Mac Forum / General / General / May 2007

how do i alter which window an  app defaults to? at the moment i have
my 2nd monitor off (dont ask), but firefox keeps wanting to open in
it, regardless of the last place i closed a firefox window (PITS*
expectation violation!)

I want to buy the new MacBook Pro 17 inch and install the latest Final
Cut Studio 2 Software
I need to know Pros and cons
Thanks in advance

Dear Mac Mavens,
I'm thinking about switching to Apple Mail from my current mail client
(MailSmith), but I have a couple of doubts about Mail's capabilities. I
was hoping you could advise me.

Hi...
Sometimes, usually after long use, the keyboard of my Powerbook G4
(10.4.8) types the numbers on lower right of key instead of the letter
(i=5, o=6, etc.), along with other weirdnesses involving placement of

For what ever reason. Safari has been crashing a lot on me lately.
Usually I will see the cursor turn into a spinning beach ball. The
hard disk will get very active, and Safari will quit. What is the best
approach to finding out what the culprit is? I am on a Imac.  OSX

Can anyone recommend the best or just a good LATeX for OSX?   Every
version I download at versiontracker
seems to be missing some essential component with no instructions
about where to get it and (once obtained) where to place it.  The

The post on browser spoofing got me wondering..
Are all of the available options that are settable via this 'defaults
write <prog> <option> mechanism documented somewhere?
TIA

This'll seem like a dumb question and it is. But I just had to
re-install OSX 10.4 on a fresh drive and now...I don't know how to put
Classic on the drive. I feel like an idiot.
I have a 9.22 disc but it won't install on my G5 dual 2 GHz so how the

I am thinking of getting the Apple TV box. The blurb says I need
Airport extreme.
I have a MacPro (Intel) but when I search for airport I get messgae
that I need an airport card. I tought a Macpro would come enabled, but

I just receive a mail from a friend.. it was directly sent into the
spam folder..
As I am using the Apple 'standard' auto antispamming rules, I wonder
where I can discover these rules to ask my friend modify his ...

Does anyone out there have a bootable Panther 10.3.9  disk I can buy
or borrow?

All,
I've been trying to get an iMac with 10.4.9 to receive a Quicktime
stream from this website:
http://www.pubbuzz.com (this is not an endorsement.)

DESKTOP Picture SLIDE SHOW Change Time
I would like to change the picture on my desktop every 20 seconds.
the default options are 5 seconds and a minute
which underlying config file will have to be changed to set it to 20

It seems that Software Update on my mac has mysteriously stopped
working. Running the actual application just gives a message that
there aren't any updates available. I checked the log in System
Preferences, and it seems that the latest update that I got was the

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