Re: accessing mpeg video files on OS X ?
Amber Robey wrote: On 17-Feb-06, at 6:56 AM, MorningAJ wrote: Amber Robey writes: A relative in England has sent me two MPEG files but Quicktime does not recognize or play them. Thanks for the reply. I did manage to download it and play the video. However, I am wondering if there is a way to somehow convert the video to quicktime format so I can import it into iMovie or iDVD ? You can get VLC to output separate audio and video streams in a format that quicktime would understand. If you have QT Pro you can then combine the audio and video and output it as a DV stream which iMovie would understand, at a cost of about 6G/hour of video. Or you can output them into something more useful and mux them together and burn them all using free tools. Its complicated and time consuming. You'll need a few tools and need to learn about how a video stream is put together, the basics, to use the tools. Or, buy/upgrade to Toast 7, its rather good about taking stuff like you've got and making a watchable DVD from it, albeit without fancy iMovie type eye candy. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Oh boy, this Google group stuff is delightful ....
Silly me, I tried to reply to a few posting to the list I got via the Google group vs the older list and this is an excerpt of the nice things Google had to say to me. What am I doing wrong? You do not have permission to post to group g-books. You may need to join the group before being allowed to post, or this group may not be open to posting. Visit http://groups.google.com/group/g-books/about to join or learn more about who is allowed to post to the group. Help on using Google Groups is also available at: http://groups.google.com/support -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Oh boy, this Google group stuff is delightful ....
Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 17/02/06 10:42, Brian Scott Oplinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Silly me, I tried to reply to a few posting to the list I got via the Google group vs the older list and this is an excerpt of the nice things Google had to say to me. What am I doing wrong? You do not have permission to post to group g-books. You may need to join the group before being allowed to post, or this group may not be open to posting. Visit http://groups.google.com/group/g-books/about to join or learn more about who is allowed to post to the group. Help on using Google Groups is also available at: http://groups.google.com/support You have to subscribe the email address you want to use before you can post to the list. From that email address, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then, you can create an account for that email address if you want to change your subscription preferences (digest over regular emails, etc.) I already did all that good stuff, I'm getting the Google list posting along with this maclaunch list. But when I reply to the Google messages I get the error quoted above. Of course since I can't post there to ask how to be able to post there, I'm stuck posting here asking instead. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: G-Books Google List
Bruce Johnson wrote: Log into the Google Groups page, then My Groups, then on Manage my Subscriptions. There you can set it to receive it as e-mail, digest, etc. Does this mean I *must* have a Google account just to be able to get a digest to the list? Or is there a way to email in a request for a digest like there is to email in a request to get the listings individually? Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: downloading movies
Lawrence Sica wrote: Actually it is not that simple. The actual legality of copying DVDs was not addressed in the court case, the 321 Studios once. They only ruled about 321 studios program violating the DMCA. Also making a copy of a DVD, encrypted or no *is not a felony*. Actually, according to the DCMA, any decrypting is a felony. Whether you would be prosecuted for say converting your Firefly DVDs into a copy you take with you on trips, so you don't have to worry if they are broken/lost/stolen/damaged is debatable. But its still a felony to do so. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Applecare on Powerbooks ?
Amber R. wrote: Has anybody here had any problems with getting these two items repaired under Applecare ? Perhaps like batteries they are considered 'normal wear' items and as such aren't covered? Although it would be nice for these things to be spelled out better in the Applecare documentation. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Cable internet and Macs
Caleb Cupples wrote: I'm finally taking the jump and going to broadband internet access, but I'm wondering if anyone has had any problems with the cable monkeys looking at a Mac like it's a Pandora's Box or not... Here in NY, TW is advertising 29.99 a month with their 'do it yourself installation' kit. I've never had trouble with the tech people and the fact that I have a mac, router, pc and networked printer. After all, you just plug the cable into the cable modem and a cat 5 jack from it into your computer, what does it make a difference what type computer? Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: firewire connectivity
Victoria Brandon wrote: Greetings listers -- As previously related, my computers (BW G3 Lombard PB, both running Panther) adamantly refuse to see each other by way of ethernet. So (as encouraged by list) I bought a firewire card for the Lombard on eBay: it came yesterday and seems to work right out of the box, at least system profiler sees it, and the firewire option now appears in the Network preference pane. Only trouble is, the cord that came with the card has a four pin plug at one end and six pin at the other, and the connections on both computers require six-pin (at least that's what I assume: the larger size is required on both ends, anyway). Is this the proper description of the necessary cord, and is it something I can pick up at Radio Shack? Or is something more specific and harder to find required? And if so, what is it CALLED? Very short answer, FW has an option to carry power along with data, if it does, it uses the 6 pin connector you're familiar with. Your PC card adapter doesn't provide power (nor do a lot of PC notebooks) and so has a 4 pin connector. (This is for FW 400, the older FW spec not the newer spec, FW 800) You have 2 options... 1) If the device doesn't need power, just get a 4 to 6 pin FW cable (will set you back a lot at a Radio Shack, on the order of $50, because they only carry the Sony line of cables anymore, but can be had for lots less online, see www.cableforless.com as an example.) 2) Your device needs power provided by the FW cable. In this case you'll need the cable above *and* a FW hub. (Also called a repeater sometimes although that's actually a different thing) These come with a power adapter and can proved power to the ports downstream of the hub and so provide power for your device. Some URLs: Sony i.Link cable (only FW cable I saw on a quick search of radioshank.com) ($40): http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2111822 Cablesforless.com cable ($5): http://www.cablesforless.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPRODProdID=281 Compusa.com: belkin brand (cheap version) ($12): http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=50278690 belkin fw hub ($50): http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=329287 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: OT missing link to story
Will S wrote: Oddly the link didn't show up in the last post will try again. http://www.halturnershow.com/KeystrokeLoggersInAllNewComputers.html Its a hoax, read about it here: http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/homeland%20security%20logger.htm -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re:
Michael Cangelosi wrote: Does anyone have a copy of 10.3 that's gathering dust or a burned copy ??? surely this isn't a request to pirate software, is it? that I could get for cheap? Trying to finally upgrade the OS of my Lombard now that it's 512 and 40G HD. From the xlr8yourmac OWC sales link, they have the set for just 50 bucks, not a bad price. http://eshop.macsales.com/Specials/XLR8YourMac.cfm Apple Mac OS X 10.3.x Panther Universal Installation Set - *On DVD* w/Apple Manual License. New with 90 Day OWC Warranty. Requires system with DVD Read Capable Drive. (APL6914909A) more info...$47.99 Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: News coverage via Mac
Peter Saint James wrote: On 5 Sep 2005, at 4:44 AM, Kochkodin wrote: Peter Saint James wrote: There is an interesting article in Editor and Publisher about how a newspaper in St. Petersburg, Florida, heavily using Macs, covered Katrina's damage in New Orleans. ... Full story is here: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp? vnu_content_id=1001051260 And then some followups. For those interested in reading the artile (I liked it) you can just cut both lines as 1 long line for your browser. Just add the vnu_con... bit immediately after, without any spaces, to the ...display.jsp? bit of the URL. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: application/x-oleobject
Jim Dynes wrote: Where can I get a plug-in for application/x-oleobject? Built in on any Windows machine. Not for Macs though. Here's a URL that 'discusses' the issue: http://vowe.net/archives/004121.html Basically, its an embedded use of some MS OLE Object, most like the windows video player. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: great (IMO) vendor for UPS replacement batteries
I'm happy with these guys: http://www.batterysupplyco.com/ I have 3, originally mid-range APC UPS surge protectors. They are getting old, on one the battery is dead, the others are getting there (maybe 5 or 6 yrs old at this time). I've been replacing my APC batteries for awhile now and this time around (my UPS died 2 weeks ago) I ended up buying an APC brand replacement from buy.com. It was a few bucks cheaper than almost any no name generic replacement and the APC replacement contains a free packing and shipping sticker for a UPS return of the old battery to be recycled. This to me adds in another 5 or 6 bucks to the value of the APC brand replacement over the generic you can get from companies like the one above. I've dealt with them and had the same problem. I entered my model UPS and they sent me the wrong battery. They were quite good about returning the wrong one and getting me the correct battery, but it took almost 3 weeks from when my UPS first beeped until I had a new battery inside. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: REPOST: How can I connect Wallstreet II/ OS 9.2.2 to iBook 500/ OS X 10.3.9?
Dear List-mate, How do I connect two PowerBooks, a Wallstreet II running OS 9.2.2 and an iBook 500, running OS X 10.3.9 to one another, so that I can copy files from one to the other? What about firewire disc mode? I'm not sure what powerbooks had what capabilities, but I think they both support firewire, don't they? You boot one machine holding down the t key I think then that machine looks like a firewire drive to the other machine. That would be the fastest and easiest I think. You just connect them with a standard 6 pin firewire cable. Faster than a crossover ethernet cable. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: [OT] Inkjet Printer Recommendation
I've been using a Canon i960 for about a year now, from time to time. ... Anyway, I'm considering replacing the printer My not too humble $0.02's worth on this subject. Since the cost of ink is the biggest cost factor with these things, just buy the cheapest on sale at the local box store (Comp-USA, Walmart, Circuit City, Best Buy, etc) that you can and use cheapo replacement inks. If it stops working in 2 years, the money you saved between the printer and ink will more than pay for another printer, which will be at least slightly faster and quieter than your current model. Perhaps even consider the Epson Photo line, with their 5 color carts instead of the standard 3, or one of the HP's that use the 5 color system (I don't know what they call their line). For example (using Espon since that's what I use since it prints on CD/DVD), list price: Cheapest Epson - C66 $70 (but no Mac drivers) C86 $100, cheapest Epson Photo - R200 $100. Since the list is the same between the non-photo version and photo version, well just get the photo version. Of course you'll see the C86 on sale more often than the R200 ;) and the C66 on sale even more often :( And as a bonus, you can print your own CD/DVD, provided you bought inkjet printable media. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Bounce warning messages, redux
I know I recently saw a thread on this but my memory's awful and I forget the upshot. Am I the only person who's getting daily, or perhaps even more often, notices about bounced messages from the list only to reply (to clear the error so that the list sends messages again), see messages and then get another bounce warning the next day (or later the same day?) Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: FireFox News Video not working.
Since I upgraded from 10.3.9 to 10.4.1 FireFox does not run News Video. The alert window says 'Error creator unique temp. file'. Is there a remedy for this ? I haven't upgraded to 10.3.x let alone 10.4.x, but whenever I've seen this sort of error, I know its time to do a fix permissions on the startup OS X drive with disk utility. I'd assume that's still the case, but I could be all wrong ;) Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Firewire not working
on 01/04/05 08:34, Orlando Mac Geek at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Titanium Powerbook 667. Never really had an opportunity to use the firewire port on it until now. Just got myself a 15Gb iPod The older TiBooks were notorious for having FW ports that were easy to fry. I killed mine (on a 500) by plugging in an external self powered HD. My solution was to go to Otherworld and get a FW PC card. Of course, with the PC Card it will only sync, but not charge as PC card ports don't supply power. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Mac OS X utility question, command line answer
OS 9 has the nifty utility Apple System Profiler. Does Mac OS X have something similar? I just found a need for it, but can't find the app... And for folks like me, who can't run the Apple System Profiler because of some font I installed... You can run system_profiler from a command prompt in a terminal window. I have the full developer tools installed, so I'm not sure if they are required for this ability or not. The full path to the system_profiler is /usr/sbin/system_profiler, so anyone without the dev tools can check and see if its there. And this leads to my question... I mentioned a font issue. As I've many fonts installed, and have seen nothing but people's disappointment with OS X font utilities, is there a font utility that works well in OS X and can diagnose font issues in OS X? Two utilities would be ok, one to do fonts ala Adobe Type Manager for OS 9 and a different one for diagnosing fonts would be fine. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: OSX gremlins
A bunch of folks have written stuff ... Maybe the hard drive is starting to act up... Actually, the 40 gig hard drive is only about 9 months old ?? I understand, Tim, but, usually, when Disk Utility constantly reports errors, then there is something with the drive. Also, if, at some point, the system tries to access a file that is corrupted because in an invalid sector of the drive, that could explain the system crash. I've had considerably better results over disc utility with Disk Warrior. Its a 1 trick pony, but nothing else out there does the trick as well. It rebuilds the disc directory and all the linkage to files. Before doing that it checks to see if the disc seems damaged. It doesn't quite address your question, but I'd suggest considering purchasing yourself a copy of Disk Warrior and seeing what it tells you. I've had it repair disks that had the same issue you've seen, the Apple supplied disc utility repeatedly fixes things only to say there's a problem if you immediately run it again. And I also would suggest an immediate backup of any important files, you definitely have disc troubles. Just my $0.08 (adjusted for inflation;) Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Questions about replacing a G4 Ti Logic Board
If anyone has any experience using a different Logic Board in the 1st Generation Titanium, please let me know. Only the 400/500 Mhz models have the same ports on back. The 667 and up went to a DVI port instead of the 'standard' db-15 video port. I also believe the last models changed the configuration of the USB/FW port locations also. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Aluminum and Alzheimer's
Is there the possibility of absorbing aluminum through your skin from the palmrest of the AlBook? I've heard people complain of corrosion on the AlBook due to contact with sweat from the skin, so it seems like a possibility that aluminum molecules are being disloged. Skipping the debate about the validity of your worries, why not just get something to put between your skin and the AlBook? I know for my TiBook, I bought these little stick-em type clear plastic protective sheets for the palmrest area. I can look up who exactly it was from it it makes a difference. I can't even tell you the name right now as I just sold my old TiBook. For that matter, you can save money and just go to wally world and buy clear removable contact paper and use that, just cut to fit ;) Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Powered firewire PCMCIA card
But Brian, if your FW port is dead, how can you attach your hub to it? Also, why would a hub prevent a Motherboard port from dying? Respectfully I ask, You seemed to misunderstand a few things. 1) A FW hub will protect a *good* FW port, not a dead port like the user who started this thread was asking about. I said having a hub would be useful in the future for this. and 2) A (powered) hub will provide power to a PC Card FW port for the user who has the dead FW port on his Ti 500 and those cards with non-powered ports are cheap at places like OWC for just around $30 which is what I myself have for my 500 with its dead FW port. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Powered firewire PCMCIA card
Ok the firewire port on my tibook 500 died. And I need to get some type of alternative. I have a external cd burner and harddrive that require the 'bus' power also. I've looked into Firewire PCMCIA Cards but I need one that will also provide power to the external drives,etc. I found a card by Orange Micro http://www.orangemicro.com/fwcardbus.html that has an optional power cord. Anyone know if this is a good card? Is there another option? Is there another card that is better? Another option, which I use on my 500 with dead FW port, get a powered FW hub. Then any card will do, including the cheapie $30 that OWC always seems to have. It will also help protect the FW ports on your new PB when you get one. After all, its much cheaper to let the hub die then your PB FW port. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Question for owners of recent Powerbooks
I have a recent 15 PB G4 (1.5Ghz) I think something is wrong with the latch. I see a bit of silver sticking out from the right, but not the left. That's what my 500Mhz Rev A latch looks like. Its magnetic, not mechanical, well not completely but it used magnets to position the latch. My TiBook requires a firm push to latch, but once I push it stays closed. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Minidisk to Mac
With regard to a cheap pc for misc. non-mac stuff... What would be the minimum system requirements and software to look for, so one wouldn't be buying something too outdated to be useful? What would be the decent inexpensive used pc laptops to watch for? Or desktops for that matter? I have a good monitor and keyboard collecting dust in the spare room that might as well have some meaning in their lives. My humble $0.02 on the matter: I've been given a PC by the company I do consulting work with and its just a P2 533 Mhz machine with Winderz 2000 on it. I had an old 40G HD which I added to the machine qintupling its storage ;) Slow but usable. That'll be the biggest problem if you get an older machine. It'll come with a tiny by today's standards HD. You'd want a bit more muscle to run Windows XP (home edition is good enough for what you'd want, no need for the corporate/business version) and stay away from ME, stick with 98 service pack 2 if you want an older 'stable' version of Windows (you can think of Windows 2000 as an updated version of NT, the 'corporate' version of Windows). It'd be a lot easier to add a HD to a desktop machine versus a laptop. On the other hand, if you really aren't going to be adding very much software, you could easily make due with a factory 10G HD. As far as brand goes, well, you're getting a used PC so it doesn't matter too much. I wouldn't buy a corner shop down the street built type, I'd buy a 'name' brand. Just wipe the disc and reinstall whatever version of windows comes with the machine then spend the time to go to the windows update website and just keep applying patches til it says you're up to date. Starting with a fresh slate is very important when you're dealing with a used PC. Remember, you aren't trying to buy a gaming machine, so you'll get a bare bones machine without a fancy 3d video card and fancy sound. But those aren't important for just running things like the Sony MD software and the like. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Minidisk to Mac
I have the newer USB NetMD recorder, and that too will not work with a Mac. I've even tried hooking it up using VPC 6.1 and Windows 2000 without any luck. My solution to get a $100 latop PC on eBay (Toshiba 266MHz Tecra 550) and use that for loading music onto my minidiscs. The icing here is that I also now have a real hardware PC for those rare instances when I need to use one. Definitely the way to go. I have managed to get VPC 5.x with OS 9 to see and talk to a MD, but never the OS X version. For those with newer Mac's which won't even boot 9 that isn't an option. A cheap used PC is definitely the solution. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Applecare in Florida
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:04:30 -0400, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also heard about the extended warranty was not available in Florida due to laws we have here. ... Does anyone know how this all works in Florida? Only that I know it was true when I bought a computer from Dell whilst living in Florida. Not sure what the actual law is, but Dell doesn't offer their Complete Care for machines bought in Florida either (and California, iirc). Seems a stupid law, to prohibit people from getting insurance on something like that. Actually what you said is exactly the reason. In FL, extended warranties are treated as if they are insurance. The state requires insurance issuers to be licensed, etc. So no extended warranties in FL. Other states don't consider them insurance and so everybody and his brother sells them. I'm not so sure what FL is doing is so bad, in general these things are a scam although AppleCare is a good deal compared to the cost of a repair and the actual chance of something going wrong compared to most of these warranties. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: 802.11g base units besides AirPort?
Let me chime in perhaps late with nothing but good about the Buffalo brand available from CompUSA. I have 2 of these primarily for my ReplayTV units, but I also connect with my 802.11g PC card with my older TiBook. Rather easy to set up and work very well for me. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Blown bridgeboard/chipset
Hi I have blown a chipset on my external firewire enclosure. Do you know where I ca get a replacement? I had a couple of old SCSI enclosures and after buying a FW enclosure noticed it was exactly the same thing, except one had a FW board the other a SCSI. So off to the web I went searching Long story short, its cheaper to buy a new enclosure than to buy a single bridge board. Now obviously the folks who sell enclosures are getting them cheap, but it seems no one is selling the boards cheaply. So just look for another case would be my not particularly helpful suggestion. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: FireWire Card
Any thoughts on this? http://eshop.macsales.com/Item_XLR8YourMac.cfm?ID=5006Item=CEN1394PCMCIA Considering as a possible upgrade to a Lombard. Price is decent! Don't know about how well it would work in your Lombard, but this is what I'm currently using in my TiBook rev a 500 Mhz since I blew the original port. Works well for me with both an external HD and a Sony Camcorder for FW video/audio capture into FCP 3. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: DVD Screen Capture OS X
Is there DVD viewer software available that allows for screen capture? The Apple DVD Player v. 3.2 won't allow it. DVD Capture: http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/software.php3 It works with the standard Apple DVD Player v3.2 I've used it a number of times under OS 10.2, as you haven't said which version of X you're using. The web page states its been updated for Panther compatibility. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: VHS to DVD
on 03/01/04 03:31, supershanefx at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So whats the easiest way to convert all my VHS tapes to DVD? I have access to an external dvd burner and a vcr. But how do I connect them to my titanium? And do I need to burn the dvd in a certain way to play like a regular dvd? (I have TOAST 6 also). In my somewhat limited knowledge in this, you will need a DV bridge to connect your VCR to your Titanium because as far as I know, there are no VCR with FireWire output. Then, you will have to use something like iMovie to put the raw footage coming from the VCR and finally, iDVD to create a professionally looking DVD. I'm not sure if Toast can do that or not. Once you mastered your DVD, I'm pretty sure you can make copies using Toast, but I'm not sure you can author DVD with it. Toast 6 supposedly has some DVD authoring features in it, I wouldn't know as I'm still on version 5 which is good enough for me. I bought a used Digital 8 camcorder as my DV bridge, it doubles as a D-8 VCR when I want to record something new. iMovie is a decent if limited package for editing your movies and iDVD will author some pretty fancy DVDs for you. iDVD prefers to make hour long DVDs but can be convinced to make 90 minute ones at lower quality, but that'd still be higher quality than your VHS source, so don't worry about the quality issue when making DVDs from your tapes. The problem with this solution is that iDVD won't run on a machine that doesn't have an internal DVD drive from Apple (or an OEM Pioneer or whatever OEM Apple's using now) that looks like an Apple drive to iDVD. What that means to you as a pb user is your SOL with your TiBook unless you have one with a superdrive in it. And before you ask, there's no good reason for Apple to require an internal drive other than getting you to buy a new computer equipped with one. I also bought the ADS USB instant DVD for Macintosh product. It has an external hardware MPEG-1 and 2 encoder that feeds the encoded MPG via USB. I get very nice results on my TiBook with this product and they include a DVD authoring tool. It isn't in the same league as iDVD but makes acceptable DVDs, if you download the latest version of the software directly from the Japanese site of the software company as the included 1.03 version that ADS packages is very limited. You can see my comments and other peoples at the xlr8yourmac site, direct URL to review: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/Pixela_PixeDV_CaptyDVD.html Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: iPods and non-Firewire PBs
Can responders confirm that an iPod works OK on an older, non-Firewire Powerbook using a Firewire card? And can they briefly list the config they're using, ie, OS version, iPod generation, and card type? Not quite what you're looking for, but ... I have a rev a TiBook, 500Mhz, with a burned out FW port. I've used a G2 iPod with both an IBM FW PC card and the currently available from OWC 'generic' FW card for 30 bucks. Its described: Century PCMCIA Cardbus 2-Port 1394 FireWire Interface for Laptops. 2yr Warranty, Compatible with OS 8.6-9.2.x, all version OS X. (CEN1394PCMCIA) and a link to it (with a sponsor link via a fav site of mine, xlr8yourmac): http://eshop.macsales.com/Item_XLR8YourMac.cfm?ID=5006Item=CEN1394PCMCIA At around 35 with shipping, it might be worth a try, I'm pretty sure the 3.x iTunes from 9.2 would update at least a G2 iPod, and there are decent refurb/used G2 deals out there, from smalldog and MacResQ. Check out dealmac for deals on these. For that matter, I have a 10G G2 I'm about to ebay. Also, here's this URL from OWC's site talks about a Lombard and an iPod: http://eshop.macsales.com/Tech/index.cfm?Load=FAQ%2Findex.cfmsearchSent=1searchitem=podsearchType=allsubmit=GO -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Playing region free DVDs on TiBook with VLC
Hey Gang, I cam across this posting http://forum.firmware-flash.com/viewtopic.php?t=16527 Which says you could watch dvds of all regions using VLC on the UJ 815, without flashing firmware and such ... I am confused about the libraries part .. So, I may wait till I understand how that is supposed to work Oh, here's a quick-n-dirty attempt at an explaination, assuming you don't really understand anything at all. For those that understand parts, just skip those parts ;) If you're a developer, you would have noticed that along with a 'standard' OS X disk, you also got a disk of 'developer tools' (I don't have my disks handy, not sure of its exact name) in the packet of disks. These tools let you compile [convert from a textual computer language (ie source) into binary (ie the 0's and 1's your computer understands, a program)] your own programs, or programs someone supplies to you. If there's a Unix program out there, someone may have ported it to OS X. (Although Unix is supposed to be 'universal' it isn't, generally there are a few little things that must be fixed from machine to machine to make the exact same program run.) VLC is one such program. Its a general player. (Actually its the client part of an entire system, a server which serves or sends out video and a client which uses that provided by the server. In the case of VLC, the client can also 'read' local video content too, like a DVD). Now enter the US Congress and laws about breaking software encryption for any reason being illegal. Add in a dose of the 1st ammendment that text (ie, the press and the 'written word') are protected. What you get is that the program source, ie the computer language that describes what the computer does to perform a task, is protected by the 1st ammendment, but the actual executable version of the program is illegal. What that means to you the end user is that VLC cannot 'break' the encryption on a DVD without running afoul of the law, but VLC can be written to use a program if its available. What you do is take the source, compile it and stick it into a library, a computer container for programs or parts of programs. Then you build VLC so it looks for the library and sees its there as it starts to run and uses it. The VLC that you can download in binary form will not do raw reading, it will count on the DVD drive to decode the movie. You must build it yourself adding in the libraries mentioned in that link to allow it to read the raw data from the DVD and do the decoding within VLC. This is how you can get around the region encoding on a DVD. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: ipod
hi I am looking into buying an ipod. I have a powerbook g3 wallstreet with an oarngelink firewire cardbus card. I have read at the apple site how it syncs with itunes but I was wondering to what degree. I have os 9.2.2. In Itunes all my music is named but I was stupid and the real mp3 files on my hard drive are just named track1 and track1#2 and so on. If I get an ipod and sync it will it keep all my track names and playlists? Also If anyone has used an ipod with the orangelink firewire card and has had problems please tell me. [Others have already talked about sync and using id3 tags, I'll just adress which one I'd recommend you buy] I'd definitely recommend now as the time to get a 5g iPod, but to wait if you plan on getting a 10 or 20, the mac rumor sites have been saying a new pod is due any day now for about a month or so and are guessing the delay may be due to flat sales cause of the war. But if you just want a small iPod, smalldog.com has refurbished windows ones for 209 + shipping, can't beat that deal. I drove there on Saturday to get one for myself (paid 222, local with taxes) just to have it in my hands (3 hour drive each way, but it was a nice day, well, warm at least). I already had a case (entered a contest to win a free pod and got a runner up prize) and wasn't that interested in the remote on the headphones thing, so the 5g was a good deal for me. If you are thinking about needing a case and want the remote, the cost of the 5g + a case + a remote (both come with the 10g pod), you're almost at the cost of a 10g pod, if you're talking new products for both. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: ipod
one question will the 5gig windoze one work in my mac os 9.2.2? Yuppers, you can do a search in the apple knowledgebase for the specific technote, but basically its this: Download whatever 1.2.6 updater you want (ie, OS 9, OS X or Windoze) then run it and attach your ipod. You'll be prompted for update or reset/restore (can't remember which it is) and you just pick the reset/restore choice. You'll be told everything on the ipod will be erased, but that's ok, that's what you want, to start over with an ipod setup for which OS you want. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: G4 Sleeve recommendations?
Can anyone recommend a good sleeve for a TiBook 15? I have a Port laptop briefcase with the sling suspension system, but want some extra protection for the TiBook. You can't be too careful with that big screen and the painted surfaces. Ideally, I'm looking for a sleeve that I can then put into the case I already have, for double protection. I;ve seen the Waterfield design sleeve and the Maccase G4 sleeve, and both look pretty good. Any one use one? RadTech, devdepot 'store url: http://www.devdepot.com/brand.html?VCODE=RADTEC RadTech's own site (I think their prices are cheaper than devdepot): http://homepage.mac.com/radtech/PhotoAlbum5.html They have a product called PowerSleevz which I own. It is a sleve designed only to protect the finish of the TiBook, there is no padding. Not sure if this is the sort of thing you're looking for or not. They also have an excellent line of other TiBook and iBook accessories including replacement screen bumpers and screen protectors. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: [PB]Re: USB 2.0 Adaptec Card
FWIW, I just bought a CompUSA USB 2.0 card - worked fine under 9.2, and they were nice enough to include the OS X drivers (different ones for X.1 and X.2, yet!) - but on a 3.5 floppy disk!! I guess I'd have to email them to myself from a Windoze PC - don't own a single Mac with a floppy (oops - I guess my PowerBook 140 doesn't count ;-) LOL, I went and bought a USB floppy for those rare times I had to deal with a floppy, it was cheap enough and happened often enough it was worth it to me. But specifically on issue, I thought 10.x (or at least 10.2.x) didn't need a driver for support of USB 2 cards? Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: DVD Europe/USA Compatability Question
I just found out that I can't play German bought DVD movies on my home DVD player. I assume it is because of the PAL/NTSC format difference. 2 questions: 1) would my Pismo DVD player (or any other laptop) be able to play European-market DVD's DVD's are generally 'region encoded' which means you have region 2 disks (Europe) and are trying to play them in a region 1 player (US). Most all DVD home units can handle PAL vs NTSC, my unit for example with output either NTSC or PAL for all movies or just pass through the format the movie is in for those with multi-format TVs. There are also 'hacks' out there which will remove or modify the region encoding of your home player to enable you to watch region 2 (or other region) DVDs on your player. How well the hack works varies widely between brands and models of players. I have such a hack installed on one of my home players to let me watch the European DVDs I own. 2) would my Pismo be able to play European home recorded DVD's? I don't know about the Pismo specifically, but Apple's DVD player will let you change the region up to 5 times but you're stuck with whatever region was last set. So this really isn't an optimal solution for you. The PAL vs NTSC thing isn't an issue with computer playback. If you have a superdrive and the disk is 4.7G, you can use 0SEx (that's a zero, not the letter 'o') and have it product a Toast compatible DVD image that has the region encoding removed that you can then burn. Without the superdrive, or if the DVD is bigger, you're stuck with less elegant solutions involving either re-encoding or recording the DVD. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: More wireless questions
Greetings everyone, I have several more questions about the whole 802.11b thing: 1-Can someone explain why the D-link Wi-Fi D-614+ router is claiming 22mbs? Can any macs reach this speed with the current airport card? I remember seeing something about it somewhere, one of the mac based news sites. As I recall, the 11b is incompatible with 11, which is why it gets twice the speed. And with the backwards compatible (mean 'regular' 802.11 cards can work on it) 11a around the corner, its not likely it'll be very widely accepted. Perhaps its the other way around though, 11a is incompatible and 11b is backwards compatible. 2- Is there any way to secure my wireless router? (keeping other people from surfing on my line?) Are there software that allows me to track activity on my router? Wireless is inherently insecure. But the obvious things are to configure it tightly (that is it will only work on ports you allow, no others) and to use 128 bit encryped passwords. This is good enough for 'home use' but I'd hate to hear my bank or someplace that had important data allowed it to travel over a wireless network. 3- What are the latest predictions on when Apple will jump on the 802.11a bandwagon? (54mps?) Dunno this one. After all, 802.11 is faster than even my cable modem can deliver data, and there aren't that many people hooked up to T3's or better. Kind of like gigabit ethernet. Useful if you have a specialized need for it, overkill for a 'home' user. Thanks! -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books;mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:G-Books-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:G-Books-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lemlists.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: USB card providing power to devices?
I'm looking at a USB compact flash reader/writer and, so far, all of them are bus powered. Now, I'm looking to give this reader/writer and I know that the laptop that will be used with it *doesn't* have built-in USB (PB 1400). So, is there any cardbus USB PCMCIA card that would provide power to that thing or should I better look for a reader/writer with his own adapter? Another option: Add a powered hub to the USB chain. PCMCIA - HUB - CF reader/writer. That will get you power. Granted, not the most elegant solution, but one that will work. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books;mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:G-Books-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:G-Books-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lemlists.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: OS X file extension warnings
Hi all, Whenever I add a file extension to an exisitng file (such as .html) OS X asks, Are you sure you want to add the extension whatever to this file? Usually I'm doing it because I've downloaded an updated version from Fetch, which gets saved as file.html.1, and I'm removing the .1 after having trashed the earlier version. Does anyone know how to stop this message from appearing? It's really annoying aftera few times. Its more than really annoying, and it can't be stopped. I was hoping Jag-wire would fix it, but since I refuse to pay a further 130 bucks just to get an OS that works as it was supposed to, I don't know it it does or not. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: GraphicConverter?
Hi all, I have some questions about using GraphicConverter and its features. Perhaps it isn't totally ontopic, but its rather full-featured for its price *and* everything works without paying. So just download it and try it, see if it'll do what you want. I own photoshop (and have paid for more upgrades that I want to think about) and still paid for graphicconverter also because of its useful feature set. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Wallstreet firewire pc card q?
I just got the ibm card for my Lombard yesterday from OWC. It shows up on the desktop but does not recognize my digital camera when I open imovie. Any suggestions? Kevin Hmm, not exactly helpful, but I have used the OWC IBM card with my TiBook and FCP 2, then 3 under OS X and it saw my Sony camcorder just fine, but One thing I did notice about the behaviour. Hot swapping was very, very iffy for me. That is, if I had the card in and the camera attached when I restarted the machine, everything worked fine every time. If however I removed the camera and reattached it, I usually could see it. If I removed the card and re-installed it, I generally didn't see the camera. Having the camera attached and on before reinserting the card seemed to help improve my chances. Now these are my observations on my machine, not the same as yours, but perhaps you can try the combo that worked best for me, a reboot, with card in, with camera attached (and on). Hope that helps for you. B -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: iBook vs. PowerBook
Of course I would appreciate the better screen and faster performance, but not sure I can justify the extra money if it's not likely to outlast the iBook in terms of becoming obsolete. There is also the option of getting a refurbished TiBook (I'd recommend smalldog.com) for about the same price as the iBook. But it will be slower Mhz wise than the iBook for about the same price. OS X and things like iTunes etc are optomized for the G4 so will actually run faster. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Unsubscrube message
Is anyone else getting these? I have gotten three in the last two days and I DO NOT WANT TO UNSUBSCRIBE! Me too, I wonder if someone is messing with the list? In other words, is this a deliberate attempt to remove people or just something happening by mistake? I also have gotten a few and haven't requested being removed. B -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: New iBook Options (or lack thereof) (oops)
Okay...I just went to the Apple site to order my nice new ibook (the cheapest one...the 600mhz 12.1 incher) and...well...since when did they remove the option to add a combo drive??? Now the only option is to get the 700mhz...for 300 dollars more... Sorry folks, fumble finger magic happens! (I managed to hit whatever key combo automagically sends an email my mistake ...) Well, as a TiBook owner, I can add a drive for 300 bucks, to upgrade from the built in DVD drive, via MCE. If I had a rev b machine, I could have taken that same 300 bucks and gotten the upgrade from apple for 300 when they offered it. So I'd guess they didn't offer it, because to apple the difference is 300 bucks. So you could get the slower machine and add a 300 buck option to it, or get the 300 dollar more machine and have the option and get the speed boost as a freebie *grin*. Just my 2c B -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: OT: 6 Pin to 6 Pin Firewire Cable (Firewire Target Disk Mode)
If its a case of I need to walk into a store and walk out with a cable your only choices most likely are the chains, CompUSA, BestBuy, Circuit City, possibly Staples, Office Max, etc. If you mean I want to order one today so it'll be here in a few days try the typical online discount places like newegg.com, buy.com, etc. Be warned, if you're talking a brick and mortar store, you'll be paying 40+ for a Belkin brand cable. Personally, I've never paid more than 15 bucks for a cable including shipping. In reference to Firewire Target Disk Mode which we have been talking about for a while. Where can I buy a Firewire 6 Pin to 6 Pin cable right now? I need one immediately! -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
