Mac Forum / General / General / April 2007

Most of my files do NOT have extensions (eg. ".txt"), and Spotlight
ignores them.  Is there something I could install or turn on to tell
it to index those files, too?
I guess the reason Spotlight doesn't consider indexing no-extension

A guy from Apple (phone sales I guess) told me that there is no
difference between the video cards the Mac Pro uses and what PC's use.  
As long as you're using the correct model, they will work in both
machines.  Is this correct?  This will be a first for Apple:  using

With the weak dollar and a trip to Florida soon, I was wondering about the
above.
I don't usually buy upgrades until all the wrinkles have been ironed out but
if if saves me a bundle I'll buy on release.

Anyone using The Blackboard Learning System on a Mac;
are you having any problems?

Anyone using The Blackboard Learning System on a Mac;
are you having any problems?

How can I archive last iCal from last year & create a new one for this
year?
Any references or sources of info?
I've not found anything I understand on Apple site yet.

Dotty, the MacBook, was given to Charley in August, 2006.
Battery Information:   2006-dec-02
 Battery Installed:    Yes
 First low level warning:    No

This is just annoying.  When I right click in a preview window...say
I'm trying to view "Get Info" on a folder, my imac closes ALL preview
windows and then reopens in the default location.  It'll always do
this the second time I perform a right click.  So basically, every

I've used Macs since 1986 and I've never encountered this before.  I'd
appreciate any advice anyone could give me.
Our iMac g5, 1.6ghz, 17", was stuck with the spinning beachball of doom
when I walked in today.

My PC laptop died (bad motherboard) and I decided to go Mac. I bought
a PowerBook Pro and Parallels. I took out the healthy PC laptop drive
and put it in a USB enclosure and confirmed it works properly.
I would now like to create an image of my old laptop (including all my

I have an Epson printer and whenever I try to print to it in photoshop
it says it isn't a postscript printer.  Does anyone know a work around
for this?
Many Thanks

Are there any alternatives to Apple's Stocks widget for the TSX? I like
Stocks, but it is unreliable for TSX stocks.

It's power pc
So should it work?

I am a new (and very happy) convert to Mac after over 20 years of fighting
Windows. Parallels enables me to continue using WordPerfect, and I need only
one thing more from the old system. I have a projector that uses a PCMCIA
card, and there is no PCMCIA slot on my MacBook Pro. ...

iTunes is currently relaunching itself, within a few minutes, no matter
how many times I try to quit it (Mac OS X, version 10.4.9). I curious what
causes this, if somebody knows it.
 Hans Aberg