Additionally, it is more difficult to ignore in a GUI environment as the user must actually close the pop-up rather than letting it scoll on by, unread.
Of course, since users usually just click "ok" without reading the dialog box, I'm not sure what makes this any different.
I use dnsExit.com, they provide free dynamic DNS hosting, with the ability to edit TXT records, for my domain which is currently registered with GoDaddy and hosted on my home DSL. I checked 1and1 and may move to them when my domain is up for renewal (I like that they don't charge extra for private registration), and it looks like you can setup your domain to use an external DNS server.
Thus far, there's always been a Mac version of the Big Two (TaxCut and TurboTax).
Actually, this year there's no TaxCut for Mac. While TaxCut was and is cheaper than TurboTax, the Mac version was never an option for everyone, as some state versions got released only for Windows, not Mac. Hawaii was one.
I think the difference in price comes from that in the past, TurboTax Basic was only available for Windows, the more-expensive TurboTax Deluxe was the cheapest version available for Mac (but the free state included made it worth it anyway). This year TurboTax Basic is available for Mac as well. If you buy a TurboTax CD (rather than the download), you actually get both versions on the disc.
What model is this that still comes with no external display?
Samsung SCH-A650, which I use with Verizon. I don't know if it's still in production or not; I got it a year ago. It has a slightly more expensive twin, the SCH-A670, which does have an external display and also a camera.
I have a case on my phone, which makes it a little easier to flip open one handed since the plastic cover that protects the screen and keys makes it so that it doesn't close completely; rather it's a millimeter or two open.
(in addition to difficulty of opening them with one hand)
One of the first things I did when I got my current cell phone, my first flip phone after a candybar Nokia 6190 and a Sidekick, was to figure out how to do a Jim Kirk-style one handed flip opening with it.
flip phones have to stack up two displays on top of each other when the unit is closed
This is only true if your phone has an external display, so you can see a clock or caller ID without opening it. Admittedly useful, but not necessary. My phone doesn't have one.
As Home is only licenced for unoprocessor machines, however, if it can't tell the difference between two processors and a single processor with HT, it'll either refuse to use more than one "processor" or just plain refuse to run.
I don't remember offhand since the only x86 box I have at home is an AthlonXP, thus no HyperThreading, but from what I remember when I have used Pentium 4 machines in Linux with HyperThreading enabled, there is some sort of processor ID name that is the same for both logical cores, thus the OS should be able to tell if its dealing with one CPU posing as two using HyperThreading, or two physical cores/CPUs.
B/W pixely scanner cartridge that popped into the ImageWriter II (I think)
Sounds like Thunderscan, which my parents had with the 128k Mac and an original Imagewriter. You took out the ribbon, put in the Thunderscan, ran the program, and it scanned your document by running it through the printer. Quality wasn't so hot.
This was the first machine my parents bought, but I had used Apple ]['s of some sort before that. The first computer I bought was a Mac LC II.
The part about Walter Koenig (Chekov) has been known for a while now--that episode has already been filmed and is in post-production--but the news that George Takei (Sulu) will also do an episode is new. Grace Lee Whitney (Rand) was announced a month or two ago.
What the parent post was referring to though, is when Apple started the service, it was called iTools, and it was free -- you did have to have a Mac to sign up from, but once you were signed up, a lot of the features (like the WebDAV-mounted server space and email) even worked just fine from Windows.
Then Apple changed the name from iTools to.Mac and started charging for it.
It wouldn't let you adjust each ear individually, but the stereo-to-mono adapter will combine the left and right audio channels, and send the result to both ears. Assuming I understood the MacAddict response correctly (the question was posed by someone who is deaf in one ear).
I actually can hear the outside world just fine through my iPod's earbuds, but still I take at least one earbud out of my ear when I'm talking to/listening to the flight attendant, out of courtesy (my iPod mostly gets used on airplanes). I also don't play my music at maximum volume.
For $299, I can get an iPAQ rx1955 with 36MB of user accessible memory, or a 30GB iPod with video. Well, the iPAQ does have an SD slot, so lets see how much those go for. Cheapest price for a 2GB SD card on DealRAM is $99.99, which gets me the storage capacity of the smaller nano, which costs $199. As the iPAQ gets me the storage capacity of the cheaper iPod nano at twice the price, I'm not sure how you can say the iPAQ gets you a bit less memory while the iPod costs more. The iPAQ is a more capable device, I'll give you that, but they're not aiming for the same market. If they were, why do you think that the Mac forums (and sometimes here) have posts every now and then from people asking for a new Newton?
I don't think it's fair to say that everyone should get an iPAQ instead of an iPod. It all depends on need. If the primary need is for a music player, then the iPod is what you want. If you need a PDA that can maybe play a few songs, then go for the iPAQ, though in my case, I'd probably go for a Palm TX instead, since PalmOS has a much better history of Mac compatibility than PocketPC.
all the decent, deployable, user-friendly mail clients I can find happily render and display HTML mail. Even recent versions of Pegasus cannot, as near as I can determine, be configured to show the source or treat the HTML as an attachment.
Mozilla Thunderbird has the option of displaying messages as plain text: View - Message Body As - Plain Text. Perhaps that will work for you?
I found this really neat compression program rm that compresses files to 0Kb really quick, in one pass. OS X doesn't seem to come with the uncompressor though, so I don't use it much.
Sure, since the IIci came with either a 40MB or 80MB hard drive, it should have finished long ago.
However, AutoDoubler was probably what he wanted. DiskDoubler was your basic compression/decompression program basically like WinZip, whereas AutoDoubler would go through and automatically compress most of the files on your disk (I think it would normally be configured so that it didn't compress the System Folder, which would be a Bad Thing). Though personally, I liked Stacker, which installed itself into your disk driver.
Why? Advertising what your product isn't seems to be a pretty popular technique. Progressive has an ad showing a guy getting an on line insurance quote, and the computer says he'll get a call back in 12 hours... 48 hours... 72 hours... eventually. T-Mobile has their ads for "Poser Mobile" showing people getting nickel-and-dimed by their cell phone company. Apple had an ad showing someone trying and failing to use software on a Windows PC. High speed Internet companies have ads showing people trying to browse the web vvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyy ssssssssslllllllllooooooooowwwwwwwwllllllllyyyyyy.
I'm not a marketing expert, but Animats' idea is along the same line. It's a negative experience that people can associate with, and that one that they won't have if they try the advertised product.
Microsoft stopped updating Mac IE shortly after Apple released Safari. When I had Qwest DSL with MSN, the copy of the MSN client I received identified itself as Mac IE 6 in the user agent string, but I don't know how much was actually changes to the rendering engine (it rendered the Qwest/MSN homepage badly, while Firefox did fine) and how much was just making it look like the Windows version of MSN Explorer.
It's a browser more designed for OS 9 than, say, Firefox. (Firefox works, I think, but the look and feel conflicts a lot.)
Firefox does not work on OS 9. Mozilla stopped supporting OS 9 after Mozilla Suite 1.2, though a third-party build of 1.3.1 called WaMCom is available.
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Additionally, it is more difficult to ignore in a GUI environment as the user must actually close the pop-up rather than letting it scoll on by, unread.
Of course, since users usually just click "ok" without reading the dialog box, I'm not sure what makes this any different.
I suggest: Apple ][
Development version of SpellBound works on Firefox 1.5.0.x.
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http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=351
I use dnsExit.com, they provide free dynamic DNS hosting, with the ability to edit TXT records, for my domain which is currently registered with GoDaddy and hosted on my home DSL. I checked 1and1 and may move to them when my domain is up for renewal (I like that they don't charge extra for private registration), and it looks like you can setup your domain to use an external DNS server.
Thus far, there's always been a Mac version of the Big Two (TaxCut and TurboTax).
Actually, this year there's no TaxCut for Mac. While TaxCut was and is cheaper than TurboTax, the Mac version was never an option for everyone, as some state versions got released only for Windows, not Mac. Hawaii was one.
I think the difference in price comes from that in the past, TurboTax Basic was only available for Windows, the more-expensive TurboTax Deluxe was the cheapest version available for Mac (but the free state included made it worth it anyway). This year TurboTax Basic is available for Mac as well. If you buy a TurboTax CD (rather than the download), you actually get both versions on the disc.
You might want to wait a bit longer... Macworld notes that native video drivers aren't working yet:
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http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/03/16/xponmac/i
What model is this that still comes with no external display?
Samsung SCH-A650, which I use with Verizon. I don't know if it's still in production or not; I got it a year ago. It has a slightly more expensive twin, the SCH-A670, which does have an external display and also a camera.
I have a case on my phone, which makes it a little easier to flip open one handed since the plastic cover that protects the screen and keys makes it so that it doesn't close completely; rather it's a millimeter or two open.
(in addition to difficulty of opening them with one hand)
One of the first things I did when I got my current cell phone, my first flip phone after a candybar Nokia 6190 and a Sidekick, was to figure out how to do a Jim Kirk-style one handed flip opening with it.
flip phones have to stack up two displays on top of each other when the unit is closed
This is only true if your phone has an external display, so you can see a clock or caller ID without opening it. Admittedly useful, but not necessary. My phone doesn't have one.
As Home is only licenced for unoprocessor machines, however, if it can't tell the difference between two processors and a single processor with HT, it'll either refuse to use more than one "processor" or just plain refuse to run.
I don't remember offhand since the only x86 box I have at home is an AthlonXP, thus no HyperThreading, but from what I remember when I have used Pentium 4 machines in Linux with HyperThreading enabled, there is some sort of processor ID name that is the same for both logical cores, thus the OS should be able to tell if its dealing with one CPU posing as two using HyperThreading, or two physical cores/CPUs.
B/W pixely scanner cartridge that popped into the ImageWriter II (I think)
Sounds like Thunderscan, which my parents had with the 128k Mac and an original Imagewriter. You took out the ribbon, put in the Thunderscan, ran the program, and it scanned your document by running it through the printer. Quality wasn't so hot.
This was the first machine my parents bought, but I had used Apple ]['s of some sort before that. The first computer I bought was a Mac LC II.
The part about Walter Koenig (Chekov) has been known for a while now--that episode has already been filmed and is in post-production--but the news that George Takei (Sulu) will also do an episode is new. Grace Lee Whitney (Rand) was announced a month or two ago.
What the parent post was referring to though, is when Apple started the service, it was called iTools, and it was free -- you did have to have a Mac to sign up from, but once you were signed up, a lot of the features (like the WebDAV-mounted server space and email) even worked just fine from Windows.
.Mac and started charging for it.
Then Apple changed the name from iTools to
Yeah, but how long until it's marked stable? Firefox 1.5 (both the source and binary versions) are still marked testing.
It wouldn't let you adjust each ear individually, but the stereo-to-mono adapter will combine the left and right audio channels, and send the result to both ears. Assuming I understood the MacAddict response correctly (the question was posed by someone who is deaf in one ear).
I actually can hear the outside world just fine through my iPod's earbuds, but still I take at least one earbud out of my ear when I'm talking to/listening to the flight attendant, out of courtesy (my iPod mostly gets used on airplanes). I also don't play my music at maximum volume.
For $299, I can get an iPAQ rx1955 with 36MB of user accessible memory, or a 30GB iPod with video. Well, the iPAQ does have an SD slot, so lets see how much those go for. Cheapest price for a 2GB SD card on DealRAM is $99.99, which gets me the storage capacity of the smaller nano, which costs $199. As the iPAQ gets me the storage capacity of the cheaper iPod nano at twice the price, I'm not sure how you can say the iPAQ gets you a bit less memory while the iPod costs more. The iPAQ is a more capable device, I'll give you that, but they're not aiming for the same market. If they were, why do you think that the Mac forums (and sometimes here) have posts every now and then from people asking for a new Newton?
I don't think it's fair to say that everyone should get an iPAQ instead of an iPod. It all depends on need. If the primary need is for a music player, then the iPod is what you want. If you need a PDA that can maybe play a few songs, then go for the iPAQ, though in my case, I'd probably go for a Palm TX instead, since PalmOS has a much better history of Mac compatibility than PocketPC.
This is what you need, recommended by MacAddict Magazine (Dec 2005): http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?produc tId=2102669&cp
all the decent, deployable, user-friendly mail clients I can find happily render and display HTML mail. Even recent versions of Pegasus cannot, as near as I can determine, be configured to show the source or treat the HTML as an attachment.
Mozilla Thunderbird has the option of displaying messages as plain text: View - Message Body As - Plain Text. Perhaps that will work for you?
Mac IE died shortly after Apple released Safari, a couple of years before Apple announced the Intel switch.
I found this really neat compression program rm that compresses files to 0Kb really quick, in one pass. OS X doesn't seem to come with the uncompressor though, so I don't use it much.
Sure, since the IIci came with either a 40MB or 80MB hard drive, it should have finished long ago.
However, AutoDoubler was probably what he wanted. DiskDoubler was your basic compression/decompression program basically like WinZip, whereas AutoDoubler would go through and automatically compress most of the files on your disk (I think it would normally be configured so that it didn't compress the System Folder, which would be a Bad Thing). Though personally, I liked Stacker, which installed itself into your disk driver.
That would be the worst advert in the world.
Why? Advertising what your product isn't seems to be a pretty popular technique. Progressive has an ad showing a guy getting an on line insurance quote, and the computer says he'll get a call back in 12 hours... 48 hours... 72 hours... eventually. T-Mobile has their ads for "Poser Mobile" showing people getting nickel-and-dimed by their cell phone company. Apple had an ad showing someone trying and failing to use software on a Windows PC. High speed Internet companies have ads showing people trying to browse the web vvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyy ssssssssslllllllllooooooooowwwwwwwwllllllllyyyyyy.
I'm not a marketing expert, but Animats' idea is along the same line. It's a negative experience that people can associate with, and that one that they won't have if they try the advertised product.
Microsoft stopped updating Mac IE shortly after Apple released Safari. When I had Qwest DSL with MSN, the copy of the MSN client I received identified itself as Mac IE 6 in the user agent string, but I don't know how much was actually changes to the rendering engine (it rendered the Qwest/MSN homepage badly, while Firefox did fine) and how much was just making it look like the Windows version of MSN Explorer.
It's a browser more designed for OS 9 than, say, Firefox. (Firefox works, I think, but the look and feel conflicts a lot.)
Firefox does not work on OS 9. Mozilla stopped supporting OS 9 after Mozilla Suite 1.2, though a third-party build of 1.3.1 called WaMCom is available.