Mac Forum / General / General / February 2007

I currently have gmail on both my desktop pc as well as my macbook and
am very pleased with it. However on my macbook i have the complication
that the mac mail program interferes often...Im used to clicking an
email address and it automatically opens a fresh gmail letter for me

First, sorry that I may be very dumb about this. I did scan old
messages on this and some Mac newsgroups and still don't "get it".
I bought a Sony Handcam HDD (30GB) last week. I have a Mac Powerbook
G4 (OSX 10.3.9). I naively thought - because I'd heard that the

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My wife's Mac does not have an internet connnection.
Can I download Mac files on my PC, transfer them to the Mac just as
they were downloaded and then using Stuffit on the Mac un-stuff them
on the Mac and get Mac files that will work?

I recently purchased an Apple G3 iBook and have a quick question. I
see a green light under the CAPS LOCK button that displays when it is
in caps lock mode. The question is, do these keyboards have the
capability to light up fully? Mine never has and I am not sure if it

First of all--apologies for letting my Mac admin skills atrophy--was an
ace back in the system 7 days....
I have an iMac G4 with a dead hard drive--won't boot. Also, I am having
trouble booting from the optical drive using an OS X Tiger install DVD.

I can't get the external mic to work in Skype. In the Preference, I
have already
set the Audio Input to Built-in Line-in. But the other end doesn't
hear my voice.

When I try to shut down (or restart) my Power Mac 6500/250 I get a
system error that says " Finder error 41" and a restart button.  The
only way I can shut down is to pull the power.
Does anyone know what I did and how I can fix it?

I'm trying to install an application (Grace plotting package) from
Darwinports.com on my new MacBook Pro. When I type
sudo port install grace
as instructed, I get a message

this is what they say on the tiscali website:
Tiscali Broadband is not compatible with Intel based Macs. A router is
required for these models. Please note, technical support is not
provided for Macs

How to create an ISO image of a CD/DVD in the Mac environment?  I was
researching quite a bit to try and find a solution, only to resort to
Windows to accomplish that....
Can somebody please elaborate on it...

It seems that interrupting a Backup that was
having trouble accessing NFS mounts (that
I forgot to dismount first) somehow damaged
Finder on the source disk.  It also damaged

I wanted to install BootCamp on my MacPro (4x750 GB, 2xRAID1).
I wanted to install it on the non-boot, empty disks (I did split the
second RAID1, as I assumed it would not install on a RAID1).
Now BootCamp tells me it will only install on the boot disk.

I am looking for a VNC client for my Mac.  My aim is for me to be able
to send a link in an email where the person clicking can easily
connect to me.  Ideally it would be a secure connection !  I would
need the server side to be able to be Windows or Mac.  This would

Subject says it all; I have a 60GB hard drive that I'd like to put
together with a 20GB board. I do have the appropriate sized back plate
which would fit the larger drive "innards" but wondered whether there
would be some problem with the board recognizing all of the data/songs