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    Mirrored displays, MacBook display stays black

    My mother-in-law, who lives overseas, bought an external monitor for her MacBook White. I helped her with screensharing and video chats to set it up that it shows the same picture as on the MacBook when both are on (mirrored). I showed her how she can use her external monitor while having the...
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    AIM 5.5 and iChatAV problems

    I've been trying to make video and/or audio chat between a PC on the other side of the ocean and my Mac work. Mac to Mac with iChatAV 2.1 is no problem as you can imagine but AIM 5.5 that my friend on the PC uses must not really be as compatible as announced. Here are the facts and symptoms...
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    Scanner for documents and slide

    I am looking for a new scanner but have a hard time finding what I want: Firewire (if possible; USB may work too) tray for slides and negatives tray for documents (batch scanning) "scan documents to PDF" full OS X compatibility, of course I have a lot of documents that I need to scan...
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    iChatAV and AOL 9.0

    iChatAV is compatible with AIM 5.5 on a PC that runs Windows XP. But is iChatAV also compatible with AOL 9.0 (supposingly the lastest version) running on a PC? Has anyone tried this? Or in other words: Which AIM version is part of AOL 9.0?
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    How to keep iPhoto Library folder organized?

    There is a very cool feature in iTunes under Preferences: "Keep iTunes Music folder organized". Check it and iTunes does it all for you: For example, change the name of the album and iTunes changes the name of the folder automatically. Great! This makes it really easy to locate the music files...
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    Finder quits, cannot be relaunched

    I had my International settings (System Preferences) set on on the languages English and then German. I've had this setting for years from OS 10.1.0 through 10.3.0. Today I wanted to try something out and moved German above English. I thought that my system would immediately change to the German...
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    Where do these "users" come from?

    I opened the info window of the Macintosh HD and wanted to check the "Ownership & Permissions". When I open the "Details" and activate the drop down list of "Owner", I first see the 3 accounts that I have set up, then one account called "system" and after a light separator a list of accounts...
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    Copy or clone my harddrive

    The situation: - Harddisk 1 with 40 GB: Original HD called "Macintosh HD" used for system and data -Harddisk 2 with 60 GB: added HD called "Movie HD", used for movie editing and backup What I want: HD 1 is getting too small, so I would like to use HD 2 for the system and data and use HD 1...
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    SCSI card from G3 in Quicksilver

    I have a G3 desktop (beige) with built-in SCSI port and a Quicksilver G4 733. Is it possible to install the scsi card into my G4? Are there any driver or hardware problems to solve?
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