Mac Forum / General / Hardware / July 2006

I have an annoying problem with my 30G gen 5 ipod: instead of the usual
progress bar and the volume bar, i see 5 gray circles, which is not
very helpful. i doubt that this is a new feature ipod. does anyone
happen to know how it happened and how do i get my progress bar back?

i am using a 17" crt monitor (sorry i don't see a model number etc.)
that came with a powermac (blue and white) g3 (~1998).
more and more often it makes a popping sound and the display shrinks and
returns flickering a bit.

I'm in the final stages of planning a move to Mac after using MSDOS/Windows
computers since the early Intel 8088 days.  If I make the switch it will be
to either the desktop or portable dual core Mac.  I've asked in another
forum about the software I might need and wonder about ...

Someone has gotten a Mac mini to work with his Prius's touch screen!
http://www.kusnetz.net/prius/

I have come to find myself in a situation where I am in possession of a
PowerPC G3, a relic my uncle has charged me with,
post-accidentally-deletion of much of his own data; I am tasked with
recovering it, and I really have no idea where to even begin; I grew up

I want to give an FM transmitter as a gift to someone who owns a 20Gb
Generation4 Ipod (small color screen) and an iMac. To listen to her
music in her car (multi-CD changer, no cassette) she has resorted to
burning CDRs of her music and lugging them around (while her iPod sits

Has anyone here used this graphics card in a G4/400 Sawtooth:
http://snipurl.com/s6ax
and has it been satisfactory? This one (cheaper) looks like the same
thing, but it says it's for Windows. Is it safe to put it in my G4?

How about a Mac that:
* Have an enlarged version of the original Macintosh case, except, of
course, replacing the floppy disk slot with a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM disk
slot and replacing the ports on the back.

I was looking at the Samsung 204b. Someone on Amazon wrote, "It has 6
bits / channel for colors and is not suitable for photo editing. The
204T version, albeit old, is slower [not for gaming], but is 8 bits /
channel for colors."

      I am trying to add a networked printer to my Imac. The printer is
physically connect to the window/Linux box. The Imac is plugged into
the router. I can get the printet to print from the mac but it prints
in code and not the text that I wanted to print.. Any ideas?

I've got an "older" MAC-Mini, one without Intel-Inside.
I know the mini lacks an IR-receiver, but is there any way to get Apples
remote control to work with it.
Does anyone know about a decent how-to?