Here's an interesting one.

Alright I have a PC-CAM 300, yes, ancient.
It has a microphone, when it's not docked and I record videos, the videos have sound.
I've been looking and so far I see no documentation on this, but is it possible to use the webcam as a microphone for my PC?
I know a few people who have done it before, but not with the webcam I have.
But what they've done, is they have usb webcams, and they are simply able to use those webcams as if they were microphones in any application that makes use of a microphone, be it MSN, Teamspeak, Ventrilo, Skype, or anything else.
are there any drivers or software that allow for this with the PC-Cam?

Squeaky chirpy noises are normal on many modern computers, it's usually caused by mechanical vibration in power circuits. My powerbook makes faint noises both when the graphics chip is doing something and when i use the airport connection.
I also have a PC with a geforce 6800gt, it makes even louder bleeps and chirps when it's thinking.. since it eats even more power than the powerbook.
It's harmless though, but when you're cursed with good hearing you'll have to live with it. I'm guessing you hear whining TV sets everywhere, too? (I do, and it's frustrating when you ask other people if they hear that awful noise and they go "hear what?")

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My friend wanted to create a new iCloud account that was different to her iTunes and app one when she deleted her iCloud account that was the same as her iTunes it won't let her log into her iTunes one now what can I do to fix it she has paid or apps and songs and of she makes another account everything will be lost.
Need help please :) thanks

Ah thanks Razmee however there is NO option to delete the iCloud account in settings!

How do i get both mine and my wifes iPhones to photo stream. hers is the only one doing it

how do i get both mine and my wifes iPhones to photo stream. hers is the only one doing it

The best way is to not share Apple IDs but also make sure under Settings & Messages on both devices that only one phone number is checked.

[svn:bz-trunk] 20754: My latest EndpointPushNotifier change changed the style of the code quite a bit (sorry for that, it was my IDE settings getting in the loop here) I only changed one char line 389.

Revision: 20754
Revision: 20754
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2011-03-10 03:36:05 -0800 (Thu, 10 Mar 2011)
Log Message:
My latest EndpointPushNotifier change changed the style of the code quite a bit (sorry for that, it was my IDE settings getting in the loop here) I only changed one char line 389.
Modified Paths:
    blazeds/trunk/modules/core/src/flex/messaging/client/EndpointPushNotifier.java

I seem to have fixed it by putting <div class="clearfloat"></div> after the navigation bar?

Here's an unusual one: RecenMacbook Pro has installation message on shutdown?

Here's an unusual one: Recently my Macbook Pro Mid 2010 Intel Core Duo (OS10.8.5) displays this message upon shutdown or restart:
Continue the Installation?
Yes / Abort. I am not installing anything at the time. In fact I always quit all Applications before shutting down.I sometimes click abort, never "Continue" or it goes away by itself in 15 seconds or so and shuts down normally. Ideas?
Not so concerned as curious...No ill effects that I see.

You may have partially installed the "Genieo" or "InstallMac" ad-injection malware. Follow the instructions on this Apple Support page to remove it.
Back up all data before proceeding.
Malware is always changing to get around the defenses against it. In addition to the files listed in the support article, you may also have to remove the following in the same way:
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.Installer.completer.download.plist
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.Installer.completer.ltvbit.plist
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.Installer.completer.update.plist
~/Library/Application Support/IM.Installer/Completer.app
One of the steps in the article is to remove malicious Safari extensions. Do the equivalent in the Chrome and Firefox browsers, if you use either of those.
After removing the malware, remember to reset your home page in all the web browsers affected, if it was changed.
If you don't find any of the files or extensions listed, or if removing them doesn't stop the ad injection, then you may have one of the other kinds of adware covered by the support article. Follow the rest of the instructions in the article.
If you find Apple's instructions too hard to follow, ask for an alternative that doesn't require you to trust a black-box application without knowing what it does.
Make sure you don't repeat the mistake that led you to install the malware. Chances are you got it from an Internet cesspit such as "Softonic" or "CNET Download." Never visit either of those sites again. You might also have downloaded it from an ad in a page on some other site. The ad would probably have included a large green button labeled "Download" or "Download Now" in white letters. The button is designed to confuse people who intend to download something else on the same page. If you ever download a file that isn't obviously what you expected, delete it immediately.
In the Security & Privacy pane of System Preferences, select the General tab. The radio button marked Anywhere should not be selected. If it is, click the lock icon to unlock the settings, then select one of the other buttons. After that, don't ignore a warning that you are about to run or install an application from an unknown developer.
Still in System Preferences, open the App Store or Software Update pane and check the box marked
Install system data files and security updates (OS X 10.10 or later)
or
Download updates automatically (OS X 10.9 or earlier)
if it's not already checked.

Using the app "find my I Phone"....is there a way I am able to add my step daughters phone to mine if her mother already has one set w her phone?

Using the app "find my I Phone"....is there a way I am able to add my step daughters phone to mine if her mother already has one set w her phone?
I have my children's phones downloaded and working properly using the " Find my I Phone"

For you to be able to use "find my iPhone" to find your children's devices, you would need to have their appleID and password - and enter it each time. You can only locate one at a time.
You may find better results using "find my friends", as you can display multiple devices in the single app.
You will need to download find my friends on all the devices, and add & accept the requests, but then you would be able to see everyone.

HP Officejet Pro L7580- here's a new one for HP Mac Architect

So like all the other disgruntled HP users who foolishly installed 10.5 when it was released, I have been without a scanner ever since. Until three days ago, however, I've been able to print, as the driver for the L7580 was included in Leopard. Now, whenever I try to print a document, the print queue opens and the job says "stopped", which, incidentally, is the same thing that happens when I send a print job to my other once-was-a-printer-now-just-a-giant-waste-of-space, the Canon LBP5000. I've racked my brain trying to think if I've done something to trigger this, pestered the HP call in support center, installed, uninstalled and installed the printer again, restarted, replaced the USB cable- anything I can think of. Nothing works. I run a small business and while it's been a huge inconvenience to lose my not so inexpensive scanner, I've made due with an old one waiting for HP to get their act together and release software that actually works with 10.5. Needless to say, I cannot work without a printer. Am I going to have to go back to Tiger now? Spend untold thousands of dollars on a printer that probably won't work with leopard anyway? Can anyone advise? HP Mac Architect?

Try this for a Quick Fix ...........
After reading other forum comments from people having the same problem with the yellow cartridge popping-out, combined with others who have realised that HP have no interest in compensating anyone for this rediculous example of, at best, 'bad design', or at worst 'blatent planned obsolescence', I have created a 'quick fix' that may add another 1, 2 or more years of life to the HP Officejet Pro L7580 Printer.
This is not the elegant technical solution I was hoping for. However, in hindsight, it may prove to be a more reliable solution than replacing the faulty part that is actually causing the problem. So, here it is the Quick Fix ........
I found a wooden triangular door stop that I cut to size that fitted exactly in the space between the plastic door and the offending yellow cartridge. To hold it in place, I wrapped the doorstop with 2" cellotape, then I stuck the door stop to the inside of the plastic door with double sided cellotape (double sided stick-on foam would also work well). With the doorstop in the correct place, the plastic door closed perfectly and was snug enough to apply sufficent pressure to the offending yellow cartridge, and hence stopping it from popping out again. To make sure the plastic door does not 'fly open' with the pressure of the yellow cartridge (when it wants to pop out!), I applied another piece of 2" cellotape around the outside of the door, holding it to the body of the photocopier.
This exercise only took 10-15 mins to do. I feel this is a much better option than spending another $300+ on a new All-in-One system, as well as being a good environmental solution. If this is DELIBERATE 'planned obsolescence', companies like HP need to be more accountable for, at best, 'sloppy design'. Any feedback would be appreciated.

One of the computers on my homesharing network is automatically downloading purchases even though settings are not checked for this to occur? What am I missing here? BTW only one of the three computers (pc) is doing this.

We have three computers (two pcs and one mac) on our home sharing network. When I buy a song on my pc it is automatically downloading it to my husband's pc - but not my daugher's mac. The settings on each library do not indicate any items should automatically download. What am I missing here? This is a relatively recent thing I just noticed. It was not always happening in this way. Help. Both pcs are on Windows 7. Thanks in advance for any help. My husband and I don't always like the same songs so I need help to get back to marital bliss....

I think I found the answer to my own problemin case anyone experienced the same thing. There is a separate spot in itunes under preferences to allow for automatic downloads from other devices. It seems unrelated to home sharing. I unchecked the boxes under the "store" section and that appears to have taken care of the issue.

Here's a bizarre one: Please help!

So I have a really strange problem with my AT&T iPhone and how it displays text messages:
I first notcied the problem on my iPhone 3Gs a few months ago and when I upgraded my plan and switched over to the new iPhone 4s, the problem was still there- so I'm just assuming, right off the bat- it's a software issue and NOT a hardware issue.
Here's the deal:
I get text messages all the time like everyone else. I hate when the convos start to pile up so I delete them after a while. Well, I deleted a converstaion I had between my cousin and I (as well as all the others) so that nothing was present in my text messaging screen. A few minutes later, my husband texted me and when I went back to the main section that shows all of your convos with everyone- as I was planning on deleting that convo with him- I noticed my texts between my cousin and I were back on the screen- even though I know I deleted them.
Funny thing is- the texts did not reappear as "new" text messages or alert me. There was no blue bubble next to them. It was as if I had already read them and never deleted them. But I did delete them. How did they magically reappear?
Well- this continued every other day where I would delete them again and then someone else would text me and when I looked back on the main text messaging screen- her texts were back again. This happens not every day- sometimes 3 days apart. And sometimes it can happen 3 times in one hour! AND! It doesn't necessarily take someone else to send me a text to have her convo appear again, Sometimes- without even getting any new messages- I look and where there was once a blank text messaging screen- now all of a sudden her texts appear.
Sometimes it's just the last text she sent to me or I sent to her and sometimes it's our entire convo at that moment. And when she does send me a new text and we write back and forth, I delete them of course, and then when they start to appear- it will be the most recent convo we had- so it's always the most recent messages.
I have called AT&T asking them to resend a signal to my phone to try and clear whatever "cashe" they tell me their system doesn't work that way and they can't figure out why I'm having this problem. I stumped them so much with this issue that they had all their higher ups in the tech deptartment trying to figure it out and they couldn't. The only option they said was to go to an Apple store and get a new phone. Problem is- this issue was happening on my 3Gs as well as my new 4s so I don't think it's the phone itself.
Here's what I've tried to fix the situation:
1. I deleted my cousin as a contact in my phone. Then I reprogrammed her in as a new contact. That didn't do anything.
2. I called her and asked her to delete me as a contact in her phone as well as delete any messages she has from me. By the way- she is using a Sprint Blackberry. That didn't work.
3. AT&T suggested I restore my phone but that hasn't worked.
Any of you smart Apple geniuses know why this keeps happening? It's more annoying than anything- only because I like to delete texts when I'm done with them- that's just the kind of person I am. Now I constantly get her old messages popping up and no matter how many times I delete- they always come back.
If anyone else has had this issue- please let me know. Thanks so much!!!

I agree with you- I do think it's an iCloud issue only because I updated my 3Gs with the new iCloud service and new software update and that's when I started having this issue. I never had an issue before that. And it sounds like an iCloud issue because it reappears even after it was deleted.
AT&T told me they do NOT see these reappear messages on my phone bill- so I know they are not coming through as new texts and I am not being charged for them. In fact, it only seems to be something that happens on my phone- since the service provider cannot even see the action happening on their end.
Of course- I have the same issue when I switched to my 4s, hence why I don't think it has to do with the hardware of the phone or AT&T's service.
BUT! My cousin has a Sprint Blackberry- so these are not iPhone to iPhone blue iMessages. They are the basic, plan old text messages- green. So weird right??? I have a MacBook Pro at home- but I didn't know that iCloud was even able to sync text messages? If so- how do I turn that feature off? Should I just disable my iCloud service? How do I do that?

HT5900 Hi I am in Ireland and while apple tv is very limited over here I still have one, My request please can u update apple tv to work as the app store I already subscribe to app which are not available in the updates you release can you fix this please

Can you update the video and Tv series abilities of apple tv in Ireland

First, not all features are available in all regions. This is clearly stated on the Apple website.
Second, these are user to user support forums. No one here has any control over what is available on the ATV.

Here's a strange one...I have 16.0.0.305, but not always?

I suddenly started getting notes flash up telling me I needed Flash Player to access a particular function on my PC. Strange, I thought, I always keep it up to date.
Long story short, I have endlessly updated, checked it's getting past my anti-virus etc, checked it's working...it's is. Yet now I have a non-conformist printer refusing
to co-operate because 'I need to install Flash Player'.
I have 16.0.0.305 version downloaded...everything is working fine, except for my printer now. The msg says that I don't have the correct version for IE. But I don't use IE, I use Firefox, and my printer has
worked perfectly up to this point. I use Windows 7.
The error msg is:
Your version of Macromedia Flash ActiveX Control isn't compatible with this version of Windows.
Server Error in '/' Application.
The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.
Requested URL: /Responses/survey.aspx/20691/9/2/embeded
I don't quite know what to do now as, apart from the printer telling me to install Flash Player, Flash Player is performing perfectly. Any IT sleuths there that can suggest next step?

Well, I'm going to answer my own post here. After hitting google and discovering I'm not alone in this issue, I found the answer.
Go to: Thank you for downloading DownloadX ActiveX Download Control from CNET Download.com
Install Active X.
Lord knows how it dropped out....but it's back and all is working.

Here's an Odd one: Microsoft Excel 2010 Workbook "randomly" Becoming Protected

Either there are gnomes in our servers, someone is lying, or some sort of glitch is causing this issue (and honestly I'm not even sure which is most likely), but here's my story:
User is working on an excel workbook. This user accesses this file all the time with little to no problems. One day a week or two ago the user finds the workbook is password protected, but doesn't even know how to do this, much less remembers locking it.
My boss restores a backup of said document that is not password protected. User is able to access file, edit it, save it, etc.
The next day that same file (and only that file) is locked for the second time. We use a back door method and save a new copy with a new filename. User edits file, saves it, etc.
The next day that same file (and yes, only that file) is locked for the third time.
Am I crazy? Is someone lying to me? Do gnomes really go inside computers and wreak havoc to make me lose my sanity?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
I have the file and plan on saving an unlocked copy locally to see if the issue presents itself again.
Windows 7 computer running Office 2010; Windows 2012 server

Have you got over this odd issue yet?
If this workbook is saved in a shared drive, maybe you need to track who uses the excel file.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18319162/how-do-i-track-who-uses-my-excel-spreadsheet

Here's a different one for you...

I have an original iphone which i have had very little, if any problems. I updated to the 2.0.2 software that came out recently and everything was once again going fine. Here's where it gets interesting.
Two days ago, the bottom row of icons (phone, mail, safari, ipod) stopped responding. All of the other icons on both screen pages work fine. The "slide to unlock" works fine. I have noticed when I go to settings, the bottom icon doesn't respond in any screen either. Luckily, I can still use the phone through contacts and can still receive calls, but with no luck using the "end call" button.
I've read several of the posts in these discussions and have tried the reset, hard reset, restore, reinstall of 2.0.2. I know I'm not crazy, these icons don't work! Anyone out there ever had this happen or have any suggestions?

I would suggest an appointment at the Genius Bar and see what they can do for you.

Here's A Weird One For Y'all

So, because I'm using Apple TV at home with an old Sony TV, I had to buy an HDMi to DVI-D cable then realized that the TV didn't have a digital audio input. I then purchased an Optical audio in to RCA out converter and installed it. (Haven't got it to work yet. When I click the buttons on the remote control, I hear that through the TV but when I play a movie or iTunes, I hear nothing). Anyway . . .
Later that day, I'm recording a session in my studio on my iMac using ProTools 9 and I'm laying down a guitar part to a song that's been recorded for almost a month. I'm scratching my head because after tuning the guitar at concert pitch, it's totally out of tune with the track. Not knowing what to do, I tune the guitar to the track, play my part and I'm done with it. Afterwards, I use X-Form to tune an 808 kick drum (not bcz it was out of tune, I just did it for another reason).
I turn on the vocal tracks and realize that they sound awful. The pitch is lower and they sounbd as if they'd been heavily processed with a bad version of Auto Tune. I start checking my system to figure out what the hecks gone a miss. I look at Elastic Audio, X-Form etc. I check the Preferences, restart my computer and even open up previous auto saved versions of the song. Nothing's wrong. For the life of me I'm stumped so I go the Avid website and try describe my situation and nothing really comes up but out of the corner of my eye I see someone has written about clocking issues and sample rates. Bingo! I'm reminded how changing the sample rate of a sesion (say from 48 kHz to 44.1 kHz) will drastically affect the pitch and tempo of an audio file if it's not first converted to whatever format you wish to change it to.
Then I remember (but am very doubtful this has anything to do with my problem) I had switched the audio selection in my Apple TV Menu to 16 bit (instead of auto) in order to see if it helped my Apple TV audio problem). All along I'm thinking well, this is stupid. How would switching my Apple TV audio affect ProTools on my iMac? They're not connected! I still don't know the answer, however when I switched the audio menu back to "Auto" from 16bit, Protools played back my track perfectly in tune. Somehow, switching the Apple TV audio to 16 bit also converted my ProTools session from 48 kHz to 44.1kHz!!! I have no clue how that happened.
Anyone else ever come across this weird phenomenon?

Hi Willi,
Thankyou so much for pointing out the error of my ways....
You are obviously an expert, but one does have to ask are you the expert in: what is appropriate / required for my business, for this particular job, with this particular client or this particular printer (as specified by the client)? Are you the expert in the options available to me in regional Australia?
Yet you can decide that my workflow is wrong when you have no idea of all this; or the final output for the file. I also publish eBooks and interactive workbooks for students and guess what, for those I don't use PS. For some jobs one has no choice but to go with the clients choices, they are the ones paying the money after all. I know that this workflow is not the most efficient, however it was the choice available to me.
I posted the original question as I had never seen the problem of a single page disappearing, thought it was interesting and that others may have had the same / similar problems and would therefore find constructive answers interesting.

Here is an odd one

my brother-in-law in maine just got verizon DSL (after suffering with dial-up for a long time). connects to the internet fine. mail works fine. firefox works just fine. but safari will not connect. if he tries www.apple.com he gets apple.com server not found.
this one has me stumped. any ideas?

I also live in Maine and just got Verizon DSL which is supposed to be SCREAMING fast, but no-it takes 3-4 minutes to load a page in either Safari or Firefox. I've verified and repaired permissions and see no difference. Verizon says its my computer, not them. Any tips on where to go from here? My computer did crash after the 10.5.2 update and I had to have everything retrieved and reinstalled. But it seems to be working fine, if a bit slower.

Here's an interesting one.

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