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Or am I missing something? Also - is there any way to change it's
annoying default top posting?
TIA,
Jamie Kahn Genet

My Time Machine has been taking backups at 15 minute intervals.  I
checked System Settings and see that it thinks it is 1 hour intervals,
but I don't see where to change this setting.
I don't want 15 minute intervals.

I archived last years sent mail in Leopard mail.
How do I retrieve a message I want?

I apologize if this is the wrong group ‹ I'm never sure.  :-/
I want to export a file from an OSX recipe management app (MacGourmet)
and import it into an OS 9 app (MasterCook for Mac).  
I have exported it from MacGourmet in the correct format and it shows on

I put in a commercial DVD to play on my system. It whirs and purrs,
sometimes it spits it out. I put it back in. It whirs and purrs again,
this time it's happy, I play it. The end.
But sometimes I put a disk in this-away, maybe more than once, and it

I am currently using Leopard 10.5.2 on my MacBook Pro 2.33GHz and 2
gigs of memory...
Since installing Leopard, i noticed that the first action i do, be it
check mail, open Safari, or start iTunes, or whatever, the computer

Setup: MacBook Air, running 10.5.2, with latest security enhancement;
Apple's Mail app.
Problem: Sending original mail works perfectly; however, when the sent mail
is a reply to a message, connection to the mailhost times out.

Macbook pro, leopard, all altest updates, iworks 08
First time I needed to attach a document in ical (pages). Worked great.
However, go to open it up nothing. Preview? blank.
Now I read ical and attachments with iwork 08 don't work!

I'm right now experimenting Parallels on a Linux system. The
installation of Windows 98 i choose for testing is incredibly slow.
I would like to know the opinions of Mac users (I'm one myself) about
the respective merits of VM-WARE and Parallels for Mac.

Firefox, to take an example, is not open. You drag an html file
over the FF icon in the doc and it often will open the page for
which the file is the source. But sometimes, if there are events
that delay the opening a bit, the instruction to open the html

dunno if theres a better group for it, but i am experiencing some
trouble getting MS SQL Server 2005 installed on my Windows XP SP2
guest OS.
after loading the SQL Server 2005 disc it performs the initial "System

On the other group (this is obviously the right group to review it), I
saw one review by Mark Conrad, which I hold suspect.  He is playing his
bizarre little mibd games.  And besides it's only one opinion.  And then
it devolved into an intricate discussion of mic electronics.  It ...

It is usually said that the Mac has no virus...  as in "zero" or
"none"....  now there have been security patches...  and so... if
there is no vulnerability, then why are there security patches?   if
there is vulnerability, could there have been virus planted on the

My Quicksilver is exhibiting problems that may be hardware related.
I'd like to do a hardware test but I got the computer used and did not
receive the Apple Hardware Test CD.
- Any place where I can get the CD for my Mac?

All the products I have seen come as PhotoShop plug-ins.  I need a
stand-alone app.  Does anybody know of any?