- I have a FAX machine and a FAX modem. How can I use these devices together to emulate a scanner and a printer?
- It is often possible to simply connect your FAX modem to your FAX machine using a regular telephone cable. You can then print to your FAX machine by sending a document to your FAX modem (then through the cable to your FAX machine, to be printed). Analogously, you can "send" a FAX from your FAX machine to your computer's FAX modem and thus emulate a scanner (the FAX image will be read into your computer by your FAX modem software).
This phone cable connection does not always work, however. For these cases, P.E.P. Products, Inc., offers faxScan/faxPrinter, a Macintosh and Windows-compatible product which allows you to connect your FAX modem to your FAX machine and thus gain the ability to print from your computer to the FAX machine and scan into your computer from the FAX machine, as described above. This device is pocket-sized, 1.05 ounces, and powered by a 9 volt battery. According to the company's sales information, "The faxScan/faxPrinter device stabilizes line voltages on both sides, allowing any combination of FAX modem and FAX machine to work together. This product is useful if you travel and want to print or scan using any fax machine."
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- Can I jump from OS 8.0 to OS 9 on my Power Mac 6500 without getting any of the in-between systems software like 8.5 8.6?
- I would not suggest doing that right now, since OS 9 seems to have a few problems of its own. The answer to your question is yes and no: Yes, if you buy the full installation package from Apple. No, if you only have an updater release. I have yet to see a stand-alone updater for OS 9, so one can assume all should be right.
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- When Mac shopping, I always heard brags about the size of backside cache. I thought that someone had told me that this was for Internet use so the Internet wouldn't slow down the computer? If not, can you explain in simple terms what it is? If it is for Internet use, how would one set the browser to use it?
- A Backside Cache is a very fast type of Level 2 cache that accelerates the operations of your CPU, and not only for Internet access.
Let's say you are hungry. Which is faster: Looking in the fridge or going to the grocery store? The fridge, of course. You only go to the store: 1) To fill up the fridge, or 2) If what you have at home doesn't satisfy your needs.
The Cache is the CPU's fridge, and the hard drive is the store. The CPU keeps in the Level 2 Cache information it MAY need later. If it's in there when needed, accessing the info is a hundred times faster. It makes sense, then, that the bigger and faster the L2 cache is, the greater the improvement will be. A Backside Cache is attached to the processor itself, as opposed to being elsewhere on the computer's motherboard, and thus sends and receives information much more quickly than any previous technology allowed.
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- I have a Power Mac 7300/200 and want to attach a second monitor - what do I need to do?
- Since the current monitor uses the onboard video connector, you will need to buy a PCI video card and install it in your computer. Just make sure the card supports all of your monitor's resolutions. Many 3D/TV/Capture cards (such as the line of products from ATI) also allow you to connect a second monitor.
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- Is there a way to copy my Netscape bookmarks from one computer to the other, either by emailing or copying onto disk?
- The file in question is called "Bookmarks.html" and is kept in your Netscape "User Profile" folder.
You can open it in any Web browser and click on links and add them to your other bookmark list normally.
Better, you can use it as a starting point for a local startup page: Just go to your Browser's preference menu and choose the local file as Home Page. Every time yuou open your browser, this page will be retrieved.
You could even create your own "Intranet" - a web page on your drive, with links to both outside sites and local documents. It's easy to do: With many applications (MS Word, AppleWorks, QuarkXpress...) capable of exporting data in HTML format, all you have to do is create the links from your startup page!
Why not have a phone list accessible straight from your web browser? Or how about the complete works of Shakespeare available at a single click, when you need a break from speadsheets?
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- Does a G3 need to have an FPU installed before it can use Real Audio? I am unable to listen to anything on-line.
- A Floating Point Unit is a processor dedicated to mathematical calculations, and was a great help to the 680XX computers. All PowerMacs have the equivalent of an FPU built in their processor, so no extra FPU chip is necessary.
- Make sure you have the G2 version of Real Audio, and that your plug-in for the browser is also updated.
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- How Do I Know How Much RAM I Am Using?
- You can see how much RAM you are using and how much is left by selecting About This Macintosh (or About This Computer) in the Finder's Apple Menu.
The color bar represents used memory, while the empty portion of the bar is the part of the memory allocated to the program that's leftover for opening a document. If the bar is completely filled for a program other than the System or the Finder, you should consider giving it more memory.
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- Why Do My Eyes Ache When On The WWW?
- Well some web pages can get just plain impossible to read, either because of bad design, differences between PC and Mac brightness levels and resolutions, or simply because you did not load the background to contrast with the color of the text. Try selecting the text you want to read - it will appear in reversed color and may be easier to see.
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- How Can I Get Ride Of "Are you sure you want to empty the trash?" Every Time I Want To Empty The Trash?
- To Get Ride of this, simply select the Trash icon, type "Command-i" then deselect the box that says, "warn before emptying."
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- Which is the best text browser for a 68000 machine?
- Older browsers will surely do the trick for early Macs, such as Mosaic and text-based MacLynx. If you have a more recent 68-based Mac, I suggest trying the 68K version of ICAB, still in (free) preview release. It offers most of the large browsers' features, yet takes only a couple of MB of RAM!
That's probably is a better deal that using older (3.x, 2.x...) versions of Navigator or Explorer.
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- Turning Computer Off when Attaching an Extra Device, would this tip still be true if I buy a G4 which had USB ports?"
- This issue has been a polemic for many years, and not everyone agrees. But after discovering that many electrical engineers are on my side - that was good enough for me!
As for USB - They are buffered against this sort of thing - so is Firewire - since they are "Hot Pluggable." In fact, it's probably better to plug a device ON than OFF, since the computer can detect the addition to the bus right away...
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