Mac Forum / General / General / February 2007

I'm in a bit of an annoying situation.
For my homme studio, I have need to install OSX on another Mac, a dual
800 Quicksilver. Problem is I don't have Tiger, been using an older one.
I got the QS with Tiger installed, but need to shuffle disks between my

I have some HTML files and some PHP files that I wanted to look at. But
whenever I try and view them with TextEdit, it tries to show them as
"Rich Text", rather than raw HTML/PHP.
When I change the format to "Plain Text" it simply obliterates the

Rolling Stone seems to think it may be.
<http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/02/08/is-apple-the-
new-evil-empire/>
The signs are all there: The technological superiority. The ruthless

I'm running VNC on my Mac at home so I can log in and access files.
Since I have multiple monitors, I occasionally run into a problem with
application windows popping up on the "other" monitor and I can't seem
them.

I have a 20 inch Mintel with the built-n cd/DVD drive that pulls in
the disc. Can you safely use the Mini DVD/CD discs? My sense is no,
you can't but maybe there are adapters??
Thanks.

Just got a Mac.  How much can I rely on its firewall that came with
the OS?  Or should I look into getting a third party firewall?
Thanks!

Well I thought I found someone that I could get it from , but that
fell through. I also looked on several different torrents and was
unable to find it. I did find alot of mac osx 10.4. I guess I should
be more specific on the version of OSX I'm looking for.

My mate used his finalcut pro to edit this
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CBslO2JbEXs
Is there a better package, and is it worth altering given it's only
for youtube?

Anyone know of an alternative to delicious library ?
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I have a Mac Powerbook G4, OSX 10.3.9. I have a lot icons on my
desktop. Every now and then - often enough to annoy - the desktop
suddenly does this thing where most of the icons automatically stack
up in one corner. It's as if the system has said "enough of this

After 25 years of PC use I am seriously considering a move over to the Apple
Mac, and in particular the iMac.  My experience of Macs is just about zero
so forgive my ignorance!
The main advantage of owning a PC of course is that it's a doddle to expand,

I installed Office 2004 on three Macs. It works on two but I get the
following message on the third.
"The font Bitstream Vera Sans is corrupt and should be removed"
I searched the computer but can't find the font. It does show in fonts

iMovie/Final Cut Pro HELP NEEDED!!!
Please ANSWER ANY of the BELOW to HELP ME!!!
A) How do I break into an iMovie Project Package to get at the raw DV
files to use in Final Cut Pro or any other video-editing program? Final

Someone just posted this on a forum. When asked about it he told me he
never has to worry about juice running low when transferring music to
or from iPod. What model charger is this?
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When my wife retired, her company offered her a
new iMac. We went to the Apple site (using our PC)
and presented her company with a 'shopping list'
of e.g. speed of processor, amount of ram, etc.