Completely unrelated - how do you get the 'home' and 'end' keys to do anything on a Mac? (Yes, I'm using a Mac keyboard.)
They work for me.
In Word? I will check. Also, what OS are you in?
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DCJensen - Jan 16, 2005 10:05:46 am PST #1229 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
tommyrot - Jan 16, 2005 10:17:54 am PST #1230 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OS X 10.3. Also, I couldn't get them to work on 10.2 on my iBook. On my 10.3 Cube I'm using an Apple wireless keyboard.
Do those keys have application-specific functionality? I don't have Word on either computer.
Huh. The keys work in Open Office. But it annoys me that they don't work in an HTML text box in Mozilla/Firefox.
DCJensen - Jan 16, 2005 10:27:56 am PST #1231 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Perhaps they need the numlock... heh.
Weird that they wouldn't work. The Appearance pane of the System Preferences utility enables you to modify the behavior of window scrolling. You might want to start there.
Do those keys have application-specific functionality?
Word sometimes has special remapping.
Theodosia - Jan 16, 2005 10:35:16 am PST #1232 of 10003
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I just skipped over like 200 posts here, so if anybody had an unanswered TiVo question, I didn't see it. Not that you aren't in good hands, but I've had a lot of experience with them, so....
DCJensen - Jan 16, 2005 12:24:02 pm PST #1233 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
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Tom Scola - Jan 16, 2005 12:44:04 pm PST #1234 of 10003
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I need to bring my Power Mac to the shop yet again tomorrow.
I'm thinking about buying a Mac mini just so I'll have a spare computer for when my main one is being fixed.
tommyrot - Jan 16, 2005 12:45:45 pm PST #1235 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
You could mount it on the wall behind a panel that says, "In case of emergency, break glass."
beekaytee - Jan 16, 2005 1:49:55 pm PST #1236 of 10003
Compassionately intolerant
And speaking of Macs.
I finally began setting up my new (to me) eMac, despite not yet adding new memory. I will do that soonish.
My immediate need:
Consider me a clean slate. Never used OSX before. (have only 10.1.4 until the upgrade)
What browser and email programs should I be using? (Cheap suggestions will be given the most weight...or rather, suggestions for cheap products vs. simply cheap talk.)
Also: Is it worthwhile the upgrade from Office 2001 to work in OSX or is the Classic environment just fine...which is what I suspect.
(off to walk the pooch, so if anyone is around, I'll respond in about a half hour. Thanks in advance for any thoughts.)
tommyrot - Jan 16, 2005 1:54:30 pm PST #1237 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Firefox is good, but it uses a lot of RAM, so you might not want to use it unti you get more RAM installed. I haven't really used IE for the Mac, so I can't comment on that. Apple's Safari browser is good for older Macs, as it's faster than Mozilla and uses less memory.
beekaytee - Jan 16, 2005 1:59:07 pm PST #1238 of 10003
Compassionately intolerant
not gone yet
I've got IE up now and it seems okay. But I'd really like to join the Firefox appreciators, so that's one more reason to push through the upgrade.
As for email programs. Mail seems pretty funtionality free, but it plays nice with OSX. Outlook only seems to work in Classic, which for some reason doesn't seem to like my Verizon connection.
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