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There are several reaons why Macs are not subject to virus attack. Among them are: Macs are a smaller target than Wintel machines OS X is based on the open source BSD Unix which, like most Unix variants, was developed as a secure multiuser operating system from scratch and has been hammered...

Check Flip4Mac plugin for Quicktime. It enables QT to handle many WMP files. Unfortunately Microsoft is addicted to inventing and propogating proprietary formats and not releasing codecs compatible with Macs. That way they can get addicted WMP fans to buy a PC and Windows instead of a Mac.

It is widely used on corporate and even government servers. Like most open source software it has been beat on and patched by experts until it is pretty well bullet proof. If you are looking for a fancy GUI and lots of relatively meaningless reports the built in ipfw is not what you are...

Boot holding down the Option key and you will be presented with a list of the bootable partitions on the HD including TechTool Pro's eDrive. Select the eDrive and click on the right pointing arrow and you are in business. By-the-way be sure your version of TechTool Pro is up to date. The...

As long as the same account has been setup on computer 2. In other words an account with the short name must be created on both machines. You can logon to a strange machine as a Guest, but guests have very limited privileges, mainly accessing the Shared folder or the Public folder in a user account

The easiest and safest way to change the short name on an account is to create a second account with administrative privileges, logon to the new account and delete the old account. Alternatively, follow the 40 step process outlined in Apple Knowledge Base article 106824 very very carefully.

I don't blame you for getting frustrated, your situation would frustrate anyone. How much RAM do you have in your computer and what version of OS X are you running. WhatSize takes very little memory to run so not being able to load WhatSize is a very bad sign to start with. If you do not...

I suspect that is subject to the same 8 copy limit of anything downloaded from the iTunes store.

The freeware utility WhatSize will show all the visible and invisible files and directories on your system ranked by size. I have often found it useful in tracking down missing disk space.

But a mistake in using these codes can immediately render your DVD player into an otherwise useless paperweight so be advised of the potential risk you are taking.

The "sweet-spot" for getting the lowest cost per GigaByte here in the states is currently around 250 to 300 GB. The cost effectiveness of an 80 GB drive is highly suspect unless you are looking for a new internal drive for a laptop.

The message is absolutely correct, your R 200 Photo is most definitely not a postscript printer. Unless you are working with an EPS image or file I am not sure why Elements would even give that warning. In any case, that does not mean you should expect bad color rendition. I use Elements with an...

Carbon Copy Cloner isn't necessarily any better than SuperDuper, just different. I find SuperDuper easier to use and it offers more cloning options that CCC, but that is strictly a matter of personal opinion. In either case a clone is superior to a drag and drop copy because the clone is...

While there have been some poorly written Dashboard widgets that eat system resources, they are in the vast minority. Dashboard and the widgets generally use little or no CPU time unless they are active and most only use memory in the KiloByte range. I have found Dashboard quite useful, but...

It is a security thing. OS X lies about the number of characters in a password to make it harder to guess.

The first time I saw that I panicked, but eventually gave up and burned the CD anyway. To my surprise and great pleasure the actual folder and all of its contents were on the burned CD.

Your .GlobalPreferences.plist may be the problem. Like any preference file you can delete it and the system will replace it automatically. You will have to reset your preferences of course, but that is the standard "fix" when a plist change won't stick.

Any OS with modern virtual memory management is almost by definition hampered by a RAM Disk rather then help by it. Virtual memory management in the classic Mac OS was, to be charitable, primitive. In OS X virtual memory is a fact of life and very sophisticated. Take a look at this page on...

Take a look at Pages which is part of Apple's iWork $80 application package. A less expensive alternative is Swift Publisher at $40. A step up from Pages is Stone Studio at $300 for the whole package, but you can buy specific components of Stone Studio individually.

Assuming you are using Panther or Tiger, you didn't say, open Apple's Mail program then on the menu bar select Mail > Preferences > General. Where you see Default Email Reader click on the drop down and choose Other then navigate to the copy of Entourage you want to use as the default and select...