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Argh, what a hassle, this sure isn’t easy. The quad core imac can run Windows 7 64 bit, but you have to stand on your head to get it. First, Windows 7 doesn’t include the right video drivers (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3173) and you have to have a USB keyboard and mouse). You first install: 1. Update Mac…

Time Capsule and AirPort Extreme Base Station Firmware Update 7.5.1 brings fixes for a pair of issues on Apple’s latest AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule base stations released last October .This update provides several fixes for the latest Time Capsule and AirPort Extreme Base Station (Late 2009) including: – An issue with wireless performance in the…

For those desperate to see an unboxing video of the iPad, here’s the first, from Stephen Fry. Fry, a well known friend of Apple, must have gotten one of the early shipments including all accessories:

OK, the latest firmware finally gives you a histogram in manual so you can check exposure. Also, it let’s you have 24fps for professional movies. Finally, there is a freeware firmware tool to add new features as well as something call the Drovus which does follow focus reviewed by <a href=”http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/freshdv/video/freshdv_reviews_cinevate_durus_follow_focus/>ProVideo</a>.

There are so many cool cameras out now, so what is a person to do. Well, here are recommendations based on what Rennie has said and I’ve seen: 1. Carry around camera: iPhone HD. Everyone is going to have one, but the best camera is one that is not available but the new iPhone HD…

Buddy has a Canon HF20 which makes 1080p in avchd format. The only way to get it into iMovie is to have the camcorder play back and then use iMovie to import from camera and then it transcode into the iMovie native format. Way cheaper than buying final cut pro

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/507191/how-many-actions Argh we’ve been playing Tide of Iron wrong. Thought it was just three units per turn, but it turns out it is three units per side and alternate until done. Argh. Thank goodness for the Internet.

Well we are about to take a trip and bring Macs and want to play some games, so time to figure out the story with running Windows on Macs. While we are at it might as well try to run Windows 7 64-bit on Mac via Base Camp. There is lots of junk on the…

Well, when traveling, its a little hard to take your PS3 or your XBOX and the iPod touch, PSP and DS don’t exactly have big screens, so what can you run on your trusty old PC (or Mac running Windows?). Well, gamerankings.com has some nice choices: Bad Company 2. Is great for all the platforms…

AT&T today announced that next month it will begin a nationwide rollout of its 3G MicroCell service that allows users to route their cellular phone calls around the house onto their broadband Internet connection as a solution for spotty cellular coverage. Supporting both voice and data services, the 3G MicroCell device carries a price tag of $149.99,…

MacRumors reports the prolonged wait for updated MacBook Pros continue without any major hints at when they might arrive. A report last week suggested that a shortage of Intel notebook chips could be contributing to the delay. MacRumors has heard that the MacBook Pro supplies to retailers have abruptly become constrained, possibly suggesting that updates…

Well, they are going let you get no contract iPhone. Prices are OK. Prices are high at $600 for a 16GB iPhone 3GS, but at least you can get one and then unlock. If you run the math, this is a good deal as otherwise you have to pay $30/month for 2 years ($720 plus…

Just making sure, as we look at another Wii, for the upstairs that there isn’t a new one just around the corner. Looks like the Wii HD ships next year according to rumors in WhatToPlay.com What They Play has heard from multiple sources in the game development and publishing community that Nintendo is currently showing…

9-to-5 Mac. We’re hearing that MacBook Pros are ready to be unveiled as early as tomorrow but could be pushed back to Tuesday. Our Apple tipster seems to think that the the updated pro laptops will be released alongside the Mac Pros in the coming days. He’s saying that the base models will have Core…

Apple today announced that Wi-Fi models of the iPad will go on sale in the United States on Saturday, April 3rd. 3G-capable models in the U.S., as well as both Wi-Fi and 3G models for a number of other countries, will be available in late April. U.S. preorders for all iPad models begin on March 12th.

Valve Software today officially announced that it is bringing its Steam game distribution platform, as well as its own library of games, to Mac OS X next month. Steam and Valve’s library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in April. “As we…

While Apple announced that the iPad would go on sale at the end of March, we’ve yet to hear official details about the actual sale date and procedure. We have heard whispers the Apple is planning on launching the iPad at retail stores on Friday, March 26th at 6 p.m. in similar fashion to the…

Mail is down at igncap.com because I reset the underlying site. I actually forgot that igncap.com is hosted here. Anyway if you need to set bluehost.com to a different mail system on applix.net here is how to do it: Logon to bluehost.com and start cppanel Search for the MX Entry in cpanel Add the entry…

Well, used the Norton Antivirus that comes free with a Comcast subscription and found the Bloodhound 193 exploit in the Google Chrome cache, so that means my computer got infected that way and also that wp-view.php has the PHP Backdoor which explains how it got onto tongfamily.com. So anyone who access tongfamily.com since 11 February…

So the tongfamily.com/art and gracetong.com are coming down right now. No real content on any of them that isn’t somewhere else. And got rid of all templates. Take that iframe virus!!!! And some cool new frames

Looks like this didn’t clean things out. Got another attack and blew away igncap.com. Now looks like an iframe insertion virus which gets in via a bad PHP script. Not hard to do. My site has literally everything I’ve put on the Internet in the last 15 years so lots of these bad scripts lying…

Did your WordPress Site get hacked is a good pointer to fixing things. It is pretty insidious what can happened: Upgrade your WordPress installation to the latest Change your passwords on your site as they could have gotten in as administrators. Change your FTP passwords. Look at the permissions to see if they’ve been modified.…

Whatever did this apparently went through every file in the website and added an iframe that pointed to nsfer.com to the end of the html for every file ending in .html or named index.php so it got the themes files for wordpress. Not clear how it got in though.

Looks like someone got my FTP password and has added a hidden iframe to every html file that I have! All is dated 10 Feb 2010, so just happened. Sorry. Am deleting all now the top two layers and reinstalling. Yikes. I hope it wasn’t a password hack. I’ve checked WordPress and I don’t see…

Looks like someone got my FTP password and has added a hidden iframe to every html file that I have! All is dated 10 Feb 2010, so just happened. Sorry. Am deleting all now.

Thanks to google chrome for finding, but I’ve got an invisible iframe on here transferring to nsfer.com. Don’t know how it got there, but lots of bugs in WordPress that make this possible. I’m on WordPress 2.9 and the 2.9.2 upgrade keeps failing maybe because of malware. Going to do this manually, in the mean…

Well think what you will, but United employees have had a terribly rough time in the last two decades. We’ve had actually great service on many flights (and choose to look on the bright side anyway). United has a program for thanking them. You’ve flown with us often and have come to expect exemplary service…

Latest notes on how to get the most mileages. Wow how confusing, but here is the latest on mileage optimization: 1. If you stay at any Hyatt brand hotels, you can double dip. Get both Hyatt and United miles and if you sign up, you get 3000 miles for every stay. That’s worth $30 (at…

At MacWorld, FastMac showed a battery pack like the Mophie I love (doubles battery life), but it also includes a flash for the camera and also an IR remote so you can use your iPhone for controlling your television. Cool

There are so many different names for condos to rent and different sites too. Here are some good general ones: Homeaway.com is a good general site that has private listings. Particularly strong in Australia, check out the cool tower in Melbourne and the listings in Hamiton Island as examples. Holiday Homes Hamilton Island has the…