Mac Forum / General / General / September 2006

I'd like to install the Hungarian localization for OS X on my eMac for a
month to accommdate a visiting relative.  It is available for download
from Apple here:
http://www2.apple.hu/downloads/Mac_OS_X_Hungarian_10.4.5_PPC.dmg.zip

I'd like to know if someone has read the following book :
"Advanced Mac OS X Programming" by A. Hillegass from
The Big Neird Ranch.
I hesitate to buy it because of the price so I'd like to know

Is there a device whereby you can plug in several audio devices:  
powered speakers, headset, quality headphones then be able to switch
between the 3 of them?  I use an iMic with my Mac and I could have a
dual switchable output in Preferences, Sound, Output I guess.  And if I

I'm administering a design teams Mac network, and all clients work
happily on a LAN sharing a 750GB XRaid driven by an apple XServe.
Problem is, one of the clients sees folder and file names in certain
areas as strings of numbers. I've run permission checks, upgraded her

I'm having no end of troubles getting access to my iDisk on .Mac from
one computer in my collection of three. I can't mount my iDisk. I can't
sync my iDisk. I can't really effectively change it's settings (whether
to keep it sync'd or not) without entering Finder-BeachBall hell.

Hi to all.
I jumped into mac world the past week, buying a new macBook.
Now I want to fire up my XP machine, maybe leaving only Ubuntu on it.
My problem is the printer and internet sharing. So I came across

I'm trying to work out a way to do this, but not having much luck.
Automator seemed the obvious choice, and I even found an ``Upload to
FTP'' action, but it's not working (just sent an e-mail to the author).
Is there an FTP client which affords one the option to send an e-mail

I'm a Mac OS 10.4 tiger user.
Now .tex file is opened with 'Script Editor.app'. I'm trying to open
tex file with 'TeXShop'.
I can change a tex file open with 'TeXShop' by changing 'Open with:'

Spotlight seems unable to find content in Entourage (G4 PB).  Any
thoughts on a solution?
HFL

Is there a way to password protect files/folders in 10.4.7?

Apologies if this is not quite the right group for this post - I've also
posted in comp.infosystems.www.browsers.mac, but there hasn't been any
activity in there since 28th August...
I have a Mac Mini running MacOSX 10.4.7 which I use primarily for

This is on a G4 Sawtooth system, with a 1.5GHz processor
and 1.37GB physical RAM.
Whenever I try to post a long message to any ng, or stop
MT-NW in the middle of checking a group for new messages,

Is there a way to shutdown a Mac when the power is still on in a way
that it will automatically restart when the power comes back on after a
power disconnect?
Let me give more detail.  Suppose that you have a Mac running as a

I've been downloading and watching television programs from the itunes
store lately. For me, doubling the original screen size of these videos
in quicktime renders the best compromise between video quality and
visibility. It would be great if when watching I could dim or darken ...

Some of my pdf docs require Acrobat 5 to work, but when I try and print
from this version of Acrobat my Mac just crashes.  I can print fine from
Acrobat 4.
Any ideas?