Apple Mac stuff

The iPod microphone iTalk has many possibilities:

When you've got a really fat teacher that mumbles during your lessons at college, but your parents don't believe you, record the fat teacher on your iPod. Its the only way to sort the problem out.

Wow, a whistleblower that didn't get in trouble.

You can unstall Linux on the iPod and then record for free or play Doom on an iPod.

One reason to look in at an Apple Store are the thirty inch Cinema HD Displays. These unfeasibly huge screens need two special new Geforce cards to drive their 4.1M pixels.

Apple at MoMA photoset

Newsfire is a very sexy RSS aggregator.

Audion is now free. 1. install. 2. register with free password. You can then copy playlists to it or access iPod files directly. And the story of why Audion is now free is fascinating.

iTunes LAME encoder. Many people prefer the sound quality of this mp3 encoder to the new m4a encoder in QuickTime/iTunes.

Game: Homeworld 2. Looks like it's time to upgrade my iMac. This is apparently like an interactive Chris Foss painting. Chris illustrated many sf book covers in the 1970s.

Keys:

CMD Shift I = inspector
ALT ESC = complete the word
CTRL EJECT = Shutdown
CMD OPT CTRL 8 = White on black

Problems logging in? Run Diablotin to check startup items.

Network problems? In system prefs, try setting Network, Ethernet, manual, MTU to 1458 because 1500 is too big for some ISPs. Restart to make sure the value has changed.

From MacFormat, October 2004:

If you can toggle Caps Lock, then it's a 'hang' not a 'freeze'. Hang is software (usually), freeze is hardware.