Mac Forum / General / General / January 2006

Please recommend a friendly application for my iMAC G5 for optimizing
.jpg picture files for web pages.  I am not referring to optimizing
performance of my machine.  Optimization to which I am referring is
the process of reducing an image's file size (amount of data) while

Hope someone can help me with this one.
After downloading a software update, I had begun repairing disk permissions
and got the following error message:
"Disk Utility internal error -- Disk Utility has lost its connection with

I own an early g4 with os9 on it.  It has worked fine for several years
until today when it booted up and gave me the folder in the center that
flashes with a question mark.  I have several important files on the
hard drive.  Any advice would be helpful for restoring it with the

The venerable archive will disband in the near future
(exact date has not yet been set). Mirrors may or may
not remain available.
If you use Classic you may well use one of the

Yes, and oldie, and don't know if it's a goodie. A friend just acquired
same, and is on dialup, so I offered to install and update his
system....but of the two .dmg files that looked promising for DVD
player, both installers said it wouldn't run on this machine. It's on

How can I categorize photos with iPhoto?
Throughout the years I've spent lots of time categorizing my image files
within folders/sub-folders and I would like to keep things in the same
order as before. Here's an example of one of my file-structures:

This should be an easy question. I have a G3 imac 600 and am thinking
of upgrading to a G4 imac. When I bought the G3 I upgraded the RAM. Can
I place the 512MB SDRAM PC100-2225 in an imac G4. I'm guessing probably
not, but if anybody knows please advise.

Does anyone know if it is possible to transfer photos from an iPod
Photo 60GB back onto an iMac? My iMac's hard drive has died and now the
last 40 photos from my honeymoon are only available on my iPod! I've
seen several freeware/shareware downloads which enable transfer of song

Does anyone know if it is possible to transfer photos from an iPod
Photo 60GB back onto an iMac? My iMac's hard drive has died and now the
last 40 photos from my honeymoon are only available on my iPod! I've
seen several freeware/shareware downloads which enable transfer of song

Im getting this in entourage, and the script only takes about 5 seconds
to execute. So its not the timeout. I even set the script to ignore
application responses and im still having the same problem. I would
like to add that the script works fine, i just get the timeout error

I have an older iMac DV 400Mhz w/ 512Mb of RAM. It is currently running OS
10.0.x and I just purchased (off eBay) 10.3.7. I don't do much at all on it,
I'd like to use some of the iLife apps. What kind of performace do you think
I will get on this? I really don't want to buy ...

Is there a way to go back from 10.3.9 to 10.3.8.  I have protools that
will not work in 10.3.9.  Any ideas?
thx

I got this weird error when the disk was verifying on my Mac Mini:
0x80020063
I did a little reading. I read that other programs running actively
might screw up the verification process and cause this error.

I have set up an xgrid of around 30GHz for internal office use. Is
there any way to harness this power to speed up rendering from 3D
Studio Max (PC)? It seams like a very parallelizable problem. I know
that apps have to be written for xgrid (and indeed for Macs), and that

I've installed the Virtual PC 7 software from a CD.
I'm now trying to set up a virtual machine but I've got the impression
that it fails to finish the installation of Windows XP. However a virtual
disk is made perfectly but when starting up virtual pc from there it keeps