Mac Forum / General / Hardware / August 2005

My local costco has a 2-fer-1 sale on DVDs. Then it turns you you can buy a
pair of DVD -R spindles or a pair of DVD +R spindles, or one of each.
Sheesh! I've got a Dual-G3 tower and an iBook which I believe write DVDs,
and a Blue & White G3 that I think writes only CDs -- but how ...

My CD burner has become so unreliable that I'm going to have to get
something new.  
I would appreciate suggestions for what to buy.  I have a G4 grey and
blue Mac.  Curently my burner is connected via firewire; I don't have

Is there an easy way to synchronize applications, e.g. Quicken or Entourage
Calendar, between a Mac and a laptop?
Ed Kearns

Looking for a way to monitor and log power outages on the 110V
residential electrical service that the ac adapter of a Mac is plugged
into -- including any short-duration dropouts long enough to cause
electric clocks or appliance display panels to reset.

I can't seem to find these answers through Google.
I have an 8500 with a G3/300 processor card.  I'd like to add a DVD
writer, but can't find out if there are any minimum requirements for
each of the three ways I might interface it: 1) Buy a Mac-compatible

I am looking to replace my cd/dvd reader with a new dvd burner.
Best Buy has a Pioneer dvd burner(model DVR-509). Does anyone know if
this is the equivalent of Pioneer's DVR-109 or A09XL? If so which one?
Can I use Patchburn to get my G4 to support it? What happens if I use

You haven't see this before...
RARE: This Apple Produced CD is PACKED with EVERY Conceivable Software
Apple ever made from the Apple // Era through MacOS 8.1.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5228302937

I just changed the batteries in my Apple Wireless Mouse.  Now, the
button still works.  However, it won't track.  Is this a common
problem?  Is the mouse just shot?  I presume that I must have done
something when changing the batteries, but I can't imagine what it is.

Listen to a non-linear editing software shootout on this special edition of
The DV Show- we put an Avid user and Final Cut Pro user head to head to talk
about the features and differences of each software.
August 15th podcast of The DV Show:

Bought above at garage sale and get home to find no OS X driver
available anywhere.
Needed only for OCR.
Any suggestions?

I haven't burn a DVD in a while (since before I upgraded to Tiger).
But I tried last night and made 4 nice DVD coasters.
I tried Toast 6.1.1 and I tried burning from the Finder.
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Howdy,
  Last night, I ran a backup of my Powerbook's HD, and it died with a error
indicating media failure (Retrospect 6.0.212, Error 206).
  My backup disk was a paritition on a LaCie D2 with plenty of room (it died

  I have the mentioned monitor that came with my old (dead) Performa
6400. I understand that this monitor can be used with an adapter of
some sort with a Winblows Pentium machine. Can anyone tell me exactly
what it is I need to do this?

sometimes my wireless connection is lost.  other than restarting the
computer how can I "reconnect" the mouse?
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ANYBODY? Bueller?
I have a G4 MDD dual 867 runnnig Jaguar - the CD/DVD combo drive just
failed. Apparently, the Pioneer DVR-109BK that I bought, DVD play does
not function with OS older than Panther.