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The Property List Editor is not part of the standard OS X installation. It is included in the Developer's Tools. In Panther you can open a plist with TextEdit as it is just an XML file. In Tiger however, the plist files have been converted to binary and can only be opened and read with Property...

AFAIK there is no Epson 600 driver for either Panther or Tiger except for Gimp-Print. The 5.0.0 beta 2 is extremely stable and works like a champ. Ignore anything you see about Ghostscript it is already installed in Panther. The Gimp-Print drivers offer more features than Epson's factory drivers...

I wouldn't worry about accessing the Safari preference files, just drag them to the trash and empty the trash. They will be recreated the next time you open Safari. If you have any Safari enhancers or third party download managers be sure they are the very latest versions as previous versions...

The question mark for Safari may be an indication the Launch Services database or Whatis database in OS X may be corrupted. Cocktail can rebuild both for you in addition to cleaning out a lot of the logs, caches, etc, that accumulate over time and can slow your system performance.

I have found each upgrade (10.2, 10.3, 10.4) of OS X to be more stable and faster then the previous version but I have never noticed any performance change with the updates (10.4.1, 10.4.2). Your slowdown may well be the result of the detritus that accumulates on any system with time. Use a...

You are correct. Officially they will only support 320MB but with higher capacity SO-DIMMs than were available when the clamshells were built and spec'd they will actually support 576MB. 64MB soldered on the logic board plus a 512MB SO-DIMM. Later model iBooks with 128MB soldered to the...

On the Safari menu, select "Empty Cache" and see if things don't speed up. If that doesn't do it use something like Cocktail, Onyx, or Tiger Cache Cleaner to clean out the user, system, and internet cache files. That usually does the trick.

Your RAM is marginal for any version of OS X and frankly inadequate for decent performance with Tiger. As far as your disk drive goes, starting with a 10GB drive and allowing for the necessary 15% free space for good drive health you only have 8.5GB available. Not counting the the user files...

By any chance in System Preferences > Energy Saver, do you have "Put hard drive to sleep when possible" checked? Sometimes the delay waiting for the drives to spin up seem interminable.

I love the Verizon FiOS service and I went for the high speed package. When I bundled that with landline phone, and long distance it actually wound up about $3.00 a month less than I was paying for the individual services and DSL. The additional speed is definitely noticeable on normal web...

FWIW I have tried every .tk site that has been mentioned in this thread and I always get through using Safari 2.0.1 (412.5) on OS X 10.4.2 with all the security updates installed. My ISP is Verizon FiOS. I suppose I should mention that the first site mentioned wasn't much. As someone else said...

MoneyDance reports do that easily. You can select any date range you wish for any report. In addition the MoneyDance search function allows you to select transactions on a variety of criteria and then print them out. Although there is no user manual per. se. check out the MoneyDance Wiki for...

MoneyDance is a neat little accounting package that would be appropriate for a small business such as yours. It lacks the feature bloat of Quicken but has all of the essential features. It is written in Java and is truly a cross platform package. If you want something that can handle a larger...

It always helps if you specify what version of OS X, Mail, and Safari you are using. The recommended fix may be different for different versions. In this case I suggest getting the version of Cocktail or Onyx that is appropriate to your version of OS X and running the routines to delete the...

Repair permissions does not change anything in the /User folder so it will not nelp your situation. Use Get Info to determine ownership and permissions of your Drop Box folders and the Shared folder The drop box in account A should have Owner: A -- Read & Write Group: Staff -- Write only (Drop...

What version of iPhoto are you using?

A little more detail would be helpful. What are you printing and if these are graphic images, what is the file format? What application are you printing from? What make and model printer are you using? Are you using any color managment/synchronization? Have you calibrated your monitor's...

And in my not so humble opinion those awful reviews were way too complementary. One of the worst packages it has been my misfortune to use. There are other packages but many of them make SketchUp look almost inexpensive. In answer to your question it is because the Mac is the quintessential...

I have seen multiple reports of this being caused by USB hubs and in one case a USB PCI card. The fix is to replace the offending hub or PCI card.

I agree with ElDiabloConCaca that allowing OS X to install resources in OS 9.2.2 will not harm it in any way. But if you are really paranoid: Install a second copy of OS 9.2.2 on the same drive/partition with OS X Open the OS X System Preferences > Classic and select the copy of OS 9 on the...