On Feb 18, 2006, at 7:57 AM, Amber Robey wrote:
The computer formats may be the same but the video formats are
not. The videos are all in Pal format vs the North American NTSC
format. However, I am not sure if this really makes a difference
once they load them onto the computer. I
On Feb 11, 2006, at 3:32 PM, PeterH5322 wrote:
This is primarily a Lombard and Pismo issue. And, those Lombards and
Pismos which are provided with drives which don't auto-negotiate
properly, which may include the latest Toshiba and Hitachi/IBM drives,
and which definitely includes the Samsung
On Feb 1, 2006, at 6:37 AM, Scott Lawrence wrote:
I saw the connector on the back, and it seemed to be the same
connector as on the back of the slot loading drive I pulled from a
G4 Cube, but I'm unfamiliar with that formfactor.
There is an adapter board on the back of the drive. Under the
On Jan 28, 2006, at 3:46 PM, sandra ragan wrote:
the full size and the nano are really your best options as all else
(except the shuffle) are discontinued. We have a mini and a nano...
the mini is bw and doesn't do photos.
I disagree. His best option would be a previous generation ipod
On Jan 29, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote:
I actually have a 30 gig video iPod that I synced using the stock
USB ports on
my Lombard, quite well. Of course, I only keep a little over a gig
and a half
on it, so it's not bad. It works, slowly, but it gets the job done.
Yikes! If
On Jan 20, 2006, at 6:05 AM, John McGibney wrote:
I use it on a TiBook and an AlBook both with 10.4.4. I've never had
a problem with Panther nor Tiger.
Tjhis is a Pismo-specific Tiger issue. My wife's Pismo was also
unable to calculate the remaining battery/charge time after the
update
On Jan 18, 2006, at 5:48 PM, Dan K wrote:
I'll second the suggestion to leave the 'Book plugged in for a week
or so
and then see if it'll fire up. I've had several PowerBooks fail to
boot
after sitting unused for months. A good long soak in the electron pool
appears to be just the ticket.
On Jan 9, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Peter Apockotos wrote:
Maybe Google Talk will follow soon as well.
Google Talk already works with iChat via Jabber. Google's help page
shows you how to do it step-by-step.
-Dylan
--
G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...
Small Dog
It worked a whole lot better after I turned it down from some of the
high-end video settings which seemed to be more in line with a G5
desktop system's capabilities. Turned down to the medium-type
settings, it runs nicely on my 1.25ghz Powerbook/1gb RAM/64mb Radeon
9600 and also pretty
On Dec 23, 2005, at 8:00 AM, Alan Miller wrote:
But my airport (I use with this laptop) has stopped giving me green
lights and now will cycle through the start up of Red and Amber but
no green light. I saw one once for a split second when I was
messing with it but it went red before I
On Dec 20, 2005, at 7:58 PM, Donald Keenan wrote:
Any other ideas if charging it without the battery doesn't revive it?
Open the keyboard. Locate the PRAM battery lead (white/black cable by
the optical drive). disconnect the lead, then try to start the 'book.
If it starts, just plug the
On Dec 18, 2005, at 8:34 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote:
I've been talking with my grandpa, whom I converted to a Mac, but
he's been complaining of his mini feeling slower than when it was
new. I'm speaking from my limited experience with OS X and its
behavior but running Jaguar on my Lombard
On Dec 9, 2005, at 2:23 AM, BGbank wrote:
Greetings folks, This may be a no-brainer Q... but I don't know...
I'm thinking of buying from a certain vendor a G4 ibook that comes
without
an OS. My Q is, How can you install an OS if it doesn't already
have one?
G4 iBooks will require
On Dec 8, 2005, at 1:03 PM, chris wrote:
Has anyone done this? Bought a drive and swapped the internals into
the
shell for the Pismo? Does it work? Do you lose the ability to play
DVDs
when you do that?
I replaced the dying DVD-ROM in my wife's Pismo with a Samsung combo
drive from a
On Dec 7, 2005, at 7:49 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote:
Plus, they think the PowerMac 5200 is an accurate representation
of Macs in general...
Ding! Ding! Ding! Yes, I get this attitude from people that scoff at
Macintosh all the time. I politely tell them to have a look at OS X
since it's
On Dec 8, 2005, at 8:40 PM, chris wrote:
Can you still play DVD movies with it? I know Patchburn lets you
make non
Apple burners work with Apple tools, but I wasn't sure if you lost the
ability to play DVDs by going with a 3rd party drive.
DVD movies are fine on this one. Retail and
On Dec 4, 2005, at 6:32 AM, Amber R. wrote:
In fact, in a discussion with one of their live help people today,
I was told if you were using a regular computer, you would be
fine when I was asking about the sign-in problems I was having.
That's just plain wrong. I've been using ebay with
On Dec 4, 2005, at 7:29 AM, Howard Katz wrote:
I've come across several websites, including one for one of my jobs
where we report daily activity, that Safari wouldn't work with--kept
getting a system error when trying to log on. I switched over to
FireFox--and haven't had a problem since.
On Nov 26, 2005, at 6:11 AM, Frank Cornew wrote:
Uses DVD-R and DVD-RW, think that the mac line currently uses DVD
+R, shouldn't be an issue with finished disks. Just means that you
will need stocks of different media if you get a more current mac.
No, the G5's use Pioneer DVR109's for
On Nov 22, 2005, at 3:21 PM, Michael Organ wrote:
With no warning, my Pismo 400 won't power up at all.
Anyone have a procedure for trouble-shooting the power yo-yo
(battery is
discharged).
Ideas?
I got one for cheap and my friend got one for free because of Pismos
that played dead
On Nov 4, 2005, at 9:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The current Samsung, Hitachi/IBM and Toshiba high-capacity drives are
known not to work with Lombard and Pismo 'books.
My wife has a 400mhz Pismo with a 60gb Samsung MP0603H drive that has
worked just fine since the first day we put it
On Nov 5, 2005, at 3:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My wife has a 400mhz Pismo with a 60gb Samsung MP0603H drive that has
worked just fine since the first day we put it in.
Neither the Samsung 40 GB nor the Samsung 60 GB would work in my
Lombard
nor Pismo, during my exhaustive tests of
On Oct 31, 2005, at 7:56 AM, Peter Saint James wrote:
The display on my 15-inch, Al Powerbook running Tiger
sometimes dims when the computer is inactive for just a few
minutes. I can get it brighten again by moving the mouse or
hitting a key, but this is quite inconvenient and
On Nov 1, 2005, at 12:15 AM, themacuser wrote:
It works on one of my 8.6 macs, I'd say it's 8.6 and up. You have
to use AFP/TCP though.
I said this before, but it's 8.1 and up that can connect to Tiger.
Tiger can only connect to 9.0 and up if the OS9 is configured to run
Appletalk over
On Nov 2, 2005, at 10:27 AM, Clark Martin wrote:
It's not AppleTalk over TCP/IP, it's Appleshare over TCP/IP and
it's set in the File Sharing cp.
And you can access Tiger PFS from pre-OS 8.1 machines by installing
the updated AppleShare software.
Cool - thanks for straightening me
On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:10 AM, Brian McEwen wrote:
I recently bought a used iPOd from a coworker, it's been fine, but
I've started using it on 2 different computers-- and I can't move
music off the iPod onto the second computer.
I use an app called Senuti (iTunes backwards). It has an
On Oct 23, 2005, at 6:33 PM, Brian McEwen wrote:
OK, what format to I convert to so that a) quicktime will play it
b) I can make a DVD with toast 5.2.3 or iDVD?
Now you're into the tricky world of video encoding. I've been doing
this a while and tend to take things for granted because
On Oct 22, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Brian McEwen wrote:
I can't find the tool I need to turn the .avi file into something
that I can burn onto a DVD (in movie format).
Try ffmpegx http://homepage.mac.com/major4/
--
G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...
Small Dog Electronics
On Oct 1, 2005, at 7:48 AM, Howard Katz wrote:
(If I have to, I may end up partitioning this drive--one 80 and one 40
gig unit. The Duplicate Drive option on Drive Genius makes the whole
drive think it's an 80 gig unit. Not that I'm needing all that extra
space at the moment, but.
On Sep 27, 2005, at 12:21 PM, Henry Taylor wrote:
When starting my Pismo, I get the start chimes then three (3)
beeps. I don't recall the significance of this.
Any help, anyone?
According to the G3 PowerBook (FireWire) Service Manual:
1 beep: No RAM installed or detected.
2 beeps: EDO
On Sep 23, 2005, at 1:32 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
This won't work for two reasons:
1) Systems mounted via FWTDM ONLY make their HDD available.
2) You need to reboot from the DVD to run the install.
No, Bruce. This is wrong. I have installed Tiger onto a CD-ROM only
iMac DV using my
On Sep 16, 2005, at 11:59 PM, John Siple wrote:
Once this is done you can just use a sewing needle as a probe in
the connectors and an ohmmeter to ring out each wire in the cable.
If you find that all six leads show close to zero resistance and
the reed switch closes in the presence of a
On Sep 19, 2005, at 4:02 PM, Brian McEwen wrote:
Anyway is there a good way to get the audio off of the good-
sounding DVD and into mp3, using my 10.4, iLife'd PB G4? See the
Amazon reviews of the audio CDs to see why I want to do this!
You'll need a couple of free utilities:
On Sep 16, 2005, at 9:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How is a flashlight used to check the display?
I could see what was on the screen by holding a Mag Light _very_
close to the front side of the LCD. It took me a minute to be certain
and the mouse is _very_ difficult to find, but it
On Sep 16, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Dylan McDermond wrote:
With an Ohm meter. I just used my old multi-meter with small leads
to test the wiring in the cable.
This was, of course, after completely removing the cable from the iBook.
- Dylan
--
G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com
On Sep 13, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Henry Taylor wrote:
One might also mention that the Dual USB iBooks have a history of
this. If I remember correctly, it stems from the hinge eating away
at the wires that run through it. Unfortunately, I don't remember
if Apple covers this as they do the
On Sep 15, 2005, at 12:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I figure a visual inspection rules out the cable. How could you
tell it was the inverter board as opposed to the screen? FWIW, the
video out port on the iBook will drive an external monitor.
Wish me luck, all-it comes apart
On Sep 6, 2005, at 1:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all
I'lm about to switch my e-mail over to a G4 Cube ans I want to have
a powerbook that will share the same mail files.
The concept is to store the mail files on a CF card in a USB reader
attached to the Cube.
For portable use
On Aug 16, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Francesco sciacca wrote:
Is CCC working properly with Tiger?
No. that's why I switched to SuperDuper! recently and I actually like
it a lot better.
- Dylan
--
G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...
Small Dog Electronics
On Aug 16, 2005, at 5:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is that what MacStumbler does as well? I understand the point about
the wireless database (although they better be kept updated,
otherwise you will plan to have coffee without Internet access),
but that aside, I was referring to mostly
On Aug 14, 2005, at 2:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's weird.
I am wondering what is the use of these little programs? Airport
lists all available wireless connection in the drop down menu.
Isn't that enough? Or is it something more than macstumbler and
others offer that the
On Aug 2, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Harry Corsover wrote:
It depends on the vintage. Only the PowerBooks sold in the last
year or less have this. My 15 AlBook G4 (bought 12/30/03) does not
have trackpad scrolling built in.
On many of the 'books you can use iScroll2 to get two finger
scrolling
On Aug 2, 2005, at 9:18 PM, Harry Corsover wrote:
Yes, I read about this in the latest Macworld issue. On their site,
they say very clearly that this is beta software and has not been
thoroughly tested on Tiger. It sounds like a good idea, but with
all that's on my plate, I think I'll
Does the Pismo truly not have a temperature sensor? I find that a
little hard to believe, but my wife's Pismo 400 running 10.4.2 says
that it doesn't when I try running Temperature Monitor 2.5 and
ThermoInDock 0.9. Is this something that Tiger has broken? Will this
keep the fan from
On Jul 26, 2005, at 8:42 PM, David Harris wrote:
I have one last chance at installation, though, as I have a 900Mhz,
dual USB G3 iBook with a combo drive and a FireWire. How do I do
it? Does anyone know how to link them together by FireWire? Is
the combo drive started up in target
On Jul 21, 2005, at 7:10 PM, Brian McEwen wrote:
USB/firewire combo external drives are kinda spendy most places,
but OWC has some for pretty decent prices.
I went to Pricewatch.com and bought just a $35 firewire/usb housing
to go with a great deal on a 160gb IDE drive.
-Dylan
--
On Jul 22, 2005, at 1:48 AM, Andrew McCall wrote:
Can anyone identify this laptop I please?
If you download the new version of Mactracker ( www.mactracker.ca ),
it will tell you what model computer you're running it on. It's the
first hit in the list.
- Dylan
--
G-Books is sponsored
On Jul 21, 2005, at 2:41 PM, Michel Treisman wrote:
My Titanium 1GHz powerbook has a slot in the side which I vaguely
believe is supposed to take a PCMCIA card, although the manual that
came with the powerbook says nothing about it.
The PB has USB but not USB 2.0. Maplin have a USB 2.0
On Jul 9, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Brian McEwen wrote:
On the Dark Side (heh),I saw that you could get this for $42:
NEC ND-3540A 16x Dual Layer DVD+-RW $42 at NewEgg.com
add a $24 USB2 case for it, blow off buying Quicktime Pro, and you
are only costing yourself ~$30 to get a working solution for
On Jul 7, 2005, at 3:39 AM, Brian McEwen wrote:
I now have 2 big .iso images, that nothing will mount.
Disk Utility, disk image mounter, Toast 5.2.3 don't know how to
mount it.
I trust ncftp, it's worked well for many years, I'm sure it hasn't
mangled the file.
It certainly sounds
On May 28, 2005, at 9:32 PM, Steve Fuller wrote:
I'll echo Laruent's findings as well. 10.4.1 on a 1st gen 17
albook. My suggestion would be to remove the ram stick and see if
that causes the issues to stop.
Steve
Well, two problems: One, I don't have any other RAM for this - I gave
On May 29, 2005, at 6:45 AM, david wrote:
You are (possibly) where I was about 18 months ago: A 15 PowerBook
running the old OS just fine but choking on the new version. My RAM
passed all tests - even when I took it into the shop and had the
tech run Apple's diagnostics. But when we
Anyone else having fits with Tiger on the Al Books? I've been getting
hangs - maybe once a day - that lock everything. No mouse, no
keyboard, nothing. I have to use a ctrl-cmd-power to reboot, no
matter how long I wait.
They seem to come with opening new program instances - like finder
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