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Jools
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All you need for playing DivX movies is:
DivX 5.2.1 http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/
VLC http://www.videolan.org/
Also, Toast 7 comes with DivX 6 for Mac. You may also find the following useful:
http://www.3ivx.com/divxdoctor/
http://www.3ivx.com/download/macos.html
Internal Bluetooth for PowerBooks can't be fitted after purchase AFAIK, so you'd just need to get a USB Bluetooth dongle. I can recommend the following as I have one:
Sitecom Bluetooth USB Adapter CN-500
This one is also able to use the Apple Bluetooth Firmware updates as it is identical to Apple's built-in Bluetooth modules.
Or the officially supported by Apple one is the D-Link DBT-120 (I also have one of these, but functionally its no different to the Sitecom).
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Luke-the-magic-man
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don't suppose you want to sell one of them?
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Jools
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Unfortunately I use both, one at home and one at work...
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Luke-the-magic-man
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cunning, ah well im looking at a few on ebay may just try to pick one up there,
cheers for the help
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DickySnapples
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is there anyway to wipe a macs drive back to factory settings if youve lost the cds (stupid of me i know,but ive looked everywhere for them!) |
Jools
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Unfortunately you'd need the DVDs/CDs to do this. You could start-up the Mac from an external hard disk with Mac OS X on and format the drive, but you'd need the original OS Install CDs to put the operating system back on.
Can you borrow an install CD/DVD from someone local?
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Cycovision
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Quick question for you Jools, is there any way to, or any third party software that will allow a mac to VPN with a windows machine?
A Customer of ours has been asking us about it for ages, if it's not possible to VPN is there anything like realVNC that is available in both PC and MAC formats?
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Jools
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There's a VPN client built-in to the Mac OS. Check here:
Mac OS X 10.4 Help: Connecting to a Virtual Private Network
I've no experience of VPNs, but from what I've read it should be relatively painless! |
Cycovision
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Yeah, we tried that but we couldn't get it to talk to the Windows 2003 machine at the other end or vice-versa. After trying all of the obvious stuff (protocol settings, firewalls etc.) we still couldn't get it going and so kind of gave up 
Thanks for the link, though. At least I know now that it is indeed possible, it's got to be something we're doing wrong and not just an incompatibility problem 
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Luke-the-magic-man
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ooo, is there a recording program that can record from my inbuilt mic on my mac?
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Jools
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Audio In 1.0.3
Sound Recorder X 1.1
WireTap 1.0
www.macupdate.com is a great searchable database of 1000's of Mac programs.
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Luke-the-magic-man
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cheers, I just got my bluetooth dongle installed and there is some good stuff there
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Luke-the-magic-man
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Hi, im looking for a video converter for my new (waiting for it to come) ipod video, I had useg ffmpeg before my hd failed, now I am trying to re install it but it wants the binarys, I have downloaded thses from the sorces it says, but they dont seem to work as it wont install the program/let me use it. Any ideas Jools?
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Jools
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No Frills DVD2iPod 1.2
MoviePod 1.0
iSquint 0.9j
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Luke-the-magic-man
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cheers, but do you have any ideas on how to make ffmpeg work on the mac?
cheers Luke
Check out my sales I am a mac fanboy . I will honor Laffens gift of P990 flip free avartar, but I sold the p990 |
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