[quote user="PhilLondon"] Guess what, the new Mac mini is here! With HDMI and Mini display port, and SD card reader. Half the size, better graphics, integrated power adaptor... great! p. [/quote] Bought my first MacMini on Saturday (and a BeoLink Active with its PC connection, but that's another story for another time and another place

Apropos people taking pictures of goods for sale on the internet, I read a report last night (in our local free "newspaper") that someone had posted pictures of what they were selling, the police saw that the sellers had was included in the picture, they did image processing to extract the pattern of whorls and rang a data base search, identified

I have heard good things about Drobo, but it seems expensive here, whereas the Apple store/AU throws this up as a recommened option for the MacMini server: The Promise SmartStor DS4600 RAID subsystem is the perfect external storage solution for Mac mini. Configured with either four 7200-rpm 1TB SATA drives or four 7200-rpm 2TB SATA drives in a compact

And the BeoWorld prize for the most entertaining BeoWorlder is .... (drum roll please) .... [quote user="TripEnglish"] Edible telephones. [/quote]

To quote the source [quote user="Ignace"]Source : worldcarfans " The system is inspired by the Linden Lichtspiele cinema in Ilmenau, Germany. The theatre uses 192 speakers, and was designed around the concept "that a sound wave can be recreated by a multiplicity of small sound sources placed closely adjacent to one another along

I actually agree with your recommendation; I am just waiting to see what form the rumoured ATV 2.0 looks like. If it appears in the form of the rumours I think I can see myself buying at least 3. I am in the "lucky" position that I already have an bluetooth Apple keyboard and two bluetooth mice. One consideration you have not mentioned which

[quote user="Razlaw"]I just installed LinkRemote on my iPad and as usual it is wonderful.[/quote] How about a photograph of it in action! [quote user="Razlaw"]Have said this before, but I can not imagine how much work it took and many thanks for all that work.[/quote] I absolutely agree on both counts: the effort and innovation,

[quote user="dylan"]My question is about the spec of the MacMini; not withstanding the general maxim to get the highest spec possible, money is a factor, so do I need anything beyond the base spec (2.4Ghz, 2GB, 320GB)? [/quote] I have been trying to make the same decision. I did price comparisons of yesterday's MacMini with today's

I always find this stuff fascinating too I tried using the referenced websites to recreate Peter's 900M quotation but the closest I could get was the £80 pounds in 1968 being the following in 2010: £1,040.00 using the retail price index £1,040.00 using the GDP deflator £2,030.00 using the average earnings £2,380.00

[quote user="didole"] Come on: This machine is faster than what 95% of the population need. Actually I think for any usage as a kind of media center it's more overpowered. Christof [/quote] My concern Christof, is should I just have it as a server ... and get something else as the end-point media interface ? I would be a lot happier if