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

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-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)

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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!

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 …

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 …

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 …

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:

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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

[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 …

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? …

I just bought a Powerbook G4 a month ago. I do alot of video editting. I already had a pc with 2 120 gig seagate hdd's. I want to access one of them from an external drive & bought a box w/a 6 pin firewire port on it. I finally …

I did a Virex scan by McAfee and this is what it found. Anyone, please review and please tell me what I should do, and if I should be worried. I'm new to the mac platform, so please go easy on me. Virex Report 12/6/06 7:41 PM Engine version: 5.1.00 …

Hi all I am using windows xp home addition ,when I boot up it begins to load as normal until I get to the log on and then it changes to a Mac OS X log on window.My son has an i pod and I suspect he has downloaded some …

Hi Have produced both a simple cube animation as well as a VR object movie in c4d and saved as quicktime movies. Unfortunately my client ( who is on a PC) cannot open them despite having downloaded the latest quicktime 7.1.3. How can I resolve this - I am sending …

I keep getting problems sending viruses to PC people, which is hard when sending newsletters to printers, so I need (after 7 years!) an antivirus software, preferably free. NB I took Norton Antivirus off as it kept clashing with Word ('98) extensions and making the system crash. I have an …

I used to run earthlink, now i run aol because my pc has aol and i do not wanna pay for 2 isp just because i have one mac and one pc. I was also curious about netzero, any one have any advice on any other ones?

Started Mac G4 tower with Norton Utilites to correct strange things happenening . disk doctor would not finish. Received error 23005. Tried to restart - no menu option to restart to Os 10. When I finally was able to restart - it came back to Norton Utilities disk. Disk will …

I have just paid for a key to open the pro features in quicktime. I have inserted the registration number etc as instructed in the confirmation email. The checks confirm that I have indeed registered. But I can't find any reference to QT pro. What's going on? Running G5 dual/Panther

I'm writing this to let you know that I've found "bug" in the Dashboard widget iStat. It's not a bug per se, but you should know about it. iStat offers many statistics about your Mac -- amount of time running since reboot, temperature, fan speed, etc, etc. However, if you …

Hi, I downloaded a calendar software for the Mac with a ".dmg" extension. It will not open. The Mac OS-X keeps asking for an application to open the file with. It should open by itself, I believe. Any suggestions?Thanks Manny

Hi Folks, I have Panther (10.3.9) running on a G4 on 1 partition, is there an easy way of creating a new partition so i can install tiger as well but without losing the Panther install and all the apps? Also will this work running Panther and Tiger on one …

I am new to this so please bear with me! I am wanting to network two computers from two different locations togather so I can work on files from either of the computers. Can I do this? I need free and secure if possible. I do medical billing at night …

Here I go, I just bought a MBP Core 2, finally I could get my hands on to one of this..... The first thing Ive noticed is that this ought to be POWERFUL machine takes forever to read a data Dvd.... Is this Usual? or is it yet another Mac …

Hi, I'm a newbie. I want to be able to record a movie of all of my actions as I work in a couple of applications. My research shows I should save the file as a .mov for it to be most cross-platform compatible. I am making a seminar particular …

When the Mac Performa 5200 boots up, the finder comes on but the arrow is stuck in the upper left corner of the screen. I have zapped the P-RAM, but that did not solve the problem. I would be grateful for any suggestions. Pelycan

Hi, I have an eMac 1.4 ghz on which someone had installed a PC3200 Ram chip in, instead of a PC2700. This caused constant crashes/software problems/freezes. Once I had discovered the rogue chip had been installed, I removed it, and decided to erase the machine & rebuild it from the …