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Playing the more of the newly released games. You usually have to wait for the mac release unless you are running windows on your mac, too.
 
Make a cup or tea?

Seriously though, I had once a zip file I'd long since forgotten the password to and I couldn't find a Mac version of any Zip password cracker so had to use Winblows to sort.

I'd downloaded some films which were compressed in some ridiculous '7-zip' format I'd never heard of which only ran on Windows.

Other than that the well known games issue. Thats about it.

Try The Unarchiver. That can expand 7z archives and a lot more.
 
I've ran into multiple issues with applications and software not running for Mac. I had to do my taxes on a PC because the software wasn't available for Mac. There are also games such as Warhammer Online which will not be available for the Mac. :(

There are many, many, great features about Mac. But, some of the restraints are to say the least annoying.
 
Modify the subtitles that are displayed with a movie file (i.e. changing the framerate and/or the delay).

Grr.

Actually, I was able to do this for a movie some years back. I would just play the movie on VLC. It used a plain text file for the subtitles, so I could edit the subtitles in that and change the times they displayed, etc. The subtitle file I used for a particular movie I wanted to watch had all the subtitles show up about 15 seconds too early, so I wrote a perl script to adjust the display times on all subtitles by any number of seconds that I specified (in this case 15). It worked very nicely.

I might be able to dig up the script if you think it would help you....
 
I can't connect to a Blackberry?

I use the ? mark since the software that came with a friends Blackberry was Windows only. I haven't really checked to see if theres Mac released official Blackberry software yet.
 
I can't connect to a Blackberry?

I use the ? mark since the software that came with a friends Blackberry was Windows only. I haven't really checked to see if theres Mac released official Blackberry software yet.

You sure can sync with BB.
Use pocketmac. Can be googled or here is a link:
http://www.pocketmac.net/products/pmblackberry/

Syncs with Entourage, iCal, Mail, etc. Hope that helps!

I haven't tested it yet as I don't have a mac yet but I've heard good things about it.
 
I don't get to do those late night one on one's, with my OS. Trying to solve it's latest protest. To any changes, I may have introduced to it
 
Can't stop yourself from showing off your new mac...and get really pleased when they all admire it and say things like "Hey is that a glowing Apple?! Wow!"
 
I tried it and the site works for me. I'm using Leopard 10.5.2, and Safari 3.1.1 if that helps you.

Good Luck

Weird. I'm also using 10.5.2 and Safari 3.1.1 and every time I click a link (mostly when I click "Club Nintendo"), Safari crashes. It says it's a Flash Player error, though.
 
I can't for the life of me explain to the majority of mac users that it's also okay that other people are using other operating systems and just because they themselves are using macs, doesn't mean that the whole should.

Oh yeah, and also that Apple isn't a company sent from the divine powers and they make mistakes too.
 
I really wish to know.

Easily, or even at all (?), play legally purchased DVDs from multiple regions. On Windows machines (at least the ones I've had) it's fairly easy to open up the DVD to read all kinds of DVD regions.

Really the biggest pain I have with Macs. If someone know of a solution, please let me know... I have about 500 DVDs from 2-3 regions as I move/travel a bunch.
 
Easily, or even at all (?), play legally purchased DVDs from multiple regions. On Windows machines (at least the ones I've had) it's fairly easy to open up the DVD to read all kinds of DVD regions.

Uhmm... as far as I remember, you can easily change the region code of the DVD Player app once you insert a DVD from another region than the one already set, but that's limited to five changes until it's locked, so maybe you already changed it too often. I've seen posts claiming that VLC doesn't care about the region code, though I can't test this right now
 
Easily, or even at all (?), play legally purchased DVDs from multiple regions. On Windows machines (at least the ones I've had) it's fairly easy to open up the DVD to read all kinds of DVD regions.

Really the biggest pain I have with Macs. If someone know of a solution, please let me know... I have about 500 DVDs from 2-3 regions as I move/travel a bunch.


cheap external DVD player ?
 
I can't for the life of me explain to the majority of mac users that it's also okay that other people are using other operating systems and just because they themselves are using macs, doesn't mean that the whole should.

Oh yeah, and also that Apple isn't a company sent from the divine powers and they make mistakes too.

Dude...You so totally don't get it. ;):D:p
 
a mac cant be given away, it must be sold.

come to think of it it cant even be sold.


i have never sold one of my macs, dad has had them since the Apple ][. he only threw that out because it died, i still have a 250 downstairs for old games
 
Indeed, VLC deals with region codes very well, ie ignores them :) but apparently, the newer Macs are different and VLC does not play nicely with them :(

Uhmm... as far as I remember, you can easily change the region code of the DVD Player app once you insert a DVD from another region than the one already set, but that's limited to five changes until it's locked, so maybe you already changed it too often. I've seen posts claiming that VLC doesn't care about the region code, though I can't test this right now
 
Dude...You so totally don't get it. ;):D:p
on the contrary, i think he does get it.

some of us don't really have the time to worship a company that makes computer. that's the main difference i tend to notice between pc brigade and the mac brigade. no matter what, the latter will defend apple to death!

nobody worships windows. its just a software. its just a computer. for us there exists things more precious. :)

hmm..what can't you do with a mac? lets see...control it exactly the way i want to? like customize it to death so mine doesn't look exactly like thousands other?
 
No viruses since 1999 in OS X.

No? Yes you can. It happens all the time to me. Try going on www.blah (any language) and surf that website for longer than 30 seconds without Safari crashing.

Safari works fine. No crashes.


Flash hardware...like an XBOX360

Sure you can, I can erase all partitions and run Linux or windows only if I wanted to (but there is no reason to).

I've ran into multiple issues with applications and software not running for Mac. I had to do my taxes on a PC because the software wasn't available for Mac. There are also games such as Warhammer Online which will not be available for the Mac. :(

There are many, many, great features about Mac. But, some of the restraints are to say the least annoying.

Ever heard of Turbo Tax?

Do you know that intel Macs can run PC games?
 
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