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Hi everyone...just signed up today. I recently have swapped from PC to Mac and, as Editor/Budding Designer producing a tabloid newspaper, I can't believe I took so long to finally buy a Mac -- G4 dual (from a friend...journos are always broke!!). I'm soon moving to smalltown living, trying a …

I've recently come by a 1999 model G3 which is great but I'm reduced to kindergarten by my total lack of basics. Q1. How do I uninstall stuff, do I just send it to the trash? Q2. I can't run or install any of my old windows programs, eg winamp. …

Hi i am trying to figure out a way to burn to dvd as i import the signal direct from my sony camera.Do i have to first import it into prgramme like imovie ?Or to burn direct on the fly do i need another prgramme.I do not have idvd at …

I'd appreciate any advice on how to sort this problem. I've heard of Apple Help giving problems with startup -- have no problem there -- but when I enter the search term and press enter, nothing happens. No text brought up, etc. This on a G4 running Panther. Any ideas???? …

Helppp !!!I'm all thumbs and I just got a Mac powerbook G3. What I'm trying to do is access my auto memory. It records every 5 minutes it indicates. But how do I retrive data? Is the lack of a battery the problem?

Hey guys, can someone tell me where or how I can get an OS9 system installer file to install on my iMacs (G4's) to run next to OSX.3.5 ? Jaguar installed it automatically. Panther doesn't, unfortunately. Thx in advance!

Is only the software part of the computer diff or is the hardware of Mac different from my pc which runs windows :o

Since the OSX.3.5 update/upgrade (?) my Disk Doctor (7.0) – part of Norton SystemWorks 3.0 – seems unable to handle the OSX directory size. And thus never finishes scanning or repairing the HardDisk it set out to. All this while booted from the Norton SystemWorks 3.0 CD. I never had …

I bought a Western Digital Caviar EIDE HD that is supposed to be 200GB, but when I formatted it with Drive Setup for my Mac G4, it came out to 130. Where did the extra 70GB go???

Trying to download basic games and programs from websites such as Download.com, macupdate, macgamer and even Apple without any success. After clicking download button, the address will change in the window and then loop back to the download page. The msg that seems to come up the most is : …

We are experiencing a seriously infuriating issue with our new Imac powerPc G4. You are happily working on something and the computer goes into screen saver mode. When you click out of it the cursor has jumped to one or other of the screen corners. It happens constantly and seems …

Link: [url="http://www.apple.com/imac"]http://www.apple.com/imac[/url] Watch the iMac Introduction Video: [url="http://www.apple.com/imac/video/"]http://www.apple.com/imac/video/[/url] What do you guys think of it? I've watched the video about 50 times... I love it that much :!:

I just recently found my clam shell mac and I forgot my password, I was wondering how could I be able to install OSX on it if it was possible or at least getting my password back.

Hey all, I got a few problems and have no where else to turn! Yesterday I tried to startup Digital Performer 4 and got an error message saying that the MIDI was not working. Tried other softwares which use MIDI as well and got the same message. I'm pretty sure …

Hi there! I am periodically receiving the error message "Mail could not be sent to the account, 'Rachel's email account'. Mailbox is temporarily full." It happens when I am composing an email, even at odd times such at 2:00am. I may only have 1 or 2 emails in my inbox, …

i have a mac G4 with OS X 10.2 (jaguar) and a couple of days ago i went to go on the comp and my brother had it in OS 9 but it had been sitting there unused for a while and began to index the computer. When i went …

Hi Folks, I've now had my powerbook for a week or so, and am very happy with my choice. I can now understand all those people who say they *love* their Apple :) . However I have had one problem that I would welcome advice on. The problem has now …

Can anyone explain what I steps I would need to take to insert a jpeg image into a Microsoft Word document? I use Mac OS X. Thank you.

Can anyone help-pretty simple question I think (but too hard for me to answer.) I purchased OSX 10.3.2 which is installed on my power-book.I am about to buy my wife an i-book. Can I install this operating system from the same CD's onto her computer? I also have a G4 …

Problem on G4 dual, I changed startup in preferences to os9, but now havea flashing question mark on the screen and the computer will not start. I have tried rebooting while holding down, alt/command/c/d/x but none of these have helped. anyone help please thanks sdc

Hi mac people. I am currently planning to purchase a notebook. It will be my first Apple computer (replacing my windows PC) I had planned to buy a 14" ibook (1.2Ghz/768Mb ram/60Gb HD/superdrive/bluetooth/airport extreme) but yesterday came across the following at slightly less cost than the new ibook. Factory Refurbished …

please help whenever i put a blank untitled cd in I name it and then it doesn't appear on the desktop. I have 10.2.1 however when i restart in 9.2 the cd appears on the desktop. does anyone know what is going on? please respond thanks :)

does anyone know how to create dvds using .wmv or .asf video files. i've tried importing them into imovie, but it seems it doesn't support this file type. is there a way to convert these files to .mpg, or other file types that mac will recognize? i'm new to mac, …

:!: Announcing the relase of PearPCFront Beta 1! It's currently a work-in-progress.. but when you run it, you'll get the overall jist of things. Just one thing to note for now, your PearPC binaries must be in the \installdir\PearPC folder. I've included Richard Goodwin's "05.31.04, 12AMEDT" standard build with this. …

Does anyone know of a way to create a default dock configuration. When we authenticate a new user to their machine, it always uses the default setup direct from Apple. Is there a way to make it show up so that programs like iChat, iCal, and other programs that a …

We all know about those annoying nag screens that shareware/trialware programs pop up on program startup. I was wondering how these programs register their existence in my OS X system. When I delete trialware from my system and install again, the software intrinsically knows that I have installed the software …

I am trying to help my dear mother with her new Mac, but I am a PC user and am lost! When she tries to login to a certain website, after entering her password, she gets a pop-up stating there is a security failure, decryption error. I have tried different …

OS X 10.3.5, PBG4/550, PalmDesktop 4.2.1. 1. each time on quit from PalmDesktop I get the Msg "File Busy" cannot sync my Palm V pda anymore and by opening PalmDesktop it's recovering "unsaved data" (also with 10.2.8 - worked flawlessly for a long period and then suddenly the problem) 2. …

hi, the company i work for blocks access to streamed media, mp3s etc. i really need to access realmedia streams, and the rest would be a bonus. friends have used an http tunnel for PC that lets you get through the firewall to pretty much anything you want: mp3, MSN …

Does anybody know what causes email that is sent to you backwards and upside down? and what can you do to solve this problem

I've tried everything i know, but my mail won't launch, disk utilities/repair won't launch, 10.3.4 updater/installer won't launch, otherwise all's well on my Mac. How can I reinstall 10.3 or 10.3.4 now that I've updated to 10.3.4? HELP ramiro

Hi people, I'm having problems with my browser not remembering my passwords for forums and in some cases just not signing me in at all on other sites/forums I visit regularly. I thought it may have been a problem with the cookies at first but it's not. I also downloaded …

I just bought an HP Deskjet 3650 printer. Whenever I try to install the driver, the installation fails. An alert with this message appears: "Error Creating Folder... Access Denied" Using the Disk Utility, I repaired the permissions but that hasn't solved the problem. Any ideas what I can do? I'm …

I just started using osX , I am used to having the modem dial automatically when I open the browser, but I cant seem to find anything in the preferences to accomplish this... I am using firefox and safari.... also with the mac imail when I get my new mail …

[FONT=Comic Sans MS]does the ibook g4 have a built in dvd burner or can you install a program to burn dvd. without external dvd burner[/FONT][FONT=Comic Sans MS]if anyone can answer that question please respond[/FONT]

hello all .... i need help ... and you guys seem to know what your talking about. i want to buy an ibook ... and network it to my laptop which runs xp ... which will have a printer attached ..... which i want to use from both the mac …

Hello dear MAC users ! I'm developing few web sites and I have specific problems when I'm trying to see if it works with different platform, especially with MAC. It seems that when I'm making a link to big file (in those case, vrml and file maker pro) more than …

I'm using OS9.2 and Explorer 5.1. At some point Explorer froze and I had to reboot. When I returned, I couldn't connect to the Internet anymore by clicking directly on the program. The only way I could accomplish this was first to go into Remote Access, which would make the …

Hello, Dani, our System Administrator, has created a new forum called Mac Tips and Tricks. I'd love to write about a number of things concerning the Macintosh, but being at the administrator level for so many years, I may be a bit out of touch on what new people would …

hi, can any one help me? i'm going mad here!! :rolleyes: ive been given some .zip files with an archive inside... ive un zipped the .zip archive but now it looks like i have another inside, all with the file extention .p01 , .p02 , .p03 , .p04 etc.... how …

I loaded 10.3 today on my G4 and Safari won't launch, or quits when I try. Calculator also not working, and I went to burn a cd and Toast doesn't launch when I insert the blank cd. Help! Please and thanks. I tried a reinstall and ended up with the …

I have been hearing hype for so long now about a 30" cinema display. Is this just another rumor? As the owner of dual 23" cinema hd displays, I'm very interested in this ;) I heard awhile ago that supposedly Apple was going to release the new monitor with a …

Friend, My "HELP" window does not launch when I am off line. The window goes on for a second then vanishes. I have no idea what to do. Can you help?

I am in dire need of assistance, Canadian apple support is closed for a holiday and the US Support will not help because I am outside US. I have been through all the hoops on the mac site, but here we go. I went to restart from classic to OSX. …

I have a hard disk that I have initialized to zerors with mac O/S 9, Drive set up initialized with mac O/S X and tried everything on the books, but I can not get rid of dimmed Permision repairs. The disk is ok by hardware tests, but I cannot install …

Hey, I have a 400mghz Imac with 196 mg of ram and a 10 gb hard drive. I just upgraded my operating system to 9.2 which is working fine. I would like to try Os X. Is this possible and will it work without too many problems or should i …

Hi there I used to have an old iMac, running Mac OS 9.2. If I wanted to hear what I plugged in the audio input, I went to audio settings and clicked on "play through". Now I have an eMac running Panther (10.3.4) and in audio settings, the option play …

i have an apple using the mac os x operating system. I bought it yesterday from a pawn shop. it worked fine yesterday at the pawn shop when it was on. Today i turned it on and a screen pops up MAC OS X and an icon asking for a …

I'm having a problem. I just upgraded from Office X to Office 2004. At the same time, I upgraded my Panther install. Now I just realized while browsing the web, that if I try to send an e-mail, it says "Safari doesn't recognize links beginning with mailto:" or a message …

hey, I'm considering purchasing an iBook with an AirportExtreme card in it so that i can (hopefully) network my pc and my new mac together super easily and still be super mobile. I was wondering, since I have a cable internet connection and leave my pc all pretty much all …