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It has been a long time coming, but Apple has finally announced that iTunes is going DRM-free. As in, all songs on the iTunes site will ditch DRM. That's everything from Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group and EMI along with thousands of indie labels. All with their …

I need to open a .AL file on a pc. It is some type of animation program file. Does anyone know what I can download to convert it to PC readable format.

I am replacing the HardDrive on a 350mhz iMac g3. The hard drive replacement has went ok, meaning I was able to replace the OS 9 and OS X operating system with out much trouble. So far I have the original drive intact but failing. I have two partitions on …

Is there a free photo editing that is simple to use for mac os x. I have GIMP but is there another simple free program available for basic photo editing?

[ATTACH=right]14341[/ATTACH]There has been a lot of talk the past couple of days about[URL="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/08/apple-announces-iad-mobile-advertising-platform/"] Apple's new ad network[/URL]. The way it will work is that ads will live within the closed environment of the App Store apps. This supposedly means that that Apple will fully vet each ad it allows in …

[ATTACH=right]14321[/ATTACH][URL="http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/04/08iphoneos.html"]Apple released details of iPhone OS 4.0 [/URL]today, but let owners of older versions of the phone know that they wouldn't be invited to the party. Unfortunately, according to Apple, owners of first and second generation iPhones (and iPod Touches for that matter) don't have the processing power to handle …

i devlop one intranet application that gives totally hardware information like memor information,harddisk informatation ,i found may shell comand that give me this information but i can't find mother-board information so if any one had an idea then please tell me.

With the iPad dominating the news this weekend, what with the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story272722.html"]first units being delivered[/URL] and then [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story273324.html"]quickly jailbroken[/URL], you might think that there could be little in the tech world to upstage it, at least in terms of media frenzy, for a few days. However, it would appear that …

I bought Disk Warrior and used it 4 times successfully. Then it started telling me, before replacing the directories, that to insure a failsafe replacement, that I needed to delete 98mb of 'contiguous' space for it to do so. Neither Alsoft nor Apple can tell me how to accomplish this. …

Hi, I am a very new mac user. I was wondering how to move the cursor to the beginning and end of a text line. I tried to use home and end which apparently do not work as expected in a windows/linux system. Okay it works as expected in say …

[ATTACH=right]14127[/ATTACH] [I]We can be Heroes For ever and ever What d'you say ~David Bowie, Heroes [/I] Yesterday afternoon I read with some surprise that [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/24/AR2010032401543.html"]domain registrar Go Daddy was following Google out of China[/URL]. It seems they had had quite enough of the Chinese government's restrictions, and like Google, decided …

How do I turn off the new message notification that appears on my screen every time an e-mail arrives in Thunderbird?

I'm having trouble with flash player. I had no problem viewing flash on my Safari and IE but when I tried to upgrade to flash 9 everything went bad. First of all I couldn't download flash 9 update. When i tried it downloaded up till "4 items remaining" and it …

Hi I have the blue tower G4. I have been using skype but can only get a good video contact the speech (voice) is garbled. Turn off video and the speech is good. I have tried new drivers for the web cam which is Called a Macam but it did …

hi guys! just wanted to share that I've just grabed a trial version of NTFS for Mac OS X 8.0 Release Candidate from Paragon....and starting to try this... it provides support of Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard in 64 bit mode! you can have it from their site.

Last night during the Oscars, Apple debuted [URL="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/03/07/apple_posts_surprise_ad_for_ipad_during_the_oscars.html"]its first iPad commercial[/URL]. Steve Jobs was even at the awards ceremony and [URL="http://www.tipb.com/2010/03/07/steve-jobs-oscars-red-carpet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheIphoneBlog+(The+iPhone+Blog)&utm_content=Google+Reader"]reportedly walked the Red Carpet[/URL]. The iPad is due out the first of next month and many folks have already announced plans to run out and buy one the second …

I'm trying to find some VM software that can access more than 256mb of the video card. Parallels tops out at 256mb. It won't let you access more than that. The machine I intend to run this on will be an 8core mac pro workstation desktop with 8gigs of RAM …

I bought a MacBook a while ago and with it came an OS 9 cd, and having lost the cd for the main computer (a G4 tower) i threw the cd into the drive... i couldn't open the OS 9 install program because it required me to open the classic …

Two numbers that Apple fans won't forget in a hurry have made the headlines this week: 10 billion and 40 billion. The first refers to the 10 billion songs that have now been downloaded from the iTunes Store. The 10 billionth song was the eerily appropriate "Guess Things Happen That …

I have to admit it - I'm one of the people who uses an [URL="http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/apple_tv?mco=MTAyNTQzMjU"]Apple TV[/URL] occasionally. It's a very nice box and sits under my television. Apple has done uncharacteristically little with it. There is speculation, following Wal-Mart's entry into the television streaming world, that Apple might be prompted …

I purchased a series of classes which are in the form of downloads. Typical size 350MB - Videos. Actually I did this for more than one session of classes. The first set of classes downloaded fine. Took 3+ hours each, but they opened appropriately in Quickbooks and/or iTunes. The second …

In 1987, Thomas Knoll developed a pixel imaging program called Display. It was a simple program to showcase grayscale images on a black-and-white monitor. However, after collaborating with his brother John Knoll, the two began adding features that made it possible to process digital image files. The program eventually caught …

A couple of weeks ago, I had the great pleasure of seeing [URL="http://stevegarfield.com"]Steve Garfield[/URL] speak at [URL="http://podcamp.pbworks.com/PodCampWesternMass"]Pod Camp Western Mass[/URL]. Garfield is the author of [URL="http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2010/01/where-to-buy-get-seen.html"]Get Seen[/URL], a practical book on the ins and outs of web video production. He has been working with video on the web since well …

Hello, This could be embarrassing but at my age and experience in life I have little to be embarrassed about. I got the above url in my address bars of both Opera and Camino. Not Safari or Firefox. Nothing I've tried after reading what little there is about it affecting …

Word came out this past weekend that Steve Jobs held a Town Meeting with his employees after the iPad party. Among the topics were Adobe and the Nexus One, which apparently both have Jobs more than a little riled. [URL="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/googles-dont-be-evil-mantra-is-bullshit-adobe-is-lazy-apples-steve-jobs/"]According to a Wired article[/URL], he had this to say about …

Hi, my five year old son was on my computer this morning and somehow made the colour on my screen negative. It affects everything - all programs and the desktop, but when I log back in as another user the colour is normal. He had photoshop open, but I can't …

Children are often curious for sexually-explicit content and they may visit porn websites or chat with bad guys on MSN/AIM/Yahoo Messenger online. Parents are responsible for their children’s safety and being urged to remain vigilant over what internet websites their children may visit. Currently many parents have rules on what …

Amazon didn't waste a lot of time answering the challenge of the iPad. The [URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/technology/04amazon.html"]New York Times is reporting[/URL] this morning that Amazon has acquired Touchco, a touch screen company, and plans to incorporate its engineers into the Kindle division. It doesn't take a PhD in analysis to figure out …

I have moved over from a PC and was wondering if there was a program that was like MS Publisher that could at read my old publisher files?

In messages received in Thunderbird I am starting to get strange symbols, such as shown below. ****************** me… The Geezers’ Crusade ***************** Has anyone else seen this problem? Is it Thunderbird or my machine (iMac OS x10.6)?

Yes there are 100,000 or so apps for the iPhone, but thanks to Apple policy if it's porn you are after there's not an app for that. The construction of an Adult App Store for Android devices, however, could soon swing this particular market segment towards the iPhone competitor. The …

Whenever you connect some cameras to your mac via USB, you can browse them in Finder as if they were a driver. How come this isn't true for other cameras? Are there any good programs that will allow you to mount your camera in the finder as if it were …

According to[URL="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2010/tc20100119_759795.htm"] various reports[/URL], Apple has approached Microsoft about making Bing the default search engine on the iPhone. I'm sure it's all enough to make Steve Ballmer come out from behind his desk and do a happy dance. His little search engine that could is being portrayed as the anti-Google, …

I have a problem signing into my messenger for mac. Version 7.0.1. My computer is a Power Book G4. version 10.4.11 Below the description of the error: "Signing into MSN Instant Messenger Service failed because the password is incorrect or the sign-in name does not exist. If you have forgotten …

hey folks ahhm! i have problems on how to download snow leopard operating system its been my dream to have it can you help me how download it hoping for your kindness .......... MErry CHRISTMAS .... GOD BLESS!!!

OK, we've all read rumours about what's going to be in the iSlate and what isn't. So, just in case someone like Steve Jobs is listening, here's my wish list of stuff I [B]haven't[/B] seen reported but would like. 1. An FM radio. I want the iSlate to reduce the …

I'm having an AWFUL time trying to rid my mac of a faulty Windows Media file. I have tried deleting it by putting it in the trash but that doesn't work because it is supposedly 'locked' (whatever that means!). When I do try and open the file I get; 'The …

For Mac 10.5.8 Does such a beast exist?

My work computer is a Mac OS X and before working here I am not very familiar to Macs. It's been a couple of months but the people I'm sending documents out to are saying that the emails that they have been getting from me have viruses. Does that mean …

Hello to everyone! I urgently need a good flash to video convertor that works under Mac OS. So, you are welcome to come up with your suggestions:)

If Apple doesn't release the iSlate at a conference on 26 January then it's going to cause some of the biggest disappointments in the history of the IT industry. Latest strong tip that it's happening comes from an [URL="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10423353-37.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0"]ex-Apple insider[/URL], albeit one from a while back. I can't help wondering, …

Fellow members Just bought a 3,06Ghz 27" iMac today and when setting up transferred data from my MacBookPro 15" from external hard disk via Time Machine. The setting of the MacBookPro have now affected my iMac and when I rebooted with the OS X 10.6 disk inserted I got the …

Is there any good free plug-ins that check the grammer along with the spelling in the text you select? Do you have to go in Word every time you want to check the grammar?

I purchased a 32GB storage disk + reader. When I plug it into my USB port a message says that it is not readable by this computer. When I choose the initialize button Disk Utility opens but there is no initializing option. I have a Mac OS X version 10.4.11 …

I face something tough about Mac.It is five years old and works slower and slower,but I can't deal with it.One of my best friend on line told me to buy a new mac-os-software[, but it costs a little;I want to know whether it is worth to buy it? Is there …

Survey: Hello everyone, Which of the two os do you think is better in: a. affordability b. graphics rendering c. media playing d. multi-processing e. gui f. support

After a swirl of rumors that Apple was in talks to acquire music-streaming service [url=http://www.lala.com/]Lala[/url], the [url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704342404574576544196064138.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection]Wall Street Journal reported[/url] yesterday that the companies had reached a deal. Exact terms were not disclosed. Lala, a four-year-old private company, offers a terrific Web-based [url=http://www.lala.com/#howitworks]music streaming and download service[/url] that lets you …

Here's the story... My room mate decided to download an [I]illegal[/I] torrent of osx 10.5 (my Mac was running 10.4.9 just fine) and tried to install it and got frustrated. He found a web tutorial on how to back up your drive using the Disk Utility restore feature. He "figured" …

Hello! I use a Mac; however, I downloaded an avi file that uses the Indeo 4 (IV41) codec which is unavailable for Macs. Do you know of a software program that can convert the file (re-encode? if that's the proper term...) to another codec that will allow me to view …

Does anybody know what this screen means? [url]http://i415.photobucket.com/albums/pp231/kaaawa2000/huh.jpg[/url] Today I was using my G4 iBook to install OS 10.4.11 on a clamshell G3. The clamshell was in target mode connected to G4 through Firewire and I was using a Mac install DVD in the G4. After the G4 rebooted from …