Apple recently opened a store at the Holyoke Mall. You can make an appointment there to meet with a "genius" who will (I believe at no cost) answer Mac questions. I have found significant speed improvements by boosting RAM (I have 1 GB on my G4 PowerBook, more on my iMac). I periodically call up Verizon and ask for a boost in my broadband speed, which helps. Also, I discovered that an overly-long telephone cord between the wall and my DSL router was causing serious intermittent slow-downs. When I took that wonky cord out, my speed tripled. My experience of disc space matches what others have said -- the issue is %, not an absolute number, and when you get down below 15% of free space, your computer might (but not always) slow down. Peter Irvine Law Office of Peter Irvine 76 King Street Northampton, MA 01060 Office: 413-587-0008 Fax: 413-280-0845 peter at peterirvinelaw.com On Aug 23, 2007, at 10:24 PM, Shel Horowitz wrote: > ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. > ** You too can help the group > ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > I'd appreciate some help with a few snags I've run into with Mac OS > 10.4.10. > > 1) I tried to uncompress a new driver for my router, which all of a > sudden can only find the two hard-connected computers and not > anything over the wireless network. Stuffit Expander told me it > couldn't run without Stuffit Engine, which has unaccountably > vanished from my computer. Searching the web, it seems it's no > longer a no-cost product, and nor could I find any competitors. > Given how few files I need to decompress, I'm not in a great rush > to buy a file uncompressor. What are folks using these days? > > 2) Is there *any* way to change the default setting on the Finder's > search function so that it searches a string in a file name, rather > than a text string within documents? I could literally write an > article while it searches and I always forget to change it. > Besides, it would save me oodles of time reconfiguring it every day > if I could default to what I need for 98 percent of my searches. > > 3) In general, performance on my G4 iMac has been absurdly slow for > several months. Yes, I have a lot of files--but I also have 11.87 > GB of unused disk space. It just crawls--like taking several > minutes over broadband to download the router firmware. Any > recommendations to speed it up? I was thinking I could off-load > several gigs to an external drive, and that might at least speed up > iPhoto. is that a good method? Are there better? > > 4) I'm using Spamfire 1.0. Recentl, I started having a problem with > some mail addressed to shel at principledprofit.com--but when I try to > rescue, Spamfire gives me: "Error 450 unable to find > principledprofits.com" (note the s in the domain--it's not in the > actual email). The company has closed its support department. Any > ideas? > > Thanks so much, > -- > _________________________________________________ > Shel Horowitz - 413-586-2388/800-683-WORD shel at frugalfun.com > -->Join the Business Ethics Pledge - Ten Years to Change the World, > One Signature at a Time (please tell your friends) > <http://www.business-ethics-pledge.org> > Marketing consulting * copywriting * publishing assistance * speaking > How to market ethically/effectively: http://www.frugalmarketing.com > Ethics Blog: http://www.principledprofit.com/good-business-blog/ > Books: http://www.frugalmarketing.com/shop.html > _________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech > Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the > Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members >