Mac Forum / General / General / December 2007

I had some DVDs done for a conference I organized.I was wondering if
there is any way that I can "rip" stills from the   DVDs to use in a
hard copy report I am preparing. I did think of using the "Grab"
software but it has obviously been regulated to prevent doing this

While trouble shooting a dsl modem connectivity problem, I realized
that my two external firewire drives were not mounting...  I checked
the Network Port Configurations in the Network Prefs and was surprised
tto see that "Built-in FireWire" is greyed out(!)

So my widescreen Apple monitor is having backlight problems for the
second time in a year, and I am tired of paying for the repair.  (I
think 1/3 the price of a replacement is all one should pay for a repair.)
I can get a VeiwSonic VA1903wb for under #300.00 CDN, and I am ...

Who is Jesus?
Without a doubt, you have often heard the claim that Jesus is God, the
second person in the "Holy trinity." However, the very Bible which is
used as a basis for knowledge about Jesus and as the basis for

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The folks at DivX are gving away a free legal serial number to their
DivX 6.8 Professional software. You *want* this!
(Download link at OS2Guy.com)

I'm messing with a (probably) really basic thing. I'm trying to make
connections to other servers on login. I found that you can do that
using the systemprefereces/accounts.
The problem is this: When I login, the iMac answers that the connection

The one firewire port on my MacBookPro is way loose. It works fine if
it's on a table top and nothing pulls even slightly on the cord, but I
often use my laptop, uh, in my lap.
Is this user fixable? I am guessing there's a small tensioner in the

New to the mac but a battle scarred Windows convert. I have used a
number of apps for the PC to backup my DVDs. My son has a habit of
trashing DVDs within a couple of mins so now i back them up for him to
play on the DVD. There is the disclaimer.

Today I purchased Sharon Zardettos "Take Control" book on fonts and font
management in Leopard and would like to go on record as saying that this is a
"must buy" book for anyone that has a more than casual interest, as do I, in
typography.

I wanted to copy over some files to my new iMac/Os 10.5.1 from a (MacOs
Extended) LaCie 60GB Firewire drive which had been attached to an
expansion card in my trusty old PM7500/Os 9.1 for the past 7 years
(where it never missed a beat and never threw up any errors in my

Journalists like myself (I'm an editor for CIO.com) have our favorite
movies about our field: Ace in the Hole, Broadcast News, Superman,
etc. I want to know, what are your favorite movies? What are the cult
movies in your field? I would like to put together a list of

I upgraded to 10.5 and now SafariBlock doesn't seem to work anymore. Is
this impression correct, and if so is there anything I can do to fix
SafariBlock?

If anyone has a copy / location / serial for Now Contact, any help
would be much appreciated
Will happily send bits and pieces in return
Thanks

Was wondering if there were any good external sound card out there
that support intel mac. I have a mac mini that sound card got killed
and would really like to get sound back as it is  a meda box. Any
idea's?

I have a program on my Mac G4  called " libprs500" . This program is
designed to convert .lit eBOOK files into .lrf files and export them
into the Sony Reader device.  However one can also load
"certain" .lit books into the libprs programs library and read  them