Yep, I mostly use it for digitizing my Hi-8 tapes. But I did shoot a brief vlog about the Digital8 format using that camcorder for my YouTube channel...
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I will be getting these soon. Got for free + cost of shipping off of reddit. Score!
I saw that post over on VintageApple! I'm jealous for that CS5 box set. Hard to come by.
LOL!!!! The guy on Reddit let you have all of it? Too cool! Saw his post.
Yep. I did sweeten the pot a little though. Everyone else wanted to pick it apart and only wanted certain things. I offered to take it all and added a little extra $ to the shipping costs for good measure. 
That's not a score, that's a jackpot. CS5 alone is (but it may be a student/teacher or upgrade version)
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Yeah, that big “STOP” sign is a giveaway.If you look close it is a Student/Teacher version...
Still a great find though.
I ran in to a small hiccup after install (mates compositor was enabled with settings my geforce 6600 didn't like), but i got Fienix 5.1 installed and running on my PM G5 11,2. It's new installer iso makes install / partitioning a breeze, and it uses yaboot rather than grub, so it actually boots after install unlike Debian's last few isos. It also automatically detected my tiger and leopard installs and added them to the boot menu.
I've decided to destress and have a little fun building a web 1.1 website with iweb on my ibookg4. Ive been enjoying it so far. The big challenge I have found is figuring out how to get all of my phone pics nor icloud which will not sync to the ibook off my phone and onto my ibook so I can use them when I want to. I have settled on breaking out my ancient sony Cybershot DSC-S30 1.3mp circa 2000 digital camera to to take pictures and build with that source. So in that regard it is fun to revisit old, era appropriate hard ware to accomplish things.
Anyone have any slick ideas on how to get photos off a current iphone or icloud and onto an g1 airport time capsule NAS that the ibook does see & connect to or onto the old ibook g4 itself?
Anyone have any slick ideas on how to get photos off a current iphone or icloud and onto an g1 airport time capsule NAS that the ibook does see & connect to or onto the old ibook g4 itself?
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Sorry, I've never used iCloud but once you have the photos you might want to consider batch processing them en masse in Photoshop or similar - if they're .heif images from a later iPhone the iBook won't like them, besides that, resampling to a smaller size will be Web 1.1 appropriate. Good luck
Missed this earlier or would have responded earlier.
I use FE File Explorer Pro on my iPhone and iPad. It's $5, but you can access the computers on your network with it and transfer photos directly from your photo library to any shared folder or drive.
FE supports SMB, FTP and a bunch of Cloud storage (like Dropbox). It also supports iCloud Drive.
Just share a folder or your iBook drive, add it to FE and then you can copy to and from. The iPhone and the iBook must be on the same network BTW. Won't work over cellular.
I believe they have a free option, but I'm not sure if you can do anything that I said above with the free option.
I will give that a shot. If it works out, definitely worth the $5.00 bucks & an app I’ll probably be using quite a lot to move files around on my network.
Well, to be sure I wasn't blowing smoke I tried it before telling you. Normally I just use FE to open a file on my Mac using my iPad. That's usually when I'm upstairs in bed and I've got a Word file I want to look out that's…downstairs.
Anyway, I was able to drop a pic right from my camera roll on to my MacPro desktop. So, yeah, worth $5 I think.
Just been trying the app on my M1 iPad. Strangely, it doesn't seem to allow me to access my smb server Mac Mini. I tried to connect to it using the NAS option, and as macOS, but both said Permission Denied. Weird.
I did manage to get it working, but only by setting up the Server as an external location in the Apple Files app, then selected "external location" in FE.
My iPad is 6th gen and it's running iOS 16 Beta, but my iPhone is iOS 15 (11 Pro Max). No idea if that makes a difference. I would have installed the app probably when iOS 12 was out, so haven't messed with any settings lately. I'll take a look later and see if I can add a new computer and what happens.
Yeah, just added my NAS (as a NAS) and had no issues.
What happens if you try to add your Mini as Windows?
EDIT: Also just added my G4. It's filesharing via AFP and SMB. Leopard 10.5.8. No issues.
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Not played a lot with my PPCs lately... Bt yesterday, browsing this site, I remembered I have one QuickCam.
This model :
So let's try it. Mine would take only the oldest drivers version found on the MacGarden, and wouldn't work on Mac OS9. After fiddlings with what serial port to select in the preferences (Printer or Modem, on a PDQ), finally got it to work :
Like a jump in time to the first ages of photography There is no auto-focus, so you have to turn the "lens" ring slowly (as the refresh rate at full scale/full colours is so slow as on the screenshot above) to get something barely clear... But there is a lot possible of settings in the preferences, fun.
So far best I could get is this one, colour at half size :
There is also the option to capture a QuickTime... Mmmh, more a 5 frames per sec kind of thing and it crashes the computer when I try to save it .
Got me interested in these gadgets, found out there was some versions in black and in USB. now that would be cool for a Pismo...
Cheers!
This model :
So let's try it. Mine would take only the oldest drivers version found on the MacGarden, and wouldn't work on Mac OS9. After fiddlings with what serial port to select in the preferences (Printer or Modem, on a PDQ), finally got it to work :
Like a jump in time to the first ages of photography
There is no auto-focus, so you have to turn the "lens" ring slowly (as the refresh rate at full scale/full colours is so slow as on the screenshot above) to get something barely clear... But there is a lot possible of settings in the preferences, fun.So far best I could get is this one, colour at half size :
There is also the option to capture a QuickTime... Mmmh, more a 5 frames per sec kind of thing
and it crashes the computer when I try to save it .Got me interested in these gadgets, found out there was some versions in black
and in USB. now that would be cool for a Pismo...
Cheers!
I think you will find a USB one with much better specs than the antiquity I'm playing with@galgot
Funny coincidence, I'm looking for some info about compatible web-cams (thinking about some external USB for my A1342, built-in not something useful)
Anyways... found a black USB QuickCAm like the picture above, 6,99 $ ! But 34 $ for shipping to France, argggg...
I'd take the first Connectix QuickCam that was black-n-white and used a parallel port over the later colour USB stuff any day@galgot
Funny coincidence, I'm looking for some info about compatible web-cams (thinking about some external USB for my A1342, built-in not something useful)
These sometimes pop up for pennies....@galgot
Funny coincidence, I'm looking for some info about compatible web-cams (thinking about some external USB for my A1342, built-in not something useful)
That is very odd. I wonder if it's to do with your iPad being more modern…
My iPad is a 6th Gen and my iPhone is an 11 Pro Max.
You aren't using different subnets on your network are you?