Mac Forum / General / General / May 2007

Has anyone ever seen an ipod multipin extension cable?  I have an 80G
pod.  I'm looking for a cable which extends the ipod multipin jack on
the bottom.  The reason is because some accessories (radio trans,
etc.) connect directly to that port, flush with the bottom of the

I needed to run OS 9 for a composition project, so I pulled out my old
sunflower iMac G4 and installed OS 9 on it.  I can use my newer-model
Apple Pro keyboard under OS 9, but the volume and eject keys don't
appear to work.  If I eject a CD using the "Eject" command, the CD

Hi again,
I am having still problems with spotlight. It is so slow, importing
simple gif files. It is now importing for DAYS (max. 50 Gigabyte data).
Wenn I do a

im a netflix customer, and i was excited to see they have launched a
new product -- "Watch Now". w/ WN, customers get to stream movies at
home; one hour for every dollar you spend on their standard plans (if
youre on a $15 plans, you get 15 hours of streaming a month). this

Is it okay to copy fonts from a Library > Fonts folder on one drive to
the same foler on another drive?
There are some Futura fonts in my Indesign documents on my computer that
aren't on my main drive but they're on other drives.

I have an 80GB ipod, and I am getting used to using it with my Outlook
2007, but I find it odd that the Calendars and Contacts will sync, but
I searched the Apple website and found nothing on the task list.
Seemingly, the 2 are intrinsically linked (tasks and calendar)--at

The mac g5 dual processor specs say:
Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)
Is it safe to leave a g5 running in a room at, say 30 degrees celcius,
for *months on end*, say at low cpu usage, say around

It currently has a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-106D which is playing up (I'm getting
hardware errors on a variety of media when I try to burn discs).
What drives would you recommend replacinging it with and where's the best
place to buy?

My cd rom door will Not open on
my desktop G4.  Any suggestions for
unsticking?

Opera has this neat Back/Forward feature where you can just hit the
right, then left mouse button and it goes back in the browser (the
previous page you were viewing), while hitting them in the opposite
order goes forward in the browser.  It would be great to get Firefox

BACKGROUND:
I use .Mac but only free trial which expires after 60 days.
Every now and then, I simply COPY the /Documents/*.* in my iDisk to my
hard drive (giving it a name like "copy-of-iDisk-documents-folder")

I've posted this request in the past but you never know when things happen.
What I would like is for the menu bar to hide just as does the dock when the
appropriate preferences are set. Preferably I would like the hiding to occur
only when Finder is the active application.

TIME PROBLEMS - Clock Reset to 1 Jan 1970 on my Powerbook G4 DVI
I think my CMOS battery is dead
my LI-ON battery is definitely dead.
I have the date and time set to update automatically

I just got my new battery for my powerbook G4 DVI
Any tips on long life preservance ?
Is it basically a case of keeping the battery plugged in and charged
as often as possible ?

I turned on Personal Web Sharing and the Firewall. At the bottom of
the Sharing control panel, it says: