Mac Forum / General / General / May 2008

Hi NG,
i have wall-mounted a headless powerbook to become my home server.
I have added a new power button on the outside.
Is there a possibility to change the switch-off behavior in osx?

I am just wondering what everyone's experiences with the iPod Classic
in terms of battery life when viewing video. The Apple website says it
is up to 5 hours and if that is the case it should allow me to watch
at least 2 movies while flying from SFO to HNL.

Suddenly, today, out of nowhere something changed on my system and I
can't explain it.
I happen to use cURL extensively directly and in some applescripts that
I created.

I am not much of an iTunes user. In my main iTunes window, a check box
appears at the left hand side of the entries in the Name column If I
select Music files. Nothing much seems to change when I check or uncheck
that box. What is the purpose of that box? How do I find ...

When I try to send an email it often chooses the wrong server, so I
have to reset it to my usual server, which is rather annoying. This
started happening after I changed some of my Mail preferences (it's a
long story) and I don't think I have reset them quite right. It often

Namely, if I  _never_  use periodic, will anything bad
happen, such as my belly-button falling out?
I read the man page for periodic, but as usual that does
not go into any detail as to what 'good' gets accomplished.

I'm using Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) on my MacBook, and again and again the smbol
for the Macintosh HD diappears from the desktop and the sidebar of the
Finder as well. I can only make it temporaray visible on the desktop again,
if I use Pathfinder. But still it's not visible on the ...

I have a 20" iMac, 2.1 GHz PowerPC G5, 1.5 GB RAM, Mac OS 10.4.11.
For the first time I have a need to run a (standalone) Mac
application that requires an Intel processor.
I have spare keyboard and mouse available.

I'm a happy recipient of a new 24" iMac that I ordered with a wired
keyboard and wireless mouse. Lots of new stuff to play with, but
one thing giving me trouble is sensitivity of the laser in the
mouse.

I used to use Vine Server to VNC a 1280x1024 screen to my
work PC. Now I'm on Leopard with a 1920x1200 + 1600x1200
dual monitor setup and want to continue to have VNC access.
The entire desktop however, simply has too many pixels to be

Anyone know of an app or know how to write some AppleScript that will
allow me to send DTMF tones through Skype?  I'd like to automate
calling my cell voicemail (no problem), pause, and enter in my v-mail
password (problem).  I'm using Tiger.

I remember reading that an application like Outlook could be tough on Time
Machine because it uses one big data file that changes often, and so Time
Machine has to keep writing this entire file to the external disk (unlike
Mail.app that, I believe, keeps its data as individual ...

About the OS component called QuickTime.
Apple did more than merely patch a few (okay, 11) vulnerabilities with
the recent release of QuickTime 7.4.5. According to a report from eWeek
this update also included a series of improvements, for both Mac OS X

If it is, I'll post a message about them.

I want to be able to read my personal email which I get in Apple Mail
app on my PC at work. Have been trying to either redirect it using a
rule in Mail or by configuring G'mail to do this. It's all got rather
complicated, but the harder I try the less luck I am having. At one