Maine also took about a month, but now that I have it, I wrote the following (mostly-derogatory) review of it. Caveat Emptor. The 636U would be an excellent buy if not for its ho…

Since Apple have choosen DVD-RAM as their writable DVD storage it would be nice to know which DVD-ROM drives can read such disks. While searching for this information I got several…

Does it make any sense to expect I'll be able to drive a digital LCD monitor from the Firewire ports on my blue G3? Or do I need to wait for the appearance of ADP slots or ports on…

It will not be possible to connect your Digital Flat panel to a firewire port until the flat panel has hardware to interface with Firewire as well as the software required to decod…

Why wait? <a href="http://www.formac.com/">Formac</a> makes a mac compatable PCI video card which can support both VESA and SGI TFT's. It is called the <a href="ht…

i doubt it. any time you take a picture outdoors, your camera picks up ultraviolet light. just be sure to wear goggles while using the camera. -r.

I was planning on using my camera to take some pictures of arc welding in action. Of course, the arc emits many ultraviolet rays, which can damage the retinas of people in the room…

<-------- this dude is too drunk to be posting It would probably be the UV requivalent of pointing the camera directly at the sun. And I would probably use the LCD, not the…

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…

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. …

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 …