Anyone with a iMac (iSight) and a Harmony remote??

Today I went out an bought a USB IrDA receiver. I installed it on my powerbook and system profiler sees it as a USB/IrDA bus!!!
Now next experiment is to try and see if it will work with Apple remote. I don't own one. But I do own a Harmony 659. If someone owns a harmony remote and can teach it a new device called Frontrow then I can try and see if this setup works. If this works then it could mean a feasible solution for a decent front row mased Home Theater setup.
./sherif

I have an early 1.6Ghz iMac G5 running 10.4.11 and have no real problems with Studio. Not that I am pushing it. I intend to buy a new iMac rather than upgrade to Leopard. I've been using Macs since 85 and have always found that a new OS on a 2 years old or more machine just kills it. I'll keep the old one a month or two as well just to make sure everything works out. Then, the joy of Apple, you can sell it and get a silly price on ebay - try selling a 3 year old PC!
PS you'll get a copy of Tiger cheap on ebay now

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Thanks..

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Greetings,
I couldn't really find a really good spot to post this question so if anyone can help me out I would appreciate it. I have recently received my new beautiful iMac which now completely supports all my needs together with my G4 powerbook.
I have a fairly new Dell PC (2 years old) that I plan to sell to replace with a simple inexpensive "usable" laptop for some work that requires a windows PC. I am researching getting an external Firewire Harddrive to use between all computers to back up work and documents since most people tell me I need Firewire, not USB 2.0.
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Hello,
i have a problem with my iChat, iChat said that no camera is connected, but the built-in iSight works with Photobooth!
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I closed all other Aplications like Photobooth, iMovie and so on,
than i checked the activity monitor.
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You may wish to try the following:
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8. Restart your computer.
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Hi,
I'm due to have a video conference in a few days and I suddenly realized that one of us has a PC and two of us have iMacs. If the PC user were to get AIM, would it be possible for her to communicate with the two of us and can the two of us communicate with and see her? We live in 3 separate areas so we will be using three separate computers. If it is possible to do this, what do we all need to do? Also, I have iChat 5.0 and the other iMac user has whatever came with Tiger. I have done three way video conferences before without a problem but we've all had iChat. Thanks in advance.
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Hi
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