Gently put the CD in the slot as far as it will go. Then hold down the “C” key while you start the computer. Your CD should slide in the rest of the way on its own when the computer starts up.
If that doesn’t solve the problem you probably need to get professional help.
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( 3 / 69 )Quick Look is a cool little tool that is part of Leopard. It may have been included in Tiger, but if so, I was never aware of it. What it lets you do is get a quick look at one or more documents without opening them. It is a fast way to search for things.
Click on one item, or select several items. If you are selecting everything in a folder just click on one item and select Command + A. Everything in the folder will be highlighted (selected). If you want specific items click on the first one and them hold the Command key down while you click on each of the other ones that you want. They can be a mixture of items, text and image.
Now that you have your items designated you are ready for a quick view. You can select "Quick Look" from the File menu, or select the Command key + Y, but the fastest way is to just hit the space bar.
The first document in your selection will open up for a "quick look".
In this example, I have several pages of receipts from a building project and I need to find the one that includes a product that I want to return.
The options at the bottom of the window allow me to view the pages as a slide show, open them all on one sheet, enlarge a specific page to full screen, or even to move a page to iPhoto.
Try this one, I bet you will find you use it a lot.
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( 3 / 80 )Along with most of the rest of the staff of The Mac Observer, I took part in a podcast a couple of days ago. If you are interested in how TMO works or in meeting some of the players, take a listen.
http://www.macvoices.com/wordpress/macv ... -observer/
Nancy
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( 2.9 / 73 )My poor little PowerBook G4 has been so ill. My daughter, the Apple specialist, has kept it running for me while I waited for my new MacBook Pro to arrive. It finally came yesterday and my daughter and I are in the process of setting it up, transferring files, etc. Some things from the G4 are lost due to one of the crashes and a bad backup drive, but I have been fairly lucky all things considered.
Shortly I will ask her to install a new hard drive in the G4 and I will sell it to help pay for the new MacBook because it does have a lot of life left in it. If were not for the fact that Snow Leopard will be out shortly I could have kept it awhile longer. Snow Leopard will require computers with the intel chip and I will not be able to test software without the new MacBook.
Long story to get to this tip. There are a couple of Widgets that I routinely use and I was in the process of downloading them to the new machine when I saw a new one that looked interesting and decided to download it as well. Bad decision!
Widgets are made by individuals which means they are not always as perfect as we would like them to be. This one would not work and caused my new machine to freeze up. I needed to get rid of it which is hard to to when you machine is frozen.
I restarted the machine. Clicked on the dashboard icon on my Dock. You can also use F12 if you have that key set for that in the Exposé and Spaces System Preferences Pane. Then I clicked on the big plus sign in the round circle that appeared. When I did that, I had a button option that said "manage widgets".
A new window opened. At the bottom of this window is the button that lets you go out and look for new widgets. But listed within the window are all the widgets that you currently have. On the left are boxes that you can click or unclick. If you unclick them, they stay in place, but don't show up in your active list of widgets.
If you have downloaded any widgets, like the bad one I downloaded, you will find a red circle with a minus sign inside it, next to each of them. To delete them from your computer, just click on that red circle and they will be deleted. You will be asked if you are sure you want to delete them.
Here is a secret not many people know. You can actually delete widgets that came with your system. Say you could not care less about ski reports and don't want it taking up room. Here is how you do it.
Go to your hard drive > Library > Widgets. (It doesn't matter if it is in list, column, or icon view.) Find the widget you want to remove and drag it to the trash to permanently remove it.
That's it. Have fun.
Nancy
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( 2.9 / 60 )When you type in words that should be in your Spell Checker's dictionary you can quickly add them. Goodness knows I run into this all the time with a last name of Gravley. All the spell checker programs want to change it to Gravely since that is a recognized word. I'm sure that there are many others out there who have the same kind of problem.
In fact what reminded me to include this tip was listening to an interview of the actor Liev Schreiber who said he bought a Mac because Microsoft kept automatically changing his name from Liev to Live every time he typed it. Don't you just love it.
Anyhow, this is very easy to do. If you have a one button mouse, hold down the control key and click on the word. If you have a two button mouse, right click on the word. A contextual menu will open. Choose Learn Spelling from the menu.
That's all there is to it, but it will save you hours of time. Well, unless you are using Microsoft. This trick doesn't work in Microsoft. In Microsoft you have to click on the word, choose Tools > Spelling & Grammar > Add Word.
It's Microsoft. Everything takes 3 extra steps.
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