Mac Forum / General / General / August 2006

My son is starting college in a Multimedia field.  We have always used
Windows PC's but now he will be switching to Mac.  Since I'm new to
this I really don't know where to start.  He wants something he can
use with school or work though so I figured a notebook is best.  He

Is it possible to get OF screen after OS X boot ?

found probable working g4 desktop now urinating some money on it
waht os should i install--what is thes mac tiger
it is a model 8493
s/n xb1421f8ksd

Just wondering how good the iMac displays are.  I just recently bought
a really nice 20" flat panel and I love it and would like to run dual
with it and the iMac but I'm not sure if the iMac's display is as good.
Thoughts?  Thanks.

I have been trying for a long time to set up something that will let me
start up Firefox (1.5) with specific profiles. I have three profiles I
use and I would really like to set them us as aliases in my dock so I
can just click on the one I want without going through the profile

After a recent experience where I received an email from a customer for
whom I handle documents to be posted on a website.
Recently, she sent an attached .cwk file and I was able to find out it
was a ClarisWorks/AppleWorks document. After a few hours worth of

I just discovered that a windoze mini box is considerably more expensive
than a mac mini.
S1digital.com has a mini box looking to be the same size as the mac
mini. It probably has a very similar motherboard as the core duo mac

I have the newest version of Boot Camp installed on my MacBoo Pro. I've
found that I just don't need the 30 Gigs that I've assigned to WinXP.
Is there a way to adjust the size of the drives without blasting XP?
I've gone to the Disk Utility and although the drives are unlocked I am

For some reason unknown to me, when I place the mouse pointer on the
title bar of a window to move (drag) it, the result is that the window
minimizes into the dock.
My computer is an iBook running Jaguar (10.2)and this problem only

This is a proposal (and request for help) not an existing
implementation of the fix. It is not possible to specify a list of the
only locations you want to be indexed with the current Spotlight
implementations from either the graphical user interface or the

I am a new mac user, with lots of pc experience--
I'm having trouble opening .asp files and since that is a Microsoft
technology I am wondering if it is not possible to open .asp files on
Mac OSX?

Hi all...
my team is looking at a Mac Mini as a possible candidate for one of our
applications and would like to know if it has the features we are
looking for..  anyway here goes.

My D70 camera always mounted as a desktop before I had it repaired
recently. Now it doesn't mount as a drive. The only way I can import
pictures from it is to open iPhoto and the pictures come across fine but
only to the iPhoto library, I never see a drive mounted.

I have a PowerBook G4 running 10.4.7. Everything works fine except when
I reboot or start the computer. Actually, that works fine also except I
never hear the Mac chimes.
Any suggestions and does this mean there's a problem?

I had the worst run in with a tech support person in my entire life.
I'm and Director of IT, before that I was a programmer for 10 years,
and before that I was a tech support person. So let me say that I have
a healthy understanding of all factors involved.