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Connecting a USB 3 hard drive to a Mac Mini
I've got a USB 3 external hard drive and a Mac Mini 2012 with USB 3 ports. If I want to get USB 3 speeds on the hard drive, I assume I need a special USB 3 cable with the blue inserts. They seem to be ...
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How can I get the iMac to recognize a wired mouse after disconnecting the bluetooth mouse?
So my bluetooth mouse is working fine but my kids forget to turn it off and I'm using too many batteries. I've decided to switch to a wired mouse but can't get the Mac to recognize it. It acts as if ...
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"Not Charging" Displayed When Charging iPad On Computer - Windows 7
I've seen many people say that it is due to the USB port not giving off enough power, which I really don't think is true, as I have a Mac with two operating Systems (Mac OSX and Windows 7).
I just ...
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Why do macs require to eject usb, but windows and linux dont?
Why do macs require a usb drive to be ejected, but windows and linux do not? Is a umount occuring on the mac?...if so why doesnt linux need a umount?...also if so, what is the windows equivalent of ...
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CCTV BNC to usb for mac
I was wondering what is the best way to connect a CCTV camera with BNC cables to a Mac computer.
I tried to go BNC TO VGA but the VGA port on my computer seems only to be an output and not an input.
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Making a bootable OSX USB from dmg on Linux
I have 2 machines - a MacBook Pro and a desktop running Fedora, I have a USB drive and a OSX 10.8 dmg. The MacBook won't boot into OSX unfortunately, I'm trying to make a bootable mac usb to recover ...
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Reading an external Mac hard disk from Windows
I changed to Windows 7 64bit from a Mac. Unfortunately Windows will not read the external hard disk I was using for my Mac.
How can I start using the disk from Windows without deleting the files?
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What exactly happens when a USB device is ejected on a Mac?
When a USB device is ejected using the GUI in Finder, what exactly happens at a low level? Are there certain signals sent to the device?
The reason I am asking is because I am trying to emulate ...
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How to install OSX Lion onto a Macbook Air from USB drive without any OS already on the system?
For whatever reason, I have recently come into an early 2008 Macbook Air which has had its hard drive wiped completely, so there is no OS on there currently. How do I install OSX Lion or Windows 7/8 ...
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Connecting to a 2.5" laptop drive using USB
So I swapped my MBP hard drive with a SSD drive, and I want to connect to my old hard drive.
I bought a nextstar 3 external 2.5" drive enclosure that has a USB 2.0 interface. I watched an online ...
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Mac Boot USB Mountain Lion Prohibitary Sign
I have a Mountain Lion InstallESD.dmg
I also have a iMac 2007 model which I used an old install disk (incompatible) to access it's disk utility.
I removed everything from my internal HD and ...
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Fast USB switch to share keyboard and mouse (like KVM) [closed]
I use a DeLOCK USB 2.0 Sharing Switch 2 - 1 to share my keyboard and mouse between my iMac (which is running Windows 7 natively through Bootcamp) and my Mac Mini.
Switching from the iMac/Win7 to the ...
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Can I make a Smart Card using a flash drive?
I want to require a user to plug in a flash drive before letting them authenticate with his/her password.
Are there any solutions that work well for laptops, preferably Macs?
I'm not looking for a ...
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Low power warning using USB ports on an external keyboard on MacBook Pro
I have a Logitech keyboard which has two USB ports. I am using the keyboard with a MacBook Pro 15" (late 2011).
When I try to use the USB ports on the keyboard (say I plug in my iPhone), I get this ...
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How do I login to my iMac without keyboard and mouse?
I have turned off the bluetooth in my iMac and disabled the USB ports too.
Now i am unable to login to my iMac because the keyboard and mouse are not detected.
Bluetooth is switched off.
USB is ...
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