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My Christmas gift apparently arrived a few days late this year, because after endless searching on the web, reading that my particular DVD-RW drive can't be made region free I finally stumbled across a firmware download today which proved the opposite! I'm on a 15" PowerBook G4 with a 1.67GHz...

Thanks for your suggestions and advice. Yes, I agree with your method of completely wiping the drive and reinstalling everything from scratch; I've done this on various computers in the past when things have gone really wrong. I've followed the advice of using Carbon Copy Cloner and now have a...

Why do I need special software to do this? Isn't it enough to simply drag all the folders from my internal drive (or maybe even the whole "Mac HDD" icon) over to the external drive? Or will this cause problems with permissions when transferring them back to the (newly formatted with a new copy...

... I guess what I'm really asking is: How can I safely copy the entire contents of my internal Powerbook harddrive over to my external 400GB Firewire drive without erasing what's already on it (the external drive)? Then, how do I access all of my user-accounts' files in order to copy whatever...

Unfortunately I'm one of those people who can't help but peek and poke into the insides of things, which in this case means that I've been hacking and messing around with stuff I shouldn't in MacOS as well as software. The computer is a Powerbook G4 with an 80GB internal drive (around 50GB...

How do I change the baudrate of the built-in modem inside my Powerbook G4 (1.67GHz)? I can't find any such settings. The "Network" preferences defaulted to "Apple Internal 56K modem (v.92)" and I see that there are other "Apple internal 56K modem" types to choose from as well, each with a...

I registered my copy of Little snitch earlier today, before reading these last postings (I'm still waiting for the key code though), but reading about Netbarrier I started wondering if I should have gotten that instead, even if it's more expensive. Netbarrier seems to have a lot more advanced...

I'd like to change the speaker audio-level icon (the one in the menu-bar which looks like a speaker) so that when it's turned off I have a red "prohibited" sort of sign over it. I assume that since there a 4 different levels displayed there are also 4 different image files, so I could simply...

I replied a few days ago, but for some reason my message never made it to here. You need to use a Firewire cable as USB won't do. I don't know about your computer, but my Powerbook G4 has both Firewire 400 and 800 connectors. You should use the Firewire 400 one. The cable should have a 6 pins...

Seems like you're wholeheartedly recommending me to buy it! ;) I've found the firewall to be quite complicated, but also pretty limited in its options. I wouldn't know where to start, so I've closed everything apart from the "Windows sharing" option (so I can transfer files to/from a PC...

I'm still running 10.4.11 here (frankly I don't see join the upgrade craze when it works fine as it is and I haven't taken full advantage of it yet), and as far as I know there isn't any way to prevent applications from "phoning home" in the MacOS firewall. I honestly don't know much about the...

I've been using Little snitch (in demo mode) for a while now (it has a very generous 3 hour session limit. After that you just have to enter its configuration and tell it to go into demo mode again, for another 3 hours!). It seems like a very useful tool (I've even caught some spyware this...

You're on to something there! I tried logging into another account on the same machine, and was able to create a new network location. I didn't try editing the existing ones. I know I've messed around too much on my machine -installing/removing all sorts of stuff, messing around with system...

You're right about not using USB for video editing (I assume that's what you're looking into -editing a video in iMovie or some other editing software, then saving it in a common format which you can email your friends, burn to a DVD and so on). There are several iLink (Firewire) connectors...

Here's the thing: I wanted to change some of my network settings, so I click on the Network control panel (found withing System preferences), make my changes and press the Apply now button. What happens is that the beach ball starts spinning indefinitely and after a while I have to force quit...

Yeah, I've been thinking about iWork actually, and I see that 2005 and 2006 versions are for sale really cheap at eBay. Are they still usable, or does the iWork '08 have features you can't live without? I've also heard that Mellel and Mariner write should be good, but I really have no idea what...

I need to use a word-processor now and then (term papers etc.) and I chose NeoOffice because it's (more or less) micro$oft Word compatible and of course because it's free. But I'm sick of it for a variety of reasons: 1) it's slow and sluggish, feels like a very "heavy" and "bloated" application...

I'm trying to figure out the specifics of an application's text-file taken from a PC which seems a bit more complex than the standard CR/LF line ending and WindowsLatin1 character encoding. Is there a MacOSX tool which allows me to analyze text files? That is, a tool which I use to open a text...

I'm planning on placing two hard drives in a self-made external enclosure which will connect to my Powerbook G4 via Firewire 800. For this I need a dual Firewire "bridge board", and I've been looking into the Span IB-BF8US which has Firewire 800 and USB connectors at one end, and two SATA...

Wow! I'm utterly confused by all of this networking stuff, but a step-by-step guide like that sure could help. I only wish something similar was available which explains how to connect two Macs together (I want to show my mom who just got an iMac how to use it, by setting up a remote desktop). I...