Mac Forum / General / General / October 2006

Morning.
What the **** ist this:
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I can do mail merge with MS Word/Entourage, but I haven't yet found a
way to merge to mail.app.
Is there a way to do mail merge to mail.app?

Could Somebody post Graphpad Prism 4 or 4.03 for Macintosh Apple?
With the crack of course.
Because i can only get it for windows.

Dear group,
I own a "Hercules Gamesurround Muse 5.1 DVD" speaker system which I
would like to connect to my Mac Pro. The speaker system has three 1/8"
line audio input connectors (and the Mac Pro only has one line output

In the era pre-Spotlight, I used the Finder's Find File utility for
housekeeping. I generally name files by date so a search using a full
or partial text string would locate all files referencing a specific
date. I also searched for files using the "last modified" criteria

Sure, they won against Apple Corp, but what about a trademark claim
that goes to the very soul of the matter?
Read about it at:
http://lazycomic.blogspot.com/2006/10/new-trademark-threat-for-apple.html

I recently composed and installed as a startup item an Automator script which
first launches two applications and then ejects seven external drive
partitions. After the two applications are lunched there is a long (20 to 30
seconds) pause before the external drives are ejected. ...

1. My new 24" iMac sleeps after perhaps 15 minutes of inactivity even
though it is set to never sleep. Advice?
2. A friend /finally/ moved from OS 8 to a new Mac. I was showing him
(on my iMac) how to set up additional user accounts. In the process we

10.3 imac G5
I am a photographer and I frequently fill cds with jpgs and burn off
copies for people. Is there an easy way to make two or three copies of
a cd. Right now I need to insert the blank CD and drag all the data

I know that ATI is in the 20 and Nvidia is in the 24",  however has
anyone bought the 24" just because of the Nvidia and the 24".
My gut tells me to go with the latest model being 24",  I am NOT into
gaming, but some lite graphics to moderate.

Has anyone had this issue.  We have new MacBooks at our K12 school and
cannot get the AT to connect wirelessly.  We have no problems when
connected through the Cat 5 cables, but AppleTalk absolutely refuses to
connect wirelessly.  I can set them up to do IP printing, but AT is so

I have a collection of DVDs, some American, some European.
My PowerBook tells me that I need to change the area code of the drive
to either 1 or 2 depending on which kind of DVD I want to play. And...
THAT I CAN ONLY DO THAT 5 TIMES (or was it 6?).

What are the differences between DVI and mini-DVI?
Is it just smaller, or is there a quality difference? Is Apple just
banking off of the $20 mini-DVI to DVI adapter? If there is no
difference in quality, why does the Macbook pro have a regular DVI and

I though some kind soul from this group might help me out with a simple
hint...
I've just given my 4 year-old daughter an old Beige G3 with system 8.6
on it. I have also given it an aqua-like theme using kaleidoscope and

When I attempt to log into my Mac I get the message "You are unable to
log in to the user account "USERNAME" at this time."  After a few tries
it prompts me for the master password.  I enter the master password and
then it prompts me to change my password.  It will then reject every