Mac Forum / General / General / March 2006

I have just bought a new Mac, I cant get over how good they are, what
sort of software can you get for them?

I have a new iMac  duo Intel and it's a great computer. I've only got two
problems--maybe someone has a suggestion.
I used a Kensington Trackball with my previous iMac G4 and it worked great,
using MouseWorks. Unfortunately, the Kensington software does not work on a

My boss bought a Canon printer. I went to install the printer. The
printer install indicated we needed Mac OS x 10.1.  She has Mac OS x
9.1. I read a few things on upgrading. I downloaded the 9.2.1 and 9.2.2
upgrade. Ran them, installed them.. When I boot into the OS I see 9.2.2

This is second hand, but it might help someone...
A friend ran the wrong version of TechTool Pro (ver 4.01) on his Tiger
hard disk. It destroyed the hard disk.
Says he didn't "approve" any changes or fixes. He says, "I ran the

I'm not sure of your interest in March madness (college basketball
playoffs) but here are some observations.
I signed up with iTunes (Apple) to receive video computer file
summaries (8-10 minutes in length) of all the games. So far, I've

I admit it. I am a Mac ignoramous. But I am tinkering with an old
Powerbook 3400C that I was given. It runs OS 9.1.
I was impressed when by simply plugging the Ethernet cable into the
plug, I was instantly able to connect to the Internet.

Sunday, March 19, 2006
I have a new iMac G5 duo Intel and it's a great computer. I've only got two
problems--maybe someone has a suggestion.
I used a Kensington Trackball with my previous iMac G4 and it worked great,

There's not much discussion of this topic in this group. Look at the
links below and see what a rubbish time many people are having with
wireless on their new Minis and iMacs. Question is: are we just imaging
it or is anybody here experiencing similar poor performance?

Gang,
Trivial event (hopefully) but one I thought someone might be able to
comment on.
Whenever I moved or copied files in the finder (OSX 10.4.5), or

EVen if it doesn't work (due to incompatibility or lack of drivers or
other) should a PCMCIA card that fits into a PC PCMCIA slot also fit
into a Mac PCMCIA slot?
Just out of curiosity I've tried a few of my PC cards but they seem to

A Mac-knownothing long steeped in the PC world, I am fumbling to
familiarize myself with an old Powerbook 3400C running OS 9.1 that a
friend thoughtfully (?) gave me.
a couple of questions, general and specfic:

Safari deosn't open anymore a pdf file...  is there any pref I should
delete or anything else to do...
I get a white screen after download (iy's not an empty document... lol)
Joss

Being a creature of action, late one evening decided to organize music
library in a more sensible fashion.
Step 1 ran software designed to recognize music files and write
corrected Tags to files.

What the devil is wrong with the Macbook Pro? The Thinkpad is showing
double the battery life with equivalent performance, plus the reviewers
make a note of how cool it runs....not a hallmark of the MBP. What's up
with this?

Ever since I installed OS X, I'd been able to open items from my OS 9.2
partition simply by having the Finder go through the Desktop Folder on that
volume. Recently, however, this stopped working. Since I'd had some other
troubles with the OS 9 volume and figured that it most likely ...