Recent content by Pat the Rat

I bought a parts G4 from our university salvage dept for $20 that had a working power supply and transferred the memory, video card, and hard drive to it. It's working just fine. Thanks for all the suggestions folks.

Unfortunately the battery tests OK, so it is more than likely a dead power supply. So much for the easy fix.

Yeah, that may be my problem with the ebay unit I have as well. You are very generous to offer parts. Let me see if I can get one running and I may take you up on it should I find out I need something. Thanks!

Thanks ElDiabloConCaca, I'll give that a try.

I bought a PMG4 from ebay for $22 + shipping, but unfortunately it won't turn on either. I"m assuming its power supply may be dead too. Took a chance. It did come with 3 256MB ram chips, though. Is there anything else that would prevent a G4 from powering up? How bout that little battery? I'm...

I was given a PowerMac BW G4 400 Mhz computer. I was told it had a bad power supply, but before I buy one (seem to be going for around $60 on ebay) I wondered if there was something else I should try? What is kind of odd is that when I plug it in, the power light stays on without me even...

I am having the same problem. I ran the OS update, but it failed to run every time I tried it. Now Safari will not work at all. I tried repairing permissions, but that didn't help either.

I was wondering whether the port forwarding helped you, AJAY2? I have some shareware that uses PWS to do webcasts (see http://www.slidesnow.com if you are interested) and many people can't seem to use it because they are behind routers or firewalls and PWS doesn't work for them. I'm looking for...

That's awesome, a color display! BTW, which color did they choose? :D

I got InDesign and it was able to open my PageMaker 6.5 file fairly well, save for a few minor things. Now I won't have printing issues to worry about any more. Used to have to run PageMaker in classic mode which affected my ability to print to network printers set up on OSX. Now I just gotta...

This can easily be done the same way you digitize video from a VCR. It requires, however, a media converter box (like a Sony DVMC-DA2 or a Dazzle Hollywood Bridge). Just hook it up to the computer's firewire and the RCA output of the DVD player and you can digitize the whole DVD into iMovie if...

I still use GifBuilder, a little freeware program available since the mid 90's I think. It gives you lots of control over the animated gif.

You might do well to follow the simple tutorial under the Help section. It will walk you through basic iMovie skills.

Just export from QT Pro as DV stream. That way iMovie will be able to import it. I think iMovie might do that automatically now as well when you import it. Give it a whirl.

You can use iMovie. Import all your video and jpegs into iMovie and adjust their duration to suit the music (which you can also import). Then you can even save it to DVD for full-screen use. A Mac Titanium laptop would be a good choice to play it back. You can connect it directly to a projector.