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I'll second the questions of #2 and #15 above.

2. I'd like to know something about the bar at the top (what do you call that, anyways?) The application name, which is in bold, next to the apple button can apparently be changed to the application icon (16 x 16 px). I've seen this in a few screenshots. I don't know if this is a setting or not, but how can I also do this?

15. In column view in the finder, is there a way to sort files by type or date etc. as in list view?

Thanks!

I am intrested in learning c/c++ and app development for macs. I purchased O'Reilly presses "C in a Nutshell" but found it a little dense/advanced. Any suggestions on a good place to start? Thanks.

Hey TUAW and users!

How do I keep my MacbookPro from going to sleep when I close the screen? I want it to be nice and portable and less battery-hogging while still encoding videos in my bag.

Wake up dammit!

How do you get mac's Internet Connect to stop nagging every half an hour that you are still connected to the internet and to click to stay connected, otherwise it waits a while and disconnects. I went to my mother's for Christmas and wanted to run software update on her iBook, and it needed quite a bit, 153 Megabytes of updates which it said would take 7-9 hours to download, and every half an hour that dialog came up. I wanted to just leave the computer connected and download throughout the night but this wasn't possible with that dialog coming up from internet connect. How do modem users do this?
Thanks.

Julian maybe I am wrong but the eject key is not related to the function keys (f12) I have done searches on how to disable the eject key or at least make it where you have to hold it down to work, but I only found that on older mac's does your method work. I will play around with it again and see what I find

Ill check out stoplight

Thanks

In column view in the finder, is there a way to sort files by type or date etc. as in list view?

How do you do startup commands (ie zap PRAM, Open Firmware) with only a wireless keyboard and mouse

My question is:

Being a Mac user, I wanted to know when do you think Macs are going to start having viruses and spyware? Could it be when Macs start getting more popular and break the 10% computer market?

Magnus:

There is no way that I know of for unlocking the region codes on Mac hardware. At least I didn't found anything for my G4 iBook. The best workaround I've found is using VLC for watching movies, it ignores the region code on dvds. Besides, VLC is the best video player out there.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Daniel Wright:

There is an option on System Preferences/Keyboard & Mouse called "Use F1-F12 keys to control software features". That will probably disable the F12 key for ejecting dvds, but you won't be able to use them to adjust brightness or sound volume.

As for the maximize thing, the best I option I know of is this little program called Stoplight. It makes maximize work like it does in Windows, but only on Cocoa based apps. Cocoa apps are the newest, specially designed for Mac apps. For example, Safari is Cocoa, FireFox isn't. Link to stoplight:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=26669&hl

How do you shut off or pause the eject disc key on a macbook? Its just to easy to hit and out pops the disc.

How do I make maximize and minimize work like Xp? Os x is awful at lock a window in place.

thanks