Mac Forum / General / General / May 2007

Ok, I've been convinced from in here that Hogwasher is the newsreader to use
and have been quite happy with it.    4.2.2 is what I bought but I did
download the trial version of their new release 4.3 and well, to be honest
never really had a chance to look at it closely.  Yet ...

hey folks,
as im working w/ my new imac and my legacy win file server, ive come
across the need to setup scripts for moving directories & files from
the mac and to the win. i found some samples, but they arent working

Is there a way to exclude specific apps from Software Update?

Is there a practical way to speed my Photoshop CS2?
It's processing my commands (such as making and saving paths and saving
files) very sluggishly when I work on big files.
The TIFF I'm currently working on (for example) is 174 megabytes.

I have an old Tangerine 300Mhz G3 iBook that I just bought an original
Airport card for (802.11b). I currently have a Netgear wireless router
(802.11g) between my DSL line and my Power Mac G5.
Does anyone know whether the old Airport card will be compatible with

I've seen a few posts on various forums about Mac G4s freezing
constantly however there never seem to be any real answers to the
problem.
I recently purchased a G4 Mac, the mirrored drive door version, with a

I went into the Apple store today to pick up a couple of things (the one
in Clarendon, VA) and they have made it way too easy to spend money...a
salesperson with a portable credit card reader was able to check me out
without ever getting near the actual sales desk.  Then he said ...

Hi Group,
I have a program that retreives information from temperature sendor on
my Power Mac G5.
Do the Mac Book Core 2 Duo have a temperature sensor?

Sorry for the newbie faux paux. I've never posted to the groups before
and was just looking for a little help. I'll stick to web searches
where the flames aren't so nasty.

I have a set of Boston Acoustics BA735 speakers.  They are the non usb
set.  I inherited these a couple years ago and had a heck of a time
getting them to work.  I did a little research and found out that you
need a sound card that supports digital out.  Long story short I

I've just had to upgrade from a 10.3.9 G3 iBook without a disk burner
to a 10.4.9 MacBook with a SuperDrive. ("Had to"? I dropped the iBook
and it's knackered ? luckily it was insured!).  So I have no experience
of burning disks. I've successfully burned data onto a DVD -R and a

Apple and music labels accused of shortchanging artists
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/05/24/apple_and_music_labels_accused_of_
shortchanging_artists.html
By Aidan Malley
Published: 08:00 AM EST

I've just bought a new MacBook. I have a 1GB memory chip that I want to
install to boost the memory to 1.5GB, the Apple support site says that
matching memory should be installed for "best performance "
(http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303721).

I am embarrassed but I have forgotten my root/superuser password, not
having used it for more than a year. That's because mostly I work in my
own home directory. Today I got some softwware that installed itself in
/usr/local instead. When I tried to delete the files for Intel ...

Sorry in advance if I've posted this in the wrong spot - please let me
know if there's a better place to be posting this.
I work for a company that has several sub-contractors in the IT
industry. From time to time we require people with OSX experience to