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Google Desktop for Mac beta now available: [link]
Unlike its Windows counterpart, GDesktop for Mac does NOT include gadgets or a toolbar - simply search. Once installed, hitting the Cmd key twice summons the GD as-you-type search box (like Ctrl, Ctrl on Windows) and all the normal Google Desktop advanced search operator trickery works, too. Plus GDesktop can include Gmail messages in your search results, which obviously Spotlight cannot. (In System Preferences, go to Google Desktop to configure your Gmail account.)
But why wouldn't you just use quicksilver? I mean, the only difference is not being able to search your google account, but if you download your mail to a client and your files are originals on your hard drive, there's not much reason to switch.
Daniel, if you are interested in my G3 Powerbook w/ dead hard drive shoot me an e.
Question: What's more fun than re-installing an operating system?
Answer: Not much!...Oh wait, no. Going home. Going home is a lot more fun than re-installing an OS.
I'm having a weird problem with one of my Macs at work -- the DVD Player software is refusing to recognize or play DVDs. No matter what we put in the drive (DVD data discs, playable DVDs created on this same Mac, playable DVDs created elsewhere), it loads in the finder as "Untitled CD" and refuses to acknowledge the presence of any media.
We've run all the updates we can find, and are currently running DVD Player 4.6.5, which as far as I can tell is the newest version available.
Anyone have a clue what might be causing this or how to fix it? Since we can still create DVDs on this Mac (that will play everywhere else), I'm pretty confident that it's a software issue and not the drive itself.
Jess, that's a common problem -- I saw it mentioned the other day. [link]
The Mac I got from eBay on Sunday still hasn't shown up. I'm nervous.
I have a MSWord puzzler. Why would a document refuse to print? I have a letter that I've printed many times before. One day, I selected the print command, pressed OK and...nothing. I can print other things, just this document, when commanded to print, will not print. I saved it to the document storage system...nothing. Tried other printers...nothing. It just doesn't tell the printer to print, the printer icon doesn't come up or anything. I've tried looking at all the various settings to see if there's something I accidentally checked that says "don't print"-- haven't found it. I've been able to c/p the doc and print that, but has anyone else seen this problem?
About the only thing I can think of is that in the Print dialog box, instead of an active printer, it's being told to print to a file, and dumping copies of itself on the hard drive somewhere. But this:
I saved it to the document storage system...nothing. Tried other printers...nothing.
....makes it sound like you've tried all that.
Other than that, I've got nothing. Sorry, bon.
That sounded like a very good answer, actually. As far as I know, the only way to print to file is checking a box on the print dialog, and that box isn't checked when it fails to print. If there's another setting, though, that might be it.
The only place I know for sure to do that is the check box in the print dialog. If there's someplace else to do it, maybe somebody else will know.
Oh, what OS are you using?
