Mac Forum / General / General / April 2006

...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.

I'm totally baffled, and would MUCH appreciate some advice on this one!
Setup: Macmini as server, with five big HDs, a couple of laser printers and
connection to AirPort Extreme. PowerBook and iBook connect to disks and
printers through WiFi. (Macmini has 10.4.6 and 1 gig).

Running Thunderbird 1.5
Don't know whether I did something or whether it's just buggy.
One to five minutes after startup on a newsgroup, it's "Application Not
Responding" and I have to kill it.

I'm sure this question has been asked before, so please bear with me...
I was given a practically new iMac G4, loaded with OS 10.2.3.  I
immediately went to Software Updates and updated to the OS 10.3.9.
Perfect! Then I gave it to my grand daughter who proceeded to download

Can I run a Unix executable without launching Terminal?  If so, how?
For my purposes, I don't need stdin, stdout, or stderr, so it's OK if
they all get redirected from/to /dev/null.
The best solution I have found so far is a freeware application called

I'm currently resident in Japan, working as an English teacher. This
weekend, my girlfriend's laptop was stolen. However, one of her teacher
very kindly gave her a clamshell ibook. We've hit two main difficulties
in using it:

I have an old 15" G4 iMac - 800mhz, 256 ram.
I'm thinking of upgrading to the latest OS and installing garrage band
and Ableton Live Lite 5 and doing some home audio production... turns
out i'm not wealthy to build my own pc and kit it out with the right

Sorry if this is the wrong list to ask about this (if so,
please direct me!). I want to max out the RAM in my
single-processor G4/450 AGP graphics machine.I know
that means I'll be going up to 1.5GB of PC-100 SDRAM.

Hello gurus - I have an Ibook, bought about 2 months before the new
machines came with wireless built-in (arrcgh!).  I am looking for a wirelss
adapter card, buit what I have seen is that the airport extreme has several
limitations as to what machine it can be installed on.  Can ...

There are a couple of utilities on the market that simply act as a interface
between a user and BSD UNIX, creating system calls such as rm -rf and cron
with simple menu items.  There is at least one of these Tiger Cache Cleaner
that will create a Ram Disk.  This leads me to believe ...

I'm trying desperately to get a Iomega External (USB) CD burner working on
an EMAC, any suggestions, directions? Thanx for any help in advance...

i bought a german mac. So i erased the hard disk and made some
partitions. Before re installing os x, this time in my own language
i did something very stupid : i restarted the computer.
or rather i pushed the botton (one of those screes remained open, i

I have been using a crossover cable with my mac and windows computer
for a about 2 years but i have been wondering for a wile now if it is
possible to get access to my files on my Mac that are on other places
then my users folder (eg, i want to copy some stuff off the

I use Audacity to edit mp3s, but it seemingly won't work on m4as. Is
there a downloadable m4a editor somewhere?

i have a powerbook g4 with a 15" apple monitor and wireless mouse and
keyboard, a very nice setup.
now that I have started looking at tv shows, "trailer park boys," etc.
on my computer, it seems like it would be nice to have a bigger nicer