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A friend sent over a file in .zip format for me to use in a document I'm working on. When I clicked on it it started unzipping. It continued on until about half way where it seemingly froze. After a minute or so I hit the cancel button (the little X beside the download thermometer). No...

I'm having trouble syncing my motorola V551 phone with address book using bluetooth. Everything seems to work OK, but my phone numbers from my phone never get transferred to my address book on the computer. It always updates my phone only. The first time I synced (yesterday) it asked me if...

Why does a 'nytimes' cookie keep regenerating itself on Safari? I told a friend of mine about this and he told me the same thing happens on his computer. We both have G5's using 10.4.6. and despite continually trashing the cookie, and never visiting the site, the cookie always comes back (just...

While using Safari, I have gotten into the habit of deleting cookies once in awhile. Lately though, I've noticed that one cookie keeps reappearing even though I haven't visited the site during that session. I paid special attention to this issue today and regularly deleted my cookies. I...

How do you get an application to startup automatically after the computer boots up? I dragged an alias of an application into: Macintosh HD>System>Library>StartupItems with no luck. I am a single user on this computer with no other accounts. PowerPC G5 Dual 2 GHz 512 MB DDR SDRAM Mac...

I'm always amazed by the wide variety of 'wierd' problems you can get with computers. Anyway here's my latest. I'm increasingly having to start my computer twice before the monitor turns on. I start the computer as normal by pushing the front button, but the display never turns on. I then...

Complete Newbie here with regards to AppleScript. I'm trying to make my own quick-key shortcut on an old Classic application (Hypercard) where there is no shortcut. I need to delete 365 cards from a stack. 'Delete Card' has no quick key shortcut. I'm hoping I can assign an 'F' key (F4 or...

Just wondering if anyone here is aware of a way to adjust the settings on an ipod without using the display (via 3rd party software or whatever). Specifically I would like to set an alarm and wake up to my ipod music which can't be done using Itunes. And yes... my display is cracked! I have a...