Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-10-09 Thread joe
Sort of on the same issue, does anyone know if there's something different about CNN videos? I do fine with YouTube and most other video formats (and I use ClickToFlash to avoid loading Flash stuff I don't want), but CNN videos play terribly for me. (AGP G4 1.4ghz, 2 gigs, RAM 10.4.11

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 27, 2009, at 2:51 PM, nestamicky wrote: On 09-09-27 02:27 PM, Geke wrote: Like Lyne, I have 896 MB (in my Digital Audio 466), and because it's so cheap now (12$) I just bought a 512MB module to boost the Mac to 1280 MB. (It hasn't arrived yet, so I don't know the difference.) Maybe

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-28 Thread Richard Gerome
-Original Message- From: Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu Sent: Sep 28, 2009 11:47 AM To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: My G4 seems to be running slow On Sep 27, 2009, at 2:51 PM, nestamicky wrote: On 09-09-27 02:27 PM, Geke wrote: Like Lyne, I have 896 MB (in my

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow You Tube

2009-09-27 Thread Michael J. Amato
On Sep 26, 2009, at 5:26 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: Can you download a video from YouTube ? Try this software/ http://www.chimoosoft.com/products/tubetv/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-27 Thread nestamicky
On 09-09-27 02:27 PM, Geke wrote: Like Lyne, I have 896 MB (in my Digital Audio 466), and because it's so cheap now (12$) I just bought a 512MB module to boost the Mac to 1280 MB. (It hasn't arrived yet, so I don't know the difference.) Maybe some experienced guys here could give some hints

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 26, 2009, at 7:32 AM, Nestamicky wrote: Bruce, I agree with you partially. But I also think this problem is caused by Flash 10 on older machines. I think Youtube and other such sites just keep moving along with flash. Actually, no. The 'flash' files served up by Youtube and the like

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 26, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Roger Kulp wrote: I use a G4.I have problems all the time with YouTube rebuffering.It seems to have only happened in the last month or so.Can you download a video from YouTube ? Cosmopod http://www.cocoamug.com is one way. -- Bruce Johnson U of Az College

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-26 Thread Nestamicky
On 9/26/09 3:12 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Can you download a video from YouTube ? And another way that's free is use Firefox and get the VideoDownload Helper plugin. It's really easy to use. It starts to motion if a website has content it can download, click on it when it does it motion and

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-26 Thread Bill Connelly
Can you download a video from YouTube ? Not legally, I don't believe. In Safari, once the YouTube video has started playing, open the Activity window and scroll down to where the video clip is shown to be downloading/playing. Double click that, and a blank Safari window will open, and

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-25 Thread lyne
How do you download video and what is VLC? It's YouTube that runs slow. Other video is not so bad. TV shows bought from iTunes I'll have to check. Last time I got one it ran fine. I'm planning to buy an episode of Ghost Hunters so I'll see if it plays as well as it used to. On Sep 10, 6:09 am,

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-25 Thread iJohn
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:25 AM, lyne chelyh...@gmail.com wrote: ... what is VLC? From the website for VideoLAN - VLC media player VideoLAN is a project, run by volunteers, backed-up by a non-profit organisation, which produces free and open source software for multimedia, released under the

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 24, 2009, at 11:25 PM, lyne wrote: How do you download video and what is VLC? It's YouTube that runs slow. Other video is not so bad. This means your problem isn't the video, it's your network connection. That's the difference between Youtube (and, I'd expect other streamed video

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-11 Thread lyne
Does anyone know of a way to monitor your bandwidth usage? My friend said maybe ATT has just cut back on their bandwidth or speed or whatever and could be causing the slowdown. I'm on ATT DSL. On Sep 10, 8:52 am, lyne chelyh...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I should have said I bought the chip less

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-11 Thread Bill Connelly
On Sep 11, 2009, at 2:19 PM, lyne wrote: Does anyone know of a way to monitor your bandwidth usage? My friend said maybe ATT has just cut back on their bandwidth or speed or whatever and could be causing the slowdown. I'm on ATT DSL. You can test current Upload and Download Speeds this

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-11 Thread Len Gerstel
On Sep 11, 2009, at 8:27 PM, lyne wrote: On Sep 11, 3:30 pm, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: On Sep 11, 2009, at 2:19 PM, lyne wrote: Does anyone know of a way to monitor your bandwidth usage? My friend said maybe ATT has just cut back on their bandwidth or speed or

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-11 Thread Bill Connelly
On Sep 11, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Len Gerstel wrote: On Sep 11, 2009, at 8:27 PM, lyne wrote: On Sep 11, 3:30 pm, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: On Sep 11, 2009, at 2:19 PM, lyne wrote: Does anyone know of a way to monitor your bandwidth usage? My friend said maybe

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-10 Thread lyne
Well, OnyX helped but my video (YouTube, etc) is still choppy. Here's my video card info: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX: Chipset Model:GeForce4 MX Type: Display Bus: AGP Slot: SLOT-1 VRAM (Total): 64 MB Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID:0x0171 Revision ID: 0x00a2 ROM

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-10 Thread iJohn
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:27 AM, lyne chelyh...@gmail.com wrote: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX: ... (snip) ... It isn't more than a year old. Could it be outdated already? Less than a year old??? OK, now I'm confused. The NVIDIA GeForce4 series is around 7 years old. According to the

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-10 Thread Bill Connelly
On Sep 10, 2009, at 8:26 AM, iJohn wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:27 AM, lyne chelyh...@gmail.com wrote: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX: ... (snip) ... It isn't more than a year old. Could it be outdated already? Less than a year old??? OK, now I'm confused. The NVIDIA GeForce4

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-10 Thread Bill Connelly
On Sep 10, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: I think its Flash Player that tries to play back the YouTube video. It has become a cpu hog over the last year or so. So, choppy may be all we can get with our relatively slow cpus inside a browser like my Firefox. My Dual seems to work

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-06 Thread lyne
I have 15 folders on my desktop, mostly with jpg files. I did download CandyBar and found some cute Halloween icons for my desktop. Could that be the problem? I'm an artist and a woman, and maybe it's silly to you guys but I like interesting icons. But if they are slowing down my computer I'll

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-06 Thread Cheryl H
That was going to be my next question, so thanks! On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:01 AM, technophobic_...@comcast.net wrote: On 9/6/09, lyne wrote: I have 15 folders on my desktop, mostly with jpg files. Move the all 15 folders into your documents folder, make aliases of them, and move the

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-06 Thread Bill Connelly
On Sep 6, 2009, at 10:45 AM, lyne wrote: I have 15 folders on my desktop, mostly with jpg files. I did download CandyBar and found some cute Halloween icons for my desktop. Could that be the problem? I'm an artist and a woman, and maybe it's silly to you guys but I like interesting icons.

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-06 Thread James Therrault
On Sep 6, 2009, at 9:45 AM, lyne wrote: I have 15 folders on my desktop, mostly with jpg files. I did download CandyBar and found some cute Halloween icons for my desktop. Could that be the problem? I'm an artist and a woman, and maybe it's silly to you guys but I like interesting icons.

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-05 Thread Bill Connelly
On Sep 5, 2009, at 6:28 PM, cheryl wrote: I am using a Quicksilver 2002, 933mhz with 896mb ram. Lately it's been running slow, especially on the internet. I went through and deleted all the game files I'm not using, etc, but it's still slow. I've run the disk utility. Is there anything

RE: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-05 Thread WhyOSX
There are 1.8 GHz update cards by Sonnet, but they are astronomically expensive - around 250 $ US they reach on the eBay. I'd like to have one for my G4 b/w/733MHz/1GB and can't afford it. Surely a 'full' disk is a little slower at startup, but not after it's completed. Close any application

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-05 Thread lyne
Slow while surfing the web, working with Photoshop Elements, watching video (didn't used to be choppy, now it is). The games I've been running are supposed to be for a faster processor, 1.8ghz, but I have more memory than required and oddly they work pretty well. On Sep 5, 4:30 pm, Kyle Hansen

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-05 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 9/5/09 4:27 PM, WhyOSX phil.desa...@online.de Broadcast into the ether: Slow while doing what? Surfing the web? Everything? Word? Games? --Kyle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-05 Thread Chance Reecher
What kind of video has become choppy? Flash? MP4? H.264? I have a G3 iBook that used to handle Flash video quite well, but that was 2 years ago and through the Flash updates over time it has become unable to play Flash video anymore. Chance On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 7:40 PM, lynechelyh...@gmail.com

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-05 Thread Richard Gerome
Hey Cheryl, Have you done any updates lately??? Sometimes when you do software updates the new updates will slow things down... CoolKat -Original Message- From: cheryl chelyh...@gmail.com Sent: Sep 5, 2009 6:28 PM To: G-Group g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: My G4 seems to

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-05 Thread Paul
Two simple things to try. One is to run some kind of hardware diagnostics. The second is to install your system and one or two main apps on another hard drive and run with just that for a while. If your apps run at their former good speed, that would be a clue. Then if you run Apple Software

Re: My G4 seems to be running slow

2009-09-05 Thread Bill Connelly
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