With digital video cameras, MP3 players and external DVD burners all jockeying for a high-speed connection, plugging and replugging various cables into the computer’s few FireWire ports can become a ...

Apple’s digital-hub strategy has made the DVD burner — with its ability to play movies, back up more than 4.5GB of data, and create movies that your friends can play on their home DVD players — a ...

disks, CD/DVD-ROM’s, CD-R/RW’s, Zip’s, etc. can be used externally on any Mac or PowerBook with a FireWire port. Eligible expansion bay devices are those designed for the Apple PowerBook (FireWire) ...

Mac peripheral maker MCE Technologies LLC announced Wednesday its Lucid M2X Portable FireWire DVD-MULTI Drive. It’s an external, bus-powered optical drive that can write to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW ...

We've received a couple of comments about using many FireWire devices at once. A recent note from reader Peter says: I have a G5 2G and five external drives and two internal. One of the external drive ...

Yesterday we noted a number of reports of iSight cameras contributing to problems with other FireWire devices. (We also noted that this was a problem we have covered in the past.) Since yesterday's ...