Recent content by stallo

hm... i remember the time me and some friends recorded this stupid song with three different voice tracks and one music track. Which was really ineffective, but then we used an old original iMac 233, and problably a lousy recording application. But still, I would say that a mac is far better...

Hi, ever noticed that qt6 cant play all mpeg-4 movies? especially not when they're compressed with media player for windows. A friend of mine lent me a cd with some futurama and simpsons episodes and quicktime wouldn't play them :( I tried in Virtual PC where they media player could play them...

don't you need like heavy expensive microphones. And a helluvalot RAM if you're recording each instrument seperatly?

Hi, im currently experimenting with creating a macro recorder similar to AppleScript, only that I want it to record the keys pressed on the keyboard. I've managed to manipulate most applications using the PostEvent() function. However, some applications (mainly games) do not respond to these...

yes, i found shadowkiller, but it only got rid of shadows, the menus where still transparent... but thanks anyway:)

Is there any way to disable transperent menus and inactive windows in OS X to make it run faster? I have a lot of Favorites in IE and the menu redraws sluggish

it was the "com.apple.LaunchServices.plist" file that somehow had gotten corupted. Everything was ok after I deleted this file.

yup, everything looked normal. so i tried to go with the manual copy of my documents, etc... and i wanted everything to be right this time so i also copied the preferences folder, and guess what? i reproduced the same error on the new user. guess the problem was caused by a corupt prefs file...

id like to try Toadstools solution first but how do you check the that /var is linked properly to /private/var? if i simply type "/" in to the termainal window, i get an access denied error. if i try "\" it returns merly -> or nothing when i try in single user mode. please explain it...

oops... already tried the perbinding thing, it dosen't look like anything got worse, but when i tried to prebind again, it discovered the exact amount of applications that could need to be updated. Anyway, Disk Utility didn't find any problems and norton utilities 6 is as far as i know, not...

some applications, like exploer and terminal have never been moved or modifyed in any way, they all live where they did after i installed OS X, quake 3 for OS X was downloaded from the internet and put in my games folder, but there were no installer included, so i guess i can put it anywhere...

thanks Jadey. But I'm still having problems. After deleting the LS filesi tried to run internet expolrer. it lasunched as normal, and i thought my problems were over. But when i tried to run quake 3 i got the same textedit launch, and when i tried to open explorer again, it didn't work anymore...

I have only one account, but ill try creating a new one... by the way, i read somewhere that you should type something into the console after installing new applications... i have never done that, is it possoble that that might cause mac os x to not behave itself?

Powermac G3 400 mhz, 448 RAM... And Mac OS X have been working for at least 4 months before i got that promblem... Disk First Aid didn't find anything... Classic apps and most carbon apps run without any problems

I have posted this quuestion at macfixit two times, but noone seems to answer me... Hi, I reguraly use Mac OS 9.2.1 because it suits my needs better that OS X, but when I tried to boot from my OS X harddrive it wouldn't run any mac os x native applications. Whenever I try to run one, TextEdit...