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Hello, For some strange reason, iTunes (7.5) keeps launching itself regardless of how many times I quit/force quit. I haven't changed any preferences anywhere within iTunes, or the system software. Seems like a simple solution that's cleverly evading me. Any thoughts are greatly...

Greetings. I am looking for a scanner to do quick scans of receipts. Anyone have any experience using any type of receipt scanner/software? And if so, any recommendations? Thanks in advance. J

Hello, I have a G4 PB set up to admin my G5 with ARD 3.1. For some reason ARD will not allow me to connect to the G5 to observe and/or control it. Gives me a connection failure message. It seems to allow most other admin functions I need. In the past, before a major computer...

Greetings, Keychain on my G4 PB is not remembering any of my passwords for mail, entourage, iChat, Safari, and some other stuff that's slipping my mind at the moment. Anyone know what may be causing it to "not remember" passwords and user names, even when I'm promted to have it saved to...

Strange Issue- trying to use an Apple Wireless keyboard with my Powerbook G4. When I use the bluetooth set up assistant, it sees the keyboard and asks me to type in the passcode. However it does not offer me a field to enter the code into, and I cannot pair the keyboard to the computer. Any...

I'm trying to create a disk image of my internal hard drive. I keep getting a message telling me that the resource is busy. Then tried creating the image starting up from the Apple DVD. Still no luck. Any thoughts? Was able to do it successfully from my Powerbook a few weeks ago. Thanks, J

Hello, For some reason, I can no longer receive faxes on the internal modem that came installed on my G5. Not sure when it stopped working. I have been advised that the apple USB modem does not work with a fax on a VOIP, and I am using Vonage for phone and fax. Anyone have a...

Trying to do a clean install and transfer data from one internal drive to the target. Seems that when it's transferring data, everything seems to freeze up and all i get is a spinning beach ball. Waited over an hour and a half for 9gbs of my applications folder...nothing. Anythoughts on what...

Hello, I am having MAJOR ISSUES since installing Suitcase Fusion onto my Dual 2ghz G5 (OSX.4.8). Unexpected finder freezes and erradic behavior, i think it may be causing the finder to relaunch itself. After running the standard course of utilities and damage control, I resorted to...

Hello. Anyone recently purchase a Verizon phone that works with iSync? It seems that Apple has no support for any phone Verizon Wireless has out there. Wondering if Apple hasn't updated their list, or I'm possibly in phone denial. Thanks, J

does the system store a users iCal and Address book info? I'd like to abel to copy that from my desktop to my laptop machine. Thanks, J

Is it possible to use an Airport Express to extend a wireless network, I guess it's called a network node). I currently have a Lynksys wireless VOIP router and would like to extend that wireless network another flight up. Airport admin utility couldn't see the airport when plugged in. Any...

Hello, My 3G iPod died in a fall. After disecting it, I was wondering if there was a way to get the drive to hook up to my G5 to test it out. It didn't work when I tried through the iPod cable. Any thoughts? Thanks, J

Hello, this may sound like a really stupid question, but does it make a difference in system performance if the start-up drive is in the upper or lower bay? Recently added a Seagate Baracuda 7200rpm, 16MB cache 400gb drive to my G5 (dual 2ghz), and it seems like it's running a little slower...

This is somewhat of a perplexing issue. I try to mount a DVD burned from another G5, and my machine spits it out. The stranger thing is that the disc mount just fine on my G4 Powerbook. Both machines are running OS.X.4.6, both have more than enough ram and drive space available. As far as I...

Hello, Just purchased a Western Digital Caviar SE 16 400GB drive as an archive/backup drive for my G5. Installed it without incident. Ran all the usual utilities (Diskwarrior, Apple Disk Util., ect.). Drive mounts fine, and I'm able to copy to and from. Ran Carbon Copy Cloner from the OEM...

Does anyone here use it? Thinking about getting it. Can you be an administrator over the web, or does it require a network? Thanks, J

Ok...this is hard for me to articulate but here it goes- I use a PB 17 running OSX.4.3. I just started freelancing with an ad agency that all mac based. When connecting to their servers to download documents, fonts, etc. they all show up on my PB as unknown files. Either I'll get a blank...

Hello and Happy New Year, Would anyone happen to know the best and most simple way to keep a G5 mirrored to a PB and vise versa? Right now I'm doing a drag and drop either through the airport network or target disk mode. Is there a simple software solution for this? Thanks, J

Hello All, I recently signed up for a Vonage VOIP account. They sent me a Lynksis Router. Prior to that, I've was using an Airport Express. So after some tweaking, I hooked the cable modem up to the Lynksis Router, and the Airport to that. Seemed to work well for a while. As of yesterday...