Mac Forum / General / General / August 2006

I have a macbook and the left corner of the keyboard gets very hot.  I
was wondering if anyone else has that problem.

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Although I have no way of testing whether it actually works, it appears
that Apple Keynote presentations can be exported for use in PowerPoint.
Is the opposite possible? Can a PowerPoint user export PowerPoint files
for use in Keynote?

Up until a few days ago, I could use F12 to eject the disc try. Then
out of the blue, F12  became the "Invoke Dashboard" key. So, I set the
corresponding keyboard shortcut in the Dashboard system preferences to
be '-', which I assumed would make Dashboard ignore the F12 key.

After a few days of heavy use of my iBook G4 with Tiger and all the
updates suddenly console.log appeared in the desktop. It looks like
someting in there is executing:
tail -n 8 console.log in the desktop.

Assuming  you've understood the particulars and the chain of events,
other than tossing out all related plist files, reinstalling the whole
enchilada, or removing recently installed RAM, what other things might
be implicated?

Probably not the most appropriate group, however many fine minds here.  
Subject machine has shut down thrice without warning this morning.
However, after several minutes, perhaps 10-15, the machine will the
start up without incident.  Shut down is precisely like the power has

I plan to go on a long vacation of 2 months, so can't do my regular
routine of exercising the built-in ink nozzles of my Epson 4800.
Anyone know if there are 3rd party "flush kit" ink cartridges, so I can
flush out the tiny jet nozzle holes, before my vacation?

I've tried Superduper but after 6GB of transfer to my XP pc via the network
the program crashes. Is there another good prog which will clone a mac drive
with all settings etc ??

Downloaded .avi from my camera to my iMacG5.  Quick Time will play it
fine, & I can email it to friends with PCs, and they can view it with
several different PC applications.  However there is some wastage on
file so I had to use iMovie to edit it. The problem is that apparently

I have a 20Gb  iPod that I keep updated on my PC. I'd prefer to use my
iMac to keep it updated, but I don't want to go through the process of
re-loading all 400-odd CD's into the iMac.
How do I dump the info from the iPod into my iMac. When I tried

Grr, I could have saved $160 if I had waited to buy my Mini Duo.
Window's Home now comes pre-installed, from MacMall at least.
I had to buy Window's Pro for another $160.
Seriously, I am very happy with that little Mac computer.  I bought it

I have a macbook and right now I am connected to the internet via
ethernet.  I want to get the airport express base station with
airtunes.  I am not on any wireless network and I was wondering if I
needed to be on a wireless network to go wireless with an airport

I have one of these and want to install Tiger, but it does not have a
DVD drive. I have a DVD I can use, but since it's not an Apple DVD, I
don't know that the hardware will recognize it and boot from it. Does
anyone know if it will work?

In front row, sometimes when I'm exiting it, it freezes and I need to
force quit.  Does anybody else have that problem.  I have a macbook.