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Problem with Mail Dock Icon

Recently I have had an issue where if I get 1 piece of new mail the Dock Icon tells me that there is 3 instead of one. If I quit and relaunch Mail it will display correclty...any ideas? thanks...

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Deleting Programmes?

I can't find uninstall options on some programmes, like a real old version of netscape i downloaded. in windows there was an add/remove programmes option to unistall stuff. is there any such thing on...

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Sharing installed program between users

There is probably an easy way to do this but I can't seem to figure it out. I have Toast 6 installed on my non admin user. Do I have to re-install it on my admin user to use it there or can I somehow...

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fax software

Is there any free fax software that will allow me to send a fax over the internet? I'm hooked up to the net via my school's network, so it's not like I can dial a land line directly. That is, I don't...

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Odd small problems

There's three things that have been fouling me up lately, and I'm pretty sure they might be related: First of all, instead of opening on the top of my screen, any applications I launch stay behind...

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cd burning

Hi I just got a 12 inch and I am wondering how to burn a data CD. I'm trying to put some music videos, mp3s, and stuff on 1 CD. also... I just got this thing yesterday, why do I only have 18 GBs left?...

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Dock Problems

Hey guys, I'm desperate for help here. For the past two days or so, my Dock has been freezing up, and giving me the beachball if I moved my mouse over it, as well as making the enitre system so slow,...

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Shutdown Bug

Not really a big deal, but I though I'd just point it out. When you click on Apple>Shutdown and then click on Apple>Restart, the two little countdown timers now move twice as fast. ie - your...

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Airport and Battery no longer show, CPU and Ram running at max

I just purchased a new 15" 1.5 Ghz combo drive PB on Friday and all was running relatively smoothly (besides a dead pixel) until a few minutes ago. The PB now indicates that I do not have a battery nor...

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Stupid Question. How Do I Determine...

Framerates for games? Sorry, I'm not sure if this has been posted before, and maybe this should be in the game section , unless their is a program to determine the fps? If there infact is a program to...

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Copmlete list of firmware/startup shortcuts?

Has anyone ever posted a complete listing of and startup keyboard shortcuts for Macs? (ie Apple-S for single user mode, C for CD/DVD boot, etc) I am particularly interested in the one that gets you...

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OSX on BLueberry Imac

i have a g3 333 imac with 128mb memory and standard 6gb hdd (blueberry ) will osx run on this imac as im having troubles gettign software for os9 the machien basically crashes if you run limewire and...

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Safari is making me MAD

Why do I get messages from Safari on seemingly every other link I click in these forums saying "Safari could not load any data from this location"? Refreshing usually works, but I've gotten the same...

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Where did my 10gb go? iBook/10.3.8 HD Problem

Somehow 10+ gb of space on my new G4 ibook's has magically been filled without me knowing. The last time I checked I had, at most, used 17gb of the 27gb of space on the hard drive. I haven't done...

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Mail word wrap

Is there any way to change the how many characters Mail word wraps when sending email? It's default is 72, however when I try to paste a URL thats greater than 72 characters it ends up getting wrapped...

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installation error

guys! I had searched the forum! I am trying to set up printer sharing. HP5510 connected to WindowXP and I want to print from my Pwerbook OSX 10.3.8. I know I have to enable SMBA and others. I d/l EPS...

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Trying to load Panther and now USB Ports don't work

I tried to load Panther on my 10.2.8 operating system. Obviously this was a bad idea and now I need help. I just want to reload my original boot disks back onto the hard drive erasing everything else...

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Help Please, OSX keeps turning blue

Hi, My Mac Mini arrived this morning, 1.42 with 256MB RAM, it’s the first time I’ve ever bought a Mac, OS X does seem very good, however after using it for a while the screen keeps going blank, well...

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iTunes 'party shuffle' prob.

I have set party shuffle to chose 5 recently played songs and 20 upcoming songs, chosen from my library. But for some reason party shuffle shows 953 of my songs covering some of my music selection. i...

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multiple accounts using one library (again)

I appreciate this has been done before but the answers I found from the search don't seem to work in this instance. I'm trying to get multiple accounts to share the same itunes (and eventually iphoto)...

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Expose help!

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to modify expose so that it displays the "names" of all the windows automatically. When you move the cursor over one of the windows it darkens and displays...

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Virtual PC 6.XX and MIDI

Hi, I just got Virtual PC 6.0 w/Win98SE and installed it last night on my mini (1.42 / 40GB / 512MB) as a test for some of my wife's old Win95 games. All went smoothly, and it seemed to be working...

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Burned DVD on Windows- doesn't appear in powerbook

sorry for all the posts, I am a total newb. I have all my pics on my PC. I backed them all up on dvd using Roxio easy cd creator. When I put the dvd in my powerbook it doesn't show anything. Any ideas?...

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Power Mac G4 Freezing w/10.3.8

Ever since i updated to 10.3.8 i have had my computer freeze on me while im away. It seems to be if i leave applications running like iChat or Safari, but im not for sure about that. Before 10.3.8 i...

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10.3.8 update slowing down my computer

Has anyone else had a problem with the 10.3.8 update slowing down there computer? When i open up apps for the first time since login it is very slow. Any ideas?

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Avoid .DS_store creation

The system administrator has configured the samba server to not allow creating files called .DS_store. The problem is that all file copying through finder fails if it can't create .DS_store files. A...

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iphoto & Photoshop CS

not sure if this is the correct place to post this but here it goes, I have just started to use iphoto and really like how I can import and organize etc... my problem is when I want to then go edit in...

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Best animation resolution for burning DVD ?

Hi I'm finishing an animation which I need to burn to DVD for a client. Flash gives me the option of saving quicktime files with different resolutions. I'm thinking 800 x 600 but it appeared really...

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Firewire HD Wont Mount In 10.3.8

Hi All, I have an external Lacie D2 Extreme 160GB hard drive (firewire 400) that worked fine under OSX 10.3.7, I have now updated to 10.3.8 and the external Lacie HD will not mount on the desktop, I...

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upgrading to Mac OS X NEWBIE

i am a windows/linux user i just got a iMac from my friend and i have never used one before the computer had mac 9.2.2 but i whiped the hard drive and put yellow dog linux on it witch was "ok" but i...

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Free avi to mpeg converter?

I'm looking for a program to convert avi files to mpeg. The videos are very choppy when tr ying to view on the computer. I want to convert, and then burn them, so I can watch them. Versiontracker...

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Swap mouse buttons?

I must be totally blind, or there is no way to swap the left and right mouse button in Mac OS X. Please tell me that I'm blind. I've searched google and the apple support forums, too, but I can't find...

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Choosing different background color?

Hello All, I'm pretty new to the Mac and was wondering how to change my background color to a solid color other than the few that are available by default. In Windows, in the absence of a desktop...

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Help! slow login is driving me crazy!

For some reason, my computer has been logging in very slowly lately and I really would like to stop it from taking so long. So here's the situation: I'm on 10.3.7 and i'm having this problem with the...

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I cannot place desktop items where i want to - why!?

i want to put desktop items into the far left column but can't. every time i move one there, it moves itself back over to a differnet position. why is this as it is realy anoying! i like to postion...

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Unable to open printer utilities

I am trying to clean the heads on my Epson Stylus C70 plus and when I go to Applications>Utilities>Printer utility and choose the printer the option for utilities is faint and unclickable. I have...

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Application Folder Locked

For some reason my application folder is a Read Only and it's locked, and I can't select unlocking it. Yes, I am the admin of my computer so I don't know whats going on.

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Printing to WIndowz Printers Under Panther

I am trying to print to many different Windowz printers via our network does Dave make it easier then trying to track down the OSX Drivers? Thanks J

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Fast User Switching Doesn't Animate?

Hi Everyone, Just installed panther and enabled the fast user switching and it doesn't animate between users? This sucks Please help Trying to show off panther 2 the windowz users here! Thanks Jason

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Macintosh Hacker Attacks Are on the Rise -Symantec

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hacker attacks on Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh OS X operating system, thought by many who use the Mac to be virtually immune to attack, are on the rise, according to a...

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Saft Demo

Anyone know how to remove Saft 7.5.5 Demo from Safari? Thanks

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Java 1.3.1 Plugin Settings Help

Someone please help. I think I made a really stupid mistake. In the Applications/ Utilities / Java folder, there is a file(application) called "Java 1.3.1 Plugin Settings", there is also a "Java 1.4.2...

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Home Folder on Seperate Partition

ok so i have a 160 gig fw drive that i boot from i have one partition set to 50 gigs the other partition is the remaining space which is about 102 gigs i want my home folder on the larger partition,...

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social research software?

i was wondering if anyone knew of good social research software for the mac. i dont really need any data analysis stuff, since we do most of that on windows boxes, but if someone could suggest a piece...

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Software Update

OK I have had an odd problem on both my G5 and iBook. When trying to download an update through Software Update, it downloads just fine and then says there is an error in expanding the file and that I...

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upgrading to Panther from jaguar

me computer is QS733 with OS 10.2.8 so me thinking of upgrading to Panther. will it works if me use the original installation DVDs that came from me friend's G5?

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Have g5 os x 10.3 Need os x 10.4 to install needed printer drivers.

So I have no idea how to upgrade to 10.4 I see I can buy the install disks on eBay for 10.4 but I have no idea of the implications of upgrading to this? Will programs that run on 10.3 run on 10.4 ? Or...

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macOS X newspaper icon?

I saw this picture of macOS x in the dock it has an icon of a newspaper and I was wondering what app does it belong to?

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Mac OS X shortcut question...

I've been trying to do use several shortcuts with the "fat" arrowkeys but I don't have a "fat" arrowkey on my keyboard. Does it mean something else or am I just slow?

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Playing with Panther in 2020

I recently used my 15 inch PowerBook G4 (2005) running Leopard to watch 'A Christmas Story'. After putting it away, I decided to pull out my 2003, 15 inch PowerBook G4 running 10.3.8 to just poke...

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