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As everyone else has said, if you've forgotten your Keychain password, you've got to reset your main keychain-which would involve losing all your other passwords in that keychain. You'll have to re-enter those passwords. I had the same problem (forgot my Keychain password) and looked high and...

If it's small quick-and-dirty apps you're looking for, you might also want to try Applescript or Automator (you even use both together!). Even though they are both scripting languages, with Applescript Studio and I believe the Automater editor as well, you can build complete applications with...

I use an external Firewire drive with Retrospect Desktop. I don't use it to clone my primary drive but to make full and incremental backups of that drive. Works well for me. Another option, if you have a CD or DVD-RW drive, is burning your most important files to a writeable CD or DVD. Like...

He means the VNC ports on your home router. If you connect to a DSL/Cable router then to the DSL modem, you will need to open up the right ports on your home router for VNC access (usually ports 5900-5909 or so). Also, you install OSXvnc on your Mac at home, this is the the server application...

I'm asking because I'm going to be designing a new website for a webcomic I'm presently developing. Javascript will mainly be for cosmetic effects like mouseovers and such, but I may also use them for form verification (for email contact forms, etc. After my experiences with spam, no way I'm...

A while ago when I installed Tiger on my G5, I decided to be clever and change my Keychain account password to something other than my account password. The problem is, I turned out to be too clever for my own good. I don't use Keychain that much, so when I did need to access it, I had...

Trying to add it as a network volume didn't work, it insists on me adding at as a new Network Place (web folder). Any other ideas?

I've set up webdav on my personal Linux server. For those not familiar with it, it enables you to have iDisk-like access to the machine where webdav is set up. It works like a charm on my G5 running Tiger at home-I just go "Connect to Server", put in the url for my server, type in username...

Fantastic Four just came out in movie theatres about a month ago. It won't see DVD for several more months. It is a good movie though, I recommend it.

Nice!!! Did you get that off the Nasa site?

My desktop with Dashboard Widgets showing.

My desktop. The background I got from http://www.macdesktops.com . I'll post again when I change by desktop background or do a major rearranging of the icons.

It's far more likely that some "script kiddie" using an automated hacking tool will crack into your mac using some unpatched vulnerability in the OS or due to the your being lax in securing your system. Turn on the firewall, learn how to use it, and be sure to download any and all security...

The no-boot from firewire is a problem specific to Blue and White G3 powermacs.