Mac Forum / General / General / November 2007

Someone may have pointed this out already, but just in case, a drive
with Leopard installed can boot both Intel and PowerPC Macs.  I
installed Leopard, from an Intel mini, onto a FW drive I partitioned
with a GUID table, and I have since booted with the mini and my G5 from

I'm running Leopard on a PowerBook G4 with a British keyboard.
When I press F8, F9, or F10 I get a light grey box on the screen with
a picture similar to the icon on the key.  What I'd like is for those
to work as Expose keyboard shortcuts.

I am lloking for the best app o have a windowns O.S. running on my
mac.
What i need is not a dual boot but a window runnning in my osx.
I have read there are several apps to do this, and I'd like to know

I just upgraded from Tiger do Leopard. Now I noticed that there is a high
load with mdworker processes running. They are running for my user, the
user bin and the postgres user I created when I installed postgres quite
some time ago. The strange thing seems to be that, it seems to ...

Can I shrink down just one window in the manner than expose shrinks all
windows?

Hi
Am asking for some info regarding upgrading from a mini G4 (tiger)  to a
new iMac (Leopard).
I understand there is a way to move my files using firewire.

Does finder coverflow in the OS bother anyone but me?
Andy

Upgrading to 10.5 from 10.4 was pretty painless.  It resulted in a lot
fewer issues than I remember having when I went to 10.4 from 10.3.9.
And my worries that my older hardware (1.25 GHz G4 eMac, 768MB RAM)
wouldn't be able to handle it were completely unfounded.  So far it

My crontab-run reminder shell script uses growlnotify to display alerts
on the desktop. A forum message at http://growl.info/ says growlnotify
does not work with Leopard. Are there any other ways for a script to
display messages on the desktop?

Is it generally known that multi-touch works in Leopard?  At least
with GraphicConverter, you can enlarge pics with the two-finger
motion. Is this a general capability?
Mark

With all the interface crimes Apple committed in Leopard at least one
minor, but annoying, bug was fixed. In 10.4 and before, if one turned on
'show invisible files' (with OnyX, Cocktail, or the cmd line), icons on
the Desktop or in icon-view windows were pale, washed out. In ...

Running 10.4.10 on iBook G4.
Software Update has refused to download the last couple of updates to
iTunes, returning an error message referencing "NSURLError Domain -1005
(-1005)." I could download the update directly from the Apple Web site

In considering getting a more modern Macintosh, I see web sites
predicting MacOS X 10.5.1 release within a few months.
What is the current mechanism for buying such a release for a machine:
    a. that is not on the Internet

This group may not be the place to ask this question, so please
redirect me if so.
I have a Sun Ultra 5 and an Imac. The Imac has an external HDD that has
four partitions. One partition was made for Unix formatted files. I want

I installed Leopard on my husband's iBook and all went well.  His
sidebar, in contrast to mine, shows a strange device identified as a
connected "PC server" under the "shared" category.  Get Info says it is
connected as a guest.  This does not show on my Mac.  On mine, I only