Re: Loading Problems

2009-11-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 10, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Thunder 1 wrote: Thank you Dan for the confirmation that I was looking for. I use MSNBC as one of my news sources only because its the only one offered on my Excite.com Home Page for the Science Tech articles I like to read. I will work to find some other

Re: Droolworthy new iMac

2009-11-10 Thread Ashgrove
almost every computer for the past few years has better resolution than new tvs even the personal ones 1080p simply means the vertical res is 1080 lines. any monitor that does 1600x1200 will top that that was just sales talk - thanks for the input! it did sound like sales talk to me...

Re: Loading Problems

2009-11-10 Thread Dan
At 10:24 AM -0700 11/10/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Nov 10, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Thunder 1 wrote: I will work to find some other news source as I continue my walk thru the public news morass ... news.google.com is a very good start And check out NetNewsWire - learn how to use RSS feeds. As

Re: Loading Problems

2009-11-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Dan wrote: And check out NetNewsWire - learn how to use RSS feeds. As you find news sources that seem interesting, throw the RSS feed (feed://etc) at NetNewsWire. Then you'll see the new articles in a clean easy to read list! It's MUCH faster than visiting

booting 20 G4 iMac to external drive

2009-11-10 Thread Patrick
Hi, My ol' G4 20 iMac has been collecting dust as family members seem to prefer the convenience of laptops. My wife suddenly wants to load up her iPod Touch with tunes she had on the old iMac, but I'm getting an infinite blue screen when I try to boot it up. Perhaps the internal HD is fried. If

Re: Loading Problems

2009-11-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 10, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Art wrote: On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Dan wrote: And check out NetNewsWire - learn how to use RSS feeds. As you find news sources that seem interesting, throw the RSS feed (feed://etc) at NetNewsWire. Then you'll see the new articles in a clean easy to

Re: Loading Problems

2009-11-10 Thread Christopher Collins
I just find that using Vienna (I used NNW before they took out MobileMe sync) makes it much easier for me to control my feeds and makes it a much more enjoyable experience to read them. Off course, you may find Mail fine. But to me, an e-mail program is exactly that. An email program.

Re: Tiger install on Lime (333 MHz) iMac

2009-11-10 Thread ./aal
turtle wax does wonders for scratched optical media the paste in the can, plain wax ---NOT the cleaner wax--- scratches in the clear side can be fixed with it scratches in the label side are not repairable -- -- NOT sent from an iphone,blackberry,Nokia, or any handheld. -- I'm a PC(x86 AND