Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
ta - that was the one key combination i didnt try last night lol.
Posted by Superluminova
Woo hoo,
just got an email from apple informing me that the new apple store on Buchanan St Glasgow, is opening on Saturday and the 1st 1500 will be getting free apple t-shirts! woo hoo!
Lol
Posted by chrisfirst
Hi guys,
Well, I have my Macbook for almost 4 months now and unfortunately I'm having some troubles with it...
What you have to know for starters, it's 2 Ghz version with 1 gig RAM and 80 gig HDD. Also, since the beginning I always use AppZapper for uninstall unwanted apps.
Anyway, the problem is, I think my mac geting slower and slower from day to day. Sometimes, when I open apps, takes long and I see the little ballon or whatever it is spining more often. I think I managed to learn as much as pos about my new system and done much about the problem, but no luck at all.
Some things to explain:
Nothing automatically starts up at restart. I have checked it.
I have 7 gigs free on the HDD which should be enough.
Never have many apps open at the same time, not even many tabs in Safari and no flash pages. Old windows habit... Most of the times, I have Mail, Safari, iTunes, Quicktime and the Dashboard.
If I check the Activity Monitor everything is seems fine except Safari 3.0.3 has about 280 mb's memory in use.
I have repaired the HDD permisions twice in a week.
So, I don't know. I think I have a perfectly maintained mac, but something still not right.
And there is one more thing driving me crazy! I love coverflow, especially on my flat screen, but it's very very chopy, when I scroll from album to album. Even when I switch from Coverflow to back to normal.
Last thing: Frontrow. In the last couple of days, I'm having trouble exit from it. It takes minutes to get me back to desktop.
So, that's all really. Any ideas?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Posted by themarques
Personally this seems to be a problem more with 10.4.10 update, and so you are not alone. I think a good way to always monitor if its a problem with your account is to create a seperate account in sys pref and then test out a few things in there...if its running slow as well then you know its probably OSX. If its moving like lightning then somewhere along the line OSX has turned into windows (best way I can describe it) and might be time for a reinstall...remember sometimes its the intel and ppc apps cause this..
I know this doesnt help as much but I really point it to the 10.4.10 update
Posted by paul101
i have a mac for the week but.... the cd i put in seems to have jammed and i cant get it back out (it makes some funny noises)
ooh and how do you right click?
sory sorry (i'm a newbee to macs)
This message was posted from a mac that wont give me my cd back
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Posted by themarques
On 2007-08-21 22:33:20, paul101 wrote:
i have a mac for the week but.... the cd i put in seems to have jammed and i cant get it back out (it makes some funny noises)
ooh and how do you right click?
sory sorry (i'm a newbee to macs)
This message was posted from a mac that wont give me my cd back
Well to answer the easiest problem right clicking is done by pressing CTRL AND CLICKING ON YOUR MOUSE.
To the more difficult part, if turn the mac off and then restart it this is going to sound crazy but depending which direction the cd slot is side or front face the cd slot to the ground and keep pressin eject whilst its starting, so basically man handle it...sometimes dvd+r\\w etc are too thick so yeah just play around making gravity help you.
Posted by Jools
To right-click, just set the secondary mouse button up in the Keyboard & Mouse system preferences pane. You can then right-click by clicking the right mouse button as you would on a PC.
To eject a CD, restart while holding down the left mouse button.
Posted by paul101
thanks jools for that
my cd slot is on the right hand side
when i press eject the cd becomes visable between the 2 foam thingys for a fraction of a second then disapears back in
oh and i'm going to back up the info on that cd, is there anythng i need to look out for when buying a memory stick? is it plug and play??
sorry sorry
(i'm a newbee to macs)
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[ This Message was edited by: paul101 on 2007-08-22 16:08 ]
Posted by themarques
Trust me tilt you r machine and grab it quick when it pops it head out, I personally wouldnt back up on that same cd if its giving you such grief already.
Posted by paul101
no, no i'm wanting to backup onto a memory stick
i'm just going to try tipping it on it's side now
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Posted by themarques
Backing up to a memory stick is simple just plug and play nothing fancy to be done, you might want to purchase an external HDD for larger backups and get ready for leopard.
Posted by paul101
ive tryed your sugestion to no avail it still wont come out
it's not the cd thats inportent, its the data
oh and i nicked over to argos and got a memory stick
should i send it back??
Posted by Jools
Is it a CD-R with a label on? Just wondering why the disk starts to come out but then goes back in. Sounds like the sort of thing that can happen if a label starts unpeeling inside the Mac.
Try this:
Restart the computer and hold down: Cmd+Option+O+F
(Cmd+Option are the two keys to the left of the space bar)
The computer will boot into what looks like DOS.
Then type in the terminal box:
eject CD and press return
Posted by paul101
no lable on, just a plain cd
tryed still no cd out
it just does the same as ejecting the cd
could there be another cd stuck inside? this is one that my dads workers have been using (oh and i did press eject before putting the cd in
)
the thing is this thing is only a week old so maybee a fault with the cd tray thingy?
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Posted by themarques
tweezer?
Posted by paul101
good idea (i) i'll try that
Posted by paul101
I HAVE THE CD OUT!!
(yay) took a while and it's just aswell i backed up my dada cos that CD is toast (scratched to the igh hevans)
am afraid to put another cd in now
Posted by paul101
ok, i put another (blank) cd in..... it jammed but i got it out with the tweesers. out of curiosity i flipped the thing round 90 degrees and there seems to be a rattle comming from where the cd tray thingy is
Posted by paul101
thanks for your help guys
i think i'll need more of it thru the week tho cos i cant work a mac to save myself
(i have always got an ole windoze 95pc that is really slooooow(which i am using for messenger))
oh and will windoze messenger work with mac?
Posted by Jools
Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0.3
Posted by paul101
Thank you
Posted by paul101
ok, i'm sending the the i-mac over (by the royal taxi of mum) (hopefully she gets there for 9 o'clock ( cross your fingers for me
)) to the technician for the company (the joys) and i'll (hopefully) get it back by tommorrow morning hopefully he shall be able to fix the problem. if he cant fix it he'll have to send it back to where the computer(s) where baught from (and then i'm stuck with this peice of s*** for a full week ) (hopefully she gets there for 9 o'clock ( cross your fingers for me ))
and now i'm stuck with windoze 95
and by next week i'll be missing mac
Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
Right stupid question, but why the F**K does the new iphoto make your libary one big file?
How can I browse the files individually so I can drag a picture out of the libary and onto my desktop etc?
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Posted by themarques
in the old iphoto there was a slider on the right hand side with a small photo and big photo, slide it to the left and it will show all the pictures in your library, slide to the right and it is one picture at a time. Hope that helps.
Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
nope, that seems completly irrelevent.
I am talking about file systems not thumbnails
Posted by Superluminova
Hello guys,
I'm having problems with safari 2.0.4, it seem to have problems when loading secure sights.
Online banking often freezes or times out and when i was looking for car insurance tonight the pages kept jumbling up.
I tried them on my windows machine and everything was fine??
Posted by themarques
Reset safari is the best option
Posted by p900 lover
Right well im going to buy my Macbook pro 2moro (i think lol) and jsut want to know when was it that they actually came out with the current specs? and how often do they bring them out. I know its something like 200 odd days but cant actually remember
Posted by Jools
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#MacBook_Pro
Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
any ideas on my troubles Jools?
Posted by p900 lover
Well i got my macbook pro today and what can i say, im so happy!!! is like the best thing ince sliced bread lol
now i have a few questions, what is the best msn messenger for the mac? one that i can use my isight would be best.
oo and is there a resource website for macs? a bit like esato
Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
i use amsn, but duno about cam support
there are loads, www.apple.com/support is good, just look on discussions
Posted by smilerthe cheshirecat
Maybe Adium?
Yahoo messenger supports isight....
Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
sorry yeh, adium not amsn, although that does support webcam
Posted by smilerthe cheshirecat
New iTunes 1.4 ready for download....
Posted by Jools
Surely that should be 7.4 unless we've stepped back in time!
Posted by paul101
i have the i-mac (again!)
I AM TAKING A LIKING TO MACS 
. makes me want one. (my dad keeps borrowing my pc) should i just swap him?
Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
if hes dumb enough to take the trade i wud lol
Posted by Superluminova
Anyone know how i can transfer my itunes playlists from my vaio to my iMac??
Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
copy and paste or save playlist as then copy it accross
Posted by haynesycop
I was just wondering how to go about transferring all my music to my new iMac? It is supposed to be here Friday, been delayed loads and everything i have is currently on my ipod. So if i use one of the many applications to get it off my ipod, will everything still by tagged and with the album art because it took hours to do?
Posted by arien617
Can you not just put the original files through in disk mode, so that the iPod can't access them but they are accessible through a computer?
Posted by Superluminova
Who needs an iphone when you first person in scotland to have the ipod touch.
Posted by Johnex
Well, i would no like th be the first to have an ipod touch, since the first batch has some mayor issues with the screen. Blacks appear negative due to a problem with the anti reflective coating on the glass of the screen in at least 7 out of 10 devices. So no, ill wait till the apple online store ships mine on the 28th.
Posted by fatreg
here's a wee question..
I've got an external HDD and have installed apps to it, all works dandy BUT... I'd like be able to see them in normal apps etc..
If I create an alias and dump that in apps, it shows in apps if i open or long click.. however.. it doesn't shop in himmelbar.. in there anyway to get apps in a diff location to main apps to show in himmelbar?
ta!
Posted by Jools
Instead of using HimmelBar, I'd recommend Butler. It's much more configurable, does loads more and you can put apps where ever you want.
I switched from HimmelBar to Butler a few years ago.
http://www.manytricks.com/butler/
Posted by fatreg
thanks jools..
am on the case now
TA!
Posted by fatreg
iPhone support inn iTunes 7.4.2..
ooooh
Posted by themarques
Its been there since 7.4.1 and I think even .4.0
Posted by Luke-the-magic-man
playing with my new iphone now. Love the wifi, but it would not work properly with my home router duno why but i set up a seperate home network using a airport express and laptop and it works a treat.
the keyboard is great the screen is amazing, web browsing is the best ive seen on A wifi phone.
You guys are in 4 a treat lol