Mac Forum / General / General / January 2007

Every time I open a PDF document, I get a popup "please enter
an administrator's name and password to make changes to Adobe
Reader"
After I do that, it works normally.

i just bought a new macbook, Im new to mac's anyways..but my problem
is: when I am online after 15 min or so it prompts me to click to keep
the connection or else it disconnects me from the internet. how do i go
about adjusting this irksome feature? hope you guys can help, youve all

For some reason, I am no longer able to select most of the fonts that
are installed on my system (I'm running 10.4.8 on an Intel iMac). I can
browse the fonts using Font Book without any problem, but if I try to
select a font in a program such as TextEdit, TextMate, etc., the font

I have three Macintosh computers, which are all connected by an Ethernet
network.  Two of the computers are power PC systems, one running OS-X
v10.4.8 (Tiger), and the second running OS-X v10.3.9 (Panther).  The
third system is a 68K Macintosh running system v7.5.5.  File sharing ...

Is there anyway to use a Canon ImageClass 8180 color laser printer with
a Mac under OS X?
Canon does not offer such a driver and seems to emphasize Windows XP in
its documentation -- is this a Windows only printer?  If yes, are there

I am using a laptop that has some kind of standard system on it by the
company.  It was served by an Xserve and had an account that
automatically synced with the building server.  I immediately became
frustrated because it would not run any of the software that i

I need to teach someone who has never used a computer how to use one. I
have used computers all my life, so I don't know where to start. I
thought I'd get a book. If it were Windows, I'm sure I could find a
hundred books for a newbie. On a Mac, though, I'm not sure what exists

I have lots of folders on my hard-drive which contains digital photos
in both .JPG and .CR2 (Canon RAW) formats. Since I have two separate
iPhoto libraries (one for RAW and one for JPG) it would help me
immensly if I could somehow have the computer sort the two different

"what worries me is that the scope of the problem is still not clear to most
people.²  - David Farber, internet pioneer
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/technology/07net.html?hp&ex=1168146000&en=d8e4c
5dbbdaaa422&ei=5094&partner=homepage

OK, on the basis of a lot of great comments about it I've paid my money
and updated to iPhoto6. Looks very nice, though it is somewhat
disappointing that it isn't G3-capable.
But one surprise has been the size. I mean, wow. iPhoto4 was some 27Mb,

I played a game on the mac many years ago now which I thought was called
Pharoah or something similar.  In it you played a pharoah and the ultimate
goal was to build your own pyramid - you had 50 years or something to
complete the task using slaves.  You were also required to ...

I have megatons of important data on punchcards. Unfortunately,
I don't know how to read this data with my Mac.
Is there some sort of punchcard drive for the Mac?

I'm new to Macland, and am enjoying my powerbook very much
(as a Windows and Java programmer, and old Unix hand).
Here's my little question:
When I scroll in a Firefox or Safari window *using the arrow keys*,

I feel like a bit of a fool :)
I dropped my iPod photo 60G on the dock connector end, and it developed
bad sectors at the end of the hard disk. 100% reliably, I could write
the first 40 GB or so, and 100% reliably, I could not read/write the

I have this iMac G5. After only a short time after power on, the fans
get very noisy. I installed a widget to look at temperatures and fan
speeds. Here's what it looks like after it gets noisy.
temperatures: