I don't know if a Mac can just read the file, but if you download Open Office, I know OO can read the file.
Oh goody! - I already have OO on two of my Macs. So I can go home now and read all these Powerpoint presentations later.
You can't open the book of my life and jump in the middle. Like woman, I'm a mystery.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Buffistechnology 2: You Made Her So She Growls?
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tommyrot - Mar 11, 2005 12:49:10 pm PST #2031 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Rio - Mar 11, 2005 4:53:06 pm PST #2032 of 10003
Are you ready to be strong?
tommyrot - Mar 12, 2005 4:42:43 am PST #2033 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How much worse is laptop battery life if you're playing DVDs? I'm thinking of buying a second battery for my iBook so I'll be able to watch movies while on the plane, waiting in the airport, etc.
le nubian - Mar 12, 2005 5:19:02 am PST #2034 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
On my PC laptops, DVD playing really does eat into the available power.
Steph L. - Mar 12, 2005 6:56:19 am PST #2035 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
tommyrot, everything I've read indicates about an average of 3 hours of DVD-watching time out of an iBook running on battery power.
tommyrot - Mar 12, 2005 8:35:02 am PST #2036 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is supposedly coming out in April. [link] If the info is true, folks who are considering buying a Mac might want to wait until April. (The info is that 10.4 will be anounced on April 1 and in stores April 15.)
Jessica - Mar 12, 2005 8:35:40 am PST #2037 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oooh! I might actually have money in April. Good news!
Gris - Mar 12, 2005 10:12:12 am PST #2038 of 10003
Hey. New board.
I can confirm Teppy's "3 hour" figure.
When me and my sister were watching "Buffy" episodes in the car, we always managed to make it through exactly four episodes on a charge on my iBook. Though lately the battery has been misbehaving - I probably need to get it replaced before my warranty runs oun in October, at least.
thegrommit - Mar 12, 2005 10:33:23 am PST #2039 of 10003
Um.
Alibelle - Mar 13, 2005 12:18:27 pm PST #2040 of 10003
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Hi, guys. I need help. I'm trying to set up my mom's TiVo for her, but the instructions aren't real clear about what to do when you want to connect it to a wireless router, and leave up connections to your dvd player and VCR. I know TiVo is supposed to replace videos, but we have some videos we don't feel like updating to dvd's yet, so we want to leave it in the connection. I'm just not terribly sure how to make that happen.
Right now the TV is connected to the cable box, which is connected to the VCR which is connected to the dvd player. It's easy enough to connect the cable box to the TiVo as well, without messing up the existing connection to the VCR, and then connecting the TiVo to the TV. Should I do that? And then what do you do about the wireless internet thing? Since my mom doesn't feel like dealing with looking at long phone cables across the house (which would be necessary if we used the phone hook up thing).
Could someone help me please? I'll be your best friend forever.