Mac Forum / General / General / June 2006

Hi, and thank you in advance for anyone who might be able to offer me
some advice.  I would like to be able to change fonts and imbed jpg
images in my emails.  I realize that Hotmail, as a part of Microsoft
will not allow a Mac user to do this.  Couldn't even do it when I had

My wife uses iPhoto 5, and we can't figure out how to resize photos. The
images are all very large and she wants to reduce them to a size that
can be e-mailed and posted on web sites. There's a size slider, but it
only changes the display and not the number of pixels in the image ...

I've been using Mplayer with my new Intel-based Imac
for watching divx and xvid movies. It has worked fine
until this weekend, when there were automatic software
updates delivered from apple, one of which was an

I should have subscribed to this newsgroup a long time ago, I can see
from the subject lines.
Anyway, my Ibook G4 is 13 months old and the battery suddenly gave out.
It would show weird percentages of charge, then die, and now the battery

can anyone help?
my friends just got a new mac with intel.
he's lent me his osx 10.4 installing cds so i can put it on my
computer but it's not working.

Hi, I've just bought a D-Link DWLG520 PCI wireless card on eBay thinking
- after what I thought was a lot of net research - that it was
compatible with OS9. But the CD of drivers which came with it is only
for Windows. Anyone use this card on a Mac and might know where I can

Anyone know of a free Office Suite that wil lrun on 192 megs of ram? I
was going to use Neo Office, but I need a lot more ram for that.....

I am a PC user, but I have a friend who is a Mac user and has asked me how
she can link her G5 to her iBook - is this as simple to do with Macs as it
is with PCs?
With PCs I would just use a wireless router and connect the desktop via  net

Dear members:
After downloading Google Earth for OS X and trying it out I decided to print
a map but couldn't do it.
Every time I try to print a map Google Earth freezes or crashes. Is there a

The New Church Education Resource Ministries
http://www.cerm.info/
I really can use the help of the grammar checkers, spelling checkers,
HTML checkers, and others.

It's here:
comp.sys.mac.system,uk.comp.sys.mac
ENJOY!!
I HAVE SET THIS UP - I HAVE OS X RUNNING ON MY ULTRAMOBILE SONY LAPTOP!

I have read in this NG and in other places about all sorts of "secret"
preference settings that can be invoked with the "defaults write" command
in the Terminal.  I have used it to specify that FireWire drives remain
mounted even when no user is logged in, which solved an ...

I want to upgrade the HDD in my Imac G3 to a larger one. Right now
there is a 20 gig one in there, I am assuming that is is a 5400 rpm
drive. Can I swap it a 7200?? or would that run too hot for the Imac???

I've problems booting from a dvd with the image of tiger.
I burn the image  with toast 6 in a dvd-r, and i've tried some dvd brands.
If i explore the dvd from macos x I can view all folders correctly.
But when i restart the computer and hold C key, a small square appear in

With Windows Sharing enabled, I enter the Mac's IP in an XP
Windows Explorer, it prompts me for user id and password,
then shows the content of the user's home directory.
From there, I have no way to gain access to another