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• Leopard Installs Not Always Problem Free After the customary until-you-cant-take-it-anymore 30-minute waiting period, I installed 10.5 Leopard on the Mac mini that serves my local network. The mini isn’t my primary work machine, and it’s regular duties are fairly straight forward: transport backups, be invisible. As such, the upgrade was quick and straight-forward (but I wasn’t really paying attention, I was working while
• Asks: Should We Buy a HD TiVo? Our Series2 TiVo is on its last legs. With each passing day, its over-the-air recordings (we’re a no cable household) are more and more unwatchable, while digital over-the-air recordings are getting more stable. But seriously, TV without TiVo is like email without a spam filter. Back in January, I replaced our DVD player w/ a Mac
• Disc Drives to Go the Way of Disc Drives I predict in 2 years, Apple will start shipping computers lacking CD/DVD drives. Why Apple? They were the first to drop 3.5″ floppy drives, Zip drives, and modems. So, how will big, heavy software installs (like OS’s) be shipped? I’m thinking USB flash drives or network connections. What else is the .Mac storage and a
• Internet-to-TV: How to Beat TiVo “Sling Media’s entertainment division, told B&C that through SlingCatcher, users will be able to…bring online video content to the TV.” [via Fimoculous] The idea of getting any internet-delivered video presented on a television is something I’ve talked about here and here. ELSEWHERE “the SlingCatcher is different from other digital media servers because it just relays whatever is on your
• eMac Fax Modem Killed My Phone Line I had to send a couple faxes yesterday. Something I do so infrequently that I just use the OS X’s built-in faxing on these rare occasions. The modem on my Powerbook hasn’t been working right for a while now - neither has the disc drive. I’m getting a real good idea of how much I