Need advice on how to update an older MacBook Pro with a new hard drive. I have a late-2008 MacBook Pro: 2.53 GHz, 320GB hard drive, 8GM RAM (4GB in two slots). My drive is getting full and I don't have the cash at the moment for a brand new laptop. Should I replace the optical drive with a SSD? Or just upgrade the regular hard drive with a new one with 750GB or 1TB?
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posted by barnone
on Nov 23, 2012 -
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I want to move to network-attached storage. I've got two Macs and am trying to decide between buying an Airport Extreme or Seagate GoFlex.
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posted by blueshammer
on Nov 23, 2012 -
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I just switched to an iPhone 5 after years with an Android phone. My carefully constructed sync setup between my work Win 7 PC, my home Mac and my phone is no longer as useful. Details of my current setup within.
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posted by tommasz
on Nov 21, 2012 -
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I'm trying to remember a computer game I had years back, but I can't for the life of me find it. It was a falling bricks game (like Tetris) but the pieces were one of four parts of several different faces - the hair, the eyes, the nose and mouth, and the chin and neck. The idea was to make a complete face that would then disappear from the board (again, like in Tetris). You could do mix and match faces, but you got more points for doing a whole matching face. If you let, for instance, too many mouths pile up on each other and reach the top, you lost. There were different levels, and the faces changed with each level.
Does anybody else know of this? It would have been a Mac game, sometime during the 90's. I can't have just imagined this!
posted by dithmer
on Nov 20, 2012 -
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I can't make Spore run on my Macbook Pro. My 9 year old is nonplussed. Please help...he's getting pouty....
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posted by digitalprimate
on Nov 20, 2012 -
12 answers
I decided to take my old G3 iMac down from the attic and play some old games. The old computer still works great, and yet there was a problem...
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posted by Silky Slim
on Nov 19, 2012 -
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Act! database vs. Daylite?
I used Act forever & loved the fact i could keep notes per company & then look up companies by Co. name, first name, last name, city, state, or other custom tag i classified them as.
I used ACT when i had my PC.... but for the past 3 years i've been on a Macbook Pro and only using Daylite... which i hate. I can't look up by anything other than Company name or contact name....
I need a new database contact program that is similar to ACT in the regards of how I can look up each company & allowing me under notes (or something) to keep track of my conversations. I'd also like it to sync up with my iphone 5.
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posted by foodybat
on Nov 4, 2012 -
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I've got an old Mac font suitcase (OS 9) containing fonts I'd like to use on my OS X (10.7) Mac. I'm not sure what format they're in but copying the file over to my new Mac results in a 0-byte file. I think I have to convert them to TTF on my OS 9 iMac, but not sure what to do it with. Any suggestions? Free would be great, since I don't plan on doing this again, but cheap would be okay.
posted by tommasz
on Nov 4, 2012 -
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I am using an iMac with Mountain Lion as my desktop, and an iPhone 4S with iOS6 as my cell phone. I use OSX's and iOS's native apps for email, contacts, and calendar, which are provided by Google Apps.
What I need is a GTD (to do) application for the Mac, which a) has an iOS version, and b) supports syncing to iCal or Google Calendar.
I currently own Omnifocus, but as of Mountain Lion, it no longer supports iCal sync. I want to be able to sync deadlines and tasks to my calendar, this really is a pretty basic feature that seems to be missing from a lot of GTD applications.
Wunderlist doesn't support this. I've looked at Things, but it doesn't seem to support it either.
Any recommendations?
posted by Unhyper
on Nov 3, 2012 -
4 answers
I have a newer Macbook Pro and whenever I move it around my house, Airport stops working and won't work again until I reboot. What gives?
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posted by deern the headlice
on Nov 2, 2012 -
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For editing photography: How do I calibrate these two screens: My iPad (I realize I'm just setting brightness here), and the monitor connected to my Mac (the Mac prefs calibration instructions don't work for me at all). Is there an excellent reference image out there I can use to calibrate my screens?
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posted by 2oh1
on Nov 2, 2012 -
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Help my mother with her Mac? iMac with question mark and/or question mark on folder after booting. Won't safe boot or anything. Diagnose or recommend a technician in E4E (New Brunswick)?
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posted by dobbs
on Nov 2, 2012 -
14 answers
My spouse needs a new all-in-one printer for her office Mac. It needs to do all of the usual all-in-one functions - print, scan, copy, fax. She does occasionally need to print in color. The most important criterion is that it play well with the Mac - both with set-up and with the individual functions.
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posted by gteffertz
on Nov 1, 2012 -
16 answers
Is there a free downloadable mac program to password protect my entire usb flash drive? I've already tried TrueCrypt and using a .dmg with Disk Utility.
posted by CarlyH
on Oct 30, 2012 -
5 answers
I have a early 2008 Macbook Pro that has just now come down with the
dying logic board problem. I bought it outside the 4-year period (so no free replacement) and have a new MBP anyways, so how can I get rid of it such that maximize my return value?
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posted by RyanAdams
on Oct 27, 2012 -
7 answers
Quick question:
I have never played Bioshock.
Just now I'm buying into the
MacHeist 4 bundle, which contains Bioshock 2.
Is it a bad idea to start part 2 without playing part 1 first?
No spoilers please :^)
posted by Silky Slim
on Oct 24, 2012 -
11 answers
Weird snowflake Mac OS X font issue. I've already tried all the usual suspects - deleting duplicate fonts from Font Book, etc, etc. But this one has me stumped.
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posted by kbanas
on Oct 17, 2012 -
9 answers
Transitioning from a Windows laptop to a Macbook Pro at work. Yay! Need software recommendations.
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posted by jbickers
on Oct 17, 2012 -
16 answers
Why does the resolution on the 17" Macbook Pro seem so much bigger than the 21" iMac?
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posted by ascetic
on Oct 11, 2012 -
9 answers
Chrome requires, via yellow pop down box, that I manually allow Flash to run on nearly every webpage I load (presumably just the ones that use Flash), each time I load it. How can I stop this? Complication: Chrome is no longer supported for my OS.
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posted by maryr
on Oct 8, 2012 -
6 answers
Is there a way to fully recover files from emptied trash on Mac 10.8.2? Or from a formatted Sandisk Compact Flash card?
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posted by slowtree
on Oct 8, 2012 -
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I just installed a new hard drive in my older (early 2008, 4 GB ram) macbook pro laptop and installed Snow Leopard. I need an office application, something like Open Office. What's the best current "stable" version of this OSS software for Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)?
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posted by jcdill
on Oct 7, 2012 -
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So I'm trying to find details on the next versions iWork - but no one seems to know anything. Has Apple given up on it's office suite?
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posted by Brent Parker
on Oct 4, 2012 -
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It’s time for my husband to get a new laptop, and we’re looking at a Mac that we’d share (the alternative is Windows). Help me decide whether a Mac is for us!
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posted by asnowballschance
on Sep 30, 2012 -
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Is there any way of adding new dictionaries to the system dictionary app for Mac OSX? I am learning russian and would love to be able to highlight a word and receive an english-to-russian or even just russian definition.
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posted by 221bbs
on Sep 24, 2012 -
5 answers
After the OSX 10.8.2 update several days ago, my laptop freezes on wake from hibernate (at least, it only does it when it has been asleep for a while). I posted on the Apple support forums
here, but no one has responded. There are excerpts from my system log there.
Things I've tried: fixing permissions, SMC reset, turning off my gmail calendar updates (I saw a lot of errors in the log having to do with that) but no luck. Any ideas?
posted by Philosopher Dirtbike
on Sep 23, 2012 -
7 answers
My iMac is doing something weird with brightness. It's not showing up at full brightness except every once in a while for a second after the display has slept.
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posted by NoraReed
on Sep 22, 2012 -
16 answers
I'm a big fan of Mac OS X's native application, Stickies. Screenshot here:
Stickies on overkill. You can make them translucent -- but is there a way/application to make them totally transparent, so that you'd only see the text, floating on top of your wallpaper?
posted by demagogue
on Sep 22, 2012 -
3 answers
How does one erase an internal hard drive when said drive is no longer hooked up to a computer and you don't have access to another computer? Then what's the best way to dispose of the drives?
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posted by Brandon Blatcher
on Sep 22, 2012 -
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Good ways/ideas/tips for how to organize my external hard drive (because I put it off each time I added things to it...and now it's a hot mess). And ideas for keeping it organized when I add things in the future.
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posted by PeppahCat
on Sep 19, 2012 -
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Can anyone recommend a good and affordable Mac hardware and software tech in Austin, Texas?
I've had a series of drive failures and I'm in way over my head. Need help replacing drives, reinstalling OS and, if possible, cloning from a failed drive.
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posted by a humble nudibranch
on Sep 18, 2012 -
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Graphic Designer asks: Can I use a laptop as my "main" computer? I've been a designer for 20+ years and have used every mac since the original, but I've always had a
desktop mac as my go-to machine. Now, it's upgrade time, and I'm thinking of using just a laptop for everything. More inside...
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posted by ecorrocio
on Sep 18, 2012 -
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I have a Macbook Air and an iPad. When they're both at home I want to be able to control music playback on the iPad from the Air. What do I want?
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posted by slow graffiti
on Sep 16, 2012 -
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I'm trying to install and run MySQL Server 5.0 on my Mac (OS X 10.5.8) for a class. I have no idea what I'm doing. Can you help?
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posted by sunshine37
on Sep 11, 2012 -
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My MacBook's touchpad went wrong this morning. Everything I do is suddenly like fighting with a ghost. Mac forums are useless.
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posted by Navelgazer
on Sep 6, 2012 -
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I've got a Scansnap printer and I'm ready to go paperless -- but I need the right Mac software to manage my scanned documents. None of the options I've found seem quite right.
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posted by yankeefog
on Sep 4, 2012 -
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I am looking for a wonderful timer program for Mac (OS X 10.7.4 +).
It needs to have a Cocoa GUI (meaning a GUI that isn't ugly, and isn't unnecessarily complicated), the ability to run multiple timers, and the ability to name timers with a decent amount of detail. Sound is an important feature, too.
Command line alternatives are also cool, but not ideal.
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posted by oceanjesse
on Aug 31, 2012 -
5 answers
I'm looking for a Mac app that can play internet radio and has a nice looking and easy-to-use interface.
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posted by nevan
on Aug 31, 2012 -
6 answers
I'm looking for software for a high school math teacher: first, a better/newer test generator, and second, in-classroom programs, bonus points for apps for an Apple laptop and/or an iPod touch. Details inside.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Aug 28, 2012 -
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Is there an app that does for Macs what
Rainmeter does for desktop? I'm not just talking monitoring, like
Geektool does; I'm looking for folder/bookmark opening and app launching. I'd like a desktop that gives me one-click access to various places on my computer and online, but that also lets me customize it visually. If there's no one app that does that, how might I go about creating that kind of environment on my own?
posted by Rory Marinich
on Aug 28, 2012 -
13 answers
How do I access the contents of an HDD from an iMac G5 (PPC) without the original computer?
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posted by dr handsome
on Aug 26, 2012 -
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