I can live with the slower USB 1.1, after the initial fill, I usually update just a few songs now and then. What I'd really want to know is if the charging time on USB 1.1 will be …

Quote: Originally Posted by Jerome I can live with the slower USB 1.1, after the initial fill, I usually update just a few songs now and then. What I'd really want to know is if…

Quote: Originally Posted by Captain Obvious http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815104306 doesnt suffer from that deep sleep problem, haven't had a problem with it yet …

Quote: Originally Posted by Kenneth IoGear makes great products for the Mac. Right now, I ran out of USB ports on back of my PowerMac G4 and Studio Display. Can you tell me wh…

No FireWire indeed.

Guess this will finally kick me to replace my aging G4 Cube with a Mac Mini. All my music is on the Cube, then gets shared out to the network for playback on my Powerbook, one of …

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter I haven't yet understood the hue and cry about Apple shipping iPods without Firewire cables in the first place. Firewire may be faster than…

Firewire is far better than USB, my Mini updates faster with firewire than usb 2.0. I am sad apple didn't put it on the nano

Quote: Originally Posted by DigitalEl Wasn't Firewire a technology pushed hard by Apple in the first place? Why have they now abandoned it on their signature devices? Apple …

Quote: Originally Posted by moki In *theory* FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 are about even... in reality, the bassackwards nature of the USB protocol ensures that this isn't the case.…

Quote: Originally Posted by robby818 This is very true. I have heard firewire described as a more "robust" technology and that usb is hampered by overhead. in my experience I …

In all honesty, whatever differences in speed exist between FireWire 400 and USB 2 on the hardware side are more than negated by software differences. Take any dual-interface hard …

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter Unfortunately that robustness comes with the penalty of extra hardware. More components are required to do all the error checking, etc. nee…

Very interesting! Thanks for the extra info! tooki

At home, my itunes library is on a networked drive in my server machine. I simply mount that server onto my powerbook and have a symlink of the itunes library on the powerbook. I c…

i have a nice speaker system at home and most of my audio comes from good sources including cds. so when i import them to my hard drive, i try to retain some of the quality and my …

Apple Lossless will cut the uncompressed song roughly in half. As the name says, it's totally lossless.

problem is a lot of my songs are mp3 or aac at 320 kbps resulting in a 4 min song at 8MB a file. i'd like to drop them to about 128 when copying over the the ipod. is this at all p…

The iPod shuffle can do that automatically. Check out http://www.dougscripts.com for some AppleScripts for other iPods.

I setup my Linksys WRT54G through its web based interface and after I had done that I shut it off, plugged in my cable modem, powered the CM on, then powered the router on. I'm co…

Your router has the capability to report its MAC address (that's the hardware address of its WAN-side network connection) as ANYTHING you want it to report. So put your Mac's MAC …

I've had cable with the same provider for about 4 years, using the same router. 4 weeks ago I moved out of my previous house, and a week ago into my new house. When they installe…

I've cloned the MAC address, but I still have the same problem. I have internet fine, but the IP address I'm being given is an external address, not an internal LAN address from t…

I'm wondering if this could be being caused by a faulty WRT54G? As my wireless signal's just vanished, even though all the lights are still on at the front of the router. I've tr…

Honestly, based on the first post, my best guess is that the cable modem is plugged into one of the router's LAN ports, rather than the WAN port. tooki