This week I added USB 2.0 ports and FireWire ports to my computer. Then I hooked my digital camcorder up to a FireWire port and using Nero software transferred my first digital video to my computer.

Before USB standardized how we connect devices, computers were a tangle of incompatible ports. Here are the ones that USB ...

We've received scattered reports of problems with iMac G5 FireWire ports -- specifically situations where one or more FireWire devices seemingly does not draw enough power from the host machine, or ...

Here's basically the problem: I have a firewire audio interface connected to a Snow Leopard mac mini using a 5 meters firewire cable which is the maximum length allowed by the fw specification, and ...

After the installation of software updates, the FireWire ports on various Mac models may cease to properly function, not recognizing devices or exhibiting other issues. For some users, this has ...

FireWire, or its more technical name, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 1394, works similarly to a universal serial bus: It enables plug-and-play devices to connect to a computer with ...

Apple recently introduced its newest MacBook computer that sports many of Apple’s latest designs. These include its unibody enclosure, in which the computer is fashioned from a solid piece of aluminum ...

Sometimes also called IEEE-1394, the FireWire standard allows for high-speed connections to external drives. FireWire 400 is roughly comparable to USB 2.0, and drives and ports using FireWire 800 are ...

I have an acquaintance who wishes to record a short video. His camcorder, however, seems to not have a Firewire/1394 port, so I can't just plug it into my computer. Are there any adapters that will ...

When it comes to major connectors, FireWire is pretty high up there on the list. It's obviously not nearly as universal as the Universal Serial Bus (USB), but it's still a well-know, oft utilized port ...

LaCie’s descriptively-named FireWire Speakers are unique among speakers we’ve tested: rather than connecting to your computer using a standard audio cable, or even a USB cable, these compact (5.3″ ...