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Go to http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/ and search their databases. There are dozens of applications in each category ranging in price from free to nearly $1,000 each. Only you can decide which of the various offerings is appropriate to your needs and pocketbook.

First select one of the Real Player files then press Command+I. In the Get Info window this opens find the item labeled Open With. Then in the drop down menu select Real Player. Finally click the "Change All" button. that will change the file association for all files with that extension, and...

Apple does not have any firmware updates for the factory installed Superdrives so it is extremely unlikely firmware is the genesis of your problem and if it were, I would have no idea where you would go to get the firmware update other than Apple. Each media type and each function in your...

Like all JPEG and MPEG file formats, the compression used for standard DVD video files uses "lossy" algorithms. In other words the video is compressed by physically discarding data. As a result there is a severe limit on how much a video can be compressed and not become so pixilated that images...

Have you renamed or moved your user folder?

The "We are using special permissions..." message is a standard notification for information purposes only and have appeared in DU since OS X 10.2 and according to Apple they can be safely ignored. You can confirm this by reading Apple Knowledge Base article 107298. I have noticed that theses...

No Mac running OS X has ever been able to boot from a USB device. The USB device drivers are loaded from the hard drive during the boot process and so are not available to start the boot process.

I don't know about the sites you mentioned but WalMart uses ActiveX technology for their uploads. ActiveX is a proprietary Microsoft technology that has not, and likely never will be, ported to the Mac. In that case the option is to use Internet Explorer in Windows running on Virtual PC.

If you know what version of OS X is on the computer and you have a friend with an install CD/DVD for that version you can reset the password from the Installer menu if you boot from the CD/DVD. If I were you, I would get a sopy of Panther or Tiger, erase the hard drive and start over clean...

Word has been plagued by problems like this for years. When I was in Tech Support for Microsoft we were told the first line of defense against this kind of problem was to turn off "fast save". Since that portion of the code base hasn't changed much I would certainly be worth a try.

If you don't know Unix you are probably well advised to stay away from Terminal. There are several apps that delete that file for you without resorting to the Terminal command line. The one I have used since the OS X Public Beta is FileXaminer (shareware $10).

Launch Disk Utility and select your HD, not the volume on the drive but the drive itself. Then at the bottom of the DU window check the S.M.A.R.T. status. If it is "verified" then according to the manufacturer of your drive it is operating within normal tolerances. If it is anything other than...

For what it is worth after a recent SuperDrive transplant on my wife's G4/733 Quicksilver during which I reset the CUDA button her computer would not even attempt to boot until I replaced the PRAM battery. You can get the batter at Radio Shack for $14.95. It is pretty obvious on the logic board...

From your description, it sounds like these are "Gossamer" machines that were built between November 1997 and January 1999. The "Gossamer" Macs predate many of the hardware features that are considered standard on new Macs such as Open Firmware, USB, and firewire. So a lot of the today's...

A little background on the Macs you are attempting to upgrade would be helpful. Information such as: What model Macs are these? How big is the hard drive and are they formatted HFS or HFS+ Are the optical drives original equipment from Apple? What version of OS X are you attempting to...

Strictly as a technical answer -- you wasted your money, there is no workaround to make the installer work on your PowerBook.

Mail will learn to catch some of it and by then the spammers will have figured out another way to get around the spam blockers, so it tends to go in cycles. Some providers are using "blacklists" to control spam. That means if a lot of spam or virus infected mail originates from that domain...

It is nothing you are doing wrong, except you should turn off training mode if you have not already done so. Mail will continue to learn even if you are not in training mode. The problem is a lot of spammers are some of the sharpest knives in the drawer and they are being paid really good...

Diskwarrior is the best at recovering really trashed directory structures even if it takes several days to accomplish its task, but that is about all it does. TechTool Pro on the other hand is no slouch at recovering trashed directory structures, and if offers not only directory optimization...

Do you have any friends at the FBI or NSA forensic labs? Not even Drivesavers can recover that kind of a file loss. The worst part was the reboot which very probably overwrote some of the deleted file with cache files. Had you been running TechTool protection, you might have been able to go back...