I was updating Tiger on my PB 15" 1.67 to 10.4.2. The update bar stopped at about 95% and was stuck there for over an hour. I tried to stop it, but the buttons were grayed out. …

accidental double post...sorry

After several hours of having been away from my computer, I turned on the monitor to find a panic message layed over the screen saver. Note that I did not copy down the entire mess…

Corrupt stack almost certainly means bad RAM. The stack is an object in memory. There are other possibilities, but you are almost certainly looking at bad RAM. Check out http://…

My ipod 4g is in constant use at the bar where I work, anyway, I think some beer or liquor from my fingers inded up in the crack where the click wheel meets the face of the iPod. …

Quote: Originally posted by Ratspittle: My ipod 4g is in constant use at the bar where I work, anyway, I think some beer or liquor from my fingers inded up in the crack…

You could pop it open, remove the battery, then spray it with alcohol while holding it upside down so the residue runs out. Then let it dry completely before reassebling. Truth i…

Hate to say it, but this is another reason I love my 3rd gen iPod and no movable buttons.

Well, I took a piece of tissue, wet it with alcohol (not the drinkable variety) and held down the scrolly wheel in different directions, and cleaned it...worked like a charm. back …

Quote: Originally posted by Ratspittle: Well, I took a piece of tissue, wet it with alcohol (not the drinkable variety) and held down the scrolly wheel in different dire…

http://www.carrafix.com/EasyWMA/

or use the windows version of itunes

Transcoding is never a good idea (unless it works with WMA lossless files as well)

Hi there, was wondering if anyone noticed how much hard drive space the iPod Photo needs for pictures... I bought my wife one for her birthday and when it synced for the first time…

Mine's about 1.3GB with about 1K of photos.

What's interesting is that I spoke to Mac Genius and he wasn't aware of the iPod Photo cache, either. He thought that it just made a cache when it optimized the images for the iP…

Get an external HD.

Quote: Originally posted by Randman: Get an external HD. Yes, but that would negate the benefits of having a Powerbook for the portability... not to mention the wa…

Quote: Originally Posted by Randman Get an external HD. Lovely idea, in practice I'm finding that the iPod Photo won't actually sync with an iPhoto library hosted on an exte…

Some cds I have have multiple songs that blend into each as you play the cd. When I dl the disc to the ipod I get that momentary silence in between songs. How do I dl the songs to …

I think this is an annoying problem that has no fix to date. Might wanna look for an answer over at ipodlounge.com, but I doubt you'll find anything.

If you have them on CD you are in luck, as the solution is simple. in iTunes, when you put the CD in, highlight the songs you want to have uninterrupted and choose "join tracks". …

i didn't know how to join tracks... thank you! i got over a hundred mix cds i need to rip, some of them have 30 tracks in em.

Ok check this out. I have an iPod photo 30gb and have found a slight glitch that you should try to replicate on yours. It is fixed by a simple restart, but it is annoying to know…

OK... I was listening to the iPod, and snippets of songs started turning up in the middle of other songs... so I tried to plug it in at work (a G4 with 10.2.8) and it kept refusing…