Mac Forum / General / General / January 2007

I have a G4 tower Digital Audio (133Mhz bus) that has been running on a
466Mhz processor. I wish to insert/ swap in a 733Mhz which was the
fastest single core processor shipped in the Digital Audio. My question
is this: can I simply inseret the "new" processor and run the computer,

I have an HP PSC 1510 (it is an all in one jobbie). I have the HP drivers and
scanning software installed and that work fine. However if I try to scan via
the Image Capture app I get the error "no image capture device connected".
Looking under devices/browse devices I can see that ...

Finally bought and installed larger SATA drive (500 gigs Maxtor @7200,
$149 at MacWorld today) as well as some badly needed RAM for desktop G5.
Question is regarding top Bay ("A")- Does the danged drive come out
without having to open the case up more? The bottom drive Bay was ...

I'm having problems with poor quality printouts, but really don't know
what to do about it.
The Canon S-500 is connected to a broadband-router which also has a
built-in printer-server (a hardware box, physically connected between

I am unable to add the 'Home' Folder to the Dock in Mac OS X. If I try
to drag it to the Dock, either nothing happens (the Home Folder does
not enter the dock) or the Home Folder vanishes in a puff of smoke, as
if I had removed it from the dock. I have no problem adding an alias of

Hi all, since i cannot run Restart from Apple menu (it doesn't work
suddenly) but i can run reboot as root from a command line, so i don't
care (later i will reinstall it, but i cannot find my Mac OS X Disk 1

I have received the following post from a friend who uses a G5 iMac.  I don't
do video or sound,  so I am completely useless to him on this.  Can anyone
advise.
" Sometimes , and

I played a game on the mac many years ago now which I thought was called
Pharoah or something similar.  In it you played a pharoah and the ultimate
goal was to build your own pyramid - you had 50 years or something to
complete the task using slaves.  You were also required to farm ...

WAIT! Before you click away from this page, I will not give you a bunch
of B.S. like others who are offering the same thing. No, you will NOT
get a Macbook Pro for FREE, but you will only need to sign up for 1
offer and then refer friends. That easy! I HAVE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN

I have Vista RC1 installed as a Parallels virtual disk. I download BeOS
R5 Personal Edition and installed in Vista it but it wont boot unless
it finds a boot floppy. Obviouly, my iMac has no floppy drive.
Has anyone installed BeOS this way under Vista or XP in Parallels? Any

Here's a brand new forum to discuss the upcoming Apple iPhone :)
http://www.iphoneforum.info

How long is it going to take for the technology announced today in the
iPhone to filter down into the ipods?  I like the iPhone, however I
like to carry all of my music with me on the 80 gig ipod, when will the
ipod get a new revamp...with the new technology they just released the

I have a friend that wants an iPhone, but lives in an area where
Cingular dones not offer service (only Alltel, Verizon, and Union). He
wants the unit for wireless internet function and large screen, so he
can watch iPod videos. Really does not care about the wireless phone

At startup, I no longer get the Mac face, I just get the mouse pointer
against a gray background.  Nothing else happens.  Tried starting from
a different hard drive with the same results.  Also zapped the PRAM.
TIA!

HELP!! MacBook Pro OSX and Powerbook OSX Compatibility?
I have an external drive. I also have a MacBook Pro and a Powerbook
Titanium. I want them both to boot and run apps from the same external
drive (not at the same time of course).