Mac Forum / General / General / January 2007

I just had a friend connect to my Mac over AFP and put some .jpgs in my
Drop Box.  I couldn't open the files and found it was permissions related:
localhost:~/Public/Drop Box kiraly$ ls -l
total 37864

Is it possible to hook up a full size Sata hard drive to the Intel
Mini's hard drive connector?  Can you buy an adapter or is the notebook
plug the same as a full size plug?

I've got an Intel iMac running OS 10.4 etc.  Connects to a Nokia N70
mobile phone using iSync and bluetooth.
I keep my address book listings sync'ed all the time.  Tried to perform
a sync using iSync a little while ago but the process crashed just

Forgive this question; it may be a dumb one, but: is Internet Connect
even necessary when a DSL broadband device is used-?
Of the three MAcs in our house, all OSX variants, one is wired to the
hub and the other two get an Airport signal.

One day when I had to force restart my mac I lost my "spotlight" icon
on the top left )-:
as shown on this picture http://adriel.sitesled.com/spotlight.png
If I use its shortcut to show up the search box it only shows a bit as

http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-13-01-2007.html
The march of defects takes another step

How can I tell what version USB I have on my computer? When I check
"About this Mac," it just lists USB. (I have an early flat screen
iMac, 800MHz PowerPC G4.)
On my iBook, it shows several USB ports listed just as USB, and one as

My computer has been VERY slow lately, so I decided to repair the hard
disk.  Part way through it froze and I forced it to turn off.  When I
turned it on, I got only the gray apple logo on a light gray background
(no spinning dial below to indicate it is starting up).  So I booted

It has a USB port, but nothing I saw on the website said USB 2.  I'd
*hope* it was USB 2 if you're going to hang a disk on it.  Anybody
know?
Incoming and outgoing logs?  My linksys router (and a lot of others)

is there i program for mac to clean all your temporary files. For
windows theres Ccleaner, is there a similar program for mac OS X?

I have come across this issue on a number of forums with different
printers. When I try to add my HP 4110 printer via Bonjour, I get
"Error -9672, An error occurred while trying to add the selected
printer". The same printer works perfectly via Bonjour with my older

I was playing with Keychain Access and noticed something scary.
Keychain Access isn't supposed to reveal passwords to unauthorized
applications without prompting for the keychain password.  However, you
don't need a password to change the attributes.  For example, if you

I have a slot loading Blue CRT 350mhz iMac trhat I'd like to upgrade
from 9.2 to OS X. It has sufficient memory.
I have install disks for 10.2 and 10.3.
will this imac handle 10.3 or only 10.2?

When Steve Jobs clicker broke during the keynote he mentioned Woz
making jammers that messed up TV signals
What was the relevance?  (Sorry am I being thick.. was he just telling
a funny story to kill time..?)

I was just reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleWorks
where it states AppleWorks as distinct to iWorks is no longer bundled
with Mac OS X but it appears to be right there bundled on my Mac iBook