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Originally posted by germcevoy:Just testing A ridiculously nifty little remote mouse app on the . Pointless but Fun.

Testing it on what?

True, I've been looking for that one also. But for now it's only available for the iPad. And it looks like I won't be able to install that on the iPhone 3G, either (read it on their blog yesterday). Still it's nice to see someone trying and Apple allowing it. But with Apple you never know when they might decide to shut the door, as in "There was an app for that"™. Actually, what they just trademarked actually allows my option, too (they use an apostrophe instead of the whole word "is" ).

I wonder why you can't install it on any Apple device though. It's a network app, surely all devices can access WiFi which is where I assume it works through.

Apple did shut the door on the torrent app that was up for a few days. Shame because it would have been a good idea to finally do torrents on my iPod. But apparently not. Apple's guidelines are still ridiculous. I haven't seen an equaliser app yet - which is what I'm really waiting for.

thefly202005

14 years

Originally posted by drewhiggins:[..]
I haven't seen an equaliser app yet - which is what I'm really waiting for.

There is. The only thing you need to do is to spell it in "American English", with a Z instead of S, as in equalizer. Try here for example: http://www.audioforge.ca/landscape.php?tc=33&mg=153

germcevoy

14 years

Yea I lose ALL signal when I hold this phone like a normal person. Have a bumper case on order. Hope it helps or else it's eBay.

drewhiggins

14 years

Originally posted by germcevoy:Yea I lose ALL signal when I hold this phone like a normal person. Have a bumper case on order. Hope it helps or else it's eBay.

Maybe the companies need to get on the fact that their antennas and hardware are just dodgy.

There is. The only thing you need to do is to spell it in "American English", with a Z instead of S, as in equalizer. Try here for example: http://www.audioforge.ca/landscape.php?tc=33&mg=153

If you're up for converting your files to another format and paying $4 for the privelege then it's great. I'll wait for a jailbreak option.

djrlewis

14 years

If it comes to that let me know before you put it on eBay.

MacStripey

14 years

so I bought myself a new harddrive with 1 TB

thanks to all those U2 audio and video bootlegs totally loading my other 3 harddrives to the limit.... anyway, got the new HD formatted and all, it works fine.
But why does the system tell me there is 937 GB of free disc space available, when it's supposed to be 1.000 GB ? where are the mighty 63 GB that I would also like to use?

Risto

14 years

Different unit system.

Basically harddisk manufactorers are correct and Windows is wrong.

It has to do the way MB/GB/TB are defined. The one is in standard units, the other is in 'computer units'

MacStripey

14 years

so.... it's all there, but I should not expect to be able to use all of it as Windows shows a lower free space?

KieranU2

14 years

Originally posted by MacStripey:so I bought myself a new harddrive with 1 TB thanks to all those U2 audio and video bootlegs totally loading my other 3 harddrives to the limit.... anyway, got the new HD formatted and all, it works fine.
But why does the system tell me there is 937 GB of free disc space available, when it's supposed to be 1.000 GB ? where are the mighty 63 GB that I would also like to use?

I got 931 GB when I got mine

I want the rest!

What make is yours if you don't mind me asking?

Risto

14 years

There is no less space, just a different number

In real life:
1000 bytes = 1 kilobyte

But in most software they bastardized the unit into:
1024 bytes = 1 KB (so not really 'kilo')

Its confusing, but they are like centimeters and inches, only the difference is not as big.

EDIT:

937 gigabytes = 1 006 096 089 088 bytes (Over 1TB in standard unit)
931 gigabytes = 999 653 638 144 bytes (Just a bit less, this is because every harddrive needs to have a index, much like a book. Those take 'pages')

MacStripey

14 years

size is overrated anyway