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Selling for cheap - starting at 1cent!  
CLOSING VERY SOON.

visit my homepage for more cheap Mac stuff:

I have two 7600's available for $80 each.  Approximate specs are 64mb
RAM and 2Gb hard drive.  I say approximate, as I plundered one to play
around with the second, as well as having miscellaneous RAM and HD's for
them.

After all the advice given on this NG (Thank-you to everyone BTW!), I
decided to buy a seocnd hand Power Mac G4/867MHz from eBay as my first
Mac.
I'm pretty happy given it has the CD/DVD SuperDrive and 60GB HDD,

from my 10.3.8 after I asked it a question how to erase a cd-rw. Now
when I go to machelp I get a blank page and must go to the menu for a
new page.
Very strange.

I have just installed  Update "10.3.9" and now my Safari web browser wont
open.
"Report problem to Apple", the error /pop up says (which I did)
Any one else had the problem?

Hi guys, just updated to 10.3.9, and it looks like Apple have removed the
choice of save location from Safari!  When you right-click the image and
want to save it, it only lets you save it to your download directory, not to
any other location.  If I want to save it anywhere else I ...

For Sale. 20" Diamond View Monitor. Used with G4 and late G5 (includes
Mac Cable)
$200...
reason for sale... gone to 20" cinema LCD, which allows me to lay out my

I've been using a free form info storage program called QuickDex on
various Macs since 1989. It's a great little tool that allows you to
store any sort of information in a freeform manner, no fields. To find
info you just type into the find field and press return repeatedly until

Since I have been using Safari and now that it is not working due to the
10.3.9 update
I cant  seem to check for updates on one of my apps., it is linked to
Safari.

I have an Applescript question. Does anyone know how to get the Finder
to open a file using a specified application that is not scriptable.
I can't say tell application "xxx" open file "xxx" so I tried the
following script:

How does one tell that Quartz is running on a Mac?
Cheers
Andy

I am trying to set up SKYPE on my G4 but I am having problem hooking up a
microphone.
I have G4 AGP Sawtooth running 10.3.8  with microphone port at the back.
Plugged in regular mic (Laser Multimedia Hi-Fi Headset for Voip, speech

I'm in the market for a new mobile phone/pda. I'm a Mac user
desktop-wise and have used PalmOS units in the past but kept dropping
them and eventually gave up.
Today I saw the O2 XDA II mini. What I want is something of similar size,

I have Netcomm NB 1300 Plus 4 ADSL Ethernet /usb modem /  router. I am
accessing ADSL via Ethernet part. Yesterday we had a power failure and ADSL
no longer works. Status lights on the router show that it connects to the
Net, all ports are active but I cant access the Net.

I have a Sony 17sfII monitor and a Stylewriter 1200 printer lying around.
They both worked last time I plugged them in but I haven't used either of
them in a very long time. I'd be happy to give them to anybody who has a use
for them, but figure they're probably landfill by now.