Mac Forum / General / General / March 2008

So awhile ago...
i was asking if there was some way to easily create a bit of formated
text on Pages or TextEdit and then just paste it onto my Blog, So that
the Bolds and Italics and colored text would be preserved...

All three were reading today's http://espn.go.com, but had to be force
quit as the browsers were not responding after 5 minutes.
I wonder what error in the web page couldn't be handled by Safari,
Firefox, nor Opera (All OS X native versions).

I think Apple hired some $MS programmers by mistake.
$MS programmers are known for making easy things difficult,
and hard things almost impossible.
Apple's policy of 'keeping things simple' seems to be

I wonder if anyone else has suffered the same problem I have with
grossly short measured Canon Inks?
I have a new Canon printer, iP4300, which takes new ink cartridges.
The ink cartridges have a built-in sensor that is somehow supposed to

"Davoud" posted -

I am recapping one of my jbl speakers, and when it is done, I will then
need to recap the second one to maintain the balance.  Since I am doing
this one at a time, I want to put the sound out into mono for the time
being.  Can this be accomplished in software or the OS, or would ...

Black MacBook OSX.4.11
Some time ago; i noticed that my In Text Dictionary Feature stopped
working...!
i tried several key combinations and reset the hot keys and nothing

Turn OS X into rotten Vista type of OS?
No chance, you say. Do not be too confident about that,
because there are a faction of Mac users here who are
attempting to do just that.

Here's a weird one, and I know it's not the browser at fault, because
they all work fine on one profile on this mac, but for me, not!
This has me stumped - I have Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2, and was happily
running Firefox 2.0.0.12 Suddenly, I was getting error 611 trying to

How is it different from iPhoto...
It seems like the same thing...???

On my aluminum iMac (2.4 gig Intel Core 2 Duo/2 gigs memory/OS X
10.5.2), the machine freezes up solid when I do a shutdown or a restart!
Where can I find any routine that may run only at shutdown?

OK, so I'm a nervous Nellie.  A Quickertek 802.11 b/g wireless PCMCIA
card is on its way to me.  It will come with a CD and software only
good through 10.2  Their website has  updates for 10.3 and 10.4 (and
in an anwer to an inquiry I'm told the 10.4 one also works for

Internet Explorer 8 beta release is for developers, and Microsoft's
Dean Hachamovitch promised at MIX08 that IE8 will make it easier to
build Web sites for multiple browsers and stop wasting developers'
time. Microsoft's IE8 features Activities for looking up information

I'm a total newbie to the Mac.  I've been using Unix and Linux
workstations since around 1990 and has fairly good knowledge and
experience in Unix/Linux administration.  I've been told that Mac OS X
makes a good Unix workstation and I'm now trying to familiarize myself

Super squirrel
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