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I dont agree. I believe it would be good to at... 692 Views / 8 Replies  
I dont agree. I believe it would be good to at least have Apple give customers the option for a higher resolution screen. Yes you can increase font size on a per app basis. This is a pain in the ass...
Posted by i_wolf, on Oct 28, 2008 at 08:22 AM, in Mac Notebooks
macbrick pro rant about screen resolution 692 Views / 8 Replies  
Hi Guys,

I'm impressed by the build quality and design of the new macbricks. However, for over 2k euro, I'm annoyed that the screen quality of the 15" is sub par relative to the competition. 15"...
Posted by i_wolf, on Oct 26, 2008 at 11:57 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Password recovery mac app for word files 522 Views / 0 Replies  
Hi Guys,

I have been asked by my employer to work on a word file that was created originally in 2005. The problem is that the original staff member has left and we still need to be able to open...
Posted by i_wolf, on Sep 20, 2007 at 04:11 PM, in Applications
I would imagine that it would depend on a few... 3,923 Views / 46 Replies  
I would imagine that it would depend on a few things...
First obviously is the processor used. The new Xeon Woodcrests have an extremely fast vector engine in SSE2/3/4 available to them. I would...
Posted by i_wolf, on Aug 23, 2006 at 07:33 AM, in Mac Desktops
However, were those benchmarks conducted on the... 2,758 Views / 9 Replies  
However, were those benchmarks conducted on the same version of OS X and the same version of Quicktime. The answer is no. So in essence it makes that benchmark null and void. Recent builds of...
Posted by i_wolf, on Jun 29, 2006 at 03:24 PM, in Mac Notebooks
I have seen reports about the place (particularly... 8,692 Views / 95 Replies  
I have seen reports about the place (particularly a comment over on ars) that the tech report results for woodcrest are the least likely to 'blow you away' of all the woodcrest bench's out there.....
Posted by i_wolf, on May 27, 2006 at 08:12 PM, in Mac Desktops
I have seen iPhoto (iLife 05) version acting very... 1,932 Views / 26 Replies  
I have seen iPhoto (iLife 05) version acting very strange under Tiger. It seams to be very unstable. Particularly when you create lots of albums; then start adding pictures to your different albums....
Posted by i_wolf, on May 1, 2005 at 07:18 PM, in Applications
Can you use Gopod with the shuffle ? 1,839 Views / 1 Replies  
I know you can use gopod to remove the volume limitation on ipods, mini's and photo's... however can anyone here tell me if you can use it on the shuffle ???
I am aware you can use EUVolumeBoost to...
Posted by i_wolf, on Mar 1, 2005 at 04:47 PM, in iPhone, iPad & iPod
you are missing the point. I am well aware there... 926 Views / 7 Replies  
you are missing the point. I am well aware there are a lot of complex things happening at one time... yes resizing images and live repagination is going to be intensive. That is besides the point, I...
Posted by i_wolf, on Feb 17, 2005 at 08:56 AM, in Applications
An ibook with 640megs ram. It seams... 926 Views / 7 Replies  
An ibook with 640megs ram.

It seams rediculous that it should be such an intensive application. Keynote 2, iPhoto, iMovie all seam far more responsive relative to Pages. Yet I couldn't imagine...
Posted by i_wolf, on Feb 16, 2005 at 10:14 PM, in Applications
Pages is rediculously slow on ibook G4 933Mhz 926 Views / 7 Replies  
We installed pages (since it came with iWork which we bough for Keynote 2) on our G5 work machine and the iBook G4 that is floating about the office.
Since this is apple, and because typically they...
Posted by i_wolf, on Feb 16, 2005 at 03:14 PM, in Applications
Yes this does look very interesting. The... 1,623 Views / 8 Replies  
Yes this does look very interesting. The capability of having two operating systems running concurrently would on the same chip would be of tremenduous use to developers who wish to test an...
Posted by i_wolf, on Dec 29, 2004 at 02:09 AM, in Mac Desktops
Nothing is as simple as to simply imply 'it would... 11,567 Views / 154 Replies  
Nothing is as simple as to simply imply 'it would get spanked'. A lot of the time you need to compare an optimized app on one platform with an equally optimized app on another platform.
Presently, I...
Posted by i_wolf, on Dec 4, 2004 at 10:59 AM, in Mac Desktops
On more modern optimized macintosh native... 11,567 Views / 154 Replies  
On more modern optimized macintosh native applications written for the architecture (similar to the way many ported mac apps were written and optimized for the x86 processors), the G5 should blow...
Posted by i_wolf, on Nov 30, 2004 at 07:02 PM, in Mac Desktops
I just wanted to chirp in that jedit while a nice... 1,621 Views / 23 Replies  
I just wanted to chirp in that jedit while a nice text editor with syntax highlighting for lots of languages ... it has one major flaw on pretty much every platform.... its incredibly slow.
Another...
Posted by i_wolf, on Sep 21, 2004 at 08:19 PM, in Applications
disable the lan port on an airport extreme basestation 769 Views / 1 Replies  
I have an airport extreme basestation at home. It has been secured against wireless access... via WPA, IP recognition etc...
However, the problem I have is that there is somebody at home using the...
Posted by i_wolf, on Sep 1, 2004 at 12:35 PM, in Networking
I got it at the WWDC and like you said, it comes... 1,933 Views / 27 Replies  
I got it at the WWDC and like you said, it comes with no printed documentation. However, within the dvd there is documentation readily available. It was made available to developers, so that we can ...
Posted by i_wolf, on Jul 17, 2004 at 02:00 PM, in macOS
yeh I know its SQLlite, I just typo'd is all!! :D... 2,095 Views / 28 Replies  
yeh I know its SQLlite, I just typo'd is all!! :D
Its a bit like when you are working with FreeBSD all day and you go into the NetBSD forums and start referring to NetBSD as FBSD etc..
But thanks...
Posted by i_wolf, on Jul 12, 2004 at 09:05 AM, in macOS
more info about winfs if you are interested...... 2,095 Views / 28 Replies  
more info about winfs if you are interested... note the diagram and that winfs resides as a layer above NTFS, similar to the way SQL Lite sits above HFS+


actually what I am very interested in is...
Posted by i_wolf, on Jul 12, 2004 at 12:04 AM, in macOS
WinFS is a database layer that sits above the... 2,095 Views / 28 Replies  
WinFS is a database layer that sits above the file system. it works with the filesystem, but it is not the filesystem itself. It is similar to the way spotlight works. In Tiger, Apple looked for an...
Posted by i_wolf, on Jul 11, 2004 at 11:48 PM, in macOS
ok... doing some more investigating, trying to... 1,399 Views / 11 Replies  
ok... doing some more investigating, trying to run an word doc through adobe distiller produces an error. Could this possibly be a compatibility problem between word documents and distiller???
Could...
Posted by i_wolf, on Jun 4, 2004 at 12:15 PM, in Applications
Adobe Acrobat Professional and Office 2004 1,399 Views / 11 Replies  
Hi Guys,
I installed Office 2004 full installation. I recently bought acrobat professional and it created the extra adobe menu bar in word.
The problem I am having is that when I cliek the adobe...
Posted by i_wolf, on Jun 4, 2004 at 10:01 AM, in Applications
We do serious math work (number crunching) and... 6,402 Views / 156 Replies  
We do serious math work (number crunching) and medical analysis and we are working with G5's and chose em over Opteron's Xeons etc... Why?.... because of speed (a little integer, mainly floating...
Posted by i_wolf, on Jun 1, 2004 at 12:33 PM, in macOS
Hi guys, I got the flasher from XVI and wanted... 1,247 Views / 3 Replies  
Hi guys,
I got the flasher from XVI and wanted to improve my rip speed on the factory fitted Pioneer 106D in a PowerMac G5 dual 2GHz.
When I start the flash procedure i get a message,
...
Posted by i_wolf, on Jun 1, 2004 at 10:46 AM, in Hardware Hacking
Azureus 2.1 just released 1,253 Views / 5 Replies  
Hi guys,
azureus 2.1 (java bittorrent client) was just released. Go get it here ->
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
Posted by i_wolf, on May 30, 2004 at 11:55 PM, in Applications
It is altogether conceivable that the 3GHz PPC... 1,228 Views / 7 Replies  
It is altogether conceivable that the 3GHz PPC chips that Steve was promising are going to be based on the PPC 980 or PPC975 or whatever the Power 5 derivative is. I would imagine that if this was...
Posted by i_wolf, on May 24, 2004 at 12:16 PM, in Mac Desktops
I sent a mail to Microsoft a while back asking if... 826 Views / 9 Replies  
I sent a mail to Microsoft a while back asking if Office for Mac would support Keynote. The reply i got was the typical 'Powerpoint 2004 will support all the latest standards when it is released'. I...
Posted by i_wolf, on May 22, 2004 at 07:49 PM, in Applications
yes, well very similar, however I hope i don't... 826 Views / 9 Replies  
yes, well very similar, however I hope i don't sound like a fanboy saying this as I will use whatever tool gets the job done, but the powerpoint cube and flip effects do not look as good. They just...
Posted by i_wolf, on May 20, 2004 at 09:38 AM, in Applications
Powerpoint 2004 lacking Keynote import 826 Views / 9 Replies  
Was anybody else a bit surprised and a little disappointed to discover that Powerpoint 2004 does not allow you to import keynote presentations? This was one of the primary reasons I upgraded to...
Posted by i_wolf, on May 20, 2004 at 05:51 AM, in Applications
well these numbers are impressive in my opinion.... 6,410 Views / 45 Replies  
well these numbers are impressive in my opinion. Remember the G5 is a new architecture from the ground up over previous PPC processors. It will take a while for compilers to improve etc... Even...
Posted by i_wolf, on May 16, 2004 at 10:29 AM, in Applications
problem opening WPS file.. what app do i need? 2,904 Views / 3 Replies  
Hi guys,
I received a .wps file (microsoft works) file from a Windows client and it contains some diagrams I would like to see. I have Office X for Mac installed (the full thing including all the...
Posted by i_wolf, on May 7, 2004 at 10:12 AM, in Applications
yeh, i told him! Its amazing the way some people... 697 Views / 7 Replies  
yeh, i told him! Its amazing the way some people just will not be told or can not be advised. Really pisses me off. Anyway I guess this means that he will have to go my EAC + Lame route ;)
I love...
Posted by i_wolf, on Apr 28, 2004 at 11:19 PM, in Applications
hey guys just wanted to say thanks a million for... 8,676 Views / 111 Replies  
hey guys just wanted to say thanks a million for all the work you guys are doing at the moment.
Posted by i_wolf, on Apr 27, 2004 at 10:18 PM, in Applications
need mac app to encode wma 697 Views / 7 Replies  
Hi guys, while i know WMA is not the best yada yada yada.... this is not a request for me but for a friend of mine that still insists on transferring wma to his ihp120 instead of going the EAC + LAME...
Posted by i_wolf, on Apr 27, 2004 at 05:41 PM, in Applications
can any of you guys run azureus or limewire... 1,065 Views / 9 Replies  
can any of you guys run azureus or limewire properly after this update???
Also did you notice that this update doesn't seam to provide a firmware update for the basestation. I am thinking that this...
Posted by i_wolf, on Apr 26, 2004 at 06:33 PM, in macOS
just to say thank you very much for all the... 603 Views / 5 Replies  
just to say thank you very much for all the advice there.
It solved the prob.
I am so used to working with Apache Tomcat and normally on gentoo or other linux/unix distro's its default port is...
Posted by i_wolf, on Mar 4, 2004 at 03:07 PM, in Developer Center
thanks alot there. i have used Jakarta tomcat... 603 Views / 5 Replies  
thanks alot there.
i have used Jakarta tomcat often on windows platform... im a big fan.
With regard to the OS X version that I just installed from the XCode tools set....
Its amazing, apple even...
Posted by i_wolf, on Mar 4, 2004 at 12:55 PM, in Developer Center
Java webserver 603 Views / 5 Replies  
Hi guys,
Again fairly new to OS X development.
What I am looking for advice on is this. I want to transfer some projects that we have been working on that use Java RMI that we were testing on...
Posted by i_wolf, on Mar 4, 2004 at 11:45 AM, in Developer Center
mobile java and blue tooth 717 Views / 3 Replies  
Hi guys,
Im recently switching a lot of my development work from PC Visual Studio to OS X.
I have been studying up on Cocoa and Objective C to get the most from this app.
Anyway.... what I want to...
Posted by i_wolf, on Feb 26, 2004 at 10:26 PM, in Developer Center
ok i did a hardware test and all seams fine... 583 Views / 1 Replies  
ok i did a hardware test and all seams fine according to the test... did the extended test and all.. took ages!
Anyway, this problem mainly manifests itself when the machine is recently only after...
Posted by i_wolf, on Feb 26, 2004 at 08:50 PM, in Mac Desktops
you could try putting the panther cd in your... 1,129 Views / 19 Replies  
you could try putting the panther cd in your drive while in os 9. Then restart. Then hold down the option button (alt) , while the machine starts up and hold it down until you get a manu, install...
Posted by i_wolf, on Feb 26, 2004 at 08:45 PM, in Mac Desktops
wake from sleep 583 Views / 1 Replies  
Ok i don't think this is the same as people who get the black screen as soon as the power on their G5's.
Anyway here's the prob. The past two days, as soon as we powered on the G5 everything booted...
Posted by i_wolf, on Feb 26, 2004 at 07:43 PM, in Mac Desktops
thanks a mill for the great advice guys I... 656 Views / 4 Replies  
thanks a mill for the great advice guys

I have been using xcode for a bit now and i never knew about icon composer before ! :D
Great.
Im sorted now! What would eb really great if there was an...
Posted by i_wolf, on Feb 25, 2004 at 05:17 PM, in Applications
Ok well i found a site called Xicons on the net... 656 Views / 4 Replies  
Ok well i found a site called Xicons on the net but this seamed to have lots of cool icons that would be very useful, and I even found itunes and other iapp icons there, however I cant import them...
Posted by i_wolf, on Feb 25, 2004 at 03:24 PM, in Applications
Need Application icons/images for omnigraffle and Keynote 656 Views / 4 Replies  
Hi guys,
I am doing a presentation in a few days. And i was planning to use Keynote to do it. For one or two examples i was looking good quality mac os X applications icons like the type that Steve...
Posted by i_wolf, on Feb 25, 2004 at 02:55 PM, in Applications
thanks a lot for that . it works fine now! ... 671 Views / 4 Replies  
thanks a lot for that . it works fine now!
Learn something new every day :)
Posted by i_wolf, on Feb 22, 2004 at 09:11 PM, in Developer Center
actually now that i got somebody's attention with... 671 Views / 4 Replies  
actually now that i got somebody's attention with this intellij. Seams like a fantastic app. I am having probs with the actual set up. After installation it asks me for the location of the jdk.......
Posted by i_wolf, on Feb 22, 2004 at 01:44 PM, in Developer Center
IDEA IntelliJ 4 671 Views / 4 Replies  
Hi guys,

I just went by and downloaded intellij 4 for OS X.
However i was a bit surprised to see the system requirements /recommended specs for it on OS X. Nearly double the processing power that...
Posted by i_wolf, on Feb 22, 2004 at 01:04 PM, in Developer Center
Personally, i think the biggest thing behing PCI... 9,291 Views / 50 Replies  
Personally, i think the biggest thing behing PCI Express is marketing.
Just as last year the move from AGP 4X to 8X was more marketing based than anything else.
The thing to remember is that...
Posted by i_wolf, on Feb 22, 2004 at 12:48 AM, in Mac Desktops
XCode 1.1.1 471 Views / 0 Replies  
He guys,

Have any of you used the new seed of 1.1.1, if so can you tell me are there any significant improvements to code completion?? Or how you find the new 1.1.1 update.
Regards
i_wolf
Posted by i_wolf, on Feb 16, 2004 at 09:44 PM, in Developer Center
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