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Jools
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AppleWorks, which I think still comes free with consumer Macs, can open (and possible save) Word files.
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Luke-the-magic-man
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ooo jools I got a question, I got my new macbook pro yesterday and only really started playing on it properly today as last night I was reinstalling the os (get rid of the things I didnt want such as 1gb of extra languages) anyway on me dads macbook he can use 2 fingers to tap on his trackpad and it right clicks, but on my one I can't find the option, I upgrade all the firmwares and software, but cannot see the option. Im just wondering if I can actually get this function on my mbp as its quite cool?
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Luke-the-magic-man
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ignore that request jools, after allot more searching me and my ad found a program that does it.
**********NOTE TO ALL MACBOOK PRO 15" USES**************
If you want to enable your trackpad to right click using 2 fingers follow the link below for a download patch which allows it (its like when you scroll using two fingers, but you just tap for the right click) Download then install it and it enables a extra setting on your trackpad like:
http://forum.osx86project.org[....]8&act=Attach&type=post&id=2832
and heres the link:
http://forum.osx86project.org[....]8&act=Attach&type=post&id=2834
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Luke-the-magic-man
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right jools now for another question I recently ontaine aperture and installe it fine, but when I go to run it it says my sytem requirments are to low, yet im running a mabp 15" with a 2ghz, 2gb of ram, a ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB GDDR3 memory gfx card, and over 30gb free on my hd
and heres the recomended system requirements:
Recommended system
Power Mac G5 with dual 2GHz (or faster) Power Mac G5; or Macintosh with 2GHz (or faster) Intel Core Duo Processor
2GB of RAM
One of the following graphics cards: ATI Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition; ATI Radeon X1600; ATI Radeon 9800 XT or 9800 Pro; NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL or 6800 GT DDL; NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT; NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
5GB of disk space for application, templates, and tutorial
DVD drive for installation
Mac OS X v10.4.6 or later
all of this I have, any idea why it wont work?
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fatreg
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grrrr....
i've been messing with the setting on my mac and now my dock doesnt zoom in if that makes any sence?
as in when i hover over an item it doesnt enlarge it?
what button have i pressed?
please help me! small problem i know but it annoys me...
and yes the enable magnifaction option is ticked!
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fatreg
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Luke-the-magic-man
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have you got the right amount of magnification set? Is it set to none or a little bit instead of allot?
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fatreg
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i've moved both bars to smallest then biggest and vica versa but to no avail....
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Luke-the-magic-man
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hmmm, no idea, lets wait for the big guy to return
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fatreg
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is ok..
seems to have sorted itself out!
PHEW!
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Luke-the-magic-man
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so did my problem with aperture, which is weird, but cool lol now it works fine on my system got no idea why it wouldnt work to start with considering I had the recomended system requirements
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haynesycop
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Can anybody recommend me some good dvd r/rw i am using an intel macbook pro and decided to back up some of my csi dvd's so i used mactheripper which was fine and then dragged the video-ts file into toast.
It compressed it fine as the full extraction was 7.7gb then when it came to write the disc i got an error halfway through something about sense drive, hardware failure. I have looked it up and it seems to be the type of media you use (i used philips dvd+rw)
Also it took nearly and hour for toast to compress the file and then stated another 15 minutes to write, is this normal? If not should i use another program to compress it and then just use toast to burn if so which program?
I am going to go to staples later so if anybody can recommend a brand that would be great. Thanks.
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haynesycop
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Anyone at all? I keep getting errors all the time i have used dvd2oneX to compress the video-ts file to save toast doing it and then tried using toast to burn but i am still getting error messages.
I have tried both philips dvd+r and dvd+rw and philips dvd-rw and the same thing happens on both i have used this media before and had no problem but not for burning video-ts file, am i using the wrong type of something this is so annoying.
Was thinking of trying the apple dvd-r media but it is rather expensive, has anyone used it before the reviews on the apple website seem good but it is around £2 for each dvd-r.
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Jools
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We have used the Apple media in the past and not had any problems, but as you say its expensive.
Currently we're using Intenso DVD-R's and have no failures yet.
http://www.cd-rmedia.co.uk/cgi-bin2/details.pl?id=intdvd16x
You might want to check on the Apple site to see if there's a SuperDrive firmware update applicible to your drive. They often increase compatibility with media.
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haynesycop
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Cheers Jools have not spotted anything on the apple site and nothing is mentioned when i run update software from my macbook, will keep my eye out though. I am tempted just to pay out and get the apple media as i know i would have no problems with it just very pricey, thanks for the link will check that out now.
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Luke-the-magic-man
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i went into tescos and bought some, they were alright I found, tough worked best on a lower riting speed
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