Mac Users

I'm hoping someone can tell me how to fix this mess. Basically, I need to make a Cisco Linksys 5-port workgroup switch work with my Airport network. If this is impossible, I need to know what to do to replace it.

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ETA: I played with the cords and switched the order (put the Airport first), and everything's working! I'm so happy. :)

ARGH. i deleted a folder in my bookmarks about a month ago. it had a website in it that i currently need. i have spent the last hour and a half on google trying to find it again, but i can't.

please tell me there is someway i can find a deleted bookmark!? i also e-mailed the owner of the website (using gmail) about a month ago but none of the emails are in my inbox, sent or trash folders anymore. i don't suppose i can get to those anymore either? i have a macbook pro if that matters.

i'm so stressed out and pissed at myself. i'm about to cry. help?

with the barest touch of my mousepad on the scrollbar, it tends to (now...can't recall when this started) jump as if I had clicked it 2 or 3 times. Yet, it does not trigger anything that requires double-clicking...only the scrollbar.

Any clue what is up?

I'm running a Powerbook G4..OSX 10.4.11 (Tiger, I think)

Edit complete- sometimes my fingers get ahead of one another, and I don't notice. Sorry for the massive confusion...and thanks for pointing it out...LOL

A few months ago I sold my ibook g4 to a friend. I wiped the hard drive and restored it. Besides a short battery life, it worked fine. She rarely uses it, and its only used for itunes and the internet. She turned it on this morning and let me know the keyboard wasn't working. First the volume keys, the dimming button, and then eventually (I think) they all went.

What does this mean? Is this computer totally hopeless, or is there an easy fix?
If it's not something that can be fixed for free, I'm thinking to just refund her money. If I do this, how would I go about selling a computer that doesn't work completely?


Thanks for any help!

i've been having this problem for a while and i've posted about it before but didn't get any help. a good time has lapsed, so i think now is a good time to recirculate this question.

for some time now, i've been unable to watch videos on certain websites. mtv.com, primarily, but now i find that i am having difficulty with video hosted by the cisco company (the one that ellen page has been doing adverts for.) when i try to watch a video from mtv, it tells me to go to this (click) website and fix the settings to enable third party content, but it won't let me check any of the boxes i am clearly supposed to check to do that. when i try and view video hosted by the cisco network (mainly on paramore.net) i hit the play button and absolutely nothing happens. my flash player is as up to date as possible, and i have uninstalled and reinstalled firefox several times. these same sites also do not play or work in safari, so i can't really think of anything else that could be the problem so i am wondering if any of you guys can help me come up with a fix for this?

also, i've noticed since i upgraded to snow leopard that my buddy icons on adium when i am using AIM do not appear. in their last update, it says the bug was fixed, but i am still having this problem. i uninstalled and deleted every adium related thing on my hard drive, only to reinstall, but alas - still no buddy icons. they work in ichat, but the second i switch to adium they're gone! anyone else having the same issue?

cross posted to applecomputer

So, I'm trying to use java on pogo.com but apparently it's not working. When I try to test my java applet nothing comes up. I went to the site to dl the most recent update and updated it and everything but I'm still having issues and am unable to use java.

Any suggestions?

Can anybody recommend an external desktop hard drive that's 2TB, and preferably has a firewire interface?

This is my beloved 4 year old iBook. That is what its screen looks like (although, since I've taken the picture, the bleeding has gotten worse). I kind of want to know how much it will cost me to get this thing fixed as my mother claimed she found someone on Ebay who will fix it for 200 dollars and I want to see what else I can find.


Help is much appreciated. Please and thank you.

hello friends

i dropped my macbook, and continued using it for about 3 months even though it looked like this (actually even worse towards the end because a lot of the little plastic pieces fell off)


well one of the wires finally broke, and i was wondering what the price range to get it fixed would be.

thanks :)

I am currently using a WRT54GS wireless router from LinkSys; but I periodicaly have an issue where my cable modem service is still active; but I am unable to load websites / play games / etc for up to 25 seconds (sometimes longer). For online gaming this is unacceptable as it leads to either being disconnected from the server, or the game just looping the last sounds / actions it registered before the drop.

I believe the problem is my router. And what I am wondering is what any of you with an Airport would recommend. Is the Apple router really worth the cash, or is there a better alternative you might suggest? I have 1 Mac, 1 PC, and several wi-fi capable devices in our home, so I'd want to make sure that setup was pretty universal.

I have Googled my little heart out with no success, so I'm hoping someone can help me out here.

I have a lot (A LOT) of contacts in my Apple address book, and I want to add all these contacts to my Thunderbird account. However, I don't want to do each entry individually -- that would literally take forever. Exporting address book and importing it into Thunderbird won't work either, unless I want to spend a ton of time fixing the entries. Is there a simple way to import all my address book contacts into Thunderbird and have them all entered correctly?

Thanks! :)

I just got my Macbook from the store. I got my lcd fixed. Now i seem to have a problem with my airport. When i click on it, it says "Airport card not installed".

What am i supposed to do? Is there anything i can do myself without sending it back?

Hi guys! So, the iTunes store recently started putting up HD versions of the Pixar films. I've been wanting to get a digital copy of WALL-E, so I'm really excited about it. But I was wondering if there's anything specific you need to have for HD to work or anything like that?

Oh, also, does an iTunes HD movie play on an iTouch, or include an iTouch version, or something like that?

Thanks!

 Ok so I just installed Boot camp on my Macbook (My operative System is Tiger) and yes I did trick Boot camp into running by changing the date setup (Not proud really). My problem starts after I installed rEFit and tried to install Backtrack 3.

I´ve got a tutorial (very detailed one) but I have no idea if I should install Linux first. Anyone knows if I should? Because the Backtrack cd won´t boot and I did not install windows or Linux .

Any help would be welcomed fellow mac users :)

Have the Snow Leopard + CS3 problems been resolved? (If not, I'm guessing they're not going to be.) I'm on 10.4 still, so to get to Snow Leopard I have to upgrade to 10.5 first ($?) and then I'm planning to buy the $129 (Amazon price) box set, and then I won't really have money left to throw at Adobe, even for the educational version.

The startup disk on my MBP filled up completely over the last day or so. It was getting up there, but on Wednesday *the last time I checked* there was 14 GB free. When I woke the old boy up this morning, I was greeted with the "Startup disk is almost full" message.

Poked around but I must confess I am not really sure what I should be looking for. Or how to, really.

But I looked around found a few redundant files, moved them to the trash, emptied it. The disk size briefly fluctuated and almost immediately went to zero KB available.

I haven't got a clue what is going on here.

What should I be looking at or for?


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I feel like this should be a really easy fix, alas, I cannot solve it and I'm not sure how to phrase it on Google to get the results I need. Somehow, now when I plug in my USB flash drive, iPhoto opens automatically and sees it as a device (camera).  This is annoying. Any advice on a simple fix? I'm on Leopard if it matters.

Thanks in advance!

Hola, folks -

My MacBook Pro had its logic board replaced last week due to the NVidia chipset failure rendering it without video, including external driving of monitors. Since that time, I've needed to reset a number of settings that must have been returned to a factory state by virtue of the logic board replacement (e.g. VPN).

Last night, I hooked up the machine to its Time Machine backup disk, which currently holds something like 400 GB of backup data. Yet, to my surprise, when I entered Time Machine, the app suggested that there had never been a backup done, despite the existence of the backup data on the drive.

I ran a restore, which did the whole machine, some ~250 GB. But how can I tell this machine to rebuild its backup directory so that it can see and pull from all the extant backups on that disk, if need be? There's gotta be a way to access those data.

Thanks!

Got home from work today to find this in my mailbox from Symantec...

Threats targeting the Macintosh platform are much less common than those targeting Windows. The same can be said about video games, where Windows is the dominate platform of the two. Combining games and malware has happened before, but a Mac game performing malicious activities? That’s something relatively new.

Takashi Katsuki, one of our Tokyo engineers, came across just that today. The game looks to be a throw-back to the classic Space Invaders/Galaga style of games from the early 1980s. However, what brings this game into the realm of malicious code is that for every alien ship you destroy, the game deletes a file from your home directory.

More info and a video available at http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/osxloosemaque-it-s-not-just-game-anymore

Another brief article http://www.macuser.co.uk/news/271711/beware-the-game-that-deletes-files.html

I'm in the middle of making up a wee movie of wedding photographs for a client using the iDVD program. I am basically putting all their wedding photographs of the day onto the dvd as a slideshow. However, I am experiencing a problem & don't know how to overcome it.

The 100 photographs run for approximately 11 minutes, which worked out that my client could chose 3/4 songs to play in the background of the slideshow. However, I can only seem to get the same song playing over & over again, which realistically isn't very professional! Not to mention how the music then just cuts off when the slideshow is over instead of gradually playing out.

Can anyone please help me out here? Maybe it's a different program I need to use? The dvd will only have 2 buttons on it: the slideshow of photographs & a link giving out my business information.

I would really appreciate if someone could help me out with how I put various songs in the background of the slideshow & how to make the music gradually fade out.

Thanks so much for your time.

(x-posted to macosx)