RCKN' THE SBRBS

Oh happy day! The 2.2 update did it--I can listen to internet radio on the Apple TV without having to stream it from my computer. I'm blasting with the big speakers any music that the vast sea of the Internet can provide. You do have to create a playlist of radio stations on iTunes, since there still isn't searching available for radio like with podcasts and YouTube. Get on it, Apple! And while you're at it, could I have an iPod Touch with 80 GB of storage for less than $300? Especially now that LastFM is available on it. That'd be great, thanks.

This is kind of my holy grail for the iPhone. Having this would make my cool phone into the One Phone to Rule Them All. (Er. If you'll forgive the mixed metaphor there.)

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ETA: You know what, I was overthinking this. I set up a calendar on Google calendar, and have the reminders come to my iPhone by SMS. Doesn't clutter up my iCal, which I use purely for appointments now (yay!), and since it's a passive way of receiving my reminders, I don't have to tick "done" when I'm done, I just delete the SMS message. Plus, it's free. Score!

I work in the art dept and we're all on macs. I'm currently on a mac pro, running 10.5.4 with a 2.66 GHz Dual Core Intel processor.

The company IT person (PCs, we're largely left to our own devices, literally, up here) sent me an email on how to get ad-blocking. The thing is, on the page, it says it was updated in 2001.
http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/Macintosh/Hosts (sorry, lj won't take my link, grrr)



2001?

Is it worth me going through figuring out doing this to avoid some spam or is there any point with info that old?

I'd like someone who knows what s/he's talking about to clue me in.

Thanks!

I've got a iMac intel 24" system.
OS Tiger 4.11

have backed up a bootable system and have been running off of that but am still getting kernel panic errors like popcorn.

I've been doing some research
some suggest its bad ram
(did a test w/ my terminal app and all looks fine)

I'm going to be installing leopard this coming week, hoping that it will 'fix' these issues.

anytime I am running something like Final Cut Studio 1 and i'm exporting using Compressor ... it panics and gives me the dreaded grey curtain with the kernel.

right before this happens though I get intermittent stripes of pixelation that look kind of like this:





the 'line' stays put when I move the window around. this happens in mail, in my browser, etc. for example, I just got another dashed line of red across this browser as I was placing that image.

anyone have any words of advice or suggestions?

(sorry for the long post)

I have an old Wallstreet II powerbook, running OS X 10.2 (that being the last that will run on it since it does not have internal USB).

A friend sent me an Airport card for use with it, but I can't find any sort of slot for the card to go in, internal or external (it won't fit into a PCMCIA slot).

Am I barking up the wrong tree? Does the Wallstreet II even have an Airport slot?

Not too long ago I asked you lovely people about my mic being stupid with the USB dongle I was using. Basically the result was me purchasing an iMic. I finally switched them out and have now encountered a new issue. I'm almost exclusively using Ventrilo for voice chatting right now. Despite the fact that I have the output set in the Ventrilo settings to come through my headset, I've started losing my sound to my headset and I have to go into System Prefs to switch between the computer's line out and the iMic to get it to come back. I have no idea what could be causing this. Does anyone have any ideas? Is there any kind of program that will give me more control over what sounds are output where than the Prefs do? I found a program called Detour that may help but its no longer in development and I've not tried it yet. Has anyone used it before?

Hi, I have had earthlink DSL as they are the only ones in my area that had any mac support, but
I might not be able to get earthlink at my new address in central NJ. (Also, their tech support was outsourced, and the last few reps I spoke to were not fluent in english enough to be of much help)

Who is your ISP and what has been your experience with them. I know macs are not the majority, but they do have a chunk of the market share, one would think *someone* would support them.

Thanks!

I've messed around with iCal a bit, but I can't find a feature that would do this for me: I'm looking for a way (or a program) to have a To Do list come up once a week, specifically a list of chores. I've figure out how to make a To Do list in iCal, but I want to be lazy and have it repeat itself, say popping up fresh every Thursday (my only day off) so I remember the things I need to get done around the apartment.

Is there a way to have this done, either in iCal or in another application?

I'm sort of new to Macs; hadn't used them in over a decade, and recently bought a MBP that I'm still getting to know.

Okay, so like I've stated in my last entry here, I'm using a loaner from the school until mine gets repaired. Well, I'm working on a project that I've been commissioned to do, and for it I need my printer to do some color testing.

For some reason, when I try to set up my Epson Stylus Photo 1400 on this MacBook Pro, I can't find the right model in the list of models. There's every other Epson printer on the list BUT mine! And I don't understand why I'm having such a hard time with this seeing as MY MacBook Pro had no problem installing the drivers and everything. This has nothing to do with administrative privileges, either, since I was able to install everything.

Can someone help me? I'm going nuts over here.

EDIT: After another hour of searching (and hair-ripping), I stumbled upon Gutenprint on SourceForge's website. I decided I could try it out since I really need my printer right now. I downloaded it, installed it and I'm happily printing again, though the test page I printed out is a little awkward with the colors. That doesn't matter right now anyway since I'm just going to be printing out a standard black and white image.

I gots a MacBook, running on Leopard. I'm finding I can't multi task on it like I want.

Say I have Gmail and two Firefox windows open. Fine. I can even run iTunes or XM radio, no biggie. But if I try to work on a Word doc while all these things are going, I'll spend half my time watching the rainbow frisbee. And usually it's quite a while.

What can I do to work lag-free?

Question: a friend of mine burned me a few episodes of a particular tv show onto a disc in .avi format. They playback on my mac at home (MacBook) but there is no sound. I tried to play this same disc on my PC at work and it works fine w/ sound and everything. What the hell?

Also, a while back I asked about an audio cd i burned using my mac that would play in my PC computer at work and in my cd player at home, but would not play in my car. I tried all the suggestions people offered (changing the burn speed) and that didn't work. Any other ideas on this?

Any Questions?

So, I'm thinking about getting an external harddrive, and I can't decide between a regular external hard drive or Time Capsule.

So, my question is, is it worth the extra money to buy Time Capsule, or is the wireless features not worth the money and I should go with the regular external hard drive?

Quick question: my warranty for my MacBook Pro just ended. I totally forgot to buy Applecare before the warranty ended. Is it too late to buy Applecare or am I just screwed?

pros/cons of the iphone 3g? i want to buy an iphone but i can't upgrade my phone until november, but i am considering spending the extra cash just to get the iphone. while i'm here, does anyone know if there's a spot just to buy iphones rather than paying the extra cash to go through upgrading your phone/etc? because i'd be fine with popping my sim in myself but i don't think the apple store would believe me if i said it was a gift for someone else and i don't trust ebay :(

I'm fed up with my HP OfficeJet 6110 all-in-one printer/copier/scanner/fax and my Mac (OS X 10.5.4).

Since the upgrade to Leopard, I haven't been able to scan documents from Acrobat (Pro 8.1.2) drectly. Even after the latest HP driver update (automatic updated recently via OS X), this still doesn't work right. I can scan clumsily thru the HP device manager, but interleaving 2 sided documents must be done "by hand" and that sucks. Trying to scan directly from Acrobat Pro results in needing to reboot the Mac in order to use the scanner again.

I've searched the HP site, various support forums, etc and while there have been hints and tips, none of them seem to work for me and it looks like HP will never fully support this device under 10.5+.

So....

I'm in the market for a new all-in-one. Ideally with medium (not ultra low end) speed on printing and scanning, with both flat and document feed scan capabilities. networkable (wifi?) too. While I think HP makes good products, I'm disinclined to buy another one as it seems that HP/Adobe/Apple continually get into pissing wars over device support.

Any experiences or recommendations would be much appreciated.

where do you guys get desktop pictures for your pretties?

I know about http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/ and http://mandolux.com/, but I hoped you might have another good source.

Thanks to everyone who helped me or gave me information on my broken LED screen.

I brought my MacBook Pro to Academic Computing at the university I go to this morning and they said they can fix it! Of course the guy who does insurable repairs is on vacation and won't be back until Monday, but they said it's fixable and I was only charged $250 as a deductible since all laptops that are purchased from the university come with insurance! =)

So right now I'm on a loaner they gave me and I'll be getting emails when the girl who handled my case finds anything out. She's going to try to fix it for me by corresponding with the repair guy via email to see if they have the correct components for it. If not, it'll have to wait for the guy to come back. She said the laptop turnaround time isn't very fast, so although the Apple Store could have fixed it for me faster, it would have also cost me more money. So I'll be taking the loaner with me on vacation. :D

Again, thanks!

I have a 160 gig Smart Disk Firelite external HD. The kind that only needs a USB power supply, and lately it's been giving me issues starting up and staying on, meaning it won't make that lovely whirring noise and vibrate ever so quietly. Instead it just kind of sputters and clicks. OCCASIONALLY I can get it to start up, but I have to unplug it and plug it back in numerous times. I've had it for maybe 6 months now, and I will admit it's seen some wear and tear, especially since my 80 gig HD on my mac is quickly running out of space. I'm tempted to call the company and ask if there's any reason it won't start up and/or mount, and maybe get a replacement... has anyone else had this issue? Is it just because my Macbook couldn't power it enough?

Also Time Machine is worrying me. It's doing something and I don't know what. I recently restored from an old backup, and since it wouldn't let me keep backing up after the restore, I wiped the partition and started a new backup. I'd since then restored but had been too lazy to start making new backups since I didn't have anything important to back up. I have a huge project I definitely don't want to find corrupt or something like that, but Time Machine is going wonky.

It's giving me these errors..

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