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System-wide Applescript menu 3 28 (10/10/2005 9:44:12 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Yikes! I just started messing with AppleScript after a long hiatus. I turned on the system-wide menu and started poking around, only to discover that some apps (iTunes) will display their own Scripts menu in ... Mikey

Workflow & Colorspace (long) 2 82 (10/8/2005 4:16:53 PM) comp.graphics.apps.photoshop Hi all. It's the never-ending workflow issue. I'll try to keep it terse. My questions are about proper use of Photoshop and weeding out any problems. I'm using photos from various sources (some of them reall... Mikey

IPhoto in workflow - profiles, bugs, and more 0 90 (10/7/2005 2:32:42 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps Hi all. Apparently when I wasn't looking, there was a whole big thing going on about iPhoto having all sorts of bugs with screwing up the profiles and such. I just started to use iPhoto 5 in my (formerly nic... Mikey

Safari & RSS 2 96 (8/9/2005 1:45:33 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps Hi all. Noob as far as RSS is concerned. I've upgraded to Tiger, and in Safari, RSS works fine. What's weird is that in the Bookmarks menu(s), the number of RSS articles shows up _only_ for the news sites; for ... Mikey

Reinstall:: Am I Losing My Mind? 3 37 (5/6/2005 3:01:03 PM) comp.sys.mac.system So my iBook Travelstar drive starts clicking like mad, and I swap it. I put the backup (thanks, SuperDuper) onto the new drive, and of course some minor stuff is hosed, and I have to rearrange some stuff. So... Mikey

Apache (??) problem & resources 1 29 (4/30/2005 4:40:34 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Hi hi hi I have a problem with my Perl CGIs that seems to be out of the scope of the gang on the Perl lists/groups. I haven't been able to find a Mac/Apache group, naturally, and googling hasn't turned up mu... Mikey

Localhost mirroring 4 45 (4/29/2005 7:15:04 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Hmmm.... I'm starting on a web & cgi project, and for the moment, I'm just running from localhost. I was thinking that it may be advantageous to keep my development stuff in my user dirs, and use version cont... Mikey

Another Rqst For Web Dev Apps 1 94 (4/11/2005 2:29:19 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps I'm about to do some web work after an abscence of many years. I wasn't a hardcore web person in the first place. Anyway, I only have GoLive 4, which AFAIK, it's not upgradeable. What I used to do is some jav... Mikey

Finder Toolbar 0 33 (4/4/2005 11:45:39 PM) comp.sys.mac.system I've been cleaning up and revamping my icons and stuff, and I just realized that my Finder toolbars have nothing useful in them...and I can't seem to restore them back to the way they used to be. After ignor... iStrain

iWork/Pages and XML 1 97 (2/2/2005 4:14:09 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps Hi all. Any Pages users out there? I'm starting to mess with Perl, and I got the idea of creating or editing Pages documents via XML. From what I've read, the native format is XML. I am an XML newbie as well... iStrain

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SHOULD I buy OS 10.4 16 20 (4/16/2005 1:54:46 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Okay, so we've established that I gotta buy OS X 10.4 if I want it. The question is -- SHOULD I. What's new with 10.4 that makes it worth getting? ... dhdowning (138)

Airport Express & Jaguar workaround 2 34 (2/23/2005 1:48:01 PM) comp.sys.mac.misc Hi, I just purchased an Airport Express to extend my current Airport Extreme network, but both our Macs are running Jaguar. I thought that only the Airtunes function of the Airport Express required Panther, bu... UseNet56 (65)

Software upgrade 8 29 (10/1/2005 7:28:47 AM) comp.sys.mac.misc Hi I have an irritation rather than a problem. I'm running Jaguar and the software updater keeps asking if I want to upgrade iPod software. I don't have one and don't plan to. Despite unchecking the box and ... anyone4tennis (212)

Limiting user access: Does it work under Tiger? 5 39 (9/22/2005 8:12:07 PM) comp.sys.mac.misc Hello all, Like many of you, I have played with account restrictions on OS X going back to 10.1. They never worked as advertised, with settings reverting to defaults or causing other such anomalies. I know... timl5 (3)

New to Mac OS 9 35 (8/29/2005 6:03:17 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Hi, I'm new to Mac OS and am seeking some help. I would like to be able to cut and paste between windows like I would in Linux. How do I do this? How do I run emacs in a new window in X11? How do I login a... rjmagyar (14)

Why no Mac multimedia NGs at all? 6 30 (8/16/2005 1:36:57 PM) comp.sys.mac.system How come there are 139 multimedia NGs and not one of them is a Mac newsgroup? Digital movies, integrated sound, etc. I thought Mac multimedia is supposed to be superior to the PC variety. If so, where do Ma... NoSpamDammit (781)

help #8 2 46 (8/2/2005 10:48:39 AM) comp.sys.mac.system In 1992 my job forced me to go the PC route (had AppleIIgs then. Never liked PCs; now retired with WIN2000 OS PC. Have Win XP on laptops & despise it. #1 prob with win os is I sopend more time in maintenance t... gnx52 (10)

Unwanted Automatic Mounting of External Drive Volumes -- How to Avoid 9 30 (7/19/2005 3:14:34 PM) comp.sys.mac.system I have an external drive which is partitioned into a number of volumes which are the targets of my nightly backups. Other than when the backups are being run my preference is to have these volumes unmounted. ... taliesinsoft (1869)

Need some advice regarding viruses (if any) 8 25 (6/25/2005 3:38:22 AM) comp.sys.mac.misc Hi I am not a Mac user (have used Linux for a very long time and am not looking to switch). However, a member of my family was recently in the market for a laptop. Her choices were between the numerous... spammers-go-here (995)

Crossposting -- Good / Bad ? 5 33 (6/23/2005 1:52:25 PM) comp.sys.mac.misc Some participants in Usenet complain when a posting is simultaneously posted to more than one newsgroup. Others have no objection. Others feel that the proper etiquette is, if appropriate, to multi-post. I'm ... taliesinsoft (1869)