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    airport and usb hub

    so long story short, my power book needs to be upgraded to leopard (10.5 OS) and it can't go up to more common snow leopard (10.6). So there is $129.00 then I can buy a 802.11n airport extreme base (refurbished also $129.00) - before I'm able to connect an existing external hard drive to...
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    iPad and Leopard 10.5

    I am trying to upgrade to leopard as well - I called the 800# on the apple website and talked to an apple care specialist - they can get you leopard for 129.00 be sure to talk to apple care - the sales assoc. that answers the phone probably won't be able to find the 10.5 OS (I think they just...
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    airport and usb hub

    I have an Airport Extreme Base 802.11g (could be "b") and I'm trying to hook up a external hard drive through a powered hub. From what I gathered in the various FAQs, I hooked up the hub and hard drive and went to Airport Utility > manual set-up and was to click on "disks" - only disks is...
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    make a movie - please?!?!

    I have a 15" powerbook and I need to make a DVD of a presentation - is there a way to hook a camera (digital camcorder) to the laptop and then record the presentation to the desktop and then turn it into a dvd? thanks
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    apple express + extreme

    I have an apple extreme base in my basement (and it needs to stay there) but the signal doesn't always stretch all through out the house - If I take an express and plug it into the wall outlet will it boost the signal of the extreme further into the house? thanks - jim
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    close my folder please

    here is a screen shot of what comes up when I start up my computer - it doesn't seem to be a true folder because when I go to recent folders this doesn't show up - what is it and why does it keep showing up?!??!?!?!?!?!?
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    close my folder please

    ok tried that - do that - worked once but it came back today ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?? -jim
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    close my folder please

    I went there tried that and there was no change - there were some odd things there like itunes helper and stuff but it did not stop the folder from coimng up thoughts ??????? -jim
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    close my folder please

    every time I start up my computor my account folder opens up, showing the network icon and the hard drive icon - for awhile I thought it was asking for a start-up disk so I went to pref/startup and selected hard drive then locked it and restarted the computor each time the foldfer still shows...
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    airport extreme base + usb hub

    thanks for your help - do you know if there is any limitations to the hub I can use currently I have a "mega" hub that is a powered usb hub + card reader -thanks -jim
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    airport extreme base + usb hub

    basicly what i need to do is access the two printers I have in the basement with my laptop - while I work upstairs, so I have the two printers plugged into a usb hub and the hub into the extreme base station. through bonjour the laptop knows about the two printers - but when I try to print -...
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    airport extreme base + usb hub

    I got a base station on ebay (I'm assuming that even though the item description said it had a modem it doesn't because it only has places for WAN and LAN connectors and no phone line) I have set up a network and I can access any one of my printers as long as it is plug into the airport...
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    bluetooth cell phone

    i'm looking for the option to use the mobile phone as a modem for my power book - is that something thecell phones can do - does it hbave to be a "smart phone"
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    bluetooth cell phone

    I'm kinda new to the macosx - I have a 15" powerbook g4 - I'm looking for cell phones that the laptop can link thru bluetooth - any recommendations on the best one out there? is it really worth the trouble? thanks -j
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    don't like ipod - so?

    I am n ot fond of the ipod, but I do have an mp3 player that I do like - the problem is that I can fit more wma files on the 1 gig player than mp3s. So is there a import program that will take cds into wma or convert mp3 into wma - I noticed that windows had media player for apple now -...
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    epson cx4800

    I have an epson cx4800 printer that works great with my osx 10.3.3 - but my applications running under classic can't access it - epson says they don't have a driver for os9. is there a way around it so that i can print my classic documents? thanks
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    iwork vs. appleworks

    I'm familiar with appleworks - but I just notice iwork - I only have OS 10.3.3 but can upgrade to 10.4 for iwork if it is the best to work with - if not I'll get appleworks 6 - thoughts or preferences? thanks
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