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RAZR V3m

I recently switched to Verizon Wireless as my provider, and I got a RAZR V3m phone with the contract. I want to upload some songs to my phone via my pc, but none of my USB cables fit in the phone. The manual says I can put songs on my phone if they are in the wma format, so I assume if I convert them to it I will be able to use them as ringtones and have them on my phone, right? But, the manual doesn't specify how to connect it to the computer. Does the phone come with something to connect it to the computer, or do I have to purchase it seperately? Is wma the correct format to put it on the phone? I am feeling rather dull right now. --71.98.26.114 02:56, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

1) If your phone didnt come with a cable you'll have to buy one seperatly. You'll need 'mini-usb' cable. That means that the one side (the side that fits into your phone)is tiny and the other side is regular sized usb. My suggestion is when you go buy the cable take your phone with you because as far as I know, there are two types of mini usb. You have to find out what kind your phone supports.

2) I have just a plain RAZR V3 and mine plays Mp3s. So assuming that you already have mp3s, youll have no need to convert them. — and actually, I've never tried playing a WMA on mine so I cant comment but if the manual says it will play WMA's then it will play WMA's.

Hope that helps.. 165.165.189.28 04:57, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

yellow stuff on word

I let someone edit my word doc and they sent it back with all their yellow changes. That's fine and all, but how do I get rid of the yello!? Jasbutal 03:55, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Yellow journalism ? But seriously, use Tools + Revisions to set whether revisions are shown at all. You can also use Tools + Options + Revisions tab to change how revisions are shown. StuRat 04:07, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

In my version of Word, it's called Track Changes, not Revisions. To get rid of the yellow (which highlights the changes made), you can set Word to either accept the changes, i.e. you say you're happy with them, or you can just view the document with the changes made, but not marked up. To do both these, you first of all need to open the Reviewing toolbar, which you do by going View, Toolbars, Reviewing. Then use the pull-down menu on the left of this toolbar to select Final, which shows the changes without marking them up. To accept the changes, click the little down arrow to the right of the icon with a tick in it, and then click Accept All Changes. --Richardrj ^{talk email} 15:54, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough, I didn't realize they had changed it in later versions. My comments were for Word for Windows 95 version 7.0a. StuRat 00:31, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

You have a pre-Office msword? O_o ebay it man --Froth 23:29, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

No, it's part of the Office suite. But no dancing paper clips ! StuRat 05:24, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

BLUETOOTH argg!!!

For two weeks I've been trying to find bluetooth drivers for my ACER Aspire 1652wlmi laptop.

I've looked on acers website and cant find them. Ive tried many driver sites and cant find them. I've even logged onto acers ftp and downloaded *all* bluetooth drivers on the ftp but doesnt help. I've lost the driver CD that came with the laptop.

Please if somebody could point me out to a website with the drivers or knows who the manufacturer is of the bluetooth device in the laptop. You can have my first born child.

Thanks. Jason

Please explain why drivers from Acer's ftp (*all* bluetooth drivers) don't work? Errors when installing? Not compatible? Is the bluetooth device listed as missing a driver? Tried to install the 1650 series drivers? feydey 23:05, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

After a few quick searches, I would have to conclude; That model does not appear to have any built in BlueTooth hardware. It does have built-in 802.11b/g, however these wireless specs are not compatible. If you require BlueTooth capabilty, you may want to look into some of the many USB BlueTooth radios that are available. Srice13 01:23, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Apple's Boot Camp

If I have Boot Camp on a Mac, and install Windows XP, can I acces files like music, presentations etc that they are created when using MAC OS X? I mean, what does partitioning the Hard Disk Drive actually mean? Is it like having one disk to use only with OS X and another only to use with XP and it is impossible to view the one while using the other system?

Thanks, Alexignatiou 16:00, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I dont realy know what im talking about and i never even used apple mac os thingy before but if its any help, if you meen disc as in CD, you can use windows versions discs eg: windows 98, nt, me ect on any other windows version. I dont know about installing a version of windows bit of the CD but when i put in the windows 98 CD in my comp with windows XP it comes up with the files and things. Also if your wanting to install a new windows onto your comp then im pretty sure that it compleatly erases your hard drive and all info you have! This might be wrong but if its right then just put all the stuff you want onto discs and usb storage thingys, includeing this boot camp thing, oh no ive just realised what it probably is! Oh well forget most of what i said and I would doubt this is of any help to you and i would advise you to read the stuff below as it is probably by a intelligent person who knows what they are talking about.

Alexignatiou, partitioning is the process of splitting a physical hard drive into different sections, which most operating systems detect as different devices. If you use boot camp, XP will not be able to read data on your OS X partition because the file system format is not supported. I would recommend you create a FAT32 format partition to keep your music files and other stuff on, since both OS X and XP can read/write to it.

That I know of, there are two commercial programs which allow you to open paritions with the HFS+ filesystem (the one OS X uses) in Windows. They're MacOpener and MacDrive. Linux has open source drivers to do it, but none seem to exist for Windows. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 02:40, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Games

Hi, Im just wondering if you can get any of the Zelda games on anything but ninetendo platformes, partically playstaion!. I know that as it is a ninetendo game and Sony, which do playstation, are a rival company but you can get the Age of Empires game which is created by Microsoft, who i suppose will be rivals with Sony, on PS2 so i was just wondering. Well if you can't is there a way, without purchaseing any expensive stuff, to get the game onto a disc and making a ps2 compatible disc to work on playstation and/or pc???

Thankyou...--William dady 18:48, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

it seems that the answer is no. Jon513 19:05, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

The only way to play Zelda games on anything other than a Nintendo console is by using an emulator and ROM images. An emulator is a program which lets you run games for a particular platform on another (usually PC, but these days there are emulators for PS2, Xbox, mobile phones, etc. A few PS2 emulators can be found here:[1]). A ROM image is the data from a game's cartridge contained in one file, required to play the game with an emulator, and is technically illegal unless you own the original game. I'm not sure what your chances of getting a Zelda game to work on a PS2 though, but it's possible with some work. There's very little chance of getting N64 games working on a PS2 (there's no emulator, for one thing), and absolutely no chance of getting Wii or Gamecube games working. But NES and SNES games might work. Sum0 19:14, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Using a copy of Phantasy Star Online, a Nintendo broadband adapter, and a router, you can dump the data of a GameCube disc. A reasonably powerful computer should be able to emulate things from the GC, PS2, XBOX generation fairly well. For the PS3, XBOX360, and Wii, you can give up on emulation as it'll be several generations before those can be emulated. I can't point you to a emulator/ROM download site since I don't know one, and it's kind of illegal. For future reference though, Alcohol 120% can backup PS2 and XBOX discs. It's not free, so you have to either pay or warez it (can't tell you how to do that, User:Kjoonlee would kill me).--Frenchman113 on wheels! 21:56, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Sadly, I don't have a link to the Phantasy Star Online exploit, but Google should be able to find it for you.--Frenchman113 on wheels! 21:58, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

As far as I know, you can't emulate GC/PS2/XBOX games "fairly well". As far as I've seen, the PS2 is probably the one with the most emulator progress, and it still doesn't work well. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 02:33, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

There was a Zelda for Phillips CD-i (read about it here), but it was very strange and not very popular. - Rainwarrior 02:20, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

The last working emulator generation was super nintendo, after that the custom GPUs and poor platform-specific hackjob programming made it too awkward --Froth 23:33, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

It is possible to emulate A Link to the Past, The Legend of Zelda and The Adventures of Link on PS2. There are no official Zelda releases for a Sony console, and it's very unlikely there ever will be. (Note that you can emulate both Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask on PC, and the latter also on Xbox).