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Old School Mac [7] : transfer pictures from Motorola SLVR to Mac

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— THIS IS A REPOST FROM LONG WAY BACK ; JUST FOR ENTERTAINMENT — ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE APPLE SUPPORT COMMUNITIES IN 2006

Question : My eMac doesn’t see my Motorola SLVR mobile phone when I try to connect over Bluetooth to transfer pictures

Answer : It’s a lot easier if you connect using USB :

STEP 1

  • put your SLVR on “Memory Card” setting in Main Menu -> Settings -> Connectivity -> USB Settings

STEP 2

  • connect your SLVR to you eMac using a USB-cable (a USB-to-mini-USB-cable that is…)

STEP 3

  • now your SLVR’s memory card will show up on your eMac’s desktop as a removable hard drive
  • browse to the folder called “Pictures” ; that’s where you can find all snapshots you’ve taken with your SLVR…
  • …and you can put any pictures you want to get from your eMac onto your SLVR there…

the original post(s) can be found here :

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/448957?start=0&tstart=0

Old School Mac [6] : using a GSM as a mobile internet modem for OSX

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— THIS IS A REPOST FROM LONG WAY BACK ; JUST FOR ENTERTAINMENT — ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE APPLE SUPPORT COMMUNITIES IN 2006

After an extremely long trail & error period, I’ve finally figured out how to use my T-mobile Motorola SLVR L7 as a mobile internet modem for my Mac :

Step 1 :

  • call the T-Mobile Helpdesk, and have them send you the message which auto-installs the T-Zones GPRS settings needed on your SLVR L7 (they will call it an SMS, but it will appear on your phone as a ‘Browser Msg’)

…make sure you have pen and paper ready to write down the PIN-code you will need to install the settings-message

Step 2 :

  • download (and install !!) the Motorola 3G and/or Motorola GPRS scripts you can find on Ross Barkman’s page :

http://www.taniwha.org.uk/

…and buy Ross a virtual beer to thank him…

Step 3 :

  • connect your SLVR L7 to your Mac using a mini-USB-to-USB-cable

Step 4 :

  • in System Prefs / Network / Network Port Configs activate the new port “Motorola Phone (L7)”, and configure it :

Under the PPP-tab :

  • Service Provider : … [anything you like, e.g. “internet using GSM”]
  • Account Name : tmobile
  • Password : tmobile
  • Tel. Number : internet
  • Alt. Number : [none]
  • Save Password : On

Under the PPP / PPP Options-tab :

  • all Session Options : … [whatever you like]
  • all Advanced Options : Off [if you wish you can leave Verbose Logging on, but do turn off all other options]

Under the TCP/IP-tab :

  • Configure IPv4 : Using PPP
  • leave everything else blank

Under the Proxies-tab :

  • leave everything blank

Under the Modem-tab :

  • Modem : Motorola 3G CID1 (“Motorola 3G CID2”, “Motorola GPRS CID1 57k” and “Motorola GPRS CID1 57k +CGQREQ” will also work, and maybe some others too…)
  • Error Correction & Compression : Off
  • Wait For Dail Tone : Off
  • Dailing : Tone
  • Sound : Off
  • Modem Status in Menu Bar : On

…and don’t forget to click “Apply Now”

Step 4 :

  • click on the modem-icon in the menu-bar (the telephone-horn with the adshed line next to it)
  • first click “Show time connected” and “Show status while connecting” in the pull down menu
  • then click “Connect”, and your GPRS-connection is being established…

As a check you should see “GPRS Active” in your SLVR’s screen.

…and to disconnect go to the modem-icon in the menu-bar and select “Disconnect”

Note : the above solution should work for all new Motorola GSMs :

  • RAZR V3i
  • RAZR V3x
  • SLVR L2
  • SLVR L6
  • SLVR L7
  • PEBL U6

…and it will probably also work for the previous Motorola GSMs :

  • RAZR V3
  • ROKR E1

the original post(s) can be found here :

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/448190?start=0&tstart=0

Old School Mac [5] : can I share the printer of my pre-OSX Mac to my network ?

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— THIS IS A REPOST FROM LONG WAY BACK ; JUST FOR ENTERTAINMENT — ORIGINALLY POSTED ON MACOSX.NL (a.k.a. ONE MORE THING) IN 2004

Question : Can I share the Epson printer that is connected to my PowerPC running OS8.6 on my network so I can use it from my iMac ?
Answer : If your Epson-printer is a USB-printer, and your iMac is on OSX (preferably 10.3 Panther), then you would be better of to plug the printer into your iMac and share it to your network and your old PowerPC-Mac from there…
If you have a iMac with OSX 10.3, you will also have an installer-CD of OS9…  use that to upgrade your PowerMac from OS8.6 to OS9 ; that will make your network more compatible… Note : you can run OS9 on all PowerMacs, for more info on that :

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25114

Griffin Technologies has made some adapters that might be of use in your case :

CAUTION ! : do extensive research to make sure that these Giffin-adapters are compatible with your Mac !!

Again : if you are really sure you want to make this work, upgrade to OS9. There is no guarantee that things will work, but it’s a fact that OSX has better network-compatibility  with OS9 / OS9.1 / OS9.2 than with any prior version of MacOS…

Some other links that you might want to have a look at :

  • Three Macs and a Printer :
  • Low End Mac :
  • Great Ideas for Old Macs :

http://weitzman.net/classicmacs/

the original post(s) can be found here :

http://www.onemorething.nl/community/topic/printer-power-pc-via-netwerk-naar-i-mac-osx

Old School Mac [4] : how to burn DVD-recordables that will play on any DVD-player

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— THIS IS A REPOST FROM LONG WAY BACK ; JUST FOR ENTERTAINMENT — ORIGINALLY POSTED ON MACOSX.NL (a.k.a. ONE MORE THING) IN 2004

Question : If I upgrade to DVD Studio Pro, will that enable me to burn DVD-recordables that will play on any DVD-player ?

Answer : No. The difference between iDVD and DVD Studio Pro has (next to) nothing to do with compatibility with any DVD-player (neither hardware nor software)… too bad… If you like iDVD, use it to burn a DVD-R, and copy that onto a DVD+R on a Mac or PC that has a DVD+R-burner. That will hugely increase your chances on being able to play your DVD on stand-alone DVD-players (so upgrading from iDVD to Toast and a DVD+R-burner is a way better solution for this than upgrading to DVD Studio Pro)

Things that have most influence on compatibility of your DVD-recordables :

  • the difference between DVD-R and DVD+R (especially in case of older DVD-players)
  • how up-to-date is the hardware and/or software DVD-player ?
  • if you want optimal compatibility with stand-alone DVD-players (hardware) : choose DVD+R, that will be compatible in nearly 99% of the cases (DVD-R will only be compatible in about 60% of the cases)
  • do not use rewriteables like DVD+RW or DVD-RW, those will only be compatible with very recent hardware
  • burn your DVDs in UDF-format

If you want optimal compatibility with Windows PCs :

  • make sure your PC is up-to-date : install the latest firmware and /or drivers for the DVD-drive & use version 5 of the WinDVD software (version 4 is more problematic, but still way better than Windows Media Player)
  • use a regular movie-DVD you’ve bought in a store to test if your PC is capable of even  playing any DVDs (some business-PCs do have a DVD-drive and DVD-player software installed, but still can’t play movie-DVDs due to ‘odd’ pre-installed software permissions and bad drivers and/or firmware…)
  • choose DVD+R if you do not have any info on the Windows-PC that will be used, that will vastly increase your chances on good compatibility (if the PC is fully up-to-date, neither DVD+R or DVD-R will give any problems)
  • don’t burn onto DVD+RW or DVD-RW media
  • burn your DVDs in UDF-format
If you want optimal compatibility with Macs :
  • make sure your Mac is up-to-date : install the newest version of OSX (or OS9)
  • preferably choose DVD-R media (sometimes a Mac can read the data, but cannot play the video, just because OSX’s DVD Player software prefers DVD-R ; OSX is less compatible than OS9 in this regard)
  • you can use DVD+/-RW rewrite able media, but why would you ?
  • preferably burn you DVDs in UDF-format
Things that have little or no influence on compatibility [the experts do not agree with me on this, but my own extensive testing does not show any significant differences] :
  • the speed of burning (4x burning speed has just as strange burn-failures as 2.4x or 2x or 1x burning speed)
  • the retail price of the DVD+/-R media (renowned brands also have burn-failures)
In short : if the DVD-player (software and hardware) is not up-to-date, it still remains to be seen how compatible your burned DVDs are.
e.g. I had 4 DVD-Rs that I had tested to be good on my OSX-Mac, my old Philips DVD-player and my old WindowsMe-PC, so I expected them to work on a brand-new WindowsXP-laptop… boy was that a mistake : 3 of them were compatible, but 1 failed entirely, it was not recognised… but : of all DVDs that didn’t play in WindowsMe,  nearly half did play in WindowsXP without any problem… so there’s no logic to any of it…
So hoping to increasing compatibility by upgrading from iDVD to DVD Studio Pro is very, very doubtful…
Some interesting links :
there is a patch for iDVD4 that will enable you to (instead of buying to DVD-R) ‘burn’ to a disk image :
there is also a patch for iDVD3 somewhere on the internet, but I do not have a direct link – if you dare, you might try a search for something like “iDVD [no SuperDrive]” on the ‘doubtful download sites’…
Sizzle is an OSX-application that is said to do faster (and better) MPEG2-conversions than QuickTime (and therefore than iDVD) :
[I didn’t test this myself, because I have OSX 10.3…]
If you are looking for iDVD tutorials :
If you want to check the compatibility of any stand-alone DVD-player :
If you want to check the quality of DVD+/-R media :
If you would like to know about the nicest features of DVD Studio Pro :

the original post(s) can be found here :

http://forum.macosx.nl/community/topic/dvd-studio-pro-2-compatibiliteit

Old School Mac [3] : will my printer work with OSX ?

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— THIS IS A REPOST FROM LONG WAY BACK ; JUST FOR ENTERTAINMENT — ORIGINALLY POSTED ON MACOSX.NL (a.k.a. ONE MORE THING) IN 2004

Question : Will I be able to use my WindowsPC’s printer on my new Mac ? Mine is a HP DeskJet 916.

Answer : Yes – the general rule is : any printer that you can connect to your OSX-Mac, will be useable (a least partially) from within OSX

About the meaning of “any printer that you can connect to your OSX-Mac” in the sentence above :

To connect a printer to a OSX-Mac, you need to connect it using a USB- or UTP/Ethernet-cable ; printers that can only be connected using a Parallel PC-printerport will therefore not do…

In this case it’s about a HP DeskJet 916 (HP calls it the “DJ916”) ; that one is included in the so-called DJ9xx-range… those ones are compatible with an OSX-Mac, but when using older versions of OSX you will probably need to use a ‘detour’ using the UNIX-base of OSX combined with the Linux-drivers by HP ; follow these links for more info :

http://www.allosx.com/1034107267/index_html http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/productssupported.php http://www.linuxprinting.org/tylerb/hpijs/

That last link is to the actual HPIJS for MacOSX, but be aware ! : do read the instructions and keep a copy of them for future reference before you do any install !

Note : using MacOSX 10.3 Panther your printer will be compatible if it is listed here :

http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/printers.html

the original post(s) can be found here :

http://www.onemorething.nl/community/topic/hp-printer-op-mac

Old School Mac [2] : solution to sync iCal to a Nokia 3650

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— THIS IS A REPOST FROM LONG WAY BACK ; JUST FOR ENTERTAINMENT — ORIGINALLY POSTED ON MACFIXIT IN 2003

[special thanks to Stewa / Andy on MacOSX Hints for the basic solution]

note : this is tested for the Nokia3650 only, but it should work on any mobile phone with SymbianOS

problem : if you set up a Nokia3650 mobile phone to iSync with your Mac’s Address Book and iCal over Bluetooth, iSync will still only be available for Address Book

(you can check this : if you properly setup your Nokia3650 for Bluetooth syncing using the Bluetooth Setup Assistant, the Nokia3650 tab in iSync will still ‘grey out’ all settings regarding iCal)

…and only the Address Book wil be iSynced

question : how can I make iCal-syncing available ??

step-by-step solution :

STEP 1 : make sure your Bluetooth connection is properly setup (if the Address Book syncs, your okay)

STEP 2 : find the file [harddisk] / Library / Application Support / SyncService / 501 / SymbianConduitDefaults.plist

STEP 3 : duplicate this file and move the duplicate to a different location (i.e. a backup location)

STEP 4 : open the original SymbianConduitDefaults.plist with the TextEdit application

STEP 5 : edit the line

<key>kNSSyncDeviceUSeCalendars</key> <false/>

into

<key>kNSSyncDeviceUSeCalendars</key> <true/>

STEP 6 : save the edited file

STEP 7 : open iSync and click on the Nokia3650 icon to open the stettings tab for the Nokia3650

STEP 8 : UNcheck the option “Contacts” ; now “Calendars” will still stay ‘grayed out’, but the option to select “All” or “Selected” will be available

STEP 9 : set the “Calendars” stettings the way you want them to sync

STEP 10 : (re)check the option “Contacts”

STEP 11 : start syncing by clicking the “Sync Now” icon in the iSync panel

…that’s it. just wait for your calendars to appear on your Nokia3650 now…

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maybe the following is also important to get things working properly (without duplicates) :

STEP 1 – go to iCal and make a new (extra) calendar, name it “input [name of mobile phone]”

STEP 2 – go to iSync and set the Calendar syncing settings to “Selcted” and select ONLY these :

  • the orignal (main) calendars you maintain in iCal ; normally called “Work” and “Home”
  • the extra calendar named “input [name of mobile phone]”

STEP 3 – now, for “Put events created on [mobile phone] into” select “input [name of mobile phone]”

STEP 4 – repeat these 3 steps for your Palm and for any other device you want to sync with iSync (do NOT forget to UNcheck “All” and check ONLY the appropriate calendars in “Selected”) so finally every device should have it’s own ‘input calendar’ in iCal

STEP 5 – now start syncing using the “Sync Now” button in iSync (or if you’re including a Palm into your syncing, sync from the “HotSync” option on your Palm)

the original post(s) can be found here :

http://archive.macfixitforums.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/107786

Old School Mac [1] : share internet among OSX-Windows-OS9

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— THIS IS A REPOST FROM LONG WAY BACK ; JUST FOR ENTERTAINMENT — ORIGINALLY POSTED ON MACFIXIT IN 2003

I finally figured out how to share the cable internet connection from my OSX-G4 with my WinMe-PC and my old OS9-Mac !! (without a Router !! – just a Hub !!)

NOTE : I only tested this with WinMe, but it should work with any Win-version from Win95 onwards (because Win95/98/98SE/Me are all from the same OS-family and WinXP is also quite similar – even a little easier on networking)

Here’s how to do it :

STEP 1 : HARDWARE SETUP

  • connect the incoming UTP-cable to the Build-in Ethernet-card on the G4
  • connect the UTP-cable for local networking from the G4’s 2nd Ethernet-card to the Hub
  • connect another UTP-cable from the PC to the Hub
  • connect yet another UTP-cable from the OS9-Mac to the Hub
  • IMPORTANT : make sure that all UTP-cables are connected to ‘normal’ Hub-ports ; do not connect to the Uplink-port, because that will prevent from using the Network-printer

STEP 2 : OSX INTERNET-CONNECTION VIA BUILT-IN ETHERNET-CARD SETUP

  • go to Apple Menu / System Preferences / Network / Built-in Ethernet
  • in TCP/IP : choose ‘Using DHCP’
  • in PPPoE : leave all alone
  • in AppleTalk : choose ‘Off’ [uncheck switch]
  • in Proxies : choose ‘Use Passive…’

STEP 3 : OSX LOCAL NETWORK (LAN)-CONNCETION VIA 2ND ETHERNET-CARD SETUP

  • go to Apple Menu / System Preferences / Network / … [name of 2nd Ethernet-card]
  • in TCP/IP : type IP Address = 192.168.0.1 [or any alternative you choose]
  • in TCP/IP : type Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0
  • in PPPoE : leave all alone
  • in AppleTalk : choose ‘On’ [check switch]
  • in Proxies : choose ‘Use Passive…’

STEP 4 : OSX LOCAL NETWORK (LAN)-CONNECTION FIREWALL SETUP

  • go to Apple Menu / System Preferences / Sharing / Firewall
  • put Firewall ‘On’
  • add ‘New’ to open an extra connection port
  • click ‘Other’ and type the Port Number that is needed to connect to your Internet Service Provider (ISP)’s Proxy [e.g. 80] -> give this new port a Description [e.g. your ISP’s name]
  • go to Apple Menu / System Preferences / Sharing / Internet
  • put Internet Sharing ‘On’

STEP 5 : WIN-ME (PC) LOCAL NETWORK (LAN)-CONNECTION SETUP

  • go to Start / Preferences / Configuration Panes / Network / Configuration
  • select ‘TCP/IP -> …’ [for your Ethernet-card]
  • select ‘Configure’ : a window ?TCP/IP? opens
  • in IP-address : choose ‘manually configure IP-address’
  • type IP-address = 192.168.0.2 [or any other IP-address you choose]
  • type Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0
  • in WINS : leave all alone
  • in Gateway : add 192.168.0.1 [the IP-address of the interent-connected OSX-Mac]
  • in DNS-configuration : choose ‘activate DNS’
  • type Host = … [network-name of the OSX-Mac]
  • type Domain = … [network-name ot the Workgroup both the OSX-Mac and PC are part of]
  • add all (normally 2) DNS-server IP-addresses your ISP has provided
  • in Bindings : check both ‘File- and Printer-sharing’ and ‘Client for Microsoft Networks’
  • in Advanced : leave all alone
  • in NetBIOS : leave all alone

STEP 6 : WIN-ME (PC) INTERNET BROWSER SETUP

  • go to Start / Applications / Internet Explorer / Extra / Internet Options
  • in Connections : choose ‘LAN-configuration’
  • in LAN-Configuration : uncheck ‘automatically detect…’
  • in LAN-Configuration : uncheck ‘use automatic configuration script’
  • in LAN-Configuration : check ‘use Proxy
  • type Address = … [the Proxy-IP-address your ISP has provided]
  • type Port = … [the Proxy Port-number your ISP has provided]
  • check ‘do not use Proxy for local …’

STEP 7 : OS9-MAC SETUP

  • go to Apple Menu / Control Panels / TCP/IP
  • choose ‘Configure Manually’
  • type IP Address = 192.168.0.3 [or any other IP-address you choose]
  • type Subnet Mask = 255.255.255.0
  • type Router = 192.168.0.1 [the IP-address of the OSX-Mac]
  • type Nameserver Address = … [the DNS-server IP-addresses your ISP has provided]
  • choose ‘Options’
  • check Make Active ‘Always’
  • go back – choose ‘Info’
  • see if all settings are made correctly
  • go to Internet Explorer / Edit / Preferences / Proxies
  • check ?Web Proxy?
  • type Web Proxy = …. [the Proxy-IP-address your ISP has provided]
  • type Port = … [the Proxy Port-number your ISP has provided]
  • check ?Always Use Web Proxy?

…that’s it – it’s that simple (looking back solutions always seem obvious…)

…but there’s one little flaw : MacOSX 10.2 “Jaguar” automatically turns off Internet Sharing on restart… only upgrading to MacOSX 10.3 “Panther” will fix that…

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in this setup, it’s also very easy to make your PC’s harddisk(s), CDromplayer(s) and floppydisk available for MacOSX :

  • on the Windows Desktop go to ‘My Computer’
  • right-click the icon of the disk or drive you would like to share
  • in the pull-down menu that appears, select ‘Share…’
  • under the Share-tab, select ‘Shared as’
  • type Sharename = … [anything you like]
  • select Access Type = Full
  • click ‘OK’

…now ‘a hand’ has appeared under the icon, meaning this is a ‘shared disk’

to connect from MacOSX :

  • go to Finder / Go / Connect to Server… [or type Apple-K while in the Finder]
  • type Address = smb://192.168.0.2 [the PC’s IP-address]

…and you get a pop-up window asking you which PC-‘shared disk’ to mount

the original post(s) can be found here :

http://archive.macfixitforums.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/483947/site_id/1#import