Umm, I think they've been back since 10.2ish. I have the options "Disable Folder actions" "Configure Folder actions..." and "Attach a folder action..." in my OS X 10.3.7 when I right click on one... Where are you looking?
Yay for the idiots who decided that the file type is related to the name somehow. Imagine if you could change the file size or the creation date by simply renaming the file *rolls eyes*
I haven't seen any information on overclocking albooks, but I overclocked my 400mhz tibook to 550mhz a few years ago with this guide:
http://www.voelker.com/service/void_powerbookg4/ po werbookg4.php
Worked perfectly the next 18 months I had it, until I sold it and got this 1ghz albook. Didn't notice any extra heat or system instability. Got maybe 10 minutes less battery life.
Grow up. It's the year 2005 and assuming people have a computer which can display graphics is not being overly presumptuous.
If you want to use lynx over a 2400 baud connection then be my guest, but don't complain when you get left behind. Next it will be, "oh waah how dare you use ANSI when I only have vt100 capability" - you're 2 generations away from complaining about lack of java on punchcard for fucks sake.
Oh, and don't talk to me about accessbility because they already provide that with audio versions of the tests.
Well that's your crappy mouseware software misbehaving, it's not Apple's problem.
If you hadn't installed any software at all and just plugged it in, it would be working perfectly (like the MS intellimouse optical I have plugged into my powerbook with no drivers installed)
I realise you're new to the platform, but with time you'll learn that simple things like firewire analog DV interfaces, CD/DVD burners, hard drives, mice, most printers/scanners/cameras simply don't need the drivers installed.
I love the fact that it forces developers to not hide things away in useless contextual menus. (shudders at memories of using Kazaa every concievable option on earth was shoehorned into the context menu).
I have to use a program called TestTrack Pro, amongst other things inside Virtual PC for work, and it constantly amazes me how badly designed some of these programs are.
In one particular section of the program, control-c doesn't work because there's not actually an edit menu anywhere, you have to select the text (with the mouse, control-a doesn't work), right click in it, and then manually choose copy.
All because some developer thought it would be a good idea to put it in a context menu and nowhere else. Ditto in the user management section for deactivating users and whatnot. It's absolutely ridiculous. And it's a disgusting MDI program which makes it far too easy to lose windows and there's no mechanism for switching between them grrrrr (yes I'm frustrated)
The default one button mouse on the mac platform forces developers not to do this, otherwise their programs won't function properly for 90% of the users.
As another poster said, set the date ahead to 2008. 99% of software on most windows boxes is nagware anyway.
also they don't offer version for xp without itunes anymore(on their site at least).
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
Hmm, well that URL hasn't changed from when I checked 3 years ago, perhaps you'd like to remove your foot from your mouth? It is a bit obscure tho, I mean who would think to look there, tucked away under that illogical URL. Who could possibly remember that?
and officially cross platform if you count windows and mac os(x) as the platforms that exist..
How can you get more cross platform than the official MPEG-4 standard?
xvid, and give them a link to videolan client or something, put up some googleads and go look for some cheap bandwith or a sponsor
Yes, because MPEG-4 video shoehorned into an.avi makes so much more sense than MPEG-4 video in an MPEG-4 container.
System 7.5 came with a feature called Speakable Items.
Basically, you'd have a folder buried in your System Folder called Speakable Items, and anything you put it in would be recognized when you spoke it. Activation was just as if you double clicked the file.
For example, there was a file in there called "Close this window" which was just an applescript telling the frontmost application to close the active window. There was also other stuff like little scripts which involve you in an interactive knock knock joke and things like that.
Anyway, being on a mac, none of my mp3's had file extensions and were just named things like "Walk On By", "Love Child" etc. I just put an alias (shortcut) for every mp3 I had into the Speakable Items folder, which made it easy to say across the room to the machine: "Computer, Love Child" and it would just start playing it.
Of course once something was playing it was impossible to stop or change tracks due to the music interfering with the speech recognition...
They don't need them. They want acts like Spears, Maroon5, etc who rise to the top of the charts quickly through marketing, consolidation, and payoffs, and who are only there for a short time before the next big thing hits.
Whether you like Britney Spears or not, she's been pumping out hits since early 1999, and is constantly in the charts. Whether you call her output music or not, is a matter of personal debate, but there's no denying that 6 years is hardly a passing fad - for any artist.
Next time you read a slashdot post where someone says "...and windows was giving grandma so many issues that I put linux on there, changed the theme and she can't tell the difference (except she's annoyed because she can't find solitaire hahaha)" go and reassure yourself that KDE & GNOME haven't taken 90% of their design cues from Windows. No really.
I am giving up my mod points to state that this is quite possibly the most ugly, disgusting, cluttered, useless, overdone and underthought interface I have ever seen on ANYTHING. Menus justified to the right? what sort of crack are they smoking. Even for a windows app this is bad. It's worse than realplayer. I've never seen so many useless options in my life. It's like the polar opposite of Safari.
UI controls in the top right and in the same order and icons as the Windows
titles justified to the left (I'm aware this can be changed, I'm mainly talking about defaults here)
window managment icon on the left
task bar on the bottom
launching icon bottom left ala start button in KDE with show desktop to the right of it
application menus in each window
scroll bars on right
buttons in dialog boxes say things like "OK" and "Cancel" instead of say, "Save" and "Don't save"
My computer type icon top left hand of desktop
trash on desktop
clock at left of taskbar
toolbars funtionally and usually aesthetically identical to windows
single click icons implemented exactly like active desktop
tree view in things like KDE control centre and konquer bit for bit copy of explorer.exe tree view
This is all just from glancing at a couple of screenshots, suffice to say if you can't see the similarity to windows go and get your glasses replaced. A simple look at the bottom 1/4 of http://static.kdenews.org/mirrors/kde-cygwin-shots/kde-cygwin-normal.png proves my point.
Look at the difference between the interfaces in 99% of other UI's.
Look at a screenshot of NeXT, a screenshot of BeOS, a screenshot of IRIX, a screenshot of MacOS, a screenshot of Amiga Workbench, a screenshot of Windows and a screenshot of KDE/GNOME. Which two look most alike to you? Which two act mostly the same. Which one do we constantly bitch about? Innovate for fucks sake or you'll forever be playing catch up.
Seriously. Yes, the interface is now cleaner but only because the layout of every screenshot bar the open/save dialogs looks like a complete and utter copy of Windows.
I mean besides all the controls and general window layout being identical to windows, the help browser looks exactly like windows, the volume control is what I'd expect to appear if I double clicked on the speaker icon on a windows box and when I first saw totem I thought it was WMP 6.1 running in WINE.
Is MS's interface design really that great that you want a free bona fide copy of it? Or are you just trying to make your project appeal to the lowest common denominator. (Windows users)
Do you really need Bookmarks and Go in a help browser? Don't you think a dotted line around the currently selected tab is kinda ugly? Why do the supported features dots in the drives section look like checkboxes? (which you can change by very nature)
The whole UI has the potential to be very clean but instead it looks cluttered. Yeah, this post is a lot of whining about 2 products I don't even use (linux & windows) but it's just sad to see the former become more and more like the latter. But I guess that's why we have different projects.
KDE & Gnome for people who like windows and uhh, maybe windowmaker for those who want something a bit different.
Apple has gone down on record as saying they know their MPEG-4 (and it's not even ASP) codec isn't the best out there, and that all of their efforts have been concentrated on h.264 practically the whole time.
The iBook 500 was a horrible, horrible little machine.
With it's crippled 66mhz system bus (even the iMac 350 was 100mhz) and it's woeful ATi Rage 128 8MB, it is quite a poor performer under OS X. You can overclock them to 600 on a 100mhz system bus with no issues and they perform far, far better.
I can see these being hacked and used for homocide, all while having the owner being pinned as the criminal because the gun obviously won't fire for anyone else, so who else could it be?
That $150 cheaper PC only comes with a CD-ROM (as opposed to a DVD/CD-RW), crap integrated intel video (as opposed to a DX8 compliant ATi Radeon 9200/w 32MB Ram), no firewire (the Mac Mini has it), also the mac has DVI, S Video, composite and VGA outputs (as opposed to standard old VGA). It also can't take internal bluetooth and probably 802.11g, and it's also fucking ugly. It weighs 23lbs (as opposed to 2.9).
I'll give you, the PC comes with a monitor and has an 80GB hard drive but honestly, the mac is clearly a better deal.
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No, maybe just Indigo now.
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http://weblogs.asp.net/donxml/archive/2004/09/2
Umm, I think they've been back since 10.2ish. I have the options "Disable Folder actions" "Configure Folder actions..." and "Attach a folder action..." in my OS X 10.3.7 when I right click on one... Where are you looking?
Yay for the idiots who decided that the file type is related to the name somehow. Imagine if you could change the file size or the creation date by simply renaming the file *rolls eyes*
I haven't seen any information on overclocking albooks, but I overclocked my 400mhz tibook to 550mhz a few years ago with this guide:
/ po werbookg4.php
http://www.voelker.com/service/void_powerbookg4
Worked perfectly the next 18 months I had it, until I sold it and got this 1ghz albook. Didn't notice any extra heat or system instability. Got maybe 10 minutes less battery life.
If you want to use lynx over a 2400 baud connection then be my guest, but don't complain when you get left behind. Next it will be, "oh waah how dare you use ANSI when I only have vt100 capability" - you're 2 generations away from complaining about lack of java on punchcard for fucks sake.
Oh, and don't talk to me about accessbility because they already provide that with audio versions of the tests.
If you hadn't installed any software at all and just plugged it in, it would be working perfectly (like the MS intellimouse optical I have plugged into my powerbook with no drivers installed)
I realise you're new to the platform, but with time you'll learn that simple things like firewire analog DV interfaces, CD/DVD burners, hard drives, mice, most printers/scanners/cameras simply don't need the drivers installed.
No wonder people get RSI...
I love the fact that it forces developers to not hide things away in useless contextual menus. (shudders at memories of using Kazaa every concievable option on earth was shoehorned into the context menu).
I have to use a program called TestTrack Pro, amongst other things inside Virtual PC for work, and it constantly amazes me how badly designed some of these programs are.
In one particular section of the program, control-c doesn't work because there's not actually an edit menu anywhere, you have to select the text (with the mouse, control-a doesn't work), right click in it, and then manually choose copy.
All because some developer thought it would be a good idea to put it in a context menu and nowhere else. Ditto in the user management section for deactivating users and whatnot. It's absolutely ridiculous. And it's a disgusting MDI program which makes it far too easy to lose windows and there's no mechanism for switching between them grrrrr (yes I'm frustrated)
The default one button mouse on the mac platform forces developers not to do this, otherwise their programs won't function properly for 90% of the users.
Hooray for the one button mouse!
Yeah, real proprietry...
As another poster said, set the date ahead to 2008. 99% of software on most windows boxes is nagware anyway.
also they don't offer version for xp without itunes anymore(on their site at least).
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
Hmm, well that URL hasn't changed from when I checked 3 years ago, perhaps you'd like to remove your foot from your mouth? It is a bit obscure tho, I mean who would think to look there, tucked away under that illogical URL. Who could possibly remember that?
and officially cross platform if you count windows and mac os(x) as the platforms that exist..
How can you get more cross platform than the official MPEG-4 standard?
xvid, and give them a link to videolan client or something, put up some googleads and go look for some cheap bandwith or a sponsor
Yes, because MPEG-4 video shoehorned into an .avi makes so much more sense than MPEG-4 video in an MPEG-4 container.
Basically, you'd have a folder buried in your System Folder called Speakable Items, and anything you put it in would be recognized when you spoke it. Activation was just as if you double clicked the file.
For example, there was a file in there called "Close this window" which was just an applescript telling the frontmost application to close the active window. There was also other stuff like little scripts which involve you in an interactive knock knock joke and things like that.
Anyway, being on a mac, none of my mp3's had file extensions and were just named things like "Walk On By", "Love Child" etc. I just put an alias (shortcut) for every mp3 I had into the Speakable Items folder, which made it easy to say across the room to the machine: "Computer, Love Child" and it would just start playing it.
Of course once something was playing it was impossible to stop or change tracks due to the music interfering with the speech recognition...
Whether you like Britney Spears or not, she's been pumping out hits since early 1999, and is constantly in the charts. Whether you call her output music or not, is a matter of personal debate, but there's no denying that 6 years is hardly a passing fad - for any artist.
Next time you read a slashdot post where someone says "...and windows was giving grandma so many issues that I put linux on there, changed the theme and she can't tell the difference (except she's annoyed because she can't find solitaire hahaha)" go and reassure yourself that KDE & GNOME haven't taken 90% of their design cues from Windows. No really.
I am giving up my mod points to state that this is quite possibly the most ugly, disgusting, cluttered, useless, overdone and underthought interface I have ever seen on ANYTHING. Menus justified to the right? what sort of crack are they smoking. Even for a windows app this is bad. It's worse than realplayer. I've never seen so many useless options in my life. It's like the polar opposite of Safari.
It's hideous, yet I can't look away.
titles justified to the left (I'm aware this can be changed, I'm mainly talking about defaults here)
window managment icon on the left
task bar on the bottom
launching icon bottom left ala start button in KDE with show desktop to the right of it
application menus in each window
scroll bars on right
buttons in dialog boxes say things like "OK" and "Cancel" instead of say, "Save" and "Don't save"
My computer type icon top left hand of desktop
trash on desktop
clock at left of taskbar
toolbars funtionally and usually aesthetically identical to windows
single click icons implemented exactly like active desktop
tree view in things like KDE control centre and konquer bit for bit copy of explorer.exe tree view
This is all just from glancing at a couple of screenshots, suffice to say if you can't see the similarity to windows go and get your glasses replaced. A simple look at the bottom 1/4 of http://static.kdenews.org/mirrors/kde-cygwin-shots /kde-cygwin-normal.png proves my point.
Look at the difference between the interfaces in 99% of other UI's.
Look at a screenshot of NeXT, a screenshot of BeOS, a screenshot of IRIX, a screenshot of MacOS, a screenshot of Amiga Workbench, a screenshot of Windows and a screenshot of KDE/GNOME. Which two look most alike to you? Which two act mostly the same. Which one do we constantly bitch about? Innovate for fucks sake or you'll forever be playing catch up.
Seriously. Yes, the interface is now cleaner but only because the layout of every screenshot bar the open/save dialogs looks like a complete and utter copy of Windows.
I mean besides all the controls and general window layout being identical to windows, the help browser looks exactly like windows, the volume control is what I'd expect to appear if I double clicked on the speaker icon on a windows box and when I first saw totem I thought it was WMP 6.1 running in WINE.
Is MS's interface design really that great that you want a free bona fide copy of it? Or are you just trying to make your project appeal to the lowest common denominator. (Windows users)
Do you really need Bookmarks and Go in a help browser? Don't you think a dotted line around the currently selected tab is kinda ugly? Why do the supported features dots in the drives section look like checkboxes? (which you can change by very nature)
The whole UI has the potential to be very clean but instead it looks cluttered. Yeah, this post is a lot of whining about 2 products I don't even use (linux & windows) but it's just sad to see the former become more and more like the latter. But I guess that's why we have different projects.
KDE & Gnome for people who like windows and uhh, maybe windowmaker for those who want something a bit different.
You can convert the upgrade CD (you only need to do the first disk) to a full install CD using this procedure:
m l
http://www.funmac.com/archive/index.php/t-13.ht
This procedure is for an older OS X but AFAIK it still works on newer versions.
Apple has gone down on record as saying they know their MPEG-4 (and it's not even ASP) codec isn't the best out there, and that all of their efforts have been concentrated on h.264 practically the whole time.
The iBook 500 was a horrible, horrible little machine.
With it's crippled 66mhz system bus (even the iMac 350 was 100mhz) and it's woeful ATi Rage 128 8MB, it is quite a poor performer under OS X. You can overclock them to 600 on a 100mhz system bus with no issues and they perform far, far better.
iTunes reports 44.1khz, 16 bit Stereo .wav and .aiff files to be 1411kbps.
Who the fuck buys a $499 PC to play doom 3? That's like buying a hyundai excel for racing.
I can see these being hacked and used for homocide, all while having the owner being pinned as the criminal because the gun obviously won't fire for anyone else, so who else could it be?
"S-video and composite video output to connect directly to a TV or projector (requires Apple DVI to Video Adapter, sold separately)"
http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html
That $150 cheaper PC only comes with a CD-ROM (as opposed to a DVD/CD-RW), crap integrated intel video (as opposed to a DX8 compliant ATi Radeon 9200/w 32MB Ram), no firewire (the Mac Mini has it), also the mac has DVI, S Video, composite and VGA outputs (as opposed to standard old VGA). It also can't take internal bluetooth and probably 802.11g, and it's also fucking ugly. It weighs 23lbs (as opposed to 2.9).
I'll give you, the PC comes with a monitor and has an 80GB hard drive but honestly, the mac is clearly a better deal.