE Win2003.
I run 2003 on one of my boxes. It is by far the most stable OS I have ever used (including Linux).
It looks like win2k with much better security.
I know it is not the cheapest os, but I suspect you could find a second hand copy for a reasonable sum. |
Blake
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2007 - 11:13 pm: |
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Win2003? That's a new one to me. Thanks for the tip! |
Glitch
| | Posted on Thursday, November 08, 2007 - 08:30 am: |
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I tend to use the OS I don't have to pay money for. I do support the distribution I use with a donation though. I donate as much as I can, and when I can, usually when the distribution is updated. Gutsy Gibbon has just been released, and will be using it real soon. At work of course it's Windows, it's the bane of my existence. |
Firebolt020283
| | Posted on Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 03:34 am: |
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I just made the switch from PC to Mac about 2 months ago and I must say I really love my new little macbook (black). My comuting needs were not that great that i felt the need to go with the macbook pro and so far this little guy had been a great computer as opposed to any of the pc's I have owned. I havent upgraded to leopard yet but I will soon. Like others have said mac is like the buell of computers. |
Jimduncan69
| | Posted on Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 10:02 am: |
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well i have had my macbook pro for over a week now. this thing rocks!! it hasn't crashed, slowed down or even showed any sign of slowing down. i am running leopard on it, and it is very easy to get used to. i just received my copy of Logic Studio yesterday. it took about 2 and a half hours to install all 45 plus gigs of program. it did it flawlessly with no problem what so ever. i haven't had a chance to record with it yet. but i expect it to work effortlessly.
Now my girlfriend wants a macbook. she is tired of her pc crashing on her all the time. since she has seen my macbook pro stay rock solid all the time. she gets very frustrated with windows.. |
Lonexb
| | Posted on Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 07:55 pm: |
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well Gary, you better stop being a cheapskate and buy Angie one.
brian |
Mikexlr650
| | Posted on Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 08:16 pm: |
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hijack.
brian, hows the 1098 treatin ya??? been droolin over the 848. |
Jimduncan69
| | Posted on Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 11:46 pm: |
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Brian, sure no problem just lend me some of that moldy money you have....
so you got the 1098??? do tell us about it with pics.... |
M1combat
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 12:20 am: |
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@Glitch - I'm using Gutsy right now on my laptop. It seems that someone finally made a distro I like more than Fedora  . It took a bit of work to get the wireless adapter going (Used the firmware cutter) but that's just because it's a broadcom card "re-engineered" by Dell and even Dell didn't use many of them...
Everything else is quite nice.
The other OS on that system is Vista and I'm quite pleased with it. I haven't had a crash yet and I don't expect one.
On the PC I run XP (but will go to Vista soon). I use that one for games primarily but I also run an entire server2003 forest for learning purposes.
I don't play with Macs at all but I'm sure they have their place. My business partner runs an intel/mac but only runs XP on it. He seems to like it. I suppose my only issue with the Mac OS is the lack of entertainment software. I don't care for TV at all but I've got to have my games .
I suppose out of all the OS types I've used I prefer various distributions of Linux (and that's the problem with Linux) and Windows.
WRT windows crashing... Stop installing crap software. Stuff like Google Desktop, Yahoo Toolbar, various time/weather applets, and a million more.
Mine never crashes. I can't even remember the last time I've had my personal windows box crash on me (even while running XP with four copies of server2003 and another copy of XP running in virtual machines). I've had plenty of customer systems crash on me but it's almost always a case where a piece of software that "they just have to have" isn't written well and causes problems. |
Danger_dave
| | Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 01:39 pm: |
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>>I suppose my only issue with the Mac OS is the lack of entertainment software.<<
That depends on your definition.
If you produce entertainment - rather than consume it - the mac doohickeys are superior. |
Alchemy
| | Posted on Saturday, December 29, 2007 - 02:39 pm: |
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Well, after 25 years I am back on an Apple computer after my lovely wife surprised me with a Mac Mini for Christmas.
I started with an Apple ][ back in the 70s and then almost bought an Apple III but held off for an IBM PC in 81 (came with one 180k floppy drive and 48k of memory and was over $3k out the door with the bare basics). Stayed with PC and MSFT until 92 and left MSFT for good at that time for OS/2 and then BeOS in about 99. I have been using variants of BeOS for many years awaiting the appearance of an open SW version called "Haiku" which I will still give a try when it is ready. (I also have played with SUN Solaris and Linux of various versions at times)
But today I am running OS X Tiger waiting for the Leopard upgrade disks.
Problems I have moving from BeOS is that I can't find a way to migrate address book info to the Mac. I don't think that can be overcome. I may have to work a bit to get my address book info move over. I may be able to move it via a Palm device as the intermediary... maybe.
Since I used Firefox on BeOS I could move my bookmarks over and still run Firefox on the Mac. Music and pictures can be moved via jump drives.
I am resisting doing too much pending installation of Leopard.
One question: Is there much value in partitioning the HD into 2 partitions? I was in the habit of having various partitions in BeOS or OS/2 but I don't know if there is a compelling reason to do that in OS X. I could repartition when installing Leopard.
The Mac Mini HW is VERY nice- compact, quiet, elegant. It was easy to set up and it does "just work". I am struggling a bit with my need to understand the underbelly of the OS and how it loads applications like Firefox and where all files reside, how it installs SW, unzips etc.
So add one more "Switched" to the list... |
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