Mac Forum / General / General / October 2005

I just upgraded to Tiger at the same time that I also upgraded from an old
15" powerbook to a new 17". After I used the apple utility of copying over
my apps and docs to the new machine, I found I could not print to any
printer.  Somewhere in the Apple help text I read that one ...

All I want to do is to change the color of my cursor--nothing else. I have a
fairly large monitor LCD screen. The standard black arrow cursor often gets
lost. I want to change it to a red cursor so that I do not have to search
for it. What is the easiest way to do that? Is it ...

Would appreciate advice on whether or not to install the recent Security
Updates?
I've read some negative posts somewhere (MacInTouch or MacFixIt or here
in newsgroups) of user problems but difficult for me to determine if I

I disabled spotlight because I it seemed like it needs to reindex the
whole disk periodically.  Also I was annoyed by the ambiguous directory
names displayed in Spotlight's search results.
I disabled Spotlight by changing "SPOTLIGHT=-YES-" to "SPOTLIGHT=-NO-"

I've been using Georgia in Mail for what seems like years, and I want a
change, dammit! :-) I don't want to go the Helvetica or Geneva or
Lucida Grande route because I see those all the time.
What nice-to-read sans-serif fonts do you guys like?

I used Macaroni under 10.3.x and earlier, and when I upgraded to Tiger,
it's disappeared. I'd like to upgrade to the Tiger version, but I'm not
sure I can, since I don't know where the original, registered version
is. (I used the archive/install option, by the way.) (Spotlight finds ...

I have this interesting problem viewing a webpage in Safari. When I log
in 8 of the links are inactive/passive/dead, but when I click on one of
the active links, they all become active, including the 8... The links
also die when I press one of the submit buttons in my pages.

Where is the file (should be console.log on Unix) displayed by the
Console.app application of MacOS-X ??? I need to access it from my
program.
Thanks,

I am having a problem with Classic starting after a user logs in.  It
gets almost all the way through booting and then comes back with an
error that states there is a "Problem with the Classic Folder".  The
only option is to hit ok.  I hit ok and then relaunch Classic and it

The tab key on one of my Macs is tabbing to every clickable item on a
web page rather than to text fields only. I have set it to "Text boxes
and lists only" in the Keyboard & Mouse Pref Pane > Keyboard Shortcuts.
I have also checked the preferences in Safari, Safari Enhancer,

I've posted this similar question and despite some very thorough
answers I was unable to get thigns working. Since then I have
streamlined my system.
I am trying to open ports (or forward them) so that I can get

I have tried to plug two sets of earphones into the jack on my 12"
PowerBook, but they do not fit.  It seems that the plugs are too long
and won't fully insert into the receptacle, giving me sound in only one
ear.  Do Apple earphones have a non-standard size plug?

I recently upgraded my iMac G3 to 10.4.2 Tiger.  Everything worked
perfectly at first then Sherlock refused to load for awhile.  When it
did finally load most of the channels had dissappeared!!!
I now have only 3 Channels,   eBay, Apple Care,  and Internet (which

Today when plugged a Sundisk reader into D-Link USB hub, so i could
transter photos from a FM disk to iPhoto, I got a USB Low Power Notice.
First time that this happened. So then, I thought that if I disconnected
one of other peripherals that would help. It didn't. I don't ...

I'm pretty good with PCs but I'm clueless when it comes to mac.
Everything was going good for me despite me not knowing anything
about macs. Then my mother got a G4 powerbook about 3 years ago and
now the lack of maintenance on the computer is really starting to