Mac Forum / General / General / May 2006

What's a good OSX application for managing information on people I meet?
Thanks.
O.

If you have used Open Firmware before.
May you help me?
When I press command+option+o+f,enter the Open Firmware shell.
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I have an old G4 desktop Mac, and would like to upgrade the HDD inside
to get more storage. What I'd really like to do is take all the
existing data on the current HDD and migrate it over to the new HDD
(system, settings, user data, Applications, the lot).

Ok, this is slightly off topic but, it bears telling to a broad audience.
I have had 3 customers in the past 2 weeks complain that they could no
longer read CD-ROM's with data and applications on them.
I asked for a demonstration of how they handled the CD-ROM's and was

I just discovered a nice little mp3 player (Air Whisper). It has a
number of nice skins that take the shape of a long narrow strip. I like
that; I put it at the bottom of my screen, to the right of the dock.
Problem is, every time I do anything that makes the dock larger, the Air

All,
I'd appreciate if someone can give an advice regarding connecting my
MiniMac G4 to a wireless router (802.11G).
I was exploring an airport extreeme card option and it's outside my

Who are the most famous and well-known Mac users?
- JB

Sorry for the crosspost but I'm not sure which newsgroup I should be
asking this in.
I am writing for a friend who has a Windows XP computer and uses
dial-up to get into AOL here is Australia.

This is the score:
I have an iBook 12inch 1.33GHz with built in bluetooth and airport
extreme
I just got a MacBook Pro with 1GB RAM

We have an older Mac (Powerbook G3 "Lombard") running 10.3.9 that we use
as backup/travel.
After applying some recent Apple updates, I noticed when I tested with
the new Apple TV ads that the screen would remain black for a time at

I'm considering upgrading my Mac from Jaguar to Tiger. My problem is
that just a few of the tasks I do have to run on a PC - so I have
Virtual PC on the machine. But I've heard a rumour that Virtual PC won't
run on Tiger. Is this so?

http://www.apple.com/retail/fifthavenue/
Is this really the store?  Unbelievable design.  I've never seen
anything like it.  
Did you see that stunning video of the iPhone on Google Video?  Looks

Ouch - it's hot.
As great as it looks, it's very hot. I thought a recent firmware thing
was supposed to fix it?
I usually have it sitting on a desk - so it's not an issue, but I

I want to saw off the keyboard to the right of the Backspace button so
the mouse is as close as possible to my right hand.  (I wish I was left
handed then my mouse would be so close on the left side. The only keys
I'm worried about losing are the arrow keys which I do use a lot.  ...

I have both of these laptops..
If I want to record a short audio clip can I use the built in mic?
What software can I use
(I figured I can use the built in iSight to record video on the