Mac Forum / General / General / October 2005

I'm looking for some encryption software that will imbed a text file in
a picture or audio or video file.  I believe the term is called
steganography.  Using OSX.  So I want to have an encrypted file that
doesn't look like an encrypted file.

I have got a VERY annoying problem on my Mac OS-X 10.4.2.
My keychains somehow got screwed up and I had to reset my .Mac
sync data. I also changed the .Mac password and reset all the keychains
on my desktop Mac. However,

Is there a way to specify (or increase) the font size for all windows?
I just switched my wife over to a G4 PowerMac with a 20" Cinema display and
Mac OS X 10.4. She is complaining that all the text is too small to read. I
can adjust font preferences in some applications, but I have ...

I have a 667MHz titanium PB, with 768 MB ram,17 GB free on the disk,
and OSX 10.4.2.
I fired up SW update this evening and asked to install DVD Playback
Update, iTunes, and QT. It downloaded everything and installed DVD

What kernal_task is it that consistently sucks up 60 mb of my precious
768 mb of memory?  I can't seem to run both Logic Express and
GarageBand simultaneously without a newspaper at hand and have locked
my machine (w/spinning ball) every day for the past 3 in attempts to do

G4/733 desktop, OS 10.3.9, on a pretty good surge protector.
Last night there was a momentary power glitch in the house. The
computer rebooted and appeared fine but shortly after, if we for
instance double-clicked a desktop folder or the hard drive icon, there

I have one of the Blue & White G3's that I had upgraded with a MachSpeed G4
board. Will OS X run on it? The company had made a patch for it to work but
I'm not sure if it still does with Tiger. I was wondering if there was a
way to get it to work. Any help would be greatly ...

Hi. I do regular backups with the following cron job using rsync:
/usr/bin/rsync -avE \
--exclude=.Trash \
--exclude=Library/Caches \

I am switching from pc to mac...1st mac is mac-mini...I am confused on
installing a/v program as doing it on mac appears to be different from
pc...on pc I download application to download folder where it must
then be clicked on to open and install...

Greeting,
I've got a Mac G3 Blue&White and a Mac Ilsi. I want to transfer the hard
disk's content of the Ilsi to the G3 but all seems incompatible.
First, the disk of the Ilsi is of type SCSI; I don't even have a SCSI

After numerous system crashes and virus infections and with the introduction
of the new mini, I'm thinking it might be time to switch to a Mac.  I had
one years ago, but switched to a PC the last time I bought a computer. I've
got several questions which I hope someone out there ...

I've inherited an HP Laserjet 2100 from the former, Windows-using
occupant of my office, and I am trying to get it to work from with my
Powerbook G4 (17"), running OS 10.3.9.  
The printer only has two connectors, a parallel connector and a local

I tried to login to FTP of MacOSX Panther Server by root.
However, it has been as follows.
USER rootUser root access denied
Although I deleted root of /etc/ftpusers, login by root is not

i've got an old mac running system 7.6.1 which i keep for nostalgia reasons
and playing old games like marathon etc.
i've got Speed Doubler 1.3.1 which won't work with system 7.6.1, it needs to
be updated. But i can't find the updater anywhere and the connectix website

A friend of my sister's has just purchased an Apple refurbished G4
iBook. Neither DSL nor cable is available where she lives. Can I
download Apple updates to my 10.4 G5 iMac and then burn a cd to give to
her? She has AOL dial-up, and I know from past experience that large