Mac Forum / General / General / September 2006

What do you think of the new Macs and Final Cut HD?
................................................................
      Posted via TITANnews - Uncensored Newsgroups Access
            >>>> at http://www.TitanNews.com <<<<

Somehow I activated the option that allows me to tab to every active
control on a page or dialog--buttons, popup menus, etc.  I'd rather that
the tabs just go between text boxes.  I know that there's a way to
select this, but I've forgotten how, and just cannot find the option

I was using Path Finder 4.11 to backup stuff from 1 hard drive to
another.  Sometimes I get a permissions error though.  Both drives are
Mac Journaled type of formatting.  Sometimes a 1309 error.  Also, I have
2 partitions.  The partition with OS X programs always shows but

How can I stop Spotlight from indexing my back-up disk please?  (Apart from
disconnecting the backup disk)
Paul

How can I tell the difference between the latest iPod and the previous
version?
At our local Sams, they were selling the previous iPod Video for a
discounted $275 one day, and the next day it was $249.  The clerks had

I am trying to set up network printing on my Mac and I keep getting
prompted that CUPS printing services is not running. How do I turn it
on???

Is there a accepted estimate for the number of OS X worldwide?

Can someone help me?
The university I study at has Microsoft PEAP wifi security.  I have a
MacBook Pro.  When I first activate the built in airport it says it is
connected, but it lies.  Every single time I want to get online, I have

For years I've had a Bytecc box that will hold an ATA HD for use as a
USB2 external HD.  With my old Mac, using USB 1, it was slow but reliable.
When I got my Mini, I put a 20-gig disk from a Mac in the box.  It
seemed to work okay until I copied my User folder from my Mini onto ...

The "Open With" drop down menu in the Get Info window on my OS 10.3.9 G4
has several applications listed twice, and a ton of obscure apps that I
don't think are even on my machine any more.  Any way to scrub it out or
rebuild it?

Does anyone have a clue how to send a big file (like 100MB) from my
macbook to my Nokia N70 directly to the memory card via bluetooth? It
goes perfectly when sending small files (smaller than the phone
memory).

Any geoclock type programs (widgets would be REAALY nice) for MBP? I
like the ones that have the world map with day and night if possible but
would settle for one that days time zone conversions.

I have a Powerbook G4 with OS 10.3.9. My wife ws loaned a CD with a
program called "SEEMAC" on it. It is for learning sign language. When I
double click on it, however, the message is "Classic cannot find a Mac
System OS 9 system folder on the startup disc you use."

Does anyone know how to get the "other" log in option to appear
consistently or is this just the behavior of OS X.
I have 27, 10.4.7 IMacs that I deployed using a disk image.  I
configured the Directory Access, Active Directory plug-in on the master

Hi. I'm having some trouble with a Bash script I've been working on in
OS X.
The first command in the script is to copy all of the contents of the
directory it's located in (including itself) to another folder.