Recent content by Hughvane

I see it's been ten days since you posted, I've been out of action for a while, and I'm surprised someone else hasn't answered your queries before now. I'm in NZ and use Skype regularly. Q1. Skype is a great way of keeping in touch with other willing parties in all sorts of places. Q2. Costs are...

With the price of hard drives these days, I'd install a second one inside your G4, it's a simple enough task. OS 9 prefers smaller drives, so an 80 or 120 Gb one would be better than a large capacity unit. Put all your OS 9 stuff on a dedicated hard drive, and boot from that as required. All you...

A couple of seconds, and wiggle/twirl it inside the audio port, but seriously, I'd recommend a dummy jack rather than a toothpick because you risk leaving wood fragments in there. Dummy jacks can come from almost any source, like one cut off the end of a discarded audio cable. They're used for...

Have you recently done an Archive & Install? Doing so creates a Previous System folder, in other words a duplicate System. That can occupy a large chunk, but nothing like the 120 figure you've calculated. If you find a Previous System folder, you can safely delete it if you're satisfied the...

Two months on, which card did you buy eventually? I'm in the market now for a Sonnet Allegro, which is US$30 in the US direct from Sonnet, slightly cheaper from OWC. The price is three times that here in NZ!

1. Is the external USB drive bus-powered, or mains-powered? 2. What Mac are you using? 3. In System Profiler > USB, is anything showing there?

Please don't point your moots at me! In serious vein, this question is being debated in other forums (fora?). It's been suggested there's a bug in Leopard. See: http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=97173 http://theappleblog.com/2008/07/10/words-that-leopards-spellchecker-chokes-on/...

Are you using mail filters to block junk/spam? If so, there may be something in the label you've given yourself that is triggering a filter. Secondly, have you checked any Junk/Spam folder you may have in place to see if your emails to yourself are ending up there?

How yer doin' up there Nb? Your post reads like like it could be a monitor problem rather than a Mac one. Can you try the LG with a different (eg. Win) computer? Have you checked SysPrefs > Displays to try Detect Displays and to see what resolution, geometry etc is in place?

Adding to my own post, whatever possessed Apple to do away with the Outbox in Mail? Goodness me, that has saved many an awkward and potentially embarrassing (or worse) situation from developing. To Audioi I would suggest that a change of email application might just be a sensible solution...

Are you sending the mail manually or have you got Mail set to Send Immediately, or Send on Startup - something like that? [does a quick check of Mail Prefs]. No, can't be that, there's nothing in Prefs to enable/disable that function (there is in Eudora, which I use). The only thing I can...

[/size] But have the volume on your powered speakers turned well down!! Especially when plugging the jack back in.

Do you have macam http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/ installed? Drivers are continually being updated, so make sure you have the one that is appropriate for both your version of Leopard and your model of webcam. Note too the warning about trying to use the camera in more than one application at...

There are a lot of posts from concerned users about the USB Removal warning and the results thereof. Personally, I just ignore it and problems haven't occurred subsequently (Freudian perhaps??). Anyway, is resetting the PRAM a 'proper' or 'official', or 'recognised' fix for the USB issue, or...

Try taking it to a Win machine to see if it's recognised by XP (or similar). You may be able to reformat the flash drive via that avenue as well. As midijeep recommends, FAT32 is a cross-platform format. You won't be able to format HFS with a Win machine, but if you can get the drive restored...