Mac Forum / General / General / January 2006

Ideal for the traveling camera enthusiast.  This iPOD Photo is brand
new in the box - still shrink wrapped.
Intuitive photo viewing; displays album art; adds color to your iPod
experience; mammoth 30GB hard drive; lets you view photos and listen to

hello... i have an eMac running Panther 10.3.9 and i'm only now taking
the plunge into Tiger... HOWEVER...
when i run the installer disc, the machine restarts, i choose english as
main language, and then it gives me an alert window that says only "this

There are two ways of converting Analog to Digital on my Canon MVX25i.
1: Record from the VCR to tape on the camera. 2: from the VCR through the
camera (no tape) to the Mac. What method will give the best sound/picture
quality to record to DVD.

OK, so there's a new update for Mac OS X 10.4.4, but it's 120meg plus
some other bits which will take 2-3 hours to download. The problem is
that we have four Macs to update and I don't want to waste time and
traffic allowance downloading this thing four times.

Maybe I have miss-understood what rsync does. But I am trying to use it
to backup my files and it hasn't worked well.
I have attached a USB external disk to my iMac and I backup my files with
rsync -avb /Users/MYNAME /Volumes/USBDISK/

Does Bluetooth just mean that the computer is wireless or is there
something more needed to connect to a router.
Thank you

Having a real problem uploading to my ISP homepages (Demon) via ftp.
Everything I try times out.
I'm using OS X 10.3.9 and have a broadband connection via a Netgear
DG834 router.

I asked some preliminary questions on here a few weeks ago about Virtual PC,
and got some invaluable help.  My new iMac arrived on Friday (my first Mac)
and of course I love it!  Not much else has been done in this house for the
last few days.  However, I am having a slight ...

I have a empty folder that I trased as it was causing my Retorspect to
hang on the folder scan and not backup the directory that contained the
folder and now I am unable to empty the trash. I have tried all types
of third party utilities that calim to be able to "force" the empty

We have 5 MAC's (OSx) on our Server2003 Active Directory network. Our
internal Domain name is the same as our externally hosted website. To
enable access to our externally hosted website for the Windows clients
I have to add an entry to each PC's host file. I need to do the same

I have one of the original iMac G5's and  something strange has happened
to my sound. I don't hear the interface sounds I should. the only one I
hear the sound when dragging an item to the trash. I have Xounds
installed and it was working just fine until Sunday. I uninstalled it

I am trying to get my new OSX 10.4.3 system to work over my Gigabit
Ethernet network using TCP/IP so that I can use FTP over my LAN directly
and not just over the Internet.
I have managed to connect this new computer via my LAN to a hub which is

Trying to do borderless printing of photographs with GraphicConverter on
a Canon 5200R inkjekt printer.
It does work using Canon's Easy Photo Print on 4x6" paper.
What paper size do I define? What do I use as border size?

I have some speed prolems on my mac now with the hard disc. Is it
possible to firmware upgrade the speed? I think it's 7200rpm but I hear
they go to 10,000 or 15,000 now. Can this be overclocked to get more
speed out of it? You can do the same with a CPU and a graphics and

On my new iMac G5 I have just installed my existing copy of Photoshop
Elements 2 (says Mac and Windows on the package).  It is maybe two years old.
During installation I got this message which I think is Mac related:  A
valid Classic environment was not detected.  Support for ...