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This Quicktime movie plays in OSX 10.4 but not in 10.5.  Any idea why?
http://emvc.geol.ucsb.edu/animations/quicktime/pangea.mov
Thanks for your expert thoughts.

I have a number of HI-8 tapes I made many moons ago. I would like to
convert them to digital so I can make DVDs of them.
The output of the camcorder is S-video and analog audio. I'm looking for
a gadget I can connect to my Mac via USB. My searches on Google have not

This may not be the right forum this question but the the apple
support site has not been helpful and I've gotten useful information
from here in the past.
My G3 iPod has worked for me reliably for the past several years.

The iTunes update is a waste of time. iTunes 7.6.1 still regularly
beachballs to scan your library.  It still plays only low resolution
movie rentals.  I'm starting to suspect that the iTunes development team
was replaced with a room full of screaming monkeys a couple of years ...

I have a 1.42 GHz PowerPC 64 (1.2) Mac mini with 1 GB RAM and OS X 10.3.9.
Will it become faster or slower, when I upgrade to OS X 10.5 ?

I don't use widgets very often except for Weather.
But none of them appear to be working since upgrading
to 10.5.2.
Anyone else having this trouble?

I imported pictures and MPG's into Iphoto, but when I click on a movie, it opens Quick Time, but does not play the
movie. I also have VLC player on my system, but do not understand how to associate mpg and other movie formats to it, so
that when I click on a movie <avi,mpg,wmv> it ...

I do not expect great sound quality to come out of the built-in speaker
in my relatively new Macintosh Pro. Compared to what came from my G4's
built-in speaker, the Pro sound is absolutely dreadful.
It sounds as if there is a mid-frequency resonance that completely

It has been years since I've inserted a floppy disk, but the sound of
writing (and I think reading) is unforgettable.  It's like the sound
that says there's a ring signal after you dial somebody's phone number.
 I don't know whether to call it a buzzing, a chattering, or a

Hello All::
  <this msg was posted to the hardware.storage group by mistake.
apologies>
I've got a macbook pro running Tiger 10.4, with a hard drive

Hey folks I ahve a home network with macs and PCs. I have the printers
connected to the PCS and I would like to be able to print from the
macs. I have filesharing on and I can transfer files between PC and
Mac but I just can't print. Any ideas? thanks

On PCs if some really bad crap happens one final resort is to revert
to a system restore point, like going back in time. Is there any
equivalent with Mac OS 10.4.x? I seem to have somehow lost all my
iPhoto library and haven't a clue. A Spotlight search turned up no

Can I determine if someone else is accessing my
wireless cable network?
One other person and I are sharing a 10MB/sec cable.
A third person expressed interest but then changed

I just inherited an hp Laserjet 5L, which has a parallel cable.  I want
to run it from my iMac, OS 10.4.11.  I can buy a parallel-to-USB adaptor
cable for about $13.  Is this printer worth the effort (and the $13!)?
I just need it for presentable document printing, no high-end ...

I recently applied Security Update 2008-001 for Mac OS X 10.4.11 to eight
different installations, some PPC and some Intel, and upon repairing
permissions with Disk Utility, read the following:
"Permissions differ on ./Library/Application Support/Macromedia/Shockwave