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Quote: Originally Posted by neiltony This thread has reminded me that we all should be fully clothed when we take our new Macbooks out of the box. Can you imagine seeing it for…

Amateur...I accidently dropped an Apple 30" CD into *my* toilet why I was readin' away.

Don't flush.

Hi All, For specific reasons, I've got iTunes set to "copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to Library". It's been a good system, when all I was doing was listening to mus…

I think iTunes has to do it to convert the video files into h.264 for it to play on your 5G iPod.

Quote: Originally Posted by mrgaskell I think iTunes has to do it to convert the video files into h.264 for it to play on your 5G iPod. iTunes doesn't convert videos. I…

Quote: Originally Posted by analogika iTunes doesn't convert videos. If you want to keep your videos external, why don't you just turn off the "copy stuff to iTunes Music fo…

Egads, you're correct! There's a "convert for iPod" option in the Advanced menu! This is new... iSquint works excellently, by the way, and is free.

isquint has made some crappy conversion of some avi files I had. Most were movies that I downloaded as torrents.

Thanks for the extra info, very helpful. analogika, it took me a while to figure out what you meant in your first post. If I understand correctly, if I turn off automatic updating…

If you are comfortable with command line, try using ffmpeg, which you can find athttp://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php There is another online tool at http://www.video4ipod.org…

I believe you may have misunderstood what analogika posted. If you set our iPod to manually update, add videos onto it, then start automatically updating again, you WILL lose anyth…

Quote: Originally Posted by kellybelly If you use manual update, you can connect your iPod and drag files directly from Finder onto your mounted iPod in the iTunes sidebar. This…

I'm working on an app that accesses PostreSQL data (Cocoa/ObjC). I'm not using anybody's framework, I more or less used postgres' C lib and wrote my own class to access the data. T…

Yeah, it seems to me that you want to have your class examine the type of the table column and handle conversion to NSDate or NSNumber, etc.

I've put it on the back burner for now, but I do believe that I'm going to have to do some conversions in order to get the sort working. Connecting to the db server for each sort i…

I keep running into issues that safari 10.4.4 renders great along with firefox but in safari on 10.3.9 or whatever it renders od broken or not at all.. I am not useing hacks that I…

Find a friend with 10.3.9?

Quote: Originally Posted by Chuckit Find a friend with 10.3.9? what every single time I make an edit ???

You probably have install discs for 10.3.9 right? You could install it on a separate partition or a disc image and use an emulator/virtual machine to get it booted and review the p…

*shudder* *os9* egh scarey dont want to have to worry about os9 by this time... Is it webkit ? I already installed 10.4.4 on all of my macs, ugh web design sucks money &&amp…

Partition your drive and install different versions of OS X on it. Easy.

Quote: Originally Posted by loren s *shudder* *os9* egh scarey dont want to have to worry about os9 by this time... Is it webkit ? I already installed 10.4.4 on all of my mac…

Mac-onMac does not work with Tiger, either running or being run from. It even says that very clearly on the page.