mac question!

Thanks!

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i was on some website, and all of a sudden it popped up with some fucked up message saying "your computer has been infected," click this OK button to donwload some program to combat bla bla bla

it was so fast i don't even know what happened, i just pressed OK and it disappeared

WHAT THE FUK

i just spent $70 on an anti-virus thing to find out i don't have any viruses

Couldn't you have scanned with the free iAntiVirus or free ClamXav?

hi guys

if i have a mac with os x 10.4 how do i upgrade to 10.5? do i have to buy the full 10.5 or is there a cheaper upgrade path?

no upgrades between 10.x versions of OS X that i know of.

money grabbing gits

the full version is the upgrade, find a friend who is a student and get them to buy it for you.

how much cheaper is student version?

not much

lols

money grabbing cunts

find a friend who has the disc and borrow it

do you have one?

i hav one - come to america and u can borrow it

i actually dled and burned the disc myself - i wouldnt recommend this unless u can be sure yr source is safe tho

Fingers crossed that 10.9 will be called Bubastis.

i love the cunning that they made leopard compulsory for iphone SDK - pay up if you want to join the gravy train, i suppose

if you are a registered developer there may be a deal.

im just going to take a wild guess and say that ken is not a registered developer

well no. i just bought this mac like yesterday and have never had a mac before.

i will have to at some point though if i were to publish things to app store - i mean, if that can get me a discount on mac leopard also then i can do it now - however i cannot find anything about this on mac store???

tut tut - you didn't update the how long have you had your computer thread revived over the weekend.

is anyone gonna buy snow leopard?

yeah I asked on the other thread

dunno myself, no shiny new toys to play w/ are there?

I'm gonna buy it for the new Xcode.

It is pretty short on toys though, but will def be faster, and a Safari that Flash doesn't kill wld be nice.

Gonna buy it with a new mac.

will i get the safari update regardless or do i have to get the new os?

The good backend stuff in the new Safari needs 10.6, but otherwise it's the same browser as on 10.5

er fuck i just ordered this for the lovely emma b's macbook which is still running tiger - and apparently it will not install without leopard already on the system???! tiger users have to buy a "box set" including iLife and iWork - which i don't want! fuckety fuck, none of apple major releases have ever been like that before

Yeah, they taking the piss there. It's because of the cheaper price, apptly.

Box set isn't an awful deal if you do want iLife/iWork, though -- it's the same price as the Leopard upgrade was, but with much more stuff.

so wait if you're in tracer's position is there no way to get snow leopard w/out ilife/iwork? barffff if so

i'm not paying 100 pounds extra for the privilege of owning a bunch of crap i don't want. sheesh.

guess the solution is to get a loan of a legit leopard install and then install snow leopard off the upgrade disc

Yeah, TH I can send you a leopard install disk for a loan if you like. Don't know what would happen if you needed to fully reinstall at a later date, tho.

oo there's a bug in zing for iphone

I've ordered Snowy, but only cos it's only £7.95 if you've bought a new Mac since June, which I have.

you can get 2nd hand leopard on ebay for ~40 quid if you want to get the 25 quid upgrade to snowy

just installed Snow Leopard and can't see Expose or the Stack in the dock, and can't find a way to get them in there.

ah! nevermind on the Stack, sorted that. But still no Expose.

Expose should be in Applications folder

Exposé is in Applications/Utilities, just drag it into the dock. Also if you click an hold any application in the dock you'll get exposé to work for a that application.

yeah Expose is not listed in the apps folder for some reason, but it must be hiding elsewhere because it does work when I click and hold an app...

Not in utilities either?

this is probably an easy question. What would be the Mac video editing software that is better than iMovie but still not super-complicated/"pro"?

Final Cut Express

cool, thanks

So this is kind of half PC question, half Mac question, but: I have a home network consisting of a PC and a Macbook. I'd like to share my music folder on the PC, but the "share with homegroup" thing in Windows 7 doesn't appear to actually do anything in this context- it's not appearing in the Network section of Finder on the Mac. What am I doing wrong?

i have a really old macbook that's now in dire need of replacement -- it's still running 10.4!

all i really need it to do is run itunes and spotify and other basic stuff like web browsing and writing. i have an external hd that has my itunes library in it. i'm hoping to get away pretty cheap; my only impetus to spend is to have something that will perform well for some time.

i'm looking at macofalltrades but it's all pretty new to me -- any tips?

i'm dimly aware that mac is moving away from optical drives. i'd like to have one -- is it better to get an external dvd drive with a newer laptop, or what?

thxxx

Is there a decent gaming mouse I can get that has 1)at least 4+ buttons and a scroll wheel 2)works/goes well with mac 3)$50 or less and 4)doesn't look like someone scribbled crayon or barfed ectoplasm all over it?
..and oh yeah it needs to be symmetrical, none of that righty stuff

I've got a TextEdit file open on the side. I've created a custom find+replace query into it, so when I dump a list in there, I can quickly generate HTML code to turn them into tables.

The first field is something like </td></tr>(hard return)<tr><td>. But whenever I ctrl+F anywhere else, including inside my browser, that term ends up replacing my previous term to search.

How can I stop TextEdit -- or the browsers? -- from doing this?

Don’t think you can, it’s a “feature”. BBEdit is both good for complicated replaces and use its own search pasteboard iirc, may be worth trying it instead?

Thanks for the tip on BBEdit!

My department is still holding on to High Sierra for dear life, for some reason, but this one little thing may spur me to hop up anyway.

BBEdit is great for chores like this