Mac Forum / General / General / April 2006

My son (14 months) worked the keyboard of my iMac G5 with OSX10.4 that
hard that all colors are shown as negative (the same as if you were
looking on a photo negative). Unfortunately he can't talk yet so he
won't tell me how to change it back.

I have a 10.4 isnatller disk that came with a Mac Mini G4.
I want to use this disk to upgrade the system on my other Macs.
The insatller stops and says I can't install the software and then
quits.

We have a 9-Mac network, LinkSys router, and DSL for internet.  Can
10.4 send faxes via the DSL connection?  Or must  the modem be
separately connected to the phone system.  Thanks!

I change safari's home page a few times now, but it always show the old
home page at the begining of the day. When I change the home page in
the morning, I get the same new home page all day. But when I shut down
the Mac, and turn it on again, there is the old home page showing. I ...

I want to use a cronjob to send an alert to the user at a specified
time.  The way I am doing this is to compile a small Applescript
application that displays the alert, and then invoke the "open" command
line utility from my crontab to launch the Applescript.  Is there any

...erm this friend I have was wondering how he might get hold of a
low-cost, i mean VERY low-cost version of adobe photoshop for mac, any
ideas? He said something about Limewire not having any or something
like that.

In my ongoing ISP problems, which I posted about here before, they can't or
don't want to fix the problem at the ISP end.  I have been running
unmonitored since they discovered their monitoring device is what causes all
my weird network problems.  Today they called me up and wanted ...

gets pulled out while the computer is on, can I just plug it back in or
should I power down to avoid a surge or other nasty event?

Has anyone heard if 10.5 Leopard will work with PowerPC Macs? If so, has
Apple said when they will stop supporting PPCs?
tia,
--Fred

Apple USB modem causes iMac core duo kernel panic.
This is a problem that I called Apple tech support about shortly after I
bought my iMac 20" core duo.  This is the second Apple USB modem that I
have bought and both of them cause the same problems.  The Apple USB

I'm trying to setup Growl such that I can click on the message boxes
that pop-up from my Gmail notifier and have them open in Camino. Right
now Firefox opens automatically. It's a great browser, but I'm liking
Camino at the moment.

Is there a trick to getting OS X to recognize a USB flash drive?  A
colleague of mine just handede me one to use to transfer some info to
his Windows box and when I plugged it into my PowerBook nothing
happened -- I couldn't find it anywhere.  Should it have shown up as a

Is there a way to "short-circuit" certain website calls to specific
domains? For example, I would greatly like to just have any request to
load anything from, oh say, http://adopt.specificclick.net/... or maybe
even http://ad.doubleclick.net/... to just give me a blank box. I think

im updateing my iMac 350 SL with OSX , iv been trying to get OS X
panther on CD's but i cant seem to find it for ...well...cheap , so
i see a few good deals on OS X jaguar , What is the diffrence
between Panther and jaguar , and i have heard that jaguar is really

Will it be out before VISTA?