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Shared screen

gklavans — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:44:21 GMT

I have an iMac Desk top and a Macbook pro lap top I travel somewhat frequently, I was under the impression that I could share through the internet somehow from my desk top to my lap top, I haven't been able to figure out how. Can any one explain it to me please?

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STUFFIT 12 HELP!!!

gklavans — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:42:13 GMT

I am currently running Stuffit 11.0.2 I upgraded to 12.0.2 and every time I started my computer the assistant manager would start up reinstall Stuffit and ask me to restart or log off and on to finish installation.

I tried this several times, and even tried dumping the set up asst. Then I got a message asking me to reinstall Stuffit because Set up asst was missing.

I eventually dropped back down to 11.0.2 out of frustration. Any suggestions?

iMac 10.5.2

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SATA II drive on a PPC Quad w/SATA I?

Olivia — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:02:34 GMT

I have a G5 PPC Quad that has a SATA I drive. I'd like to put a bigger drive in there but am going to sell it for a Mac Pro soon.

Is it OK to put a SAATA II drive in it, even though it's spec'd for SATA I? I came across a link stating that SATA II should be backward compatible. Is there a question of connectors? Are there any Mac specific gotcha's to watch out for?

Thanks,
Olivia

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Virtual PC

TouchRosesAhna — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:14:51 GMT

Hi... upon startup for a pc drawing program, I get an error "CBU Failure". Anyone know what that means?

Thanks,
Ahna

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shared volume doesn't appear on other computers

hoco — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:18:11 GMT

I have an external firewire drive that is marked for sharing, but it doesn't appear on my laptop. The laptop sees all my other shared drives, just not this one. I've rebooted the laptop, no improvement. I've turned off sharing for the drive and turned it back on, no improvement. Even when I connect to my main machine with my login credentials, and see all its various connected drives, this one still doesn't appear. I've checked /volumes on my laptop and it doesn't contain a directory by the name of the volume I'm trying to mount.

Any ideas? Why doesn't this shared volume appear, or what can I do to make it appear?

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Tried any green web hosts? Your experience?

paulsmith — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:53:26 GMT

Hey gang, as you may know, servers gobble a lot of energy, and I'm looking for a green web host. One that's not just buying RECs. I found these two articles with several of them:

http://twurl.nl/rlkwoi and http://twurl.nl/qcnrcw

I'm thinking of ThinkHost or Greenest Host, and am open to others, but haven't as yet heard from a live human being I know/trust as to the service. Been with them? Others? Your experience?

thanks much

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Resetting base station admin password?

raqsayperi — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:10:53 GMT

Is there any way to resent an Airport Extreme base station password?

I set up a network of 2 base stations about 3 years ago (both snow, the bubble-shaped ones, one regular, one extreme). About a year ago I moved out of that house. The remaining occupants need to make some changes to the network so they need the admin password. However, I can't remember it (...oops) and the Apple Care wants to charge lots of money to help.

Do any of you have suggestions?

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Backlight Inverter?

UranusinPisces — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:29:39 GMT

Okay, my display has been in hyperdrive lately, as have I. We both got very little sleep in May. So I turn my computer on earlier this week and I got the short-short-long flashes of light on the power/sleep button on the right side of the display. I have an Apple Cinema 20 inch flat panel M8893 display-the old ones that came with the windtunnel (more like hurricane) G4. Alas it seems I have no choice but to put down $130.

Questions:

What if it's not the inverter, and what are the chances its not?

How long do I have before my display *sob* dies??

Right now the screen isn't THAT dim-even though it is on the brightest and I still have eyes . There hasn't been any additional dimming since the first day and no other symptoms. Does anyone have an estimate of how much longer I have?

Also, can I use an inverter from a 17 inch display of the same type? Doesn't seem likely but I'm trying to scrape here (school and all)...

Thanks for your help!

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help! cannot boot powerbook g4 past startup screen!

chino — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:48:21 GMT

Re: help! cannot boot powerbook g4 past startup screen!
Today, 9:44 AM
hey everyone! thanks for putting your heads together on this and here is the latest in the drama.
1) tried removing power cord and battery and restarting. no luck.
2) held shift key down while restarting. no luck.
3) held option command and r and p key while restarting. no luck.
4) held command key and v keys and got the scary text and message "warning- blocks on volume mcintosh not allocated!"

managed to get the stuck disc out and tried to use disc utility to see what was up.
got the prompt that one disc volume repaired and one not.
this is a 4 year old powerbook g4 12" laptop we are dealing with.

hope this helps make the situation more clear and that i didn't do anything more to screw things up.
once again, thanks everyone!

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Help! Lost Safari and Software Update on Dad's Mac

Melodious — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:36:19 GMT

I'm visiting my parents and tried to access my Web-based work e-mail through Safari on my dad's Mac, and unfortunately I have made things much worse and need to at least put things back to the way they were. My e-mail program gave me a message that I needed to upgrade to a newer version of Safari to be able to access it. I asked my Dad about it and he said he hadn't done any software upgrades in years. I checked Software Update from the Mac menu and sure enough, there were tons of updates (some necessary and some not) that he had never downloaded (he's what you'd call "technologically challenged" and just doesn't want to fuss with it). So I downloaded Safari 3.1.1 and the download process worked as expected, but after it was complete and I restarted, nothing happens when I click on the Safari icon. It bounces in the dock, but that's it. I tried everything else I could think of, locating it on the hard drive and trying to open it that way--still nothing. To make matters worse, now when I click on "Software Update..." in the menu on the top toolbar, the software update icon appears in the dock and bounces around, then it disappears and nothing happens!

I downloaded Firefox so that I could at least get his machine back online, but I need to figure out how to get Safari back and also the Software Update, so that I can download all those updates for him that he really should have done. He's got an old Mac--an eMac, 1 GHZ PowerPC G4, running OSX 10.3.9, but until now there have been no problems with it. Any advice would be much appreciated.

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Wake From Sleep Issue w/ External Monitor

BrettFromTibet — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:48:07 GMT

I have a troublesome MBP, and I am trying to diagnose if this issue is "normal" or abnormal:

If I have an external monitor attached to my MBP.... and I close the lid on it and let it go to sleep.... and wake it later...

the external screen will "wake up" but the actually notebook screen will stay blacked out... unless I unplug the DVI connector cord... then both screens will "blue" out and then if I reconnect the DVI it will work again.

I assume this is defective, but just wanted to check if it was a clamshell mode or something I didn't know about.

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help! cannot boot powerpc g4 past startup screen!

chino — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:14:01 GMT

hello everyone! mac novice here. my g4 froze up while on the internet and like a panicked newbie i pushed the panic button to shut it off. tried to reboot but now it is stuck in the white screen with the apple and the spinning little wheel below.
what can i do off the bat to try to get her going again before i go to the apple shop? any secret keystrokes or mantras that are simple and easy? and to boot, there is disc stuck in it and how can i get that out!
this a great forum and last time i screwed up, i got lots great advice and help!
thanks!

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Many Macs, lots of confusion - want to build a network

C.alittle — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:55:25 GMT

Our household (2 users) has a G4 (old & slow, but with OSX 10.4.11) , a Macbook Pro, a Mac Pro (wireless capabilities) and an Airport Extreme. I want to sync everything (primarily email and printers) by setting up everything on a network using the Airport. I have attempted to set this up, but am confused since the G4 was the original computer here (our email still comes to this computer) and it is not wireless (so this is the computer that the Airport software was installed on)... suggestions/comments for a simple resolution would be appreciated (I'm sure it obvious but I'm not an IT pro :-)

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Easy to install a new hard drive in a Macbook Pro?

timonkey — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:07:47 GMT

I am about to purchase a new Macbook Pro 2.2 Ghz, but want to upgrade the internal drive to a 7200 rpm drive. I have tracked down some good deals on both the computer and new drive, and plan on doing the install myself.

I have installed RAM, Airport cards, and internal hard drives on a variety of older machines (PB G4, PMac G4 and G5). Does anyone have experience with the new Macbook Pros that I should know about? Does doing it yourself void the warranty? Any advice would be appreciated.

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does Applecare cover data recovery?

redheadstepkid — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:40:01 GMT

The hard drive in my daughter's macbook, purchased with applecare in October, has failed. She was told at an authorized service provider that a new hard drive was covered under Applecare, but recovering her data would be around $600.
Anyone know more? Seems like recovering the data should be covered.

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iSquint

dariusmaximus — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:20:31 GMT

just wanted to post a shout out to this kick arse app that rocks so hard at encoding different types of video media. YAY!

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Woman who had her MacIntosh laptop stolen was able to connect to the computer, photograph two suspects and give the photos to police.

Alan — Sat, 10 May 2008 06:50:19 GMT

Woman Helps Cops Find Men Who Stole Her Laptop

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- A Westchester woman who had her laptop stolen was able to connect to the computer, photograph two suspects and give the photos to police.

White Plains Police say they used the photos to arrest Edmon Shahikian, 23, of Katonah and 20-year-old Ian Frias of the Bronx Wednesday night. Police say they recovered most of the $5,000 worth of electronics stolen from the woman's White Plains apartment back on April 27.

Police say the woman was called from a friend asking if she was online.

The victim said no and was told by the friend that her computer showed her as being on the Internet.

At that point the victim signed onto another computer and used the "Back to My Mac" program to determine that her stolen MacIntosh laptop was on the Web.

She then used the stolen computer's camera to photograph Shahikian.

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Airport Express - weird pop up/amber light blinking

Mister — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:01:38 GMT

Hi All,

I posted a pic of the questionable configuration pop up, in my photos.

Does anyone know what this means?

Also, what would cause the light to be blinking amber? Airport has pretty much always done this...

*Apple's online support says that this is a problem and to "see below"

**there wasn't anything "below"...

Thanks, in advance....

Russ

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Safari - Spinning Beach Ball Heaven

Sean — Sun, 11 May 2008 13:52:14 GMT

I'm close to abandoning Safari. In the past month or so I get the spinning beach ball at about 20% of all pages I navigate to. Its absolutely horrible.

Any suggestion on what I could do to speed things up?

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Processor upgrade on a 450mhz?

cubalombian — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:51:51 GMT

I have this Mac:

http://support.apple.com/specs/powermac/Power_Mac_G4_AGP.html

From what I have read the processor can be upgraded. Though have any of you done this? Will there be a great increase in speed or is the motherboard going to slow it down to the point where it is not worth the investment?

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search in Apple Mail on 10.5

beb — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:29:32 GMT

anyone else not able to get search to work in the latest Mail running on 10.5.*?

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G3 iPhone

troy — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:07:00 GMT

C'mon, someone here knows when it is coming out. Spill the beans!

-troy

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appleworks .cwk files

randy — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:32:42 GMT

How do you open them in tiger or leopard? the ones i want back are text.

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MTA in OS X 10.5

Reed — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:55:09 GMT

I've run into a peculiar issue in a Windows AD environment using MacOS X 10.5.2 (completely up-to-date in Software Update). I can RECEIVE email using our Microsoft Exchange Server, but I can't SEND email. My guess at this point is that the SMTP MTA engine is FUBAR. Does anyone know how to reinstall this component in the OS?

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DVD

JT — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:23:55 GMT

What is the easiest and best software out there for making DVD copies or clones?

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Repairing Disk Permissions

MickD — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:59:44 GMT

Running 10.5.2, I notice a few quirks and blips (formulate wouldn't run, for instance) so I decided to do some routine maintenance and run cocktail. Cocktail stalls when running disk permissions, so I gently got out of there and tried to repair disk permissions via Disk Utility. Same thing. It says "this will take less than a minute, and about 25% of the way through, it stalls. Anybody got any ideas on this?

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handbrake

modemlooper — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:15:31 GMT

when I create a movie from video ts folder there is no sound now. Any suggestions to the problem? the only thing i have installed that could be it is soundflower but uninstalled it and no change.

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Where's my music?

BobbyLove — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:26:36 GMT

OK, the last 3 days have been an electronic nightmare. The short story is that the HD on my main mac got f'ed up and wouldn't boot, and today Disk Warrior fixed it - pretty quickly too.

Now I'm making sure I have multiple backups and I'm running into a mystery with my iTunes music. All my songs, book, pcasts, movies show up and play in iTunes, but I can't find the actual .mp3 or .m4a files in the finder!

I get: Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Artist/Album/_MSL.DB but no song files! Where did they go? This must be a iTunes 7.6.2 thing...

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Cheapest way to renew .Mac?

Sean — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:57:04 GMT

1. I have a .Mac account.
2. It expires in 28 days.
3. Can I purchase .Mac from Amazon for $69, as opposed to Apple's $99 and use the code to renew?

Thanks!

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Purchasing External HD

dontgotone — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:45:39 GMT

I am looking to get a new external HD
750GB-1TB Firewire/multi-interface

I have had LaCie Porche drives in the past
and they have not done me wrong
but they no longer make Firewire

Any suggestions for reliable drives
and the best online place to purchase???

Thanks

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HELP ! address book empty ! contacts lost ?

coincidancer — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:24:35 GMT

just opened the addressbook on my macbook, running on Tiger, and all my contacts are suddenly gone ! Just gone ! tried to look in Application Support in the Library folder, no luck ! I am in the process of organizing a festival and retrieval is crucial.
May have been a bit slack on synchronising with my gmail account.

Anybody know if I could extract the data off my iPod ?! Some downloadable software that allows me to access not only the music, but particularly the contacts ?!

your help would be most appreciated ! a wonderful Beltane to you all !
thank you
Gusti

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upgrading Tiger

amor — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:53:21 GMT

I am trying to upgrade my G5 iMac from 10.48 to 10.411...without success. Installer marks a red ! saying the volume does not meet the requirements for the update. Any suggestions, or am I attempting the impossible? Rather not bump it up to Leopard, although that may be the last resort.

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what laptop software do you like?

hoco — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:34:30 GMT

I just bought a new Macbook Pro... what a gorgeous machine! (2.5Ghz dual core, 4GB, 10.5.2, 7200rpm drive, HD glossy 17" screen).

If you have a mac laptop, what special software do you have on it that you like (or don't like)? For example, I've heard there are games that take advantage of the motion sensor. Are there utilities that make sense for a laptop that wouldn't make sense on a desktop system? Is there anything else you think I should know?

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creating mms

distroyers — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:41:14 GMT

does anyone know how to create one with midi or mp3 and animated gif

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Handled Air

Sean — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:56:14 GMT

On a flight from Puerto Rico I pulled out my MB-Pro to do some work. The person sitting next to me pulled out the Air. I have to get one. Have to!

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multitrack audio recording on powerbook

hoco — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:30:25 GMT

I used to use light version of Cubase on my old G4 laptop for multitrack recording. But, that laptop was barely up to the task. Now I am getting a new laptop and I'll need a new solution because my version of Cubase will only install on power PCs.

Is there a free or inexpensive multitrack recording solution for intel macs?

Is cubase the best commercial multitrack recording solution for intel macs, in case I decide to buy it? What else do you use and/or like?

I have a Edirol FA101 device for capturing audio tracks over firewire. It came with a free "lite" version of cubase. I still want to use the device, but I need a multitrack recorder for it...

Thanks for any info you care to share. Perhaps this would be better posted to an audio tribe, but I like you folks a lot better. ;-)

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Simple Web Design Software?

Munko — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:10:22 GMT

I have been using Dreamweaver MX on my Powerbook G4 to update my web sites. I am not a programmer or web designer, so i am looking ofr the best software for me to make simple pages and edit existing simple pages. Dreamweaver seems too complex and i am guessing there are better ways of doing the simple tasks with a better user interface. Any suggestions? THANKS.

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.WMV's not "scriptable"?!?!?

Thew — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:49:44 GMT

I've downloaded and installed the software a couple times - doesn't work. My laptop won't play .wmv's

Anyone have any suggestions?

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external hd installed and now I cant get online

distroyers — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:54:31 GMT

I just picked up a seagate firewire hd and after the install I tried to register online but I noticed I wasnt on.. I had to uninstall the hd in order to get online.. I use wireless internet on my macbook pro right now.

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Can I burn an ISO file to CD on my MAC?

Rick Farmer — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:54:46 GMT

Can I burn an ISO file to CD on my MAC? Someone told me I can. I don't want to buy additional software and don't see any utilities for doing so. Please help!

I am falling and I can't stand up.

FWF

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Leopard is not compatible with Maxtor drives

furtographer — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:44:00 GMT

Leopard is not compatible with Maxtor drives. Period. If you want to install Leopard, you have to get non-IBM hard drives. The directory is continually messed up. This never happened before installation of Leopard.

People with Seagate (the noisy drive), and WD say they have no problems.

I've been using Disk Warrior to rebuild my directory when the drive won't boot. I'm getting another set of drives today.

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"Lite" photo viewer recommendations?

Olivia — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:04:19 GMT

Is there a new or new version of a photo viewer that is light on resources and previews or thumbnails a variety of flavors of images? I have a Tiger desktop and Leopard laptop and many of my .jpgs have generic Preview icons, even in Leopard's new photo view.

I currently use Adobe Bridge but it's kind of heavy and overkill for just simple viewing. Graphic Converter shows a lot of thumbnails as generic icons. Phoenix Slides takes a while to load a lot of photos. iPhoto is too clunky. I'm considering Expressions from MS Office (formerly iView Media Pro), but haven't heard any feedback on it yet.

Something that loads fast, views many types and if it's color managed capable - so much the better.

Thanks

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How to: XP to Vista on MBP?

Olivia — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:23:33 GMT

I've got a MBP running Leopard and XP via Bootcamp. What's the procedure for upgrading XP to Vista? Just put in the Vista disk and let it reboot? Any chance it will mess up my Leopard partition?

Any gotchas or things to watch out for?

Thanks a lot,
Olivia

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Soundcard Question. PCI 424 won't fit Mac G5

asperalways — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:06:25 GMT

Hi all. I have a Mac G5 Power PC and I was all ready to install a PCI card for a MOTU 4208 Sound Card, but the PCI card is backward - the notch in the card socket is on the opposite side. So, I'm looking at it and I think to myself...what if I just put it in upside down? It would fit, but would it work? I feel silly even considering it.

It's like the card was built for a left hand mounting machine. I know the MOTU Sound Card and PCI card are a bit dated. I'm just wondering if anyone has a good suggestion aside from pony up for a new PCI card.

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User of Mac in Latin America

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Buying RAM: Does it always help?

Anamika — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:26:12 GMT

Hello,

I use a Power Mac G5 ( Dual 2 Ghz, 512 MB) and OS 10.4.1.

According to the Activity Monitor, I have 123.07 GB of free space and 25.85 GB of utilized space.

According to the Activity Monitor, Preview is using from 70% to 100.80% (??) of the CPU when PDF documents are opened by way of Spotlight.

This slows things down a lot and breaks up the continuity of my thought as I wait for the ball to disappear.

To counter this, I am thinking about buying some more ram.

Would that do any good even though I have 123.07 GB of free space and am only running less than five non-greedy programs?

tia!

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diagnostic for airport wireless

colinb — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:07:28 GMT

Hey there
I've been having some weird stuff go on with airport on my Macbook. Its really funky intermittent kind of stuff so its hard to say if its my computer or the wireless networks where I'm at. My question is, is there a diagnostic ultility available to test whether airport is working correctly. I'm not sure whether this is worth contacting applecare about or not.
thanks

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Backup Software

seattleeric — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:39:11 GMT

What backup software are people using for the Macs? I need to backup my photos and files on my Macbook Pro.

Thanks,
Eric

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eSATA and FW400/800 expresscards

bombastique — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:26:22 GMT

I bought a Rosewill eSATA card from Newegg awhile back but can't for the life of me get it to work with a Seagate Freeagent drive.

http://rosewill.com/product/product.aspx?productId=814

The card is recognized by my MBP 2.2 C2D/10.4.11, I have the drivers from the Rosewill site installed but...nada. Tried both ports on the card, 2 different, short (1') eSATA cables, restarting, reseating the card, ad nauseum..no luck. Seems the drivers are made by Silicon Image.

I'm wondering if anyone else has used this card and know if I'm missing something not-so-obvious. The reports on the Newegg site have a few people using it successfully....

Maybe I just got a bunk card.

Alternately, does anyone have a recommendation for a good FW400/800 Expresscard for a Macbook Pro? I'm either going to connect an audio interface (MOTU 828II, M-Audio 1814, etc) to it or maybe the drives...

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mkv to dvd

dariusmaximus — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:28:25 GMT

so this is as new one for me. i haven't really downloaded any torrents in a whlie, and the first one i dl seems to be in mkv file format, which i am completely unfamiliar with.

i tried playing it on VLC player but i'm not really getting the video stream to work properly, just the audio. i've got dragon burn, handbreak, dvd2one, and dvdremaster, but i don't think any of them work with this format. i did an online search and found a prog called AVItoDVD http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAvi2Dvd.php?b2=1 that converts for windoze, but what's out there for the os x?

anyone famliar with this format or should i just dust off the dell and try it with that?

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reading QR code with a mac

lujak — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:30:21 GMT

Any ideas?

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hot keyboard

dariusmaximus — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:00:06 GMT

i just got back my powerbook g4 ppc 1.5GHz from the apple store. they replaced the LCD, the trackpad and top mount not including the keyboard and informed me that my battery was one that qualified for the recall. now i got the machine back and feels like it's running way hotter than previously. the fan sounds like its going and i ran a hardware with the install disk and all seems well. i've got the machine on stilts to let air flow underneath which will hopefully keep things a little cooler...but it's still just randomly hot. any other tests i can perform to detect any particular issues that would cause this? is there a temp range to worry about? i've got hardware monitory app, but i didn't pay yet, so i'm not gettin full features. would that tell me that temp range limit the computer can deal with?

the readings i'm getting now are :
Power Supply Bottomside 53.8 C
processor Bottomside 56.8
processor/Controller Bottomside 59.5
smart disk fujitsu blah blah 48
trackpad 38

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I tunes mp3 download...can you edit?

tarot_readings_by_jeannie_san_francisco — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:30:57 GMT

Hi

Wondering if any of my mac programs (i movie, garage band, I tunes) have the capacity to edit an mp3 audio file I downloaded from i tunes store. There's something on the tale end of the song I'd like to cut or fade out. A weird radio announcement that totally takes away from the mellow flow of the song.

Or maybe some sort of easy freebie download to play with audio files.

I guess part two of the question is if I do alter it, how do I get it back into I tunes library?

New to this, so forgive me if my questions are simplistic.

Thank you ;)

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MBP Firmware update has Mangled my Audio!

timonkey — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:38:07 GMT

At least that is the prime suspect right now. The fan also went crazy like I've never heard earlier today. I ran the firmware update a few days ago, and when I booted Ableton live to get ready for my gig tonight, disaster! I still hear the signal, but nasty pops and crackles all mixed in. I need any and all suggestions to get this machine ready to play tonight!

My details: MBP 15" 2.2 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. Running Mac OS 10.4.11. Ableton Live v 6.0.10. Audio interface is a MOTU Traveler, v 1.0.7

Strangely, audio from iTunes and the Finder seems untroubled. However, audio from Logic Pro and Live are marred by pops, seemingly caused by erratic CPU spikes that never used to happen. (This is true with large projects and with sparse ones, and even with the buffer size maxed out at 1024 samples). Using the built-in audio makes no difference.

What I have tried so far: trashed Live's prefs, reset all the defaults on the MOTU, reinstalled the MOTU drivers, and of course reset the computer.

Any help would be appreciated!

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Bloated iWeb archive...help

Kimowan — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:10:10 GMT

My iWeb website has a mountain of stuff in the archive. Is there any way I can lighten the load? I've printed out a hard copy of the page, just in case, and saved the domain file to an external drive. Can I now just delete the archive page? If I do, will my site still have the archive function. I bow down to your collective wisdom.

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Closed Interoffice Instant Messaging

Tish — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:11:58 GMT

Is there such a thing? I work in a rapidly growing photo studio and was wondering if there was an instant messaging widget or software program that would allow us to communicate internally with some sort of pop-up function. It's not really practical for the photographers to be checking their emails every few minutes before their webmail logs out.

This is a large corporation with a very strict policy regarding instant messaging.

Any ideas?

posted in Mac OS X - 5 replies

Printer issues

BUCK-tard — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:56:19 GMT

Hi, I'm cross-posting from the Photoshop Tribe...

We recently upgraded to Photoshop (Extended) CS3 and are running OSX 10.5.2. In both binary and jpeg encoded modes to an HP Laserjet (methinks a 4050N) we get a continuous stream of blank pages (an occasional one will have 6-8 zapf dingbat-looking characters at the top). Our not-so-helpful IT department chose this as the solution:

http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

now it prints, but looks like some dot-matrix printer from the 80's.

Have any of you encountered this problem and found a different successful workaround?

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Mac Clip Art?

jameskitty — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:53:00 GMT

I've been searching hi and lo for simple vector outlines of current to semi-current Apple hardware, to no avail.

I'm mostly thwarted by throngs of irrelevant clipart listing itself as "Macintosh compatible" and thus killing my keyword searches.

Anyone know of a collection that has outlines of current apple hardware? (tracing the press photos is so tedious....)

posted in Mac OS X - 5 replies

iStumbler

wasswasswass — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:21:56 GMT

With iStumbler, I can see more networks than I can if I click on the wireless signal icon up on the menu bar on my desktop. Why is there a difference? This is not always the case, but frequently.

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tips for mac resale

GORdon — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:43:11 GMT

hey there,

i'm selling my powerbook G4 and looking for tips on how to prep for resale.

at this point i have secure deleted my personal files -- although worried about those i did not secure delete -- any ideas about that? how easy is it to recover those files?

the main thing at this point is everything associated with my principle user account. like keychains, histories, etc. i could go through the user/library files and hand delete a lot of that stuff (and even then, would that be enough?) but what i would really like to do is just "deauthorize" and delete my principle account somehow and just start a new main user. is there a way to do this?

and this leads to the question -- someone buys my laptop -- how can it get changed from "gordon winiemko's powerbook" to something else?

any ideas you have, i would appreciate! thanks!

posted in Mac OS X - 13 replies

Spotlight index

BobbyLove — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:52:34 GMT

I use spotlight a lot to open spreadsheets that are my client files. They're all in one folder called BBSX on my iMac. This folder is backed up onto my Macbook Pro daily, and onto an external drive weekly. It also exists on 2 drives in my Powermac G4, which is shut off, retired, no longer on the network.

When I do a spotlight search for a file, let's say, jollyroger.cwk, more often than not there are 3 listings. I hit the first one and sometimes the file opens. Other times it does not... spotlight is unavailable for 30 seconds or so, then I get an alert saying that the server is not responding. So I assume that it's trying to open a copy that is on the powered-down Powermac.

I tried rebuilding the index per instructions in a recent Mac Life article, that is by dragging my iMac's HD icon into the Privacy pane, waiting a minute, and then deleting it from the Privacy pane. This forces spotlight to rebuild the index, which it did.

But I still get 3 listings for most of these files! WTF!?

OK, as so often happens when describing an issue in detail, I came up with the answer myself.
Here's what I'm gonna try:

Power up the Powermac, get it back on the net, put all it's disks in the Privacy pane (don't search these), and rebuild
the index again.

Stay tuned for results ...

posted in Mac OS X - 8 replies

parts box

redheadstepkid — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:16:34 GMT

I've managed to accumulate several peripherals that I don't seem to need, and are not compatible with my current hardware.
Was not really trying to make real money here, but if it's useful to anyone, I'd like to know where to pass it on, or how to recycle..
Assante FriendlyNet 10T 5-port 10Mbps Ethernet hub
Assanter Talk bridge (postscript->USB adapter), networkable
ViaVoice Andrea Anti-noise NC-71 headset with microphone, changeable colors
Old apple microphone
Motorola Bravo pager
Motorola Talkabout T900 pager

Thanks!

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Localized folder names are a clusterfuck

jory — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:05:56 GMT

In February Daring Fireball linked to Sven-S. Porst's discussion about localized application names in Mac OS X:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/february#wed-27-ssp

At the time, I thought the discussion interesting and was glad he linked to it. Now, having worked in Leopard with my fiancee's computer localized into Norwegian Bokmål, I'm finding that localized apps are just the beginning of what is not only inconsistent, but a total clusterfuck for the user.

I've been setting up a network backup solution for my fiancee's new MacBook Pro and decided to use Retrospect because of its ability to backup to an FTP server. My backup strategy is simple: I perform an initial backup on my GigE network and let her machine perform nightly incremental backups from whatever internet connection it is attached to. Since she sometimes adds movies to her machine, I decided it would be best if the nightly backup ignored her Movies directory and only tried to back that up once a week.

Retrospect allows me to specify what folders to include or exclude, based on a number of things, including path. But what is the path to the ~/Movies directory on a localized computer?

In the Norsk Bokmål-localized Finder, the OS X reserved folders are renamed thusly (not a complete listing):

* Applications --> Programmer
* Desktop --> Skrivebord
* Documents --> Dokumenter
* Downloads --> Nedlastinger
* Library --> Bibliotek
* Movies --> Filmer
* Music --> Musikk
* Pictures --> Bilder
* Public --> Felles
* Sites --> Websider
* Users --> Brukere

So to the user, everything in the Finder has a totally different name than is generally considered standard. If I jump into the Terminal, everything appears in English instead of the chosen language, so the path does indeed seem to be /Users/julie/Movies/. But if I use the Finder's "Go to..." function, it's /Brukere/julie/Filmer/.

That the Finder's "Go to..." feature uses the localized names makes sense, in general, but which path is Retrospect seeing? I have no way of knowing for sure. How is the user to know which path to trust if they're not using English? And if a non-English speaker is using their native language, how are they to know what the *real* name of a localized folder is?

To make it a little more interesting, try going into Safari and choosing "Open..." from the File menu. Type Shift-Command-A to go to the Applications folder. Aside from the insanity that the 'A' in Shift-Command-A doesn't relate to "Programmer" (the Norsk translation), the toolbar on the left of the Open dialog displays localized folder names, but the folder path popup control says "Applications" until I click on it, at which time it suddenly changes to "Programmer"!

Take it another step further. Click on the user's home folder in the left-side toolbar. You'll note that everything is localized. Click on "Bilder" in the dialog in order to navigate into the Pictures folder and yet again the popup control states the English version instead!

Now, I do the same thing with Retrospect, which is not only non-localized, but is PowerPC code running in Rosetta. The application itself is not localized at all, but the Open dialog is. And even the popup control is properly populated with the localized names Applications and Documents.

So which path does Retrospect see and how is the user to know?

Certainly, part of the problem is Retrospect's UI doesn't let you select the folder and instead requires the user to type in the path from their own knowledge, but even Apple's applications can't get localization straight.

There's one more major aspect to this clusterfuck that occurred to me a few minutes later: duplicate file/directory names.

Can I create a directory named "Desktop" in ~ when the Desktop folder is called "Skrivebord"? Can I create a "Skrivebord" directory when there's already one in the home directory?

The answer is simple and the results just add to the confusion of the clusterfuck: I cannot create a folder called "Desktop" in ~ even when the localized one is called something else, as I am told by the Finder (in Norwegian, in this case) that there is already a folder with the same name! Of course, the user cannot see this folder name being used, so there's a great source of confusion.

But it gets better! I *can* create a directory called "Skrivebord", which leaves me with TWO directories of the same name within the same folder.

If that's not confusing, i don't know what is!

posted in Mac OS X - 10 replies

Pages email problem

the rev — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:46:57 GMT

For some reason Pages will not attach to Yahoo mail or hotmail. One of my classmates has been trying to forward their project portion (created in Pages) via their hotmail account to no avail. The doc refuses to become selectable as an attachment. I tried an expermint with yahoo mail and had the same issue. Unfortunately the classmate does not have their mac mail app configured to any smpt and doesn't have the time (?) to let me walk them thru it. Are we missing something or do some webmail servers just refuse to play nice with mac docs?

posted in Mac OS X - 4 replies

VHS video capture for Mac?

bombastique — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:38:10 GMT

I'm looking for an inexpensive solution to get VHS videos recorded into a laptop (MBP) for a friend of mine.

I suggested a Canopus box, but he doesn't want to spend that much.

Anyone have a suggestion for under...$100?

posted in Mac OS X - 12 replies

Tiger to Leopard with Super Duper

Olivia — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:34:51 GMT

I've got two systems that need to be updated to Leopard (one is a G5 Quad PPC and the other an Intel iMac, if it matters).

My plan is to:

1) Backup with Super Duper, so I have a clone of each main hard drive.

2) Wipe each partition clean

3) Clean install of Leopard

4) Copy data from Mail and iPhoto, plus documents to new Leopard install

Are there any flaws with this plan? My only hesitation might be the moving of the Mail boxes, especially as one has a lot of imported boxes into it and I'm still trrying to figure out of 10.4 and 10.5 use trhe same structure.

Any thoughts or opinions are really appreciated. This is my first Mac OS move.

Thanks,
Olivia

posted in Mac OS X - 14 replies

Is USB 2.0 backward compatible with plain old USB

Bobster — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:48:24 GMT

Dear all,

I'm looking at buying a Hawking Hi-Gain Wireless-G USB Dish Adapter the above product, but am not certain if the USB (2:0) is compatible with standard USB on a Mac Pismo laptop. That is, is the USB connection backward compatible with my laptop's USB? Any advice would be appreciated. I've sent an e-mail to the company, but I'd thought I'd try the OS X crew as well.

All the best,

Bobster

posted in Mac OS X - 4 replies

Adium?

MickD — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:19:33 GMT

http://www.adiumx.com/

Anyone use it? Like it? Forget it?

posted in Mac OS X - 14 replies

free email templates?

tarot_readings_by_jeannie_san_francisco — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:13:38 GMT

I'm in the healing arts and was looking for a free email template with beautiful asthestics...natural, earthy...to send to my clients regarding appointments, or specials, that kind of thing.

I've never done this before but my friend does it for his massage business and it seems like a good idea.

Any resources for templates that are beautiful?

posted in Mac OS X - 12 replies

Finder-Memory leak?_leopard

audiovoid — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:43:51 GMT

This is wierd but I think I discovered a strange bug with the finder in Leopard.
I was organizing my audio files yesterday on my macbook pro (moving, copying, deleting,etc.) and using finder's built in player to audition them when after about a half an hour of doing so I noticed that my memory meter was almost completely full (i have the free app "menu meters" running).
I fired up osx's "Activity Monitor" and noticed that finder was using 2 and a half gigs of memory (I have 3 gigs in my machine). No other large processes were running either. So I closed all open finder windows to see if the memory would reset or something but it just stayed. Only when I killed the Finder process did it finally release all of the memory that it was hogging up.
From here I began trouble shooting:
I reset the computer, fired up activity monitor and noted the amount of ram (real memory) that it was using and then opened up a finder window.
While keeping an eye on the memory usage column I browsed to my audio files and to my suprise, just clicking on the audio files made the memory meter increase. I pressed down arrow to scroll along highlighting audio files and could literally watch the meter slowly creep up.
Then actually pressing spacebar to play the audio preview made the memory meter jump up in even larger amounts.
And again to test it, I closed all open finder windows and no dice. Finder Memory was not released.
Thinking it was my macbook pro's ram I then tested this out on a new imac at work and found pretty similar results.
Also tested it out on my girlfriends white macbook and same thing.
(all of these computers running leopard 10.5.2)
Today I tested it on another imac at work that is running tiger 10.4.11 and couldn't recreate the problem. Infact the ONLY way that I could make the memory meter significantly jump up was to preview a video file in "column view's" preview area. But then as soon as I closed the finder window the memory would drop back down.
Tried searching online but couldn't find the same issue.

I urge anyone to try this out and see if it happens on your end as well.

Or if someone knows exactly what is going please let me know.

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Mail.app woes

BUCK-tard — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:11:11 GMT

I am noticing that Mail.app is STRUGGLING to send files.
A few days ago I had to take 8" x 10" 300dpi JPEGs and save them at a quality setting of '9' THEN archive them and send them one at a time in order to work. Each one took about 4 minutes to send.
Today I tried to send a 769kb file and was denied. I resized it to 202kb, I watch the Activity Viewer as it gets to about 34% sent, then stops after a minute.
The rejected email opens in a window with a message "Cannot send your message using the server XXX.XXX.XXX. Use the pop-up menu below to try a different outgoing mail server. All messages will use this server until you quit mail or change your network settings." I can choose Edit message, Use selected server or Try again later.

I'm running OSX 10.4.11, Mail.app 2.1.2 and using Comcast cable internet with a Linksys wireless modem & router. My wireless signal shows full strength.

Where do I start looking to resolve this?

posted in Mac OS X - 16 replies

Podcasting Reccomendations :: Hardware and Software

nutbucket — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:36:01 GMT

Hi,
I'm looking for recommendations on creating a podcast that I will be hosting on a clients site, as well as potentially submitting to iTunes.

I have somewhat of a budget to accomplish this.

I will mostly be using my MacBook Pro for the computing.

Should I use a USB mic or an Audio Mic?
Lapel or not?
What kind of audio input is that on the MBP anyway?
I am not familiar with the icon.

I'd rather not have to get an external piece of gear if I don't need to...ie, a mixer/amp

Software...
Didn't Apple make something as part of the iLife package?
I recall that they did, but I cannot find it on the Apple website.

What else is out there that is worthwhile?

thanks in advance for your thoughtful suggestions

Jake

posted in Mac OS X - 7 replies

how do I find my WEP key?

amyk — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:35:40 GMT

Hi guys --

I can connect to my home wireless setup fine using my MacBook. But with my awful work laptop (a Dell), I run into a problem connecting. It asks for my WEP key or WPA key -- do you know how I can find that?

My wireless router is an AirPort Express. As I said, it works fine with my Mac.

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Firewire 800 rocks!

hoco — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:21:50 GMT

I guess I'm late to the game. Forgive me. But, firewire 800 is amazingly fast! I now have two drives on FW800 and they are a joy to use. My time machine backups take like 2 minutes now.

If you're using USB 2.0 external drives, and you can afford a firewire 800 enclosure, it is worth it in my opinion. I have this:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEFW924AL2K/

Jory recommended it. It rocks!

I put two 750GB Seagate drives into it. One with two partitions (one large time machine partition and one smaller partition for a CCC clone of my root drive). The other is partitioned into three parts, one for incremental CCC backups, one for regenerative CCC backups, and one scratch disk.

posted in Mac OS X - 8 replies

Applecare anywhere?

db — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:49:54 GMT

Would anyone know if you have to buy Applecare from the same country that you bought your computer in?
For ex:
I got mine in Japan but can I buy it from the online english Apple Store?

The reason I ask is because the dollar is much cheaper now. It is $169 at the online Apple Store but ¥22,050 at the online Japan Apple Store.
(¥22,050 = $215)

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problems with disk space

charlie — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:38:05 GMT

I know many of you have seen this type of question before, but I am clueless nonetheless. In trying to find out what's eating up my disk space, I opened terminal and went to file, new command and typed du -h -d 1. The following folders showed up:

4.0K ./.config
1.4M ./.dvdcss
0B ./.Trash
764K ./CmapToolsLogs
1.5G ./Desktop
5.6G ./Documents
1.1G ./Library
32K ./Movies
37G ./Music
4.7G ./Pictures
8.0K ./Public
28K ./Sites
50G .
[Process completed]

So I'm guessing that the 50G .[blank] at the end is simply the total space that was found as full when I ran that command. However, my computer is telling me that I only have 2.47GB of free space on my hard drive. My total hard drive space is 74.21GB. How can I figure out what is taking up the extra space? I tried running the WhatSize program, but I kept getting a message that it couldn't read anything over 30GB unless I purchased a license. Is there a better program I can run to find this, perhaps one that is free? Any other suggestions for locating the exact files or folders where my space is being used? I don't see how it could be a problem with printer drivers or languages as the other FAQ mentioned. Please help. Thanks.

posted in Mac OS X - 5 replies

network setup advice

wonkytown — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:16:20 GMT

my girl works in a design shop where the network fileshare is missing the following two features:

-user access based security
-BACKUP!!!

so... as a simple solution (her boss is cheap) in reaction to a data loss situation... I suggested the following:

-beef up her mac pro with 3 1TB hard drives (the server).
-connect her office computers (4 users) to a gigabit ethernet hub
-the ethernet hub will connect to the LAN (for printer access)
-set up a user on the server to allow access by people in her group
-set up superduper jobs to backup to external drives on a nightly basis.

this will involve them buying:

-3 internal 1TB drives
-3 external 1TB drives
-gigabit ethernet switch (8 ports is plenty)
-superduper license

...am I correct in thinking that:

-if the computers are all running through the gigabit hub, they will be hitting the server at gigabit speed, even though the LAN is 10/100?
-if the client computers are not accessing her OS hard drive, she shouldn't notice a significant performance decrease due to file sharing?

they are going to be sharing large illustrator files.

any advice?

thanks in advance!

posted in Mac OS X - 5 replies

A little graphic design humor poked at Trajan

nutbucket — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:38:36 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87QKdOJNv8&NR=1

Enjoy

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Programming hot keys for French accents

Tesserakt — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:10:08 GMT

I recently installed Leopard and have been using the option key for the various accents. This is incredibly time consuming.

Is there a way I can program these accents into my keyboard?

Merci

posted in Mac OS X - 9 replies

POS and Accounting systems....

JamaicanSteve — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:42:32 GMT

I'm currently running MYOB and have been for around 10 years now.... and I've been disappointed with many areas of the program over the years. Well, think it may be time for a change... their support is weak at best, and they only offer support packages for their newest products, which by the way, one of their techs suggest I not purchase for some time due to all the bugs they are trying to work out.

So, to the point of the post... I'm looking at the three following options, and am wondering if any of you have any experience with these software packages: Net Suite, Big Business or AcctVantage

Any information or insight you might have would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers'
Jamaican Steve

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3G iPhone expected in June

troy — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:07:37 GMT

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/apple_iphone_dc;_ylt=AqiPAmiDEsXWqhOAAaVqL0EDW7oF

posted in Mac OS X - 19 replies

Mail ? mime-attchment.html.....

JamaicanSteve — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:12:00 GMT

Background:

A fellow employee is away on vacation and has set her email to auto-reply... she in using Mail. If I send her an email I get the standard "I'm away on vacation I'll be back..." kind of thing in response, but at the bottom of the message, my original message is copied, but in the form of a mime-attachment.html file.

Questions:

Any setting I can change on her system to avoid having the copied message arrive in the mime-attachment.html format? Is the copied information arriving in this format related to a setting on my machine, or hers?

Any help regarding this matter would be greatly appreciated! This isn't the end of the world, but I'd like to know more about it especially if there is a solution...

Cheers & Thanks For The Help'
Jamaican Steve

posted in Mac OS X - 4 replies

Can't name/rename files or folders!?

:Eileen: — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:40:20 GMT

Hi, I'm trying to help my dad out. I don't remember exactly what happened but all of a sudden he couldn't name any new documents, files, folders, etc. He also can't rename any existing files or folders. The little box highlights blue, but won't allow us to delete or type over the existing name ("untitled" or something it's already been given). We also can't choose "rename folder" or anything like that from the drop down menus.

We've tried various things . . . checked preferences . . . security (?) . . . and more and can't figure out what's going on. It's super annoying - the same problem happens whether we're in the finder or trying to name/rename desktop folders, a new or existing word doc or iphoto folder or file. Help please!!

What good are dozens of files and folders with the same name and no way to tell them apart unless we open them!? Thanks in advance.

posted in Mac OS X - 15 replies

MBP - Wake From Sleep Issues?

BrettFromTibet — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:57:51 GMT

I bought my first Mac, an iBook in 2005 and it was rock-solid and indestructible. I probably rebooted the thing a total of 5 times that I owned it. Seriously. I just slammed the lid on the thing, threw it in my bag and hit the road... and it never, ever failed to wake from sleep - or needed to be restarted for ANY reason. It was rock-solid and beyond reliable. It was BLISS!

My MBP seems to have a huge issue waking up. If I'm at a coffee shop and my battery runs low.. less than 5%... and I close the thing.. there is absolutely no guarantee it will wake up when I plug it back in. If I leave it closed too long, I could easily get a black screen... tapping the keys does nothing... and hitting the power button reboots it.

I have lost data probably a half dozen times, and I am staring to get that whole Windows XP can't-trust-it feeling.

Can anyone explain if this is normal or not?

I called Apple Care and the guy told me I needed to reboot my computer every time I took it out of the house or moved it around or closed it for longer than an hour. Seeing that I usually have 20+ apps open and have never done this before or needed to... I find it hard to believe\ I have to reboot every time I go to a conference and move from session to session...

What's up? Is my MacBook Pro "normal" or does it need to be repaired?

posted in Mac OS X - 7 replies

Problem saving pdf's to iphoto

mlonardo — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:59:01 GMT

I'm trying to save some pdf's to my iphone. I've been directed to open the pdf in preview, click file>print and then:

In the lower left corner of the print dialogue where it says "PDF" choose save to iphoto:

BUT,

When I try and select 'save to iphoto' it is grayed out and cannot be selected.

Any suggestions?

posted in Mac OS X - 13 replies

how can i keep tribe from timing out?

bombastique — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:08:33 GMT

i swear i saw someone post info on this somewhere before and thought i bookmarked it, but i can't seem to find that bookmark and my googlin' turned up a lot of info on asp and .net timeouts - not what i'm looking for.

so - anyone know how to keep tribe from timing out all the time? it's drivin' me batty!

posted in Mac OS X - 42 replies

Wireless Problem with Macbook Pro...or the world?

Jen — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:38:09 GMT

I recently purchased a Macbook Pro in March, and have been having weird issues arise regarding wireless connection:

- Airport does not work at my house. I have an N-router, which should be fine, but it will not connect. My mac recognizes the wirelss network and I.P. address, but refuses to connect. My sisters dell pc laptop works fine with our wireless, and at the same time as the home pc desktop, but whenever I try to connect to the wireless internet on my mac, it not only won't let me, but will disconnect every other computer in my house.
- When those computers are turned off, my laptop will intermittently connect to my house wireless internet.
- My macbook Pro airport works fine at work and at school.

Do you think that it is the router? Or am I missing some kind of setting on my mac? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

posted in Mac OS X - 9 replies

iMac EFI firmware update 1.3

hoco — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:10:01 GMT

I installed this on my 24" iMac and it didn't restart the way the instructions said it should. I rebooted it after waiting about half an hour. It seems to have worked fine though. I wrote to MacFixit and they published my comments:

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080411140848925

I would advice folks to burn the firmware restoration disk before installing this firmware update... it will certainly give you some peace of mind.

posted in Mac OS X - 0 replies

DFS shares?

Reed — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:40:08 GMT

Does anyone know if Apple is planning on supporting DFS in a future OS X 10.5 update? This is causing a HUGE headache for my company!

TIA!

posted in Mac OS X - 1 reply

Smart Disk drives?

Chr1spy — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:08:46 GMT

Just wondering what luck others have had with Smart Disk portable drives.

I know from my own experience and that of others on the board the LaCie drives are to be avoided, and that Seagate drives are the best in most people's opinion.

posted in Mac OS X - 15 replies

wireless constantly connects and disconnects

colinb — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:46:02 GMT

Greetings
I have a Macbook Core2 2Ghz, 1GB RAM, OS 10.4.11 with all updates. I'm having a weird airport problem in that my wireless connection will go into a loop where it connects and immediately disconnects and then connects again and this will just go on indefinately. This isn't specific to the wireless network because its happened at home and in several coffee shops. I also don't think its a hardware issue because if I boot into Vista the wireless under windows connects fine. Has anyone else heard of an issue like this?
peace
Colin

posted in Mac OS X - 5 replies

MS Office 2004 vs 2008

MickD — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:22:03 GMT

So when I get my new machine, and assuming my old MS office license isn't transferrable, I'm debating the wisdom of purchasing MS Office 2008 (home & student version) and may choose to stick with the 2004 version, instead. MS Office is something of a necessary evil for me. Have you guys used 2008, and is it worth it? Is there a better solution?

posted in Mac OS X - 34 replies

best data card for PPC os x?

bradleyalbus — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:32:29 GMT

Hola

Just wondering where the best deal is (deal as in best service, bandwidth, overall value, etc.) on a broadband data card.

Are the only options through the USB for the PPC using OS X?

Something that I could keep when I eventually upgrade to new mac hardware would be ideal as well

Any ideas?

I went in to the verizon store the other day to check out what they were offering, are they the only ones mac friendly?

harmony & blessings
Upfulness

posted in Mac OS X - 4 replies

2Wire DSL Modems and Routers subject to redirect vulnerability

hoco — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:00:52 GMT

We love our macs because they aren't very vulnerable to viruses and such. But there is a fairly new kind of attack that targets one's router. All one needs to do is visit a web page or view an image with a nefarious URL. No password is needed. No software gets installed on your computer. In fact, the vulnerability isn't on your computer. The router, once compromised, reports the wrong DNS addresses and can lead you to phishing web sites made to look exactly like your familiar bank web site, etc. When you log in, they get your login credentials and your account is compromised. You won't know it until it is too late. Your browser will report the correct domain name. The only way you'd know is if you actually checked the IP address before being compromised. I'm sure everyone here has a ready list of the IP addresses of all their critical web sites... yea, right.

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/08/1946214&from=rss

If you use a 2Wire router this could affect you. Even if you don't, you should periodically check to see if there is a firmware update for your router, and update it. It is usually very easy to do and doesn't take long.

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Signal boost

BobbyLove — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:52:15 GMT

I want to get a better wireless signal into my bedroom - there seem to be too many walls between my bed and my desk. I really don't need a Time Capsule, and I'm wondering if there are any good reasons to get an Airport Extreme Base Station rather than a cheapo Linksys or Netgear wireless router. This would be configured as a "bridge" I believe, using 802.11 N on all concerned equipment.

I find networking much like wizardry, so thanks for any input...

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Clearing a drive for Time Machine

MickD — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:22:32 GMT

So I'm about to clear off one of my external drives for use with Time Machine. I won't be backing up everything, just crucial files that I work on with regularity. Do I need a really big external drive for this? Can I get away with using a 120GB drive for these monthly backups?

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surface scan of an external hard drive

hoco — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:54:02 GMT

What do you recommend for doing a surface scan of an external hard drive? I have a drive that I am beginning to suspect may have a bad block.

As a followup question, if it turns out to have a bad block, can I ask for replacement under its warrantee? It is a Seagate drive. And, do I have to have the receipt from, like 3+ years ago?

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Back to my Mac

BobbyLove — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:11:41 GMT

It really works! ( you need a .Mac account though )

Check the photo section...

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FTP and Time Capsule error

Pink — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:25:49 GMT

My friend has Time Capsule and is trying to FTP into a clients site using Transmit.

She keeps getting a "Server closed connection." error.

I can FTP to the site with the config info she gave me and she can login to other sites.

I had her connect directly to the router/modem and she was able to connect then.

There is some chatter on The Internets about TC and port 21 (the port that FTP wants to use) but it is in regards to Port Forwarding and accessing from a LAN or WAN to a computer, not from a computer.

Anyone else? Any ideas?

She's going with the basic configuration on the TC.

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Screen sharing ...

scooter-ron — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:48:52 GMT

I've been playing around with screen sharing in leopard and it's phenominally useful - it's letting me and my writing partner work on documents at the same time from across town. What a great feature!

But I'm curious if anyone's discovered any hotkeys other than cntrl-escape, to quickly end the screen sharing session. What I'd love was a hotkey that brought me back to my computer (from the shared computer) without having to mouse over to the window. I know apple sometimes buries hotkeys, anybody managed to find one that does this?

Thanks!

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