Mac Forum / General / General / April 2006

... I'm not much of a graphics guru. I have the Gimp and a jpeg with a
portrait. I want to change the background to something else. I noticed
that the background is not entirely "clean" white. Can somebody please
give me a hint on how to copy a part of one image over another with ...

I have been trying for days trying to find a simple mp3 player that is
OS 9.1 Mac compatable and has a usb connection.I do not not need
anything fancy but trying to find a usb mp3 player for Mac OS 9.1 under
$100.00 is confusing as hell. I am running a Macintosh Server G3

I have a Mac application that is a Java console application.  Many
people have
bought it and have not had a problem installing it with the cryptic
Terminal program

Is there a command line interface that can be used to lock, unlock and
add entries to a keychain?

When I open the system preferences for Spotlight, I am unable to add
folders to be exempt from indexing.  I can open the privacy window in the
preferences and then drag a folder there, but the folder doesn't show up
where there should be a list of folders exempted from spotlight. ...

I am looking for the top notch best application for the Mac that will
play most if not all .Avi files. Quicktime sucks and doesn't play half
of the .avi files I come across. And I wasted 50 mb upgrading to
Version 7.04.

Apple announced on Wednesday the availability of an iPod software update
the limits the maximum volume of the iPod. The update lets you set your
own maximum volume on fifth generation iPods, and the iPod nano. Parents
can also set the volume limit on their children's iPods, and ...

I'm awaiting delivery of my new MacBook.  Do I need
antispyware/antivirus/firewall software?  Thanks.

Dear members:
After playing with iWeb to develop my first web site, I ran into some
limitations that prevent me from reaching the fine results I had originally
envisioned.

It's only a week old.  A brand new iMac 20" with the dual core intel chipset.
When the machine is put to sleep, the USB keyboard seems to be disabled.  It
cannot be used to wake the computer (albeit, the mouse works) and I need to
unplug it and plug it back in again to get it to ...

Just found this great utility, by our own Tom Harrington:
http://www.atomicbird.com/crashblockerpro
Since I installed it, not only has my G5 not crashed, but a problem I'd
been having with my car went away and my teeth appear to have become two

Call me a fool but I've just bought .Mac to
get all my machines (three) to sync mail, bookmarks,
addresses and,  most importantly,  iCal.
The last of these has not worked.  Events have

I started with Tiger two days ago.  Now Mac Help doesn't work.  The
viewer works with the other Help libraries although it seems slow.  With
Mac Help, neither the links nor the search works.
I don't know anything about fixing thing in OSX.  What should I do?

I have a couple of favorite Classic applications that I want to use in
Tiger's Classic environment.  In each case, when I copy the application
file to the disk in my Mac Mini, it shows up with the icon of a torn
paper.  Apparently my Mac Mini sees them as pieces of split files.

I have a classroom full of Mac 10.4 computers and would like to use G4U
to clone one and then use this image to reimage all the rest of the
machines.  G4U images sector by sector and is not aware of the OS but
this image will be saved on an Windows 2003 FTP server. Is there an