If your camera permits, try a combo UV /polarizing filter. Anti-glare AND UV protection, Camera shop should help you with that one. Of course, it depends on what kind of camera you…

just for the record, a UV filter won't prevent damage to your camera (since UV won't damage your camera), but it will ensure that the image you see isn't skewed because of the UV l…

I would like to edit VHS footage and then be able to export it back to tape. (For some extremely-low-budget film projects of mine I would prefer to be able to do it on my Rev. A …

NEC makes a clik!-usb drive. A friend of mine has one and he uses the IomegaWare software for Windows98 to access it. "USB Iomega Driver" software for Macintosh does not support …

NEC clik!-usb now works. I installed the USB Mass Storage Support 1.3.5 from Apple, and now I have a USB clik! drive for the Macintosh. Cons - DOS formated disk, unable to reform…

To format a DOS disk as HFS or HFS+, disable File Exchange or PC Exchange (depending on what OS version). Then when you mount the disk it will pop up with the "This disk in not in…

On the New iMacDV, Apple says that you can connect a device to one of the firewire ports and capture analog video from a VCR. They said it was called the Sony DV-AV1. I've looked…

Its called a Sony DVMC-DA1 and it converts analog signal to digital signal (firewire) on the fly. There is actually a newer model too, its the DVMC-MS1. I have the MS1, and it wo…

I have the DVMC-DA1. I paid $371.74 before TAX from Troxell Communications - 272-0440, but I work for an education so this might be and education only price. http://www.sel.sony.co…

In my older mac, a Performa 630CD, it doesn't agknowledge the printer driver installation in the chooser. In fact, the chooser doesn't show any icons at all..no printer, no ports. …

I want either the HP 895cse or the HP 895cxi to use with my new iMac. I can get the cxi for $20.00 cheaper. What is the difference? I have looked at the specs of both and they a…

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Most likely it is the same thing packaged differently to prevent price matching among retailers; Apple did something similar a while back with the Performas, selling the 637 to one…

They had different software packages bundled with them. One had business software and paper samples while the other had home software and paper samples. The hardware is the same. …

My PB 3400 seems to make a very low-level high-pitched "whine" when asleep. This is not present when shut down (w/ or w/o AC attached), or when running - only when asleep. The whin…

Can any one tell me if Sony's Firewire CD rw is compatible with Toast? Also if has anyone tried the Sony product could you tell me if you are having success with it? Thanx.

I have the Sony Firewire CDRW drive and Toast 4 (had it for roughly two weeks). Both work just fine together. I've thus far created a MacOS disk and ISO disk. You may see a warning…

Does it work with Retrospect as well?

kloda...when you purchased the firewire CD RW did you get Toast with it? If so where did you get it? -Mike

I received a response from Adaptec yesterday saying that Toast 4.0 does NOT support 1394 devices. I replied and said that someone was actually using toast with a sony 1394 CD RW a…

Most likely the "E" stands for EIDE. tooki

Has anyone seen a good review of all the new Firewire drives out right now?

The only version of Toast that I know of that supports FireWire CDR(W) drives is Toast 3.8.2. I got it with my drive which came from EZQuest (www.ezq.com). I'll have a review of t…

Does anyone use this PCMCIA card reader? I am thinking about getting one (Yes I have a digital camera) and want to know what are my best choices out there. I need one that reads …