I think I'm gonna have a puter built for me. I have real fears about buying a branded desktop.
Why not build your own? It's easy-- I'm a total bonehead and I figured it out-- and it's been working for over a year now! There are some excellent step-by-step websites (I used a book, but could have easily used a website).
Incidentally, I use an iMac at my day job and well, let's just say my homebuilt PC can run circles around the iMac. But part of it is RAM-- the iMac only came with 512K, my PC has 2GB (and six HD's... but that's another story).
Anyway, I can't help but smile when people claim a similar mac is better than a PC or vice versa. It comes down to the user. I guarantee I can do anything on a PC just as fast and effectively as someone on a similar spec Mac-- it all comes down to what OS you are most comfortable with. Seven years now I've used a Mac at my day job, and I still hate it! But that doesn't mean Mac suck... it just means they suck for me!
c at my day job and well, let's just say my homebuilt PC can run circles around the iMac. But part of it is RAM-- the iMac only came with 512K, my PC has 2GB (and six HD's... but that's another story).
Hey, I haven't tried this, but it looks cool. Do Something When does something when you do something else. Like when you eject your music drive it'll quit iTunes. Stuff like that.
It'll be a cold day in hell my friend. They say that a mac with 1.5g ram is about the same as 2g in a PC is this roughly correct or bullshit ?
There are so many other factors that go into it that it really doesn't make sense to even compare IMO. I'm betting 1.5 or 2 gigs would satisfy most peoples' needs irrespective of system.
Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance.
There are so many other factors that go into it that it really doesn't make sense to even compare IMO. I'm betting 1.5 or 2 gigs would satisfy most peoples' needs irrespective of system.
Waxy, for your Safari Tooltip question, it ain't easy. On second thought, you can take a look at that link, but it's probably pretty useless to you. Most likely the answer is no. I can't find a way to change that.
Waxy, for your Safari Tooltip question, it ain't easy. On second thought, you can take a look at that link, but it's probably pretty useless to you. Most likely the answer is no. I can't find a way to change that.
Wow, good research. Yeah, that looks pretty scary.
"A cool feature hidden in the Services menu (for Cocoa apps only, not Microsoft apps!) is the "Summarize" function. It uses a complicated algorithm to transform a long text and summarize it into a short paragraph. I wasn't convinced this would really work at first, but after using it, it works great. There is unfortunately no keyboard shortcut but you simply have to highlight some text and choose "Summarize" in the service menu"
Does this actually work?
The guy posting thought so. Wild, could be useful.
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"A cool feature hidden in the Services menu (for Cocoa apps only, not Microsoft apps!) is the "Summarize" function. It uses a complicated algorithm to transform a long text and summarize it into a short paragraph. I wasn't convinced this would really work at first, but after using it, it works great. There is unfortunately no keyboard shortcut but you simply have to highlight some text and choose "Summarize" in the service menu"
Does this actually work?
The guy posting thought so. Wild, could be useful.
Not sure, but it's not the same as the matte screen on the Mac Book Pro laptop, it looks a lot richer and better than that.
That laptop is just plain ordinary up against a LOT of PC laptops on the market as far as the screen goes...i looked at them & stopped looking 8 seconds later..yuk.
The imac was nice but if its not avail with a normal screen then its a shame as it has some rich colour that would improve a lot if it ditched that anti glare crap.
The Mac/Apple just looks better. It's different and impressive to my clients. BTW, I'm a PC windows user by day. I own three pc's and a Mac Book Pro w/ 23" Monitor.
to each his own. I hate seeing my own reflection when I'm at the computer. the glossy screens might as well be a mirror.
Cool...i just have the other idea that if your editing photos & need anti glare then your immediate enviroment is not good for colour/hue/contrast/anything editing.
Cool...i just have the other idea that if your editing photos & need anti glare then your immediate enviroment is not good for colour/hue/contrast/anything editing.
Very true, good graphics editors always work in a properly lit (read: dark) environment.
I can't comment on the desk jobs, but I know the glossy screen on the MacBook's is crazy reflective. Even just surfing/typing, I was really distracted by me, looking back at me. Also, even when I did put that glossy screen (my labmate lent it to me for a fully day of experience before I decided on my own, btw) in a "properly lit place" i noticed the contrast was just way too high. Really a trick to make the inexperienced viewer think "oooh ahh". Just like a point-shoot on full manual, contrast and saturation was way too high to make it pop.
My anti-glare flat MBP screen, now properly calibrated is awesome for colors. I just did my first test print the other day, and it came out as one of my best in terms of getting what I saw out of the printer.
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Why not build your own? It's easy-- I'm a total bonehead and I figured it out-- and it's been working for over a year now! There are some excellent step-by-step websites (I used a book, but could have easily used a website).
Incidentally, I use an iMac at my day job and well, let's just say my homebuilt PC can run circles around the iMac. But part of it is RAM-- the iMac only came with 512K, my PC has 2GB (and six HD's... but that's another story).
Anyway, I can't help but smile when people claim a similar mac is better than a PC or vice versa. It comes down to the user. I guarantee I can do anything on a PC just as fast and effectively as someone on a similar spec Mac-- it all comes down to what OS you are most comfortable with. Seven years now I've used a Mac at my day job, and I still hate it! But that doesn't mean Mac suck... it just means they suck for me!
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yeah, 512 will slow down any computer, mac or pc
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And David, what did you say your favorite screen grabber is currently?
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I dunno how to disable that thing. Firefox has the same thing, but truncated. I could see how it would be annoying.
The screengrab thing you're talking about is two posts up, Sid. Use that fancy mouse of yours and scroll up!
Currently I use cmd-3, cmd-4 and cmd-4 spacebar, and I used SCIT to change the default file format to jpeg.
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That would be why I used the word "currently."
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I'm looking for a free image editor I can paste the screen grab into. Bummer that irfanview doesn't make a Mac version.
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http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
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Live Quartz (I've never used it, and BTW, versiontracker.com is pri-tee darn useful!
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That's made by a friend of dgrin. I forget who posted that, but someone here said that their friend makes that app.
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Mac tip of the day 18 Mar 07:
"A cool feature hidden in the Services menu (for Cocoa apps only, not Microsoft apps!) is the "Summarize" function. It uses a complicated algorithm to transform a long text and summarize it into a short paragraph. I wasn't convinced this would really work at first, but after using it, it works great. There is unfortunately no keyboard shortcut but you simply have to highlight some text and choose "Summarize" in the service menu"
Does this actually work?
The guy posting thought so. Wild, could be useful.
VI
yep!
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Not sure, but it's not the same as the matte screen on the Mac Book Pro laptop, it looks a lot richer and better than that.
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That laptop is just plain ordinary up against a LOT of PC laptops on the market as far as the screen goes...i looked at them & stopped looking 8 seconds later..yuk.
The imac was nice but if its not avail with a normal screen then its a shame as it has some rich colour that would improve a lot if it ditched that anti glare crap.
Interesting article here.
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Here's the iMac story.
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I can't comment on the desk jobs, but I know the glossy screen on the MacBook's is crazy reflective. Even just surfing/typing, I was really distracted by me, looking back at me. Also, even when I did put that glossy screen (my labmate lent it to me for a fully day of experience before I decided on my own, btw) in a "properly lit place" i noticed the contrast was just way too high. Really a trick to make the inexperienced viewer think "oooh ahh". Just like a point-shoot on full manual, contrast and saturation was way too high to make it pop.
My anti-glare flat MBP screen, now properly calibrated is awesome for colors. I just did my first test print the other day, and it came out as one of my best in terms of getting what I saw out of the printer.
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