Life in the Mac lane

[jcpeace]

and the 2008 award for the best use of admin privs goes to......................

[MCA™]

Cool!  Have you tried it yet?  Does it stream or download?

It's streaming, but you have to download a plug-in first. The streaming quality was OK- not great- for the one movie I watched.

Hey, who did that? I want names. A shaltered post in a thread... This is totally new territory.

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[RB]

Cool!  Have you tried it yet?  Does it stream or download?

It's streaming, but you have to download a plug-in first. The streaming quality was OK- not great- for the one movie I watched.

Hey, who did that? I want names. A shaltered post in a thread... This is totally new territory.

[bdlaw]

Cool!  Have you tried it yet?  Does it stream or download?

It's streaming, but you have to download a plug-in first. The streaming quality was OK- not great- for the one movie I watched.

[RB]

Cool!  Have you tried it yet?  Does it stream or download?

It's streaming, but you have to download a plug-in first. The streaming quality was OK- not great- for the one movie I watched.

[bdlaw]

Cool!  Have you tried it yet?  Does it stream or download?

[RB]

For all you Netflix subscribers and Mac owners, I just got an email from Netflix informing me that Macs now have the Netflix "watch instantly" capability.

[TheFang]

RCA cable.

[RB]

I have a Macbook with the "Tiger" operating system. I have purchased certain TV shows and movies from iTunes and would like to somehow play them on my Panasonic flat-panel plasma TV. Can anyone explain to me, in relatively simple terms, what I need to do to be able to watch these shows and movies on my TV? There has to be a way to do it without purchasing Apple TV, right?
 

[CeeDub]

Halo sucked.
 

Say goodbye to viruses!

[Robocub]

Add-on's time.

Anyone have any experience with console-style controllers for mac?  I tried to start playing Battlefield 2142 this weekend and realized I will never be terribly facile in the game if I have to use the mouse and keyboard....

I play Halo: Combat Evolved on my Mac for years, both a PPC and a newer Intel iMac. I use an Xbox controller with USB connector and this free nifty driver. download here: http://tattiebogle.net/index.php/ProjectRoot/Xbox360Controller/OsxDriver

[NON]

http://www.newsmeat.com/billionaire_political_donations/Steve_Jobs.php

http://www.campaignmoney.com/apple_computer.asp?pg=2

[duke_of_earl]

Add-on's time.

Anyone have any experience with console-style controllers for mac?  I tried to start playing Battlefield 2142 this weekend and realized I will never be terribly facile in the game if I have to use the mouse and keyboard....

Gaming on a Mac?  Here comes trouble...   Actually I'm curious how games perform on the new architecture, cause they sucked on the PowerPC.

duke

[bdlaw]

Add-on's time.

Anyone have any experience with console-style controllers for mac?  I tried to start playing Battlefield 2142 this weekend and realized I will never be terribly facile in the game if I have to use the mouse and keyboard....

[justiceiro]

Knowing what you do with the photos, I would stick ith photoshop elements.  However, if you want to shoot RAW, then I think you should get Lightroom- using your better half's student discount, it should be about $100, and it has the best rendering engine evah.

[elgoodo]

i just want to say SCREW STEVE JOBS for cutting capacity on the ipod classic.

[Frank M]

I don't use a Mac, but for photography I use a combination of Nikon Capture NX to handle RAW files and Adobe Photoshop CS2.  In most cases, PS is overkill; it does a thousand additional things most people don't need.  Consider Adobe Lightroom 2, which is cheaper and targeted specifically at photography.  I haven't used it myself, but I've heard a lot of praise from both professional and amateur photographers.   

BTW, "Adobe CS3" refers to a suite of programs, which is is geared toward graphic design professionals.  Not surprisingly, it's expensive.  Spend the money on a lens

For audio, I like Adobe Audition (used to be Cool Edit Pro). 


Have fun!

Sitting in the mail-room or already on it's way to me is my first Apple computer in 20 years.

Would love some advice on software- most of all I want to be able to work with photos fairly intensively (digital darkroom, not graphic design), create/record/edit music, and maybe play a few games.

Thoughts?

Oh- specs- I broke down and got the iMac with a bunch of goodies.

[bdlaw]

Get Adobe CS3 it has Photoshop, it's the best program for photo manipulation, I use it at work and at home. Iphoto is great for removing red eye.

I hope you ordered additional memory, at least 1 gig more, 2 is prefered

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[07310]

Get Adobe CS3 it has Photoshop, it's the best program for photo manipulation, I use it at work and at home. Iphoto is great for removing red eye.

I hope you ordered additional memory, at least 1 gig more, 2 is prefered

[kitten]

I think there is some stuff you can do to your photos in iphoto but I think if you really want to get into the retouching aspect you have to get photoshop... or at least the dumbed down version which I think exists, iirc.

btw... welcome to the party!

macs rule!

[jennymayla]

Sitting in the mail-room or already on it's way to me is my first Apple computer in 20 years.

Would love some advice on software- most of all I want to be able to work with photos fairly intensively (digital darkroom, not graphic design), create/record/edit music, and maybe play a few games.

Thoughts?

Oh- specs- I broke down and got the iMac with a bunch of goodies.

I know your wife knows the way to the Short Hills Mall -- go there and play around at the Apple store there.  You could also hit any one of the mutliple stores in the city but I like the Short Hills one too and it's not as crazy hectic.  Minus the mall part.  

Also, take advantage of all the classes, demos and training sessions the Apple store offers!   It's really fun.

[TheFang]

Sitting in the mail-room or already on it's way to me is my first Apple computer in 20 years.

Would love some advice on software- most of all I want to be able to work with photos fairly intensively (digital darkroom, not graphic design), create/record/edit music, and maybe play a few games.

Thoughts?

Oh- specs- I broke down and got the iMac with a bunch of goodies.

Then it'll come with everything you need.

[bdlaw]

Sitting in the mail-room or already on it's way to me is my first Apple computer in 20 years.

Would love some advice on software- most of all I want to be able to work with photos fairly intensively (digital darkroom, not graphic design), create/record/edit music, and maybe play a few games.

Thoughts?

Oh- specs- I broke down and got the iMac with a bunch of goodies.

[bdlaw]

Unless they changed the internal design, Vaio motherboards sit right on top of the power supply and have a tendency to melt over time. 

[LadyDi]

SamS, what about a Vaio?  A wee expensive, but I've liked it when I used it and a lot of coworkers have them and adore them.  Mac thinks it's cute with the new air, but Vaio has a super small and light job.  It'll run you about $1500 - $1800, tho.

All this said, I do think that there's no comparison for graphics between PC and Mac.  Mac eclipses PC in this regard, although some report that PCs are not as bad as Macheads think.

And the other truth is, I think the PC user interface absolutely sucks.  Even the icons are klunky, hard to find, and overly-complicated.  For instance, the wireless network tool in PC is just stupid complicated compared to Mac, and the dashboard on Mac is just so much easier to cope with.