Mac Forum / General / General / January 2006

Long story short, a friend has an older os9 only machine and wants to add
firewire HD for backup.  I have a unit that will work for this, but  he
don't know how to do any of the setup.  This was used on a PC and has an
oxford controller which I read somewhere was os9 compatible.

Given all the discussion about "the help viewer problem" here I want to
report I found a solution has been posted in the thread
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1486161#1486161
in the Apple forums.   Look for about the sixth message, by

OSX's Address Book supposedly supports sending text messages and dialing
over Bluetooth, as well as the ability to show me who is calling. I have a
Motorola RAZR V3 paired correctly to the Mac, yet the options are always
grayed out. When I click the pairing button in Address Book it ...

I have retrieved actions from Apple's web site called "Push to Bluetooth
device", and installed it. It helps create an automator task / script to
send a file to a cell phone i.e.
I create a folder so and right-click "configure actions" (sorry my

is the clicking sound i notice whenmy isight normal?
cvan i turn it off?
thanks

Has anyone gotten Tiger to run acceptably well on an old iBook (i.e. of
Tangerine vintage)?
What about one of the later versions of Panther?
I'm not sure whether to bother replacing my battery and (no longer

I have a G5 PPC running 10.4.  
I believe at one time it used to go into sleep mode.  But now it
doesn't.  The Energy Saver is set to put the display to sleep after 15
minutes and the computer to sleep after one notch to the right of 15

There's been talk of how Rosetta will allow one to run their current PPC
 intended software on the new Intel machines, but this brings a thought
to my mind.
When I switched from my G3 iMac to a new G5 iMac, I used a flash stick

ok- i'm a student at the university of illinois and one of my
friends told me about this....
just letting people know that this is out there, ive never
done anything like this before but i'm sure its legit. you

Is there any good CD / DVD labelling software around? Currently I only
found
 - discus
 - disclabel

I encountered a really weird problem when I tried to de-archive a
project from a CD we burned a few years ago.  We first realized there
was a problem when the system locked up every time I tried to copy the
project folder to the hard drive.  When I checked the folder

when running a CD I make on the pc, I run a small file called
Autorun.inf that in turn runs a small executable called start.exe, so
CDs start running automatically when you put them in the machine..  is
there something like that for the mac?  thank you..

I have a G3 1GIG Memory that I had 9.1 on that had been upgraded to 9.2.2.
and then to 10.3.89.  When I tried to install 10.4 it wouldn't install.  I
got the the finish install and when it reboot I got a circle with a line
through it.  Could not get this to work.  Decided to do a ...

I am having a lot of problems and I need someone to clarify my
understanding of the mechanics of ITune.
I will pick an example. I tried to subscribe to the site
www.thedigitalstory.com

On apple's web page, the new iMac Intel is 1.6X faster on garageband
and 1.9X faster on Pages than the g5 iMac. Of course, Apple could have
put the dual core 2.0 G5 in the iMac and achieved roughly the same speed
up....