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    Can't open iMovie '08 :(

    I'm on a MBP with leopard 10.5.6 and all the latest software updates. I had been using iMovie now and then with no problems until today. Now when I open iMovie it says 'camera detected' when there is no camera attached (or anything else). It then starts 'generating thumbnails' but crashes...
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    How do I stop screen dimming

    when I cover the sensors at either side of the keyboard. This happens a lot when I am typing at it really bugs me. I think I managed to turn it off before but it has started again and I can't remember what I did. Can anyone help?
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    Messenger takes me to hotmail login screen

    Every time I click on the 'Mail (x)' link in Messenger it takes me the 'incorrect password' hotmail login screen. Obviously this is not a disaster but it is annoying. Does anyone know why this should be happening? As soon as I enter my password at the 'incorrect password' screen I login...
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    How To Change Buttons

    I haven't figured out how to scroll through the button that will be pressed when I hit return on a menu yet. On a PC the TAB button will do this. An example of what I'm talking about: I have a pdf file but it doesn't have a .pdf extension so I select it then hit cmd-i, and change the...
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    Mail.app problem with gmail

    Every now and again I get a message from Mail.app saying asking me to enter my gmail password as the login using the saved password failed. I then enter my password ( the same one that is saved ) and it works. However, I've noticed that some of the emails in my gmail account are not downloaded...
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    MacBook Pro Speaker Issue

    I have noticed that when I plug in external speakers to my (month-old) MB Pro the sound does not necessarily come out of both speakers at once. I may have to adjust the connection to get both speakers to work. I don't feel this is very good on such a new machine as I anticipate having to use...
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    Mail.app doesn't work when I'm at work

    Mail.app will not download my work emails while I am at work, although it works fine when I am at home. The settings are exactly the same as for Thunderbird on my desktop, which works fine. Anyone have any ideas what the problem might be?
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    How do I put a "bar" above a charachter in Pages

    I'm trying to write something in Pages, in which I need to write a character with a bar above it, like the opposite of an underline, as used to denote an average value in maths sometimes. I can't find out how to do this anywhere, does anyone know if there is a way? Latexit is not much help as...
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    Time is incorrect

    I have an annoying problem with the time displayed by my MacBook Pro. I am in London in the UK, but the clock at the top right of my screen displays a time that is one hour too fast, which is apparently what apples clock in Europe thinks is the correct time here. Furthermore, if I uncheck 'Set...
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    email addresses in address book

    When I go to type an email address in Mail it is completed automatically. But these email addresses are not kept in Address Book. What do I need to do so that the email addresses that are known to Mail are automatically stored in Address Book?
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    Watching movies on other computers

    I just got a Macbook Pro, and mostly it is working great. There is one problem though: I have a lot of movies etc. on my desktop that I would like to be able to watch using my new macbook. However, if I try to do this using QuickTime it will work fine for some time but then I always get a...
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