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Some questions/comments 5,465 Views / 52 Replies  
In re battery life:
How old is your battery? I have a 1GHz 15" Ti PB and When it dipped down below an hour battery life I replaced the battery and now get upwards of 3.5 hours with normal use and...
Posted by phowson, on Dec 8, 2004 at 06:25 PM, in Mac Notebooks
12" PBs 3,942 Views / 31 Replies  
Don't know what the general rate of failure is on the 12" machines but if it's any consolation, the only issues I've had with any of the half dozen or so we have at work have been user related...
Posted by phowson, on Jun 27, 2004 at 04:37 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Why bother? 3,624 Views / 12 Replies  
Just got a Sony Ericsson P900 for my birthday. I can't imagine why anyone (or at least any mac user) would buy the Treo given that it's still going to require the palm conduits to sync everything. My...
Posted by phowson, on Jun 27, 2004 at 04:31 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Why would they bother with a free VNC ... 15,244 Views / 134 Replies  
... when there's already a bunch of free products out there that do this? What, you want it built into the OS? Yeah, that would be worth burning the time of talented engineers over.

I think there...
Posted by phowson, on Jun 26, 2004 at 11:25 PM, in Mac Desktops
Why would they bother with a free VNC 608 Views / 1 Replies  
When there's already a bunch of free products out there that do this? What, you want it built into the OS? Yeah, that would be worth burning the time of talented engineers over.

I think there will...
Posted by phowson, on Jun 26, 2004 at 11:24 PM, in Mac Desktops
Apple Customer Care and Products 3,942 Views / 31 Replies  
Seems to me like you got a crappy Genius. Too bad your initial comments paint a really negative picture with such broad strokes. You make it sound like this guy is representative of the whole company...
Posted by phowson, on Jun 23, 2004 at 10:16 AM, in Mac Notebooks
OS X Server requests 14,873 Views / 164 Replies  
Haven't read the whole thread, but I run an all Mac shop and administer a couple of OS X servers running 10.2 server. I am also a .mac subscriber and I have a suggestion/thought that I have been...
Posted by phowson, on Aug 23, 2003 at 11:47 AM, in macOS
iTunes Applescript, please. 437 Views / 1 Replies  
In spite of all of the wonderful improvements in v2.0, I would still like to see some AppleScript commands in iTunes. Starting with a basic set of play, pause, stop, next, previous, and open stream...
Posted by phowson, on Nov 15, 2001 at 06:51 PM, in Applications
Cool. I thought that the price on the communigate... 412 Views / 3 Replies  
Cool. I thought that the price on the communigate software was a little steep.
Posted by phowson, on Jul 7, 2001 at 09:03 PM, in macOS
Email Server for OS X 412 Views / 3 Replies  
I am curious if anyone knows of an easy to administer POP3/SMTP/IMAP email server that can be used under OS X. Since Filmaker has released an OS X version (Which seems to work flawlessly so far) I am...
Posted by phowson, on Jul 7, 2001 at 07:26 PM, in macOS
They have drivers for this card. There is a link... 367 Views / 2 Replies  
They have drivers for this card. There is a link from Apple's OS X web site in the drivers section.
Posted by phowson, on Jul 7, 2001 at 07:20 PM, in macOS
I am pretty sure (not a hardware guy) that the... 6,487 Views / 138 Replies  
I am pretty sure (not a hardware guy) that the drivers under OS X are the problem and it has nothing to do with OS 9.x.
Posted by phowson, on Sep 29, 2000 at 04:51 PM, in macOS
Based on your fix, it sounds like you have fallen... 6,487 Views / 138 Replies  
Based on your fix, it sounds like you have fallen victim to the video drivers. I read somewhere that they are the least stable part of the OS leading to the admonision that people with two monitors...
Posted by phowson, on Sep 29, 2000 at 09:49 AM, in macOS
Be careful, you may get what you asked for. I do... 4,511 Views / 360 Replies  
Be careful, you may get what you asked for. I do have scripts for activating my coffee maker, turning on the stereo, turning on and off the lights, responding to messages from motion detectors, and...
Posted by phowson, on Sep 22, 2000 at 01:01 PM, in macOS
What would have been incredibly helpful would... 570 Views / 4 Replies  
What would have been incredibly helpful would have been if you could have been a little more specific in your explanation. Assuming that you know what your are talking about, how should I change the...
Posted by phowson, on May 31, 2000 at 09:20 AM, in Art & Graphic Design
Print DV Movie to Sony Camcorder 570 Views / 4 Replies  
I heard a rumor that there is a Quicktime glitch that causes movies printed to DV to drop frames when text or picts are present. Has anyone else found this to be the case?
Posted by phowson, on May 24, 2000 at 02:25 PM, in Art & Graphic Design
There are apparently some CD-RW that will work... 706 Views / 4 Replies  
There are apparently some CD-RW that will work and some brands of CDR work better than others in certain brands of DVD players. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a forum that lists DVD...
Posted by phowson, on May 24, 2000 at 02:22 PM, in Art & Graphic Design
 
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