Recent content by blue&whiteman

You're right! My mistake. I was only thinking of the G5 iMacs which are extremely easy to open. I still say the white Intel are easier to open vs the aluminum. I wasn't trying to throw experience around at all. I have more pride in my beloved G4 towers than I ever will in myself. :)

It was your idea in the first place but it is a good one IMO. I guess you could get through an install with half a screen but maybe not a novice. I know from experience (I'm an ACMT) that the white G5 and early Intel iMacs are much easier to get into than the newer aluminum/glass iMacs. A...

Regardless of that the internal is almost dead. Better to just cut the connection to it to save the heat and power. For things like installing the OS just access the iMac drive in Target Disk mode from another Mac and install that way.

+1 on opening it up just to disconnect the internal screen. It will both lower heat inside the iMac and put less strain on the power supply. The 17" LCD would use approx. 50-65 watts.

Since it's obviously not the GPU if the external screen works perfectly I would simply treat your iMac like a tower for the rest of it's life. You could even put the iMac on the floor or to the side now since you only need access to the optical drive and connections.

Preview is great at basic stuff like this and few even know it can do more than just view images and pdf. If you ever want a lot more editing capability but without shelling out hundreds for photoshop give Pixelmator a try. Normally costs about 40-50. iPhoto is good for organizing photos but...

Your best option to edit video you cannot in iMovie is to use Quicktime Pro combined with perian. You will only be able to do basic edits but it's very user friendly. Your best converting option is Handbrake. It has many Apple-centric presets. QT Pro does ripping also but Handbrake is much...

ElDiabloConCaca's kung fu is very good.

Since 10.5 and 10.6 are so close you should have little to no issues with your plan. Once running your apps on 10.6 check for updates on everything you use but even your PowerPC apps will run fine. I would say that 10.5 - 10.6 was about the easiest OS transition Apple ever had even though...

Never bothered using Chrome since I still mostly compute with PowerPC. I'm a bit of a Camino loyalist with a dash of Omniweb. I have a C2D mini on my TV that I do a bit of browsing on now and then but still use Camino and Omni. I love gmail and google earth but other than that I have no...

Most Mac apps include a preference to turn auto updates off. I personally prefer to manually check on all apps (and only if I feel an update will help) for updates.

On some rare occasions I have seen Mail and Keychain Access have issues with outgoing mail and getting the password to it. The symptom on these occasions was either asking for a password it already had or just not sending and going to an error rather than asking for the pass. As midijeep...

This may sound like a dumb question but have you tried a reboot? What OS by the way? Lion?

Best way to resize the dock is just click and hold on the divider between the apps and folders/trash area and drag toward the bottom of the dock to make it smaller. If that doesn't work then my guess is some sketchy 3rd party code messed it up somehow. If so you need to restart the dock by...

I have read that the tiger gold master ui is about 50% faster than panther in some ways. maybe this is why there is no QE. not needed maybe..