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Do you have an all-white iBook? If so your (broken) screen resolution is 1024x768 and that resolution should be "mirrored" onto your external monitor. But you say it's at 800x600. Hmm. . . You can get a free utility program that will let you use your external display at full resolution. I...

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Rangerfreak, If you want to learn about the Unix underside of your Mac, you can run Terminal. It's an application in /Applications/Utilities/. The Unix shell is very powerful but also complex. You'll want to read a guide to Unix. There are free guides online as well as books you can buy. Be...

Do you have an external monitor hooked up to your iBook? Have you tried clicking the "Detect Displays" button in the Displays pane in the System Preferences? (Go to Apple menu, System Preferences, then click Displays) Bot

Audrey, If all else fails, you can reinstall OS X. Put your system disc in the drive, restart the computer while holding down C. Look for the Options button. Click it. Select "Archive and Install". Use this as a last resort because any time you reinstall there is a small chance of data loss. Bot

Fabtro, I've never heard of DVD Player being unable to read a standard DVD. It's likely that the DVD is giving your DVD drive trouble. The DVD drive in your Mac is not made by Apple. It's a standard DVD drive like the drives in other PCs. Goofy media incompatibilities do happen sometimes. If...

Zilliz, Does the camera come with Mac software? Also look on Sony's website for drivers and downloads for your camera. You may be able to use Sony's software to access the videos. Bot

Jayded, You may be able to use Pacifist (a free program - www.versiontracker.com or wherever) to get the file off of your install disc--if you have the install disc. Bot

Please describe your setup. What do you have attached and installed? Is it under warranty? If so, be sure to contact Apple. Make them work. But of course we'll help if we can. Good luck! Bot

I don't do pr0n, and I don't download "codecs", so that's not it. I've puzzled over the logs. I've done about every troubleshooting technique I can think of. I didn't really think of old codecs. Could be, but I'm good at keeping them up-to-date. I can't check now because I wiped everything on...

I'm trying out a free Windows cloner called DriveImage XML. Seems to work fine with BootCamp. I needed something to back up Boot Camp in case malware damages my Windows game machine install. I read somewhere that the major commercial cloner, Norton Ghost, would not work with Boot Camp. A...

I've had terrible problems with Safari crashing. I like having lots of tabs open 10-15, and I watch(ed) Safari slow to a crawl with spinning beachballs. After erasing and reinstalling on both my laptops, I haven't had those problems. I had reset Safari numerous times and done some Google...

Whoa! Wait a sec. There are NO viruses out there that affect OS X. None. There are a handful of worms, most or all of which were not actually out "in the wild". The infection rate was extremely limited for the worms. There are a few trojan horses (is it four, five now?). Again, very limited...

10.5 has several advantages, including improved Spotlight file search, Time Machine - super easy backup to external hard drive, improved Network preferences layout, vastly improved speech, QuickLook, etc. It does require more memory than 10.4, though. I think both are excellent operating...

I used my G4 iMac 800 (before that briefly using my iBook 500) with iMovie 3 or 4, and a MiniDV camcorder. I made several home video DVDs. Nothing incredibly fancy. It worked pretty well. Of course, the iMac would have been somewhat more powerful than a 700 G3 iBook. Bot

Do you have to set a proxy server for your work? Bot

Avrami, Welcome to MacOSX.com! What virus? There are no viruses for OS X that I've seen announced. There are a couple handfuls of worms and trojans, but I don't remember them causing flickering windows. Sounds like a faulty mouse or trackpad button to me. Just a thought. Please tell us what...

MacAdvocate, I Googled, finding some other people having issues with 9.1.2. But I couldn't find a solution specifically for 10.3.9. Someone with 10.4 got some advice from HP. If you haven't already, you may want to google "HP Image Zone Ver 9.1.2 os x". Good luck! Doug

Galen, Are you installing CUPS because you need a particular version? Apple has been using CUPS for printing since 10.2. If you have a glitchy mess on your hands, you could use the "Archive and Install" option of the system disc. Put your 10.4 system disc in, double click the Install OS X icon...

snuffybutton, Welcome to MacOSX.com! You're going to have to get that disc out. Try turning your machine on with the mouse or trackpad button held down. If that doesn't work, there is a somewhat technical way to try to force eject it through Open Firmware (if I remember correctly). You should...