saitunes

AU$159 to upgrade. It has a few features I would love to have, mainly stacks. among a few other things.

I bought it in march of 2007. So I would say its the old kind. What about turning off tap to click?

I enable POP and use Thunderbird to get my messages

I am a mac user, and am thinking of installing ubuntu on my macbook. The one thing that is keeping me from installing it is the trackpad gestures/features/behaviour in os x. Like 2 finger scrolling, two finger and click for right/secondary click. Is this possible under ubuntu?

I use igoogle, google.com/igFor those of you who don't know, its where you can put some apps, quick links games. If you've got a google account you can save it

I'm a 10.4 (tiger) user. Should I upgrade? Other than the abundance of new features (spaces, bootcamp etc.) What are the benefits?

Do you agree with that? I do, The way its going now, other than the fact the quality is average not the full 16-bit 44.1KHz WAV (or simmilar) quality we are almost there now. When Internet speeds & download limits increase, and the infrastructure is there, it will probably happen after a while. Look at the last radiohead album, released digitally and with a 'you pay what you think its worth' Manufacture (not production) costs would be minimal. What do you think?

Just a word of warning If possible don't go to the 3 shop in sunnybank plaza, sunnybank (brisbane). Many of the store employees do not speak english too well, and you will more often than not get told the wrong thing, or different things. Here is the story:My Dad's phone (which was 3-4 months near the end of the contract) broke, which is understandable after 20months of service, and due to some health concerns with mum he needed a phone, so he asked them if he could put his 3 sim into another phone, they said no, it wouldn't work. So he asked if he could upgrade and get a new phone. They said no, and it would be better to come back when the contract was finished. So then he bought a 3 prepaid skype phone, the phone had problems with it from the beginning, he couldn't recieve calls, he called 3 support, and they were helpful but couldn't solve the problem. fiddling and changing settings got it to eventually receive calls. The next day he made a phone call, put the phone in his pocket, and pulled it out of his pocket to use his phone again and the screen had cracked. So he took it into the store, wanting a replacement handset (which the store said they don't do, but 3 support said they would) and sent it off to be fixed. He paid $30 odd dollars, which he wasn't happy about but its physical damage, and what doesn't seem to be a good quality phone. The replacement phones screen also broke within 2 days of purchase, which is the reason for going back into the store.When he got the phone back they gave him his receipt and said 'sign this' (meaning the receipt) and was on his way. He got home, the phone once again was not receiving calls, another phone call to 3, and the customer service rep said that the phone was used, and not the one that we bought. Angry I went to the store, took he paperwork and the phone up and asked them why we had a 2nd hand phone. And they explained to us that the phone had a fault that was not letting it receive calls so they gave us a new one (which it seems has the same fault) which (apparently) was explained when he picked up the phone. I wanted to know what the phone had been used for prior so they made a few calls to find out, while I was waiting a man had his phone repaired and came to collect it, Me being the stickybeak I am, and that it was a phone I am contemplating on getting in the near future I was watching, the staff member said 'sign here' pointing to the receipt, and after it being signed said 'this is what was done to the phone' and sent him on his way. Which I assume was a simmilar to what happened to my dad.A 3 customer service rep (which they had on the phone) agreed with me in that it was their responsibility to tell him what had happened, and that I should seek compensation. I said to the girl I that was serving me, I want a refund, she said you'd have to talk to the manager, he's not in today. And here's the kicker, after I explained the situation as to why we bought the phone, she said 'he could have just upgraded to a new handset' I told her that they said he couldn't and she said, 'No we didn't'Other than that experience 3 have been treating my parents well as customers, but as that is our local 3 shop, we are contemplating on leaving them at the end of the contract. if $150 had not been wasted on a phone that doesn't have a working screen maybe leaving them would not happen. ...The moral of the story is, don't go to the 3 shop in Sunnybank Plaza, There are optus, telstra and vodafone shops, not to mention the Kmart sells phones, and there's an allphones there too.

Does anyone know if you can get a different file manager (instead of rox-filer) for puppy linux? I find it difficult to use compared to the ubuntu one (Nautilus i think its called)Does anyone know if you can get a different one?

I have a number of problems with this article and the circumstances surrounding it:1. If it was any other business other than McDonalds would they be suing for so much money? not 2 million dollars. That would be absurd. I understand there must have been some great inconvenience the family has gone through, but it looks like they're looking to make a few dollars out of it too.2. I can understand having address and contact details for the owner, What I can't understand is why the (most probably teenage) employee leaked the personal information. That is just stupid. I mean I can understand the playing with the image. I have done it with many photos of my friends (not of this nature though) and I have posted the aforementioned images on the internet and if the photograph-ee disagreed with the images I would more than likely take them down.3. Why would you have photos of that graphic nature on your mobile phone? I know people do, but I can't understand why. Putting private, intimate images on your mobile phone that can be as easily lost as a pen. It's almost like keeping those pictures in your wallet. Mobile phones are now-a-days more than just a phone, they're a phone, camera, organiser, music and video player, GPS and have internet access. I have always (since content like images etc) been cautious of what I have on my phone. If you wouldn't want anyone else to see it, don't have it on your phone.(I know this is a tangent) It's like so many people I know that put up photos of themselves of a rather provocative, sensual nature and complain when they get a big response, or get an internet stalker. Its like the guy who plays with matches and then complains when he gets burned. If he didn't want the photos to go any further than himself and his wife, he shouldn't have put it on his phone. I do sympathise with the trouble that they have had, and its a shame. I could understand suing for the cost of moving house etc. etc. i.e costs that they wouldn't have incurred if the incident didn't happen. If you don't want it to end up on the web, don't put it on your phone, facebook or anywhere that it might be publicly seen. If you need a photo to remember the beauty of a girl like that, You've got bigger problems

Hi all I'm thinking of installing linux studio, just to give it a go. it looks pretty good from what I'm looking at. I was wonderring what's a good media player for linux? Something simmilar to winamp, WMP, iTunes, QCD/QMP. Something with a library that can handle 20 or so gig of music, something really stable. nothing too fancy, As far as advanced features go an EQ and being able to chance settings with the playback engine (like buffer etc)THX

I think what makes a media player good is an easy interface/control method. Take the iPod, despite being fairly underfeatured compared to some other players on the market, E.G not having a line in, FM-Radio tuner etc. etc. it is incredibly easy to use, other than some shortfalls with itunes on a pc. I would say that the iPod (in my experience) is probably the best mp3 player out there. It's interface is simple, its stylish, serves a purpose, and has many add ons that you can get, iGriffin (to record) FM transmitter, iPod Linux. You get the idea. I think currently the ipod (classic, nano or shuffle) are probably some of the best mp3 players on the market.

Check out this link for more info I am tired of people complaining about copyright measures and anti-piracy measures, and then people complain about internet piracy. It's like trying to please an animal rights against the slaughter of animals and butchers. I can see both sides of this story, The only problem is that the technology is not widespread enough and it seems a bit premature for apple to be adapting this new copy protection. Going on the amount of hardware out there (according to that article) that isn't HDCP compliant. Internet piracy is rampant, well excuse manufacturers for getting on the bandwagon to try and fight the uphill battle that is curbing internet piracy. Just look at the amount of money that is lost due to internet piracy. Besides, give it a couple months and no doubt someone will find a way around it. Has anyone thought about ways around it? Like using an ipod to watch these movies. Noone would be complaining if this technology was standard in many of today's products.

I wouldn't go that far, but the latest 2.x release was better (IMHO) FFox 3 Crashes on me alot, I'm not running any extra extensions. It just decides to crash on me while I leave a youtube page. I'm a mac user, I use camino, which is built on mozilla but made for mac. Maybe its just the mac release....I liked Firefox 2 more than the version 3 though....I can remember being so excited about firefox 3... all that hype.

Another one that does what you want, along with a bucketload of other cleaning features is Easy cleaner by ToniArts http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm Check it out. great bit of software

I haven't worked extensively with ubuntu or Vista, but on the small experience I have had. I would take Ubuntu over Vista. Me Being a Mac user, I would definitely take something other than windows Vista. I don't mind XP. But It needs a bit of stripping down which I have done and it runs quite smoothly on my mac in VirtualBox, with 64Mb of Ram. Runs really well on the old Box, it has a 1.8GHz and 512Mb Ram... Ubuntu definitely over vista.

Does anyone know of any application out there that lets you have widgets on the desktop on a mac, or making dashboard widgets stay on the desktop?I'm just curious, I would like to have a big clock and maybe a weather widget on the desktop all the time, not always on the top of courseor a sidebar sort of thing, like google gadgets on a pc.Thanks

I will admit that apple stuff is overpriced, I am a Mac user and love everything apple, except the iPhone (which I don't have) and I really think its a matter of 'you get what you pay for' I could list the bucketloads of features you'll probably never use, but these are the main things. Imagine going out and buying everything you get included (These are approximate pricings and what you would probably pay for in simmilar third party software) Yes you can probably get freeware programs that work fine, but not quite up to the standard of these apps. The iPhone is overpriced though, not the mention it is the first of its kind, i am sitting tight until something majorly awesome comes along that will blow the iphone out of the water, probably from nokia or the gPhone

Can anyone give me some good links to some great email software. Something that is easy to backup. I know mail.app is easy to backup, just copy the .mbox, I'm currently using thunderbirdportableI want something easy to backup. admittedly most of my stuff is webmail (gmail hotmail etc) So it Won't get lost forever Barring some catastrophic google/microsoft server crash... But with multiple accounts logging in and out is a pain.Something that can retrieve hotmail would be AWESOME too. but I'm just looking for pop retrieval that is easy to backup or portable, and is better than thunderbird. I really liked Eudora, which is sort of the same thing.EDIT: My question is what is a good email application for the mac that is easy to backup? Multiple accounts, pop, and possibly something that retrieves hotmail would be great.Sorry I didn't make it quite so clear the first time

You could always get thunderbird portable from portableapps.com or freesmug.org

We're doing mixing on equipment not in the computer (mixing desk, and outboard processors etc) and sending a stereo mix INTO the computer to record to DVD, along with video from the camera. Mixing straight to DVD, not capturing and then burning, burning it in real time. E.G you perform live on the stage, and give or take 5-10 mins for the DVD to close the session, you can say 'here's your performance' (obviously you would want more than one copy but thats the idea. Walk off, here's your performance) Hope that helps. It's a windows PC that this is mainly for. That is exactly the sort of thing, but for windows mainly, that's what its needed for. a simmilar utility for mac would be nice, if anyone knows of it. Thanks all

Does anyone know of any (standalone) software that will show you the inputs of audio into your computer?This is because we have a recording studio and mix sometimes straight to DVD and 0 (look up Unity Gain) on the analogue mixing desk is not 0 on the Computer (which is understandable) There is metering for audio, but unfortunately you cannot keep this open while recording as it is the options for the hardware. Is there any program or utility that will show you the levels coming into your computer (I understand that it might not work with all hardware) Any links would be much appreciated. Thanks

I did not have sufficient privileges to change the security level, being on a guest account.

I feel sorry for windows users, sometimes. I find with many of their products the inconvenience outweighs the purpose. Take for example Internet explorer 7. I was using it at work the other day due to my web browsers not working properly with a newly built online registering system. It does not display properly in firefox, and the 'frame' needed only shows the first line of it. So I connected to the server and logged in Via Remote desktop connection (microsoft for mac) which worked fine. It displayed exactly as I wanted it to, full screen in true colour. I Opened up portable firefox which had the same problems with viewing as did the mac. So next I opened up Internet Explorer 7. Go to the site, click on the enter button which is Javascript and opens a login box. Click, nothing. Click again, still nothing. I ask the ex-IT guy / manager for help. Add it to your 'trusted sites' and refresh. I do, and it opens. This is another page in the same domain. This page is based in Flash. Nothing displays. As the Ex-IT guy for help once again. Add it to your trusted sites and refresh. I do, it works. I click on the button in the flash front end to launch the page to register the stock. it does nothing. I call the Ex-IT guy once again, he says 'add it to your trusted sites and refresh again, and turn off the popup blocker for this site too' So I do and I finally get in and start doing the work I was supposed to be doing all this time. One problem (other than the time it took) is Why is it so hard? Why must I add every site I visit to the 'trusted sites' list If It has Flash or Java in it for it to work properly? I know security and the pop-up blocker I can understand, but it needs a slightly more obvious 'pop ups are being blocked' message. Take the bar that firefox uses, the bar that IE used to use.This is just one of many reasons I would take Mac over Windows any day. I don't mind the operating system. I would prefer third party apps over many of the built in ones. QMP over WMP, Firefox over IE 7 unless there are major glitches, I have to admit you can't beat MS office. But to be honest IMHO thats all Microsoft has going, since they've pulled the plug on XP. I've got all the copies i need. Dell, Acer & Toshiba OEM discs thank you (for working on my comps).

I'm looking at buying a M-Audio Audio interface (The mobilepre USB, its like a pre-fasttrack type one) and I am looking at getting Pro Tools (industry standard recording software) Made By digidesign, and much to my delight I found it comes with a version of Pro Tools M-Powered.I was doing a bit of reading on it and it says 'You can take your M-powered sessions to any Protools HD or Protools LE system' It doesn't however mention anything the other way, A HD /LE Session in M-powered. I can't think of any reason as to why it wouldn't work. Has anyone used pro tools LE / HD sessions in M-powered?Thanks.