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I installed Airport Extreme and connected an Epson 2200. I can print from my iBook to the Bonjour 2200. However, when I try to print from my MACMini, it tries to add the printer (It sees it) and then goes into an endless loop and becomes non-responsive. I have reset …

The position of the tool pallette has gone from vertical to horizontal. How do I change it back to vertical? Horizontal position is very annoying to work with. Does anyone know? Preferences doesn't do it. thanks

I am an Act and i just replaced a motherboard in a g5 power mac. the serial number no longer shows in the system profiler and im not sure why but the customer needs this. they are very adamant about this. i called apple provider support and they said they …

FOUR QUESTIONS: Firstly, why does the ALWAYS ASK FOR MY E-MAIL ADDRESS AND PASSWORD OPTIONS not functioning eventhough I have clicked that option. Secondly, why do I keep getting the same message that my password is incorrect although I know it IS. This itruly annoys me as I have to …

Hi All, I am running into a major mac problem this afternoon. I logged out of my Mac last night and came today, no login page! All I see is a semi-blue screen. I restarted my Mac a few times, without any success. Please, someone advice me on what I …

[COLOR=#000000]I work in a mixed Mac and PC environment, majority PC, and I have DHCP running on 2 servers with different scopes both are Win 2003 Server. The issue that I am having is with the client name in the address lease of the DHCP server.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Some of them come …

I have osx 10.4.6 Tiger installed on my system. When using Internet Explorer I am repeatedly getting a "Script Error Message." It is so frequent that it is taking all enjoyment out of using the computer. Can someone tell me what to do (step by step) in simple easy to …

Howdy, This is me: :!: My facial expression have been replaced by a big, exhausted '!'. Everytime I start my computer (iMac running OS 10.3.9 Panther), what I believe to be the Network Logo (Blue Sphere thingy on a grey square) flashes for what seems 10 mins or so. Once …

Hi everyone :) I own an iBook G3 500MHz and have recently installed Tiger on it. It runs very slowly and I would like to know if there are ways to make the operating system less resources hungry. Are there ways to turn off certain services/programs that run automatically that …

HI, Cant quite get the hang of my powerbook G4,Would love to be able to format the hard drive and start again,Could you please give me a quick guide Cheers :))

Hi, i recentrly bought an external DVD unit, and started to burn such pieces of art...well my issue is that i have a lot of old apple tv ads, then i want then all in DVD, there´re all about 99 ads, but i used TOAST, the problem is that once …

OK, I may be the only person still using WORD version 5, however, I am, and with my legacy situation, it makes sense to continue to do so rather than upgrade to one of the bloated more recent issues of that software, so ..... Is there any way to make …

I am looking for an application that creates a client folder, sub folders and futher sub folders, does anyone have any recommendations? I best I have seen so far is "Client Folder Maker" but that only allows you to create 2 levels of folders, and that it. Any help i …

hello, first post so take it easy on me if there's a very obvious solution. i'm trying to find some very simple software to record audio from my dv camcorder via a firewire port. i want to record as a .wav or .aiff file and don't need to record the …

Hi once again asking for help. I up graded from OS 8.06 to OS9 and every thing is ok BUT. Along the way I lost the G3 up date. The Computer works well but is much slower with out the G3. Any ideas where I can get a G3 up …

Afriend at work husband pass away a while back. He had a mac G4 note book almost new. She would like to sell it but she does'nt know the pass word to boot it up. She has no idea what it is. Is there any thing she can do? I …

Hi, I have just bought a USB data cable for my son's Samsung E350. I run a G5 imac which recognises most flashdrives, but the Samsung doesn't mount on the desktop. Any ideas please??

so this powerbook g4 1ghz starts then 3 beeps i know this (or think this is a ram prob) but before this i was starting then getting to the grey screen and the apple icon then that dark grey box with the hold the button to restart message the one …

My Mini started being very slow. I did maintenance with Onyx to fix permissions, clear, etc. I was still running very slow. I noticed I was being shown as being logged in twice. I logged out and rebooted. When it came up all folders on the desktop were gone. The …

im hoping someone can help me get my blue g3 imac up and running again...? im not sure if im posting this in the write place, but im new to this forum stuff, and dont know my way around yet..... anyway, i was given a blue g3 imac recently by …

I have some mac g4 mirrowed doors that crashes in many languages 3 or 4 times a day without no reason, somtemies after wakeup, doing something esay with illustrato or photoshop. i decide to change the hard drive for a new one and made no result. then i used a …

I have a Formac Studio TVR (firewire video capture and tv tuner). It works fine, but its software seems to have attached itself to my iChat. It's lovely that I can send a live tv feed over iChat as my video capture device via this Studio Remote window. The problem …

I finally got one of those MacBook beauties! So I set about putting Wine on it so I can finally access some of the programs I've been missing out on as a Mac user. So when I try to run Darwine, it says it can't find the truetype libraries. When …

HELLO THERE! I HAVE A POWERBOOK G4 AND OS X TIGER, I AM HAVING BIG PROBLEMS WITH IT:rolleyes: , WHEN I TURN IT ON TAKE SEVERAL MINUTES TO START, THEN WHITE MAC PAGE APPEAR, THEN A BLUE PAGE AND THEN NOTHING, I JUST CAN HEAR A FUNNY NOISE, I DON'T …

Wishing to proceed with a big clean-up of my internal HD, I've just purchased an external drive which I duly partitioned and onto which I saved all my data. I thought it would be easy to install OS X Tiger... BUT... the installation aborts half-way through -installation of essential software- …

I just noticed from within the finder that the root of my drive has a file, with no extension, called 0, that is a 0 byte file. Does anyone know where this could possibly have come from and whether it's save to delete? It should be, no? I'm thinking maybe …

Afer installing Panther on my machine the graphics card in the PCI slot (running a second monitor) doesn't work right. The monitor screen looks like a negative (gray and pixely). It worked just fine in Jaguar. What happened?

Somehow a jpeg has turned into a picture clipping (OSX) and I can't do anything with it - will not import into Iphotos or Adobe or print. My jpegs are usually 450kb (digital photos) but this one has morphed into 2.6mb! All I want to do is print this photo. …

Hi All- I have loaded up my G5 with Tiger, and found a pair of stickers with serial numbers (same on each) for QT Pro. These are similar to the sn. for the other software I have: FC StudioHD (and it components, each having a sn). So I searched (Find) …

got iDVD5.0.1 (all the iLife5 stuff) have a LaCie d2 external firewire DL DVD burner. also have an internal SL DVD burner. I want to burn more than 4g of i"movie" to the external from iDVD. I have been told this is not possable. I have searched all over for …

Has anyone seen any indepth reports, or had direct experience with how well the new iMacs work with illustrator and photoshop CS and CS2?

I currently use Zend Studio for Windows while I use XCode on my mac to do my php developing. However, it would be awesome if I could get Zend Studio's autocomplete and autosuggest featurs in XCode. Is there perhaps a PHP plugin for XCode that would let me do this? …

Hi All, [COLOR="Red"]Short & quick:[/COLOR] PowerBook G4 w/OS 9.2 & 10.4(? - upgraded from 10.0) won't boot up after aborted browser install. [COLOR="Blue"]The details:[/COLOR] My sister was trying to upgrade Netscape Navigator 4.7 to 8.1 on her OS 9.2 (she is running a dual boot OS 9.2/10.4(?) PowerBook G4 (15" …

Greetings- I have been stumped trying to figure this one out so I am giving you a shot. Sometimes when I place an Illustrator file into Quark 6.5 and then export it as a PDF file, the logo will spread on me. Basically, the Illustrator file is a logo of …

I'm having some weird issues with my Powerbook G4 ( "PowerBook5,7", "PowerPC G4 (1.2)") connecting to my Airport Express at home. A few weeks ago I installed my brand new Airport Express at home and made a WPA Personal security password as recommended. Everything worked fine for a few days …

I have had a hard time trying to change the names of my files on the Tiger desktop. Can somebody give me a tip?[url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/dani-images/smilies/fiyellow/icon_twisted.gif[/url]

I want to know about memories that work properly in a apple G5 1.6mhz, can work any DDR XXXMHZ 333 PC2700, (any brand?) Thank's Luis Hug

Hello, I am having a huge problem with my mac. First of all When I try to open flash mx it wont open anymore. I cant view flash websites on safari, only on firefox, and when i try to install any software, either flash mx, photoshop or if I try …

Can anyone help me please I run OSX Tiger and have downloaded new drivers for my printer but the printer stops in the middle of printing page error 50 has come up?

Is it possible to have a particular 10.4 widget permanently docked on my desktop?

Am I the only one in the world who hates Keychains? Mainly because I can't get to grips with what on Earth they're for . . . and that, I think is why I'm in A Mess! :mad: I upgraded to 10.3.9. Then I tried to buy from iTunes Music …

Hi - Ive been having trouble for a week logging into hotmail - the sign up page loads but when I enter my details and hit send it comes up with the message 'server timed out while waiting for browser request'........ I can access other sites, although not the hotmail …

I have an ibook running osx panther I recently did a general apple software update, and when i restarted my computer it went into the welcome to darwin now login screen Ive ran a few things such as disk utilities and fsk - everything seems fine It looks like it …

I am unable to remove/delete movies from my PowerMac/OS X. I cannot drag them to the Trash and cannot find a working solution in Mac Help. The movies do no have a 'Get Info' option and the 'delete' is grayed out and does not respond. Please I need step-by-step instructions. …

glad to find a osx forum. im having trouble with downloading with osx tiger, it just started about a month ago. what will happen is that when i start to download, even from apple, it will close everything down and go back to my desktop, then the little window will …

:twisted: When I start up my g4 there is a black screen. I tried to put in start up disk or restore disks and nothing happens. Someone please help me! ALOHA

is there anyone out there who can help me defrag this thing??? :mad:

i tryed viewing the new iMac ads on apple.com , i get a pop up that says it cant find some software to run it , i tryed uninstalling and updateing but it wouldent work , it runs on my windows PC , i downloaded it and put it to …

i cant open any dmg files. stuffit expander opens and nothing happens. i tried dragging into applications with no result. i'm working on 0SX10.2.8. can anyone please help

I'm pretty new to Macs and never was great with pc's. I bought a power mac 7200 with os8.1. Can't download much or sometimes it works and sometimes it's a big mess of gerbelldeygoop~^}}*<::?@%$&^(*)(_(EIO_)$$#"P{, that's what I got when I tried to download os9.2....and I think I have discovered thru …