Quick queries/How do I do... ?

Zapp Brannigan

Anyone know if there are any p2pTV apps for Mac?

Zapp Brannigan

Mac noobs would be a good one. I've had my Macbook since november but I'm still not sure what most things do. For instance I downloaded quicksilver but have no clue what it's supposed to do.

Sajan

This is a brillinat thread lads. Thanks for all the brilliant tips. One thing that has bothered me since getting my Mac and one of the very few things I must add. I find myself constantly readjusting the size of some of the windows. An example of this is the applications window. It always goes back to the smaller size. And is there a button to press to Maximize the window as you would do in Wondows. I see the green button on top but that does not seem to work.

Narcissus

One thing that i'm curious about is the normal temperature that my macbook should be running at.

According to istat pro i'm normally in the mid 50's whilst just doing light stuff like browsing the web. Is this normal?

One other thing is the memory use. I've been running opera for about 2 hours and it's using about 200 megs of ram. Is that normal for opera?

big_moe

there's no maximize per sé.. it maximizes to get all you need on screen, so you don't get any horizontal scroll bars.

moe

Sad Professor

Apapaia wrote:

One thing that i'm curious about is the normal temperature that my macbook should be running at.

According to istat pro i'm normally in the mid 50's whilst just doing light stuff like browsing the web. Is this normal?

One other thing is the memory use. I've been running opera for about 2 hours and it's using about 200 megs of ram. Is that normal for opera?

Yeah that's all normal. Regarding memory usage, I use Camino and at the moment it's using 259MB of RAM. Although it's been a few days since I restarted it. But OSX generally tries to make use of any free RAM.

Narcissus

Does anyone know if it's possible to resize images in opera? either automatically or using some command/plug in?

Also, something that I just discovered about opera that kinda bothers me, I'm wondering if i'm alone in having this problem. When I click a link/image/whatever and a page starts loading, if I press a button on the menu bar, bookmarks, tools, help etc. the page stops loading until I go back into the window and out of the menu bar. Not a big problem, i'm just curious if anyone else has experienced it?

Thanks if you can help

Narcissus

Are there any good mac diagnostic tools? or virus scan programs available?

What about MacScan ?

I want to use one because I just recently turned on the firewall after using my new macbook for a few weeks. Silly me

edit: after reading some comments on macupdate.com i went with clamxav instead. Simple to use and free. Nothing found as well!

Sam Radford

There aren't any Mac viruses in the wild so AV software is of no use because it doesn't know what to look for.

At best it will look for Windoze viruses (which obviously don't do anything in MacOSX).

Diagnostic tools:
TexhTool Pro
DiskWarrior
ProSoft (various tools).