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My wife has been in Seattle at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center since January 17th. She had a transplant exactly 99 days ago and is coming home tomorrow!! (Our sons, 6 & 8 yrs old are beside themselves) However, she received a stem cell transplant...which is apparently what they do nowadays. They harvest the stem cells by filtering the donor's blood and then transfuse them into the recipient. The donor, in this case my wife's sister, spent several hours hooked up to a machine. The only discomfort she had was caused by the injection of growth stimulant that caused her marrow to produce lots of stem cells ...her bones were so full it hurt! My wife was lucky she had a sister that was as good a match as you can get....people without siblings have to find an unrelated donor. This is why it is so important that people register as donors. I've been registered for 10 years or so...please everyone get on the list! -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Speaking of HD, Apple released Final Cut Express 3.5 HD today. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

The iPhoto help only refers to subscribers using iPhoto 6 so it appears the subscriber to your Photocast has to be using iPhoto 6. This might limit your audience to those who are using Macs and the latest version of iPhoto. But, this appears on the Apple website on Photocasting.. "Oh, and if Aunt Sophia doesn’t have iPhoto or she has a computer that runs Windows, she can still subscribe to your Photocasts via any RSS-compatible browser or RSS reader." So, I guess that if they don't have iPhoto6 they can use something like Firefox or another RSS reader. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Here's a review of Aperture 1.1 by Ars Technica. Apple fixed a lot of things this reviewer hated in the 1.0 version. It went from 4/10 to 8/10 in his estimation. Should be a good read for those of you out there that need something like this. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I have one of those in my garage right now...in beautiful shape. made my first several jumps on 7TU C9s... -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

This article is about the imminent release of Bluray media and drives by Sony. 25 gb single layer discs with 50gb to come....slow though...2X....these will be overnight projects I'm thinking the Intel Power Macs by Apple will have BluRay as an option at least. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

A couple of recent news articles lead me to believe this isn't true. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I've been wearing Tevas for 20+ years now and always threw them in the washing machine with a load of clothes when the stench got too bad. That worked but not as long as I'd like....I think your dishwasher idea is great and will try it out this summer. Thanks! -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Or, get some software that allows you to copy your music files off your iPod to your new computer...or, use your iPod as an external hard drive to copy the files onto your old machine and then onto your new machine. This was discussed within the last week...a search will find you more detailed explanations of how to do that. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Have you applied all patches and updates to both programs? Have you tried using Firefox as your browser? Are there Windows alternatives to using Acrobat to view pdfs? I use the builtin Preview on my Mac as it is tons faster. I find Acrobat takes forever to load and is slow. The only time I use it is when I need to use a fillable pdf form. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I just saw a couple of rumour sites reporting that the Aperture development team has been disbanded. I'd hold off buying that program...even at the new low price...until this is seen to be true or not. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Here's what MacRumors reported....looks like someone from Apple was talking about it... "Macworld.co.uk reports that the Universal version of Shake was discussed at the National Association of Broadcasters conference. Kirk Paulsen, senior director of pro applications marketing, demonstrated Apple’s high-end digital compositing software running on an Intel Duo Core iMac. This, admitted Paulsen, is not something that could have been done with the PowerPC iMac. According to Paulsen with these high end applications processors are no longer the bottleneck; instead, hard drives are the bottleneck. Shake 4.1 will natively support Intel Macs and will be shipping in May." So, I guess we will see whether that is a harbinger of the towers...

With rumors of the Universal Binary of Shake being released fairly soon some people think the towers aren't too far off in the future. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

QT Pro is a grerat little utility for doing lots of cool things but one thing it won't do is strip DRM ... I honestly don't know if there is software available that will do what you want. Oh well....$1.99 isn't too expensive a lesson btw - I love iTunes store....it has gotten me more interested in music than I have been for years. I love the various features that point me to music I wouldn't ordinarily know existed. I also find the DRM in the Apple/iPod/iTunes to be pretty unobtrusive...it doesn't hamper me at all. I have also bought more cd's in the last year than in the last 10 years...quite often a cd will cost the same on Amazon as it does on iTunes....so, if it is a cd that I want all the music, I buy the cd and rip it at a higher bit rate than iTunes. If it is one or two songs...I buy them off iTunes. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

My guess is that the copy protection / DRM won't let you move it elsewhere. If it is copy protected...and I assume it is if you paid for it...you won't be able to use it on anything but an iPod. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

iTunes won't transfer music from an iPod to another computer. There are several programs available that will allow you to transfer music, playlists, etc from an iPod to another computer. I've used Senuti on my Macs to do this...if you're on Windows I'm sure a quick search on Versiontracker.com will turn up several options. Failing that, other people have mentioned burning the files to disk (Cd/DVD) and using the disks to transfer the files. I would suggest using the iPod as an external drive to do this. First delete the songs on your iPod..... To delete songs on your iPod...here's what iTunes help has to say>>>>> Deleting songs from any iPod You can remove individual songs, audiobooks, and videos (with some models) from your iPod, iPod mini, or iPod shuffle. Deleting a song from your iPod does not delete it from your iTunes library. • To delete a song or other item from your iPod, iPod nano, or iPod mini, first make sure the player is set up to allow you to copy songs manually (in the iPod pane of iTunes Preferences). Then select the player in the Source list, select the song or other item you want to delete, and press the Delete key. • To delete a song from your iPod shuffle, make sure your iPod shuffle is attached to your computer, then select the song you want to delete in the iPod shuffle playlist, and then press the Delete key on your keyboard. ---->>>>> Then, make sure that you have enabled the iPod to be used as an external drive..Itunes preferences for the iPod...and copy the music files onto the iPod...you should be able to just copy the top folder and paste it into the iPod drive in Windows explorer. Then, hook it up to the new computer and transfer the files to the new computer's hard drive....I'd try just dragging the folder of files on the iPod into the iTunes main window...I'm sure it will then just import all the files into iTunes. Using an external hard drive will be faster than burning to optical disks. However, burning a backup isn't a bad idea. You can set the burning preferences in iTunes so that it will burn disks as data disks and not convert to mp3/aiff/aac format. Just be careful you don't delete all your files on the old computer before you clean off your iPod. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

You aren't going to have to reboot....here's a review of Parallels done by MacWorld....check out the screen shot of two Linux OS's and two Windows versions all running in their own window on the OS X platform. This can be set up so that OS X and Windows share the clipboard...allowing you to copy from Windows, paste in OS X and vice versa. Parallels is still in beta but this is a good indication of what will be available in the near future. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I heard you have to reboot with every transition. I would wait for the bugs and until you can go seamlessly, from one environment to the other. That day is pretty much here.....The newly released Parallels software for the Intel Macs allows you to run Windows 3.1 to XP, Linux, even OS/2 in its own Window at the same time as OS X. It's still in beta but if you take a look at the comments about it on Versiontracker.com you'll get an idea of how they are progressing. This is not emulation software...Windows is running at nearly full processor speed. One of these machines will someday grace my desktop...Windows for when I need to use some tax programs....OS X for everything else. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Compared to Manitoba Saskatchewan is mountainous! -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

It's paradise on earth! -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I was in Seattle from April 6-11th and managed to get out to one of the Apple stores while I was there. Goob.....you know you want one....you'll still be able to run Windows on it using Bootcamp or Parallels. Actually, if you use Parallels (which apparently uses Intel's virtualization technology) you might even be able to install OS2...now wouldn't that be cool! OS X, OS2, Windows, Linux...all on the same box. The last photo is of a Powermac with a 30" Cinema Display. I played with Aperture for a while on it..my god it was absolutely fantastic to have that much screen real estate. If I could afford and justify the cost I'd have one in a heartbeat. It would be wonderful to edit video/build dvds, etc on such a large high quality screen. Unfortunately, the photo doesn't have anything to give a sense of scale....but Wow! is the best description. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

do you know what rig/main/reserve he was jumping ? Deployment system ? Was he jumping in his "full suit" ? PdF rig....don't remember the model. Large main and reserve. 240-250 sq ft. The rig was the rig that he would have used...it had pockets to hold bail-out oxygen bottles. He just used an ordinary jumpsuit. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Tunaplanet. I sure miss his incessant pot-stirring. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I believe that Bootcamp includes the drivers needed so that XP will work with the Intel Mac machines. Apple also just released firmware updates in conjunction with all of this. MacRumors has an article about it. Looks like you'd also be able to install Linux if you were so inclined...very interesting stuff. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Just saw that on tuaw.com. I still want something that will run Windows in a window. I work on Mac accounting programs and use Windows tax programs...I want to be able to look from one program to the other and have them both up at the same time. But this is huge....it means that potential switchers that need to use one or two Windows programs now have an option that will run at native speed without emulation....and they can boot into OS X for everything else. They also don't lose their investment in Windows software. Drew, any thoughts on whether Microsoft will release a copy of Virtual PC that will do what I want it to do? -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey