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I'm looking into buying a new Mac Pro so that I can (1) get a Mac desktop, and (2) get rid of/replace my Dell PC, and have something more all-in-one. I've been drooling over the 3GHz model, but I finally got over that today, and the price difference hit me. 2.66GHz is not that far away from...

Depends on what you want to do with it, but it's not complicated at all, compared with AppleScript, in general. There are many tutorials available on the Web, as well as several books. For what you need, Automator sounds like a good solution. Check into it, and see if you like using it.

You can always make a disk image of your home folder, and then copy it to your backup drive. You could even write an Automator workflow, fairly easily, that would create the image, and then move it to a folder on your backup drive. I use a similar workflow to back up a folder (development) on my...

I assume that the OS is compressing the sparse disk image when it asks to do this? Is that correct? I don't use it myself, mainly because I don't completely trust sparse disk images, and I know FileVault creates one for to store the data. I use sparse disk images for backups, but I duplicate...

I am seeing a lot of discussion boards talking about being able to do it with Nero. Just searched for "nero dmg" on Google. Search for that. You will have to read around for the solution. Nothing jumped out at me, and I can't seem to get it to work on my PC.

Not sure what the problem is, but, yes, you can install the drive yourself, if you are a little brave. Go to ifixit.com for a guide. I used one of their guides to upgrade my iBook's hard drive: http://www.mymacblog.com/index.php/archive/my-ibook-gets-a-new-hard-drive/

So, you saw the error, went to the Apple store, could not reproduce it, and now you are seeing it again? Does it happen every time now?

I have Nero 6 and it does not seem to support disk images. You can convert them to ISO images, however, and then they will burn or open Here is a tip: http://www.mymacblog.com/index.php/archive/tip-burn-idvd-projects-to-a-dvd-using-your-windows-pc/ Look at the paragraph that starts "Open Disk...

Have you run the Apple Hardware Test from the installation DVD?

Two tips will help you. You don't want to keep your home folder on the external. Do this instead for itunes. http://www.mymacblog.com/index.php/archive/tip-move-the-itunes-library/ And this for iPhoto. http://www.mymacblog.com/index.php/archive/tip-moving-the-iphoto-library/ Hope that helps.

Completely agree. I do this myself. My iBook has a 100GB drive, but that's not enough for all mu music, so the iTunes library is on the external drive. Also, I used to keep the iPhoto library, and most of my documents on my external drive, before I upgraded the drive in the iBook. This seems...

Found it! Thanks!

I'm testing out Mail.app (I currently use Entourage), and I have it set up to access my Gmail account via POP. It seems that it's only downloading new mail that I have not read before. I would like it to download all the mail in my Gmail inbox. Is this possible? How can I turn it on? Thanks!

Sorry, misread your post from the other day. Regarding the problem...I have no idea, but you are getting the external drive to run as the startup volume? If iTunes came from a clone of an Intel disk, it should be fine. Word will run under Rosetta. The only thing that I can suggest (and others...

Excellent. Thanks, jbarley, so much for the thorough response. It looks like this should be easy...well, OS X will be easy. I've never install Ubuntu on an iBook, though it looks like a ton of others have done so, from what I'm reading. "Ubuntu Mac OS X iBook" yields a lot of results from...

I have a single partition on my iBook running Tiger. I use SuperDuper to back up (clone) the drive once a week, or more. What I want to do is run a backup, re-partition the drive so that there are three partitions, and then restore my existing clone of the original single partition onto the...

You could also create a view, instead of a rule, so that all messages are in the Sent folder, but your other view will show only those in the Sent folder that meet the criteria you set in the view. To create a new view, scroll down through your folder list on the left, and Control-click Mail...

Click the Apple menu in the upper-left corner of your screen. It will be blue, and it looks like an apple. Click "About This Mac" when the menu appears. You will see "Mac OS X", and then, on the next line, "Version 10.4.x". (If you bought your computer this year, you are running 10.4 Tiger. The...

So, you are basically running a Power PC version of the OS (that you cloned from a Power PC Mac) on Intel architecture? If I'm reading that right, I'd say that's your problem. If you clone a Power PC installation, and then run it on an Intel-based Mac, I think you are going to have problems. Can...

Yes, sorry. Should have mentioned that. It's second nature to me, so I never even thought about it. Could be a very bad thing to press Return instead of Spacebar, depending on the situation.