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Rick Broida from CNET's Cheapskate blog joins us to talk bargains.
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Max from England asked how to get 5.1 surround sound from his iMac into his speaker system. If he has a TOSlink cable already, he can use a TOSlink to optical mini adapter. Or for a bit more money you can get a cord that goes right from the headphone out jack on the iMac to the optical in on the other end. The length of the optical TOSlink plug here is 1/4-inch longer than an analog plug. That activates a switch on the port that tells the Mac it's an optical cable. Find out more at this Macrumours forum thread. Don't forget to make sure your outputting surround sound as well. Plex is a great piece of Mac software for that. Your calls:
We had a couple calls about partitioning and cloning hard drives. Gparted is my favorite. You can use it for cloning drives too, but you can also try Clonezilla.
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It's all about Macs today! Plus a look at the new T-Mobile G1, aka Google phone. And, of course, our second round of video questions. Thanks to Ross and Brad! Keep 'em coming to cnetlive@cnet.com. (No attachments, please.)
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E-mail answer Here's Ed's e-mail answering our caller from last week who couldn't get XP to install on his Windows Vista drives.
On your CNET Live from October 9, you had a caller trying to install XP on a Vista PC but it wouldn't recognize any of his hard drives. The problem is that either XP doesn't have the drivers for his hard drive controller, or he needs to turn off the flash cache on his controller. He can download the controller driver from the hardware manufacturer onto a disc, and then press F6 during the install when it prompts for unsupported hard drive/RAID controllers. Or, turning off the flash cache should allow XP to see the controller. I had this problem on a Dell Vostro laptop, and actually had to do both (disable the flash cache on the controller in BIOS and install drivers off a CD). Not sure if there is a way to get this solution to the caller, but at least you'll know for next time.
Ed Buck
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Ross's questions: There isn't an IP camera made today that also puts out video via USB or even FireWire that Brian C. can find. There ARE some IP cameras that have a video output, and if you ran that out to a video-capture card on your PC, voila. Look at Sony's SNCP5 ($460) coupled with the ADS Tech video capture device for ($50). Add the Sony SNC-ACFW1 Wi-Fi card for about $140. The cam supports PoE natively.
Tom suggested using WebcamMax or ManyCam to capture the screen with the IP camera software running so you can see the video. The frame rate may not be great, but it might work.
Brad's questions: We edited Brad's questions to just one, the one about sticky notes. Remember folks, keep your questions at 15 seconds. You can find lots of sticky-note programs at download.com. Try Notezilla.
Your calls
Mac or PC? That's almost like asking whether you should be Republican or Democrat. PCs are often more cost-effective, although articles have been done that dispute how much that's true. I'd say if you can afford the higher price, it's nice to be able to run Windows on a Mac. For the bargain-hunter, I'd stick with PC.
If you have Windows on a Mac in boot camp, you can easily remove it. Here are the steps.
Solid-state drives are getting cheaper. Brian C says if you want to wait for the cheapest, hold off a couple years. Here's a search on SSD price drops to give you some perspective.
Need some low-light cameras? Lori Grunin did a great job rounding up some compacts for you.
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How to really turn off your iPhone
Guest Pat Lee from VMware. Download of the Week
Software Virtualization Solution.
Weekend Project
Digitize your LPs: adjust the volume.
Steve Jobs offers $100 credit to iPhone purchasers.
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Get an iPhone screenshot utility.
More steps for using the iPhone screenshot utility.
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Anonymous wrote us on the CNET forums asking how you can get OS X to run on a PC. That discussion isn's allowed in the forums because of the fact that running OS X on a non-Apple computer breaks the EULA. Don't worry anonymous, I went there for you. Here's how I got OS X to run on my ThinkPad and why it's a legal mess to do so, on today's Insider Secret.
Special guest, Murali Subbarao, CEO of Billeo
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Miro.
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There's no way we know of to set your away message as your latest Twitter post, but it is suggested on the Twitter fan wiki.
The Medison $150 laptop.
Apple's suggestions for getting photos to transfer from your iPhone.
Tansee iPhone transfer.
Rip authorised OpenMG files with MarCNeT's Hi-MD renderer.
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