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I have a Motorola E815 (Verizon) phone and SKN6311B USB cable. I want to transer photo files from my phone to my PowerBook. Can I get the PowerBook to mount the E815 file system over USB? How? Background: I can use Bluetooth to sync my addressbook and calendar with the E815 in iSync...

I'm getting an error when I try to make an FTP connection to my hosting account at hostingmatters.com using the Mac Finder. I can make an FTP connection to HostingMatters in the command-line FTP client with no problem. Details: In Mac OS X 10.4.5 I should be able to open a remote FTP site...

There's an updated rundown on using the D-Link DWL-G122 with Mac at: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200602140626039

When I try to use less(1) or more(1) to display a UTF-16 Unicode text file, it breaks the 16-bit characters into two 8-bit bytes and the result is unreadable. The file came from a Windows machine and may not be in Mac OS's preferred format for Unicode, but the file(1) command recognizes the...

Here's Apple's recommendation on the subject: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93195 I tried it and it does let multiple users see a shared collection of songs but it does have two shortcomings: 1. There are no shared playlists. 2. If one of us loads more music, the...

Is there a hack that will let two or more users share a joint iTunes library on a single Mac? I've tried chmod'ing everything in one user's library 666 (777 for directories) and replacing another user's library with a symlink to the first but that doesn't consistently prevent permissions...

I still don't know why this happened, but restoring the Linksys to its factory settings and reconfiguring it from scratch got me back on the air.

Someone asked for more detail, so here goes. The failure is immediate and consists of "www.foo.com could not be found" messages in the browser or "cannot resolve www.foo.com: Unknown host" messages in command-line apps like ping(1). Here's the output from lookupd -configuration...

For a couple of days now DNS has been failing on my home network and I'm at wit's end. The setup: 12" PowerBook G4 running 10.4.3. My home connection is RoadRunner cable with a Linksys WRT54G wireless router. If I take my computer to work or connect to a neighbor's wireless, the problem...

I found a Kodak CD33 on sale (for $89 at Fry's) and it worked great with iPhoto right out of the chute. I guess the Mac compatibility issues are for very low-end no-name cameras.

I'm starting to research low-end digital cameras (about $100 or so) for my ten-year-old. I understand that OSX compatibility can be an issue for some models in that price range. Any success stories to share or models to recommend? Thanks.

I just spent five minutes looking for it, inspired by the sticky post that we should always search before starting a new thread. Which reminds me of the joke from elementary school: Q. How do you drive an Aggie crazy? A. Lock him in a round room and tell him to pee in the corner...

Problem solved: someone on another forum suggested deleting /Library/Printers/Canon and starting over. That did the trick.

I'm trying to install the drivers for a Canon MP760 printer but the installation process hangs during the "Installing BJ printer driver" step. This is on a 12" PowerBook running Tiger. I downloaded the MP760PD302MX_ML.dmg image from the Canon site, unpacked it and ran it normally. Halfway...

I'm on a cable modem (Time-Warner Roadrunner) with my own router doing a bit of firewalling. Nothing that should stop standard HTTP or HTTPS connections. Surely they're not trying to connect back to my desktop via some other port?! I can test it from a wireless connection elsewhere in town...

Thanks for the quick reply. That test indicates that I'm running JDK 1.4.2. Similarly, I'm not sure how to check whether that's the version I should be running. I do regularly run Software Update -- if the JDK is covered then that's presumably not my problem. I should have been clearer...

I consistently find that certain websites time out or return error messages from my Mac in a way that makes me wonder whether I have browser issues. However, I've been unable to find a browser that resolves the problem (and I've tried Firefox 1.0, Safari 1.2.4, and IE 5.2). That makes me...

When I first switched to Mac OS X from Unix a year or two back, the thing I most missed from X11 was one-click copy and paste, so I ran out and bought a Macally three-button mouse and configured it to come as close to Unix-style copy and paste as I could. What I came up with was two clicks...

I had the same problem. In my case it was an iTunesHelper process running in the background I even rebooted before running the iLife 4.0 installer and iTunesHelper was running anyway. Odd that it would be running without my having launched iTunes, and odd that iLife would be confused by...

Problem: About 50% of the audio CDs I burn are corrupted. Specifically, somewhere around the middle of the playlist the audio quality degrades and tracks play with pauses in a way that suggests problems reading the disc. The same symptom occurs in my Mac's own drive and in a regular CD player...