DVD burners.

suggestions? recommendations?

i do think that i want one that is external for my laptop (not sure about the evil desktop) it must have both the +R and the -R capabilities. also same with the CD+R/-R. not sure on the brand or what i should definitely get or avoid.

and

i NEED more memory/storage. ideas? comments? external, yes...brand? no idea.

I'm trying to create an html template for business emails in Outlook Express that include my logo in a specific place, tarted up text and a background.

Is this an impossible thing in OS9?

When I used OE in OS9, I don't recall it handling html very well at all. The only sig files I used were plaintext, so I'm not sure you can use OE for that. MS Outlook could, though.

Laptop update: Machine arrived today and it's a beauty. My laptop at home is from 1997 and I forgot how much they've improved since then. One complaint. The laptop is advertised as 128 MB RAM, but when I checked the system properties screen it only shows up as 96 MB. So I called tech support who informed me that the video card uses 32 MB so it's not going to be available as RAM. Huh? Well the website says it's user-adjustable shared memory 16/32/64 so I'm going to play with that in the BIOS. Also I have 512 MB RAM coming in tomorrow so overall it shouldn't make a difference. It's just super-annoying.

Quick, someone tell me why I shouldn't buy this. Other than having to pay for an additional Tivo license, which would be a PITA.

Quick, someone tell me why I shouldn't buy this.

No help here. I've been so tempted by it.

I'm joining the temptation train. Is it possible that you could sell your old TiVo and recoup some of the $$ spent on your existing lifetime subscription and put it towards the new one?

The baby Jesus would giggle and clap his hands if you did. And you could tape it!

Buffista artists, I'm thinking of buying a first graphic tablet for a preteenager. (He's 11, old enough not to break things, and he does a lot of drawing on paper and gets frustrated.) I've heard good things about the Wacom Graphire3. How's this? [link] What would you suggest as a first tool?

I know that, as a writer, I was never really happy until I could edit endlessly; I couldn't write without a wordprocessor. It occurs to me that the right digital tools might do the same thing for an artist.

I know that, as a writer, I was never really happy until I could edit endlessly; I couldn't write without a wordprocessor. It occurs to me that the right digital tools might do the same thing for an artist.

Hell no. It's not at all the same thing.

Much as I love my tablet, I wouldn't recommend one for someone who is still in the learning to draw process, as they're endlessly more frustrating (to me) than pencil and paper if I'm trying to do something from scratch.

If I'm doing something with the tablet, I usually start with a hand-done sketch, and use the tablet for fine-tuning/trying out different colors, but it's an enhancer, not a replacement, for traditional tools.

Do you use applications like Painter, PMM? I wonder if it might be a place to start with a tablet, especially for someone who doesn't have all our reflexes...

Me, I can't draw jack with a mouse. Or colour. But I can outline and colour (yet not draw) with my tablet.