Mac Forum / General / General / June 2006

So my Lithium-ion battery on my last two iBooks gave out after 13
months. I figure I'm doing something wrong.
I have used the laptop often plugged in, is that the problem?
I bought a new battery recently and I want to make it last longer. My

I am having trouble getting OSXvnc server (powermac g5) to serve
up to an Intel macbook pro (Chicken of the VNC).
I'm using 1.71 for the server side, and
Chicken is 2.0b4.

A while back, I set OS X to display a photo on my desktop. Some months
later I
selected a different one. At least 9 times out of 10, when I start it up
(I never leave it running overnight), it displays the first one I

Can it be used as a hard drive on a PC?  or does this only work on a Mac?

Hi, I run Photoshop CS for photography work, which is fine most of the time.
But when I work on larger files, 50mb and above, things tend to slow down a
bit when it's processing filters, etc. The budget has to be small as I only
want another year or two from this machine before the ...

I keep gettin this medium error when burning in itunes.  Never happened
with the (hold the garlic and crosses) PC before I went mac (and won't
go back).  It happens when I burn audio cds.  Any suggestions?
thanks

I have a 300 G Firewire drive mounted on OS X 10.4.6.  It is currently
partitioned into 3 partitions all which mount as separate drives.
Is there any way to change the size of the partions without loosing any data
in those partitions?  I know Disk Utility will not do this as it ...

So, go to Control Panels>Keyboard/Mouse>Keyboard Shortcuts
Select "All Applications" and define a new keyboard shortcut for "Show
All" command-option-S, a nice analogue of command-option-H for "Hide
Others". Doesn't work. Why? I'm missing something obvious....

This is from the Times of India.
BANGALORE: The company that redefined the way we listen to music has
decided to call it quits in India. Apple, known for its popular iPods,
is pulling out its software development and support operations in India.

I have an external Hard Drive - I keep MP3 etc. on it
I want a folder on my MacBook Pro hard disk that syncs to it
Is this possible

My printer is a Canon MFC-3110 for which no BSD drivers exist. It's
connected to a Windows box on the network. Is there any way to print to
it from a Mac on the same network ?
I know I could do this manually by setting up a generic PS

Hello all, I was wondering if any of you would be able to help me out
with an error.
I am attempting to back up my home folder to the folder /myBackup on my
web server by way of rsync (2.6.3 protocol version 28 on a MacBook

I do a lot of graphics editing under Photoshop and the Gimp under X.  Often
these two apps are vectored to the same file.  I need a way to do color
picking independent of application.
Is there a way to bring up the color picker under the finder?

Do mac book pro have problems running adobe application??

I have a Mac Performa 580 CD - with the Apple external Microphone. I
have an idea to adapt the Apple Microphone plug in order to accommodate
plugging in other sound sources directly into the computer.
My idea: simply cut the microphone wire halfway and insert a female