Search results

Hi all can anyone out there tell me whats happening to all my text files when i open text edit. all the content seems to be contaminated by weird characters: {\rtf1\mac\ansicpg10000\cocoartf824\cocoasubrtf100 {\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset77 Helvetica-Bold;\f1\fswiss\fcharset77...

Hi all Im in the market for a lcd monitor as i think my beloved diamond pro 920 is displaying my icc profiles (sRGB) incorrectly i have been made aware of the importance of constrast ratios as i am doing print/screen based design and image work. so my simple question to you all is -...

Hi all My question to you all is whats the best setup to view (approxiately) what my website would look like on windows platform. Before you answer the obvious responces, I must state that my monitor is setup at 9300k at a gamma of 2.2 - which i believe SHOULD view like a pc. I have...

Hi all Got a mitsbishi diamond pro 920 CRT monitor and i mainly do screen based design/image based work and some print based work. I wanted to know what temperture i should have it set on. I know that the rule of thumb says approx 5000°kelvin to kind of replicate paper white - but it looks...

hi all i have a mitsubishi diamond pro 920 CRT monitor. problem with it is that the colours (primarily in the top left/left side) of screen has colours "bleeding" around the elements - mainly text. its really bad around the apple/finder/file and edit area in the menu bar and tapers as...

I have a PowerMac G4 running Mac OS 10.3.9. and im not a local network at home with my partners Mac (same setup etc). I recently downloaded and installed a program called "Little Snitch" just to check it out. Their website is http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/ This program alerts...

Hi all Im in the process of calibrating my monitor using SuperCal as i dont have access to a hardware calibrator for now. Although im on a mac, my ultimate goal is to get as near as i can to creating a windows set up (2.2 gamma etc) for when im doing web/Rom work. I have been using the...

Hi all im sorry for the ignorance in this question but... are PC133 SDRAM (168pin) used in macs AND window machines? the reason i ask (apart from not knowing) is that my partner is after some CHEAP 512mb ram to put in her 800mhz quicksilver mac. we've looked on ebay and have seen...

are there any know problems with playing mp3's from the lacie d2 (600gb) bigdisk extreme drives. my partner (using OSX 10.3.9/Quicksilver 800mhz/1GBram) complains of the dreaded spinning beachball when playing from the lacie AND doing other things ranging from doing her work using Photoshop...

hi all i have never used applescript and dont know if this is possible; but.... is there a way/routine to close an app (in this case ChronoSync) before putting the computer to sleep - as i have it set to "sync/backup" data before quiting the program. i tend to leave my machine to sleep...

Hi all just a couple of questions for you experts. 1: i have a lacie d2 bigdisk extreme triple interface external drive and wanted to know if its good to use as a start up drive to use things like Diskwarror and techtools. this one is just curiousity/education..... 2: i also have a...

Hi all Im running OSX 10.3.9 on a G4 800mhz quicksilver machine and im using a 600gb D2 Big disk extreme firewire drive. I have made 5 partitions with one being used as a Scratch disk for Photoshop and the like, One being used to house my photos, from which they are being catalogued using...

Hi all. this is my first time here and im in desperate need of help. I have a Powerbook (900mhz) which cannot start due to the fact that it cannot "see" the startup disk. One minute its on sleep - next minute when i wake it up, first it shows the grey semi-transparent box with different...

can anyone tell me how to install panther on this drive so as to use as a start up disk if needed i've heard people having problems with this drive in general as well as installing panther on it, so should i plump for the Formac 250GB Oxygen drive instead (these are my two choices, but i...

my partner and i have 2 macs at home (800mhz quicksilvers; one running 10.2.8 and the other 10.3.3) we want to network together. Mine has 3 partitions (osx 10.3.3,os9 and a scratch disk) I've always been under the impression that you can network together buy just attaching an ethernet cable...

Hi all! my partner and i are about to go on to broadband from dialup. we will be networking or 2 macs together (using a netgear DG834 router/firewall/asdl modem). We are very new to this stuff and would like to know what security measures we should take, considering that broadband is an...

Hi all. Im based in the UK and my partner and I are planning to go on to broadband from dial-up. We both have 800mhz quicksilver macs and have been told from our current ISP (firenet.com.uk) that the macs have to be networked for both of them to be able to use broadband. The tech man also...

Does anyone know if there are any spyware removal programs that actually does what it says on the tin.....REMOVE SPYWARE!!! I've heard that macscan and aladin internet cleanup just fall short of doing it, if so - is there anything else to try. Or is it a case of Macscan and Internet cleanup...

does anyone know how to make a techtools 4 bootable cd. ive been on various sites and have heard Boot CD mentioned a lot, what is it and is it the answer to my question?

Hi all! Does anyone out there know how to create a bootable nortons systemworks 3 disk, so as to fix problems using nortons utilities and the like on the computers boot disk from the CD. All valid suggestions welcome thanx