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I have an Intel iMac G5 24”. I purchased it nearly 3 years ago. It has always been disappointingly slow, especially when working with Adobe CS but in the past few weeks, almost everything I ask it to do results in the spinning beach ball of death. Now it has …

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Please help I have connected my macbook to my macbook pro with a firewire cable using migrating assistant. Now my macbook has the firewire sign on the screen and nothing else. I have copy the files that I needed and ejected the volume from the desktop of my macbook pro …

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I want to replace the AGP video card in my Powermac G5 dual 2.0 (early 2004). The existing card is a ATI Radeon 9600. It only has 64 meg of RAM and will not drive my 26" monitor. I have an AGP ATI Radeon 9800 pro Mac Edition video card …

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I'm trying to download some videos onto an ipod, so I installed the 8.11 version onto my laptop, my friend said it didnt recognise the ipod (80gb), so we uninstalled it and installed his 7.3 version which he 'guaranteed' works. Anyway, that failed, and I am left with this error …

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I cracked the display on my 2006 iMac, and I'm trying to setup the computer so that I can use a second display as my main display. The problem, of course, is that I cant see my menu bar or my main desktop since the primary display is broken. I …

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I am a Web Developer and require Adobe packages, so I can't go for Ubuntu etc. Now, I am going to buy a notebook the next months. I have been using Windows all my life and have not had any issues with it. Also, in my budget, the MacBook that …

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I accidentally left my Emac 1.25GHz on for a few days and when I returned, I couldn't get it to return from sleep mode. So I powered it down with the power button and when I turned it on again, the front power light came on, I heard the familiar …

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Has anyone got any hints on how I can get the order of the items under the Windows menu (in finder) to sort alphabetically? By default it is sorted by the depth of the windows when you first start Finder, which makes it a pain when you know the folder …

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Hi, December last year I had two 2.5" HDD's fail, the original Seagate and a replacement Toshiba. I sent the first to a data recovery company, who told me the plate damage was so bad there was no chance of recovery. I didn't bother sending the second, but as the …

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Hello esteemed Mac users, I'm trying to get some ideas as to what I should do with my old PowerMac. Although it's running Leopard, it is starting to show it's age. Does anyone have a suggestion on what I can use it for ? Remember, this is the Wind tunnel …

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Hello everyone, Firstly I must apologise for my stupidity as I spilled an entire glass of wine onto my macbook pro. ( I wasnt drunk I wish I was as the glass would have been empty) Anyway my machine wouldnt turn on for a couple of weeks, and on the …

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Just Curious (dumb question but I have my Reasons! ) But what happens when you try turn your Macbook pro on without a hardrive installed? What should happen? Mine makes the apple sound then its just a black screen.

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Hey all. This is a nice forum. I've had countless computer questions over the years go unanswered....it can be just plain taxing and time consuming to really get adept if you work away from one most of the time, like me. Anyway... As the Apple || came to it's final …

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Hi, I have an iBook G4 14" 740 mhz. The computer was freezing up constantly and giving my the occassional flashing question mark when I restarted it, so my brother reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled all my programs. It worked for a couple of days, then it would freeze …

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I am able to view the video but audio via stereo jack to headset port connection does not produce audio through Plasma speakers.

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I am a real Newbie. I am 69 years old, I've never had a laptop and just got an iBook G4 12 inch screen 1.33Ghz on E-bay. It arrived today. It has an administrator with a password. I read in the manual it can be changed by MAC OS 10.4.2 …

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i hope that i have posted this in the right place but i need a little help. My problem is that i have a Sony DCR HC90E mini DV camcorder that i wish to connect to my mac and edit the video's however when i connect the machine i can …

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I am a mac user for quiet sometime now. My problem is sometime the Power Book that i am using keep displaying backslash while i typing something Eg: i am\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ it will only stop when i press a few time the backslash button on the keyboard. The above problem appear …

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Hello everyone. Let me introduce myself, I'm ezgoin and I'm new here. I recently bought a used G4 PowerMac with AGP graphics from Ebay and I plan to upgrade it. I want to start with the 450 MHz processor. In order to do so, do I need to upgrade the …

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I am thinking of buying an Apple work station, but have a couple of compatability questions. 1) Can I video-chat to someone who has a regular PC with Microspoft XP? 2) Do I still use the unique e-mail software provided by my ISP? 3) Can I load my Creative MP3 …

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I have a G3 w/10.4.11 os installed. I would like to add an AirPort card. Can I do this? If so, where can I find an AirPort Card?

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Dear awesome IT chaps/chappettes, My brother has an iPhone (of the 3G variety, if that matters) and is currently having trouble accessing his Windows Live Hotmail account in the same manner as he can access the likes of Gmail, Yahoo!, Microsoft Exchange, and so on. Basically, he wants to be …

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Hello i have a 13inch Mack Book 2.16 and 2 GB of Ram. I use this computer alot when i DJ and i use it in big Theaters when i am running shows. I bought a new monitor and an adapter to go from the DVI ( i believe thats …

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I have a ? can a mac keyboard work on a pc? it may sound stupid but i would like to know. JAM SIKO

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Hi, im considering buying a iphone 3G and have a couple of questions, 1. I'm based in the uk and i remember reading that the iphone dev team released their unlocking software for the iphone recently, does anyone know the likely hood of a sim card registered on the 3 …

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Wow it been about 7 months and I again came across this site again. I have used a really fully upgraded PDQ PowerBook now for several years with only great things to say about it. I installed the Sonnet CPU upgrade, an 80 GB HDD, 512 MB RAM etc. I've …

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Hi, The computer won't turn on. I changed the power supply and the battery, reset the pram. At the beginning, after few days, the powermac started up but after 3-4 hours it stopped. Now, it won't turn on anymore. Somebody believe in miracles?

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I have a Dell photo 926 printer that I am trying to get my mac book to recognize. Any suggestions other than the cd or simply plugging in the USB and going from there, those didn't work! Thanks...

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I know some of you would ask why bother, but I have a perfectly great Laserwriter 4/600 PS printer which I purchased in 1992. It is a serial printer, and as you know, the Macs dropped the SCSI slots years ago. It still works, when I can get my old …

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