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Download Audacity for MacOS X. It is a free application that will load the .mp3 file and show you the waveform. You can then start at the beginning and visually pick out the first dead spot (little or no sound), scroll to it, verify this is the end of the song and then finally split the file...

It is recommended that you let the Lithium-Ion battery charge for 12 hrs straight when you first get the battery. Then, use the computer (on battery power) over time until the battery depletes, causing the laptop to go into sleep mode. Then you can plug it in and charge it until the LED turns...

As you are named Perseus, just click the button to lower the volume, then pull out Medusa's head and the volume will turn to stone at the level at which you set it.

Verizon's Wireless broadband is in 50 cities (or so they claim). Chances are, if you were in one of those locations you'd have access to either Cable or DSL. Go to their website and verify that it is even in your location. If it is, your best bet is to call them directly and ask if their card...

Your Mac requires an Apple Plaintalk microphone. Good luck finding one of those. Normal mic's that work on PC's will not work on this Mac. Years ago, Apple foolishly used a proprietary connector for it's audio-in called Plaintalk.

Tell us which ibook you have and verify that it has a DVD drive. You can find this out by going to ABOUT THIS MAC and choosing MORE INFO... Click the ATA choice in the list on the left under Hardware. You should see a bus for the optical drive (usually ATA-3) and one for the hard drive...

Verizon in Philadelphia has a plan with a special phone which works as follows: You get a special USB dongle and a phone that supports it. You connect the phone via the USB dongle to your computer and the computer uses the phone to dial a Verizon dialup internet service phone number. You are...

I don't know of any compression programs for backups, but I use Deja'Vu which comes with Toast 6. It allows you to do fancy or normal backups to CD/DVD's. You just choose the folders to back up (or the whole hard drive if you want). Another option is Retrospect backup software. If you...

I highly suspect your friend completely erased the hard drive and thought he put Tiger on. Instead, he just erased the drive. That is why you see the ? on the folder. A friend of mine did that to me just last week when I bought his iBook. I just put in the Tiger DVD and installed it and all...

Have you upgraded from 10.4.0 to 10.4.2 yet? If so, you should call apple. You get 1 month of tech support during the first year, so I think it's time you start that month now. They hopefully have a fix for this. You could also call a local Applestore and make an Genius bar appointment to...

I'd start out by removing the Airport card. Then, I would try a reset of the PRAM/PMU. When this finishes, run Disk Utility and repair all permissions. Then, I'd shutdown, let it cool a few minutes and install the Airport card. You can then startup the machine and hopefully everything you...

You probably just have a bad keyboard. You can verify this by connecting any USB keyboard to your Mac. If the shift keys work on any other keyboard, then you know it's your Mac keyboard. I'd take it back to the store where you bought it, tell them you tested it and specifically ask them...

I would try cleaning the lens and making sure your CD's are clean first, but if that doesn't help, the drive is as Satcomer says....dead or dying. Do the cleaning and attempt to startup off a bootable CD. If it fails, start looking for a replacement drive.

I had a similar problem with an old clamshell iBook. I put a CD in and the drive spins up, but after 4 or so tries, I get a message saying it cannot read the CD. If I put in an audio CD, the CD mounts and plays just fine. The profiler shows that I have a CDROM drive and gives all of it's...

If you are using a Sonnet ATA IDE card plugged into one of your PCI slots, then you don't have the problem I was describing. The problem I described involved the logic board's ATA IDE bus. Your use of a Sonnet ATA IDE card bypasses the logic board's IDE bus as long as your hard drive's are...