Mac Forum / General / Hardware / January 2005

A friend of my just got an Airport Express and can't get it to connect to his
Comcast high speed cable service. The folks at Comcast have been absolutely
no help, and the folks at Apple (downtown store in San Francisco) have also
not been any help.

I have mi cable modem connected to my computer by USB 1.0. Right now mi
web experience is not bad, but if I want to get more speed, can I hook
up a wireless connection? Will I get more download speed if I do that?
And if it is possible, what router do you recommend. I have a ...

I just bought my first mac and I would like to connect to the inet.
What is my best approach? Can I get a wireless card or some external
wireless setup? I have no USB, But I wonder if I can convert the
serial to USB. Then I would need the drivers.

I have a question about iMovie.
I want to take hundreds if not thousands of
JPEGs or TIFFs and convert them into a movie.
Under windows this is accomplished using a

Is it possible to connect a Macintosh keyboard (very old one from the
early 90s (Mac Classic)) to a PC ?  
Maybe with a plug-converter and appropriate drivers?
Thanks!

I have an old iMac with picture problems. The problems started when I
opened the case to fix the CD-ROM, and I accidentally dropped a small
screw into the machine... I had to pick it up and carefully rotate it
to and fro so that the screw would fall out. I didn't shake the

I would use one with a G4 Titanium Lap top running OS x 10.3.7
Cheers
Bruce

Is this the worlds smallest completely self contained
stereoscopic projection system? A technology collaboration
between 1905 and 2005.
  http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/ipodphoto/

I have a Mag G4 dual 1.25GHz Mirror Door machine, and several Western
Digital WD2500 250GB FireWire/USB drives (the ones with the pretty
lights).
When they are connected via FireWire, and I try to read a bunch of data

Since there is no screen how do you tell where your songs are?
shuffle? toggle

There is an add in the NY Times today showing a new Dell machine,
copying the new G-5 iMac.
It looks like the hunchback of Notre Dame.  And, includes a note that
one should run it with Windows XP Professional.

Is there a battery-powered, hand-held text scanner for the Mac?
It should be something along the lines of the Windows-only
"QuickLink-Pen Elite" and doesn't need a raft of features, simply the
facility for me to "highlight" text to capture it for later downloading

I have a external hard drive (Western Digital) and also a DVD writer
(HP 200e) and they both have USB 2.0 and FireWire connection. I wonder
if I'll have any issues with trying to use them with a Mac.
I'm thinking of moving to Mac and these are the only 2 devices that I

Does anyone know of a KVM manufacturer that includes a firewire port ???
Thanks in advance - CES

We have an old PowerPC with no USB port. What is the name of the port
of the old-style Mac mouses? And where can I buy one?
- TS