Mac Forum / General / General / February 2007

How do I burn photos onto a CD to present in a DVD player slideshow? I
have a G4 running updated Tiger. TIA

I have a G4 Mirror Front Tower running 10.4.8. I'm using a Linksys
(non-wireless) Router. I have no wireless devices on the computer.
  For a week now, when I open the Network icon in the Sidebar I see my
own G4 local icon and a Library Icon. After a few minutes, server icons

Our recently purchased MacBook Pro came with a very nice feature: When
selecting a jpeg (or other binary) file in a Finder window, a tiny
thumbnail would pop up in the adjacent pane on the right. Somehow,
after several updates and downloads (and probably making some

I don't know so much about Macintoshes, so I'm hoping someone out there can
help...
I have a G3 mac running OS9 with a CD player, all working well. I also have
a separate CD writer, a Yamaha CRW8424S which I want to use to burn CDs

I have a friend who is talking about making the transition from the
Dark Side to a new Mac. While I have been encouraging him, he did have a
question that I thought I would ask of youse guys.
     Is there any particular he should wait for a few months until the

My iMac-using housemate has been attempting to install Tiger to his
green iMac. The internal HD is 30GB. It had OS 9.2.1 on it, but we
erased the disk and attempted to install from the discs (black with big
silver X on the face). When the intended HD is selected (it's a single

Many programs that allow multiple windows (Finder, Path Finder,
Microsoft Word and more) seem to cascade new windows.  Is there any
way of stopping this?  Sometimes the first new window is in the same
position as the original one.  But after that they usually start to

I've purchased a few TV programs from iTunes Store, like "Lost" and
"Dresden Files", because we missed them the first time around.  Before I
found out from this NG they are 'protected', I hoped to put them on a
DVD and play them on my TV - but that's ok because my 17" iMac G5 is

Does anyone know of a graphical ping tool for OS X ? I use the superb
Ping Plotter for Windows when on a windows box, which graphs the
response times and packet loss for a given destination and records its
so that you can scroll back through time and see what was happening at

I try out tonnes of software that i get sent or asked to look at. I
rarely copy it to the applications folders, as i like to keep that
nice and clean. However, my application support folder is getting
swamped by tonnes of folders created by all the apps I try.

OS10.4.8 here
What application should I use to create a slideshow within a webpage
that is viewable
by folks using Window?

there is a new version of Xnntp.
I have beaten a lot bugs out of beast and of course put some new in.
Please help me to kill them all.
Like before you can download it from:

Subject covers "The Big Picture" - Details follow
I've got multiple users on the machine (A G4-AGP running Panther.9, with
a "Stealth" serial port (with appropriate, up-to-date driver) feeding a
USR Courier modem) and a single ISP shared amongst them via dial-up PPP.

I downnloaded tom brown's zipit. It won't unstuff. Can anyone  advise?
Keep getting archive errror.

I've noticed that certain Apple programs (InDesign) only work with an
Appletalk based printer driver. Apparently this driver requires the
ability to send broadcast packets to the printer prior to submitting a
print job to the printer.