27 inch screen?

2012-04-15 Thread Andrew Schox
Hi all, Does anyone have a recommendation from personal experience for a good 27 inch screen? I've been doing a bit of online research and there are a lot out there. The Apple screen is expensive, but there are conflicting reports about its reflectiveness. My use is mainly writing and

Re: 27 inch screen?

2012-04-15 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Andrew, What computer are you going to be connecting the Display to? If it is one of the new Thunderbolt Macs, and cost is not really a consideration, I would be purchasing the Apple Thunderbolt Display 27, (I'm waiting till I can afford one and a thunderbolt external 4TB drive). If you

Re: 27 inch screen?

2012-04-15 Thread RJDarts
Afternoon, A monitor I have been using for sometime now, and saved dollars purchasing an P-IPS panel monitor. ASUS PA246 these are 10bit professional grade panels and monitor. ASUS - Display- ASUS PA246Q So impressed I have replaced monitors in my studio. True 1920x1200 professional monitor

Re: Dropbox (for Dummies)

2012-04-15 Thread RJDarts
Afternoon, If security an issue, plus a little more space 5GB if look on site. SpiderOak could be your answer, similar to Dropbox. But more secure taking a little more time to wrap head around. Yes works on iPad or iPhone. Zero-Knowledge data backup, sync, access, storage and share from any

Exporting Safari Bookmark to an Older Version of Safari - Possible?

2012-04-15 Thread Matt Falvey
Hi, I have an iMac 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo running OS X 10.6.8 and Safari 5.1.5. I want to Export the bookmark from it to a very old Powerbook G4 running OS X 10.5.8 and Safari 5.0.6. Is this possible using the: To Export bookmarks - 1. Choose File Export Bookmarks. 2. Specify a location

Changing video aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 ?

2012-04-15 Thread Stephen Chape
Hi folks .. this one has me stumped ! I have converted two VOB files from a DVD to MP4 files to import into iMovie. They were both videoed today on a camcorder then the DVD was made for me. One has converted fine retaining the 16:9 aspect ratio. The other has converted with both sides squashed

Re: 27 inch screen?

2012-04-15 Thread Roger Kortas
Hi Andrew I think it depends on what resolution you need, the cheaper screens will only do 1920x1200 at the moment I only know of two that will go to 2560 x 1440 and they are the Apple 27 screen and the Dell 27. We have one of the Dell's at the office and it's not too bad but the Apple screen

Re: Death Of Microsoft Word

2012-04-15 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 13/04/2012, at 8:27 AM, Tim Law wrote: Pages also does not seem to handle nested numbered paragraphs as well as Word does. For example numbering such as 7.18.241 as in my latest tome. Pages will go to the second level, but not the third, yet come to think of it, it handled the

steve wozniak

2012-04-15 Thread James / Hans Kunz
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Re: steve wozniak

2012-04-15 Thread Ronda Brown
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iTunes.app and incoming network connections.

2012-04-15 Thread Adrian Skehan
Good morning all! When I connect my iPad 3 to my iMac (OSX 10.7.3) I get a message that says Do you want the application iTunes.app to accept incoming network connections? Clicking Deny may limit the application's behaviour. This setting can be changed in the Firewall panel of Security

Re: steve wozniak

2012-04-15 Thread Eugene de Gouw
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Re: iTunes.app and incoming network connections.

2012-04-15 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Adrian, Three ways that you can accomplish this: NOTE: I have not tried any of these solutions, so I take no responsibility. 1. Do you want the application iTunes.app to accept incoming network connections?

Re: steve wozniak

2012-04-15 Thread Bill Parker
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Re: Changing video aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 ?

2012-04-15 Thread Ronda Brown
On 15/04/2012, at 9:11 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: Hi folks .. this one has me stumped ! I have converted two VOB files from a DVD to MP4 files to import into iMovie. They were both videoed today on a camcorder then the DVD was made for me. One has converted fine retaining the 16:9 aspect

Re: 27 inch screen?

2012-04-15 Thread Andrew Schox
Thanks for all this info guys. I'll focus on the products you mentioned and go from there. Cheers, Andrew On 15/04/2012, at 9:57 PM, Roger Kortas wrote: Hi Andrew I think it depends on what resolution you need, the cheaper screens will only do 1920x1200 at the moment I only know of two

Re: Changing video aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 ?

2012-04-15 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Stephen Just to add a bit from personal experience to Ronni's solutions. I used Handbrake with custom parameters to convert incorrectly transcoded 4:3 AR to 16:9 AR.Worked for 2 out of 3 clips. Last one stubbornly retained the stretched vertical with squashed sides - more like a