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HELP!!!  Best/BIGGEST 2.5" Hard Drive?
What's the BEST 2.5" harddrive out there?
And how big are they up to now?
120GB?

I have a G3 with OS X and am planning to use it with my DSL connection
and a NO-IP static address to host my personal sites. About 7 or 8
different domains sites. The DSL is off a router in my bedroom. Do I
need NO-IP? Does my IP change?

I'm a newbie here, been using a Mac for a week. Person comes into my
office with a NICE PowerBook and 10.4.7. She says she transferred
everything from another Mac onto this one using FireWire and I think
she said she had issues with FireFox and Netscape on the old machine.

Windows users just came off their worst month of security in history!
Meanwhile, as one might expect, selling Windows related security has
become big business. I have personally been pestered by security
salesmen via email and on the phone. Little do they know that I have the

I was under the impression that macosx didn t recognize NTFS formatted
HD's. However, when I plugged in my usb external HD, it recognized the
drive just fine and read the files fine. In fact, for some reason, when
I plug this drive into a PC it takes a while for the pc to index ...

I've been using CodeTec for some time now but I recently saw this
message in my console.log:
Sep 12 20:39:55 ... /Applications/CodeTek VirtualDesktop
Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/CodeTek VirtualDesktop Pro: The function

I could easily cover up the green light.
Could I use iChat (or something) to video record my bedroom. (in
theory). So that way if anyone was to go snooping (burglars, cleaners..
etc) it would all be recorded

Anyone ever see this?  When I attempt to bring up System Preferences it
doesn't respond.  I looked in the logs, Conole- shows missing
mainmenu.nib file.  Doing some additonal snooping, it looks like it
originated with my Office Mac installation.  Running OS X 10.4.7

I have an album where the artist is Fred, and some songs have featured
artists. For example, Fred ft. Cornelis. What I did then, was to set
'Artist' to Fred and 'Album Artist' to either Fred or Fred ft. Cornelis.
This cleans-up the music directory by moving all songs into the ...

Hello Macintosh People!
I'm not sure if this is a hardware, software, or operating system
issue, but this group seems to be very experienced, so I've started
here.  I apologize ahead of time if my post is off topic.

I have to design some business cards for someone and I want to what are
some good apps to use? I have Open Office... Or can I get some
templates for Open Office? They also will have to be able to save in a
format that Widoze can view, as he is a Windose user....

I'm a PC user, say what you will...I will say that as soon as I latch onto
some more $$, I'll certainly be seeing about getting a new Mac, if, for the
very least, to learn to use it, and then maybe make it my desktop...people I
know that use Macs swear by them for the most part.

I have a question about the initial start-up of GarageBand.  When I
start the program, there will be a start up indicator bar and then a
window will come up for the iZotope Authorization Wizard and then it
asks me to Authorize to authorize This Wizard to continue or I can click

I've copied the contents of an encrypted DVD onto my hard drive,
resulting in VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders being created.
Is it possible to use software like Mac the Ripper to decrypt the disk
from these folders?  I don't have the DVD disk itself any more.  Or

I bought a used PowerBook G4 on Ebay. The administrator's password was
locked. The Powerbook still can run to the normal screen. However, I am
unable to update and install software without a password.
I don't have the original install CD either the second mac for firmware