Mac Forum / General / General / May 2008

I was messing about transferring some playlists to micro SD card for
my phone using the excellent SyncTunes last night when I noticed some
weirdness in iTunes.
I looked at the contents of a playlist, noticed it didn't have a

I've had this trouble before, and the various suggestions as to the
reason make sense but don't cure the problem. I have two G4 laptops
and a Windows PC which, usually, all connect to the net wirelessly
with no trouble at all. This afternoon, the two Macs started playing

In the last few days I've been getting many spinning beach balls,
sometimes for several minutes at a time.  Activity Monitor sometimes
shows almost no significant activity, other times it shows (under CPU, %
System) a lot of activity, but only in % System.  There is no app that

I would like to copy the keychain on my G4 PB to my new iMac.  I tried
replacing the System.keychain file in the iMac with that from the PB.  
No luck; not allowed.  Mac Help files not helpful.
Guidance?  TIA

I dunno much about the podcast world.
Does Kevin Rose really have inside info?
Kevin and Alex's show is quite interesting. I suppose all tech issues
automatically mean 'geek'.

I have an older Mac, a G4 450 agp.  I currently do not have a cash
needed to even upgrade my cpu or buy a used MDD on eBay.  That having
been laid out, my question:
QT 6 allowed me to run the "large" sized movies that played at 480 lines

I am using a imacG3 OSX v10.4. After booting up I noticed that all
words in the toolbar and under icons are all the same symbol.
Applications seem to work fine. Is there anything I can do to get rid
of the repeating symbol and restore the tool bar text and text under

I have a G4 Cube in which I tried to update the firmware via OS 9.
I laid it on it's side so I could reach the programmers button and
started it up as per instruction.
A progress bar showed and it started upadting.

I run a computer service company.  My technicians are are well versed
in the Microsoft and Linux worlds but not the Mac world, so I need
advice for me to help a new client.
Let me start by stating that I am not an anti-mac bigot.  I just run a

I am new to Apple all together so I wanted to get some advice from you
Apple experts as to what model MacBook or Desktop would be a good one
to run Final Cut Pro 6 or Final Cut Studio 2 on?  Thanks for you help
and advice...

Dear friends, do you have any experience installing Windows SP3 for
XP-Pro on a Mac BootCamp partition?
I access this partition through BootCamp and also through VMWare
Fusion without any problem up to now. My installation is fully updated

I'm on a Macbook running 10.4. Trying the samples here:
http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.4/demos/plugin/applets.html
They work fine (load in less than second) from the Ubuntu machine that
is sitting right next to it.

I bought a blue G3 for my mom to get online but it has 9.1.
I hail from the PC world but I'd like to her her started on Mac and
right now she's only interested in web surfing. This is the first Mac
I've dealt with so any help on how to obtain 10.? would be great.

The only way I've been able to find to hide or show the extension of a
file, on a file-by-file basis, is to do it in the Get Info window.  I
wrote a simple Applescript to do that, and put it in the script menu,
but I think that having it as a contextual menu would be easier to ...

Hi, I'm new to the world of Mac, but am planning to changeover from XP.
However, I will have to use XP for a while until I'm upto speed and I do
have some applications that only run in XP, and I haven't searched for a Mac
alternative yet.