The mid-2011 iMacs (still the current version) originally shipped with Snow Leopard, right? Obviously they ship with Lion now, but if I were to buy a new iMac now, could it be downgraded to Snow Leopard? I know most Macs can't be successfully downgraded to a previous version of OS X, but I figured if the current gen of iMacs was made with Snow ( Read more... )

I have an arrangement whereby I do my main web browsing in Chrome and my secondary browsing (eg, using alternate accounts) in Safari, and Firefox sits in the corner. I've been thinking of swapping Chrome and Safari because of Safari's better integration with Mac OS X Lion. I can find equivalent extensions for Safari for most things, except for ( Read more... )

Google is dropping support for many older browsers, including the current version of Opera ( Read more... )

A friend of mine suggested I join up and share with the helpful community here ^v^

My initial post is a sorta question...

Most of the time I can nail a problem (as I'm sure most of you can too), but once in a while I run into a hitch...

Working on a volleyball circa 2002 iMac G4 System 10.4.11 ... a few programs do launch and run, Office, ( Read more... )

So every once in a great while I am here at my parents' house and travel out to my mother's classroom to help her with stuff. They have a wireless network there, and for many years I knew the WEP code to it because it was just located in the keychain for her iMac. That's changed recently, now it's a WPA/WPA2 passphrase (PSK/personal) and it looks ( Read more... )

Can anyone recommend voice recording software? This would be for recording college lectures using the internal mic on a Macbook.

Preferably free, but any recommendations welcome.

Some years ago, I made a promise that if Apple would come out with a netbook sized laptop, I would buy it! (No, I don't include the iPad ( Read more... )

When I want to scan a Windows download that has been acquired through, uh, less-than-legal means, I usually use ClamAV plus Windows Defender to be really sure it's clean ( Read more... )

First of all, you guys are great. I've come here with a lot of questions and come away impressed every time. This is by far the most knowledgeable furry computer group I've run across to date ( Read more... )

My mother has a Mac she gets from her work (she works at a school). She does not have the admin password or admin privileges on her account. I want to install a program on there I wrote, but it requires the installation of a framework first. The framework is 55 megabytes and comes in a .pkg file. If anyone cares, it's Mono, the free/open-source ( Read more... )