I have to remember to turn my Epson printer off before booting from the 8.5 CD. No way to turn AppleTalk off. Is this something I just have to accept and put up with? I ended up …

Since its a CD you have to just accept it. The Chooser Prefs that keep AppleTalk on are burned into the CD and cannot be changed. Sorry about that..

Is there a way to get Toast 3.5 to make a UDF formatted CD-R. I'm a DVD Author, and it sure would be useful to make a CD-R of a DVD project (the menu system at least) to test on h…

Use Adaptec Direct CD to mace UDF disks. It does this well.

True, but be aware of this... Based on my experiences, the version of "UDF Volume Access" that comes with the new Blue and White G3s, version 1.2, is incompatible with discs creat…

Has anyone used a QuickCam from Logitech (formerly from Connectix)? Any comments on how well they work or how satisfied you were would be appreciated. They have a USB Mac/Win ver…

some brief comments on today's edition of both MacNN and iMac2day (2/10).

I recently purchased a SyQuest SKYDATA 200MB 5.25" SCSI drive from a graphics company that was blowing out its stock so it could upgrade to newer Mac systems. My problem is that I…

If anybody has purchased Mac version video cards such as Mirro Motion DC30+ or Mirro DV300 by Pynnacle Systems and are frustrated that the company has failed to update drivers for …

i want to buy some surround sound speakers for my imac. Does it support true surround sound? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have a puzzling problem that I might run past people. One of my clients has a Apple Color LaserWriter 12/660 and prints thru Xpress 3.32. The symptoms are INCREDIBLY heavy inks b…

My VST 6Gb drive is not hot swappable, and causes finder quits at startup. Anyone using these drives with success in OS 8.6?

The conflict appears to be with my SCSI card software. By disabling the 2906 extension, the FireDrive works as predicted. Any suggestions?

Turns out that backing up to my CD-R is now prohibited from the Firewire Drive. Anyone have any guesses as to why this might be (aside from me needing the 2906 extension?)

Has anyone been able to sync using the iMac IrDA with PDAs? I have a TI Avigo and only have Windoze software. Therefore, I will need to sync through Virtual PC. Looking for some…

A friend of mine is a wintel user - he can't help it, he's an IS person for a living and doesn't know any better - and has offered to put some high-res digital photos on cd for me,…

I have a Rev. A beige G3 266 MT. Recently i had to install a second IDE drive, forcing me to remove the IDE CD drive from the machine as it can handle only 2 IDE devices. I've bee…

We just got a Plextor SCSI CD-RW in our beige G3. It weent in pretty easy, and came with very good instructions, but I haven't used it enough to give you I good idea of how well i…

Well, my company allowed me to shed my Wintel machine for an iMac. Using DAVE, I've been able to network with the other Windows machines; however, I need a connection to our SGI se…