Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / December 2005

My brother's iPod mini suffered a short through the dock connector as
the result of a faulty car kit installation.  The short passed from the
FireWire earth to the shield of the dock connector, taking out two pins,
a couple of surface mount components and a track in the process.  ...

I was wondering if anyone could please tell me which version of the
ipod/s would work with a 400 mhz G3 Pismo laptop, 512 mb ram, firewire
and usb 1.
Thanks.

I have stuffed up by not first checking the ports between my new Airport
Base Station and my Alcatel USB SpeedTouch ADSL modem.
Essentially, I have an Ethernet WAN port on the Base Station and a USB plug
on the modem (and no Ethernet port).

I am using iphoto, but I found out that the program hasn't got a duplicate
finder.
Is there a way of fining duplicates on this program or do u use something
else?

I have just bought a video recorder (yes there are some still out there) and
the old age question is how do I convert all my rock/pop/ movies etc to good
old DVD?
Now I have looked at some things on Google but wow it is  confusing.

Merry Christmas Everybody

I would like to replace my defunct Combo Drive with an internal Dual
Layer DVD Burner.
The LaCie External burner, as advertised on the Apple Store site, when
compared with other burners, is too expensive for me.

I am putting together a DVD of a 2 hour+ musical production from a
number of different versions of it I have filmed on a DV camera. Even
with 200 gigs of firewire disk space, it quickly uses it up (and with
that much data in one file it soon slows down the g4 iMac). So what I do

I have a sony still camera which can record MPEG video, which the finder
tells me is "multiplexed MPEG-1/2" format.
Is there some software around that would enable me to cut and paste
these videos to make a longer segments.

I see that you can get scripts for itunes to uncapitalize  but is there one
of just plain folders with all your files in it?
Scripts to to be for mail and itunes, any for just plain folders with all
that data in it?

I have d/l some files on the past and when I go to open them something about
"no checksum"
Does that mean  the file is corrupt?, I have to re d/l?
If not, how do u get a "checksum?"

I have a PM G5 and I bought some Logitech speakers 4 it.
They are a big sub woofer, 2 speakers and a centre speakers with control
knobs on it.
While some times it works ok, they seem to "crackle" and  make pop noises

Stock PowerPC 604ev MachV 300mhz
128mb RAM
4gb Hard Disk
ZIP Drive

I am looking suggestions for a scsi card for my quad G5, does not need
to be anything super fast as its purpose in life is to drive my film
scanner (polaroid SS4000)
Thanks for the help

I have d/l a couple of files and "tried " to use Stuffit expander and the
default.
It is ver. 10.
It starts ok, then an error msg pops up.