Mac Forum / General / General / December 2005

I am a pc user. I have a mac sitting next to me here at work. How do I
put a cd into it?  Someone told me to use the button on the keyboard.
but there's no such button on the keyboard (apparently it has a
non-apple keyboard, although it does have the power button so I think

When downloading a Podcast, where does the file get saved for later viewing?
I tried to search for all files created "Today" with Command-F
but it didn't find anything that appeared to be the Podcast ...
not to mention that Find isn't much good anymore (that is compared

I was looking at a used G4 450 and it seemed like a great deal except when I
went to reboot it a couple of times the monitor on button would start to
light up and then go out and it took unplugging the computer from the wall
and rebooting to get the monitor to come on.  It was on ...

Does aanyone know of anything I can do to restore my ability to allow
me to force a shutdown/restart on my iMac G4 1.25 running Tiger? I lost
the ability months ago (the OS kills all apps but sits at a solid
colour background,no dock or menu forever).

I have a family DVD made from VHS tapes, the tapes are no longer available.
I want to extract a scene from the DVD so I can work with it in iMovie. I
have tried importing the DVD into iMovie, I get picture with no sound. Is
this possible.

My new (Oct 2005) 17" powerbook often tries to shut down all by itself
(without me telling it to).
Most of the time one of the applications will stop it - but it is
annoying.

I'm shoppinng for more storage, mostly for large video files, and am
considering a Seagate 300GB external drive. But then I read some bad
reviews, about drive failures.
I have room in my G4 1.25 DP for an internal drive, and Seagate makes a

I recently bought a G3 iMac for my granddaughter. It was a school
surplus comuter and I bought it for her because of all of the
educational software that's on it. I would like to upgrade the OS and
add some software that I have but the HD and all of the control panels

I recently bought a G3 iMac for my granddaughter. It was a school
surplus comuter and I bought it for her because of all of the
educational software that's on it. I would like to upgrade the OS and
add some software that I have but the HD and all of the control panels

 I have the Tiger OS. Every time I put the Mac to sleep and then wake
it up, I get a message box that says "The device you removed was not
properly put away". This is driving me crazy. Any way to fix it?
                                             Chiffres

hi, i'm new to the group and recently returned to the mac world after
many years on windows machines. here's my problem:
When my dad passed away last summer, i ended up with his two macs, and
i'd like to adopt them. However, because there's still a lot of his

I'm running out of disk space and I have some home videos that I keep
on my laptop that I watch when I'm on the road.  These are videos that
I created with iDVD of the family and then ripped them to the laptop
and use VLC to watch them on the road.

I'd like to find a Sherlock plugin that allows me to search for local TV
listings here in the US. I've seen plugins for other countries, but
nothing for here. Does anyone know of such a thing? This also brings up
this question:

My friend is lending me a Logitech web cam for my B&W G3 running OS
10.2.9.  I'd like to try videoconferencing with my family, but I haven't
any idea what software to use.  Is there some simple video chat software
(preferably freeware, nothing fancy) out there that anyone can ...

I am not talking about keychains. I want to lock folders on my desk
top. So that in order to view the contents you have to enter a
password. I have sepreate accounts for the kids. But locking up certain
folders, with info I don't anyone seeing lets me sleep a little better