Mac Forum / General / General / June 2008

Thanks,
Davoud

I just bought a 3.5" SATA Barracuda drive and an external case.  The
case is suppose to have three ports; USB 2, FW 400, and SATA.  The
picture of the SATA port looks kind of like a small rectangle, and it
says that it doesn't come with a SATA connector.  I have heard that SATA

I prefer to boot my PPC Mini (Tiger) from a Firewire drive because it's
faster than the OEM internal drive.  Recently I switched from a
Ministack to a Macally enclosure.  Now it sometimes takes more than half
a minute for the computer to be ready to work after wakeup.

I went to my Mac and it didn't have a dock.  I used Spotlight to open
Parallels to send this message, and opened Firefox a couple of times,
as tabbing didn't work.   I did find some old messages about this
problem, but I have 10.5.2.

I have lots of pictures taken over the years before digi cams. I'd like
to scan them and eventually burn them to DVD before they become ruined
with old age. Which scanner would ya'll recommend that would do a good
job without costing me an arm and a leg (under $500). What features

this computer is freaking me out maaaan...
i have a few questions, hope they make sense:
1. can the noise from computer fans cause migraine,
especially when they get older? the noise is not loud,

Hi. I am running OS 10.5.3.  I want to use the "Keyboard Shortcuts"
controls in the "Keyboard & Mouse" System Preferences to change the key
for "Hide Others" in all applications to Function Key 16.
Here is what I did: In the "Keyboard Shortcuts" window, I pressed the

I caretake two rental houses on sunny ST. John VI for short term
rentals.  We advertise wifi available.  I live on the lowest level of
the larger house and have an Apple flying saucer wireless router in my
bedroom window.  I have had maybe 7 or 8 mac laptops run on the wifi

I was wondering what is the most used newsreader from the people in
this ng...
I am suing google groups but I would like to have one on my mac to
filter out spam ;-)

Trying to install link to lan hp 7130 on my new iMac OS X 10.5.2.
Couldn't get to work using connections already loaded in Mac.  Got to
link by entering IP info but only printed garbage.  Downloaded
complete HP install, but install locked up.  I can't get it to stop or

I will be putting Vmware and XP on my new laptop. Is there a way to
completely set windows so it has NO access to the internet?  I would
intentionally uninstall internet explorer or at least make it very
inaccessable by deleting shortcuts.  It would be great if there is an

Anyone here have any experiences with purchasing a PsyStar with
Leopard installed?
Is there anything special about the hardware, BIOS?
Apple does not support 3rd. party hardware as of yet and was wondering

i'm about 37yrs and looking for my life time partner. Prefer chinese girls
between 18-25. Must be able to cook good cantonese food. Faithful partner...
prefer virgins...

The OLPC certainly won't stay alone. All companies are now ready to
offer UMPCs with prices ranging from ~ $400 - $800. How will Apple's
MacBooks fare under the pressure?
ECS:

I need a Firewire card, preferably a Firerwire-USB combo card, that will
fit one of the PCI-X slots of my DP 1.8 GHz Powermac G5 (2004 version).
I have tried two Sonnet Tango cards and neither will properly transmit a
signal to a DV camcorder from iMovie. The rear Firewire port ...