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Yes, Time Machine works fine with two different Time Capsules. I have it set up that way in two different locations and my MacBook Pro backs up just fine to each one. I do have to manually change the target drive each time, though.

Hi, I have a question, which concerns me a lot, guys.

Is it possible to use the new 24" display on earlier MacBooks? As I understand, only the older Cinema Displays will have adapter for the new DisplayPort, while users of older systems are left in void...

I'm using Late 2006 MacBook with Mac OS X 10.5.5

I take a lot of photos, and I like to cut out the worthless shots in Finder before I edit them and then import into iPhoto. That means a lot of deleting. But Finder seems to make this impossible.

Let's say I have 1,000 photos, of which I want to keep about 200 in the end. The simple way to do this would be to flip on Cover Flow or use Quick View, and just keep hitting CMD-Delete as I hit file after file I do not want. But Finder makes this impossible, because instead of selecting the next file when I CMD-Delete, it instead completely deselects everything! If I hit the down arrow it starts me all the way at the top of the folder, and if I'm using Quick View the preview changes to the parent folder's contents.

Is there some trick I don't know for this relatively simple file management trick? I find using the mouse for this incredibly tedious, dragging and dropping 800 files is obviously a pain. Please help!

I have my iMac on my sleeping room, that doubles as my office. At day, I have no problem with my screensaver playing for an hour before my displays are put to sleep.

However, at night, when my mac is rendering, etc, I rather have my displays sleep after some minutes inactivity.

I now have a hot corner enabled that sleeps my displays, but is there a way to have it, say, at 1 AM having a 1 minute screensaver time, and then the displays to sleep?

Or is there any other logical solution?

thanks.

Question: bulk changing Address Book entries

My university (GWU) recently forced all students to change their webmail from @gwu.edu to @gwmail.gwu.edu. Soon, @gwu address will no longer redirect to the new addresses. I'm stuck with an Address Book full of @gwu.edu addresses and I can't find an easy way to change them-- hopefully as a batch operation.

I have poked around online and discovered that Automator or AppleScript might be able to help, but I am uncomfortable using either. Is there a script or application that can help me batch change email address domains (@___) but not the address names (the characters before the @__)? Or is there some way to export my addresses and then run find+replace?

Please help!


Running Leopard 10.5.5 on a 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro.

Hi,
I was wondering, with Christmas coming up, what is a good book/website to help me learn Cocoa? I've had a look at the Apple website (ADC) but I can't find a basic explanation of Cocoa and how it works (eg. classes and objects and everything else).
I've had a play with the Apple tutorials and followed the instructions and got an app working, but I didn't really understand what I was doing.
I've had barely any experience with any kind of programming at all (but I'm pretty good with excel and access so I think I would be able to develop the capabilities pretty quickly), and I really don't know how any of it works.
I've got Xcode and all the dev tools to do it.

Any ideas?

I have an iMac G3 running OS X Tiger, and I want to optimize the software for the older hardware. I've already disabled Dashboard, which I've read will be helfpul. I also have the video settings at minimum - no dock animations, etc.

Do you have any other suggestions, short of reverting back to OS 9? I know it's not going to be as quick as my MacBook Pro running Leopard, but I'd like to give it a little bump.

My specs:
400MHz G3
192MB RAM
10GB HDD
DVD-ROM drive

Hello there,

I have a question regarding the use of my AppleTV on my university's wireless network. Currently, the VPN breaks my connection to the wireless network & I need to find a solution.

After some research in the Apple Support forums, one solution appeared that utilizes an ssh tunnel to connect to the "host" computer (my laptop) + a network beacon to a specific port. It sounds like a viable solution, but currently beyond my realm of expertise. I would like to connect with someone who does have this level of expertise and who would be willing to assist me. Alternatively, I would like to find other solutions.

Cordially,
Alex

See here - http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5505718&#5505718

About disk space... I have used Monolingual in Leopard several times without any issues. Actually never heard of problems with other users. My brother uses it too without any issue. Thanks for the heads up though. I will definitely not use it any longer.

Regarding the timemachine backups in different places: TM saves its preferences (including the drive, and the exclusion list etc.) in com.appple.timemachine.plist. I use MarcoPolo to run a shellscript which, depending on the location, removes the preferences, and replaces them with the preferences (i.e. drive, exclusion) for the location i am at. I use this to backup only my work related things when at work on the network, and backup everything when at home and with my external harddrive.

when the preferences are changed, you also need to run an applescript "Select Time Machine Volume Apple Script" for it to actually start backing up...maybe this helps.