http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showforum.php?fid/4/General Mac / Sailing related topics. enFri, 20 Jan 2012 21:15:32 GMTFri, 20 Jan 2012 21:15:32 GMThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssFusionBB 3.0 FINAL (www.fusionbb.com)http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1652http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1652
I write nautical fiction and the Kindle store is giving away my little collection of four short stories that is called SEA BITCH: Four Tales of Nautical Noir throughout this weekend. If you have the Kindle app on an iPhone, iPad or Mac (you guys wouldn't have Android, would you?) you can read the book. The collection ends with a 50-page bonus preview of my new novel CIRCLE OF BONES, a sailing thriller that takes place down in the Caribbean.

The book was written on a Mac and my character has a Mac - does that make it all more on topic?

Here's a link to SEA BITCH. http://www.tinyurl.com/seabitch

Fair winds!
Christine Kling
http://www.christinekling.com ]]>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:24:08 GMThttp://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1644http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1644
Is this accurate?

Is there a comparison of the differences available somewhere? ]]>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:49:07 GMThttp://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1611http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1611
iDisksoft Data Recovery is a powerful Windows file recovery software tools which offers various types of complete data recovery software such as deleted data recovery, partition recovery, hard drive recovery for recover formatted partitions or which get lost due to files deleted using Shift+Del keys, empting recycle bin, files corruption, virus attacks, accidentally formatted files/folders, formatted partitions etc. It can also do Email data recovery and Email repair like the Outlook repair, Outlook express repair, etc.. This professional data recovery software supports all the Windows OS version: Windows XP, Vista, 2000 and new Windows 7 system. And it could recover file from many devices: hard disk, removable disk, flash drive, Digital Camera, SD card, CF card, and even your mobile phone memory, which is very useful when you want to get back an important photo saved on your cell phone. Below is a simple guide to show you how to install and use the data recovery to recover your lost files and documents.

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You could download the setup file for free and install iDisksoft Data Recovery software from the official website:
http://www.idisksoft.com/data-recovery-for-win .html
Step 2: Startup the Data Recovery and choose a proper recovery mode to scan the hard disk.
There are two functions on the main window of iDisksoft Data Recovery: Data Recovery and Email Repair. Here we select Data Recovery button, and there are fours modes for recovery:
1.Delete Recovery: Find and recover deleted files.
2.Format Recovery: Recover files from a formatted partition.
3.Partition Recovery: Recover corrupted, deleted or lost partitions and the data.
4.Raw Recovery: Recover deleted or damaged raw data from FAT/NTFS file systems.
iDisksoft works as FAT Data Recovery Software will of course recover lost or damaged data on any computer utilizing the Windows File Allocation Table (FAT16, FAT32) systems. It supports file recovery from the FAT partitions created on any Windows OS supporting FAT file system.
Here we choose Delete Recovery and go to next:

Step 3: Scan for lost or delete data and Recover your files.
Click the partition which you want to recover the deleted data and click “Next” button to scan. After scanning the all the deleted files’ name will show in the list, so the only thing you need to do is just click the files you want to recover and then click “Recover” button to recover deleted data you have deleted.

Note and Tips.
The scan process may take several minutes, and please pay some patients to wait for it to complete. We do recommend you to save the recovered files on another drive! Otherwise the lost/deleted data could be overwritten! Certainly, you can create new folder to save them.
Of course no data recovery software is perfect; if a file has been partially overwritten or otherwise compromised, the chances of any usable recovery are low, even with the best recovery software. But if it hasn’t been too long since you accidentally deleted the file, the chances of complete recovery are pretty good.

Now with the best recovery software, you will have nothing to worry about when disaster strikes. These programs will help you to do everything possible to make sure your important files are restored to their rightful place. iDisksoft Studio provides excellent data recovery tools for you. If you are using Apple Mac OS, you could also find the Mac version on their official website:
http://www.idisksoft.com. And you could get more information and details which are useful for your file recovery.
]]>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:00:16 GMThttp://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1602http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1602Nokia N9
Nokia has announced the first MeeGo-based smartphone - Nokia N9. It will be available in three colors—black, cyan, and magenta—with 16GB and 64GB storage. But Nokia has already stated that is has largely abandoned Meego in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. Still, the N9 is shaping up to be a pretty impressive device, and boasts some interesting design choices. The most intriguing feature on the Nokia N9 is a gesture called swipe. There is no home key on the phone—when you're in an application, swiping from the edge of the display will pull up your home screen. There will be three different home screen views, designed to focus on apps, notifications, and switching between activities.
The Nokia N9 features a 3.9-incled AMOLED screen made from scratch-resistant curved glass. According to Nokia, the N9's polycarbonate body enables improved antenna performance, which may result in better reception, better voice quality, and fewer dropped calls.
The Nokia N9 allows you to easily share images and videos between devices by touching them together. There's an 8-megapixel autofocus camera with a wide-angle lens and HD-quality video capture. And it will also feature free turn-by-turn driving and walking navigation with voice guidance in Maps and a new dedicated Drive app.
iPhone 4S
Familiar and yet new, the iPhone 4S may not look different from the outside, but inside it’s a very different beast. With its fifth generation smartphone, Apple is keen to show that the devil is truly in the details: the iPhone 4S is wickedly fast, fiendishly well equipped and ruthlessly threatening to its mobile rivals. Can this really be your intelligent personal assistant, your multimedia hub and your window onto the cloud, all in one 9.3mm thick package? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.
Hardware： From the outside the iPhone 4S looks identical to the iPhone 4. Inside, it’s anything but. Apple has resisted the urge to change design for the sake of change, and stuck with the same 3.5-inch Retina Display, glass and aluminum casing, and minimalistic aesthetic as before. It’s a decision that frustrated some in the aftermath of the launch event, but makes sense if you consider the evolution of the iPhone. A bigger display would’ve made for a bigger device overall, and potentially alienated women, teens and anyone with smaller hands.
iOS 5： Apple’s newest version of iOS may be fresh to the iPhone 4S, but it’s also being pushed out to the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch 3rd/4th-gen, iPad and iPad 2 this week. We’ve covered all the changes – and there are many – in our full iOS 5 Review.The most notable features are Siri, iCloud and the new Notifications Center, certainly the three likely to have the biggest impact on everyday iPhone 4S use.

With these two powerful smart phones, we can enjoy our HD movies, music, or clear pictures anytime and anywhere. But many people probably get confused with how to convert DVD movies or videos into your favorite smart phones. The most effective and easy way is to use some powerful and professional programs like: Nidesoft DVD Ripper and Nidesoft Video Converter.
Nidesoft DVD Ripper is an excellent software with powerful functions that can convert DVD files to almost all popular video and audio formats including MP4, MP3, AVI,WMV, 3GP, AVC, AAC,etc. And Nidesoft Video Converter can convert between almost all popular video and audio formats so that you can get movies and music from any format files with high quality and the super fast speed. It is really easy to use and only a few clicks were needed. You can free download the Nidesoft DVD Ripper from http://www.nidesoft.com/dvd-ripper.html and Video Converter from http://www.nidesoft.com/video-converter.html. Now, the specific steps will be introduced about how to get and convert DVD movies and videos with these powerful programs.

How to get movies and music from DVD?
Step1: you may open the Nideosoft DVD Ripper and load DVD movies first.
a. Open the Nidesoft DVD Ripper you have just downloaded.
b. Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive
c. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie and open it.

After add your movie, you can click any title or chapter to preview it in the preview window on the right. Then you can choose any titles or chapters you want to convert by click the check boxes before them. In this way, you can choose to convert DVD with the entire movie or just convert one or several chapters.
Step 2: Nidesoft DVD Ripper has powerful functions that enable you edit your video during conversion. You may use the functions below to make your perfect video.
Merge: A regular DVD movie has several chapters, you can convert several chapters into one by click the blank box before merge into one file. Click the check box before any chapter you want and merge them into one file.
Crop: you can cut off the black edges of the DVD movie to watch in full screen by click the crop button. A window will be opened and you can customize the size of screen by your will.
Effect: Click the Effect button you can set special effect including gray effect and negative effect.
You can also set the brightness, contrast, saturation and volume.
Trim: as you have selected the clips to convert, you can trim any segment of the clips by clicking the trim button. You can move the slide below the screen or set the start time and end time to trim any segment.
Step 3: you may customize the output video with its full functions.
Audio Track: Select an audio track from the available audio tracks of your DVD movie.
Subtitle: Common DVD movies have several subtitles such as English, Chinese, French, etc. You can choose one language you prefer or select “None” to delete subtitle.
Profile: Click the button and show the list of profiles, you can select the profiles you want. For example, if you want to convert your DVD movies to your iPod video player, click the “iPod video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”.
Step 4: now you can start your conversion.
After the settings finished, you can just click the Convert button to start the conversion. You can view the conversion speed at the bottom. The conversion will be completed in few minutes.

How to convert video or audio files to some formats which your player supports
For example, you have downloaded a file from YouTube is in “flv” format and you may follow the way below to convert the flv files or other video files in your computer into your portable player.
Step 1: open the Nidesoft Video Converter and load files.
a. Open the Nidesoft DVD Ripper you have just downloaded.
b. click "add Files" button and import the videos from your computer. Nidesoft video converter supports batch conversion so you can import multiple files at one time.

c. EDIT the video with the function button: Crop, Effect, Trim, Options
(1) Crop: Remove the undesired area or just convert part of the video area from your video file by dragging the frame around the video or setting the crop values: Top, Button, Left and Right.
(2) Effect: You can select gray effect or Negative effect from Special Effect or tune the Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Volume to get special effect movie.
(3) Trim: To get your favorite segment by setting the “Start Time” and “End Time” or dragging the Start Time slider to set the start time and dragging the End Time slider to set the finish time.
(4)Options: Set video Resolution, video Bitrate, Audio Channels, and Audio Bitrate.
Note: You could click the white box besides "Merge into one file" to merge your selected titles into one video before starting the conversion.
Step2: Select the out file format
Click the “format” drop-down list to select the output format. If you don’t know what formats your device supports, you can just select the format according to the device name.
Step3: Click the "Convert" button and start the conversion. Please wait a few minutes before the conversion succeeds!
Ok, now you have got music from videos and next what you need to do is enjoying it. If you have any questions, please visit Nidesoft Studio website: http://www.nidesoft.com to get more information.
]]>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:38:15 GMThttp://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1599http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1599
My initial inclination was to simply plan out routes on the iPad with iNavX and then export them to my Raymarine C80 which provides data to the AP. Unfortunately, this seems difficult. Basically, I'd have to transfer the routes to a computer, somehow (anyone know how??) convert them to a format that the C80 can read, and then load them onto the C80 through a compact flash card.

I'm now exploring alternatives. If I were to purchase and install a Brookhouse iMux, could I simply use the iPad to drive the AP? Would the iPad use its internal GPS or the Raymarine GPS, and is the internal GPS accurate enough for AP duties? When I don't want to use the iPad, could I seamlessly use the C80? Could I transfer the routes from the iPad to the C80 directly?

Sorry for all the questions...I'm just trying to make some sense of all of this! ]]>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:37:39 GMThttp://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1596http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1596


Computer Store
Online Computer Store
]]>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:21:45 GMThttp://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1595http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1595



Computer Store
Online Computer Store

]]>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:18:03 GMThttp://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1591http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1591 Actually, a lot of methods are available to recover or reset the Windows password. But most of them are designed for PC experts, not common PC users, those solutions are too complicated to get it work for us. And in this article, I will show you a professional software tool which could help you to reset forgotten windows password easily.

Total Windows Password Reset is powerful password recovery software to reset Windows login password for you to access Windows OS without reinstalling the OS when you forgot windows password or lost windows password. It could remove windows password and set the password to blank. Just boot from the program CD/DVD or USB flash drive, choose the account you wish to reset and all will be done. It is not a method to crack or bypass windows password, just remove or delete windows password and set it to blank so you could login windows to set new password.Below is the guide of how to reset windows password with this software, only 3 steps are needed to reset windows 7/Vista/XP/2003 password:

Step 1: Download the setup file of Total Windows Password Reset on the official website:
http://www.resetwindowspassword.net
And install it on another PC. Then you could startup the password recovery software to prepare the bootable disc.


Step 2: Burn the windows password recovery bootable CD/DVD or USB disc with the software.
Now, you may select “Burn DVD/CD Disc” or “Use USB Disc”. If you select first method, you need to have a blank CDR/DVDR disk, a COMBO or DVDRW drive on the PC. If you select to use USB disc, you just need to pay attention: This USB devices would be formatted, so you must make sure to back up all the data before use it. And the maximum capacity of the USB devices cannot exceed 2G.Tips: We recommend you to use the DVD/CD method to do the windows password reset, because some computers may not support USB start-up.

Step 3: how to burn the CD/DVD
1.Launch Total Windows Password Reset main window, Click “Burn DVD/CD Disc” button.
2.In BurnCC’s main window, click “Browse” button and in the open window, locate the file “TWPR.iso” on your desktop, select it and click on Open to get back to the main window. Then, click “Start” button.

3.Your DVD drive should open and insert a blank CD-R or DVD-R disc into the drive and close it. Click “OK” button. Your CD will be burned in a few minutes.
Tips: if there is already a CD/DVD disc in the drive before run the software, the CD drive will open automatically. Please close it again. The process will be continuing. And you could also select UCB as boot disk, and you could visit the website to get more information and tutorials.

Step 4: Boot your PC with the burned CD/DVD or USB disc to reset windows password.
You need to insert the Created CD/DVD or USB drive into the optional drive of the locked computer and reboot it.
Tips:It your computer still boots from hard drive Windows OS, it's necessary for you to change your COMS or BIOS settings to make it boot from CD/DVD or USB drive. If you don't know how to set it, you may visit the official website:http://www.resetwindowspassword.net or contact the computer manufacture.The computer boots from CD/DVD or USB drive, then
1.The program will ask for the Windows OS hard drive volume. Enter the ID number of the hard drive volume that Windows is installed.

2.The program has detected all the user names of Windows and asks which user name password is to be removed. Enter the ID number for the User Name.
3.The program asks to confirm weather to remove the password or not. Enter "y" (yes) to confirm your action and "n" (no) to deny the action and hit "Enter".
4.The program asks whether to continue to remove passwords for other accounts. Enter "y" to continue and "n" to finish. Eject your USB from your computer first and press any key to restart the computer from Windows. Now you can log in Windows with an empty password (with no password.), just click “Enter” when you login.

If you have any questions of the password recovery procedure and the settings, you could visit the website:http://www.resetwindowspassword.net Now you could see that to reset or recover the admin login password of windows OS: XP, Vista, Windows 7 or 2000 is not so difficult and you can do it with ease.



]]>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:51:14 GMThttp://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1589http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1589South Park South Park season 1-14 dvd shows viewers an imaginationland with plenty of fart jokes. The lives of four children: Stan Marsh, Kyle Brotlovsky, Kenny McCormick, and, most prominently, Eric Cartman captured fans' eyes.ThroughoutSouth Park complete series dvd, the creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker not only challenge America's claim to moral superiority, but also question whether good and evil can exist in a pure form in any political or even metaphysical system. ]]>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:41:07 GMThttp://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1588http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/1588
We are about to take part in the World Cruising ARC trans atlantic rally.

Currently we try to get the last things working with our macs.

Today it is the Navtex. We have a Nasa PC Navtex Pro engine running.

Is there any could mac software you can recommend that work together with the engine?

The only existing topic I have found (http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/163/post/757/hl/n avtex/fromsearch/1/) is from 2006. It recommends goSerial from www.furrysoft.de as a reader.

Is there newer software?
Is anybody having experience with goSerial?

Thanks a lot.

Patrick ]]>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:58:15 GMT