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In other Apple News, the iPhone and iPod Touch SDK will be unveiled at the new Apple Event on March 6th.
 
jaguarr said:
You need to use a program like Handbrake or Mac The Ripper to pull the video off the DVD into a resulting VIDEO_TS file that you'd then import into iMovie. Use Google to find out how. There's plenty of "how to"'s out there.

jag
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Thanks a lot man! :up: I just downloaded Handbrake and it works perfectly!
 
There's now an incredibly easy way to jailbreak your iPhone!

First, download the application iNdependence. Jailbreaks are simple through this app.

Then, to customize your phone, just download iFuntastic. It's a very pricey app (50 bucks) but it's easily worth the money. :up: :applaud
 
My iMovie is messed up. I want to add Electricity to my movies but its acting screwy. I do the effect in and effect out but it does a slow transition to where it starts, I want it to just appear suddenly. Does that make any sense? Cause I need help!
 
Hello again! Nothing to horrible here, just a question as i've already picked Evo's brains apart and searched as much as the interwebs will allow.

About a week ago I noticed that no webpages were loading on Firefox and my AIM wasn't working, be it through Adium, iChat, or on it's own. Throughout this last week I've have patches of everything running smooth on FireFox, and Safari. Other times Nothing on Firefox loads, but everything runs smooth on Safari. or other times when everything loads slow.

I'd think this was a router or Internet issue, but the router is also wirelessly connected to our Dell and it's running absolutely perfectly -stupid Dell-

Few things:
Current OS is Tiger, has all updates.
FireFox has all recent updates.

I admit that I haven't wanted to delete and re-install FireFox because I don't want to lose all my bookmarks. >.<;
 
Ok, just got a hold of a licensed copy of Speed Download 5.0

I need some help on how I'm supposed to integrate this with my web browsers (specifically both Camino and Safari). I don't really see anything in the preferences menu, but I do see a SpeedDownload contextual menu item within Safari. However, even when I click on a file, Safari is still the one that downloads.

Right now, I'm having to manually click 'Add' within SpeedDownload, then pasting in a url. But, this doesn't help for some share servers that don't allow you to copy the download link. I've heard the program knows how to avert this, but I can't find that either.

Can anyone help?
 
twylight said:
Hello again! Nothing to horrible here, just a question as i've already picked Evo's brains apart and searched as much as the interwebs will allow.

About a week ago I noticed that no webpages were loading on Firefox and my AIM wasn't working, be it through Adium, iChat, or on it's own. Throughout this last week I've have patches of everything running smooth on FireFox, and Safari. Other times Nothing on Firefox loads, but everything runs smooth on Safari. or other times when everything loads slow.

I'd think this was a router or Internet issue, but the router is also wirelessly connected to our Dell and it's running absolutely perfectly -stupid Dell-

Few things:
Current OS is Tiger, has all updates.
FireFox has all recent updates.

I admit that I haven't wanted to delete and re-install FireFox because I don't want to lose all my bookmarks. >.<;
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If you want to try reinstalling FireFox, you can save your bookmarks.

Click on Bookmarks | Organize Bookmarks

When the bookmarks window opens, click File | Export.

Then you can save your bookmarks to your desktop. When the new FireFox is installed, just do everything again, but choose import. Then choose import from file and open the bookmarks.html file you exported.


I also want to say that your bookmarks will be preserved through an uninstall/reinstall, but I'm not sure about that.
 
Wee! Thanks Wieg!

and I have an update:
For AIM I get this notice when it doesn't work:

"The Domain name server lookup for the specified host has failed. The host is unknown."

It appears to either be my ISP, or the DNS -I'm guessing here- because, as I said before, it connects and loads flawlessly to other wireless networks. Except for my house one >.<;

This evening I plugged the ethernet cable direcly into my laptop, cutting out the router and it still did the same things. Slow loads in FireFox, and no AIM service at all.

I can somewhat live without AIM, since I just use Meebo, bulky but it get's the job done. However I miss Firefox, not a fan of Safari.
 
Crook said:
Ok, just got a hold of a licensed copy of Speed Download 5.0

I need some help on how I'm supposed to integrate this with my web browsers (specifically both Camino and Safari). I don't really see anything in the preferences menu, but I do see a SpeedDownload contextual menu item within Safari. However, even when I click on a file, Safari is still the one that downloads.

Right now, I'm having to manually click 'Add' within SpeedDownload, then pasting in a url. But, this doesn't help for some share servers that don't allow you to copy the download link. I've heard the program knows how to avert this, but I can't find that either.

Can anyone help?
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Never used SpeedDownload, so I'm not going to be much help on this one.

twylight said:
Wee! Thanks Wieg!

and I have an update:
For AIM I get this notice when it doesn't work:

"The Domain name server lookup for the specified host has failed. The host is unknown."

It appears to either be my ISP, or the DNS -I'm guessing here- because, as I said before, it connects and loads flawlessly to other wireless networks. Except for my house one >.<;

This evening I plugged the ethernet cable direcly into my laptop, cutting out the router and it still did the same things. Slow loads in FireFox, and no AIM service at all.

I can somewhat live without AIM, since I just use Meebo, bulky but it get's the job done. However I miss Firefox, not a fan of Safari.
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Call your ISP and have them walk through your configuration on both your system and your DSL/Cable modem to make sure everything is current. Sometimes they change DNS IP's or other things on their end that wind up effecting you, but don't bother to tell you.

jag
 
How can I make it where iTunes plays videos from the very beginning everytime instead of where they were last left off?
 
I also think if you right click a video and select Not New from the list, it starts over on next play.
 
I have iTunes on my PC, (I know this if a MAC forum) is there a good way to appropriately back up the iTunes database physically (aside from Burning DVD's) to another hard drive?

I have been playing with this quite a bit thru iTunes
 
Malice said:
I have iTunes on my PC, (I know this if a MAC forum) is there a good way to appropriately back up the iTunes database physically (aside from Burning DVD's) to another hard drive?

I have been playing with this quite a bit thru iTunes
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As long as you're backing up your iTunes music and data directories (I don't know what these are called on the Windows side) as part of your normal backup process, they should be backed up just fine.

jag
 
jaguarr said:
As long as you're backing up your iTunes music and data directories (I don't know what these are called on the Windows side) as part of your normal backup process, they should be backed up just fine.

jag
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iTunes handles it a little strangely.
But I think I figured it out, I might type a doc on how to do it to help everyone out.

I have multiple hard drives and a NAS, and the NAS can work as additional storage, but iTunes does not allow you to use the NAS as a primary storage, which is really freaking annoying.
 
I have googled a bunch...some of the places I found are not entirely correct.
 
Can a power outage affect your Macs performance?

On, Sunday around 5pm we had a power outage here in Vegas. It lasted for about 3 minutes. Now, before the power outage I had my Imac on and was listening too my itunes nothing out of the ordinary. But, after the power went out I never bothered to turn my imac on again. I figured it was not a big deal.

I went out then when I came back my startup took 5 minutes! 5 MINUTES It would never take this long. And today, when I left for work I shut it down but it never turned off. I came home and it was still one, but my finder was not there just the desktop. Also, my internet is running way slooooooow......not as fast as kenyans like it use too.

¿Que Pasa?
 
Dodger said:
Can a power outage affect your Macs performance?

On, Sunday around 5pm we had a power outage here in Vegas. It lasted for about 3 minutes. Now, before the power outage I had my Imac on and was listening too my itunes nothing out of the ordinary. But, after the power went out I never bothered to turn my imac on again. I figured it was not a big deal.

I went out then when I came back my startup took 5 minutes! 5 MINUTES It would never take this long. And today, when I left for work I shut it down but it never turned off. I came home and it was still one, but my finder was not there just the desktop. Also, my internet is running way slooooooow......not as fast as kenyans like it use too.

¿Que Pasa?
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Power down, pull the power plug and let it sit for 30 minutes or so and then plug it back in and see how it does. It's possible something got fried during the power outage, though. If it's still running wonky after you try that, might be time to take it into the Apple Store or call Apple Support.

jag
 
Cmill216 said:
Okay, so I've got a serious problem here.

I went to click on a random folder on my desktop, and all of a sudden the entire desktop disappeared. I try clicking on the Finder icon, and it won't open. Try to click on the trash, it won't open. Safari, Firefox, iTunes and the rest of my dock work fine, but I can't access anything Finder-related. Spotlight locates files and opens them, but it won't open any kind of folder.

What the hell?
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Problem solved.......finally. :D

I archived and installed today, making sure that my settings and whatnot would remain intact. And now everything is back to normal. *sigh* :heart:
 
Still having Internet issues. >.<; My ISP has no idea what to do, and they literally have jumped me all over their inner workings for the last few weeks.

The updates are:

Firefox: Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Most of the time if it slows up to nothing I can just restart it and it works fine.

AIM: Not working at all either on it's own, through iChat or Adium.

Youtube: I get this http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/twylight/Picture5.png



And the last straw >.<;;;
I went to Meebo tonight to get on AIM and I got this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/twylight/Picture1.png

I'm at my wits end...Firefox has been uninstalled and re-installed. My computer is totally updated....and if it has to do with my internet connection I'm hitting a brick wall -literally-.
 
twylight said:
Still having Internet issues. >.<; My ISP has no idea what to do, and they literally have jumped me all over their inner workings for the last few weeks.

The updates are:

Firefox: Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Most of the time if it slows up to nothing I can just restart it and it works fine.

AIM: Not working at all either on it's own, through iChat or Adium.

Youtube: I get this http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/twylight/Picture5.png



And the last straw >.<;;;
I went to Meebo tonight to get on AIM and I got this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/twylight/Picture1.png

I'm at my wits end...Firefox has been uninstalled and re-installed. My computer is totally updated....and if it has to do with my internet connection I'm hitting a brick wall -literally-.
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I am not a MAC person at all...

But I have some thoughts first.
Have you run a speed test on your net connection?
Goto speedtest.net (I think)

Those pictures of the web look like setting that you can sometimes do to not display graphics...
Try installing another browser...since you said you have been using firefox...try Opera, its actually a great browser...see what that gives you.
 
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