I have an old iBook G4 (Tiger) that I would like to use as a low-budget "media server". I'd like to set it up with an external hard drive so that our other two computers (laptop running Vista and netbook running XP) can access its files over our wireless network.
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posted by rossination
on Jun 16, 2009 -
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How do you organize your email? How can I better organize my emails and be a better email-user?
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posted by rossination
on May 11, 2008 -
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Help me take advantage of my first high-tech phone! I have some questions about the LG Chocolate, Bluetooth, and mac connectivity.
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posted by rossination
on Nov 17, 2007 -
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Need toms help finding a good program or method for maintaining an outline structure within an essay. As you can tell, I'm having a hard time describing my problem.
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posted by rossination
on Mar 9, 2007 -
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Help me figure out whether I'm being scammed. The question, which involves theft prevention, MAC addresses, and the University of Washington Campus Police, follows after the break.
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posted by rossination
on Nov 8, 2006 -
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Printing in black and white on an HP PSC 1610 from a mac. I can't believe that this is so hard to do, but I must be missing something.
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posted by rossination
on Sep 28, 2006 -
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I just bought a cheap 256mb flash drive at the university bookstore. It has some bizarre formatting setup where it appears on my iBook (10.4) as two drives, one 1.44 mb, one 244.2 mb. Apparently there are some security features (a .pdf and .exe file were included, the latter of which is obviously no use to me) that are built in as well.
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posted by rossination
on Jun 4, 2006 -
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My iBook loves to disconnect from my Airport Express that I have set up in my dorm room. Basically, I'll go to sleep, go to the laundry room, or come back from class, and the network doesn't show up in my "Available" list anymore. The green light is still on (it's not showing yellow, blinking or otherwise), and the only way to fix it is to unplug the router for about 5 seconds and reconnect (effectively resetting it).
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posted by rossination
on Apr 10, 2006 -
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Is there a way to quickly switch between audio outputs in OS X? I have speakers set up through a Griffin iMic, and I also have headphones that I plug into my iBook's headphone jack. Sometimes I like to be able to quickly switch from one to another. Currently I have to go to the sound preference pane choose from my options there. Obviously this isn't an enormous pain in the ass, but it would be nice if I could map it to a keystroke or something.
I have Quicksilver and have fiddled with it a little, but if there is a way to make it do what I want, I can't figure it out.
posted by rossination
on Feb 13, 2006 -
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Is there any way in OS X Tiger to create a Smart Folder of movies (mostly .avi) with the condition "Play Count Is...", as in iTunes? I'd like to make an "unseen movies" folder. This is very easy to do in iTunes, but I don't seem to see such an option in the Finder.
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posted by rossination
on Jan 3, 2006 -
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How can I change the default formatting for Notebook View in Word 2004 (for Mac, of course)?
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posted by rossination
on Dec 12, 2005 -
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I'd like to be able to watch tv and record it on my G4 iBook. I know that there are a plethora of ways to do this on the PC side, with a special card or whatnot. Is there a (cheap!) way to do this with my mac? It has to be external, obviously, since I'm going to be using it with the iBook.
posted by rossination
on Oct 9, 2005 -
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