Virtual Box and input devices

Anyone else using the rather nifty VirtualBox app to use Windows like me? I realised I have no real idea how to use input devices like USB and CD for it on my Macbook. (Usually I just use wireless connection and load things from external servers down to Intel Macbook (but wireless connection is down for a day or two and offline is the go for the moment on that laptop). So, how to get WinXP/VirtualBox to see the USB stick sticking into the side of the Macbook? -- dorayme

How Can I Monitor Airport Extreme Traffic?

I've given a friend the PW to my Airport Extreme. Now I'd like to see whether he's using it, and how much. Is there an app for that? -- Wayne Marsh Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA waynegmarsh@mac.com

Keynote Issues

I have prepred (painfully) several Keynote presentations of what I'll call a "sing along" presentation, one where the text of each line of a song is presented in synchrony with the music itself. What I would like to be able to do is to have each presentation play without Keynote first opening following which I have to select Play Slideshow from the Play menu. Another issue is that if I export the slideshow to Quicktime the slides no longer are synchronized to the music. -- James Leo Ryan - Austin, Texas

iTunes 10 help loads on one computer, not on the other

I have two computers, both with iTunes 10 on them now. One computer loads the iTunes help page (after a few moments of spinning gif), but the other computer just gives me a blank white screen. Any idea as to why and how to fix? TIA

Can Ping be saved?

Can Ping be saved? http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/09/04/can-ping-be-saved/ 10 things Apple can do to rescue its experiment in social networking Apple (AAPL) announced Friday that less than 48 hours after its launch more than 1 million people had signed up for Ping, its new social network for music. That's not necessarily a good thing, given how many of those people are complaining -- loudly and with pretty good reason -- about Ping's shortcomings. Among the more articulate gripers: * TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld. The Problem with Ping: "The biggest problem I have with

locking iPhoto albums

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Apple's Ping is a spam magnet

Apple's Ping is a spam magnet http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/09/03/apples-ping-is-a-spam-magnet/ Steve Jobs' new social network for music is already filled with cheesy come-ons The iTunes account holder who calls himself Claude Damm had a busy morning Friday. In the space of an hour, he visited more than four dozen celebrity profiles on Ping -- the newest feature on Apple's (AAPL) 10-year-old iTunes store -- and posted 51 links to a dodgy U.K. website offering "iPhone4free." And he's not alone, according to Sophos Security's Chester Wisniewski, who reports on his blog t

Photoshop CS3 crashes when I Save for Web and Devices

Photoshop CS3 crashes recently when I go "Save for Web and Devices" after recently having opened the program. But after I re-open the program, it's okay again, until the next time I restart or log out of my Mac. I have 10.4.11 and a late 2006 Imac. Activity Monitor currently says Photoshop is using 1.5 percent of the CPU. Robert

iTunes 10

Anyone installed it yet...any first impressions?

iTunes/Gracenotes issues

It appears the automatic downloads for titles and album names is pretty good. The composer category is iffy. Sometimes it is blank so you can fill it in yourself. Other times it is just plain wrong. I don't know what can be done about that. My problem is the album art. I seem to get only about 60% of my albums. What can I do about that? More important, I sometimes get wrong albums. For example, I got a Janis Joplin album picture for a Jimi Hendricks album. That really should be reported to somebody. Who?

Linking data between documents

Numbers '09, v. 2.0.4 Can I link the data from one file to another? I think I was able to do it in Excel; can't figure out how in Numbers. File 1 consists of three tables; File 2 consists of 1 table with the data from one of the tables in File 1. I would like to be able to 'update' data in File 1 and have it update in File 2. Make sense? Alternatively, is there a simpler way to email one of the tables from File 1besides copying and pasting the data into a new table? Thanks. -- Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina of

Console Log

In the all messages part of console log what term do you search for to determine when a kernel panic occurred? I am trying to diagnose a relatives iMac over Timbuktu Remote.

Cannot Move Keynote Presentations to Another Account

I have a number of Keynote presentations which were created in one of my several user accounts. If I place a copy of any of these presentations into a different user account and then attempt to open that copy I get the following message�. ========== The document �Presentation.key� could not be opened. The file isn�t in the correct format. The file might be corrupted, truncated, or in an unexpected format. ========== "Presentation.key" was the name of one of the Keynote presentations. All of the presentations run without a hitch in the creating account. So, the ques

Word 2008 extremely slow

Word 2008 is extremely slow. Yes, I do mean extremely, not just that usual "new software gets slower". E.g. when I type text, the letters show up on the screen slowly one after one, taking something like half a second for each letter. So I type a line, then lean back and drink some coffee while watching the letter slowly appear. When Word is finally done, I type the next line. Other functions like scrolling etc. act the same. It's simply not possible to work like this. And yes, I tried with all other applications closed! Now the "funny" part: The described behaviour appears

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newbie: anti thief for macbookpro

hi, i hope this is the appropriate ng for such a question...google groups is difficult to navigate. my daughter is off to college with a new MacBookPro and i would like to install some anti thief software on it. i have seen gadgettrack lojack prey and a couple other. i have not seen any review/compare/contrast articles and would like your constructive thoughts tia, peter

Iphoto print border - controls?

I am printing some pictures from iPhoto and trying to use the matte print. The borders are coming out larger than I want and off-center. I looked for some kind of controls but couldn't find anythign that looks like what I want. Is there a way to get more control of the border size & placement? This is iPhoto '09 (v 8.1.2 ) on a Mac Pro, Mac OS X 10.6.4, with a Canon iP6600 printer.

More Unison 2 Questions

Hi. I just bought Unison 2 and posted a few messages here in the last few days. I have another question that I can't figure out. Before using Unison, I had been using MT-Newswatcher for probably ten years. In Newswatcher, the program shows your list of subscribed groups and next to the name of each group, it shows a number indicating how many unread messages there are. Unison, by contrast, sometimes shows a number by the name of the group, but I can't tell what the number means. For instance, the number my say "3' and when I click on that group, I will see more than 3 message

"3x5" substitute which can work with Spaces

I'm looking for a substitute for the old 3x5 app which will let me use virtual 3x5 note cards, might include a sliding feature, but most importantly can work with Spaces -- that is occupy all Spaces if I want it to. I use a 2x2 matrix of Spaces. OS 10.5.8 The ones that I have tried aren't the greatest implementation of a virtual notecard, and the ones that "slide" away when not in use don't work with Spaces. Ideally it wold allow me to dump whatever i want into the "notecard" -- copy/paste, drag, type, whatever. I could cobble together something in FileMakerPro but that

Apple TV not showing up in iTunes device list

I don't think this is the usual not showing up problem. I can stream audio to Apple TV and it usually plays fine (every once-in-a-while it will drop out for a couple of seconds), but it does not show up in the device list. Furthermore, it appears something else may be accessing the device. I have gotten an error to pick another output device because Apple TV was being used by somebody else. Once I even got content I know was not coming from my system. I have no idea what to do about this. The occasional dropouts are particularly annoying.

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Duplicate emails

I just received my new iMac, and spent part of today setting it up. All went well, except for one thing. When I set up the mail program (MobileMe), every email was downloaded twice, once marked as unread, and once as read. Is there an easy way to get rid of the duplicates? I started to do that manually, but there are over 1400 duplicates. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated -- Sent from Dave's iPad

Unison 2

Anyone here using Unison 2? I downloaded the demo but it was limited to a small number of groups so I couldn't tell how it handles thousands of messages. It looks great but I've read some reviews saying it's extremely buggy.

ILife '11

I heard earlier in the week that Apple was going to release ILife '11 today. Looks like it didn't happen. Anyone know when it will?

IMac Mail Won't quit

I've had this problem now a couple of times, the last time I thought i had it fixed by deleting the Gmail accounts I have. I have 2 regular POP accounts and for some reason now when i close down mail, it won't quit. 3 sec later it pops right back up in my open systems. Force quit isn't helping either. Any ideas? I'm running current versions of everything. thanks Mark