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Quote: Originally Posted by redmarble What are the steps after replacing an internal MacBook Pro hard drive with a new one? I just received my new 13.3" unibody and want to replace the included 160GB hard drive with a Fujitsu 500GB HD that I just purchased. I have nothing to save, as it is a new laptop. Do I: 1) Insert Mac OS Installation CD 2) Format? (With included Disk Utility? Mac OS Extended- Journaled? 3) Partition? 4)...

Great! Thank you for that advice Endymion! It's to bad the TV can't automatically change it but I know that will never happen lol

Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss I still don't get "turned off." An application is "off" whenever you aren't using it. Did you try anything I suggested? I had already done everything I could under preferences in Mail to try to stop Mail from being the default for mailto links. I have not checked out the mactips link you gave me, I've been on the phone taking care of some rather...

Quote: Originally Posted by addabox In the specific case of Safari defaulting to Mail for certain links, you have to edit the MIME type settings (it does some other file type identifier stuff as well). OS X doesn't allow you to do this directly, but here is a bit of freeware that does. It's pretty straightforward to use, just a preference pane with drop down lists for selecting which app gets associated with which identifier. I...

Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss I wonder if that would work. Without reading too deeply into it, this pref pane seems to change Finder associations, which would not work for mailto links in web pages, I believe. In any event, it appears that Google Notifier and Gmailto do this very thing. It changes finder associations as well, but also allows you to assign default apps to various URL schemes.

You probably need to play with your TV's video settings. Problem is, the video you are outputting is likely not the same size/shape as the TV screen, thus the left-over space. You can view full screen but something will get chopped, stretched, or both.

If the movie is non-anamorphic letterboxed then you'll need to use the Zoom setting on your TV. If the movie is anamorphic widescreen, enhanced for 16x9, then you should be able to view it in Full mode without issue. Note that not all movies have the same aspect ratio, so some may only fill the screen in one direction (ex. horizontally) and not the other.

I don't think there's a way to disable Apple Mail. Why don't you do what I do and use Apple Mail to collect and send your gmail emails? Just open it and follow instructions on how to set it up Apple Mail with your Gmail account. Very easy to setup (Leopard will do all the work) and it will download all your previous emails. One other step must be done -- log into gmail on your browser and enable POP (so that Apple Mail can...

Anybody know a methodology for lightening up the stark gloomy black contextual Finder/Dock menus in Snowpard? It's like Apple farmed this work out to a software subcontractor in Mordor. Depressing & unlike anything else going on in the System. It's also darned tough to read. I've been able to remove the ultra-miniature left-hand Dock's goofy border from within it's Resources folder but I haven't been able...

Wow, that was a long-winded title. "Simply" put, I've set up my Airport Extreme to share my USB drive over the internet using MobileMe. I can access it absolutely fine with my Macbook, which is great. However, it'd be really handy if I could also have this same connectivity with my work PC. I'm pretty sure there is a way of accessing it, but I'm just not sure how. Any help or pointers would be greatly...