Re: [CGUYS] Apple Getting Really Creepy

2009-08-14 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:33 PM, TPiwowar wrote: > Apple cooks up a scheme so creepy that it would give me second thoughts > about buying one of their products. A built-in system of sensors to monitor > and log "customer abuse" which apparently includes jailbreaking your iphone > that has the abil

Re: [CGUYS] Backup for Windows Laptop

2009-08-14 Thread Tony B
Like many online software sources these days, Gamehouse games don't really need to be backed up. You can always just re-download them. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Bill Wajert wrote: > Can someone suggest a good backup software, or hardware solution for my > wife's labtop. It runs XP Pro, is

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Offers to Pay "Buckets" for Zune Apps

2009-08-14 Thread TPiwowar
On Aug 14, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Jeff Wright wrote: Give it a few minutes. Tom will be along to remind us that MS is a monopolist. A has-been monopolist. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, priv

Re: [CGUYS] Zune HD TV Interface Makes It a Media Center For Your Pocket

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Dunford
> Pretty friggin awesome. Very zippy. Very smooth. > > http://gizmodo.com/5337532/zune-hd-tv-interface-makes-it-a-media-center-for-your-pocket Wow. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy

Re: [CGUYS] External keyboard for notebook computer

2009-08-14 Thread b_s-wilk
What's missing from the keyboard other than a numbers pad--and comfort? Is the keyboard just annoying as it is? Do you also want to use an external mouse? You can get a separate numbers keypad that plugs into USB. Or you can raise the notebook closer to eye level and put a keyboard underneath

Re: [CGUYS] Backup for Windows Laptop

2009-08-14 Thread db
Mozy online backup (cheaper) or JungleDisk (better). Varying from 2 GB's for free to .15 / mo per GB. So easy and so safe and so cheap unless you have lots of GB to backup... db Bill Wajert wrote: Can someone suggest a good backup software, or hardware solution for my wife's labtop. It runs

[CGUYS] Ridiculously Profitable

2009-08-14 Thread TPiwowar
http://www.ismashphone.com/images/ Apple_and_The_Cell_Phone_Industry_Infographic.png Apple walks away with 32% of the revenue. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmnes

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Offers to Pay "Buckets" for Zune Apps

2009-08-14 Thread Jeff Wright
> Great justice in that. > > In the 90's MS extorted from Apple the copy write privilege to sell > Win95 by threat of dropping Office for the Mac. Now Apple has MS over a > barrel. > > I say go fish! Funny that, even though I have no idea to what exactly you reference above. Give it a few min

[CGUYS] Zune HD TV Interface Makes It a Media Center For Your Pocket

2009-08-14 Thread Jeff Wright
Pretty friggin awesome. Very zippy. Very smooth. http://gizmodo.com/5337532/zune-hd-tv-interface-makes-it-a-media-center-for- your-pocket * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** *

[CGUYS] Backup for Windows Laptop

2009-08-14 Thread Bill Wajert
Can someone suggest a good backup software, or hardware solution for my wife's labtop. It runs XP Pro, is her school supplied computer, but she really wants to preserve all her "games" that she has downloaded and installed from GameHouse. Thanks for your time Bill ***

Re: [CGUYS] External keyboard for notebook computer

2009-08-14 Thread TPiwowar
On Aug 14, 2009, at 3:14 PM, katan wrote: Would a couple of blocks on either side of the laptop do you? Something high enough to get the external keyboard over the built-in keyboard? Clearly a solution that begs for liberal use of duct tape. ***

Re: [CGUYS] M$ Offers to Pay "Buckets" for Zune Apps

2009-08-14 Thread db
Great justice in that. In the 90's MS extorted from Apple the copy write privilege to sell Win95 by threat of dropping Office for the Mac. Now Apple has MS over a barrel. I say go fish! db TPiwowar wrote: Reports that M$ is offering "buckets of money" to Apple developers to port their

Re: [CGUYS] External keyboard for notebook computer

2009-08-14 Thread Andy Gallant
My apologies in advance - in my mind's eye, working with a raised keyboard that's even closer to the display reminds me of Schroeder at the piano. See, for example, http://www.dailypress.com/dp-top10-peanuts-0409,0,5107922.photogallery?index=dp-schroeder. An alternative is to raise the notebo

[CGUYS] M$ Offers to Pay "Buckets" for Zune Apps

2009-08-14 Thread TPiwowar
Reports that M$ is offering "buckets of money" to Apple developers to port their Apps to the Zune HD... http://daringfireball.net/2009/08/zune_apps Has anyone seen any? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Getting Really Creepy

2009-08-14 Thread mike
In some ways you'd expect this from vendors who have very little margin looking for ways out of covering warranties, but apple having such huge margins and the rep of taking care of customers...strange. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:33 PM, TPiwowar wrote: > Apple cooks up a scheme so creepy that i

Re: [CGUYS] External keyboard for notebook computer

2009-08-14 Thread katan
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:04:58 -0400, Fred Holmes wrote: >I'm looking for an external keyboard, for a notebook computer, that would sit >on top of the notebook computer's keyboard, instead of "in front of" the >notebook computer. The keyboard might have "pedestals" on each end to Would a couple

[CGUYS] External keyboard for notebook computer

2009-08-14 Thread Fred Holmes
I'm looking for an external keyboard, for a notebook computer, that would sit on top of the notebook computer's keyboard, instead of "in front of" the notebook computer. The keyboard might have "pedestals" on each end to support it over the notebook body, instead of having it rest on the notebo

[CGUYS] Apple Getting Really Creepy

2009-08-14 Thread TPiwowar
Apple cooks up a scheme so creepy that it would give me second thoughts about buying one of their products. A built-in system of sensors to monitor and log "customer abuse" which apparently includes jailbreaking your iphone that has the ability to shut down the product and void the warranty