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  Should I reinstall OSX?

  Mick, I was getting that same error and problem with my iBook G4 for no explicable reason. Eventually, the hard drive died. It turned out that the hard drive died because Apple laptops apparently are using hard drives that can't stand up to any kind of rough use, like moving the laptop around, or holding it at angle. The apple techs on the phone admitted this to me after discussig this with them pretty extensively. They replace a lot of hard drives in laptops, it seems.

  Anyway, I would venture to bet that, because your symptoms are similar, you are probably looking at a dying hard drive. MY advice is to get on the phone with Apple right now to start a documentation trail with them, because they won't replace the drive unless the drive manager tool indicates a drive failure. The drive manager tool often won't indicate a drive failure until the hard drive is close to total failure, and also to make sure your hard drive is backed up, because you can restore your hard drive easily when it is replaced.

  Posted 06 Apr 07

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  Help

  If you own a Mac, and you are getting stuck trying to figure out who to do different things, click on "Help" and type into the search bar exactly what you are trying to do. You will be amazed that close to 99% of the time, there is a tutorial that will walk you through exactly whatever you are trying to do. This also holds true for applications in the Mac. 

  Posted 06 Apr 07

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  Updating firmware

  Sounds like a hardware failure. I recommend following instructions here: http://www.apple.com/support/  under get help-select your product, based on what country you are in, and calling them up, because you are still under warranty, it's is definitely worth getting it into them to fix it.

  Posted 06 Apr 07

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  Open Source Tools On The Mac

  What are you using? There is so much to choose from. Right now, I am running, or (serving locally on my laptop)

   Inkscape

  OpenOffice 2.0

  Freemind

  Graphviz

  MoinMoin

  Compendium

  Oddmuse

  GIMP 

   

  Posted 20 Dec 06

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  Mac Heist

  Huh, got an apache/fedora test page for macappaday.com Ah well. I'll check back in on 'em in a few days.

  Posted 20 Dec 06

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  Powerpoint in Mac

  Hey Mick. You can also use Keynote, which has losts of wiz-bang effects, and open office. Open Office is fre. Keynote costs about 79.00 US$ as part of the iWork software package

  Posted 11 Dec 06