Mac Systems

NAS recommendations?
Any recommendations for Mac friendly NAS disk other than Time Capsule? Compatible with Time Machine a plus but not a requirement. I do have a Airport Extreme but I don't want to have to get a USB hub to add a drive to it. I've got a printer attached at the moment. thx in advance. -- thepixelfreak ... 21 Feb 2010 19:24

KDE/Qt on Snow Leopard
Has anyone here tried to install KDE (with Qt) on Snow Leopard? I'm not interested in using KDE as my desktop (I prefer Aqua); I just need to run some KDE/Qt-based applications on Snow Leopard. Some of the aforementioned applications work only under KDE3/Qt3, while others need KDE4/Qt4. Under Linux, this was e... 22 Feb 2010 09:36

Sea Monkey
John wrote: Nevermind Text Wrangler or Komposer I think Sea Monkey will do what I need. If you mean HTML / web writing/editing, yes, SeaMonkey is quite good for this. I use it myself for editing/translating help files from the various applications that I translate. The good about SeaMonkey is that you... 21 Feb 2010 00:36

Text Edit issues
On 20/02/10 01:13, John wrote: Got it. But how in the world do I use it? Text Edit was able to edit a HTML file to ASCII mode or in rich text mode. Can text wrangler? Nope. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net --- ... 21 Feb 2010 20:31

ipad 3g additional costs
Will the 3g-ipad require an additional subscription with some carrier, like AT&T or is that cost included in the 3g premium over the wi-fi? ... 19 Feb 2010 18:52

Mac Pro Ethernet Connections?
I have continuing questions my Mac Pro. There are two Ethernet ports on the computer. I set up an internet connection using a DSL modem. I used an Ethernet cable connected to Ethernet Port 1 on the computer. When I then replugged the cable from the modem into Port 2 instead of into Port 1, I did not get a work... 20 Feb 2010 16:53

How do I get rid of this error message at startup?
Like an idiot, I often download things I don't get around to trying until many days/weeks/months/years have passed. Such was the case last night when I found a zipped file for an item called "BroadbandOptimizer." I installed it and followed the instructions in Terminal, and restarted. The restart was fine, but I go... 18 Feb 2010 09:27

Nuance Acquires MacSpeech
Interested parties who missed this may read about Nuance's (makers of Dragon NaturallySpeaking for Windows) acquisition of MacSpeech (makers of the Mac speech recognition software MacSpeech Dictate that uses the Dragon "engine" under license) at <http://www.nuance.com/news/pressreleases/2010/20100216_macspeech.asp>... 17 Feb 2010 00:13

Leaving Mac On -- Advantages / Disadvantages
Except when I have my MacBook Pro away from home I leave it continuously on, having the display go to sleep after five minutes of inactivity. Leaving it on during the night is so that the nightly maintenance routines and my scheduled backups will run. What I'd be interested in knowing is what disadvantages are ... 24 Feb 2010 08:36

Leaving Mac On -- Advantages / Disadvantages
TaliesinSoft wrote: Except when I have my MacBook Pro away from home I leave it continuously on, having the display go to sleep after five minutes of inactivity. Leaving it on during the night is so that the nightly maintenance routines and my scheduled backups will run. What I'd be interested in k... 17 Feb 2010 00:13