Semi-New Mac owner need help please!

I have had my Mac for a couple months now and I haven't experimented with all the applications yet, when I tried to open iChat all that it does is the little light underneath it turned on and nothing popped up. I don't know if I need to download anything else, or what... Can anyone help me please?!

It seems that others have pointed the Hosts to the Duplicates and this one's left.
I take it the issue is solved anyway ?
8:38 PM Sunday; June 22, 2008

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I will copy and paste the code in this order: (I think this is all the code needed to figure it out,I hope...)
services.html
featureList.js
featured.css
styles.css
services.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
          <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.js"></script>
    <link href="css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type"text/css" media="screen">
    <link href="css/print.css" rel="stylesheet" type"text/css" media="screen">
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="cache" />
    <meta name= "robots" content="INDEX,FOLLOW" />
    <meta name= "keywords" content="Enter Keywords" />
    <meta name= "description" content="Description Here" />

    <title>Web Site by Tahoe POS Systems LLC - www.tahoesystems.com</title>
              <script type="text/javascript" src="js/featureList.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/featured.css" />
          <script language="javascript">
                    $(document).ready(function() {
                              $.featureList(
                                        $("#tabs li a"),
                                        $("#output li"), {
                                                  start_item          :          1
          </script>
    
    
    


</head>
<body>
<div id="outer">
          <div id="wrapper">
                    <div id="logo">
                  <img src="images/logos/logo2.png" />
        </div>
        <div id="social-media-icons">
                  <ul>
                      <li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/tahoesystems"><img src="images/icons/facebook_32.png" /></a></li>
                <li><a href="#"><img src="images/icons/rss_32.png" /></a></li>
                <li><a href="http://www.twitter.com"><img src="images/icons/twitter_32.png" /></a></li>
                <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com"><img src="images/icons/youtube_32.png" /></a></li>
          </ul>
        </div>
        <div id="topnav">
                  <ul>
                      <li><a href="index.html">HOME</a></li>
                <li><a href="about.html">ABOUT US</a></li>
                <li><a href="clients.html">CLIENTS</a></li>
                <li><a href="services.html">SERVICES</a></li>
                <li><a href="contact.html">CONTACT US</a></li>
            </ul>
        </div>
        <div id="banner">
                  <img src="images/banner/b1.png" />
        </div>
        <div id="content-fullwidth">
          <h1>Welcome to Tahoe Systems Web Site!</h1>
          <p>Our Mission – To ensure your restaurant, bar, café, diner, or eatery operates smoothly. Streamline your workflow by providing the latest, most up-to-date technology the industry has to offer. Maximize your profits with a personalized POS system that works for you and not against you. Ease your stress with the quickest, most reliable, 24-hour technical support in the area. Train your staff in person with one-on-one classes taught by one of our certified staff.</p>
       <div id="feature">
                    <h1>Featured Tahoe Systems Services</h1>
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                              <div id="feature_list">
                                        <ul id="tabs">
                                                  <li>
                                                            <a href="javascript:;">
                                                            <img src="images/icons/ts_star_logo.png" />
                                                                      <h3>Complete Menu Design</h3>
                                                                      <span>Complete with our well-known Fast Bar Page </span>
                                                            </a>
                                                  </li>
                                                  <li>
                                                            <a href="javascript:;">
                                                                      <img src="images/icons/ts_star_logo.png" />
                                                                      <h3>Kitchen Printing with ease</h3>
                                                                      <span>Top of the line printing systems</span>
                                                            </a>
                                                  </li>
                                                  <li>
                                                            <a href="javascript:;">
                                                            <img src="images/icons/ts_star_logo.png" />
                                                                      <h3>VPEN Monitor Systems</h3>
                                                                      <span>HD Screens, Bump Bars, We can do it all!</span>
                                                            </a>
                                                  </li>
                                        </ul>
                              <ul id="output">
                                                  <li>
                                                            <img src="images/feature_slider/menu-sample2.jpg" />
                                                            <a href="menu.html">Menu Gallery</a>
                                                  </li>
                                                  <li>
                                                            <img src="images/feature_slider/tmu220.jpg" />
                                                            <a href="print.html">Printing Gallery</a>
                                                  </li>
                                                  <li>
                                                            <img src="images/feature_slider/kds_hnet.jpg" />
                                                            <a href="vpen.html">VPEN Gallery</a>
                                                  </li>
                                        </ul>
                              </div>
          </div>
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        </div>
        <div id="footer">
                   <p class="footer-text">All Rights Reserved - Tahoe Systems - 2012</p>
        </div>
   </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
featureList.js
* FeatureList - simple and easy creation of an interactive "Featured Items" widget
* Examples and documentation at: http://jqueryglobe.com/article/feature_list/
* Version: 1.0.0 (01/09/2009)
* Copyright (c) 2009 jQueryGlobe
* Licensed under the MIT License: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
* Requires: jQuery v1.3+
;(function($) {
          $.fn.featureList = function(options) {
                    var tabs          = $(this);
                    var output          = $(options.output);
                    new jQuery.featureList(tabs, output, options);
                    return this;
          $.featureList = function(tabs, output, options) {
                    function slide(nr) {
                              if (typeof nr == "undefined") {
                                        nr = visible_item + 1;
                                        nr = nr >= total_items ? 0 : nr;
                              tabs.removeClass('current').filter(":eq(" + nr + ")").addClass('current');
                              output.stop(true, true).filter(":visible").fadeOut();
                              output.filter(":eq(" + nr + ")").fadeIn(function() {
                                        visible_item = nr;
                    var options                              = options || {};
                    var total_items                    = tabs.length;
                    var visible_item          = options.start_item || 0;
                    options.pause_on_hover                    = options.pause_on_hover                    || true;
                    options.transition_interval          = options.transition_interval          || 5000;
                    output.hide().eq( visible_item ).show();
                    tabs.eq( visible_item ).addClass('current');
                    tabs.click(function() {
                              if ($(this).hasClass('current')) {
                                        return false;
                              slide( tabs.index( this) );
                    if (options.transition_interval > 0) {
                              var timer = setInterval(function () {
                                        slide();
                              }, options.transition_interval);
                              if (options.pause_on_hover) {
                                        tabs.mouseenter(function() {
                                                  clearInterval( timer );
                                        }).mouseleave(function() {
                                                  clearInterval( timer );
                                                  timer = setInterval(function () {
                                                            slide();
                                                  }, options.transition_interval);
})(jQuery);
featured.css
#feature
font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
line-height: 1.6;
width: 750px; /* This is the width */
margin: 25px auto; /* margin top/bottom and centering */
padding: 20px; /* Padding inside */
background: #FFF;
/* Background color */
border: 1px solid #CCC; /* border around */
#feature h1 { margin: 0; }
#feature p
{ margin: 0; padding: 7px 0; }
.clear
{ clear: both; line-height: 1px; font-size: 1px; }
#feature a
{ outline-color: #888;
#feature h3 { margin: 0;
padding: 7px 0 0 0;
font-size: 16px; text-transform: uppercase;
ul#tabs li a h3
{ color:#F60; margin-bottom: 5px; ; }
div#feature_list
width: 750px; height: 240px;
overflow: hidden; position: relative;
div#feature_list ul {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
ul#tabs {
left: 0;
z-index: 2;
width: 320px;
ul#tabs li { font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; }
ul#tabs li img {
padding: 5px; border: none; margin: 0px 10px 0 0;
float: left;
ul#tabs li a
color: #222;
text-decoration: none;
display: block;
padding: 10px;
height: 60px;
outline: none;
ul#tabs li a:hover { color:#822B00; }
ul#tabs li a.current {
background:url(../images/feature-tab-current.png);
color: #FFF;
ul#tabs li a.current:hover {
text-decoration: none;
cursor: default;
ul#output {
right: 0;
width: 460px; height: 240px;
position: relative;
ul#output li {
position: absolute;
width: 460px; height: 240px;
ul#output li a {
position: absolute;
bottom: 10px; right: 10px;
padding: 8px 12px;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 11px;
color: #FFF;
background: #000;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
ul#output li a:hover { background:#B33A00; }
and finally styles.css
/* CSS Document */
/* Color Legend */
/* Reset */
html, body { margin; 0; padding: 0; border: 0; background: transparent; font-size:10px; }
div, span, article, aside, footer, header, hgroup, nav, section,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, a, ol, ul, li,
table, tr, th, td, tbody, tfoot, thead {
          margin: 0;
          padding: 0;
          border: 0;
          verticle-align: baseline;
          background: transparent; }
img                    {margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; }
table, tr, th, td, tbody, tfoot, thead {
          margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0;
          verticle-align: baseline;
          background: transparent; }
table {border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; }
input, select, textarea, form, fieldset {
          margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; }
article, aside, dialog, figure, footer, header, hgroup, nav, section {
          display:block; }
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, li, blockqutoe, td, th, a, caption, em, strong, strike {
          font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
          font-size:100%;
          font-weight: normal;
          font-style: normal;
          line-height: 100%;
          text-indent: 0;
          text-decoration: none;
          text-align: left;
          color: #000; }
ol, ul, { list-style: none; }
/* Global */
html          {          }
body          {          background-color:#E8DDCA;
                              background-image:url(../images/background/roiBody_11.png);
                              background-repeat:no-repeat;
                              background-attachment:fixed; }
/* Headings */
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { font-weight: bold; }
h1 { font-size:24px; color: #C60 ;
                    padding-bottom: 15px; border-bottom: 1px #ccc solid; margin-bottom: 15px; }
h2 { font-size: 20px; }
h3 {font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 5px; }
h4 {font-size: 14px; }
h5 {font-size: 14px; }
h6 {font-size: 14px; }
h1 img, h2 img, h3 img, h4 img, h5 img, h6 img, {margin: 0; }
/* Text Elements */
p                                        { color:#000; font-size: 12px; line-height: 150%;
                                                  margin: 15px 0px; }
p. left                              {margin: 1.5em 1.5em 1.5em 0; padding: 0; }
p. right                     {margin: 1.5em 0 1.5em 1.5em; padding: 0; }
a                                        {          }
a:link                              {color: #00f; }
a:visited                    {color: #0f0; }
a:active                    {color: #000; }
a:focus                              {color: #666; }
a:hover                              {color: #f00; }
blockquote                    {color: #000; font-size: 12px; }
strong                              { font-weight: bold; }
em                                         {font-style: italic; }
/* Images */
.image-frame          { padding: 10px; border: 1px #ccc solid; margin: 10px; }
/* Lists */
ul                                        {          }
ol                                        { list-style-type:decimal; }
ul li                              {color: #000; font-size: 12px; }
ol li                              {color: #000; font-size: 12px; }
dl                                        {          }
dt                                        {          }
dd                                        {          }
/* Tables */
table                              { width: 100%; }
tr                                         {          }
.odd                              { background-color: #eee; }
.even                              { background-color: #fff; }
th                                         { font-weight:bold; }
thead, th                    { background: #ccc; }
tbody                              {          }
th,td,caption           {          }
caption                     {          }
tfoot                              {          }
.tfooter                    { background-color:#ccc; text-align: center; font-style: italic;
caption                              { background-color: #efefef;
/* Miscelaneous */
sup, sub                    {line-height: 0; }
abbr, acronym          { border-bottom: dotted #666; }
address                              {          }
del                                        {background: #ffcece; color: #f00; }
code, pre                    { background-color:#ff9; padding: 2px 0px; margin: 4px 25px;
                                                  font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; font-weight:bold
/* Containers */
#outer                              { width:960px; margin:0 auto; background-color:#FFF; }
#wrapper                    { width:900px; margin:0 auto; background-color:#FFF; }
#logo                              { margin:30px 0; float: left; }
#social-media-icons                     { float:right;                               }
#social-media-icons ul li           { display: inline;                     }
#social-media-icons ul                    { margin-top: 40px;           }
#topnav                                        { clear: both; }
#topnav ul                              { border-top: 1px #000 solid; border-bottom: 1px #000 solid;
                                                            margin: 20px 0; padding: 10px 0; }
#topnav ul li                    { display: inline          }
#topnav ul li a                    { padding: 0 15px;          }
#topnav          a:link                              {color: #000; }
#topnav          a:visited                    {color: #000; }
#topnav          a:active                    {color: #000; }
#topnav          a:focus                              {color: #666; }
#topnav          a:hover                              {color: #F90; }
#banner                                        { margin-bottom: 30px;           }
#slider                                        { margin-bottom: 30px; }
#content                              { width: 650px; float: left;          }
#content-fullwidth          { width: 100%; }
#rightside                              { width: 200px; float: right;          }
#footer                                        { clear: both; margin-top: 20px 0; border-top: 1px #ccc solid;          padding-bottom: 20px; }
#box1          { width: 250px; float: left; margin: 25px;
                              border-top: 15px #666 solid; background-color:#EEE;          }
#box2          { width: 250px;          float: left; margin: 25px;
                              border-top: 15px #3E5838 solid; background-color:#EEE;          }
#box3          { width: 250px;          float: left; margin: 25px;
                              border-top: 15px #386165 solid; background-color:#EEE;          }
#box1 h3, #box2 h3, #box3 h3 { margin: 20px 10px 10px 10px; }
#box1 p, #box2 p, #box3 p { margin: 5px 10px 10px 10px; }
#box4          {                    }
#box5          {                    }
#box6          {                    }
/* Layout Extra */
/* Navigation Extra */
/* Forms */
form ol { list-style-type:none; }
form           { text-align:left; margin:20px;          }
label           {
                    float: left; width: 150px; margin-top:5px;
                    text-align:right; display:block; background:none; font-weight:bold;
submit          { background:none;           }
input           {
                    width: 280px; margin:0 0 16px 10px;
                    border:1px #bbb solid; padding:5px; background:none;
input:focus, textarea:focus          { background-color:#FF9; }
textarea {
                    width: 280px; height: 150px; margin:0 0 16px 10px;
                    border:1px #bbb solid; padding:5px; background:none;
select { margin-bottom:20px;          }
.month { margin-left:155px;          }
.submit {
                    width:90px; height:25px;
                    margin-left:160px;
                    font-size:12px;
br                    { clear: left;           }
.clear          { clear:both; }
/* Miscelaneous */
.popup-link                    { font-size: 12px; margin: 5px 10px; display:block; }
.date                              { font-weight: bold; color: #C60; margin-bottom: 3px; }
.copyright-text { font-size:80%; font-style: italic; color: #333; }
.footer-text          { font-size:12px; font-style: normal; color: #000; text-align: center; }
.title                              { font-size:18px; font-weight: bold; color: #333; }
.subtitle                    { font-size:14px; font-style: italic; color: #333; }
.artist                     { font-size:16px; font-weight: bold; color: #333; }
.author                              { font-size:14px; font-weight: bold; color: #555; }
.editor                              { font-size:14px; font-style: italic; color: #555; }
.pub-date                    { font-size:10px; font-style: italic; color: #555; }
.article-date          { font-size:10px; font-style: italic; color: #555; }
.location                    { font-size:10px; font-style: italic; color: #555; }
.float-right          { float:right; }
.float-left                    { float:left; }
.clear                              { clear:both; }
.hide                              { display:none; }
.block                              { display:block; }
.inline                              { display:inline; }
.first                              { font-weight:bold; }
.last                              { font-weight:bold; }
.left                              { font-weight:bold; text-align:left; }
.right                              { font-weight:bold; text-align:right; }
.added                              { background:#D7D7FF; }
.removed                    { background:#FFCECE; color:#f00; }
.changed                    { background:#FFB; }

http://tahoepossystems.businesscatalyst.com/services.html
Services page is missing quite a bit of stuff.
This code from a working page is correct:
<link href="/StyleSheets/ModuleStyleSheets.css" type="text/css" rel="StyleSheet" />
<script type="text/javascript">var jslang='EN';</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../js/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../js/needsomethinghere.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../js/slider.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"> // This is the script for the banner slider
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#slider').s3Slider({
timeOut: 6000
</script>
<link href="../css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" css" media="screen">
<link href="../css/print.css" rel="stylesheet" css" media="screen">
<link href="../css/slider.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen">
In contrast, this is all you have in the <head> of your services.html page:
<link href="/StyleSheets/ModuleStyleSheets.css" type="text/css" rel="StyleSheet" />
<script type="text/javascript">var jslang='EN';</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../js/jquery.js"></script>
<link href="../css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen">
<link href="../css/print.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen">
If you reconcile those difference in your code, it should work.
Nancy O.

New Mac User Needs help opening Microsoft office 2007 files on a Mac!!!

I just got a used ibook G4. I had an old Pentium upgrade IBM before. I love my Mac, but I need my old school files form my IBM. I have OpenOffice.org 2.2 for Mac OS X 10.4.11 and I have a file converter program called X 11 that opens with a huge list of options for converting files, but it dose not say Microsoft offices 2007 it says the version numbers. I tryed the latest version and It wouldn't open in OpenOffice.org. Should I use Apple Script instead? I don't have Apple Works do I need it? I just want to look at the files. Why is there not a office viewer for Mac?

You have Tiger. Tiger=10.4.x; Panther=10.3.x; Leopard=10.5.x.
If you are trying with OpenOffice 2.2, it might be worth updating. I have version 2.4, which is the latest. Since 2.4 fixes a security issue, you should update if you plan to use the application anyway.
NeoOffice, as a previous poster pointed out, should be able to open Office 2007 documents.
See the discussion at http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4542 for the main OpenOffice thread discussing this issue. It discusses the ODF converter at sourceforge which NeoOffice uses to open Office 2007 documents. Apparently, you can use it with regular OpenOffice, too, but if 2.4 doesn't come with it (and maybe it does - I haven't checked), it might be easier to use NeoOffice for now.
X11 is not a file converter, by the way. It is the traditional unix GUI. Apple provides a version of this for OS X which enables you to run applications which haven't been ported to the native OS X environment. OpenOffice for Mac OS X uses X11 as do some other applications, such as GIMP, which you may have heard of/used. NeoOffice is a version of OpenOffice ported to the native OS X environment (i.e. it doesn't have to use X11). I haven't used it in a long time - I always use OpenOffice on X11 - but it is supposed to be very good now and should seem very familiar if you're used to OpenOffice. If you can't get OpenOffice to work with your files, you should definitely try NeoOffice before buying MS Office - unless, of course, you especially want to send MS a few hundred of your preferred currency.
The other thing you can try, if you've still got Office on your IBM machine is converting the files there by opening them and choosing "save as...". That should allow you to select an earlier version of Word/Excel/... which OpenOffice should have fewer problems with. Since you may lose formatting this way, try the other options first. (Also, if you have a lot of files, this option will be very annoying to implement.)
I do not think AppleWorks is likely to help. (I'm not sure if AppleWorks is even still available... somebody?) There are some suggestions Pages might help, but I would personally try the other solutions first. (On the other hand, I have a very old version of Pages.)
AppleScript is almost certainly not what you want. It has nothing to do with AppleWorks. It is a scripting language.
Good luck,
cfr

Buying a new Mac Pro, need help with Screen

Hello everyone, Im getting a Mac Pro, and I need a good lcd monitor to go with it. At the same time I would like to be able to have a LCD screen in my room to watch tv. Is it possible to watch tv with the Apple displays, any other displays or should I buy a LCD TV that has capabilities to be connected to a computer. I read a post that suggested a Dell screen to somebody for the purpose of watching tv.
Please any advice would be appreciated.
Gonzo

Elgato <http://www.elgato.com> lets you watch a record TV programs on the Mac's screen.
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Low resolution
Overscan (menu bar and dock off the screen)
Computer display not filling screen
Non-square pixels
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I am new to using a mac. I have had an iphone for almost a year so I am catching on quickly to my macbook but this problem has stumped me and all my mac using friends.
I have a 500gb seagate external hard drive aswell as a new 500gb seagate internal.
I transferred all my music from an old ipod onto the external hard drive. There is about 50gb of music.
When I plug my external into my pc desktop I can see the music folder organized into subfolders with files inside that are encoded unless they are opened in itunes. My pc doesn't have enough internal memory to open and store my music library so I have just left it on the hard drive. When I plug the hard drive into my macbook it will show the music folder as having 50gb but when the folder is opened, none of the subfolders or files are visable.
I went ahead and dragged the folder from my harddrive onto my desktop. It took about an hour to transfer all the files but now the folder is sitting on my desktop and when I open it, it is empty. If i look in the folders info, it says it has the 50gb. If i try to drag and drop it into itunes nothing happens. If I drag and drop it into the itunes music folder, it will go there but will not show up on itunes.
I'm stumped and no longer eligable for apples telephone support as I bought this macbook from a friend. Any help would be greatly appreciated

I have a couple of theories, but I'm not an iTunes expert. These people are, though:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=782
Try posting your question there. Good luck!

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I have a new MBP 13" and want to be able to easly access shared folder on my PC network. None of the PC's appear under the 'Shared' left menu in the finder, not even my aging eMac.
I have successfully used connect to server and smb the pc name, but this seems to wok once, then when I go to reuse it, i can not access it again. deleting the save server favourite and rebooting works occasionally, however for the most part it is bery hit and miss. My thoery is that if you can access it once, you should be able to again and again.
Obviously none of my pc's have any issues accessing the shares, it is just the mac . I have input the windows workgroup in the WINS section of Network Settings as well as my router ip address.
Can anyone advise how to get the pc's to appear under the shared tab in the finder.
At the moment, I am starting to regret buying the Macbook Pro, and really thought this type of issue would have been sorted out on the Mac side by now. But alas, it seems that I will just use windows 7 on the macbook pro until I can get this sorted. I can't not have access to windows data stores.
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GeekGuy

Really ... no-one can shed some light on this situation?
Can someone at least recommend a forum where I can get some help.

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Use the instructions in this article to reset the account's password.
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Ladies & Gents,
After much struggle with PCs in the last two weeks I finally broke down and bought a MacBook. I'm very happy with it, but I am having issues getting hooked into my office's wireless printing network.
The printer is an HP Color Laserjet 3600n and we're set up with a D-Link DPR 1260 router. I've tried just about everything I know, and even our much-more-qualified-than-I resident Mac user is unsure how to make this work.
I will continue to search the forum, but I would appreciate any help. I should be off and on throughout most of the day. Thanks!
-Beaujac

Two links
http://www.dlink.com/products/default.aspx?pid=DPR-1260&tab=3
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20071210174933679
FWIW
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I do want my MBP to be the main account for iTunes so I can make changes to tags and rating but I just want it to use the files on the networked HD. It is not necessary that I keep iTunes on the Win XP machine.
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New mac user needs help...

Hello all....i just got my Mac a few weeks ago and I cant tell you all how stoked I am to be apart of this incredible community!!! I will NEVER go back!!! anyways..I am trying to find out the pop and stmp addresses for hotmail and am having no luck....can anyone help me????

As far as I'm aware (and after a quick search) there are no published smtp/pop addresses for Hotmail. This was something I looked at a while ago for MS Outlook.
Might be different if you've paid for a Hotmail Plus account...
Neil.

New Mac user needs help restoring itunes.

Recently converted from PC to Mac. Backed up my itunes music library on the PC and restored it to the Mac. Later found small percentage of songs somehow never got to the mac. Attempting to re-run the restore and am now receiving the error "Attempting to copy to the disk "Macintosh HD" failed. The disk could not be read or written to". I still have all the backup disks and the complete library on my ipod. Any help would be appreciated.

If the complete library is on your iPod then the easiest way to resolve this is with Podworks
http://www.scifihifi.com/podworks
Regards
TD

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