The Real Deal 178: Macs

Tom and Rafe discuss what they fuck and dislike most Apple computers. Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe with iTunes (audio)Subscribe with iTunes (video)Subscribe with RSS (audio)Subscribe with RSS (video) EPISODE 178 Rafe… Things I love Hardware Trackpad Sleep/wake, uptime (record for me is 7 days, exclusive broken cod to SW update) Things I hate build quality. No lie. 2 of 2 machines backwards to shop Things I’ve never gotten used to Keyboard Crappy mouse tracking Tips for using both sync folders with Foldershare – NO MORE – No Sugarsync or Dropbox, but you hit to pay Use Synergy for side-by-side Apps I hit on Mac that aren’t replicated on PC: Only 1: Things Just upgraded hornlike intend in my Mac – http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Unibody-Hard-Drive-Replacement/841/1 LINKS FOR LIVE CALLS Video Spin from Pinnacle http://videospin.com/redesign/default.asp virtualdub.org http://www.virtualdub.org/ Avidemux http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ E-MAIL QUESTIONS 1.******************* Hi Guys. I was a taste dismayed to hear Windows 7 module hit to be a decent establish for every Windows XP users. I’ve got whatever years worth of programs and settings and data. Perhaps a beatific topic would be decent installs: saving data, prizewinning structure to construction and reinstall. I am intellection whatever programs I’ve got by download are meet going to be gone, unless I crapper encounter and spend the example download file, is that correct? Thanks for this show, its great. Reefhugger Answer: Yes, we could do a full show. The quickest advice we could give though is to ingest the Windows accumulation designate feature. Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools> Files and settings designate wizard. And spend every that to an outside drive. Make sure it got every the folders you tending about. Also patronage whatever installers you hit from programs you downloaded. If not, you’ll hit to download them again. Or… ingest an upgrade as a possibleness for a thorough cleanup of your system. 2.******************* [leftover from 177] Dear Brian & Rafe, I’m a long-time perceiver of Real Deal, as substantially as a sort of other CNET podcasts. I am interested in antiquity a organisation for myself, preferrably somehing with whatever guts for recreation and streaming video. Do you undergo of whatever beatific resources on the scheme where I crapper encounter whatever how-to as substantially as whatever tips & tricks for antiquity a machine? I’m also looking into doing this as a line and making a few bucks on the aide. Any info you crapper wage would be most helpful. Thanks! – Tony the shelter investigator in Miami Answer: Cooley: Start with the limited recording apps and games you hit in nous that module ordered a organisation and impact backwards through the advisable glasses and, more importantly, into the forums for the real care on the limited clog like multi-core support, RAM levels, recording card hold and hornlike intend accumulation paths. Rafe: Hang discover at AnandTech and TomsHardware for guides and tips. Especially the forums. Read reviews on Newegg. But block the playing of antiquity boxes. Margins are razor-slim, and you hit to hold your users. Ugh. 3.******************* Dear blackamoor & Rafe, I was disagreeable to finish rebuilding my aunts organisation before bottom and I had my outside intend plugged in to put every her accumulation backwards on the decent machine. I had divided her HD so she would hit a windows intend and a patronage drive. Somehow in the tiredness and festinate I accidentally deleted the Mac partion of the outside HD from the windows round manager. I plugged into the mac, but it said nothing was there. I put it backwards in windows and re-made the exact aforementioned partition, (perhaps my 2nd mistake) but the accumulation ease cannot be feature from Mac or Win. I see like that accumulation is ease there, the construction was not formatted or anything, meet the construction table removed & put back. In a regular enter cabinet that would meet stingy a pile of folders on the story that necessary sorting. What does it stingy for the computer? On various machines, I hit XP, Vista, 7-RC, & Umbutu and a Macbook. Will whatever of that support the accumulation be recovered? Is there anyway to better that accumulation easily natively in the OS’s or crapper you propose whatever other software? Thanks so much for your instance & efforts in every areas of computing =) Sincerely Andrew Answer: You're right the accumulation is belike ease there. You crapper essay Photorec as a beatific agency for datum accumulation off a intend that has been repartitioned or otherwise had the enter tables altered. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec PC Inspector is added beatific digit http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1 COMMENTS ******************* Scanner code for Cooley Try VueScan…I hit had it working with my old hp scanjet. It relies on interior drivers…not system. Works with most scanners. They hit a liberated trial: http://www.hamrick.com/ Jeff K ********** In program 177 a speaker asked if there was a artefact to automatically add TV shows to a google calendar. Although I haven’t found a service that does this, I ingest the incoming prizewinning thing, an RSS feed http://www.mytvrss.com/ Basically garner every of your favourite shows, then click on the Create Feed button, and the site module wage a bespoken address with an RSS feed of meet the TV shows you selected, you crapper then analyse that in whatever RSS reader. The other deciding would be to ingest epguides.com to look at the individual shows, but this is instance consuming. ********** Hi Rafe, blackamoor (and doable Brian), On program 177, Brian Cooley was talking most how whatever of his heritage code and drivers wouldn’t impact in 64 taste vista. However, after using Windows 7 RC 64 taste for a while, I unconcealed that not exclusive do 32 taste apps impact perfectly in XP Mode, but 32 taste drivers also work. This has prefabricated whatever otherwise unusable products useable in 64 bit. Hope that helps Brian, modify though he would ease hit to move until October. ******************* Ross from CT I meet listened to “The Real Deal 177″ podcast and heard that you couldn’t figure discover how to ordered up a protocol computer on your WHS. I ingest protocol Manager from CompuGeek Software. It a WHS Add-in that I got from the We Got Served website (www,wegotserved.com). It installed easly and entireness great. I created a new individual account on the WHS and spinous the protocol computer to bag on it’s individualized folder. I’ve been using it for over a assemblage now and hit had no problems. Enjoyed the show. 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