I recently bought a mac and one thing that surprised me is the lack of a kazaa client or alternative. There are gnuetella clients like limewire and there is an excellent port of direct connect, but nothing with the vast amount of music kazaa has.
So here comes apple with an atractive, most likely easy to use music setup. It's already shown that apple has a niche market and the type of people that buy a mac will be thrilled to pay 99 cents a song, I think this will be as big a hit for apple as in can be. I know I'll try it at leat once.
I could see this example working for somthing else but not browsers, currently for the mac the main browsers are: IE, Mozilla, Omniweb maybe Opera and now Safari. I'm new to the mac platform but from what I understand IE hasn't been updated in a very long time (its still on 5) and its dog slow. Omniweb is a great browser but no tabing, it doesn't render all pages correctly and its costs money. I haven't tried Opera yet on the mac but from what I see in the coments it looks to be in the same boat as omniweb. Safari shows great promise for a first release and I look forward to seeing it grow and become more robust. Mozilla and its sister browser Chimera on the other hand are open source, have tabbed browsing, is free and its pretty darn quick.
Basically what I'm saying is if I woke up tommorow and IE, Omniweb and Opera stopped developing for the mac there would not be great loss. You still have safari being made by apple and a fantastic open source browser with nightly builds.
Hi, sorry for the off topic post but I simply cannot believe this. I have searched, I have posted on message boards, but nothing. So I ask slashdot is there an aplication for OS X that will allow me to make certain programs stay 'always on top' such as the dvd player? I figure if anyone will know it will be you guys, so please can you help me?
Yeah, I added in an extra hard drive to my tivo and after about six months it has never locked up on me. Admitantly when you have a little over 50 season pass stuff it can get pretty darn slow but no crashes. Besides I've been thinking about one of thoose memory upgrades but I'm not sure its worth it...
Hey buddy, Tivo does have one s-video out, at least mine does.
Though lack of digital audio out does suck, I'm not exactly watching dvds through my tivo. But then again movies on HBO would be nicer.
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You know I remember my sega nomad (Sega genesis in a hand haeld) had six buttons on the front and it was pretty easy to use, so yeah you gotta wonder why more compnaies dont add more buttons.
Yes I'll admit their marketing sucks but have you ever really got down and dirty with a tivo for an extended period of time? I've had one for about half a year now and could not dream of tv without it. Sure there are computer programs that do about the same thing, but for my money its not smooth, transparent or convenient enough compared to what the Tivo offers.
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I recently bought a mac and one thing that surprised me is the lack of a kazaa client or alternative. There are gnuetella clients like limewire and there is an excellent port of direct connect, but nothing with the vast amount of music kazaa has. So here comes apple with an atractive, most likely easy to use music setup. It's already shown that apple has a niche market and the type of people that buy a mac will be thrilled to pay 99 cents a song, I think this will be as big a hit for apple as in can be. I know I'll try it at leat once.
I could see this example working for somthing else but not browsers, currently for the mac the main browsers are: IE, Mozilla, Omniweb maybe Opera and now Safari. I'm new to the mac platform but from what I understand IE hasn't been updated in a very long time (its still on 5) and its dog slow. Omniweb is a great browser but no tabing, it doesn't render all pages correctly and its costs money. I haven't tried Opera yet on the mac but from what I see in the coments it looks to be in the same boat as omniweb. Safari shows great promise for a first release and I look forward to seeing it grow and become more robust. Mozilla and its sister browser Chimera on the other hand are open source, have tabbed browsing, is free and its pretty darn quick.
Basically what I'm saying is if I woke up tommorow and IE, Omniweb and Opera stopped developing for the mac there would not be great loss. You still have safari being made by apple and a fantastic open source browser with nightly builds.
Hi, sorry for the off topic post but I simply cannot believe this. I have searched, I have posted on message boards, but nothing. So I ask slashdot is there an aplication for OS X that will allow me to make certain programs stay 'always on top' such as the dvd player? I figure if anyone will know it will be you guys, so please can you help me?
ZipperHead99, maybe not wireless but I'm pretty sure the new Tivo series 2s have a broadband option to get program data.
If you ever get a chance to see mr. show they do a great inside the actor's studui bit :)
Yeah, I added in an extra hard drive to my tivo and after about six months it has never locked up on me. Admitantly when you have a little over 50 season pass stuff it can get pretty darn slow but no crashes. Besides I've been thinking about one of thoose memory upgrades but I'm not sure its worth it...
Hey buddy, Tivo does have one s-video out, at least mine does. Though lack of digital audio out does suck, I'm not exactly watching dvds through my tivo. But then again movies on HBO would be nicer. eh
You know I remember my sega nomad (Sega genesis in a hand haeld) had six buttons on the front and it was pretty easy to use, so yeah you gotta wonder why more compnaies dont add more buttons.
Yes I'll admit their marketing sucks but have you ever really got down and dirty with a tivo for an extended period of time? I've had one for about half a year now and could not dream of tv without it. Sure there are computer programs that do about the same thing, but for my money its not smooth, transparent or convenient enough compared to what the Tivo offers.
Like someoen said, I saw this link a week ago I think and remember reading that it was a hoax.