Mac Forum / General / General / January 2007

What file system (iso, mac/pc, etc) should I set it to burn an mp3 CD or
DVD that can be played on a typical CD/DVD player that can play mp3's?  
Can most CD/DVD players play CDRW's or DVDRW's?  
Can any CD/DVD player play avi video files?

I am running a G5 1.8 Mac.  The machine will not boot up and the status
light just stays on.  I have added another drive but still nothing
happens.  Can anyone help with this problem?

After setting up an FTP account on Dream Host to share files with my
mother I find that neither of her iMacs can write to the account when
accessing the site directly from the Finder. She can download from it
just fine. Using a third party FTP program works fine, too, but these

HELP! Can't get EPSON R2400 to work over AIRPORT!
I'm trying to get my Epson R2400 to work wirelessly over my Airport
network... tried everything.
I have a 900G and it works fine wirelessly.

I just created a 'guest account' is there a way do display a welcome
message where i choose a short note to be bought up every time the
guest account is accessed ?
Iv looked inside the user accounts options from system preferences but

I have a problem with my Mac Os X v. 10: i can't to access to my
administrative password and the system don't recognize the master
password!
I have used the original restore/installation CD-ROM to change

    Anyone know of a stand-alone pointing device that mimics the scroll
pad of the new Mac (two-finger scrolling etc).  It's such a perfect
solution that I'd love something similar for my desktop machine.  I've
tried scroll *wheel* devices in the past, but they became even more

Best Way to Combine System Folders and Data Several HDs onto One?
I'm combining several HDs onto one massive 750GB HD... but keeping them
as separate partitions.
There are several OS 9 and OSX system folders.

I got my mom a Logitech USB gamepad for Christmas because she's been
wearing out her keyboard playing a shareware platform game.  But, while
the game supports joysticks, it doesn't properly support game pads.  It
does, of course, support keyboards just fine.

Having Googled and read a lot about Spotlight, many people being
dissatisfied with it, and myself not being quite happy with the speed
of my Powerbook G4 (1.67GHz, 1.5GB RAM) I decided to look into the
matter but not really getting far.

WAIT! Before you click away from this page, I will not give you a bunch
of B.S. like others who are offering the same thing. No, you will NOT
get a Macbook Pro for FREE, but you will only need to sign up for 1
offer and then refer friends. That easy! I HAVE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN

"If you have mail waiting, a red circle appears on the Mail icon in the
Dock with the number of unread messages in your inboxes."
The above is a quote from Mail help. How can I get red circle to appear
on the Mail icon in the Dock. It works on my Mac at work but not at

I gave my wife an iBook laptop and she would like to become
"administrator" for that computer (I'm presently the iBook's
administrator). How do we accomplish the change?
TIA,

Is it possible to take a tape that was created using Dantz Retrospect 5.0
under Mac OS 9.2 and restore it to a Mac running OS 10?
The backed up data was just graphics files...

My computer has a long (and perhaps unnecessarily long) name, which
shows up at the top of windows.
I think it used to occur as part of the prompt when I ran terminal.
But, since I updated my Vigor router, I see that the name that appears