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  1. lilbandit

    Playing recorded dvd material on a mac

    My brother bought himself a new Samsung DVD recorder in the January sales. I recorded a programme the other night and wanted to copy the file to my mac. When I inserted the disk dvd player couldn't recognise the disk. I used a dvd-rw in the recorder. When I opened the disk in the finder there...
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    It's official: illegal in the US to annoy someone online!

    Flamers pack up your bags, trolls beware! It's now illegal to 'Annoy' someone online!!http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6024695.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed
  3. lilbandit

    newer video cards on the way?

    Just gave your suggestion a try mdnky, no luck. I went through the adjustments. They are as follows 1) crop to 8x10, 2)Exposure, saturation, brightness,contrast and tint 3) levels 4) highlights/shadows 5) white balance 6) sharpening. I'm interested to hear the experiences of other users
  4. lilbandit

    newer video cards on the way?

    The machine came with two 512 sticks and I added 4 1 gig sticks myself. It flies along and has never given any problems. I think that Aperture is happiest with >256mb of video card ram. Have to admit to being disappointed with Aperture's hardware requirements, a DP 2Ghz G5, 5 gigs of ram and a...
  5. lilbandit

    newer video cards on the way?

    The 9600XT is supported but performance slows to a crawl once you apply 5 or more adjustments to an image. For example, a crop, exposure adjustment, saturation, contrast levels,white balance and sharpen. These are some of the typical changes that I make to any raw file worth printing. Beachball...
  6. lilbandit

    newer video cards on the way?

    Can anyone tell me if newer ati/nvidia cards are on the way soon? I just got a copy of Aperture and while it runs fine it gets extremely bogged down once you apply more than 5/6 adjustments to an image. My 9600XT 128MB card is more than likely the problem as Aperture relies heavily on CoreImage...
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    Aluminum Powerbook owners beware: update may kill your lower RAM slots!

    That's a disgrace, surely there is some comeback when a product that you have purchased from Apple is damaged due to a software update that Apple posted/recommended?
  8. lilbandit

    Aluminum Powerbook owners beware: update may kill your lower RAM slots!

    What happened Fryke? Did you get replacement/refund/amiable solution?
  9. lilbandit

    Aperture Review

    My brother bought me a copy of Aperture as a late Christmas present!! Been trying it out for a few hours today. Very different from CS2. Feels like there is less control over the images. No curves, only sliders. Crop sizes are limited, no metric system, no way to change (or find out) the...
  10. lilbandit

    iPod Nano Freezes; Reset Is the Solution

    same issue with my nano. I used the ipod utility app to format and restore it. No problems since then (fingers crossed)
  11. lilbandit

    2006 MacWorld Expo BOLD Prediction

    I'd love to see something along the lines of what symphonix suggested. A Quicktime/open standards based media centre is something I would buy.
  12. lilbandit

    Aperture Review

    Anybody get a chance to try out the update?
  13. lilbandit

    Aperture Review

    Most crucial issue is poor RAW conversion. Noisy images result.
  14. lilbandit

    No "search" button = sucky site

    I've been dropping in and out for a number of years now and have always found the answer to a problem by posting a question or doing a quick search. It's a quality site with a core of hard working people helping out. As a fairly transient member I'm sure that all kinds of daily tasks and...
  15. lilbandit

    Guest PC

    I have Guest PC, rushed in and bought it after reading a few decent reviews but...it does not support USB. It took a lot of searching on their site and it is mentioned in an FAQ somewhere. It now sits idle on my hd.
  16. lilbandit

    Aperture Review

    How does Aperture rate in comparison to Final Cut Pro 1? Were there concerns around image/video quality? I realise it's a 1.0 release but looking at the images in the review there are serious issues with noise that go beyond a personal choice of ACR2 or Bibble. The list of filters is fairly...
  17. lilbandit

    Aperture Review

    Very disappointing, was seriously considering making the investment for the advertised RAW capabilities. Version 1.0 or not, the application will surely live or die by the quality of the RAW conversion. I use Camera Raw with CS2 at the moment, it's slow, bulky and feels like what it is ie. a...
  18. lilbandit

    I bought a Mighty Mouse

    Logitech doesn't cater very well for left handers though! Shame, they look like a great mouse. gwynarion cad as duit? An bhfuil tú in ann Gaeilge a labhairt?
  19. lilbandit

    Mac Mini to become a digital hub?

    Any Mac with a 4 in the name is for peasants:)
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