I tried the other USB port on my pbook, both are USB 2.0 by the way, and everything worked properly. I also deleted some crappy files that were converted from AVI to MP4 using isq…

Hi All, For specific reasons, I've got iTunes set to "copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to Library". It's been a good system, when all I was doing was listening to mus…

I think iTunes has to do it to convert the video files into h.264 for it to play on your 5G iPod.

Quote: Originally Posted by mrgaskell I think iTunes has to do it to convert the video files into h.264 for it to play on your 5G iPod. iTunes doesn't convert videos. I…

Quote: Originally Posted by analogika iTunes doesn't convert videos. If you want to keep your videos external, why don't you just turn off the "copy stuff to iTunes Music fo…

Egads, you're correct! There's a "convert for iPod" option in the Advanced menu! This is new... iSquint works excellently, by the way, and is free.

isquint has made some crappy conversion of some avi files I had. Most were movies that I downloaded as torrents.

Thanks for the extra info, very helpful. analogika, it took me a while to figure out what you meant in your first post. If I understand correctly, if I turn off automatic updating…

If you are comfortable with command line, try using ffmpeg, which you can find athttp://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php There is another online tool at http://www.video4ipod.org…

I believe you may have misunderstood what analogika posted. If you set our iPod to manually update, add videos onto it, then start automatically updating again, you WILL lose anyth…

Quote: Originally Posted by kellybelly If you use manual update, you can connect your iPod and drag files directly from Finder onto your mounted iPod in the iTunes sidebar. This…

For old Macs with limited RAM/Processor speed, which Web/Email apps are best? I'm running a Wallstreet with 256MB RAM, OS 10.4.4 Firefox seems to use 10mb less RAM but slightly mo…

Mutt and Pine (the only two text-based email clients I can think of) both support IMAP and Gmail (which is just POP3).

And for older Macs running older System / Mac OS versions you can rely on the iCab browser.

redhot, how in the world did you get Tiger to run on a Wallstreet? Isn't that essentially impossible?

Camino could be a good choice of browser to use, Gmail works well in it too if you don't mind using the web interface.

Quote: Originally Posted by Big Mac redhot, how in the world did you get Tiger to run on a Wallstreet? Isn't that essentially impossible? I used XpostFacto to get Tiger run…

Quote: Originally Posted by redhot_nyc I used XpostFacto to get Tiger running on Wallstreet. It runs much more reliably than 10.2 ever did (and that was "supported"!) It was…

I wrote extensively about my experiences installing Tiger on a Wallstreet. I think Tiger is the best OS for these old machines, bar none. As for which browser to use on a Wallstr…

Since you're running Tiger it's not a big deal, but one thing to consider is that ealier versions of OS X came with earlier versions of Safari, which are obviously not as widely co…

That's really amazing. . . If so many are running Tiger well on their Wallstreets, it really inspires me to get a larger drive for my iBook 466 and upgrade to Tiger as well.

Yes, I honestly believe that many people put way too much emphasis on "needing" a faster (re: newer = more $$$) machine in order to run their everyday software efficiently. I purc…

I agree. Mhz is not everything. I usually get 6-8 years out of each Mac i buy (been using them since 1984, and Apple ][’s since 1979). I still have some Quadra 605’s running Ope…

I have been using the G3-optimized version of Deerpark on my Pismo. After reinstalling the OS (had to partition the drive to put Ubuntu on there) I didn't find any speed difference…

I'm working on an app that accesses PostreSQL data (Cocoa/ObjC). I'm not using anybody's framework, I more or less used postgres' C lib and wrote my own class to access the data. T…