Apple Powerbooks

[rico]

Got mine in the post this morning.

Absolutely gorgeous, seems to work TONNES better than my windows based pc, great programs (i-tunes etc) and a sorted OS.

Big public thank you to Paul Barker for his help. Cheers mate

Any fellow apple owners have any advice? Any websites to visit for good downloads?

Cheers all. Rico

[lx993]

Macs are superb now they have OS X. Great hardware as well.

Advice? Put loads of RAM in it (my powerbook has 1 GB). Enable journalling on the filesystem (this and other useful tips available on macosxhints.com)

Apple's Safari web browser is OK but doesn't always handle things perfectly (e.g. some net banking sites) - a good alternative is Camino (basically an OS X port of the linux crew's Mozilla browser).
If you do Unix stuff then download the Apple X11 app, and get Fink installed (ports of popular Unix software)

[Sparks]

www.macassist.co.uk

Has a very good bunch of people on the forum, and if you want kit, the service is very good (bought my iBook from them).

It is a little frustrating when you can't read the latest MS word docs, but their are solutions other than shelling out for M$ sh1te.

Other than that it is great. Mine also plays PS1 games, GT anyone?

Sparks

[page3]

These sites are worth a look:

www.versiontracker.com/macosx/index.shtml
http://xlr8yourmac.com/
www.macrumors.com/
http://macnn.com/

Enjoy

[Bacardi]

rico said:

Big public thank you to Paul Barker for his help. Cheers mate Any fellow apple owners have any advice?

Yep, wouldn't take any notice of that to$$er for a start

rico said:

Any websites to visit for good downloads?

Did I mention for peer to peer networking Acquisition or Limewire?

www.xlife.org

www.limewire.com

[lx993]

Acquisition is MUCH nicer than limewire (even though it uses the same java code!!). You take your chances with those fascists in America re: file sharing though (if you have a monster library)

The same programmer developed something called RadioFree as well - not sure if it's still available. Basically it lets you record the MP3s that you listen to on streaming internet radio services. They're built into iTunes and there's some good stuff on there if you have a fat enough pipe. RadioFree simply creates a folder for the radio station and sticks all the MP3s in there. Definitely recommended!!

[jodypress]

lx993 said:

Acquisition is MUCH nicer than limewire (even though it uses the same java code!!). You take your chances with those fascists in America re: file sharing though (if you have a monster library) The same programmer developed something called RadioFree as well - not sure if it's still available. Basically it lets you record the MP3s that you listen to on streaming internet radio services. They're built into iTunes and there's some good stuff on there if you have a fat enough pipe. RadioFree simply creates a folder for the radio station and sticks all the MP3s in there. Definitely recommended!!

i have to agree, just started using acquisition and am really impressed. found everything i wanted and more, all virus free and useable. have you got a url for RadioFree? can't seem to find it on the xlife site.
thanks
jody

[rico]

I'm probably being dumb but...

What program should i download to play avis that have come from my camcorder?

Got Windows Media Player, Quicktime etc

Cheers

Andy

[page3]

VLC
or
MPLAYER.

Both amazing. You can find both on www.versiontracker.com.

Oops, re-read your post. Perhaps not avis - I'll have to go and check.

>> Edited by page3 on Sunday 17th August 21:08

[jmorgan]

Media player is a bit lame on the mac(for codec 9), do a search and it seems we are stuffed so to speak.
Also another handy link
www.macpicks.com/

>> Edited by jmorgan on Sunday 17th August 21:16

[lx993]

jodypress said:

lx993 said: Acquisition is MUCH nicer than limewire (even though it uses the same java code!!). You take your chances with those fascists in America re: file sharing though (if you have a monster library) The same programmer developed something called RadioFree as well - not sure if it's still available. Basically it lets you record the MP3s that you listen to on streaming internet radio services. They're built into iTunes and there's some good stuff on there if you have a fat enough pipe. RadioFree simply creates a folder for the radio station and sticks all the MP3s in there. Definitely recommended!! i have to agree, just started using acquisition and am really impressed. found everything i wanted and more, all virus free and useable. have you got a url for RadioFree? can't seem to find it on the xlife site. thanks jody

I think he must have pulled it to concentrate development efforts on Acquisition, or perhaps due to legal aggro. However, the version I picked up ages ago works for me most of the time. I've slapped it on my servers so you can download it from ftp.lx-net.com (use anonymous login). Mail me if you have any problems picking it up from there...

[Sparks]

rico said:

I'm probably being dumb but... What program should i download to play avis that have come from my camcorder? Got Windows Media Player, Quicktime etc Cheers Andy

Go get DivX (www.divx.com I think) This will give you a program to convert most (but not all) avi files so that QT will play them. Works for me on 10.2.6

Sparks

[rico]

Hey all. Me again.

I've installed F1 Championship: Season 2000 (EA GAMES) onto the powerbook. Installation went fine. Loads up fine. But no graphics. Zippo. Nowt. Sound is fine, and i can guess where buttons might be and the sound effects change so its definitely running but no picture.

Any ideas?

If it helps, the game was a present bought in America...

Cheers all. Rico