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I second the recommendation for Crucial and OWC. I also use OWC for most of my HD purchases (internal and external). Word to the wise though - both offer lifetime warranties on RAM. OWC is usually cheaper, but I've also sent back several OWC chips. It has never been a problem and they've always...

Here was the plan: 1 NAS (WD My Book World Ed) to hold all of my shared media, music, photos, movies, etc. Today I moved all of my iTunes music via Consolidate Library to the WD, which, btw, is seen as an SMB share point. I have set up a share called "media" with only guest access on. I...

Yesterday the 4GB was on sale at the Apple Store for the clearance price of $299. I imagine refurbished models will trickle in and will probably go for $249.

The latest update to iTunes has broken my ability to burn to my Pioneer-DVR 107 DVD burner. It says "No burner software found" - I'm not sure if it is entirely an iTunes issue as I hadn't attempted to burn from a previous version of iTunes after my install of Tiger. So I'm thinking either Tiger...

Butler to the rescue - yeah, you could use the old Control-Eject method - or you could use Butler and have a whole slew of key-commands at your disposal. For example I use Control-Keypad 0 to activate my screen saver and Control-Keypad Enter to put my machine to sleep. You could easily set up...

My LaCie pocket drive (60GB) seems to have died on me. When plugged in via FireWire or USB (with the power adapter) I only get an amber light. When I put my ear to the drive I can hear it spin up and stop, spin up and stop. Not a good sign, eh? I'm pretty sure the drive is toast, but it isn't...

I'll give it a shot this evening - I checked the permissions of my user folder (my home folder - the one with my username) and they appear correct - the permissions that appear to be screwed up are the ones for the "Users" directory itself - the individual user folders contained within seem fine.

So if you had to purchase one, DiskWarrior or TechTools, which would it be?

My home folder disappeared last night. I managed to recover it, but the solution was not by any means permanent and this morning has started to show exactly why it was a bad idea. An installer called for a restart so the restart commences and the trouble begins after I log-in (note that...

All I can say is I love my new 20" Cinema Display - I really wish I could've landed the 23" but I really love this monitor. I'm using the AlchemyTV card as well, but no for fullscreen viewing, mostly some DVR and watching some late night tv in a little window while I work. I have to say I'm...

I think I remember that from the old AI 5-5.5 days too.

Butler has really been an indespensible tool. I was bummed there was no FinderPop replacement in OS X - and was determined to find a CMM that would suffice. I reluctantly tried Butler three times. Third time was a charm. Once you really get into the meat of the options it really is awesome...

I'm running 10.2.3 at home, unfortunately, the new company I've just started working for isn't quite ready for the move to X. I need to get my Address Book info over to OS 9, specifically Entourage 2001. Any clues? I've found a piece of freeware that will export my address book at tabbed...

I actually had to hit the reset button a second time. I wasn't even sure if I had pushed it the first time. But now things seem to be running fine. I wouldn't think your battery would be going dead quite yet. Did the AppleCare person have you wait for at least ten seconds before you plugged your...

Thanks guys. It was the PMU, it just needed a little coaxing. The button is in a slightly different spot on the Quicksilvers, but it is next to the battery, making it easy to find. In all my years of messing inside of macs I've never had to do that. I'll file that one away for future use...

Help! After a series of funky power outages last night (ice on the power lines) my Quicksilver appears to be dead :( This morning pushing the power button on the tower only makes the light on the button pulse once. Similar to the throbbing light you get when it's asleep. I reset my surge...

Okay, this is way weird. I've not made any serious modifications or updates to my OS and all of the sudden the Dock has quit responding to my cursor. I have to envoke the keyboard command to get the dock to unhide itself! If that isn't weird enough, my screen savers have stopped working. I can...

I did an "Archive and Install" so there's a clean system folder. I guess if the problem persists I can wipe it and start over. But I soooo don't want to have to do that. thanks.

Man, after weeks of uptime in OS X 10.1.2, I install 10.2 and BOOM! Approximately every other day 10.2 just loses it. I'll have seveal apps open, PS, Mail, a browser or two, iTunes, and at some point, one will give me the spinning wheel. After I force quit the offending app, all the others...