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These are my options for hooking up a TV to my MBP (I want to live
stream some video during a party):
  USB In
  HDMI

Latest MB Pro 17, Core i7, 8GB RAM. The Boot Camp/Win 7 Pro (retail
package) 64-bit install seemed to work properly. The Boot Camp Drivers
downloaded and installed properly. Win 7 activated normally. Ran it for
about an hour with no problems. Then it crashed. Now it will run only a

Dear friends:
Is there a list of all the different alternatives at boot time, when
booting Snow Leopard? Yesterday, I pressed inadvertently the Shift key
when booting, and a thermometer indicator appeared and took half a

OSX 10.5.8, been happening for a couple years. No, zero machines with
the same name are on my network. Yup - I've double and triple and
quadruple checked this. In Network settings->WINS it always says "NAME
is currently in use" no matter what I change it to. I change it to...

Several of my recent posts seem to have been ignored. Is it (1) my
imagination, (2) a technical problem (posts not showing up), or (3) my lack
of charm?

I seem to have MT-NewsWatcher working rather well at this time. How do I
create a new account if I want to use another username (email address)?
Bill

MB Pro 17, Windows XP Pro SP3 installed on a Bootcamp partition, with
Parallels also installed. The machine was out for service at an Apple
Depot. Came back seemingly in good order.
Windows will load and run just fine under Parallels, but when I attempt

I tried the Mobileme trial and have abandoned it.
The iDisk icon remains on the dektop. I cannot get rid of it.
I can turn off "external disks" in finder prefs but that turns all disks off.
Any ideas as to how to get rid of this annoying mobileme disk icon much

I have the Elgato Video Capture device which I am using to transfer VHS
tapes to my Mac so that I can make DVDs from them. Works pretty well,
but the DVDs have only a single, two-hour-long, chapter in them.
I am running Video Capture -> iMovie -> iDvd (iLife 08).

I downloaded "Patent Absurdity" (High Quality) from here:
http://patentabsurdity.com/download.html
It is an ogv file and wasn't recognised so I installed the Perian
QuickTime component in my account:

Sometimes Finder fails to start when I log in.  A couple of other apps
also fail to start but Finder is the big problem.  A restart usually
solves the problem, but not always.  Sometimes I get the circle with a
slash through it.  Then I have to restart from shutdown.

"unable to complete backup.  An error occurred while creating the
backup directory."
This 300GB disk has been working fine for several months.  Only 150GB
on it.  And now I'm getting this announcement !

What I would like is to be able to set the exact time at which the
hourly Time Machine backups take place. For example, 1:00, 2:00,
3:00.....
The reason for this is that there is a conflict between SuperDuper! and

Does installing Rosetta degrade the performance of the computer as a
whole, or affect the performance of other apps (including 64-bit
image-processing apps)?
TIA!

Running SL 10.6.3 on a 21.5" iMac.
When my Time Machine USB drive (Samsung S2 640 GB) is attached either
directly to the computer or to a powered hub, the computer hangs at the
white screen (no Apple logo) and won't cold boot until I unplug the