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  1. Randy Singer

    Document Recovery

    I used to recommend DriveSavers, but I can't anymore. The last time that I sent a client there, they had raised their prices to ridiculous levels (they quoted something like $4,000 dollars.) Not only that, but they refused to do a mirror-image recovery of the drive, and even worse, they would...
  2. Randy Singer

    Document Recovery

    Well, first, DO NOT continue to use your old computer (the one with the erased files on it)! If you save anything new to your hard drive it is quite possible that doing so will overwrite the trashed files you want to recover, causing them to become unrecoverable. Any one of these programs...
  3. Randy Singer

    New Mac Book with no firewire port???

    Many recent Macs, even MacBooks, support gigabit (1000Base-T) Ethernet. http://support.apple.com/kb/SP504 It depends on which model Macintosh you are upgrading from whether or not it also supports gigabit Ethernet. But some G4 PowerBooks supported gigabit ethernet...
  4. Randy Singer

    New Mac Book with no firewire port???

    Migration Assistant works great over Ethernet if you have a MacBook Air. Or in any case it works great over a wireless network. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2288 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3322
  5. Randy Singer

    New Mac Book with no firewire port???

    For those lamenting the loss of FireWire Target Disk mode (due to a lack of FireWire in the new MacBooks and MacBook Air), this USB product provides a similar means for transferring files at high speed from one computer to another without having to do any configuration or install additional...
  6. Randy Singer

    Kernel Panic

    This excellent article might help: Tutorial: Avoiding and eliminating Kernel panics http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060911080447777 The first steps that I always take when confronting a Mac that is experiencing kernel panics is to: 1. Disconnect all peripherals other than...
  7. Randy Singer

    iBook G4 showing no signs of life, any suggestions?

    If it's available, you might as well try it. Have you tried booting into Safe Boot as I suggested?
  8. Randy Singer

    iBook G4 showing no signs of life, any suggestions?

    These laptops have no PRAM battery, so they can't boot if the battery is 100% dead. Have you given the new battery time to charge? Did you try booting into Safe Mode to see if the problem is a software one?
  9. Randy Singer

    RETRIEVING LOST FILES - SONY Camera disconnection

    All right!!! I know how frustrating it is to lose your data. I'm glad that you got it back.
  10. Randy Singer

    Emailing "pages" file in suitable size

    If you mail out a newsletter in Pages format, there are two potential problems. The first is that all of your recipients may not have a copy of the Pages application. Since Pages uses a proprietary file format (unless you Save As into another format when saving), it is unlikely that anyone...
  11. Randy Singer

    iBook G4 showing no signs of life, any suggestions?

    Try booting into Safe Boot mode by starting up while holding down the Shift key until you see the rotating cursor. If the machine starts up normally, you most likely have a software problem, and we can troubleshoot from there. (In fact, just booting up into Safe Boot mode once, and then...
  12. Randy Singer

    RETRIEVING LOST FILES - SONY Camera disconnection

    Whether your photos are on your digital camera (or on a removable digital memory card in your camera), or they are on your Mac's hard drive, but were trashed or otherwise deleted, you can recover them with any of these: Data Rescue II (I recommend this one) http://prosofteng.com/ Stellar...
  13. Randy Singer

    log files piling up!

    Have a look at this mini-tutorial and see if it offers a solution: http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20070327092656342
  14. Randy Singer

    log files piling up!

    Download: YASU (free, donation requested) http://jimmitchelldesign.com/projects/yasu/ and use it to clear all of your logs and caches. This will fix the problem temporarily, but probably not permanently. More than likely you have an application that is continuously writing error...
  15. Randy Singer

    Project Management System

    Are you asking for a Web-based application? Something like this?: AceProject http://www.aceproject.com/ Intuit Project Management http://quickbase.intuit.com/solutions/project-management-software/ Softalot Team Manager...
  16. Randy Singer

    Compatible Printer for PowerBook G4

    As long as there is a Hewlett-Packard driver available for your printer that is compatible with the version of OS X you are running, you should be able to print from your PowerBook exactly the same as you would from any other Macintosh. You don't give the model of printer that you have, or I...
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