Helping my daughter with an older mac computer and isight
My oldest daugher and I successfully video chat with our macs and isight cameras,
my younger daugher now has an older laptop
It is a 500mhz Power PC G3. 128 mb and has 10.2.8
will she be able to use the isight camera if the isight camera says it needs
600mhz?
Pam
Hello Jon. It is good of you to recognize that we have departed from the original subject. This has NOTHING to do (insofar as I can understand) with the question Pam originally posted.
(Pam, if you are still reading your thread, please let us know whether your question was "Answered." If not, please post back, and let us know what more you need. We want to get back to your question until your questions are answered. Jim)
Now back to you, Jon. I will offer you this response. If you have more say about how the new Discussions works, please start a new thread, perhaps in the Discussions Feedback > Feedback about New Discussions topic area unless it is better related to something else. If you start a new thread and want us to join you there, perhaps you will link us to your new thread in a final post here.
My "face thing" is my old avatar, unchanged from what I was using before Apple changed the Discussion forum operations on 14 Nov, 2005. The only difference is that my avatar does not fit in the same relative location as it did in the previous Apple Discussions layout.
Posting in the new Discussions has slowed me down, too, but I am not sure I understand the help you are offering me, Jon.
Are you trying to explain how to refer to a specific post inside a thread? For instance, I already know how to create a link so your previous post inside this thread will be at the top of the page when someone clicks on the link.
My biggest problem with the new Discussions is my inability to edit my User Tips. Thus, I cannot correct my old Tips to account for the formatting changes from the pre-14 November version of Discussions. There are also some links and other changes that should be made in my existing "User Tips" on Apple's pages, but Apple have not yet restored our ability to edit the User Tips that were migrated to the new system in the November 2005 change.
Until Apple restores our edit access, my work-around is to offer the corrected version of all my User Tips (and some additional topics) at EZ Jim's iSite. These versions are correct and up to date in the "Topics" posted there. If you find them of value, you have my permission to use them and to link to them in the help you offer to others.
Cheers,
Jim
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