Who Owns Your Music?
I never suggested that consumer own the right of first publication to what they buy . However , I do trust that consumer have some fundamental usage rightfield , and that many content publishing house want to reduce or eliminate consumer freedom . For exemplar , when I buy a CD , I believe that I have the right hand to commute the euphony on that CD to MP3s and put it on my iPod , or to burn mixed Cd of the song in my accumulation for my own personal use . By your reasoning , none of these thing should be sound . Not even the medicine companies hold that position , which is just as ridiculous as the plagiarist ’ belief that there ’s no such affair as intellectual property.—Jason Snell
Larry Plachno – As a powder store and al-Qur’an publisher , I ’m in the midriff of this copyright public debate . On the one handwriting , if we ’re worried about software or hardware that can make illegal copy , we should also rid of written matter car , scanners , and audio record-keeper . We might even want to take a good , concentrated look at pens , pencils , and chalk . On the other hand , there are any number of item ( melodic works , issue , book , video , and even medicine ) that cost money to develop but are also comparatively easy to imitate . The hoi polloi who build up and produce these items should be paid for their ontogeny costs . Paying the proper price encourages them to produce more ; illegal copying discourages them .
No Enhancement
Michael Malouf – I was emotional to learn about Safari Enhancer ( “ Secrets of Mac Superheroes , ” June 2005 ) . But you failed to mention that it does n’t work with Safari 1.3 ; according to the Enhancer vane situation , trying to do so could really screw up Safari .
grant to the Safari Enhancer site , the utility program has since been updated so it now work out only with Safari 2.0 in O X 10.4.—Ed .
KYOU
Danny Lemos – I had just said to a friend , “ How do I get into Podcasting ? ” when I opened the June issue and found your clause ( “ Start Your Own Podcast,”Create , June 2005 ) . Bravo ! I was set up my first Podcast in a pulsation . As a former radio broadcaster , I ’m excite that I can just become on my iMac and be up and scat .
Bye-Bye, Passwords
Henry B. Ledyard – Your short story about biometric security devices ( “ Put Your Finger Here,”Mac Beat , June 2005 ) is the good newsworthiness since the shiner . cogitate of the possibilities : secure and personal designation for access one ’s medical records and credit information , online voting , and online shopping without veneration — and I could pitch my little bleak record book with all those login names and passwords .
What Month Is It?
Chris Luth – I know this has been convey up before , but now the magazine industry has reached a new low gear . I received my latestMacworldin the mail today — the June issue . pageboy 17 has an annunciation that enjoin Tigerwill beavailable on April 29th ( “ Tiger Arrives,”Mac Beat , June 2005 ) . What ? The future tense regarding a appointment that was more than a calendar month prior to the outlet day of the month ? I screw the magazine industry is competing to keep up a sense of seasonableness in this inst - news program era , but this is beyond me .
Classic Lighting
Bob Johnston – As someone who go way back with an Apple II+ and a Mac 512 K , and who has been through legion upgrades since , I ’m a true Apple devotee . My married woman and I require to do something unique and different with two Mac Classics ( one belong to a protagonist ) that were gather up dust . We did n’t desire to hurl them out , but thought that a Mac Classic Nox - visible light would make a prissy touch on our desk . Each Mac Classic was gutted and sanded , had light holes drilled , and was paint . bluish plastic was set over the monitor lizard and floppy - drive openings . Finally , the Apple logo was painted to eat up the projection . Total crafting time per Mac was about eight to ten hours .
Les Simon – After fifteen or so year of using a personal computer , I switched to a Mac . A year afterwards , I ’m still adjust to the replacement . But I ’d like to thank Apple technical school support andMacworldfor all their supporter in lay down the switch as destitute of hassles as possible . In general , Macworldis lade with utile information , much of it about small apps that cost less than $ 100 . But this can bestride up chop-chop , lend to the cost of an already high - priced scheme . Using Windows was frustrating , yes . But much every time - saving app I ’ve translate about inMacworldadds a lineament built into Windows — at no surplus monetary value . It seems that many Mac users ( myself include ) require Windows capability with Mac reliability .
Noisy Debate
Wayne Mitzner – Regarding the letters you ’ve been publishing about excessive fan noise in iMac G5s , you should also look into the noise of the 12 - inch PowerBook G4s . exploiter in Apple ’s support forum say that a change to a data file ( AppleADM103x.kext ) in the climb from OS X 10.2 to 10.3 caused the fan to stay on nigh all the prison term . In plus to the noise , this also cut my stamp battery time by about 40 percentage . Reinstalling the old file from OS X 10.2.8 into 10.3 solved the problem for me . But that may not work in Tiger — preventing owner of 12 - in PowerBooks from ever upgrading to OS X 10.4 . Please check out this out .
Ron Connor – In June’sFeedback , a proofreader remark on the obtrusive fan noise the G5 column draw . I had the same trouble and found one solution that work out well for me . In the Energy Saver preference pane , select the Options yellow journalism , and then pick out in high spirits from the Processor Performance drop - down menu . re-start the computing machine , and you ’ll notice a dramatic drib in fan noise .
Make iTunes Better
Eric Pollitt – I have a proffer for improve iTunes . I screw I can order it to use specific equalizer preferences for each song . But I think it ’d be more Apple - like if iTunes automatically based its equalizer preferences on each song ’s genre — so it ’d select popping for Michael Jackson , and Rock for R.E.M.
