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Trying to resurrect an iBook G4 that wouldn't start. Local AASP diagnosed a bad hard disk, but when I took the disk out and tested it thoroughly, it passed every test (and since I discovered that this AASP had left out several screws, and left the rest loose, when reassembling the iBook, I...

The one thing I truly miss from the otherwise unlamented Norton Utilities of the classic Mac era is that it would fix incorrect dates (created, modified) on files, directories, volumes, etc. Such incorrect dates (1904, 1976, etc.) would occur when the computer's internal clock reverted to its...

I listen to 1-hour long radio shows streamed via Flip4Mac (.wma files) through QuickTime in Safari. A progress bar indicates that the file is being downloaded, so it must be stored somewhere, but I haven't been able to find it. I note in QuickTime's Preference Pane, Browser tab, is a setting...

When I insert a 700MB recordable CD in my MacBook Pro (10.4.8) it tells me there's over 700MB of space on the disc. When I insert the same blank CD in my iBook G4 running 10.3.9, the space on the disc is suddenly under 670MB ("Available: 660.7MB"). I have a CD with 684MB on it that I want to...

Some years back I read (in David Pogue's "Missing Manual") that pressing the D key during startup would force the Mac to start from the first partition on the hard disk. I found this useful when I was switching between OS X and OS 9; with OS 9 on the first partition, I could leave OS X selected...

Here's a nice Flash presentation from from the Internet that I'd like to download/save to disk for later viewing. Does anyone know if this is possible, and how?