Mac Forum / General / General / February 2007

Until recently I could, for example start an address with  Rob and would
get only Robert Boucher in the To field. Now I am getting Robert Boucher
(boucher1@alumni.utexas.net) in the To field. I cannot find what I did
to make this change,

In the last week my powerbook G4 has started freezing/crashing while
playing videos either in itunes or online. Restart seems to bring it
back to normal but after a day of use, and you go to watch a video it
crashes again. When it freezes up, the hard drive also makes a weird

i put some data onto a dvd rw. I know have to put on some more data
onto it but when i try to put on more data it says i can not modify
the disc.
i put data on it the first time round by using a burn folder and

Can anyone point me to microsoft info. on running Word on two of my
computers? I can't seem to find the license info. anywhere.
I bought Word & use it daily, now want to add it to a downstairs
computer. I can't remember if the license allows me to use it on more

I'm considering switching from a Windows PC to an Apple Mac Mini
(email, web and Office work mainly). I have a HP Deskjet 3940 USB-port
printer and a HP 3200C parallel-port scanner. I just want to know if
they will work with the Mini - do I need to find the drivers for the

We've started a new service to make it easier to distribute Mac-
centric announcements, and I thought you might be interested.
http://prmac.com
prMac's aim is enhancing the visibility of press releases in the Mac

I am working on MACOSX 10.4.8 and Adobe reader 8.. In My workflow
only one action is added that is "Copy Finder Items" from Finder.. I
want to save anyfiles using workflow..while printing.
It is working fine with all other Applications like

I have a Client who has several G5 towers.  One in particular has gone
through several users and the most recent user has had several issues
including general slowness, apps not working properly, etc.
I have tried to correct things, but have spent way too much time on it

My iCal icon, on the dock, displays the wrong date (it always says
it's July 17th), is this just the way it is or is there a way that I
can get it to display the correct date each day? Thanks!

I have set the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH variable to include a library, which
one of my programs is using. This works perfectly well and there are
no problems.
However, i now need to start the program as superuser such that

Morning.
On my machine Entourage is the default email application. And it works
fine. But not when I try to send a PDF file via the print dialogue
MacOS X opens Mail.app but not Entourage.

Is there a reason why Mail is so poor at handling thousands of emails?
I imported 30k emails and it's a nightmare on my Core Duo Macbook,
constantly showing 0 messages in my mailboxes, I have to force quit and
restart so they appear.

iMac G3 tray loading...
..what is the latest operating system a basic machine can adequately run for
normal email and word processing?

I like TiVo because it remembers where you finished watching a certain
programme - when you press 'play' it doesn't start it from the
beginning - it remembers where you were
I suppose it is analogous to 'remember playback position' in iTunes

my problem is slow data transfer from WindowsXP --> MacMini, using
WLAN.
I have a D-link-wireless router.
My WinXP is connected to the router via Ethernet and MAC is connected