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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows vs. Mac: I'm starting to change.

« Last post by cmpm on October 14, 2009, 09:16 AM »

Yes, I can see apple being about hardware and MS about software. Thanks for that input wraith808.

Don't know if apple has a patent on their format though.
Seems ms could put in the ability to create a mac partition.
There's a lot I don't know, nor care about.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows vs. Mac: I'm starting to change.

« Last post by cmpm on October 14, 2009, 07:47 AM »

Microsoft is guilty of the same tactics is what I'm saying.
 It's about money!

I can install MS windows on a Mac.
I can't install Mac on a Computer built for MS windows.
So you say it's apple's fault.
I don't really know.
If hackers can do it, certainly ms can.

and yeah i know a mac is a pc
thinking of that stupid commercial.....
"I'm a pc"
they don't say ms windows you know

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows vs. Mac: I'm starting to change.

« Last post by cmpm on October 14, 2009, 06:33 AM »

Whatever....

The windows machine will not be built to handle the OSX format.
Their 90% would change. They are not that stupid.

Apple made a marketing move to use intel and bootcamp.

It's about their money, both of them, not what we, the computer users would like.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows vs. Mac: I'm starting to change.

« Last post by cmpm on October 14, 2009, 06:11 AM »

It's Apple's fault that MS and it's mob won't make Windows capable of handling OSX?

I'm quite sure ms could do it. But they will not.
That would change the market for MS.
I'm pretty sure if Windows could run Apple's OS,
there would be a change in what's on the shelf in the OS aisle.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows vs. Mac: I'm starting to change.

« Last post by cmpm on October 13, 2009, 08:28 PM »

There are two separate video cards on the newer MacBook Pros. One (the 9400m) is for everyday graphics and requires less power. The 9600M GT has its own memory (512mb) and is a high-end graphics card for gaming, etc.

I figure the 512 is for an external monitor.

Not sure, I didn't get much of a chance to check it out.
There wasn't much time for me to get to know it.
The owner of it needed to use it as long as he could before college to learn OSX.

2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo
4GB RAM
500GB HD
15 inch display
7 hour battery

A student discount was going then, 10 maybe 15 percent off.
Free canon printer/scanner, free ipod, i forget what else.
Maybe that's all. A little over $2000, o yeah msoffice for mac, student.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows vs. Mac: I'm starting to change.

« Last post by cmpm on October 13, 2009, 06:16 PM »

well. hm

this is primarily a pc site
not for mac users

wraith808-
The price for a Mac on the lower end is more expensive, but as you scale up, the price isn't that much different, I've found.

i couldn't have said it better myself
and with bootcamp built into mac,
ms windows can be installed whenever one is ready to

the actual comparisons i've seen
of a mac pro and a comparable pc
gives mac OSX the edge over Vista and XP, at this time
that's without windows7 considered

being able to really install both OS on one computer is a plus
that is one reason for the one i bought
pc's can't do it like a mac can
i wish a pc could, i'd like to try macOSX myself
instead of listening to everyone else's opinion
and not virtual either but installed with any quirks that come up
---
the sales pitch for macs really do suck
mainly because of slamming a pc
without comparing how a mac handles the same things
besides, there is nothing in particular pointed out in a pc specifically
just the ideas are thrown out, pc is a bad move, without facts or proof

but i don't see much ads from ms about it's actual workings
...well i haven't seen much ads for mswindows at all...

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the best image-"framer"?

« Last post by cmpm on October 12, 2009, 08:14 PM »

this is very cool i think

not exactly framing
but more then i expected

http://www.photojoy..../index.aspx?id=10005

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General Software Discussion / Re: My text file manipulation needs

« Last post by cmpm on October 12, 2009, 08:04 AM »

http://translateclient.com/

It sets in the tray waiting to be activated for programs.
Not sure if it will work with whatever program you use.

A google product.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Security Essentials

« Last post by cmpm on October 06, 2009, 12:18 PM »

Before you install Microsoft Security Essentials, you should disable or uninstall other security-related programs.

from the mse site

That's the dead-end for me with windows security essentials.
What if MSE is a security threat?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are some good multimedia viewers?

« Last post by cmpm on October 05, 2009, 06:11 PM »

http://www.irfanview.com/

Can open images, music and videos.
Not sure about the tagging though.
I haven't tried tagging.

Get the plugins for sure....

http://www.software.com/irfanview-plugin

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows vs. Mac: I'm starting to change.

« Last post by cmpm on October 04, 2009, 11:57 AM »

That is a good analogy Innuendo.

And yes he is looking for different programs for his mac.
But everything he needs for college is in OSX.
He also has ms office for mac.

I'm sure he will find what he wants eventually.
The extra mac choices are limited though.
As I stated in my first post on this thread.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows vs. Mac: I'm starting to change.

« Last post by cmpm on October 04, 2009, 07:32 AM »

Yes, I know about backing up my pc, and do.
I don't know about a mac though.
What I do know is, it doesn't take long for a reformat,
since the OS has everything he needs already.
I'm pro PC myself, and wouldn't switch to a mac.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows vs. Mac: I'm starting to change.

« Last post by cmpm on October 03, 2009, 10:32 PM »

No, it was not a whim, he knows more about macs then me.
For a couple of years he has wanted this.
And he deserves it and anything else he wants to do college.
A lot of his friends have macs as well.
He also knows about pcs.

I think that's all I can say about your post fodder.
At this point.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows vs. Mac: I'm starting to change.

« Last post by cmpm on October 03, 2009, 07:33 PM »

The plus of macs imho, is that you can reload it/reformat and get everything back without 3 days of updates. And downloading things to make it do what it needs to.

My son in college uses a mac, and I told him to be sure to save his work to the college's servers or his flash drive. Just in case.
And I feel like he has more time to do his college work then mess with a pc.

The problems he has run in to has been more in the format area. Such as not being able to read or write to ntfs. And problems converting certain videos, divx for one. So then there is a search for mac compatible converters, and reading the user guide a lot, just to figure out how to do things the mac can do.

Overall, even with the price I paid, I'm glad he has a mac to do his college work. Cause he would be distracted with a pc, with it's games and it's flexibility to get almost any program to accomplish any task. While finding a program to convert divx to something a mac can read I have not found. Of course the divx came from a pc.

Personally I will stay with a pc, but I hear the student for mac deal, as a parent. Half of his dorm has macs. I know he's not playing most of his games cause he can't.

I don't know enough about macs to do what I can on a pc.
Which may be the bias for me.

edit- in case you were curious,
he wanted the macbook pro
i tried to talk him into a pc notebook
but a macbook pro is what he wanted
so he has it

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Security Essentials

« Last post by cmpm on September 30, 2009, 06:33 AM »

I run Avira AntiVir Personal and bought Malwarebytes for full time protection. Malwarebytes says it can run with any antivirus program.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox - new window - can you remember the google search you opened with

« Last post by cmpm on September 28, 2009, 07:43 AM »

HighlightAll may help. Or not.

Whatever is highlighted stays highlighted till you actually x out the tab. It stays highlighted if you open a web page on top of that tab. clicking back, you will see the words are still highlighted, though every occurrence is highlighted. Which is it's main function.

https://addons.mozil...S/firefox/addon/4240

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Living Room / Re: My Computers Latest Woes - Seeking Advice

« Last post by cmpm on September 27, 2009, 08:22 PM »

If you can get into safe mode. remove both programs and any MS Visual C++ Redistributable package. Reinstall what you want later.

If you can't get into safe mode with f8 or whatever, shut off the computer while it's loading with the loading graphic of the green dots moving from left to right. That should trigger the options to load safe mode.

I also would use acronis after this action and before loading the pdf program and MS Visual C++ Redistributable package.

If you have a registry backup of right before the problem, that might help to restore it as well.

Or all this might make it worse, darn windows.
My 2 cents.

Then see what you have after each step.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rant: Firefox 3.5.x

« Last post by cmpm on September 26, 2009, 06:36 AM »

Sounds like a video card driver issue.
Maybe update the drivers if it needs it.
Or it's an ATI card to which there is no fix,
that I know of.

The longer the web page the worse it is,
is that correct?

There is a rogue copy of flash for Firefox roaming the net.
Try uninstalling flash and reinstall it from filehippo.com.

http://www.filehippo...flashplayer_firefox/

Same with shockwave.

http://www.filehippo.../download_shockwave/

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General Software Discussion / Re: How Can I Globally Rename the File Types in WinXP Pro (SP2)?

« Last post by cmpm on September 19, 2009, 11:59 AM »

What do you all think of this program for XP?
It's pointing to Vista and win7 mostly.
Wondering if any one has tried it,
or if the other programs listed here are better.

http://defaultprogramseditor.com/

http://defaultprogra...itor.com/screenshots

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General Software Discussion / Re: How To Type Symbols and more

« Last post by cmpm on September 10, 2009, 05:17 AM »

Maybe this site will help.
There are a few alternatives.

http://tlt.its.psu.e...accents/codeint.html

http://tlt.its.psu.e...accents/charmap.html

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General Software Discussion / How To Type Symbols and more

« Last post by cmpm on September 09, 2009, 12:02 PM »

http://www.howtotype.net/

from freedownloadaday

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General Software Discussion / Re: Has anyone tried Perfect Utilities ?

« Last post by cmpm on September 08, 2009, 09:26 PM »

what i've noticed is cleaning temp files helps the most

with xp 2003, i use registry cleaners-Regseeker and Ccleaner

now i'm using xp media center and tried a registry clean
it did not go well
when i finally got it from my son and reformated
reinstalled the system
i ran reg cleaners just to see what would happen
i had to reformat and reinstall

so i agree Carol that regcleaning is trouble
and i won't do it on the xp media center

one thing interesting is the 2003 xp is on a pentium 3
and cleaning the registry helped
but not on the media center

i experimented a lot on the p3
so i do see good results with that system

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free WinUtilities 6.2!

« Last post by cmpm on August 17, 2009, 08:01 PM »

I used some of the functions of Perfect Utilities with no problems. Most of the other functions, which are disabled by default, I use other programs for. I also didn't use all the functions that are enabled by default.

There are some things in the program that are unique. Just have to look around a bit to get familiar with it.

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Living Room / Re: ghacks examines tools to download Youtube videos

« Last post by cmpm on August 10, 2009, 05:28 PM »

Vixy has a desktop version which works nicely.

Although it has a web based service,
Vixy.net Converter Desktop Version (BETA),
works, and doesn't require conversion if chosen.

http://vixy.net/

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Adreamsoft PDF to Word 2.0_Convert the Read-Only PDF file to Word easily

« Last post by cmpm on August 02, 2009, 07:20 AM »

sorry for that post -
reply#7
an over reaction...