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I think part of the problem is the users perception of what makes a computer "slow" or "fast" coupled with the way the computer is used. For example PC's are "fast" at scrolling and app launches but slow at app switching and once you get more than 3-4 apps running at the same time performance...

If you boot off your install disk and is a option under one of the menus titled "reset password". You can use this to reset the password on one or all accounts.

Yes but it's not $.79 a song, it's $.79 a CD burn and once you stop paying the $10/month you can't listen to your music anymore. With Apple's AAC songs you can make unlimited burns and there's no monthly fee to continue to listen to it in the future. Also you can't transfer the songs to an iPod...

I use services all the time, especially the "open URL in OmniWeb" service, TextEdit's "open selection" service and to a lesser extent mail's "send to" and "send selection" services. But then I am an old NeXT guy so services aren't exactly a new thing to me :-). I encourage everyone who hasn't...

This mistake is right up there with the Mitsubishi ad from a few years ago that featured clips of Mitsubishis racing. Unfortunately their shot of a flying rally car was of a Lancia Delta, not a Mitsubishi. After about 2 months someone finally noticed and corrected the ad but I thought it was...

I just use Rbrowser which allows read and write access via a NeXT-like file browser. If you don't care about SSH you can get the free Rbrowser Lite version.

Meguire's makes a line of plastic polish for plastic car windows which should work fine at removing small scratches from the iPod's display. The most course is #17 (Meguire's numbers all their products but in no particular order), #10 is less course and #18 is pretty much just a cleaner. I've...

Meguire's makes a line of plastic polish for plastic car windows which should work fine at removing small scratches from the iPod's display. The most course is #17 (Meguire's numbers all their products but in no particular order), #10 is less course and #18 is pretty much just a cleaner. I've...

Some older CD and DVD players just won't play computer-burned CDs period. Others are picky as to the color of the media and if the blanks you're using aren't silver then that could be a problem. Lastly burn speed is also an issue, I've had better luck with discs burned at 2X than with max...

If you are looking for good headphones at a cheap price let me put in a plug for the Panasonic RP-HT57 folding headphones. They sound excellent, feature the same type of rare-earth magnets that the iPod earbuds use and cost only $15! Too big perhaps for everyone but I like them because they cut...

Try http://www.ioxperts.com/usbwebcam.html. It supports the iRez Kritter webcam but only v1.0, not v1.1 or 1.2, I am not sure why. The price is $14.95.

I used to have a similar mouse freezing problem on my iMac DV-SE 500. Usually unplugging and plugging in the mouse (or the keyboard if the mouse is attached to it) did the trick. I always suspected that the problem was related to moving the mouse when the machine was waking from sleep but I...

Try www.rebatestatus.com instead, my Amazon rebate shows up there (received and being processed it says).

Just wanted to note that in many areas, especially those served by AT&T Broadband, cable TV service is not required to subscribe to cable modem service. They don't go out of the way to tell you that you can get modem service only, but you can. This many not be true for other providers so it's...

I've seen the mouse problem while waking from sleep with 10.1 before. Usually all I needed to to was unplug the mouse and/or mouse-keyboard combination and plug it back in again to cure the problem. Usually I could just plug it back into the same port but every now and then I had to use a...

Do people smoke nearby? It looks like some of the computers I used to see at the job I had 15 years ago before smoking got banned in most offices. If so you should be able to clean the deposits off of the inside of the case once you take it apart.

I want to second the jumper suggestion. A co-worker of mine was complaining of the very same problem on a new HD he bought for his dual-ghz G4. I suggested checking the jumpers and low and behold they were set to limit the HD size to 32mb (required for compatibility with some very old PCs). He...

Question: How is performance if you boot in OS9? If you reboot OSX how long does it take for the "slowness" to return? I'd suggest trying two simple things before looking at more exotic causes. Firstly I'd run Apple's hardware check utility and see if it reports any problems. Secondly I'd...

RBrowser is a good graphical SFTP program but it isn't free, but at $29.95 it's not that expensive either. Of course you could always just sftp using the UNIX command line.

Both my G4 iMac and my mother's G3 iMac have a tendency to get into this weird half-dead mode when waking from sleep. The GUI reponds normally as so some simple apps but you can't launch new apps (they bounce and bounce before ending up in this "not responding" state) and if you try to use any...