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Hello All, I recently purchased and downloaded the Short Oxford Dictionary which I'm quite familiar with; now I'm thinking about a good thesaurus but don't which is best for the iMac. Any suggestions for a truly excellent thesaurus, one that perhaps allows cross referencing? Thanks for your...

I'm trying the new MTR, but after ripping a disk, the DVD doesn't appear to be recognized as a valid file for burning onto a blank DVD. What am I doing wrong? I'm using the new iMac running Mavericks. Thanks, Sparrowhawk

Forgive the naivety of the question, but since I'm new to the iMac and Mavericks, I'm nearly ten years out of the times. (My last mac was the eMac running Tiger.) But what would be the best or reasonable program for copying unprotected DVDs? I've heard Toaster mentioned a lot, but it seems to...

I recently upgraded to a 21.5 iMac, and I'm looking for a suitable wallpaper for it. Specifically, I'm looking for a black and white picture of a galaxy, but all my searches on Google only showed images that are too small for the iMac. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Sparrowhawk

My antiquated eMac is slowing down. My guess is the hard drive is dying. Fortunately I hav a back up eMac to replace the first computer but I don't know how to transfer data from one computer to another. Is there someone in the Macomb county area next to Detroit MI who could perfom this task...

Greetings All, I'm experiencing an odd problem with my Mac the Ripper program. Of late, the program crashes when in use (for entirely legal purposes I hasten to add) while trying to rip unexceptional dvds. I'm using OS X 4.11 (granted very old) on an eMAc, so I'm wondering if this is a hardware...

I'm using an old eMac with Tiger, and have connected a WD Passport external hard drive, a very small one. I reformatted the drive with the help of WD's support line, but seem to have a problem transferring my iPhoto library to the Passport; it stops transferring info when it runs into a given...

Greetings All, I need a general piece of advice, and welcome input from all of you kind ladies and gentlemen. I currently use an eMac operating Tiger, and have used this machine for about seven years now. That's probably a long time to operate any computer--I get messages telling me to upgrade...

I'm wondering about purchasing from eBay a Palm pilot M130, but can't seem to find where I can download Mac 10.4 software for the PDA. Is one available, and if so where? Thanks.

I use an eMac, 1.25 Gz, PC 4, version 10.4.11 with 768 MG. If I do a simple upgrade--not an entire installation--of Leopard, will this affect my current programs and files? Upgrading with a whole installation of Leopard seems to involve some complicated operations that I'd like to avoid. Thanks...

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to make a request; if it isn't, my apologies. I use an eMac running OS 10.4, Tiger, and can't make a software update, but I do need to get an older version of Mariner Software's Montage screenwriting program. Does anyone reading this have a older...

Greetings, I have the old eMac that serves me just great, my requirements being minor. However, I notice that most new software won't work with a Mac without the new Intel processor. Can I update to OS 10.5 on my eMac? Thanks, Sparrowhawk

I just got my new Tactile 3 Keyboard today, and it's everything it's advertised to be. The keys are deep, it has an extra long cord to reach your computer, and the typist's touch is great. The three extra USB 2.0 hubs are also a great convenience if you are constantly charging your iPod or...

I own an eMac (my first one) and overall, I'm extremely pleased with the machine. However, the fancy-appearing keyboard leaves much to be desired, and I'm looking for a new one. The Matias tactile pro keyboard looks promising, as does the Kensington, but I would be interested in everyone's...

Greetings All, I am discovering that my eMac doesn't seem to do a reliable job of burning rewritable media like CD-RW or DVD-RW disks. Yet it does a good job of burning regular DVD-Rs and CD-Rs. Is this a common problem? Is it the fault of the disk drive burner, or are rewritable media simply...

Hi, iPhoto continues to bewilder me. When I open iPhoto, I have the expected range of photos I've taken or imported. However, when I try clicking on iPhoto library, I get a series of numbers that appear to represent years, with numerous sub-folders, many of them empty. How can I get all these...

Greetings, When I use the "Select All" in Documents from the menu and attempt to drag all my documents to a CD, a stop sign appears. Yet, if I try to drag one document or folder at a time to the CD there's no problem. How do I manage to burn a CD containing all my documents since the select all...

Hi, In foolishly thinking I could save all my documents by dragging the "Documents" portion of the Hard Drive menu on my eMac, the Documents box went "poof." How do I restore this back to the menu? Thanks much, Sparrowhawk.

The subject line says most of it. After unsuccessful attempts to install the Chronosync unintaller (the eMac says it couldn't complete the install), I'm stuck once again with that annoying background scheduler circular icon at the top of my screen. Is there any simple way of removing it other...

Greetings All, I downloaded Chronosync a few months ago, and found that it was really too sophisticated a program for me. (Hey, no groans in the peanut gallery.) How do I uninstall the program and the icons that appear on the top of the screen? Namely, the clockwise circle and the US flag icons...