A Look Inside T-Mobile’s Emergency Response Teams
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iChat AV Tipsheet
Looking for some iChat AV tips? Peachpit has created an iChat AV Tipsheet with tips and tricks from my iChat VQS. Check it out! It’s a free 165K download (PDF).
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How Long to Display the Flag at Half-Staff?
Following the death of Ronald Reagan, I’ve been wondering, and frequently heard people ask, “How long should the flag be kept at half-staff?” After all, Reagan’s state funeral is over. The answer, according to the American Legion is 30 days: The flag shall be flown at half-staff thirty days from the death of the President ...
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iDVD Tip: Preview DropZone Movies
Sometimes the best tips are found accidentally, and you wonder why you never thought of them before. This is one of those. When you’re in iDVD’s Media pane and viewing movies, you see icon previews of the files in your Movies folder. But if you double-click a file, the movie plays right there in the ...
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New Aluminum Apple Cinema Displays
Apple announced at its Worldwide Developer Conference revamped Apple Cinema Displays, including a whopping 30-inch Cinema HD Display capable of displaying 4 million pixels. It works only with the Power Mac G5, though, and even then only if you have the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL. The displays are now in a lightweight aluminum minimalist ...
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Tiger Tales: New iChat AV and Video Codec
Apple previewed Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger today at the Worldwide Developers Conference. Although it won’t be released until “the first half of 2005,” Apple showed off some tantalizing stuff. For example, the next version of iChat AV will support 10 simultaneous audio chats, and video chats of up to four people. And this being ...
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Electrifying
I’m just about finished with a new book on iMovie and want to share a wee bit of whimsey. Some would call this clip a bit of vacation footage, but I prefer to think of it as a scene from a Star Trek episode. I didn’t think I’d ever actually use the Electricity effect, but ...
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Another Reason for Using a Mac
I know, I’ve always been a dedicated Mac head and on occasion have lambasted Windows. Usually it’s about ease-of-use issues, since I find Windows to be maddeningly obscure in how it does some things. However, the last couple of years are revealing that it’s not the ease of use that’s making people consider Macs, it’s ...
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iChat AV at 35K Feet
Apple says it’s conducted the first ground-to-air videoconference using iChat AV and the wireless high-speed broadband connection in a Lufthansa-owned Boeing 777 between Munich and San Francisco. Well, first “not counting Air Force One or other ultra-expensive solutions,” says Apple product manager Kurt Knight.
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DVDxDV Takes DVD to iMovie
Macworld’s Chris Breen points to DVDxDV, a utility for extracting video from an unprotected DVD (such as one you’ve made in iDVD) and importing it into iMovie: Mac 911 Weblog: DVD to iMovie. You’ll take a quality hit because the video on the DVD has been encoded using MPEG2 compression, but if the DVD is ...
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Cool Lightning Photo
Marc Laidlaw has a photo from the same lightning storm that I watched, only his is better than my video: he snapped his picture just as a bolt of lightning struck a tree in his yard! Great picture.
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