Jun 15 2010

New Mac Mini Sports HDMI port and nVidia 320 Graphics

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But the Apple Store on online appears to be closed temporally. Looks like a bargain starting at $699 for 2.4ghz processor and 4 gigs of RAM.  Ram expandable to 8 gigs.  Easy access to ram, bottom just twists off for access.

New All Alumnium Mac Mini

features

port features 4 USB FW 800 Built in power supply

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Apr 10 2010

Cancer Really Sucks, Big Time
- crummy way to diet though

Published by Avi Learner under GCMAC List

Sliced open from behind my ear down my neck 3/4 around my neck. For those of you following the GCMAC listserv you already know I have been battling Squamous Cell Carcinoma discovered in a golf ball sized swollen lymph node on my neck. Neck Slice.The ENT doctor didn’t tell me it was major surgery, rather a biopsy “dissection”. Unless they couldn’t determine with local biopsies, then he would remove the swollen one. Once I awoke from surgery he told me that he removed the swollen one and 41 others on the the right side of my neck.

• Seems like this is one of those “curable Cancers” with a 90% success rates. It’s still the worst pain I have ever experienced, with daily radiation treatments for the last four weeks. It was all I could do to take a ride to the hospital each day, get a treatment, then home and collapse into bed.

• My darling children and my ex-wife have been providing some care, but I wasn’t doing to well living on my own, most of the time. Got so dehydrated then delirious, I am back in the hospital getting continuous fluids as of last Thursday, anti-nausea medicine, with four more radiation treatments to go.

• Not the best weight loss regimen I’d recommend, but I’ve shed 90 pounds since leaving Florida last May – good riddance. My life style is changing, and I’m determined to dance with at my Granddaughter Leah’s wedding!

Gramps & Leah

Gramps & Leah

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Feb 25 2009

Re: [GCMAC] syncing Blackberry to Mac

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Hey Marian,

Pocket Mac is a horrible application, and I believe the Curve is not supported. Have him/her try Missing Sync for Blackberry. They just came out with a new v2.0 for the Blackberry platform. It’s going to
cost $40, but it is well worth it.

http://www.markspace.com

Giuseppe Di Franco
gdifranco@me.com

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Feb 25 2009

[GCMAC] syncing Blackberry to Mac

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Dear BlackBerry users,

A co-worker has a Blackberry Curve that she would like to sync with her iMac running OX 10.4.11. She says she downloaded the Pocket Mac software, but her Mac will not see the BlackBerry at all. Not sure if she also installed the updated drivers or not. Or if she needs to. Any suggestions on how to solve this? Buying an iPhone is not an option. ;-)

Thanks much!
Marian Wertalka

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Jan 17 2008

Mad?…Pundidiots help Take a Bite Out of Apple

Published by Avi Learner under MacTalk

MacBook Air.

I’ve counted over 30 articles from the likes of the WS Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg, TheStreet.com to Macswoop, mostly pointing out how disappointed they are with Apple’s Q1 Financial Report. The company reports a 47% profit increase and a 57% rise in profit. What do ya’ll expect? Steve Jobs plays poker AND HOLDS HIS CARDS close to his vest? 


Apple just isn’t going to let anyone know what the future holds, until they are darn good and ready. 

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Jan 09 2008

Advice that worked:
Archive and Install, trash haxies, kill .plists

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From Macfixit this is a great article

Archive and Install
It’s amazing how much controversy was generated by our recommendation that users perform an Archive and Install when upgrading from Mac OS X 10.4.x to Mac OS X 10.5.x, with pundits claiming that the process represents a wholly unnecessary waste of time. This despite the fact that hundreds if not thousands of who used the default “Upgrade” path experienced problems that could have been obviated by the generally painless and relatively quick Archive and Install process, which we initially recommended and Apple later proposed itself in a Knowledge Base article.

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Dec 17 2007

Moving Icons in your menu bar (and Dock)

Published by Avi Learner under MacTalk

Below is the movie I made showing icons moving in the top right of the menu bar, while holding down the “COMMAND” key. Some icons seem they cannot move, while others can but will only drop in certain areas. This is on Leopard 10.5.1, Macbook Pro 2.33

Dock Rearranging 

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Oct 17 2007

Jobs Announces iPhone SDK tools

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We think a few months of patience now will be rewarded by many years of great third party applications running on safe and reliable iPhones.

Steve (P. Jobs)

P.S.: The SDK will also allow developers to create applications for iPod touch. [Oct 17, 2007]

I’m not sure why Steve Jobs didn’t just think of saying this back at the Developer Conference when announcing the iPhone. He could have said “soon after” or “within a reasonable amount of time” or “soon, with relation to the release of Leopard and it’s new SDK’s”. Perhaps this is all part of his plan anyway. They say, “… any press is good press”, so I imagine the furor over the iPhone and it’s “closed” architecture was a test for Apple to find out how vulnerable this v.1 product is, also to see how truly interested developers really are in the platform.

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Sep 06 2007

Thanks Steve-O, I’ll be happy to spend another $100.00 in your store!

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Thanks Steve. It’s a fair gesture – and it should appease we worried investors, even though it’s only costing Apple $100 Million or so. Probably not even that seeing as you have to buy another Apple product that is also marked up. I’m going to pick up iWork & iLife. I’m tired of waiting for our NFR copies.

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Jul 13 2007

If I had to gripe about the iPhone… here it is.

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I’ve seen people griping about different shortcomings of the new iPhone. Mostly though, people seem to be loving them.

What’s my pet peeve? You cannot manually add songs as you choose, directly to the iPhone! You can add playlists, but not by drag & drop. Oh no, you have to select which playlists to add to the phone. So if you just want to add 1 song, it MUST BE IN A PLAYLIST! This is a really stupid programming oversight. You’d think with the success of the iPOD, Apple would know to make the interface consistent with the iPod. You also have to perform “Sync” in order to add the song. I didn’t really buy an iPhone to use as a music player. I bought it for other features, and so far I am pretty happy with the decision.

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