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If the system was dropped and the symptoms appeared after that, it's extremely likely the hard drive is messed up. However, if the issues showed up on their own after a few weeks/months, it's more difficult to determine if the drive is the issue or if it's software corruption. Get the discs...

If you use Videora you'll have to decrypt the dvd first with something like DVD decrypter. I would suggest checking up on some of the guide links on this thread first for more details. In the preferences for DVD decrypter you'll want to make sure it doesn't split the video files into 1gb...

Yes, make sure you're port mapping port 80 and whatever other ports you're using to your Mac Mini. If it's an airport, you can set them in the Airport Admin utility under the Port Mapping tab.

Making sure to set the jumpers properly? If the drive doesn't even show up in Disk Utility, then you're probably out of luck.. .but if it does show up in disk utility or in the system profiler, then you can use programs like Disk Warrior or Data Rescue X to recover data from it if the...

The LAN port will give ethernet addresses if you plug it into a switch to all the computers you have connected to the switch.

The big thing is.. an adapter is very likely more expensive than a decent cheap logitech or microsoft mouse.

A great site for the printer sharing question is: http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/tiger.html I'd go with the middle or the upper model because of: 1) The faster processor, 2) the larger hard drive - it's important later on... it's easy to fill the stuff up over time. 3) The included airport...

Yeah unfortunately the close lid operation is only available on the Powerbooks (without the firmware hack).

I'm using a 20" apple cinema display too, one of the ADC models. I've had it for a few years now and it's been quite nice.

I prefer Crucial myself.. Viking, Kingston, Simpletech all seem pretty good too. Corsair for desktops definitely.

Google for "iPod Repair" you can find a bunch of places that sell iPod parts.

That's an interesting point. However, non-computer people also don't typically know how to get music into their computer, so they'd likely use a program (itunes coming with the shuffle would probably be their choice). Once the music's loaded it would autofill the shuffle for them. I do...

I would take your battery and your powerbook into an Applestore. If you have your receipt for the battery bring it as well as it has a 1 year warranty. You can also try calling 1-800-APL-CARE and let them know what the deal is with your battery. The fact that the old one works fine leads me...

I use my powerbook the same way.. most of the time it's plugged in. My battery lasts very close to the same amount of time as when I got it (if not exactly the same), so I doubt you'll have any issues by leaving it plugged in. I have seen it suggested that you want to calibrate the battery...

You can add the person to your Address Book with whatever name you want them to show up as, and enter their msn account in the IM section (choose MSN from the pulldown menu too). Adium grabs the contact info from your Address Book.. it can be both annoying and useful at times.

You can start up to single user mode by restarting the computer and holding Apple (command) and S until you see the white text on the screen. Then you can type: fsck -fy after it runs you'll see if it gives you any errors like overlapped files or keys out of order. If it finds any...

Sorry, the iBook won't go higher than 1024x768, there are physically 1024 pixels active vertically and 768 pixels active horizontally. There's no way to automagically make extra pixels suddenly grow in between others to give you a higher resolution on an LCD. If some other monitor had bogus...

As soon as you swap the card and you see that it works, call back and let them know. If you need to, ask to speak to Tier 2. They can send you a replacement video card, and should.

The only way to get it "switched out" will be to take it into an applestore directly. The call center simply sends you to the web form that you mail in your iPod to. depot.info.apple.com/ipod. As for the issue with iTunes, check your drive using disk utility by booting off the cd and...

It's also very likely that optical drive in the system doesn't support burned cds. A lot of the drives that were slower than 8x didn't. I had that issue on an old PC and haven't dealt much with old macs and burned cds.

There's these cheap headphones that have a radio built into them that you can toggle between the iPod (or any other audio source) and the radio. I'd much rather have the color screens.. especially since the guys working on Linux on iPod are looking into doing video on the color iPods...

Just take it to any apple store. Like has been mentioned before, it doesn't matter that you added ram or opened it, as long as it wasn't damaged in the process you're fine. If you need to remove the cd you can eject it by restarting and holding the mouse button down. If that doesn't work...

Yeah you gotta be careful when you put the keyboard back in, it has to be flush against the bottom otherwise it's a pain in the butt to open back up.

A while back I read that the 4200 rpm drives that were used in some of the powerbooks (not sure if they're used in the iBooks as well) had the data spaced smaller on the drive so the read head didn't move as far, thus faster performance than typical 4200 drives.. now that was well over a year...

For the apps she's using it should work very well. Build quality on Apple products has constantly been some of the best in the industry. Manufacturers are constantly innovating and developing to try and build to Apple specs (Trying to figure out how to not show screws to the user.. it's more...

Very very easy, on the bottom are four screws holding in a metal plate, under the plate is the ram slots. Depending on what you're doing you could see a huge performance increase.. such as playing WoW, running media creation apps (photoshop, illustrator, maya, etc), having a lot of larger...

All the iPods come with at least a USB transfer cable if they're purchased new, as well as headphones. But yes, they don't have the charger anymore. The price drops were nice however.

I much prefer iTunes myself, I used to use Winamp way back when, but I found it's playlist support and other things funky once I started using iTunes. I switched to iTunes once it came out on the mac and haven't really liked using other audio apps. But that's just me, so feel free to use...

Free or Shareware apps that I use: VLC or Mplayer - watching various videos Firefox - if Safari isn't working on a page or something. AdiumX - for multi client chat (much better than trillian in my opinion) Skype - when people don't have iChat to audio chat. Path Finder - An interesting...

Yeah I couldn't find anything in Safari Enhancer for this, it did have some other cache and history settings that you may find useful though. Check versiontracker.com for it.

try it with a space between -fy and fsck Ah good, that means it's detecting the hard drive. You can access the CD rom drive from terminal but I'm not sure how much good that will do since all the installer stuff is GUI based. If you want to reset the open firmware, you can startup with...

They look for PC viruses, Macro Viruses (those can spread cross platform however only infect Microsoft documents esp. excel. Disable macros when they open if you want to be safe), I'm sure they'll check for future proof of concept virii as well. If you check your account through an IMAP server...

I know it sounds a little funny, but the easiest stuff is often overlooked. When you put in the CD drive and had only it connected, was it set on master as the jumper settings? You could try starting with Apple, S at startup to see if it boots to single user mode. Then type fsck -fy See...

I haven't used that cable, but you should have no problems charging your iPod from it or your system. To find out if it's charging, you'll notice a lightning bolt in the upper right next to the battery. Make sure to download the newest version of iTunes from the web as well as the iPod Updater.

Exactly, if you don't already have a drive that you can use with it, as well as ram then it's probably best to look for a G4 tower.

What type of powerbook do you have? Does OS X see 512 MB total (meaning the 256 original chip + the 512 buggy chip? If it only sees 256 it's only reading the original memory. I would try the new ram you got by itself in the upper and lower slot to see how it detects, if it keeps...

Hot damn, they're selling them basically off the shelf. They're supposed to be doing the installs for them. If you buy them from the Apple Store the install's free

It can run Tiger... probably not that great but it will run. You'd want to get more Ram, hard drive, and possibly a combo drive or dvd burner for it. By the time you upgrade it, not sure on the price. 128 megs of ram won't let you run Tiger. The blue and whites were really stable...

Yeah I don't think the apps and system would like it very much. Most files do okay in transfers to other file systems.

Indeed... check out: Bonjour for Windows It requires the printer plugged into a mac with 10.4 but lets you share and such. As for your issue I'm suspecting the two routers may be a bit of an issue. You may want to configure your airport express with the airport admin utility, go to...