Mac Forum / General / General / March 2008

Am I missing something really obvious??!?
If I want to add a phone number from Safaria (or Mail) to a new
contact how do I do this?
What if I get a missed call. I now have the phone number (due to

my laptop has recently been for repair at the big Apple London store.
Its like so annoying: when I start up it boots from the FireWire if
there's one plugged in. The only way round it is to press ALT
(option).

sometimes i put stuff in my notes in UPPERCASE. but it's a pain in the
a.s having the press shift before every letter
is there no caps LOCK?
also, i'm used to having a shift key on the left AND RIGHT side of the

I'm getting repeated "local host change" alerts even though all sharing
is turned off. How can I get the setting to stick? I'm running fully
updated Leopard on an aluminum iMac. Thanks.   -Dave

In the past I have used my candybar Nokia when arriving at meetings so
i know how much to bill clients (i have a sucky memory when it comes
to times)
The iPhone seems to lack this very basic but amazingly useful

I have searched a lot of different sites and groups, but couldn't get
a satisfactory answer, so here I am..
I just got a macbookPro (love it!  I am a convert), got an AppleTV
(love that too!) and an iPhone.  love all these new gizmos.  I spent

Hey guys,
I was wondering if you have tried Apple TV. I am planning on buying
one and wanted to find out what guys think about it.
Thanks for your thoughts!

I just upgraded to Safari 3.1, and now Java applets never seem to finish
loading. I have Java enabled in the preferences, but I never get past
the "Java loading" icon. Why does this happen? Was there suddenly a
disagreement between Sun and Apple?

I ran a firewire cable from my new MacBook Pro to my old iMac G5,
System 10.5.1. I restarted my iMac with the "T" key down and got the
firewire symbol on my iMac screen. But my MacBook screen says:
"There are no versions of Mac OS X available on your old Mac..."

Hi...I just got a new Mac Pro (which is aside from what I'm about to
say) an absolutely wonderful machine. I migrated my old Mac to the new
Mac, migrating everything...users, apps, settings, etc. All initially
went well.

I'm running a Mac Mini and a MacBook, both Intel based and running OS
10.4.11
I've decided to get an external HD to use for backups. 500 Gb seems
about a good size, to me. I'm trying to choose from the following 3

run in terminal:
sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/
com.apple.WindowServer EnvironmentVariables -dict
CI_NO_BACKGROUND_IMAGE 1

I'm trying to add notes to a PDF document with PDFpenPro but its telling
me "document permissions do not allow this action".  Is there any way of
accomplishing this?  Would Adobe Acrobat do it?  Any other PDF program
that doesn't obey rules?  Can anyone think of a way of copying ...

With OS 10.5.2 the text and icons in the finder sidebar are very small (for me)
Is there a way to make them bigger ?
The view command does not seem to apply to the sidebar.

I tried to copy a portion of a PDF document on the web.  Although Copy
didn't return any error, it didn't work; in fact, it wiped out my
clipboard.
So I viewed the document with Preview; when I tried to copy the