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I just bought my first Mac, and although I'm fairly comfortable with Linux, and am getting used to my Mac quickly, there are some differences I'm still not sure about. This may be blindingly obvious to everyone else, but when I start FireFox, which I installed yesterday, I get a …

Suddenly all my non-bold text in e-mails, web sites, downloads, etc. has broken up like white paint was spattered over it. I can't find any answers. Tried a new anti-virus software, tried restarting in safe mode, shift down, command shift down, everything down. NOTHING! This is on a iMac G5. …

Both Second Life and Skype have come in for some bad publicity following media reports exposing pedophile activity on the hugely popular services. Second Life got a kicking from a German TV program called Report Mainz which claimed to have been approached by pedophiles inviting the reporter to attend ‘child …

I have VMware and I was wondering if I can virtualize mac os x (or any other mac version) on linux? Has anyone used VMware to virtualize macs? I dont really want to use it, it just needs to look good ;-) NOTE: i mean the intel based macs

Hi, I've just had my Mac for a month now and I'm trying out all these iLife programs. Also, I've been making movies with iMovie. It's all really great and I'm having fun... but [B]how about actually editing the uploaded videoclips from my camera?[/B] With iMovie I seem to be …

Hi, Perhaps I have a stupid question, but I have only had my iMac for about a month now and I'm learning more each day.. I was wondering... [U]when I watch online video's like news broadcasts and all that, do those video clips store themselves on my Mac somewhere? [/U]You …

Hi guys. How would I go about installing the gnome desktop on my mac? I've got X11 running and all, but can't see to get it to work. Would someone care to give me some instructions on how to do this?

Hey everyone, isn't Mac OS X great? The only problem is that a lot of open-source software is only for Linux. Well, there will never be an end-all solution, but there's many ways of making it better. Here are the solutions I recommend: - Dual-booting Mac OS X and Linux …

How do you save your Mac Outlook Express 5.05 email and import it into the OSX version? Same question for the Favorites in Mac IE 5.1.7.

Well, after something like 2 months, I'm finally able to pull my iBook off the shelf and have at it again. I click the power button, and am ready to go, but for some reason, it hits that loading screen (right after the grey one, but before the login one), …

Hi - I'm new to MACs. I have a dual G5 running panther and wish to upgrade to tiger so that I can finally run my Garmin device. I got hold of a legal copy of tiger (for an imac) and on installing got the MACs version of the dreaded …

I had a 4.2 GB video (made in iMovie) that I was trying to send to iDVD, however, because of all the weird complications with Macs assuming you want to copy a file rather than move it, I decided to put it in the trash folder, so I could move …

Somewhat surprisingly, Apple has admitted that they can no longer stick to the Leopard schedule that had previously planned this spring of 2007 as the release for the new operating system being brewed by the developers of Apple, and so you should expect it 4 months later, says Apple. Reasons …

Dear friends I m student learning biology and m new to this MAC OS X . I wish to have office on my mac , i got the trial version which has experied by now, may i request for any other software. Also i wish to make may pro (Intel …

Sorry if im not allowed to post this but is anyone running mac os x86 succesfully?

(Sorry-my-spacebar-isn't-working-right-now.)-------Does-anyone-Know-of-a (there it goes) Does anyone know of an itunes visualizer screen-saver that can be viewed in system preferences? Like a regular screen-saver? (I'm probably going to get in trouble for the spacebar issue)

Hell ,i a new mac owner and know very little as to fixing problems with it . I bought a used I-mac G3 /OS 9.2 /400mhz/256 ram/dvd rom. heres the problem when i boot it up the message says ,sorry a system error occurred ,error type 114 ,then it says …

Has anyone had any experience with Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection software for Mac, or logging into a remote Windows server via a Mac through the internet? The company I work for requires me to be able to log into their server from home by typing in a URL in Internet …

Ok, I got my hands on a Mac G3 and it has 9.2.2 (clean install) on it. I have the OS 10.4 install CDs (four of them) and want to upgrade. Is there anyway of mounting the .dmg files inside OS 9.2.2 and installing rather than from boot? (similar to …

Can anyone please help, I can't seem to get anything happening with iweb, there are no options for adding a new page or templates or anything! I have tried everything and have finally resorted to reinstalling it and i still get nothing. I have seen others that have had this …

Intel's finally received the kick-in-the-pants from its rival AMD, and, trying to kick that reputation of having hot chips has decided to revamp its server quad-core Xeon chips. The new chips, which have started shipping, use a mere 50 watts of power. It also has a 60 percent reduction from …

okay my problem started awhile ago but I thought nothing was wrong so I ignored it but it spread. One day I tried to go on real player but it said my computer is running mac OS X 10.4.8. This version of RealPLayer requires Mac OS X 10.2 with safari …

New research from [URL="http://answers.vizu.com/"]Vizu Answers[/URL] and [URL="http://adage.com/"]Ad Age[/URL] suggests that when it comes to blog posting discovery, the majority of readers use links from other blogs to arrive there. The fact that the figure is as high as 67.3 percent is slightly surprising, given the amount of people that use …

i bought an Ibook G4 in late 2005. It crashed about 2 months ago while I was in the middle of editing some video and now only boots into the Darwin/BSD mode. I am able to login and get the bash prompt. Someone told me it has to do with …

For the last week or so, my computer slows down and is very sluggish after about 20 minutes. Internet connection is also dropped at an early stage. I have to reboot to free it up. I have run Onyx and cleaned/cleared everything and I have zapped the PRAM. I have …

I need help in finding a software that can help me enlarge a photo and split it in sections so I can cover a wall. Is there a software I can use to help me do this? Thanks for your help.:confused:

I have a seven-year old (is it eight now?) iMac which uses OS 8.5. Is there a pen drive out there that will work on this computer?

i have a 2000 imac dv. is there a program available to allow video to stream?

Hiya! I've come to beg for help from people less ignorant than myself... I'm using a Powermac G5 on OSX version 10.3.9. A few hours ago, my mac started bringing up the "Startup disk too full" message when I was using photoshop. The part that has me stumped is that …

Hello. Yes, I finally upgraded again to X 3.9. But if I right click an image to save to a folder or such, I have to click the Option key to get the Contextual box to change from Save to Desktop to Save As. Just wondering if there is a …

Is it just me - or is every single online poker room non mac compliant It is such a huge pain in the ass having to remotely connect to my wife's Windows machine every time I want to play online poker. HELP!

I may be kicked out of here for saying so, but I am a very creative, scattered, silly girl who only gave in to the computer world a few months ago! I need a lot of help! I have an imac version 10.3. First of all, something was taking too …

I have to admit i'm not real good with the wireless networking stuff, but i think my setup is pretty simple, though i can't get it to work... I have my Mac hardwired to my cable modem and it works fine. I have a wireless router (motorola) that's not connected …

Hi, I'm working on an AppleScript that, among other things, needs to delete page items from the pasteboard (outside the main Page area). I can go about this one of two ways: 1) call an existing javascript already in the the Scripts palette. 2) rewrite the logic in AppleScript for …

Hey everyone, I'm trying to share my HP C3100 series printer to my brothers macbook with OS-X. I'm not sure what to do. I have the Mac disk, if that will help me at all. He can find my laptop and login to it with the u/n I made for …

Hi guys, I just bought a Mac pro on the behalf of my work and thought that it would save money if i just bought the base line computer and added in my own hard drives and RAM. The hard drives went in fine i have them up and running …

Is there any way to appear offline and send an instant message to someone on Mac Messenger 6.2? My friend uses a PC and he's able to send me messages whilst he is offline but I can't reply to them :( It's pretty grim :eek:

Christian blogged today about how the Intel macs can now legally run Windows ... check it out @ [url="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry509.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry509.html[/url] I'm stunned :) However, I'm still going to wait until Intel macs are available in towers before I get myself one of them.

Sex has been one of the silent drivers of technology for as long as I can recall. It might not get reported much, not least because many in the media would prefer to pretend it is not important and has no impact. But the truth is the adult industry has …

Im fairly new to mac computers and i have a power book g4 and it says that i have used approx. 60 gb of the 74 gb that are on there. I cant figure out how i used that much space and i tried getting rid of programs and anything …

Morning Folks, think this is my first post of the new year, so Happy New Year.... i have got a small applescript i have written (see below), it is connecting to a telnet session, but opens two terminal windows - one is just a terminal window and the other is …

[COLOR=#000000]I want to have a try of this software DVD to iPod Converter for Mac at this website [/COLOR][URL="http://www.mp4converter.net/dvd-to-ipod-converter-mac.html"][COLOR=#0000ff]http://www.mp4converter.net/dvd-to-ipod-converter-mac.html[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000000]. When I downloaded the software, I was confused. :?: The download says to choose an Intel or a Power PC download. I have a MacBook Pro. Which one of these should …

when trying to burn a music cd from i-tunes, i get an unknown error -50 i tried all the usual stuff, restarting, repairing the disk, etc. nothing works. any ideas? fanshawe

Howdy All. First time poster so pls. excuse an missteps. I've got a PowerMac Dual 1Gig (MDD) running 10.3.9 and when I Control + Click (same action as going to Finder menu, File, etc) on an item on my desktop (to Get Info, Move To Trash) it not only doesn't …

I’m new to OS X and learnig fast. One thing I haven’t figured out is how to define a default app. Example if I click on a URL in an email safari pops up. I want Opera to open instead.

I recently bought a new macbook and have noticed that I can't play videos on various websites and cheesy as it sounds noticed it for the first time trying to listen to ringtones at tmobile.com. Anyway I keep getting a pop-up saying I need "x-mplayer2" and it looks like I …

Ok at this stage i am not planning on installing Linux on my new intel based mac but i was just curious as to wether or not it would acctually work if i was to try it. Or if anyone has actually done/tried this i am interested as to the …

I just got a broadband connection and when I went in to change my TCP/IP settings in the Ctrl Panel, I noticed that only AppleTalk and PPP were available. How can I get the ethernet option? Thanks in advance.

my apple powerbook g4 is not starting up i only c the blue screen with the apple logo n the circl thing olz help me i was trying to install tiger n then it had erro cause my cd had broken scraces /..can any 1 tell me how do i …

I just got my first mac - a MacBook Pro - and I am loving it except for one little annoyance: the startup sound. Do any of you know how to turn that annoying jingle that is played along with the grey Apple splash screen during startup of OSX off? …