Mac Forum / General / General / July 2007

Netscape 9 beta 2 is now available for download. The Macintosh press
has done their best to ignore Netscape 9, but it is a good browser.
What a contrast to the collective orgasms they were having over the
Windows version of Safari!

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QuickTime 7.2 for Mac and Windows was released by Apple this
afternoon. It includes 8 security fixes. I personally consider a
number of these fixes critical.
Of interest: This afternoon there was also an accompanying update

I'm running 10.4.10, a MDD machine (dual G4 1.25 Ghz). I have two
optical drives, but recently (I believe it was since the 10.4.10 update)
one of the optical drives started failing. Any media inserted would
simply not mount.

in previous versions of the quicktime player, i could click the green
button and the window would expand to fit the screen and so did the
movie (command-3) but now in this latest update, it does absolutely
nothing at all.

The Mac is the computer of pure BOREDOM!!!
So many people have died by using this system, they
simply bored themselves to death.
If you want an exciting system, get a PC with Windows Vista!!!

My daughter wants to use QuarkXPress to make web pages for her mac.com
site.  I tried FTPing to web.mac.com but it times out.  Is there a way
to upload the pages other than using iWeb's publishing?
Mark

So, if the mac mini is to be dicontinued, as is the 17-inch iMac, what
is left as an entry-level mac? A $1400 20-inch iMac?
Someone please tell me they aren't about to do that.

I have a Mac for testing web stuff I'm developing. I pretty much don't
know what's going on in the Mac world. I've always just booted it up,
start the browser, do the testing, and shut it down. I had an iBook
G3/500MHz until it died recently. Now my employer just presented me ...

I installed the Apple QuickTime 7.2 update on my 10.4.10 PPC system and
all the Unsanity Haxies I use stopped working (Labels X, MenuMaster,
FruitMenu, WindowShade).  Unsanity hasn't gotten back to me yet with any
sort of "We know and are looking into it."

I have emailed Parallels already for the solution to this problem, but
they say it could take 3 days to get a reply:
I downloaded the trial Parallels Desktop about a month ago and installed
it on a 2.2GHz MacBook Pro. Having decided that Parallels is a good

Zonealarm on Win XP allows me to set up some  programs, or any new
program, to pop up a window notifying me that the program wants to
access the internet, and lets me allow or deny. I particularly like to
use this feature for Realplayer, which is 99% spyware, but occasionally

I have a friend who has a Mac and I an trying to find some info about
various utilities for it and for communications with my windoze. At this
time, I don't know what the Mac model is but the CPU box  is about 9"x9"x5".
Examples:

Just read that O2 got the exclusive contract and will start selling soon
http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2007/07/13/afx3910584.html
And according to our "friends"
Percival John Hackworth

How do you tell the 10.3.9 finder to use the "normal"
unzip to open a .zip file.  Mine as of about a week ago
tries to launch Classic and Stuffit.