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Apple computers a new to me and I need help. I have a customer that forgot her user name and password and I am trying to reset it for her. I currently have the computer in single user mode and when I typed sh /etc/rc and hit return the computer …

Hello Mac Gurus, Wierd problem on my friend's iMac (sunflower) running Jaguar. Says he pressed some buttons (but cant remember which), and now the built in LCD display is....... monocrome. Tried all combonations of settings in System Prefrerences > Display, and Color - and the best I can do is …

File under the strange things that social networking sites think will stop sex offenders, or maybe that should be really stupid things because Faceparty has [URL="http://www.out-law.com/page-9136"]reportedly[/URL] deleted the accounts of most of its users who are over the age of 36 for just that reasoning. Yep, although it beggars belief, …

How do I reformat a flash drive in Mac OS X so it's also readable in OS 9? The flash drive is accessible in OS X but not in OS 9 (no icon; nothing except a brief flicker of the drive light). I tried launching an OS 9 application (PageMaker) …

I am thinking of upgrading to the 20" Aluminum 320 GB imac. My son plays some PC games; Orange Box games like Portal, Team Fortress will not play on our old PC. I hope 1 mac could run mostly mac os but when needed also run windows. So should I …

I'm having a really hard time ejecting my cd out. I've tried dragging the cd icon into the trash. Tried restarting the computer and pressed on the eject button on my keyboard. Is there a way for me to manually tell the computer to eject my cd? This happened before …

I am trying to connect to a wireless router and i dont understand what I need to do to allow the router to recognize my laptop (Mac Powerbook G4, version 10.3.9) .. any hints?! A friend asked me to check if I have an Airport card, and I guess I …

Hi. If anyone has multiple partitions (computer with Macintosh OS X) then please can u give me the output of system_profiler SPSerialATADataType command on the terminal? If system_profiler SPSerialATADataType doesn't give any output then try one of the following: system_profiler SPIDEDataType system_profiler SPSerialSCSIDataType Whichever command out of these three gives …

I need to know how difficult it is to install Tiger on my G5 Panther. I have just under 1GB od Ram

Are we ready for Leopard. I am wondering if there are any issues with software on Leopard, like photoshop.

I have noticed that my email account has sent out messages that are bounced from other firewalls. The messages are sent from a ficticious account with my domain name and the emails are the general spam variety. When I do a virus search, nothing comes up. How do I find …

Hello, Whenever I get an update email from Daniweb, I click on any of the subject links and Safari crashes. Same if I type in the Daniweb url. I'm using Opera, latest version to get around this. This started happening about amonth ago. I'm not currently going through my router, …

An employee of the Northern Trust Bank in Naples, California apparently stole a number of bank owned computers which he then either sold to his co-workers, pawned or auctioned off on eBay. The 34 year old man pleaded to a felony fraud charge and sentencing has been deferred until it …

Hello folks. A Mac household has asked me to advise them on how to get their Windows laptop to see their new Apple wireless router. They have some software which is supposed to work the magic, but it hasn't. I do not know too much about Macs and wonder if …

According to [URL="http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/28/allergies-caused-ipods-mobiles"]some online reports[/URL] it seems that those of us who suffer from seasonal allergies, which we politely refer to as hayfever over here in the UK, might have more than just pollen and plants to blame for our runny noses, watering eyes and itchy skin. One [URL="http://www.vitals.com/focus/allergy"]medical evaluation …

Watching You Tube or Bloomberg TV feed is a frustrating experience.Download begins and will play for 5 seconds when it stops and recommences download of next section.Is there any way of watching without all the stop and start?Am using Mac OS X.

something strange happened last night. i was on msn messenger, within 5 seconds my friend logged in and sent me a link. the link informed me you could check who had blocked you on msn messenger. just as qucikly he went offline. foolishly i clicked on the link and entered …

How cool is that? A financial software programmer has put his coding skills to good use by hacking into a popular video game and adding an Easter Egg with a twist. Hold on a minute, you are probably thinking, surely you are not condoning the illegal hacking into a commercial …

Hi everyone, I recently purchased a 7 year old Powerbook G3 "Kanga" from someone on Ebay. I needed a laptop and was tired of dealing with all of the problems with Windows-based systems. I decided that this would be a great way to learn the Mac and save some $$$ …

HELLO PEOPLE I bought a mac mini about 18 months ago and had a play about with it for 4 or 5 months & i got bored with it as the majority of my stuff i used was on my windoze pc. But hey now mac have released the new …

I realize I'm probably reaching for the stars, but I have a wonderful PowerBook Wallstreet model which I would like to be using. It's 233 mhz with only 2 gig hard drive and currently OS9. I would like to be able to add a USB port if possible, so I …

Have you ever thought of changing your tedious Mac theme? I just stumbled upon this site , where there are various styles of Mac theme for you to download for free. For me, I love the Mac theme called Illuminous most. However, I am still clueless as to how to …

I'm completely clueless, so bare with me ... I just switched over to a mac. I have an external hard drive that I used with my PC and I can read it on my mac, but I can't modify it in any way. Is there a way to format it …

what's the deal here? Snake oil or actual remedy? Is it necessary to actually defragment a Mac hard drive or does it really do it by itself? Some experts claim Mac automatically defrags it's drives and some say on files only 20mb or less. Does defrag really help to optimize …

Oh the irony. According to [URL="http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/30/sony-bmg-sued-nicking-software"]The Inquirer[/URL] and [URL="http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9362/Sony+BMG+Sued+for+Software+Piracy+-+Assets+Seized"]others[/URL] it would appear that Sony BMG, you know the same Sony BMG that has fought such a high profile and bitter legal war against individuals for copyright violation by using music file sharing sites, is itself in trouble on charges of …

Hi everyone I've been reading the threads on getting an airport card for an old Mac with great interest, as I want to get the right card for my iMac G3, and it seems that it's all too easy to get the wrong card. I have a blue G3 (700MHz …

According to [URL="http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9899151-38.html"]recent reports[/URL] the FBI has been using honey-trap hyperlinks which claim to lead to child pornography in order to entice offenders into clicking them. Last year, it seems, armed raids were carried out on homes in Nevada, New York and Pennsylvania as a direct result of such link …

Hi, is there any mail client in which I can check mail from a @prodigy.net.mx in Mac? I'm in desperate need of one. Thanks in advanced

Hi I was asking about Start up disc for the i Mac G5 and G4 Tower. Blue. The problem is I don’t have any C/D for either Computer. So I wanted to know if I could Burn one. Thanks Norm.

I just bought a new Mac Book and have safari installed on it and when I try and launch it it will not open - so I am using Firefox. Maybe the two conflict?? Then I also cannot upload any softare updates - tells me that the server timed out …

Finally retiring old PowerPro 225 running OS 8.5. Getting a bomb on startup with message that there is a bus error. Will boot with original CD, but won't allow a reinstall, stating that the hard drive is locked. Will boot with extensions disabled, but can't get on network to copy …

Hi I have bought an iMac G5. How do I tone down the start up Chimes. It nearly blows the roof off. I have tried all the volumes controls but no luck. Also where can I get PDF manuals for it. Thanks Norm.

Help. I'm having trouble opening a file that ends in .snp. I'm in the army and receive files from them in this format. I've tried everything I know but no luck. I've done google searches for translators and tried every program on my computer. The only thing I can do …

I'm new to DaniWeb and I hope that someone can help me solve an issue. My iBook G4 1.2 GHz machine is almost twice as fast as my PowerMac G4 tower 1.8 GHz machine. Why would that be? I suspect that part of the problem with the PowerMac is with …

Hi everybody, I'm not sure yet but I may be interested into switching to Mac. I was wondering what was the system file in OSX. The thing is I have a huge HD full of data in NTFS format and I would like to still have access to it if …

Hi, I recently (Nov '06) moved over to an iMac from a Dell pc. The switch was good as newer OS's and hardware was needed. I am a newsletter editor for two separate organizations and a secretary & historian for another. I do a lot of word processing and record …

Today I tired setting up a printer sharing network over my linksys wireless router. I turned the printer sharing on and the windows sharing on my mac. Then I launched my notebook with vista on it and installed Bonjour for Windows 1.0.3. Once the installation finished I ran the wizard …

I have three very old (about 13 years or more) Mac Excel files, I believe version 1.x- Dataviz software will convert Mac Excel 2.x forward, but not 1.x- is anyone aware of a solution to migrate these files so I can open them? thanks

Hi I'm SassyFrass, and I've always only had MAC's. I'm not really a computer geek. I have no programming exp. or anything. I'm just a (really annoyed at the moment) girl with a computer. Anyway.. two days ago, my yahoo started saying that people don't have permission to view my …

HELLO I would like to know how i do a complete fresh install of mac leopard on my man mini. It says in the disc utility that it is a 80 gig harddrive & come up as 74.8 , i know this is normal but i just want to make …

Hi, I have a G4 running 10.4 and a Canon 400d, I have been Using this camera for two years on the same mac g4 computer it now will not recognize it. I have tried the flash card in a number of readers and joining the camera to the computer …

I have a Windows XP machine with Microsoft Outlook XP on the same LAN as an iMac running Jaguar with Microsoft Entourage X. Samba is currently set up to share files between the two computers with no problem. Is it possible to synchronize my address book, e-mail, and calendar among …

How do i get unlimited region changes for mac? Please tell me a good virus protecter as well.

Hello ;) Having trouble with my silver powerbook running OS X...on starting i get a folder with a flashing question mark on it. I haven't the boot disk needed to load my desktop so that i can then 'bless' the system folder. Have borrowed an installation disk which when i …

Nokia recently undertook a survey of consumers in emerging markets and exposed a new trend: mobile phone sharing. Apparently, more than 50 percent of those surveyed in India and Pakistan, plus almost 30 percent in Vietnam, either already share or would be willing to share the use of their mobile …

Hey Gals/Guys, Having problems hooking up our nature clubs macs running OS 10.4 to windows server. The macs were connected and working and when they were removed from the network and upgraded or a storm hit they no longer connect to the network. 1 mac and 2 pcs that remained …

Hi, It's my first time here. I've been looking around within the Mac forum and wondering if anyone else has been having issues like mine since upgrading. I've already had to do a clean install of 10.5. I'm on an Intel Mac Pro. I lost functionality of my external iSight …

Ok here is what is going on...my daughter has an ibook and last week it was working absolutley perfectly. When she was done using it she closed it,and later on when she opened it back up to chat with her friends it went to the 'lovely' Darwin/BSD screen. She restarted …

Tuesday's the big day, just wondering if anyone had any predictions or anything they really want to see happen. Here's mine... Ultraportable Macbook New Apple TV Video rentals from iTunes Blue-Ray support in 17" Macbook Pros (please please please!!) 3G iPhone with 16-32GB

I have an old iMac G3 running 9.1 and 10.0.4. I gave it to my Mom to use for email, etc. and need to upgrade it to 10.1. I cannot find 10.1 anywhere, available for download or otherwise. Any ideas? Thanks!