h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Have you tried using the speech recognition? It's not perfect, but it's really good fun.

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nooo i haven't... i will tomorrow then.. thanks for the tip i had forgotten that!

I've tried it. It ignored my commands for the most part but would open the applications in response to phrases that sound nothing like the commands in response to music or films I'd be playing.

Yes, it needs a relatively quiet environment, and a good external microphone helps too. Have you tried the voice commands in the "Chess" game?

Yes, it kept moving the wrong piece .

ibook + garageband + griffin imic + griffin guitar cable and guitar =instant hassle free songwriting!
...great

Long time Mac fan here. Thanks for the tip fluffy. I have finally gone from a very old Mac (not dirty or greasy or anything!!) to an iMac. Ye gods, I think I've died and gone to heaven

I was trying to explain to a friend the loyalty and affection a Mac inspires. After a few funny looks, he now has one too, and we are both over the moon.

Now folks, I am supposed to be dong housework and boring things like that but I just want to stay here and play. i will get down to serious work on it when I have finished customising it to my liking.

Yes, I too love the humour and whimsy with a Mac, it continually makes me

Gotta .......someone give me a push please

Websailor

i love my little G3 iBook to bits, i have only had her for two months but she is just amazing.
unfortunatly because she is running osX 2.2 or something i cant use her to sync Felix (my iPod) and i have to use the rubbishy windows xp thing that is the family computer.
apple

I still love my Wallstreet PDQ. However it's only running 9.2.2 and I secretly want a clamshell iBook...but don't tell anyone.

I just tried the speech commands again for the first time in a long time. With a little tweaking this actually works very well. There's a calibration button in the Speech Commands control panel, using the internal microphone I had to bring the mic level way down to get good results. Then on the "commands" tab turn on a few more of the options, say "computer, show me what to say" and away you go! I'm even getting decent results with the radio on, and Zeppo barking, although I need to wait for relatively quiet moments to get the command right.

<-- barks at all the wrong moments, but hasn't managed to get the computer to obey him yet

...now that would be a clever dog!

I found that the internal mic on my ibook's not brilliant, but when I got the imic gadget and hooked that up to an old pc microphone, that seemed to work better. And it was a good bit of recycling at the same time!-I always wondered if the old mic I had hanging around would be any use!

Just been doing a bit of housekeeping on my ibook, taking the advice from hootoo about setting up day to day accounts etc, and changing old passwords-its was so easy! Its nice not to have the usual computer stress doing stuff like that!

i'm back... and i have many more things i love about my mac but... i have some relationship problems with it now so i can't remember right now....

just logging back on

i found a new thing to love about my mac!!

i live in a very humid place... the Haiku area on Maui... and yet it was my storage on the mainland that wound up springing a leak and molding a buncha important stuff including the box my beautiful vintage deluxe scrabble board was in ...so i had to trash the box and brought the scrabble board back here where at least i could keep an eye on it....

and it just occurred to me today and yes it fits !! it fits perfectly in the box my 15" macbook pro came it!! ...with cunning styrofoam insert with vacuoles that i can put the racks and tiles into!!

now i am in creative mode to cover the box with ah yes... collage yes collage!!

That's what I call clever recycling. Hope you cover it without something nice. As for my Mac I find something new and interesting every time I use it. Keeps the brain cells ticking over and it's fun too.

Websailor

One thing I love about my Mac is a piece of software, called Scrivener.

Enlighten this ignoramus please

Websailor

ooh people talking about shiny puters! i wants a new mac for uni purposes, am i better off with a bog standard macbook or should i go for something more erm upmarket?
my current iBook is at least 5 years old and on its way out, it has crashed on me a few times in recent months, think the hard drive is trying to tell me it doesnt like being on h2g2 24/7
my iPod has been behaving itself better than the last one did though, hasnt been dropped nearly as often which is probably helping!!!

Scrivener -> http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html

. ... .comes back after perusing the scrivener website. ... .

ooooo <------ another shameless plug for my wished for new hootoo smiley

Oozing shrinking windows, headshaking login screens, give it personality, but it still manages to be elegant and unsurpassedly user friendly. How could any thinking person not love their mac?