Mac Forum / General / General / March 2008

I keep on accidentally pulling icons off the dock.  Is there anything
that I can do to make it more difficult to remove them?
dick

A buddy (non Mac user like me) just got an AirBook notebook.  We have
several questions but don't know where to go to get the answers.
   He needs to run Microsoft Access db application what is the preferred
method of doing this on the AirBook?

I have a MacBook Pro and a 500 gb Firewire external drive.
I'd like to boot from a Linux CD and copy an image of the
Mac HD onto the Firewire drive.  Actually I can do all that
using either dd or ddrescue.  The real problem is that I'd

What is the best way to relocate a user home directory to another disk? I am
running 10.5.2 on  a Mac Pro. My first disk is getting full so I added a
second. To free up space, I would like to move my home directory for a
normal user account over to that disk.

Spring is now here (sorta) and the summer folk are starting to return to
their cottages. A couple have asked if they can hitch a ride on my
network, and my nieces will be bugging me for sure. I am on a cruddy
satellite connection. Fair use policy on their new satellite really

"Control - click", - real cutting edge
IE - "click", - half the work?  Something must be wrong.

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I'm attempting to install a new version of Final Cut Studio and I ran
into a problem:  When the installation script asked for the second
installation DVD, it didn't eject the first one.  I tried several
things, such as starting the installation over, and trying to get

Some questions
- is it ALBUM artwork or can you have different pictures for different
songs in the same album?
When you add artwork is it best to just add it using the normal itunes

On a 20" and a 24" iMac (both in different locations and with Leopard
installed from different discs) Software Update has not run (set to
check daily and download updates in the background) since February.
Also on both Macs SU does not list installed updates.

I installed Leopard 10.5.1 on my MacBook Pro using "Erase and Install."
After installation, I ran Software Update several times until it no
longer had any new software to offer. I then moved various files from
backup, including my Documents folder as well as some Application

Has anyone been able to figure this out?

Review of the new speech recognition software "MacSpeech Dictate",
version 1.0 offered for Mac users on February 15, 2008
Reviewed by your humble servant Mark Conrad, an old senile
Mac user, who has trouble with such complex things as

Does anyone know if one can get rid of these things that appear in Draft
View?

so ive been puttering around on the MBP, and its largely pretty sweet.
one annoyance tho -- it has an low-light sensor which, upon finding
low light, dims the display (probably both for power consumption and
eyeball contrast). thats great...but -- when im typing in *non* low-