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    battery, maybe virus ? (+ UPDATE)

    well it says "your energy settings are optimied for high performance current battery charge is 99% current time remaining is 3:09." although that is not true. if i close the lid it will go dead in less than an hour, if i keep using it the battery meter will trickle down normally, but in about...
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    setting up AOL mail with iMail

    what are the steps for setting up an online AOL mail account with the mail system on macs (not sure if its called iMail, but its the system on the newer macs) I have my Bellsouth mail account set up and working great with it, I love it. But I dont know what type of mail/the server address it...
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    battery, maybe virus ? (+ UPDATE)

    okay my fault, that was happening becasue i didnt get the battery back in all the way! feel kinda stupid! okay a lot stupid! but....i am still having all those other problems, and have been for a few weeks, so its not just stupidity. sorry for that, but PLEASE HELP!
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    battery, maybe virus ? (+ UPDATE)

    okay so earlier i posted and ask a question about why my computer Mac Book Pro Intel core duo, always runs when its on and closed, but seems okay when open. And the last letter of the alphabet quit working the same time this happened, A thru Y work fine though. Its not dirt or anything, just...
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    battery, maybe virus ? (+ UPDATE)

    thanks for the try, but neither one of those idea's worked. i forgot to mention, the same time all this went wrong, the last letter of the alphabet stopped working as well. A thru Y work as well as ever, but the letter after Y is non exsistent. it feels the same, ive blown it out etc., doesnt...
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    bluetooth

    I have a bluetooth cell phone, and have found my model on my computer, but havent exactly made them link up yet. Im not the most computer literate guy in the world, but I cant seem to get them to link up, at least not that I can tell. Any tips? Secondly, what is the benifit of getting these 2...
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    locking up

    my iPod locked up the other day, and it's only 3 weeks old. My buddy who works at circut city says they all do that, and quite frequently! his tip was to let the battery go dead then re-charge it, and it works. It did go back to working, but its going to be a bit frustrating if that happens a...
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    battery, maybe virus ? (+ UPDATE)

    My Mac is acting up latley, I'm new to them so I have no idea how to fix it. It's a MacBook Pro, 2.16 Intel Core Duo, with 2GB of memory. Here's what it's doing. When it's on, but closed, it makes a noise like it's working the whole time. It doesnt do that when open. There isnt anything...
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    Please Help With Quicktime ?

    thank you soooo much! id never heard of firefox, but i downloaded it, worked like a charm. dont know what the deal with safari is.
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    Please Help With Quicktime ?

    So I have been trying to get this concert to play all day! All my friends with PC's can play it, but it requires Apple Quicktime! So they are using Quicktime on a PC, it prompts them to install a ActiveX something, and then plays away! When I click to watch it, the message I get is "NOT Found...
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    need help finding a printer

    heres my problem: i have a macbook pro. first mac ive ever owned. my old pc's always had the printers that plugged up with the female/male things, and the 2 screws. the macbook just uses a USB port type thing. well, a friend gave me a dell a70 printer that plugs up using that (he got it...
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    editing in iphoto

    agian, im kind of new to this, but how do you go about changing the size of the pictures in iphoto? i dont know if it matters but its a new computer using mac os x 10.4.8, and has a 2.16 ghz intel processor and 2gb of memory....i know someone said they needed to know that one time when i had a...
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    right clicking on a mac!

    not to sound like an idiot, but could you explain what you mean by "control click" sorry....im really new, less than a month! thanks for your help and patience.
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    right clicking on a mac!

    i have a mac powerbook pro....anyway i want to download these mp3.'s from the internet and save them in itunes. on a windows i would right click and "save target as." how can i do that on my mac and get them into my itunes library?
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    .exe files

    okay thank you SO much! the gimp-print website held my hand and I saw where I needed to be!......a problem still looms though....."Dell" isnt on the list of printers you must select from. My mac recognizes the computer via the USB plug-in, but since cant select my "dell from the "add printer"...
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