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I'm trying to install some drivers that I need for some hardware and I need to install Stuffit so I can decompress the driver files. However, diskcopy 6.3 that I downloaded doesn't seem to be able to mount the image. It says failed to mount. :(

I just inherited a PowerMac 6500. Issue 1: When I initially booted the system, I'm pretty sure it said it was a 400mhz w/128mb RAM. Now, I've whiped the drive and reinstalled OS 8.5 and updated to OS 8.6. (I don't have OS 9.x yet), and it only says its 225mhz. I think this Mac has one of...

I wonder if anyone has used Virtual PC in combination with 98Lite or XPLite?

I'm interested in running Open Office on my iBook. I'm a "native" windows user, and I'm rather frustrated with MS Word 2004 so unbelievably slow, and after trying various other word processors for the Mac, I'm thoroughly unimpressed. I've also tried installing X11 and that crashed on me shortly...

I'm about 2 months into owning my first iBook (my first Mac, too) and I'm finding Office Mac 2004 and Firefox are both comparitively much slower than on a PC. The slowness is particularly noticable when scrolling through a document with the scroll bar. If I'm scrolling thru a document in Word...

I've been using the standard Logitech Optical Wheel mouse on my PC for a while now and just tried it on my Mac with the logitech software. The Logitech Control Center software allows you to configure your mouse such that it feels like Windows acceleration. I've been aiming to get a USB...

I bought an iBook G4 1ghz/256/Radeon9200 less than two months ago and I've just now decided to try out some games. I installed RealMyst and after about 5 minutes of playing, the graphics begin to get glitchy and progressively get worse. I tried the demo and the same thing happens. I tried...

I'm assuming the aircard extreme (for my iBook) will work with almost any router, but I wonder if, apart from the Apple brand brand name, there is any advantage to getting the relatively expense Apple router?

I'm getting used to most of the frustranting things that come from migrating from Windows to Mac, but there is one thing that I'm finding is the most frustrating - the trackpad/mouse controls. Specifically, the lack thereof. I found an article that describes these limitations in detail - far...

Apple recommends disconnecting USB devices to conserve battery life. Any idea how much time a wireless mouse is gonna suck out of my battery? I'm looking at Logitech's Wireless Notebook mouse in particular. Thanks!

Is there any shortcut to make the delete key go forward instead of backward? Like pressing alt-delete or something? ... I Googled and found and answer: Fn+delete It's too bad the two keys have to be at opposite ends of the globe.

When I take my iBook out of sleep mode, I can hear the combo drive make some "cocking" noise, like it's loading up. There is no disk in the drive, so I assume this is normal, but I wonder if I can disable this.

I've got a 256mb iBook G4 My distributor recommends going for the Transcend Apple ram, but I suspect the regualr transend, Micron, etc. will work. I'm just not sure what the gamble is on getting ram. The price difference is $162 for 512mb Transcend Apple ram, and $119 for regular Transcend or...

I've changed the association .swf files using control+click/get info, but while these .swf (Macromedia Flash) files were previously associated with Quictime (what is up with that? QT can't even open them!) I have now associated them, by default, with Firefox. Yet, the .swf files still remain...

I'm trying to figure out if I should put more ram in my iBook G4/256mb. With more apps than I'll normally use at once, the following is displayed under memory in activity monitor. Wired: 39mb Active: 138mb Inactive: 69 Used: 246 Free: 7mb VM: 2.84gb page i/o: 22707/2872 The fact...

How do you maximize an application window on a Mac, like you would on a PC using the maximize button? I find the yellow and blue buttons to merely adjust the size between the two settings that I manually set, which is a pain in the arse. Is there no hot key or something to make an application...

When I save MS Word documents, or other files, on my USB flash drive, and I then put the drive into my Windows computer, I find there are some other files with similar names, but different extensions. Obviously, they are hidden mac files, but do I need them and why does the mac create them? They...

I find the mouse control options in OSX to be lacking. It only has an option to speed up the mouse, which I have set to full speed, but I find it's still rather sluggish at full speed. Is there any way to get some more advanced settings for mouse control?

I got my iBook G4 a couple days ago (yeah, uber-noober, I know) and no sooner did I get it did I want to reformat and reinstall the OS. hehe. Basically, I'm a minimalist and only one the stuff I use on the comp. I manage get rid of alot of stuff I didn't use with the reinstall using the recovery...

1) I've done some Googling on the topic and my understanding is that, for the most part, OS X makes RAM disks obsolete. However, as mentioned in one of the articles, one reason why one would want a RAM disk in OS X (and this is my main conern here) is particularly to conerve battery power...