Mac Forum / General / General / May 2007

Humph! - I thought people were joshing when they complained that
Parallels is a bit confusing, and substantial support is spotty, at best.
Grrr, just got finished with a full week climbing up the Parallels
learning curve, I am exhausted.

I'm playing with iMovie, and it appears that you can add titles up to
4.2 seconds duration. Is there any way to add titles that are of longer
duration?

I was going to buy this external Hard drive :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Elements-250GB-External/dp/B000MES2UE/re
f=sr_1_1/026-7104125-5999647?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1179139274&sr=1-1
It comes in fat32 foramt, which as i understand can not trasnfer files
larger than ...

Is there any utility available so that I can tile the open windows?

is it possible to remove an entry from the launchservices database? If so, how?
Under Tiger all files with an extension of ".xyz" are opened by a specific
application, e.g. Excel in my case. Sometimes in the past I sat the checkbox
at "always open with" in the "open with..." dialog. ...

Can iWeb be used independent of the rest of the iLife apps? I do have a
.mac account but use things other than iPhoto, iMovie, iDvd and
GarageBand.
Using a Intel Mac with all the latest software.

I recently purchased a 120G 2.5" external hard drive (seagate) with
VIBE brand enclosure. The VIBE enclosure states it supports Mac and PC
OS. After I connect the USB cable to my laptop the lights in HDD
enclosure do come up, but I fail to see any hard disks mounted. Even

ifconfig
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
       inet6 fe80::203:93ff:fe71:940c%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
       inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255

I am not entirely sure if this is the most appropriate group to post to,
so bear with me.
I purchased one of the first iMacs, way back when (maybe five or six
years ago).  I was running OS 9 and OS X 10.1 or something, 10.1'ish.

Frequently in these discussions complaints will be voiced regarding the
Finder. I'm at this time using Mac OS X 10.4.9 and, at least to me, the
Finder behaves as I expect and want.
If I am diving into or out of a hierarchy I want the containing window and

I had a programmer set up a database for my office and it's only
partially working now. I backed up regularly, but the "bad" database
also backed up, so I don't have the original "virgin" database to
replace the bad one with.

Hello, Everyone:
I used to work on a UNIX machine and use FrameMaker to make posters
for conferences, because FrameMaker accepts EPS (encapsulated
postscrit) files and produces high-quality figures in hard copies.

I have a wierd problem with the mouse. It is like a rubber band is
attached to the pointer and its always going back to upper left
corner. I can drag the mose just a little bit before the pointer
rushes upp to the left corner of the screen. What makes it more wierd

Yesterday I was horrified to discover that I'd inadvertently trashed a
folder that contained more than a decade's worth of material. Then I
remembered - you back that folder up weekly to .Mac using BackUp. Sure
enough - there it was on my iDisk. Restoring was a doddle and all my