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    What I dont like about mac (tell me what you think)

    Thanks for the great reply, Mikuro. I just might email this to Apple and see what they think. Im looking forward to hearing what the other 40 of you think about my little list ;)
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    What I dont like about mac (tell me what you think)

    I posted something like this a few weeks back, and after exploring my mac a little more and using some of the responses that I got, here is the revised edition. I would appreciate any feedback. BTW, sorry it’s so long. I really would appreciate 5 minutes of your time to read this and give me...
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    external USB hard drive acting strange

    I have a 80 gig 2.5 in laptop drive that i put in a USB2.0 enclosure and formatted as MacOSX extended. Up until a couple of days ago, it would work fine, but it suddenly stopped showing up on my hard drive and in my finder. it is there under disk utility, and disk utility cant find anything...
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    10 things i hate about my mac (not really)

    Well: Simply choose *not* to open iPhoto when connecting a camera. Then you can look at the content of the card/camera in the Finder, select all photos and ctlr-click on the selection. Choose slideshow. In the slideshow, you can send single photos to iPhoto. Of course *I* just let iPhoto handle...
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    10 things i hate about my mac (not really)

    I am a new convert to mac a few months ago, where I was previously a windows user. though I love mac, there are a few things that I don’t like about it. it really was hard to think of ten things, and that’s saying something, but here they are. (sigh). What I don’t like about my ibook G4: 1...
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    ibook seems to eat battery

    thanks for all the great tips. i had my wireless and bluetooth on all the time, have never run the battery out or fully charged it, had the screen brightness to full all the time, etc. Great stuff
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    ibook seems to eat battery

    Hey everyone. I have a 12" ibook that I bought brand new 1 month ago. I looked on the box and it says that the battery will last up to 6 hours. My battery will last about 2 hours, sometimes less. i am wondering what programs tend to eat battery life, what settings i need to set to conserve...
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    obscure iTunes question

    Hey everyone. So you make a playlist in itunes, and you can click on the "artist", "name" or other categories to sort the songs by those categories. You can also click the column with the playlist numbers to be able to have "no" order and be able to sort the songs however you like (by dragging...
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    ipod cuts songs short

    i guess it only happens to a few of them, but they play fine in every other player, including itunes. its just when i am playing them on the ipod. wierd.
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    using hotkeys to acess "apple menu"

    i figured it out, thanks to your direction. I needed to press the function key as well to make it work. it is fn-ctrl-F2 for me. thanks again.
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    ipod cuts songs short

    hey. I have a 4 gig ipod nano that randomly cuts some songs short. It will play the song, but end it before the song is finished. It doesnt happen with every song or everytime i listen, but it happens quite frequently. I have restored my ipod (totally erased it) and it doesnt change anything...
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    using hotkeys to acess "apple menu"

    Hiya everone. I was wondering if there were any hotkeys to be able to acess the "apple menu" (is that what you would call it?) Im talking about the menu on the top of the screen that has the apple in the corner. In windows, you could acess this type of menu with somthing like alt-f. I would be...
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    some help with a couple little questions

    thanks for the reply mikuro, especially with the tab preferences. That is exactly what I have been looking for. Also, to clarify, I already have and have been using Adium, but it doesn't have voice chat. I have searched a little bit, and have not been able to find a program that does, so I...
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    some help with a couple little questions

    I am a recent win -> mac switcher with a couple questions. 1. is there any comparable program on mac to windows' clonecd? It is a program that lets you make and mount cd images on a 'fake' cd drive. 2. on windows, you can switch between options (for example when you tell the computer to...
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    "Volume cannot be found HELP!

    what was the name of the microsoft program that you opened?
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    Running iTunes Library from external USB HD

    Ok. Here it goes. I bought an 80 gig 2inch laptop hardrive, got an external case for it, and it is mounted to my ibook via USB2.0. I formatted it with Fat32 (so i could use it ony my windows and mac). I have 30 gigs worth of songs that I am running straight off of the perpetually connected hard...
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