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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.
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....
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My computer had become something to loathe and fear. Apple is the most reliable computer on the market, according to Consumer Reports.
I buy everything Consumer Reports tells me to buy.
Except Old Milwaukee.
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.
You could mount it on the wall behind a panel that says, "In case of emergency, break glass."
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.)
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.
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.
Fuss and Bother!
Beej-- Mail plays well with Address Book and iCal to gice you most of the Outlook functionality. iCal is very pretty.
Oooh. iCal IS pretty.
What I really need, though, is nicely formatted email messages.
I send inquiries about fees and programs in a template that looks a bit like my web page.
Am I missing that functionality in Mail?
switching over to Mail for a sec to see
eta: ::hangs head in shame over asking a question before fully exploring the options::
Hmph. Only text color in Mail. No background. Email product question still stands.