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Or from an article over at MacOSXHints; see the post "Easier method to set TextEdit page margins (no code changes)" Gabs

D'oh - first things first (nice one nixgeek) - Is Airport actually on and at the top of your Network Port Configurations list? Is Airport set to automatically join networks - via DHCP? (It is very likely that the network in question is run using a DHCP server) Do you want to set up a new...

Recent aluminium PowerBooks have fairly poor reception - all that lovely aluminium - even after a design revision which added little plastic tabs to the lid. My newish 12"PB gets about only half the signal of my old clamshell iBook... Adjusting your screen angle and orientation can help...

OS X is much better at file sharing than OS 9 It does work differently and permissions can be more a a pain than a help - particularly in a workgroup environment - but being UNIX under everything you can tinker away and sort things out. It wouldn't hurt to set up a new user on your...

Mmm - that's just how an OS 9 box reads long filenames when connected to an OS X share (to reiterate Captain Code). Do you have AppleTalk active for anything? Perhaps you could try killing it... I'd like that very much. Gabs

If you log in as an admin user (at least when on an OS X Server 10.2 box) it remembers your choice - otherwise not. At least on the one I set up! It also gives [me] spurious ¨You have insterted a disk with no volumes that Mac OS can read¨ [roughly quoting] errors for the non-admin account. Which...

Hi Dusky That disclaimer is relevant for iBooks (nobody had mentioned iBooks) and some older PowerBooks. Like I said [I hate saying that] you'll need a PowerBook that is built to be able to run like this. Fair dinkum for pointing out why. There is information on Apple's website about how...

The F1 key or fn-F1 key combination shuts down the backlight on my 12" PBook when reduced to its minimum level... you just need to remember what you've done to avoid my-computer-won't-wake-up syndrome! Another option would be to try out SleepLess so you could turn off the screen by just...

I don´t know much here but I do reckon you can do this with AppleScript - and that you can call AppleScript from a shell with osascript

It´s possible with a stock installation - but not quite as straight forward. You must activate Full keyboard access and use the cursor and tab keys to get around. -> System prefs -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> check Turn on full keyboard access -> check the boxes for Focus on...

Permissions that allow a user to write to a directory allow them to add, rename and delete. You could look at setting up a cron task that would recursively change the ownership/permission on everything within that folder. As far as I know the minimum period for cron is one minute... the code...

It's simple (on the Mac side) you need to configure your router to forward ssh traffic (default 22) to your PowerBook (a static IP within your home network may help). The PowerBook just needs to have Remote Login activated in the Services section of the Sharing pane of your System Preferences...

How's Fetch these days? I used to love it but gave up on it 2 years ago when it fell over a lot on Mac OS X 10.2.something...

There's a few. www.versiontracker.com has a 5 star rating for RBrowserLite. I can recommend Interachy (but it's shareware) and the Terminal (but that's unix). Gabs

Hi Martin Buried in Adobe's Photoshop Elements web pages: And here's a recent article about GPS and (digital) photography at MacDevCenter Hope this helps, Gabs

Sounds odd. Couple of questions... Do you have plenty of hard drive space (I reckon on a generous 40% free - but not less than 15%)? Have you installed any software recently? What does the /Applications/Utilities/Process Viewer (or whatever it was called in 10.2 - I forget - it's now Activity...

Stick an airport card in the G4 and it'll act as a base station - but only when its on; otherwise no internet access from the laptop (and it'll cost more than $35). Pretty much any wireless enabled router that you can administer via http will do the job but go with a recommendation/review...

This image looks like a nice clean example for the Hue/Saturation adjustment as mentioned by mdnky. I'd Call up the dialogue (Apple-U in PS 7) select "Yellows" (Apple-2) from the Edit pop-up menu and adjust the various sliders. There's only three sliders to try out but try but you might be...

Ain't /usr/local/bin/ the place to be installing your own stuff?

It's about twice the speed of 100BaseT - but substantially slower than Gigabit Ethernet (or so I've read). I use it for big file transfers between my Gigabit G4 and my new-ish 12" PowerBook (100BaseT). As these Macs are normally networked to a wireless enabled router via Ethernet and...