Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / August 2006

I friend just emailed me an attachment which ends with ".eml". My Mac
doesn't know what to do with it.
IS there something that will open it?
Steve  = : ^ )

Just inherited an iMac.  The system date is set in 2004, but is admin
password protected.  How do I change the date?
Thanks!
-- Dave

I have a Powerbook G3 M3553 "Kanga". I would like to know the external power supply
polarity, battery voltage, and how to get inside to the hard drive etc? Is that through the
keyboard? How does the keyboard come out?
Barry

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I downloaded this program, which streams TV from various outlets in the
world. It works OK in some ways, obviously able to cope with RealPlayer
streams, but any that are Windows Media Player streams it tells me to
download the program. Well, I have WMP on my system, but just to be

I can't believe I can't solve this, given that I've used every
incarnation of Word since before hard drives were invented. I never had
this problem before.
I'm using Word 2004 - Version 11.2 on an intel MacMini. In the past few

I have a mp3 (I might have more) that WILL NOT PLAY in ITUNES whatsoever.
It will play in MPLAYER, VLC player.
This MP3 wont burn with Toast or Dragon Burn at all. (drag and drop and
error msg come up ..)

I'm looking to buy a MacBook Pro soon. One of the things I want to do is
use Parallels Desktop to run multiple virtual machines, specifically
Windows 2003 Server and Windows XP. (Yeah, I know. But it pays the bills
and at least doing it this way, I can still have my Mac ...

Just installed Adobe Reader 7 and seem to be experiencing the "Spinning Beach Ball of Death"
when viewing pdf files, even small, one page pdf files with only a few lines of text.
This happens even when Adobe Reader is the only program running.
If I right click the icon in the Dock ...

I recently bought a PowerMac G4 400MHz (Sawtooth) and am thinking of replacing the Hitachi
DVD-ROM Drive with a Pioneer DVR-111D Burner.
After searching for some info, some people say that you have to remove the front faceplate so it
will fit into a G4 PowerMac, and some people say ...

Ok, I am confused here.
If I wanted to "compress" some files , should I try the -.
DMG way, OR
The  " create archive" way? (turns them into zip files)

I am trying to run Windows 95B under PCx on a Powermac G3 with 224 megs RAM.
The installation proceeded without error but Windows will not start from the hard file.
It says insufficient extended memory.
The BIOS message indicates it has 15 megs extended memory allocated and I have

Got an old iMac at the right price $0 So I thought upgrade the OS to 10.3
Got the disks same price as unit.As the CD drive was defunct I thought run
long cables out through CD door. Opened it up, counted pins on CD cable as I
could not find a power socket on it, 50 pins agh. ...