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Evening Dr Jools,
I wonder if you could give me advise on 2 problems?
1. I have filled the HDD on my MacMini I'm using it as a music / video store and surfing - Do you recommend external Firewire or USB2 HDD? (guess either way spin speed and ave seek time important for video)
2. My baby is connected to my Plasma via a DVI ->HDMI (the depth of colour is amazing compared to DVI -> VGA on the same TV) but the overscan is bugging me. My TV can only move the picture up/down or left/right ie not reduce width or height - DO you know if an ATI driver for the video card exists to allow this alteration?
TIA
Mr M
PS Google for March 20th if you're a real man fed up with the one-sidedness Valentine's Day
(apologies in advance for the Hijack)
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Posted: 2006-02-25 22:24:21
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1. Firewire is definitely is what I would recomend for Mac. USB2, although it claims to be as fast as FireWire 400, in reality isn't. Also there's some nifty bus-powered FireWire drives which means you need no separate power supply.
2. Is there not an overscan option in the Mac 'Displays' preference pane when connected to a TV? There is on my eMac...
Alternatively, you could try installing the ATI Displays Updater for after-market Readeon 9200 graphics cards, it also installs an ATI specific preference pane which has additional options (although I can't say whether overscan is one of them!)
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13327
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Posted: 2006-02-25 22:38:02
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Cheers matey a monster FireWire it is!
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Posted: 2006-02-25 22:45:21
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Howdy @Jools tonight's questions:
I purchased my MacMini with OS X 10.3.7 pre installed, do I still have to fork out the full price for OS X 10.4?
Is it worth it?
PS no joy with the overscan - no options in Display or ATi controls will will try my DVI SyncMaster to test if it's the plasma thats causing the options to be surpressed.
Mr M
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Posted: 2006-02-27 23:21:08
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Hi mince, im not jools though can help (i think) basically run the software upgrade on the mac (click the apple symbol on left hand side) and go to run software upgrade, if after running it it, it still shows 10.3. whatever it means you need the latest version, if this is the case pm me and I have a copy I can send you.
no idea bout the LCD
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Posted: 2006-02-27 23:36:10
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All the 10.x upgrades are paid for ones, 10.3.x and 10.4.x upgrades are the free ones. I'd definately say that 10.4 is worth it (but then again, I didn't pay for my copy!).
I'm thinking now that maybe you don't get the overscan options unless the Mac detects a PAL/NTSC display. Are there any controls on the monitor itself to squeeze the picture about a bit?
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Posted: 2006-02-27 23:51:47
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Does anybody know if I can get my netscape e-mail account to synchronise with the Mail software on the OS?
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Posted: 2006-02-28 01:08:25
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Hi jools, it might be a stupid question but can I ask how i can connect my SE W900 to my Apple eMac using USB? I want to try to configure my fon using that computer? Thanks in advance
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Posted: 2006-02-28 04:46:13
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You won't be able to use iSync via USB as all Sony Ericsson phones sync via Bluetooth only. On my site (see sig.) there's an iSync 2.0 Phone Plugin to enable W900 support in Tiger.
The most you can do with a USB cable is use it for transferring files to the memory stick in the phone. Although many people with W900's are having problems getting the phone to mount on the desktop, like the K750, W800 etc. do. At present there seems to be no solution to this.
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Posted: 2006-02-28 11:27:08
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I was wondering whether auotmator will rename my photos? You see i have loads and i cannot be bothered naming them one by one so wondered if it would do it for me, just number them 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 etc etc. Is this a stupid question i have never used automator you see.
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Posted: 2006-03-01 15:03:47
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