Mac Forum / General / General / December 2006

My sister just gave me her old powerbook.  She was using dial-up
internet.  I have no idea how to set it up for using my cable internet.  
Macs are foriegn to me.  I've been using a windows pc for so many years
I've forgotten everything about Macs.  Although I'm sure the're 100%

As of Christmas morning my daughter now has a Macbook Pro and needs to
copy her Thunderbird profile and mail from her old laptop (running
both eComStation and Xandros).  I managed to copy the profile to the
thunderbird library under /usr.   Settings appeared to be intact but

Any suggestions on how to share a EPSON RX580 printer on a Macmini from
a beige G3 tower running 10.1.5?
Printer sharing is on on the Macmini.  The G3 doesn't see the
EPSON printer.

I am having a little problem trying to add additional files using the itunes
software 7.2.1 on my ipod
shuffle on my windows xp home computer.
Here is what I tried.

I'm writing on behalf of a friend of mine in the USA. She went to an
Apple Store today (Saddle Creek in Germantown, TN) [1], and she was
quite interested in an iMac (the same machine I have), but the clerk
told her they didn't accept any financing options.

I am trying to print a MacWrite doc in Classic on my G5 iMac, which is
attached to an Epson Stylus Color 740.  I am able to print to this
printer in System 10.3.9. I have made a copy of the Stylus Color 740
driver. But I have forgotten where to put that driver so that it

I can ping the mac from the pc and the pc from the mac.  I can't see
the files or PC printer from the mac even though I have allowed file
and printer sharing.  The PC name is OFFICEPC and the group is MSHOME.
The Mac name is Ericsmac, but I can't find what the Mac thinks is the

How is an iMac G5 (iSight) opened up?  I just want to open the iMac and
remove the hard disk temporarily to put it in another iMac until the
power can be repaired next week on the iMac in question.  I've opened
iMac G5s before without any problem but this model seems to be

I'm gona buy a macbook soon (for the first time!), but just wanted to
know what's better safari or firefox2.
Iv been using firefox for ages on windows but wanted to know what's its
like on mac, and whether its worth changing from safari?

I'm not able to drag a disk (not the startup disk) to the privacy list, or add
the disk via the Plus menu. It works for another (external) drive, though.
Searching this group's archives didn't help, except for several mdutil commands,
a link to the generally helpful

Hey all!
I got a MacBook Pro a couple months ago, and it is time to part with my
beautiful workhorse Powerbook, which has not been more than ten feet
from me for the last four years or so.  The old girl is beat up and

I have been avoiding upgrading to OS X for a few reasons.
One is that it's Too Slow on my B&W G3 350 Mhz with 320 MB RAM.
Will more  Ram help out? or would it be a processor upgrade to 500 Mhz?
I guess I'm wondering if it's worth it to upgrade the G3 to 500 Hhz.

Downloading some music and the song names have extended ASCII characters
in them, i.e. ä
They display in Finder alright. But open a terminal window and it shows
the two byte codes for that character. Plays hell when you need to

I cannot import Palm Desktop Address book into Apple Address Book.
When I press Import on Apple Address Book the Vcards symbol will not
highlight.  I want to update my Apple with newer Palm items.

I can ping the mac from the pc and the pc from the mac.  I can't see
the files or PC printer from the mac even though I have allowed file
and printer sharing.  The PC name is OFFICEPC and the group is MSHOME.
The Mac name is Ericsmac, but I can't find what the Mac thinks is the