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i'm on a mac os 9.2 i believe and i was wondering how do you install the iPod software onto your computer......i put in the disc expecting a prompt or something like that and no......but anyway my music listening program is quicktime if that matters. Someone please help asap

Hi, I'm having trouble connecting to a 'Gigabyte' router (802.11bg) my housemate recently purchased. My ibook (system 10.3.9) recognises the existence of the network in the airport drop down menu, but when I try and select it, I receive the message 'there was an error connecting you to the airport …

Am having difficulty installing some Picture Package software from a CD-Rom (came with digital camera) when i click on the disc on hard drive i have a list of files (which make particular sense to me) and i need to select an 'application' to open them. when i try i …

I just found out about a shell script /etc/daily that mac users recommend running daily or weekly. It supposedly removes old system messages and junk. Does OS X invoke this script automatically every so often or must it be manually invoked? Is it very necessary?

I'm running 10.4.5 on my MAC Mini. I have tried to update to 10.4.6 many times with no luck, It goes to a normal end of job but afer rebooting the software release stays the same.:cry: Any emails that were deleted now reappear as if it was the first time. …

hi there, i purchased this imac g5 dec 2005 and it worked perfectly for 4 month. Machine Name: iMac G5 Machine Model: PowerMac8,2 CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.0) Number Of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed: 2 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 512 MB Bus Speed: 667 MHz Boot …

I have just installed an Apple Aperture version 1.0 on my iMac 20" Intel Core Duo 2GB of RAM.... and when I am trying to run it... I got message: "Your computer does not meet the minimum hardware requirements for Aperture" :sad: does anybody have the same problem??

Hopefully there is a way to do this. But basically, I would like to use Panther's built-in firewall. It works perfectly, except I would like the other computers on my home network to be able to always go through the firewall, and have firewall rules only apply to machines outside …

As most of you know, Apple's Mac OS X uses a custom version of Unix (more specifically, a BSD variant). This makes much of the operating system feel like home to many Unix and Linux people. (For example, you can compile code using gcc, and have full acess to a …

For those of you who don't know, fink ([url]http://fink.sourceforge.net[/url]) is a debian-based package management program for OS X which ports a number of *nix programs to the mac. Using fink, I installed mc (Midnight Commander), my favorite terminal-based file management utility for linux. During the install, it told me it …

My iMac G5 has had this problem already for a little while, and I think it's in need of codecs reinstall. iTunes and QuickTime work normally, but that's about it. RealPlayer and Windows Media Player 9 play video, but without sound. Same goes for their respective browser plugins. I think …

Hi, I have a G4 1Ghz OS v10.2.8. We were able to run Disk Warrior v3.0 only after rebooting off the CD to graph our HD then rebuilding it. But after more than 2 hours, the bar was stuck at one point. The animation within the bar however was still …

I have a Power Mac 8500 with a Sonnet Crescendo 400 Mhz G4/PSI upgrade Processor card running Mac OS 8.6. I installed a IOGear USB 2.0 PCI Card-GIC220UW1 which says it works with OS 8.6. I installed the recommended software "USB Support 1.4.1 smi " from apple.com. The card shows …

I dont know anything about computers. I am trying to locate a download for a program which will (a) speed up my iMac OS9, and/or suppress spyware which might be slowing my broadband speed. I would be grateful for any suggestions. Everything I look up is for PC, and/or is …

I have a green light on my Airport Express, and signal strength when I check it, but the internet won't come through. It spools and spools and then finally times out. I tried going to [url]http://17.254.0.91/[/url], but it times out there as well. Then, when I connect the ethernet cable …

have accidently deleted all my key chains is there any way to restore them?

I just bought a new Powerbook with Tiger. I would like to install OpenOffice and some other apps that need X11. I understand that I can use Apple's X11 or the XFree86 X11 on the Mac. What do most folks use? What are the advantages of one over the other? …

Hi, I have a G3 computer with OS 8.5 installed. Other system profiler items are Memory Disk cache 1MB Hardware overview 406 iMac G3 processor 233 MHz 512 K. Can someone help me to know what OS I can upgrade to and if I can make the jump to that …

I have an iMac OSX with a zip disk stuck in my zip drive and the zip icon is not coming up on the desktop. Does anyone know how I can get the disk out?

:?: I have my main HD almost full and decided to buy a new one. I installed the new internal HD as a second HD in the lower bay of my Super Mac G5 Dual Processor. I was thinking that probably that was not a good idea, instead I should …

There is a significant difference of the internet speed performance between my PoweerBook G4-Aluminum and my G4 MD Dual 867. The type of my connection is DSL 512kbps. Taken from the router via Ethernet. It puzzles me since last year that the same connection performes as fast as it should …

G4 with OS10.3 shuts down when idle. I want to leave the computer on all of the time. ??

Hi - Though I have had OS X 10.2 for awhile, I could never receive my mail when I tried to use it, so I have run old classic 9.2 forever, using Outlook Express 5.02. Anyway, I expreienced a MAJOR crash last week, so - since I lost EVERYTHING - …

Hi, I just got a new iMac G5 with OS X Tiger, and I am unable to download MP3 sound files. When I try, QuickTime Player automatically opens and begins to play them, but I am unable to download them. These are information files, not music files. On my old …

Hello. This is really strange. I have a dead lower left corner that is a rectangle, that varies in size from 5/8" to 2 1/4" from the left side of the screen and 1" to 2 1/4" from the bottom of the screen. By that I mean that I can't …

Hi, I'm new here. I have this problem in the office. We have a dual processor G4, which does not start. All you get is a no entry sign on the monitor once you start it. We tried to troubleshoot it by swapping parts like the ram, hard disk, removing …

Hi, I want to make back up copies of some of my older CD's. I am looking for a CD ripping software that has a decent bitrate (ie not iTunes), maybe around 320 kbps (VBR). Also, it would be cool if it would rip straight to mp3 format at this …

Hi Guys, I have ag4 iBook runnu=ijnng OSX3.9 and my iTunes has stopped listing names when I load CD's. Annoying and time consuming it is to put in the info manually. I have broadband that works fine. iTunes usually checks the cd and compares it with a record of track …

A variety of problems seem to have invaded my G4. A tech at CompUSA suggested a virus or spyware, but I don't think he knew it was a Mac. Symptoms include: Sluggish, longer startups; all icons vanished off desktop; unable to upload audio files for months; error message for clock/date …

Hi there First time visitor. My mac G4 has suddenly gone to a blue screen after I downloaded the latest Quicktime update. I was out of the room so I dont' know at which stage it went to blue screen. Ocassionally the little "warming up' logo or the curser appears …

Hi, I have pagemaker 6.5 (I am used to the program and it satisfies all my dtp needs) and have been using it on an old apple G3. I am thinking of buying a Mac Mini which comes with Mac OS X Tiger - will the Pagemaker 6.5 work on …

Please help me to find an Sound card driver for a M-Audio Firewire 1814? to an Intel Based PC that run open darwin OX86 se the first link below for the sound card The FireWire 18/14 is an 18-in, 14-out audio interface complete with ADAT Lightpipe for multi-channel communication with …

A friend of mine who still uses OS 9 called earlier today to let me know a word file he sent me has a macro virus. He can no longer open any word documents. I don't use word much but am now concerned since I don't run any virus protection …

I need to pull the pictures of my old imac but I cannot burn them to cd. I only have that capability in itunes. Anyone know how to do that?

Hi! I have a dual processor G4 and recently installed Max OSX. All was going well until I decided to be clever and move all the files into my applications folder so it all looked nice and neat. Bad idea! The next time I turned on the computer lots of …

computer works great but. cant open harddrive cant reload computer software.can connect to internet fine. everything in dock works but anything else on desktop doesnt. please help, have a imac 10

I have managed to i think delete all the keyboard extensions and therefore have locked myself out of my pismo, erm what can i do? Is the best bet to reinstall?

Is it necessary to defrag my G5, OSX 10.3.9? If so, how do I do it? And, will this help the forever rolling, "hour-glassing" problem? TIA

My ibook is starting up with either no screen (not starting up) or a white screen with a big colored block for a cursor. I can not start in single user, verbose mode. In safe mode i get the white screen once in a while. I hear the hard drive …

I am just days away from building my mac mini system. There are computer parts everywhere in my house. I have photoshop 5.5 and office 98 and a bunch of other software around, but wonder if it will run on 10.4 ??? I don't know if the new os 10.4 …

OS X 10.4.5 here. I have a simple question. In the Finder menu bar there's an 'edit' menu with a "cut" option. I have never seen an instance where that option isn't disabled. Does anyone know why or seen an instance where the "cut" function does work in the Finder? …

Does anyone else have any idea why my mac help function is not working in OSX? It worked in system 9. Sometimes it comes up blank. Even when the window appears nothing shows up when you search with a question nor when you click on the easy index of help …

when i try stuffit expander opens but nothing else happens. i tried dragging them into applications but still nothing. help

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Yes this is the first time this has occurred.. I will tell you what happened... Here i go Ok tonight i sent an im over aim to somebody and they said i sent a link which i didnt and i send another im to another person and they also said …

I recently installed a new hard drive into my G5. I copied all the files from my old drive onto the new one. The system file is on the old drive which is almost full. Can I move the system file from the old drive to the new one by …

Every time I insert a blank CD-R, a message pops up that reads: [B]Burning the disk cannot proceed because the startup disk does not have enough empty space.[/B] To burn the disc FInder needs space on the startup disk equal to the size of the disc. (Error code -34) I …

Can someone please tell me how to make Netscape my default browser? I use OS 10.3.9. The Mac Help is useless on this point. They only tell you how to make Safari the default. Currently, Explorer is my default, but I obviously want to change that. Is there something I …

I would like to know how to reformat my main ATA Drive so that it removes OS9 and allows me to reinstall OSX only. Besides just wanting to clean up my Mac, I would like to know how to reformat just in case I decide to sell the computer. If …