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Syncing a Windows PDA on Mac isn't bad with Missing Sync (which i have for my palm anyway, as it's significantly nicer than iSync), but installing software? Most of which comes packed in SELF-EXTRACTING WINDOWS EXEs for absolutely no reason? Very annoying.
(Windows Mobile has a perfectly portable method of installing software called CAB files. It works FINE on a Mac - transfer the file, run it on the PDA, voila! Unfortunately, most commercial software ISN'T AVAILABLE that way unless you get in a long discussion with various customer service representatives about your needs. Ver' obnoxious.)
Just saw this MacZot! site today: [link]
Does anyone know what the other one (that probably inspired it) is called? It offers only one product per day and occasionally offers surprise brown packages. All electronics and tech stuff.
I'm Mac too so the would be a bit of a pain but I have a collection of PC's that I can use for software install.
This is probably only interesting to me, but I feel like sharing. ETC announces Mac support for Congo™ and SmartFade
CNN is reporting that Apple is phasing out the 60 GB iPod.
Apple may be phasing out its 60-gigabyte Video iPod, according to one analyst who tracks the company.
The company has told its distributors that the 60-gigabyte iPod, which launched in October and retails for $399, is "at risk" until the end of April, meaning that it could be discontinued or replaced, according to Shaw Wu, an analyst for American Technology Research,
In a note to clients, Wu said he believes the company is readying a wide-screen video iPod with Bluetooth headphones that could be ready as early as the June quarter. The analyst said his checks indicate that Apple is working on such a product.
The new device reportedly has a screen that covers the entire face of the iPod and a "virtual click wheel" that appears only when a user touches the screen. The design resembled a patent that Apple recently filed for a tablet computer.
I don't understand why the introduction of the wide-screen iPod precludes a 60 GB model. I hope mine stays healthy if that is the case - because 30 GB is not enough for me.
I
think
they mean the current 60 gig will be replaced with a 60 gig or larger bigger-screen video iPod.
As some of you know, I've been waiting for Apple to make a higher-capacity iPod for a while now. I finally gave up a few weeks ago and bought the 60 gig model (in Black. I named it 'Zoe.')
I use ncftp from the command-line.
ncftp is a great program. I use it when I'm ftp'ing in an ssh shell.
Myth Update
Haven't done much with it in a while due to lack of time. However, now the MP3 playing portion is configured and I've defined a couple of playlists, the picture viewer is configured, and the video player is configured (for playing back videos that are not recorded, but copied onto the myth machine). The folders for all three are now configured as Samba shares so it will be easy to move files in and out.
After configuring everything I found a problem with the remote not working for watching non-recored videos. I think it was a incorrect file link for the remote configuration file, but I fixed it remotely so I won't know if it is fixed until I get a chance to try it out.
All the infrastructure is set to move it to the living room TV area, now just to find time when it isn't recording to do the move.
Then, configuring a remote frontend so the treadmill monitor (used to be a TV, but the monitor worked better) can be used to watch recorded TV.
I just peeked at my home computer to see if mencoder was done with a few tasks I set up. It looks like my wife must be downloading pictures from the camera right now. Didn't mean to spy.
HELP!
My Windows desktop running Media Player 10 can play blah.(X)SCVD.mpg files. My husband's Windows laptop running Media Player 10 cannot play the exact same files; there's no video and the audio is speeded up.
What should I install on my husband's laptop? His laptop has a CD/DVD burner, so it isn't that the laptop isn't DVD capable. Do I need a different player? Do I need a different CoDec for the player? (He already has XViD.)
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