{"id":432,"date":"2008-08-10T19:51:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T03:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/wordpress\/?p=432"},"modified":"2024-12-12T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T05:48:08","slug":"164-hp-mini-note-macally-shell-dns-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/164-hp-mini-note-macally-shell-dns-poisoning\/","title":{"rendered":"#164 HP Mini-Note, MacAlly Shell, DNS Poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"

My adventures helping my friends buy two MacBooks, in Dumb Question Corner we learn how to delete old podcasts, the meaning of the word shenanigans, and how to combine PDFs using Preview. Rose teaches how to take a screen capture on the iPhone and how to use MobileMe on IE6. I review the HP Mini-Note 2133, model KX868AT. More than you’d ever want to know about cables at Gizmodo.com<\/a>, and how the MacAlly Protection Shell for MacBook saved George’s MacBook from his cat. In Chit Chat Across the Pond we discuss the DNS poisoning problem a little bit more, then we debate whether Apple should cut apps from the app store on their whim, and we talk about Bart’s first time on the Mac Roundtable.<\/p>\n

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\nTell story of buying Macs for the Schwartz’s and mention Gabe the sales guy!<\/p>\n

Dumb Question Corner<\/b>
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\nDelete old podcasts<\/b>
\nDaniel writes in with a good question:
\nHow do you get your ipod to delete old podcasts off of it? Mine is piling up with your podcast (Not that that is a bad thing) and it feels really cluttered.<\/p>\n

This isn’t obvious at all, because you can’t manipulate anything on the iPod directly. I’ve many times wished I could delete on the iPod though. It turns out you have to delete podcasts in iTunes, and then sync your iPod. I end up in a 3 step process, I sync my iPod, then in iTunes I can tell what ones I’ve listened to because there isn’t a little blue ball next to them. then I have to resync my iPod to get them erased from there. that’s all there is to it.<\/p>\n

Shenanigans<\/b>
\nPeter asks a non-tech dumb question:
\nHi, I listen to a lot of US based podcast and there is word I heard a couple of times that we don’t know in Europe. Last show you used it also. It was “chenanigan”. Don’t know if it is written correct. Can you enlight me? Greetz, Peter<\/p>\n

You come up with the best dumb questions, Peter. I love this one. The word is spelled shenanigans, and it means anything from horseplay,, up to no good, secret or dishonest activity, silly or high spirited behavior, mischief, to trickery.<\/p>\n

I love how through podcasting we’re learning cultural and language differences. Bart and i had a long discussion in chat about whether to say “an HDR photograph” or “a HDR photograph”. It took forever for us to discover that in my kind of English the h is pronounced “aitch”, but in his kind of English it’s pronounced “haitch”! Another one I like is that companies are plural in his world, singular in mine, so he says “Apple are” while I say “Apple is”. Love the international conversations!<\/p>\n

Peter on Preview to combine PDFs<\/b>
\nPeter is the MASTER of dumb questions – he had yet another one. He asks:<\/p>\n

I have scanned an article from a magazine into 6 jpg’s. Opened them in preview and resized them (nice new feature in preview).Now I wanted to merge these 6 jpg’s into 1 pdf file but I don’t succeed.<\/p>\n

I was pretty sure you could do this too – opened two PDF files in Preview, and tried all kinds of things to copy and paste pages from one into the other. then I pinged his Bartliness (doesn’t sound the same when I say it, does it?) and he said: <\/p>\n

open both, open the drawer, drag-drop the pages from one to the other<\/p>\n

remember the apple rule – when it’s too hard, you’re doing it wrong!<\/p>\n

Rose problems\/solutions<\/b>
\nRose has taken to sending VERY short snippets to me, a problem followed by a solution. No frills, no fancy exit music, not even so much as a “G’day Al”. Listen carefully, they go by pretty quickly!
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short and sweet! and now one for how to get Mobile Me on Windows runninG IE6:<\/p>\n

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Rose is unique – isn’t she?<\/p>\n

HP Mini-Note<\/b>
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