I've just discovered that - magnifies the entire screen centered at wherever my mouse is.
Hey, cool, that just made my TV-as-monitor setup a lot more practical!
I'm just waiting to see if I pass out. Long story.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
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-t - Apr 06, 2007 8:11:49 am PDT #1169 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Jon B. - Apr 06, 2007 8:29:31 am PDT #1170 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I kinda go there to lose the other controls. I just want it to pretend to be a solo one.
Yeah, but you always need volume controls. I also only end up there if I accidentally push the wrong thing, but it's still annoying.
how cool (uh, and un-needed) is that?
I know! You can set up a slideshow, too! I did something really sappy and put on these photobooth photos of me and FAQWife.
§ ita § - Apr 06, 2007 9:22:52 am PDT #1171 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
you always need volume controls
Me, NSM. I don't control volume from my DVD remote, so I've never thought of needing it under Devices. I just head in and get right back to Activities ASAP.
flea - Apr 06, 2007 10:06:40 am PDT #1172 of 25496
information libertarian
Question: I crash Firefox a fair amount. Just did it now trying to get into Cute Overload. It happens more frequently at work, where I run NT on a old and memory-impaired Dell, but it happens a decent amount at home on a 5 year old Mac G3 running 10.4, too. Is it me (in both places?), or is this a known Firefox thing?
Jessica - Apr 06, 2007 10:42:06 am PDT #1173 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
DVD drive update -- the fix suggested in Kevin's link has partially fixed the problem. The Mac can now play all DVDs...except the ones it creates. (Doesn't seem to matter if we create a DVD with iDVD, DVD Studio Pro, or just by dragging QT files and hitting "burn" from the finder -- once they're done, they're all read as "Untitled CD" and completely unplayable.)
I am stumped.
Kevin - Apr 06, 2007 10:44:12 am PDT #1174 of 25496
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
flea - do you have any Firefox extensions installed? It's a common cause of Firefox crashes.
flea - Apr 06, 2007 10:48:44 am PDT #1175 of 25496
information libertarian
Nope. None at home; I think one here at work.
Kevin - Apr 06, 2007 10:51:54 am PDT #1176 of 25496
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Firefox is pretty memory hungry. How much memory do you have on both machines, do you know? I'd try disabling the extension at work also and see if it improves things also.
Typo Boy - Apr 06, 2007 11:49:23 am PDT #1177 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Bon Bon, I'd C&P to an empty document and save the new doc over it. Since you tried selecting another printer, you are not printing to a file that is really a printer. I don't suppose you have "print selection" checked, with nothing selected or worse one space selected? That is one way to get word to print nothing:
signed
Someone who has made every possible stupid mistake using word.
Jon B. - Apr 06, 2007 12:20:14 pm PDT #1178 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Mac question:
I just got an external HD for the Mini. It connects via USB and came preformatted with FAT32. Since it may be useful to occasionally use it to transfer files to my XP machine, I'd like to leave it as FAT32.
There's not a lot of room on the Mac's internal HD, so I thought I'd move everything in the Movie folder over to the new external drive. This sort of worked -- I control-dragged the Movie folder over, and everything transferred fine. In addition, the sidebar automatically points to the new location. However, when I use the FrontRow thingie, it can't find any movies. And the internal HD is showing no additional free space, so I can't move the Movie folder back.
Soooo... how do I get FrontRow to see the new Movie folder, and how do I get the internal HD to free up the space?