Mac Forum / General / General / March 2008

I have some documents that have funny characters when I copied them from
a Windows machine.
On my Mac, I see í for an apostrophe, and characters such as ñ.  I no
longer have the original to see what that is.

I bought a computer yesterday, After installed Windows XP, this is my
installed softwares list.
      1. WinZip or WinRar. These two kinds of softwares are used to
unzip your download files. Download url:

What can I safely remove from my desktop?  I have my Macintosh HD, my
wife's computer, and my backup drive on my Finder (I'd like to make my
backup drive even further out of the way).
I want a clean desktop, without icons under my applications.

OS X allows you to configure "Disable Screen Saver" hot corners.  But
what about display sleep?  It doesn't look like these corners disable
display sleep.  I have my display sleep time set shorter than my screen
saver time, because I don't like screen savers (if I'm not using the ...

"MacSpeech Dictate" - practical home computing uses for ANY speech app'
Not many uses for speech app's, just another software tool.
Now for business enterprises, the story would be different.
If you were managing medical paperwork for a herd of 25

Originally I backed up using Time Machine but did not include my
"Music" folder with iTunes library since I did not think all those
songs would fit (along with a full Documents backup) on my external HD.
But now I realize I do have enough space. In Preferences I de-selected

So my Mac Mini intel just stopped recognizing its audio device. Today I
selected the vga display on the TV and checked skype. There was no
sound. Checked Skype prefs: no output device available. Checked system
prefs and no output was there and only my usb mike was available for ...

This web page:
    http://www.apple.com/macpro/technology/storage.html
describes some RAID5 configurations with performance between 127MB/s and
256MB/s.

I tuned Spotlight off as I don't want it to make references to sensitive
materials on my HD. But when I do that it also kills "find."
What do I do with sensitive material? I encrypt it and erase the source  
using third party software. So even if my login password is compromised,

Apple just updated its laptop line: I think it is Penryn across the
board. Speed bumps, bigger drives, etc.
No news on iMac yet. :(

I'm about to get a new Mac, and like many others I presume, I REALLY
like my current Mac and how it's set up. I expect when I get the new
Mac, I will connect up a firewire cable from my old mac to my new Mac,
and allow the new install program on the new mac to automatically move

NASA is seriously considering antimatter propulsion systems
for its future space missions.
<http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/msad12nov97_1.htm>
Snippet from that website:

Hi, I am attempting to upgrade a G4 currently running
the first OS X to the tiger version.
Yes, I know Tiger is a bit old now, it was on my shelf
awaiting the install of a DVD on the machine.

I am printing from a Macbook Pro running OS X.5.2 and printing files
that have images and text. The images look great, but the text is all
smeared. Is there anything I can do?
TIA

Regarding Time Capsule -
Pros
1) low price compared to separate purchase
2) less desk space