help with a mac please

[ihopeheknows.livejournal.com]

hi i need help, i dont use a mac but i'm using my friend's because it has an embedded microphone and i need to record something, problem is i can't find the proper program to record.... any suggestions?


thank you

Comments

[arkady.livejournal.com]

First go to here (http://community.livejournal.com/techsupport/profile) and read the instructions.

Then don asbestos underwear.

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

Learn to read community info. Run away crying. Ask in macosx. In that order.

[wibbble]

Oh gods, don't send the morons to macosx. There's enough of them there as it is.

[ihopeheknows.livejournal.com]

hey, no need to be mean, i did a search for an interest that i needed help with and found your site... sorry i made the mistake. thank you for your help in finding other communities that will help me

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

This is a community for us to be bitchy and mean. You'd know that if you'd read the community info. But you didn't (or didn't comprehend it).

[ihopeheknows.livejournal.com]

ps community info says nothing about not asking questions, it says to take caution... i read it before i posted to make sure

[canray.livejournal.com]

And now you know why it says to take caution! ;-P

Because we'll be snippy at you if you ask questions here.

We will answer some, however. Typically about how to deal with (l)users.

[dukesnorre.livejournal.com]

You didn't read the info at all, did you? It clearly states that this is not the venue for questions, and that you want tech_support.

Moderator here...

[jecook]

It's obvious that you can't read bold capitalized text, so here's the information in question:

"If you are NOT a tech rep and you ask a question in the community for help with your computer, you cannot hold the community or any of its members responsible for what happens to your computer. This is not an established tech support help community. This is for the tech reps to vent and laugh and commiserate. So take any suggestions for things to do with your computer with the knowledge that we have disclaimed this!!!"

Perhaps I should edit the community info to make it obvious to a primate. maybe then your parents could read it to you.

[celyste.livejournal.com]

Odd, isn't it? That you are the only one that thinks that way.

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

always forget you have to explain things slowly and in small, mono-syllabic words for most of the lUsers out there...

[torkell]

First off, wrong community. This is where techies hang out to rant about customers. Hence, asking questions here is generally a Bad Idea™. The correct place to go ask questions is tech_support (note the underscore). You could have found all this out, and saved yourself the embarresment of posting in the wrong place, by looking at the community profile first.

That said, I'm in a good mood and you've been reasonably polite, so I'm going to be nice and point you in the direction of Audacity. I cannot help you with how to use it on a Mac, but if you look at the site you will see a link at the top labelled "Help" which should tell you how.

If you have any more questions, remember to ask them in the right place

[vortex.livejournal.com]

*Psssst!*

Don't feed them, if you do, they'll keep coming back!...

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

What the fuck is wrong with you people? When did you develop a sense of empathy or compassion? ffs!

Don't tell people they've made the mistake, let them realise their mistake when they follow our instructions and plug their fingers into a power socket! Have you no sense of cruelty or schadenfreude?

Gone soft.

[toxico.livejournal.com]

01) Go to store.
02) Buy a microcassette recorder, a microcassette, a Stanley hammer, and a bottle of snake bite remedy.
03) Go home.
04) Record what you want using the cassette and recorder.
05) Unplug the Mac.
06) Beat it with the hammer.
07) Drink the snake bite remedy.
08) Wait.
09) Vomit on the remains of the Mac.
10) Seek medical attention.

[megpie71.livejournal.com]

There's this nice new tool out there on the web, been there for a couple of years or so. Called Google (http://www.google.com). You may have heard of it. It will certainly give you better answers than this community.

We do tech support for a living. We come here to recover. You are harshing our collective mellow. If we bite your head off, it's because we were under the impression you weren't using it at the time.

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

+1 for epic reply.

[ihopeheknows.livejournal.com]

hi, all of you need to understand that it is the morning after 420, us hippies who only know how to sway to bongos around a fire and toke up dont really understand all your newfangled jibber jabber about computers but still have to do out art finals and use media... so. stop being such bitches, stop being so cynical, okay? you're good at what you do, why dont you just spread your computer techie love and not be so angry all the time, it's bad for your health, i'm leaving your community since i have no use for it anymore, so please promptly stop commenting. thanks.

peace

[jecook]

Primarily because this is *not* the community for it. If we can't vent somewhere, there would be more people going postal, and we all know that's a *bad* thing.

[shifuimam.livejournal.com]

Whoa...OP is super emo.

Also : wtf using pot smoking as an excuse for being an idiot.

I mean, I know that smoking pot ususally makes you do idiotic things, but nobody forced you to toke and then come HERE to post your inane questions about how to use a Mac (plus, Macs "just work", right? Which means you shouldn't have to ask US how to use one).

This comment sucks but I'm not feeling very sarcastic right now. :\

[canray.livejournal.com]

Smoking Pot does not make you an idiot.

It makes you hungry. ;-P

Being an idiot, makes you an idiot.

Idiots aren't made. They're born, raised, cultured, nurtured, and encouraged by a society that seems designed to generate Entitlement Whores.

We are the first, last, and *ONLY* line of defence in the protection of the remainder of the knowledgeable people of the Earth against them.

Where's my Noisy Cricket?

[canray.livejournal.com]

OK folks, OK... In all seriousness, we should thank the original poster!

No, I'm serious, we should!

This has been some of the most entertaining commentary we've had in awhile, don't you think! >:-)

[ghostdandp.livejournal.com]

all right this has one of the higher post counts I've seen in this community.

In a effort to make it expand from here...

Get a real pc :)

RE: Get a real pc

[irishmasms.livejournal.com]

To help us help you

[irishmasms.livejournal.com]

To help us help you, you might want to look over How To Ask Questions The Smart Way by ESR:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
and also How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=555375

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

DAMMIT, i'm late to this party, anyone told em the best way to do it is to microwave the mac yet?

how about dishwashing it?

you do realize that all you really have to do is attach two wires to the back of the battery pack and then slide that into the computer. that's where the microphone contacts are, so that it can get power and connection to the computer hard drive at the same time. then all you have to do is make sure you record something while taking a hot bath.

[110billion.livejournal.com]

Purple Monkey Dishwasher?

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Step 1:
Find reasonably bright 5 year old human child.
Step 2:
Ask them to help.
Step 3:
record 'something'
Step 4:
Commit ritual disemboweling of self, or at least self-castration in order to prevent you polluting the gene-pool with yet more stupid genes.

[ianwalker.livejournal.com]

Step 5: Profit!

[110billion.livejournal.com]

This is why I love techsupport.

[gremlingirl.livejournal.com]

Me too. Once a month the newbie fairy comes along and leaves a little gift for us to vent upon. Huzzah newbie fairy!

[amynnah.livejournal.com]

Dangit, I missed it again. Stupid flu!

First of all, Mama spank! We do not go into a tech gripe community, request help when it's stated that we come here to gripe in the community description, and then turn all huffy-puffy (pun intended) when the "mean techies" beat you up.

No. Bad. /whacks on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper. Go sit in the corner and think about what you did.

Second of all... I've been drawing probably longer than you've been alive, and never found "inspiration" from being high. Lose the drugs. They're bad for you.