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I'm planning for the next tower and I'd like to have my applications launching as quickly as possible. What is the consensus on this? It seems like some form of RAID would be ideal, but from what I recall, this is not necessarily true for app launching, yes? Also, what about SAS versus...

I installed a second SATA drive in my Mac Pro G5. I cannot get it to be recognized. In Disk Utility it does not show up. However, when I do a System Profile (About this Mac), the SATA section shows it being there, but just with minimal info compared to the other SATA drive, which has been...

I've got a few main gripes with Leopard. Can anyone help? 1. Spotlight doesn't work on text in the middle of a file name. Has it always been this way? So if I search for "ourc" on a file named "outsourcing" nothing shows up. Now maybe that's not a good example, but there are plenty of...

I have have been using iKeys for over ten years to launch applications and present folders. It seems to have broken a bit in Leopard and so far it ha snot been updated, so I need to move on. I am currently playing with Quickkeys, which is fine, but a bit overkill (much as iKeys has become...

Since installing Leopard I can no longer drag physical hard drives on our network to the Dock or the Sidebar. Is there a workaround for this? It is very frustrating having to dig into the drive form so high up in the hierarchy. Thanks!

Does anyone know how I can have a Finder window's search "remember" the default location? Example: Currently when I run a search it defaults to the "This Mac" search location. I hate this. I want it to default to "This Folder" like it did in Tiger. Or at least in Tiger it would remember that...

Is there any way to override the OS so that when I make a new folder its permission settings are Read+Write for everyone? I know I can use Tinker Tool to sort of allow this, but it only works when you make a new folder from within an application. So if you make a new folder from the Finder, it...

Sorry for the excitement, but I'm panicing. I restarted my Dual G5 2.7 this morning just to clear out an audio error. It then got to the Apple logo and spinning circle thing. And that's it. I left it for an hour or more. Things I have tried: reset P-ram booted to CD, ran disk utility...

Is there a way to automatically download a file via FTP? I have an Access database on a website I want to download daily as backup (my assistant overwrote one last year and we can't have that again). I am looking for Automator actions and can find ones that UPLOAD files automatically, but...

Is there any way to attach a "recent file" in Mail? In other words, right now I can use the Apple menu "recent items" menu to view recent documents, but you can't use that menu to attach said recent document to an email. Apparently this is doable in Windows, as my Windows cohort kindly...

No, this isn't another thread about Mac vs. PC gamma. This is about Quicktime Player playing movies much darker than VLC. See here: http://www.mindbendtoo.biz/qtvsvlc/qt_vs_vlc_a.jpg Per this thread, I have been trying to find the perfect way to rip DVDs in preparation for iTV...

I am planning a bit ahead for iTV with hopes of ripping my legally purchased DVDs. I am looking for advice on what software to use and which settings give the best results. Ideally, I guess I'd like to just extract the main movie from the DVD and NOT recompress it. But presumably iTunes can't...

I am trying to set up an Airport Express as a remote. I have an Extreme as my main base station. I am trying to follow these instructions: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107454 My Extreme base staion is working. I can access the internet through it. I need to set up a...

Can anyone confirm if ActiveX websites work via Parallels? I bought a copy of Windows XP and Parallels specifically to run Quickbooks online edition, which requires ActiveX. Much to my dismay, Internet Explorer is not recognized as ActiveX capable in Parallels. And it's going to be a big pain...

I notice the 24" iMac (and some other configs of the new iMacs) support 3 GB of RAM. I'm confused by this. There are two RAM slots as I understand it. So one slot holds 1 GB and the other holds 2GB? Why can't they both hold 2 GB for 4 GB total? I was just online to order a 24", but I...

I've got two Apple remotes. One with my iMac and one for the iPod Hifi. I've now got them in the same room and would like to have one remote just for the iMac and the other just for the Hifi. Right now either one controls either device. I of course threw away the documentation, so I can't...