Mac Forum / General / General / January 2007

Is it possible to transfer the Outlook Contacts on my Dell PC to the Address
Book on my Mac G5?
If it is, how?
Thanks!

I've always been the kind of person who enjoys creativity and producing
things, music, imovies, web sites, graphics, podcasts, this, that,
whatever, etc. and the Mac has always been the gold standard for that
kind of orientation, but now I'm worried about the consumer ...

I would buy an AppleTV today, if it just did one more thing: play my
DivX... Hence, I am considering buying a Mac Mini instead, just to be
able to use VLC on it.
Does it make sense? I have a few concerns:

if time machine backs up everything in your mac, then does that mean
nothing gets deleted. If so then how does it recover files which you've
deleted

This might be an easy answer to the question, but how can I save the intro
speech so that I can watch it on my TV with my regular DVD player?
I run Quicktime Pro, but there is not the usual little drop down box on the
right hand side to save it. The Save As gives me two options to ...

Mac friends,
I recently purchased a new PowerBook and am getting used to a
semi-wireless life.  Everything is working perfectly (web surfing,
e-mails, ftp, etc.) except accessing newsgroups.  When wired via

Using Safari with OS X, when I see a .jpg or .tif picture often the
picture appears zoomed in too close to see the whole picture on my
screen.  I cannot figure out how to zoom out in Safari.  The usual - or
plus key combined with the apple key do not work here.  If I choose

iTunes hangs during importing CDs (which import fine on a windows PC)
and disk utility gets stuck on 'Gathering disk information' forever?
mac os x 10.4, PPC imac

Looks like Mac Mini. The description seemed to suggest that it can only
get programs from itunes? Is it going to capture, off the air, whatever
programs my local stations are broadcasting?

I am trying to install make/gmake. I did a full install of x11 from mac
os x DVD and version tracker. However the make package is missing.
Can anyone tell me how to install make.
However I could get make installed by installing fink. I would like to

I am trying to install make/gmake. I did a full install of x11 from mac
os x DVD and version tracker. However the make package is missing.
Can anyone tell me how to install make.
However I could get make installed by installing fink. I would like to

I have install Boot Camp and install Windows XP.  Works very well.
When I run Mac OSX - on my desktop I have my Mac OSX volume named Mac
OSX and a windows volume called Untitled.
Filesystem              1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted

We have a mike problem. eCamm webcam works great - good picture quality
but webcam doesn't have microphone. I've tried two different mikes with
my Intel MacMini and neither works. We can get good picture and sound
from San Diego - and they get good picture but no sound from us in

I joined this group as a longtime Mac user. I have lots of e-mail I'd
like to recover from an old PowerBook - no USB, CD burner, only a
floppy drive.
How can I transfer lots of e-mail from that machine onto an iBook G3?

I am running 10.3.9 on a mirror-face G4. Lately, when I run Disk
Utility on my hard drive (booting from another drive) it makes it to
the step "Checking Catalog FIle" and then reports "Illegal
Name" in red letters. DU appears to continue on for a while, then