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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

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

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.

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...

Aperture 2, gentlemen, Aperture 2. Cheaper, faster AND better.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

It's not erased, but it's not active in your system. To bring items back you can either use the migration assistant and manually get anything that was missed, or just drag items from the old folders into the new ones.

I remember seeing the security guy ad ("cancel or allow") and laughing my butt off but then thinking that it couldn't really be that way. Then a guy came into my work and was trying to connect his Vista-running laptop to our totally open, totally unsecured wireless network. Some kind of...

What's great about Archive and Install is that it makes a fresh, clean install and leaves all your old stuff in a folder called Previous System -- then you can migrate back what you want and delete the rest. You do need enough space on your hard drive to support two OS installs. Ron -- iMovie...

Ron, if you put the install DVD in and run it, you will see a few little buttons that come up during the install process that offer you options -- one of these has the Erase & Install and Archive & Install options. You may want to try Archive & Install -- it's been suggested to me that this...

I'm experiencing exactly this on a G4 dual 867, ever since the update. I thought that maybe it was related to my third-party USB 2 card and was going to remove it to see if that solved the problem, but maybe we can find a common thread between all of our machines (especially since mine is old...

Is the Toronto showing confirmed to be in 35mm only? The Regent is equipped for digital and I thought that I saw an ad that trumpeted digital presentation.

Ron, the bug is not as you describe it -- copying data poses no risk. It's when you tell the Finder to copy-and-delete the data and then the copy-and-delete action is interrupted -- that's when data loss happens. So dragging a file to another drive is not a problem. Option-dragging it is...

There are issues with the instant web publishing features of FileMaker 8 and 9, too.

You can add the songs to your current library without moving them into the current library -- go into iTunes' preferences and uncheck "move songs into library when importing". But otherwise, no -- iTunes needs not just the files and folders but also an iTunes Library file, so you'll have to...

My wife's 2.0 white MacBook (the old mid-level one with a gig of RAM) is about the same, maybe a bit faster -- the biggest gain is that my crazyquilt wireless network doesn't lock up the Finder anymore when a device drops off of it. Hooray! But my old dual 867 G4 is a revelation -- it's...

You can flip the arrangement so that the TV is the "main" monitor and your laptop is the secondary. In the Arrangement part of Display Preferences, grab the little white bar that's at the top of the representation of your MBP monitor and drag it to the representation of the TV. Your dock will...

I'll check with the new one -- the old one needed either .Mac or another server to publish to.

Event dropbox -- where you put files for the people you're meeting with. And office hours and availability windows and room reservations... lots of useful stuff for managing groups of people. It went from an easy-to-use personal calendar to a very useful business calendar. And you can...

Slightly? Slightly? The new iCal is awesome.

I was going to say -- what pushes users away from Safari's RSS handling? I like saving searches of some feeds and letting those notify me in my bookmarks bar.