Mac Forum / General / General / December 2007

Recently I read a newspaper article about how college lectures are
available for free downloading from iTunes. But when I visited ITunes
I couldn't find a good index that told what was available.  I found a
few courses but it was very hit and miss.  If you have a any good

What is happening to Apple? I used to get a nice English-speaking person
in California. Now I'm speaking to someone in India who cannot speak or
understand me, who knows very little about the Apple OS, and who makes
me listen to this horrendous Indian music on hold.

Imagine if you were the boss of a company. It would make sexual
harassment so much easier! you'd know everyone about the whores in
your company. you could see everything. Just imagine you boning her in
no time at all!!

Sometime back, someone told me how to remove the MacHD icon from the
upper right hand corner of the screen.  I did so.  Now I'd like to get
it back,  How?
HFL

I have all the fonts in Mail set up perfectly except for when I'm
reading emails.  Is there any way of setting a minimum font size for
incoming messages?  Couldn't find any way.  I'd rather not do it
system wide like Tinkertool does.  If I could do it just in Mail that

I would appreciate some advice:
I will be replacing my iMac at work the beginning of next year. Please
advise me on my choices or suggest different models or specifications.
This is for family business and Little League paperwork. ( e-mail, web,

Flash does not work reliably in Firefox 2. It "might" work after I
reinstall the plugin, but if I quit and restart FF, Flash does not work
and I get that Quicktime question mark were Flash media should be. I
have found that removinf this folder may help:

I am running 10.4.11 on a new 20 inch iMac. Has anyone else come across
the following problem? If so, do you know why it occurs and howto cure
it?
All the icons (several hard drives and some folders and files) have

im looking to sync a data folder from an ipod to a local folder. looks
pretty simple, but im getting mired down in the details of folder
names & escaping.
my ipod's name is JOE'S IPOD. i thought it was something like this:

have an iMAc24 X.4.11 with multiple user accounts. Is there a log I can
look at, or a utility I can use, to examine login/logout times for each
user account, from a single admin account?
Chris

How do I change the Windows workgroup setting in Leppard?
Under Tiger I could do it either in Directory Access.app, using
SharePoints or by editing /etc/smb.conf.
Under Leppard, neither method appears to work; DA doesn't have the

This will interest some - there will be ongoing auctions and buyitnows
up until Jan 5th on this item.
Apple Historical DVDs - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
This link will take you there:  http://snipurl.com/1uh07

Hi. How do I get my Tiger Safari Bookmarks into Leopard Safari
Bookmarks? Please don't tell me I have to type them all in by hand.
Jason P Thomas

I've installed an English Os 10.5 but there doesn't appear to be a UK
English dictionary so all my outbound emails get littered with
'spelling errors' which are, of course, correctly spelled.
I would quite like to have a spellchecker active -- but not at the

Dear friends:
Does Time Machine backups the BootCamp partition too?
Thanks
Juan I. Cahis