Mac Forum / General / General / February 2007

Does anyone know how to get IMovie HD to recognize and import non-copy-
protected DVD files?? I can do it in Adobe Premire Elements for
Windows
Steve

I have added another Airport Express to my network, this one is placed
in the bedroom. The light at night is very bright, is there a way to
disable the light?
I have had a look around the Airport Utility software but the only

Try to add a corrupted MP4 video to your library, and iTunes will refuse
to do so. No warning, no error, NOTHING. It acts as if it has added the
movie when in fact it has not.

I tried going  to Finder and clicking don't show extension, but I
still have .xls and others after my file names.

My son is making some stop-motion animation movies.  We've been doing
the frame capture with FrameThief, which is adequate for the job, but
doesn't include any real editing capabilities.  So I'm looking for a
good tool for putting the final movies together.  Things we need to do:

I am using my iSight microphone with Skype (not video) it's fine, but
after 10mn (env) it disconnects
I have to unplug/replug the iSight to get it back again... then 10mn
later ... and so on

Never done it yet so I had a few questions.  I wanted to know if I can
download directly to a CD?  If the download is longer than a single CD
does it pause to allow to put in the 2nd CD?  Are you able to transfer
from the CD that you download to an IPod?  A lot for one question ...

How can I change the permissions of a bunch of folders and subfolders
quickly? I moved those from my administrators account to my standard
account. However, the permissions were/are: dr-x... and I want them all
to be drwx... So, now, whenever I want to add files to certain folder ...

After years of Windoze PC-ing I just got an Intel Mac Book with Tiger.
It's great. But I have a few questions.
1. How to defrag the hard disk?
2. How to check for and repair hard disk errors?

I've been having startup troubles and was hoping someone could point
me in the right direction.
Running 10.4.9
There are 3 user accounts on my machine (PowerBook G4), and the main

This is a very basic question, but I really need some help.
For about four or five years we've been happily running a DSL/AirPort
connection from our iMac G4, which is currently running OS X 10.3.x.
It's an original AirPort base station -- certainly not Extreme or

I was on a hunt for the best chess software out there.  I read that
Fritz was the best, but another program with deep archetecture was
Shredder, and it runs on macs.  So I downloaded Deep Shredder 9, for
my iMac & I love it.  It has won awards for the best speed chess

I am attempting to get skype up and running for my sister who uses a
mac mini. Right now she has sound but the test call fails as the mic
is set too low or just not working. Not sure at this point. Consulted
built in help which says:

I have this problem for a while. First it happened with my iTunes.
iTunes can't complete the download of certain podcast that has a large
file, e.g., 25 M. It always stuck at about half way. Interestingly,for
a  much larger file,say 45M, iTunes also stuck about half way. If I

Is there a command that can be used when using terminal to close
current terminal window ?
In windows you can use the 'exit' command which will close the current
window.