I’ve been using iTunes for a while on my computer and now have a pretty darn large music collection. Rather than have it all work with shuffle mode, I’m interested in learning about playlists, and particularly about smart playlists in iTunes. What can you tell me and what smart playlists do you have?
Dave, in my film class we’re supposed to write an essay about movies that address the dangers and problems with overly homogeneous, uniform cultures where there’s huge pressure to conform to group behaviors. I’m kind of stuck for what movies to focus upon. Since I know you’re a movie fan, do you have any suggestions?
Buying a television has never been more complicated than today, with four primary television technologies — plasma, projection, LCD or CRT — and a variety of different scan rates and resolutions, including HD, which has different meanings for different vendors.
More televised and DVD content is becoming available in High Definition (HD), digital broadcasting is becoming a requirement for terrestrial broadcasters, and more TVs are coming on the market to take advantage of these technologies. The result? It’s getting more difficult to stick with your old CRT TV, but hard to know which new technology will work best.
My Mac has a rather flaky lid catch and I’d love to figure out a way that I can disable the “wake on lid open” capability of the MacBook. I understand that there is some sort of solution, but for the life of me I can’t find anything!
I’m confused. I’ve been using MySpace for a long time and have always had comments just show up, but suddenly I got a message that was a “Request to Approve Comment”. What the heck does it mean, and what’s special about this particular comment?
Dave, I saw your older article on how to disable guest access to your computer (see how to disable guest access on your Mac for wireless users) but it no longer works as the plutil file appears to be in a different format that won’t let you edit it. Help!
Dear Dave, how the heck do I copy the harddrive icon onto the taskbar of my mac?
In which we get the hottest video game system from Christmas 2006 and turn it into a Linux box? You bet!
If you’re still thinking about video game systems as being just a wee bit more technologically advanced than an old Coleco or Atari 800, you’ve got quite a surprise coming the first time you crack open the proverbial hood. While the new Nintendo Wii (pronounced “wee”, oddly enough) has some slick hardware, as does the Microsoft Xbox 360 device, the real winner in the technology race is the rather amazing Sony Playstation 3 system.
Built around an IBM Cell Broadband Engine processor, the PS3 includes a high def Blu-ray drive, four USB 2.0 ports, an Nvidia graphics processor with 256MB of separate video RAM, support for Compact Flash, SD and Memory Stick devices, Ethernet, built-in 802.11b and g, Bluetooth, an HDMI port and support for all the video resolutions you can imagine, including 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i and the holy grail, 1080p. Sounds like a computer, not a video game system, doesn’t it?
[This is a reader-contributed article]
For the longest time my wife has wanted a hands free system in her car so that she did not have to use a headset or handle the phone while driving. Her description always included a cradle setup, but she did not know where to put the cradle in the car (a 2002 Audi A6).
For her birthday this year I finally took the initiative and did some research. I found that there are some very good bluetooth solutions out there. My wife’s Treo 700p is — mostly — bluetooth capable, but more on that later.
For various reasons, including good reviews, reputation (Motorola seems to know a thing or two about voice communications), features and price I went with the Motorola IHF1000 Car Kit.
There really didn’t seem to be much to the kit when it came in the mail, though: an interface (they call it a UIM for “User Interface Module”), a control module (a rectangular black box), a 5W speaker, a microphone and a wiring harness. I thought the speaker was redundant since I had planned to use the car’s audio system for receiving calls, but that plan changed as installation progressed…
I tried to get IE to ask me if it wanted to be the default browser, but it will not. I keep checking the box and shutting the computer down. I am an unfortunate who had mozilla firefox foisted upon them, please help me restore IE as my default browser.
