Mac Forum / General / General / December 2007

On the desktop, the icon shows I have 13GB free of 111.  Earlier it
said 02GB free.  Finder shows 90GB free.  What's the deal?
This Powerbook pro is just over 24 hours old -- I'm no where near that
full..

I've seen many postings through out the internet, about how good Apple
computer are. How people, like, dislike, & have some differences. I
have taken it all, for what its worth. A few weeks ago, I finely made
the jump from PC to Mac. I had two concerns, One was price & the other

My wife bought a new Macintosh running MacOS 10.5.1 today,
and she is wondering what is the logical replacement for
MacDraw.  Being able to import her existing MacDraw files
would be nice, but something morally equivalent might do

Here we are a month into Leopard...  Things were going fine...
Now, Palatino has suddenly disappeared! No longer in font menus of any
application.
Two questions:

I have a G4 Mac with  OSX 10.4.x  - latest
updates to 10.4.x.   Problem is Safari -
when you type something and hit tab -
the mouse moves to the top of the page.

I suppose most people with FAT-32 drives have access to a Windows
machine to defrag them, but some of us don't have privilege on our
work machines to run system utilities.
Should FAT-32 iPods or other external drives be defragged?  Can we do

My iBook G4 has developed kernel panics on waking from sleep with two of
them in less than 18 hours after installing the latest security update
for 10.4. Any suggestions for fixes?  I've sent reports off to Apple.
Here's the entries from panic.log:

Is there any advantage in installing the latest version of Flip4Mac WMV
(the basic, free version) on a G5 iMac running OS 10.4.11 if one already
has Windows Media Player 9.0 installed? Or is it better not to try and
fix what isn't broken?

System: iMac G5, OS X 10.5.1 with all updates;
Printer: an old Laserwriter IIg attached via Ethernet to my network;
iWork (Pages) '08
Ever since upgrading to Leopard, both Preview and Pages crash after a

Is there an application out there that will allow me to gather all the
menu bar items at the top-right and put them into one menu?  One that
has a shortcut key would be a great feature as well.
The problem is that I have about 12 icons that I use enough that it

If you have paid attention to these trends in the past, should I expect
there to be a price reduction in iMac prices (from Apple, Amazon, etc.,
reputable dealers) after Christmas? Thanks.

Can I use an external USB-2 HD for the Time Machine backup?  I have a
320GB HD available and I don't want to go out and buy a FireWire HD.
Thanks!
earle

I've got two Intel-based Macs running 10.5.1, and a networked printer
connected to an iBook running 10.4.11.
On the MacBook Pro, the print dialog includes a number of
printer-specific options in the pop-up menu-- "Quality & Media", "Color

Like any nine-year-old, Shea O'Gorman spends a lot of time listening
to her iPod Nano. So much so, that when her third grade class started
learning about writing letters she thought, who better to write to
than the man whose company makes her iPod.