Recent content by Aaron Reynolds

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    Help me spend money

    So, it's been a while since I've posted here. Hi! I hope everyone missed me just a little but didn't worry that I was dead or something. My home theatre hasn't changed in basically forever, but a couple of recent events have put me into shopping mode and I need an amp. I'll tell you what I used...
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    The official "I just purchased my Apple Watch" thread

    I got a little crafty and modded myself up a Goldfinger / Thunderball Connery-era nylon watch strap for my Apple Watch. Because it was an experiment, I used junky third-party adaptor lugs (you can see in the picture that they wiggle out of place a little), but now that I've seen the result and...
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    Win a Pioneer Elite SC-95 Dolby Atmos Receiver

    I really love my current home theatre, but have finally run into the challenge of one central piece being just too old to support new hardware that I'd like to have, and that piece is my receiver. It has served me well, but it's the right time to upgrade. And Atmos is thrilling -- I'm glad to...
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    Win a Denon X5200W 9.2 channel Dolby Atmos AVR with a copy of Mad Max Fury Road!

    I desperately want to move the hardware out of my theatre room -- in my last home, it was all on racks outside the door, so inside was clean and beautiful and uncluttered. Unfortunately, because the majority of my gear is older, none of it is "smart" enough to be run without a human's hand...
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    Win an Onkyo TX-NR1030 9.2 channel Dolby Atmos AV Receiver (Redux)

    I've been slowly building my theatre since the early 1990s. There may be some speaker cable left from that early setup, but without a doubt all of the other pieces have changed. There's definitely no more laserdisc player at the heart of it. Sadly, my beloved but long-in-the-tooth Sony MDP...
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    Win an Onkyo TX-NR1030 9.2 channel Dolby Atmos AV Receiver

    I finally saw my first film in Atmos -- Mad Max: Fury Road -- and OH MAN DO I WANT THAT IN MY HOUSE. My pre-amp just packed it in, too, after nearly two decades of service. Oh! And tomorrow is my 40th birthday. Good luck to everyone!
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    Aperture

    That's the preference! Let me know how it goes.
  8. Aaron Reynolds

    Aperture

    Ted, in Aperture's preferences, ask it to generate previews when quitting. It'll take longer to quit but should gain you a lot of performance while editing.
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    Hi! I've been just lurking for the past few years. The new Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo album is magnificent and sounds great. I picked it up as a 24/96 Apple Lossless download from Linn Records.It's a little folky and a bit country-ish, and the Red Clay Halo alternate between being a...
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    Apple Online Store Down

    Aperture 2, gentlemen, Aperture 2. Cheaper, faster AND better.
  11. Aaron Reynolds

    Alternative Chat program with webcam support?

    You have to also click your little webcam button to send yours separately from accepting the invitation to view theirs. aMSN will work for two-way video. It's a little buggy (though apparently the new version is better), but it does work.
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    Bulk photo compressor ?

    Eric's trick can also be accomplished directly in iPhoto without going to Mail. Select a group of photographs, go to the File menu, select Export, set JPEG as your format and choose small, medium or large (or custom if you want more control), then pick a folder to put them all into. That's in...
  13. Aaron Reynolds

    Leopard Help: Download Folder in Trashcan

    Ron -- he needs to open the finder, click on his user in the sidebar and then drag the download folder back into his user. From there he can drag it into the dock -- the stack in the dock is really just a shortcut to a folder that behaves as a stack just by virtue of having been put into the...
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    "I'm a PC, I'm a Mac" ads are back!

    Ron, I just had a brainstorm about your iPod issue -- not a fix, but a temporary workaround so you can at least use the thing. Plug 'er in and go to the first iPod screen in iTunes, the one with the picture of the unit on it. Uncheck "enable disk mode". Now when a sync is completed it's safe...
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    Official Mac OS X Leopard Installation & Discussion Thread

    Ron, for virtually everything that isn't Microsoft Office, you actually can just drag the application into the folder -- many applications are package files just like the iPhoto or Aperture libraries -- they look like one thing but are really a container full of other stuff. You can also use...
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