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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 …

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 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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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?

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

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) …

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, [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" …

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? …

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

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 …

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?

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 …

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 …

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 …

: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

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 …

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. …

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 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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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??

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, 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 …

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 …

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?

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. ??

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?

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 …

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 …

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 …

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? …

:?: 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 …