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Tim (Surfbits) on July 31st, 2005

You may remember that when I bought my new iMac I was unable to get my old Creative Labs speaker system to work with it. So in less then a New York minute, I decided that as much as I love the inMotions from Altec Lansing for my iPods, I could look to them for [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on July 25th, 2005

This morning as I was going though my news readers I kept seeing a story about .Mac limiting the amount of bandwidth we have in our accounts. I checked on my .Mac homepage and there was no notice, no email from Apple, nothing. I finally went into my account settings and sure enough I saw [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on July 22nd, 2005

If you listened to the podcast this week, you’ll remember I talked about the great Firewire/USB external hard drive and hub combination from OWC. I loved this drive and bought it myself. If you have not been over to the MacReviewCast website yet, please make sure you see the pictures of the drive I have [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on July 20th, 2005

We’ve looked at several FM transmitters for the iPod and they either had limited stations you could use for transmitting, or confusing set up for choosing the station. I also would have liked to seen a charger built into the ones that had a lighter connection, since it’s plugged in, it might as well draw [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on July 10th, 2005

Stuff happens, and stuff happened to me and my new iMac the last two days. It started when I was having trouble getting the printer setup utility to recognize my Canon i860 printer. Then all the setup utility would do was to crash when I tried to add any printer. Something was wrong. After I [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on July 9th, 2005

I’ve had a day or two to set up the new iMac G5 2 GHz and import my old settings and start installing the software I wanted to use. I took apart the old PC that sat off to the side and packed it in the closet. I may pillage a hard drive and pull [...]

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Tim (Surfbits) on July 7th, 2005

We all need to become familiar with the trash on our computers that surfing the internet can create. When we visit a website we save all the images and files from that website in our browser cache, and any cookies that the websites dump on our systems are normally saved as well. There are other [...]

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