The current Beta of the next version of Skype is particularly good:

Skype 2.8 Beta – now includes Screen Sharing, improved video and audio.

Applemacster

many thanks form all you help, had a great chat with Mrs ITI on Skype

Sliding Macbook screen!
 

Well not quite.

I have obviously disturbed something which has caused my screen to expand beyond the edges of my Macbook screen. A senior moments prevents me sorting it out!

If I move the mouse pointer to the screen slides to the right and vice versa.

Any top tips to revert to the status quo?

I am not computer bright!

Ta folks

FW

Try pressing alt, cmd and - (minus) to zoom out. Look in system preferences, Universal Access and see whether zoom is turned on - if so turn it off.

BRILL!!!!

Many many thanks:ok:

It was making me dizzy!

FW

Google cookies
 

I'm using Safari ( with cookies enabled ), even after deleting google cookies and not using google - a google cookie re appears !

Anyone have any ideas how to stop this happening ? ( i want to leave cookies enabled ).

I believe you cannot block the Google cookies as Google is the default search engine built into Safari.

There is a method of for changing the default search engine to Yahoo but I would then suppose that Yahoo cookies would automatically be installed.

If you really don't want to use google and really don't want its cookies, make an entry in your hosts file (I assume that Macs have on) with 127.0.0.1 for whatever the google URLs are.

SD

Yes, they do. I wouldn't recommend it, though; it could all go pear-shaped quite easily if you don't know what you're doing!

Edit Mac OS X Leopard Hosts File

Applemacster

I too need a bit of help if you gentlemen (and ladies) have a spare moment.

Mr ATS just bought me a Mac after getting fed up with hearing me moan and moan and moan about me old lappy.
Great little machine the Mac!
I use MSN Messenger very often and when i try to change the (my) display picture to one of the pictures i've got on iPhoto, a message along the lines of "the picture is too big please re-size it" comes up; i don't know how to re-size the pictures, although i had a look in iPhoto, i'm still clueless.
Any advice?

Ta
ATS

PS: Thank all of you who posted helpful links with free software, very much appreciated:ok:

Within iPhoto

Go to file>export>(resize manually)>share>msn messenger.

Hopefully that should do it, hopefully :) However, there might be a preferred size that you can always resize photos to for use on MSN etc. Hope that helps.


Regards


SHJ

In iphoto you can use file, export and save it somewhere in various sizes. Or open a picture with preview (just double clicking a jpg should open it with preview) and then resize it in preview under tools, adjust size. You might want to drag a picture from iphoto onto the desktop and then work on it from there.

Edit to say - timing!

Sorted!
Thank you gentlemen, much appreciated:ok:

Mac To PC File Transfer Problem
 

We take a lot of photos at work and burn them onto a DVD, using the PowerMac G5, 10.4.11, for the customer. Just a straight forward drag the files to a Burn Folder and burn.

On this occasion, the task covered four addresses. The photos for each address were put in individual folders. Each folder was then dragged to the Burn Folder.

Each folder/photo from the subsequent DVD could be read on the Mac. When inserted into the DVD drive on a PC, trying to open each folder resulted in the following message: "Not accessable. The folder has been removed or moved" Selecting the DVD in My Computer and looking at it's Properties gave a file size of 1Gb. Selecting the individual folders gave file sizes of 0 bytes.

Any ideas why this happens?

I can only think it's something to do with the burn process on the Mac. The solution we found was to create the Burn Folder, then create the individual address folders in the Burn Folder, and then drag over the photos to the repective folders.

Any ideas why the second method works but not the first?

Anyone able to recommend a good password manager for OSX?

Keychain. It's part of OS X & will store passwords, secure notes etc. & is likely to do everything that most people need.

Ideally (and this is not default OS X behaviour, but is what I do), make your keychain-unlock password different from your login password. You do need to remember two passwords, but it prevents anything (such as mail) from retrieving a password that is stored in keychain without you explicitly permitting it each time.

For enhanced security, don't use an admin account for your day to day operations (i.e. create a 'user' account & routinely use that one. Reserve the admin account for admin-things). Store applications which you install yourself in a local-to-your-account applications folder (which you can therefore write to as a non-admin user). That way, nothing you do can touch the system.

My leopard/imac has started some strange behaviour recently. I haven't identified anything specific that prompts it to happen (although it may be after it wakes from sleep?) but a lot of HDD activity occurs, programs are very slow or unresponsive often with the pinwheel, then it automatically restarts. Any ideas - web searches are proving fruitless so far.

Background Noise,

It could be a number of things, but there are a couple of things you can try straight away:

1. Check how much free space you have left on your hard drive. Ideally, you need around 4-5Gb of free space for OS X to work properly. Any less than this and there isn't enough room for virtual memory.

2. Have you repaired your permissions? Go to Applications>Utilities and open Disk Utility. Select the top disk in the column on the left hand side and select "Repair Disk Permissions". This is something you ought to do every few months, but especially when new software has been installed.

Applemacster.

Sounds if it is trying to install a major update and failing. 10.5.7 was released today and is over 450 MB.

Try downloading it manually.

Another useful little trick is to restart the machine and hold down the shift key. Hold it down until you see "safe boot" appear. Login then and then restart normally. During a safe boot, the machine carries out some repairs which quite often fixes problems.

Thanks chaps - no problem with space - 78 GB out of 250 free. Don't think it was the software update - it's happened a few times and no sign of any of the update checking routine running. I had done the disk permissions but I've done that again. Wasn't sure that the safe boot would work as I have a wireless keyboard but it did. (I assumed that the OS would have to be running before the keyboard was recognised/paired).

I've just done a manual update out of phase of the autoupdate and it's found the 10.5.7 - mine reports only 286 Mb. Downloading now.