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Installed Virtualbox on my Mac but was dismayed by the max screen res of only 800x600. You would be too. I am hoping that a macosx-er has done this and can explain what to do because after Googling and looking into the virtualbox.app finding VBoxGuestAdditions-x86.run, I am still stumped...

The Computer Browser service is running at the moment but quite possibly wasn't in April when I posted. Your kind reply got me to test it again instead of just assuming it was heel-dragging as before. It isn't (Hooray!). There is the possibility that the Browser service shifts on to...

I thought this would be a pretty-much instantaneous affair, but I can add to/change a file while working on my connected Windows box but it can take around 10-30 minutes for it to appear in my networked Mac's Finder. Is this driven by Windows or by the Mac and what can I do to speed it up? I...

The REAL problem is getting Picasa to launch in response to the connection of my camera, as iPhoto does at present. The above two utilities can't, it seems, for the stated reason.

No, I'm using version 2.7 which is probably still the latest. I had a look re your error - and I bet you've hunted far more than I - and can't see a simple reason why you should get it and not me. Darwine looks after the obvious problems e.g. having the right MS base fonts (mine are in...

I am fully aware of what wine and darwine are supposed to do. My concern was whether OSX would respond to the 'foreign' apps behind the wine-interface in the same way as it did to OSX apps. It was not doing so for me, hence my OP. I t is now seeming to do so, why now and not before I...

With Picasa2 now running on my Darwine-supported Mac, I need to know how coax OSX to open Picasa2, rather than iPhoto, when I connect my digital camera to it. I have tried RCDefaultApps (not Image Capture as I wrongly said before) but it - like all dratted Finder-driven utilities - can't seem...

A bit late in the day, but this might help: Picasa2 does run under OSX provided you install Darwine first. I have it running so and prefer it to iPhoto as it doesn't take up disk space with copies of pics - in another, proprietary, format - that I have already. Its UI is pure Windows, alas...

Many thanks MisterMe for your help. I didn't d'l QT Pro (of course; I couldn't) but got a Windows prog from DVDVideoSoft.com, 'Free flip and rotate', which did my little job up to my requirements.

Thanks. I'm downloading it now...

I couldn't find a more appropriate forum, alas. I want to convert a video such that the action is mirrored left to right. This is to aid movement study. Is this possible with home kit and cheap software? iMovie doesn't seem able to do this.

Of course, that's how I know that I have a problem of sorts. Do you know how to make a double-click on a Windows .exe file cause it to be (or attempt to be) launched by Darwine or Winehelper or similar?

Although I have fiddled with 'Get Info' and RCDefaultApp I can't find a way to make Windows .EXE files default to launch on double-clicking. (They currently default to Unarchiver.app :-( ) I know that I can make aliases to each .exe I want to open but would rather have any I install default...

Should this ever be anyone else's query, the answer is (as I suspected it was, of course) that, as a rule, it should work OK. My new 'O2 blue' (£5 on eBay) works fine with my Bluetooth-enabled Mac mini. That's that, then.

Many thanks for your contribution, michelsanford. In the intervening days I've committed to a Jabra (?) el cheapo which Xbox users use, it seems. We'll see how it goes.

I have been toying with the idea of getting a bluetooth headset and a bluetooth (or something) wireless 'board and mouse. Maybe speakers, dunno yet. As I Google and search this forum I see many posts with worrying problems re using this technology, especially many instances of it. I am...

All has run well with my new Mac mini until the last two days when I started messing with the network ing. I first lost all contact with the windoze boxes but solved that by spotting that I had set the firewall to 'Allow only essential services'. A change and it all came back! Next...

Is the offer to rank a thread only for the poster and does it apply to the thread or to a reply received? I wanted to rank a reply I received tonight highly but wondered if I was inadvertently puffing the relevance of my query to the wider world rather than praising the clarity of the answer...

Simbalala, thanks for your clear explanation! That was what I was groping towards and it worked. I am surprised that apple don't seem to have a 'this is how to do common things' tutorial that embraced the common practice of uploading and installing apps. your 3 sentences could have saved me...

Thank you both for your replies. 'Under the hood'? Not me any more, honest! I'll be admiring the body-work and kicking my Mac's tyres from now on ;-) I will accordingly put off running the 'repair disk' routine until I understand this all a bit more. Having now performed two other...