My friend let me have an old digital camera, but I don't have the software for it, so can i just go pick up a firwire for it and upload the photos on my computer or is it useless? It's an off brand by the way.

depends how old it is. probably not firewire unless you're talking about a video camera.

is the memory removable? if so, then easy as pie just take the memory chip out and stick it in a reader ($15 for a cheap multireader) and (if you're on win2000+) it will just show up as an additional drive in My Computer.

...and don't forget to upload and provide links to all the pics of his wife/gf naked....kthanksbye