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I live in a retirement community consisting 3 wings of apartments that radiate from our library at the hub. It's approximately 200 feet from the library to the end of each wing. Of the 150 residents currently living here, fewer than five avail themselves of the free wireless service provided in...

WWIII is raging at our country estate over the word REFURBISH. One faction — including the inside servants, cook, gardener, chauffeur, et al (none of whom favor unemployment), agree that anyone who doesn't recognize that buying a refurbished 13" Macbook for $795 is like found money, needs...

Back when I was happy with life, Mail 1,3,9 sent and received mail as did Gmail. I worked on the Mail console, while Gmail provided both POP and SMTP servers. It was a neat deal...

I have a large problem, Gmail is my main guy for heavy lifting, but Mail 1.3.9 is where I hang my hat. I have but one address: ........@gmail.com. I receive mail in both in-boxes. I don't have to visit my web address to check my mail because all of it is also received by Mail. I store everything...

I'm looking at a near spotless Apple iBook G4 with almost a dead battery which I can buy from the original owner for $300. I still think that despite the battery, the price is good, which includes a very nice carrying case. What's holding up the deal for me is the owner has none of the disks...

I'm being irritated within an inch of my life with a never give up pop-up. What is "unable to verify SSL server: pop.gmail.com" supposed to mean? Please, I need relief from this aggravation.

It used to be that when I selected a message in my IN box and pressed "delete," the message would end up in TRASH. Now when I press "delete," nothing happens. The message stares back at me without blinking. Should I choose an alternate route: Mail > Message > Move To > Trash, again nothing...

When I raise the lid on my white dual USB iBook circa 2001, it sounds like an elephant passing wind sitting on a bass drum. I looked at it carefully and noted that the ends of the hinge (the pins) that fit into the main body of the laptop are very loose fit in the socket. Indeed, I can move the...

I am thoroughly vexed with my Mail 1.3.11 spell-checker which isn't all that better informed than me, and I can barely spell cat. Would some well versed soul out there advise me on how I can deep-six my speller for a speller that can spell?

I'd love to hear from anyone who has installed Ubuntu, and has formed an opinion of its worth compared to Mac OS X.

I'm running OS 10.3.9 on a G3 iBook with dial-up. Unhappily, broadband is not an option for me. The natural consequence is that downloads are painfully glacial. I'm resolved to try a web accelerator, but would like to skip the trial and error part. I'm hoping someone out there can steer me...

I"m running OS 10.3.9 on a G3 iBook 600MHz. I've backed up my entire HD to a 80GB Fantom external drive. Since then, I've managed to lose my Address Book in its entirety. I'm 86 years old, senile, and to save my life I can't figure out how to transfer my saved Address Book from my external...

I'm still slogging around with my venerable white, dual USB G3 iBook and I'm facing the dreadful task of buying yet another (my fourth) 45W AC Adapter. Mine all wear out at where they plug it into that laptop — it's a rotten design. I'm going to need another unit any day, and it kills me to...

It would take too long to explain why, but I'm back on dial-up for the foreseeable future and desperate to speed up my machine. I've never had a gift for computers, I've mostly plodded on without much insight. I'm still using a G3 iBook, 600 MHz, 640 MB memory which is fine for my needs if only...

Thank god for forums, where else could you ask a question like this? Let me pose a simple scenario. Suppose I hypothetically deep-six a file or something like an address book with a lot of one line entries which ends up in the bowels of my machine. Laboriously I reconstruct as much of my file as...