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I have what strikes me as a bizarre, inconsistent, yet hair-pullingly frustrating problem with the Spotlight Comments field that pops up in a file's Get Info window. Specifically, a project I like to plink around on is plowing through the archives of the Astronomy Picture of the Day website...

I use MS Word v. X nearly everyday. I find its Work menu a handy way to shelve documents I work on frequently, though what documents those are change from week to week and month to month. Previously, I was able to add or delete documents to the Work menu, but no more. At least, I can add them...

About 2 days ago, Safari turned from my favorite web browser to absolutely unusable. I have no idea why. Here are my current symptoms: * Safari will not open any of my bookmarks correctly. It just hangs...and hangs. * Overall performance sluggish. For example, this URL...

Just a day or two ago, seemingly out of nowhere, my iBook started to refuse to go to sleep properly. That is, it will not go to sleep properly when I close the lid. It will sleep nicely when I select 'Sleep' from the Apple menu, but as I'm carrying the 'Book around all the time, I really really...

Okay, this has nothing to do with Mac OS X at all. Just a website navigation question that I'm sure, when you immediately tell me the answer, will make me go, "D'oh!" So here's the question: When navigating to this URL... http://playlistmag.com/downloads/ ...how in the world do I actually...

I'm thinking of getting an LCD monitor to finally replace my CRT behemoth. Apple's are way outside of my consideration ($-wise) and, besides, they're all ADC (or now, DVI), and I need an analog connection for my trusty but 5-year old PowerMac (PCI Graphics). So, when shopping, do I need to...

Way back when I first started using iTunes, it came with a bunch of free tunes (50? 100? 200?). But as part of some upgrade or another, I somehow deleted that initial Library. ARRGH! So my quest is to get those free iTunes tunes back. Can you help me? If your answer is, "They're on your...

I just installed, via Software Update, Security Update on my iBook (OS 10.2.8). After rebooting, my menu bar clock, battery usage and other menulets (proper term?) all disappeared! I opened up System Preferences to make sure that they were all selected to show (yes, they were), but no dice...

Brief Overview: I am (planning on, at least) upgrading my mom's clamshell iBook (300 MHz G3, ca. 1999) to OS X. In order to better support OS X, I'm also planning on replacing the stock 3GB HDD with a 10GB HDD, and adding the max extra 256 MB RAM. I'm already running into difficulties, so...

What I want is an Airport network that will reach ~100 yards -- through several brick walls and a small parking lot, from one building to the next. Background: I want to run my home computer (PowerMac) and my office computer (iBook) through the same DSL connection to save money and allow me...

Here's a brief outline of my problem: While surfing the internet, checking/responding to email, etc., my Internet Connect menulet will randomly display the horizontal scrolling "Disconnecting... Disconnecting..." script - over and over and over and over. It never ends! And it never really...

I have two questions in one here. 1) I want to gain access to a MS Excel document that won't open. What do I mean? My 10.2.6 iBook crashed a couple of days ago. The only damage became apparent a day or so later when I tried to open one particular Excel workbook. I get a very brief (<1...

Here's my situation: I frequently want to access updates to my software over the web (e.g., Norton AntiVirus, Intego ContentBarrier, etc.), but I can't. Well, I can and I can't. Specifically, I have an iBook and a PowerMac. My iBook does this no problem. It's my PowerMac that gives me...

I have the PowerMac setup as you will see below in my signature. I am interested in purchasing and installing this Yamaha internal CD-RW device: http://yamahashoponline.com/product.asp?sku=2269599 My question is that I thought I'd heard somewhere that you're NOT supposed to take out the...

Problem: My default OS X volume, "OS X System" is only 10GB...and my iTunes files are gobbling up nearly 7GB of that and growing. What I want to do: I want to move the MP3 files to another volume with 55GB free, "65GB Workspace". What I have done: I found this thread in iTunes help...

I just ran a search using "emulat*" for the last six months on this site and didn't come up with anything new that was terribly relevant, so here goes: As a grad student with no money, I'm always looking for free or nearly-free stuff. For the first time ever, I'm also running into some...

I just ran a search using "emulat*" for the last six months on this site and didn't come up with anything new that was terribly relevant, so here goes: As a grad student with no money, I'm always looking for free or nearly-free stuff. For the first time ever, I'm also running into some...

I've searched and searched and not found a thread that seems to address my problem. Which is - I installed Jaguar on my trusty G4/350MHz/PCI Graphics machine (~800MB RAM) and at first it ran GREAT. Quite a bit faster compared to 10.1.5. I run CPU Monitor all the time in the dock (I love the...

:confused: I have a friend that I am selling my PB 1400 to. It's running OS 8.6 with 48 MB RAM (and we have no plans to upgrade; from what I understand of the PB 1400, 8.6 is about where it tops out at). She plans to network it to a PC box (what flavor of Windows I'm not sure; does it...