Hi, I'm new to my MacBook Pro and I would like to know what kind of Video Player I should be using. I watch a lot of divx format videos and most of them are animes with captions(…

vlc - www.videolan.org its wicked and should work with everything

FrontRow uses QuickTime for movie playback, yes. That's just how it is, you'll have to get the files to work in QuickTime or deal with not using it. VLC is the best media player bu…

I suggest you stay with QuickTime Player, since its the only one to work with FrontRow. Just install DivX 6, to enable DivX playback...

Thx for the great advice. I just installed the divx 6 for my quicktime player OS X. The Divx files now plays back, but they don't have any sounds.... But I get sound and video us…

Another vote for VLC

Vlc.

The videos might have AC3 sound, in which case you'll need another QuickTime plugin (search around, I know there is one). You might be able to figure out what kind of sound the fi…

I've been disappointed at Verison's lack of support for the ExpressCard and their EVDO network so I went searching and found a reasonable solution. I set this all up yesterday and…

I just did a restore of my system from a dmg, onto a clean partition. Everything works great, but it looks like it created some extra directories in the root folder that were not …

They are not visible but they are there to stay If you want to 'see' them, open Terminal and type: cd .. and press intro/return do it again cd .. and press intro/return now…

Thanks...but I DON'T want to see them! I guess they lost their invisible status when I restored the files.

Just use a utility such as XRay (check MacUpdate) to set the Invisible flag on the files, and you should be all set.

I'm currently using RadTech Sleevz to protect my new iPod nano, but they are a little flimsy and don't offer much in the way of protection. What I'm really after is a case that com…

I just bought the Apple's universal dock for my old 20GB iPod (monochrome). I bought this primarily to connect to my home theater - it all works great. But is there a way I can see…

Can some iPod Guru help me with this?

None of the iPods will show the menu on the screen, even the new video-enabled iPods. The TV connection on the dock is for pictures & video only. There is however a third-part…

I have a quickcam on USB port and a camcorder on FireWire port...How can I switch from one to another without having to disconnect the quickcam + extension. The quickam takes the v…

I wanted a clean install with my macbook pro, so I booted of the (intel) Macbook Pro OS X disc, and formatted with disc utility, but now the Installer says it can't install onto th…

It's exactly like this, except it's the only hard disk in my computer the internal sata drive, so what gives? I can't install OS X on my computers hard disk? http://docs.info.appl…

Have you tried actually partitioning? And there really is no option of choosing the file system type in disk utility?

Quote: Originally Posted by inkhead It's exactly like this, except it's the only hard disk in my computer the internal sata drive, so what gives? I can't install OS X on my comp…

Don't really understand Inkhead, my MBP came with a fresh install... Try again, maybe you got a power spike or sunspots or something the first time. If it booted OK out of the box,…

I do have corsair ram, however regardless of anything it's absolutely retarted that apple would CLAIM there is an option that randomly HIDES itself or just doesn't exist based on R…

Less techie people do not do a clean restore when they purchase a machine from any maker. Can't believe you did it 35 times!!! I suspect you will continue to have many problems. I …