Hi,I recently over stepped my bounds with the range of my monitor in OSX. I have tried everything I can think of to get back to a range where I can see and nothing seems to work. I have reinstalled OSX, switched monitors and then switched back after changing the settings, and even deleted the di...

I'm one of those (slot-loading) iMac owners who find the volume much too high even at it's lowest setting. Additionally, mine forgets its volume setting every time it reboots under OS X. I'm also underwhelmed by the quality of the iMac speakers.Are there fixes for these problems? Do...

I have swapped my DVD drive for a Samsung CDR/W drive but it doesn't seem to work?In the 'Apple System Profiler' it reports it as "CD-RW (Apple disc burning:Supported)" but if I put a blank CD in, it asks to initilise it, then opens the disk tools app and nothing else happens. When...

In OS X, when i click "start" udner web shairng...nothing happns?!? it used to work, but now it doesnt happen anymore

About a month ago I bought 512megs of PC 100 ram for my G4 450 and when it came they sent me PC 133 not PC 100. When I called they told me it was ok to mix 100 and 133. I got differing opinions about whether this was ok. Is it? I'v e been getting some strange stutters on certain programs sin...

how do I stop this pop-up that asks if I want to remain connected from do so? ....[i]MAKE IT STOP!!!!!! [ 12-07-2001: Message edited by: pfflam ]</p>

Hey guys,I am having trouble using the "assistants" in AppleWorks. Not only is it not in the tabs when the starting points window comes up, but they will not open from their folder in the AppleWorks folder won my HD. I get a message saying "The file could not be convereted to an AppleWorks docum...

I have an old 1400c that has suddenly seemed to crapped out. On startup it will do the usual grey screen with the pointer for about 5 seconds, then give a very bad sounding four note tune as it goes to a black screen with a sad mac. The following is under the sad mac:0000000F00000001Ive tryed st...

Guys, if any of you can help me on this in the next few hours that would be really great. :) I am stuck on a Windows 98 machine and need to access my iDisk. Do any of you know how I would go about doing this?Also as an aside question that I have wondered for some time: Can I set up an iTools acco...

I want to buy a secondhand Powermac G4 but how can I see if the secondhand Powermac G4 is working fine? How can I see if for example the hard disk isn't damaged? Or if the graphics card isn't damaged? many thanks QQ

Anybody have the faintest? I want to delete one of mine.

I have a postscript file on my UNIX box that I need to print. Of course the gamma of the printer is an issue. The grayscale images come out dark.How would I go about gamma correcting the postscript file? There's got to be some way to do it using acrobat to convert it to pdf? Maybe something e...

I know it sounds a bit dumb but I've never needed this before now.I read somewhere years ago there was a fix you could do to make your powerbook read any region DVDs. Since I don't want to pay UK prices on all my DVDs this would be a great help if anyone knows how to do this.cheers...

Hello,i have a powerbook 400 mhz. One of the original ones. I recently bought the new Airport and a brand new airport card. The whole setup is very erratic. I know I am staying within my range and my internet keeps...well...just dying. If i reset the airport or my cable modem sometimes it will...

I have 2 video cards, an nVidia Geforce 2 MX in the AGP slot and a Radeon in the PCI slot in my G4 running OS X. I have an Apple Studio Display LCD 17" plugged in the Geforce and it works beautifully. I have a 17" FLATRON 775FT CRT plugged into the VGA port in my Radeon and it is giving me problem...

after cutting and pasting in photoshop i go back into the finder to be told that an export or something is too big it annoying anyone know how to get rid of it ta :)

i have a pismo powerbook 500 and it is all messed up. when i connect the power cord in less than ten minutes the battery fully discharges. I was doing a special conference last night and i had to do a speech instead of a presentation because the computer wouldn't work. The Expansion Module a...

i have a pismo powerbook 500 and it is all messed up. when i connect the power cord in less than ten minutes the battery fully discharges. I was doing a special conference last night and i had to do a speech instead of a presentation because the computer wouldn't work. The Expansion Module a...

I'm running and old Imac (266 mhz 96 ram) and using OS9.1... I have the newest version of IE 5 on my computer and I am facing some major crashes that I cant force-quit out of. I've re-installed IE, dumped the cache and temp files, and now I'm out of ideas... this is a major problem...

I try to install an Asante Fast Ethernet Card. It works with OS 9.x, but it does not show up under Mac OS X. I have installed the drivers and contacted Asante tech support, but they couldn't help me. :( How can I peek into the installer to see what he is trying to do, so that I can look wha...

I've been having a bizarre problem which has basically hosed my Pismo.1. Started getting random kernel panics, corrupted files, etc. with increasing regularity. Tried reformatting and reinstalling a few times, eventually decided that HD had gone bad and purchased a new one (an IBM Travelsta...

I was wondering if someone could help me create a drag n drop applescript to print whatever was dropped on the icon. Basically, if I have a bunch of appleworks docs that I want printed, I want to be able just to select them from the finder drag them to the icon and voila, print them all without di...

Hi all. Kind of a straight forward question here. Following an easy install of Deus Ex (which runs fine), I found I couldn't open Explorer or Outlook, just get a type 11 error and kapute - system doesn't hang, tho'. I should know what's wrong but...I thought maybe a QuickTime c...

Its in the title up there Cheers

I was at the George Harrison memorial at Strawberry Fields, in Central Park, in NYC (the Lennon memorial)... I spent a few hours at one of the sing-alongs that was taking place.At some point, I realized that I was carrying my Rio 800 128MB MP3 player, and that it has a microphone built-in and has...

how would I know if my graphics card, Rage 128 Pro on the first AGP G4s, is an AGP cardI ask this because if i want to upgrade to a radeon, then i can use the rage in another PCI slot,and bing-badda-boom!TWO MONITORS!!!!!can it be done, i fathom to think of that possible?Also, this is conjunction...

This may turn out to be one for the Geniuses. Ok I was using OS X and my dad wanted me to DL some stuff for him. So to get the internet to work I had to restart. I did so from the start up disk control panel (was gonna boot into OS 9 without thinking) but I left it set to X. After I do the c...

I'm ready to pull my hair out!!When I click a link to read a PDF online, I keep getting the following error message: [quote]An internal error occurred<hr></blockquote>and [quote]An error occured while attempting to load the plugin PDF Viewer<hr></blockquote>This is on...

OS X has a nasty habit of leaving .ds and .trashes files on win servers every time I log in. As you can imagine, administrators are not to happy with it. Anyone here know if anything can be done about this problem? :( Thanks!

Whenever I go to the Apple Store, I realize how pretty everything on their screen looks so nice, and when i come back home...everything is so, how would one say it... yes...blahI dont want a blah computer anymore...i have a AGP PowerMac G4, no ACD, and i want an Apple Flat Screen, or something ni...

Hello board! Well, although I feel this might be a bit lackluster, this IS my first post since the big void ended (registered Jan.2000) . . . and it is not even a opinion! (Anyone know who I am?Im sure you would understand . . )I have searched far and wide. I have traveled to the ellusive Summit...

Ok I recived a 7100 from a freind a while back which was sitting on a shelf in my office for a while. Recently I grabbed a Mac-to-PC monitor adapter (DM15-HF10P) of the net to use on my powermac. So today I recived the adapter in the mail & hooked it up. After fooling around a bit I used the 16" m...

i keep getting an error in quark randomly when i try to print. the error i get is as follows-ERROR: invalidrestoreOFFENDING COMMAND : restoreSTACK:-savelevel-that is the error i get and i can't find anything on it on the quark website..Please Help.thank you Cheers,...

is there any special tricks to get iTunes internet radio to get around my company's fireall? Currently I can't get a connection. gracias in advance.

i have some large video files that i need to back up but, the files are so large that they won't fit any media. there are (2) files that are 2.08 gigs and (1) file that is 4.17 gig. my hard drive is partitioned and i can copy from one partition to the other but that is it. i need to either co...

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They did like each other for a while. It worked, and it worked fine. It worked with the Linksys router connecting both my iMac 400 DVSE (9.1 and 10.0.x) and brother's Inspiron.Then both of us couldn't get anything to come through.After much hassle and both of us doing reinstalls and all...

does anyone konw how the macs will work on a network with a linux box as the server. and also would it be possible to netboot from a linux box?

IE5 can't remember any passwords, so each time I enter a site I have to re-type username and passwords. That's not all It also wants warns me that I am sending data over an insecure connection but it refuses to remember that I have switched the warning off.The OS can't seem to remem...

In particular I would like to get real-audio (classic) to work as a helper ap with IE 5.1. But I'd go with Omniweb if that will work better. Also, am I right that it would be impossible to get a classic plug-in to work with an OS X browser?

My desktop Windows PC at my office is completely dead, so I'm trying to get my new iBook 600 to get me access to our Unix system via Telnet. Usually we use a terminal emulation program, SmartTerm, in Windows.I've tried three different Telnet programs in OS9, as well as Telnet at the com...

Hi there, I've been working on a modified version of the old Apple ADB Mouse 2 for a long time now and have now reached a point of interest:Seems to me that the chip used inside taht mouse is actually 2 button capable, with the second button just never used. Even Apple itself is talking about...

When i plug in tibook incorrectly there is an electrical current that runs through it. I can feel it when i run my hand over the case. I figured out that it only happens when I plug the computer in backwards. Let me explain, both ends of the power plug prongs fit into the small electrical slot. Th...

I have the AV cable and try to use my iBook to watch DVD on TV...but dont' know why the TV doesn't see anything. Can anyone help please? Running OS 10.1

I was wondering if this is really Steve Jobs real email address? steve@mac.com?

Hi We have an iMac where I work that sometimes when it is put to sleep it beeps audibally (sp?) as the power button glows. When you try to bring it back up it is frozen. This only seems to happen on one of our 10 imacs. Its an indigo iMac DV. Thanks for any help

Does anyone know how to view .rtf (rich text format) documents in Word X? Cuting and pasting from Text Edit is a pain. There has to be a way. I could do it in Word 98. Why would Microsoft ship Office X without support for the most widely used email text format?

Ok, I am in OS 9.21 and everytime I start or restart my iMac a window pops up about logging into my iDisk. I dont want this happening, how do I disable it?

I just nuked my FreeBSD box and now I need to help someone who's on a FreeBSD box.grr.On OS X/Darwin you can define the ifconfig arguments at boot in the /etc/iftab file.Where can you do this in FreeBSD?Thanks![ 11-26-2001: Message edited by: jutus ]</p>...

Does anyone know if there is a way (besides Snapz Pro) to convert a Windows Media Player stream to QuickTime or some other non-crap form of media (like MPEG or MP3)?I have a terrible time tuning into streams from WMP while running OS X. It would also be cool to burn some stuff to a CD.Does anyone...