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Our home network is a mix of a PC and several Macs. The recent iTunes 10 update (all the machines are now running it) has caused a strange problem with accessing the PC's shared music library from any of the Macs. When iTunes is first started on the PC, its shared library appears on the Macs'...

I'm running a MacBook Pro, OS X 10.6.2. The Finder will no longer display preview images when I click on individual items. This applies to image files, applications, aliases...everything. Strangely, the tiny image icons in the column view do still appear--but when I click on an individual...

My MacBook Pro (running OS X 10.6.2) suddenly does not respond when the "Enter" key on my external Apple keyboard is pressed. All the other keys work fine. I'm using the Apple low-profile keyboard with numeric keypad--here's a link to it at the Apple Store. The problem doesn't appear to be...

I have a 1st generation iPod Touch running software version 2.2.1. I want to buy the new 3.0 software via iTunes. When I connect the iPod Touch to my MacBook Pro (which is running OSX 10.6 and iTunes 8.2.1) and click on the device name in iTunes, I'm given option of updating to version 3.0. But...

I use Mail (2.1.3) on a PowerPC G4 Powerbook running OS 10.4.11. My version of Apple's Mail app has a section in Mail-->Preferences that lets me set the font and font size (individually) for the mailbox list, the message list, and individual messages themselves. My dad is running the same...

The iPod Touch has an annoying and well-documented bug of changing its clock by 5 or 6 hours whenever it's synced. I had hoped that the latest software update (v.1.1.5, which I installed today) would repair this problem, but no such luck. Has Apple repaired this in v.2.0.2, and is forcing us...

Ever since last month, every time I connect my iPod Touch to my Powerbook for syncing, iTunes forces me to say "no thanks" to the January software upgrade. This is annoying enough in itself, but now I can't even get the sales pitch to disappear by dismissing it. Both dismissal choices on the...

I have a Powerbook G4 (1.67GHz, 1GB RAM, OS 10.4.10) with a 23" Apple Cinema Display attached. I've been putting the Powerbook to sleep at night, then finding in the morning that the external display will not wake up. This is especially annoying because I have the display (not the Powerbook...

I've been encountering more and more hotels that provide wireless internet connections, but charge a daily rate for the service. When my wife and I are sharing a room, it seems really unreasonable to have to pay for two connections. Can I use Airport Express to be the MAC address that...

My Date & Time system preference is continually resetting its time zone to GMT. I can change it back to my time zone (PST), but my menu bar clock continues to show GMT. Each time I close and then re-open the Date & Time system preference, it has reset itself to GMT. I'm on an iBook G3, OS...

I just had a new 160GB internal drive installed in my G3 iBook. It's blank but formatted (Mac OS Extended Journaled), and reports a capacity of only 127GB (127.81, to be exact). Is this normal? Is this an issue that's specific to the iBook? Or did the store install a smaller drive than they...

I'm going to buy an Epson R380 inkjet printer, and I want to be able to print on it from both my Powerbook and my wife's PC (running Windows XP). I also want to place the printer across the room from both computers, and we have an Airport network up and running, so a wireless print server seems...

I need a great Mac application for layout of text and graphics/photos. Freehand used to be my favorite for this, but I haven't used it for some time. Is it still the one? MS Word for Mac is ridiculously limited in this area. Great flexibility and pro-level handling of text and graphics are a...

I'm staying in a hotel. When I connect my Powerbook directly to the room's Ethernet jack, my computer is able to find the hotel's internet connection with no problem. However, when I connect my Airport Express to that same Ethernet jack, the Airport Express shows only a blinking yellow light...

Is it safe to connect/disconnect my 23" Apple Cinema display while my G4 Powerbook is running? I've been shutting down every time, but that's a pain. If hot-plugging while powered up is bad, does putting the Powerbook to sleep make any difference?

I'm running OS 10.4.6 and Mail 2.0.7. In previous versions of Mail, the "new mail" sound was disabled for messages that the app automatically detected as Junk and sent to the Junk mailbox. In other words, when the app checked for new e-mail, and collected only Junk, it wouldn't bother you...

My middle-aged Power Mac G4 (500 Mhz AGP Graphics) has an ATI Rage 128 Pro graphics card, which has the unfortunate (and documented) problem of sometimes rendering DVD Studio Pro menu titles upside-down and backward. The only workaround is to turn off hardware-based final rendering, which...

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I'm shopping for an inkjet printer that can print onto DVDs. The Epson Stylus R320 has that capability, and I've had pretty good luck with Epsons in the past. Has anyone tried this printer, or had good/bad luck with others in printing to DVDs?

iDVD gives me access to all the fonts that I have installed on my computer, and a few others as well ("Cracked" and "Wanted" for example). These additional fonts don't turn up in a search of my hard drive. Are they just embedded in iDVD itself?