Re: [CGUYS] Mac Administrator

2007-10-17 Thread gerald
From Oct 17 Wall st journal: Apple does a small fraction of the overall PC business, with a 3% share of new shipments globally during the second quarter. In the US during the second quarter, Apple had a 5.9% share of new PC shipments thru the end of august, mac

[CGUYS] Mac Market Share Grows [Was: Mac Administrator]

2007-10-17 Thread Tom Piwowar
All those iPhone users? How many are there? And how many are there that are Mac users? Well over a million sold at this point. They are selling at a much more rapid pace then iPods did when they were introduced. Perhaps they will take over the world. Reports are that many people buying

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-17 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Tom Ipods have a tendency to be overpriced. Our family has about 3 Creative mp3 players and we all genuinely like ours. My middle child has a 5 gb Zen Micro, my youngest has a 30 gb Zen Vision, and I have an old 40 GB Zen Xtra. All are very good MP3 players and oh by the way each of them

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-17 Thread Matthew Taylor
Looking at it I think it might be worth a shot - it is pretty cheap as well, $50. They also make a couple of other models, the 101 and 102 (link below) that have similar functions but accept your own hard drive for much greater storage. http://www.agoodic.com/viewproduct.asp?id=575 On

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-17 Thread Matthew Taylor
This is quite a critter, though not quite the critter I am looking for - the MP3 function is provided by a rather limited small portable player. I might still get one just to have the SW features. Matthew On Oct 16, 2007, at 11:00 PM, b_s-wilk wrote: Matthew, I bought a terrific

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-17 Thread Tom Piwowar
Tom Ipods have a tendency to be overpriced. Only if you assign no value to great engineering and great design. Different strokes for different folks. Some people wipe their hands on their shirt fronts, some don't. I would pay money to NOT use a brown Zune. All are very good MP3 players and oh

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-17 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
At 10:48 AM 10/17/2007, you wrote: Only if you assign no value to great engineering and great design. Different strokes for different folks. Some people wipe their hands on their shirt fronts, some don't. I would pay money to NOT use a brown Zune. I am not talking about Zunes I don't have a

[CGUYS] Revisiting the truncated Youtube video issue...

2007-10-17 Thread Steve Rigby
Here is an update on the issue of Youtube videos being truncated which was causing me, as a dial-up user, to be limited to only two minutes worth of any video from their site. After failing to get a response to this problem from Google after numerous e-mails to them, I contacted Rob

Re: [CGUYS] Revisiting the truncated Youtube video issue...

2007-10-17 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Steve in America size counts. The bigger your stature, the more money you have the larger your corporation the more attention you seem to get. Who gets the most news time? Celebrities (Who make bunches of money then get comps out the wazoo!) Athletes (Who rise fast and fall hard with

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-17 Thread Tom Piwowar
Ah Tom, most of these are first gen and I can replace and change out batteries very easily and also have plenty of extras. Again you seem to be a zealot for Apple which is always dangerous. (I understand that Ipods require a lot of work to change out the battery, Creatives just have a pop

Re: [CGUYS] Revisiting the truncated Youtube video issue...

2007-10-17 Thread Tom Piwowar
I do think that big outfits such as Google need to be more responsive to lowly users who are merely trying to point out a problem. Instead, it appears as though they waited until some entity that could create some waves for them mentioned the problem before taking the issue seriously and

[CGUYS] [Fwd: Letter From Steve Jobs]

2007-10-17 Thread b_s-wilk
SDK = Software Development Kit Good news, but what about the bricked iPhones for those who didn't read the fine print? Users WERE warned. IMHO, it's taking a long time to release an SDK for the iPhone because the iPhone is more than just a phone, and more than just a PDA, it's a computer

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-17 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
First off look at my name It is Stewart, not Stu. (wrong abbreviation also) Secondly I am not a huge fan of Cheney's Third I have bought refurbed units where possible and there is a HUGE price difference. I have not found anything on an IPod I cant do or don't need. They found a niche,

Re: [CGUYS] Mac Administrator

2007-10-17 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
I worked in a pc environment where we wouldn't touch a new Windows Release for atleast a year or two. My wife just got switched from Win2k to XP this spring by her corporate employer. A Windows upgrade is a scarrier thing than a mav upgrade although both carry some level of terror. There are

[CGUYS] iListen: OK or not OK?

2007-10-17 Thread Constance Warner
Has anybody out there tried iListen, or have any of your friends used it? What did you/they think? iListen is voice-recognition software for the Mac. You talk, it types, with 90-some percent accuracy. It's supposed to be a great advance in voice-recognition technology for the Mac. Why am

Re: [CGUYS] [Fwd: Letter From Steve Jobs]

2007-10-17 Thread Tom Piwowar
IMHO, it's taking a long time to release an SDK for the iPhone because the iPhone is more than just a phone, and more than just a PDA, it's a computer plus phone plus WiFi device. Did Apple release the iPhone too early, before the development kit was ready? When the Mac was born I remember

Re: [CGUYS] iListen: OK or not OK?

2007-10-17 Thread Matthew Taylor
Constance; You can get it for $99.00 from MacSpeach directly. The product seems fishy to me though. They claim that you can not get a demo because it only works with certified microphones and they would have to sterilize returned mikes. Yet they clearly will sell you a no mike version,

Re: [CGUYS] Revisiting the truncated Youtube video issue...

2007-10-17 Thread Steve Rigby
On Oct 17, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: We have a love affair with power and bigness. In a collective sense, that does seem to be the fact of the matter. Also, bigness responds to bigness in a manner that is different than how bigness responds to smallness. It is the

Re: [CGUYS] Revisiting the truncated Youtube video issue...

2007-10-17 Thread Steve Rigby
On Oct 17, 2007, at 1:04 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: I'm feeling equally snubbed by a local ISP (HIS.COM) that I have previously recommended highly on this list. A small company like HIS ought to know that when they don't respond it is very easy to move business elsewhere. So it ain't just Google

Re: [CGUYS] Revisiting the truncated Youtube video issue...

2007-10-17 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
As funny as the WAMU and the Capital One (big banks deal with big customers) commercials are sometimes I think they are bang on! Not that these companies are any better mind you. Stewart At 05:38 PM 10/17/2007, you wrote: In a collective sense, that does seem to be the fact of the matter.

Re: [CGUYS] Table top stand alone MP3 player?

2007-10-17 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
Yeah I missed the date. There was a rack unit that appeared to be of recent origin. I think the problem really is that the portable form factor is so dominate there really isn't any need to avoid miniaturization. You can get a box that accepts an iPod as a music source with speakers and a

[CGUYS] iListen: OK or not OK?

2007-10-17 Thread Harvey Simon
You might be interested in reading David Pogue's comparison at: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/20/technology/20pogue.html?_r=1ex=1157601600 en=42ba211266db6c46ei=5070oref=slogin -- Forwarded Message From: Constance Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:13:15 -0400 Subject: