Mar 2006
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DVD Burner installed and burning.

Mar 15 2006 22:47 Filed in: Apple
I purchased the drive about 3 weeks ago and found when I went to install it that I needed a bracket and a new cable. Apparently when you go from a DVD ROM drive to a Superdrive or Combo drive these are needed. After I installed the drive I archived about 5 CDs worth of programs and data that I didn't need on the computer. I also archived some more files on a DVD-R disk. And finally, I burned a couple of Dual Layer disks. So far everything works fine. I did try to boot off the optical drive and I was unable to do so by holding down the "C" key during the boot sequence. I can boot from the optical drive when I hold down the option key. Apparently the Optical has to be set as "Master" on the ATA chain for your computer to boot from the optical drive. From what I have read this only affects laptops. Xlr8yourmac.com has a good explanation and a work around. The work around is modifying the cable by soldering it on a certain pin. Now I've never been good with a soldering iron so I'm not even going to attempt this modification. I can live with boot by holding the option key down. Except for the mix up about what I needed to order everything went great.
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Getting a DVD Burner

Mar 10 2006 21:24 Filed in: Personal
Ok, I purchased a DVD Burner to replace my laptops DVD ROM drive. Now, I have a coworker that I talked to a dozen times about what DVD media I should buy for what purpose. I can never remember what he told me when it comes time to make the purchase of media. So I decided that there are probably others out there that have the same problem. I'm starting this page to record what I have found out about creating DVDs. I'm thinking about also adding tips about iDVD.
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ScreenCastsOnline Check it Out

Mar 09 2006 23:09 Filed in: Web Info
Just around Christmas time I stumbled upon a Podcast and its associated web site ScreenCastsOnline. The tutorials are short and to the point and Don does a very good job of making the tutorial easy and enjoyable. I'm a power user and while some of the information he provides I already know, he presents it in a way that doesn't make me feel like the content is below me. I highly recommend this Podcast. It is very useable even if you don't have an iPod.
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