Re: Bridging between airport and ethernet

This works well, I have done it. On 02/03/2005, at 06:35, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Mar 1, 2005, at 12:38 PM, Orlando Mac Geek wrote: I do not know if it is possible to do this, so thought I would throw it out there and see what kind of response I get. If it's using OS X, you can enable internet conn

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

Do you place your icons and then clean up or do you have them sorted in a predefined order ? All I do is snapping every icon (don't know the exact words in the English system, I use the Italian version) to the grid in the Show View Option. Nothing else. I'll tell you what came to mind when I read y

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

From: "Frank P. Eigler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Do you change the resloution of the screen at all? Never, 15" AlBook 1GHz at max res. Larry _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.c

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

From: Tim Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I think somebody already posted a reply to your question a bit earlier today. Yes, I have even switched to snap to grid to stop me from getting pissed off, but it's not really the point I was making, it was more that I couldn't line icons up without them jumpi

Re: FinderPop like utility for OS X

On Mar 1, 2005, at 2:36 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: Bruce, Do you think such utility would be useful and that a lot of people would use it? I'm kinda wondering why the other of FinderPop never ported his application to OS X... I know I'd snap it up in a heartbeat. Turly quit working on FinderPop b

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, macpi wrote: > > > > Do you place your icons and then clean up or do > > you have them sorted in a predefined order ? > > All I do is snapping every icon (don't know the exact words in the > English system, I use the Italian version) to the grid in the Show View > Option. > Not

Re: FinderPop like utility for OS X

on 01/03/05 14:59, Bruce Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Feb 28, 2005, at 9:00 PM, Frank Cornew wrote: > >> Fruitmenu coupled with moveitems X has made for a satisfactory >> substitute for Finderpop (which substituted for popup folder) >> > > It appears from reading the Fruitmenu si

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

I think somebody already posted a reply to your question a bit earlier today. From the desktop, choose the view menu then Show View Options and there you can choose the icon size and how items are displayed on the desktop. You can choose to keep arranged by name or kind or whatever. Personally, I

Re: Sticky Contextual Menu key?

At 3:00 PM -0500 3/1/05, Roy wrote: I'm having a problem. Wether using mouse or trackpad, it appears that the contextual menu key is stuck ON. I cannot double click on anything. Any ideas? Al PB, 1.5ghz, 17" Try pressing and releasing all the modifier keys (control, option, apple, shift, functi

Re: Bridging between airport and ethernet

On Mar 1, 2005, at 12:38 PM, Orlando Mac Geek wrote: I do not know if it is possible to do this, so thought I would throw it out there and see what kind of response I get. If it's using OS X, you can enable internet connection sharing in the sharing prefs pane. -- Bruce Johnson University of Ariz

Sticky Contextual Menu key?

I'm having a problem. Wether using mouse or trackpad, it appears that the contextual menu key is stuck ON. I cannot double click on anything. Any ideas? Al PB, 1.5ghz, 17" Regards, Roy Quinn -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.c

Re: FinderPop like utility for OS X

On Feb 28, 2005, at 9:00 PM, Frank Cornew wrote: Fruitmenu coupled with moveitems X has made for a satisfactory substitute for Finderpop (which substituted for popup folder) It appears from reading the Fruitmenu site that it does everything EXCEPT the ONE thing I need it to do (and the ONE thing

Bridging between airport and ethernet

I do not know if it is possible to do this, so thought I would throw it out there and see what kind of response I get. My apartment complex gives us free WiFi which I happily use and connect witrh my Powerbook's AirPort card. What I would like to do is to bridge this connection using the built in

Peripheral buying advice needed (slightly OT)

I am looking at buying a whole bunch of stuff in one go, but thought that maybe someone had some good advice based on experience, good or bad... :o) 1. DVD±RW external burner LaCie d2 16x FW & USB2 2. External harddrive LaCie d2 FW800/400 320GB Maxtor OneTouch II FW/USB

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

Do you place your icons and then clean up or do you have them sorted in a predefined order ? All I do is snapping every icon (don't know the exact words in the English system, I use the Italian version) to the grid in the Show View Option. Nothing else. macpi -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

From: "Laurent Daudelin (No, I'm not a contractor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What is the presentation before you try to do the cleanup? Do you have the snap to grid option turned on? No, just normal place anywhere... Larry _ Express yours

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

macpi wrote: On 01/mar/05, at 16:09, Larry le Mac said: I am using my AlBook 15" with Mac OS X.3.8 and I cannot believe that OS X still has this bleeding desktop icon bug where a cleanup of the icons causes them to fly all over the place, and then not show their actual position until one tries to s

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

From: macpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In 16 months usage it never happened to me... Do you place your icons and then clean up or do you have them sorted in a predefined order ? Larry _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

On 01/03/05 10:09, "Larry le Mac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using my AlBook 15" with Mac OS X.3.8 and I cannot > believe that OS X still has this bleeding desktop icon bug > where a cleanup of the icons causes them to fly all over > the place, and then not show their actual position until

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

On 01/mar/05, at 16:09, Larry le Mac said: I am using my AlBook 15" with Mac OS X.3.8 and I cannot believe that OS X still has this bleeding desktop icon bug where a cleanup of the icons causes them to fly all over the place, and then not show their actual position until one tries to select them, i

OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

I am using my AlBook 15" with Mac OS X.3.8 and I cannot believe that OS X still has this bleeding desktop icon bug where a cleanup of the icons causes them to fly all over the place, and then not show their actual position until one tries to select them, i.e. the ones that aren't where they appear

Re: Peripheral buying advice needed (slightly OT)

I think LaCie 's burner is a good choice as is the HP printer (I have one myself). For the Analog Digital converter, take a look at Miglia products. I've seen them at CompUSA, Mall, Zones, J&R, even SmallDog and OWC! There's a $40 mail in rebate on the DC converter. If you don't want the full frame

Re: losing internet connection

We have this problem sometimes, and we're fairly sure it's our ISP. Up/downloads get slower and slower, and occasionally we lose it altogether. We have one iMac, two PCs, one wireless PowerBook and one wireless PC laptop connected to the internet via DSL, with an Airport Extreme transmitting

Re: losing internet connection

I had the same problem when using Airport Extreme as part of my home network. The airport boards on the apple tech support page is full of similar problems which point to the base station as the most likely culprit. After several attempts with Applecare to solve the problem, they finally repl