TIL that Macbooks don't have a microphone jack. I went through the same discovery process as this person trying to figure out why my mic sounded so bad with Ventrilo. It turns out my mic wasn't working at all because the Macbook doesn't have a microphone jack and it was using the built-in microphone.
My friend says he has a crappy Dell laptop that's smart enough to have one port that can be easily toggled between line-in and mic-in. It's pretty annoying to pay a huge premium for a system and then have to buy accessories just so you can do with it what should be built-in. I'm going to have to pay $40 for a USB->audio in/out adapter, just like I had to pay $30 to connect an external monitor to my Macbook. Oh and that's on top of the USB hub I needed because my Macbook's two USB ports are already full.
I have some cheap but perfectly fine Altec Lansing headphones that I think cost me $15 new. I'm going to have to either spend $40 so I can use my $15 headphones, or replace perfectly good headphones with a much more expensive USB or bluetooth version because Apple didn't see fit to include a port that probably every other laptop on the market provides. >:-(
I purchased VoodooPad and it's excellent. I've always used my blog, to some extent, as a personal brain backup, but since I got VoodooPad I'm feeling less compelled to blog things than to just put them in VoodooPad.
DTerm: A command line anywhere and everywhere
They wrote back. It turns out that,when I launched it a second time, Iwas...
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