Mac Forum / General / General / May 2008

Forgive my utter ignorance but I haven't used a Mac OS in
over 15 years.  I am now in a position where I need to search
for files based upon their content and then retrieve them.
Is there an intrinsic Indexing capability within a contemporary

If i have to get an External USB Modem ( That plugs into a USB Port )
to access dialup Internet Services,
What is the Phone Plug next to the Power Plug for...???
Thanx!

I often want to find a file using a partial name, but finder pulls up
data matches.   How do I search by file name, without looking at data?

CommandLineMac.com says on their website:
  http://tinyurl.com/6lqp4u
that lsbom can be used to determine what files were installed with a
particular app.  It goes on to say that these filepaths are stored in

So, isn't the AppleTV supposed to handle captions/subtitle tracks now?
If so, how do I go about to add them to .mov/.mp4 files (i.e. without
re-encoding the video and have them "burnt in")?
I have ripped my Eddie Izzard dvds, that didn't have subtitles, and

So i thought i would make a little movie for Flickr, now that you can
upload very short ( 90_sec ) films there...
So i opened up iMovie ( which i tried months ago ) and noticed that
the format was completely different from the way i remembered it... So

Hi Ya'll
When copying files via finder in 10.5.2, from local disk a share (Go >
Connect to Server > smb://ipaddy/xxx)
WHen the file starts to copy, I see cannot copy error -36. It looks

I am getting quite a few downloaded apps that will not open - when I try
to open their disc image I get a box with the message 'not recognised'
etc in it and the image wont open.
I have tried to 'repair' a couple of these images with the disc utility

After updating Camino to version 1.6, Safari (and my other browsers)
have started acting like a Windows browser:  typing "yahoo" in the url
pane doesn't take you to http://www.yahoo.com.  Now I get an error
message and have to type out the whole url.

Query about awka installation.
                          I spent most of my years compiling on Sun
Os and have for the last 5 years been in retirement.  My current
machine is an iMac running OS X 10.4.11

I may be asking the wrong group but since I am a Mac user I will give
it a try. My problem has to do with Comcast who sent me a letter
stating that my cable internet connection cost is being increased by
25% since I am not using any of their other services even though the