I read your earlier article on how to subscribe to RSS feeds in Safari - thanks! - but now I have the opposite question: How do I unsubscribe to RSS feeds with Safari?...

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I've been working with windowing systems on computers, graphical user interfaces, for over twenty-five years. My first taste was the MIT X Window System back when Apple was selling the Lisa and Microsoft was trying to get people interested in something called Windows 3.1. One of the very best features of the X Window Systems (or "X Windows") was its virtual workspaces, where you could "virtually" have as many monitors as you wanted, and could...

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I will appreciate you explaining how to forget words from the Mac speller. That is, I use the spelling checker in Mac OS X and click on "Learn Spelling" as I go so that it doesn't flag people's names, etc. Problem is, I accidentally told it to learn a word that isn't misspelled and now I want to have it "unlearn" the misspelling....

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How do you hide files and applications from showing up in the today, yesterday, and past week section of the finder sidebar?...

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I saw your earlier article about how to pair a bluetooth speaker with a Mac OS X system, but am wondering about how to do the same with my son's older LG phone? I know that the iPhone has a good connection with the Mac OS X system, but what about other cellphones that support bluetooth? How do you pair 'em?...

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This is so weird: I just bought a new 500GB external hard drive but when I hook it up to my iMac, I get a little "not allowed" symbol every time I try to copy anything onto the device! Digging around, it appears to be connected "read only". HELP!...

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By default, there are some pretty nice screen savers on my iMac, but I'm wondering if there are any third-party apps available, and if so, what are some of the best? Do you have a screensaver running, Dave, and if so, which one?...

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Just picked up my new MacBook Pro yesterday. The dashboard came with Cupertino, CA defaulted as weather and time. I can't figure out how to get my home town as the default location, even though I marked it as such numerous times in the Yahoo weather page. Any suggestions as to how I can change this default setting?...

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Hi, when I switch our Mac on it automatically starts Pages up. This is really annoying as it is hardly ever Pages we want to be in. I have looked on various menus to try and stop this happening but I am still none the wiser how to stop it and still don't know why it started doing it. Please help....

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This is just weird. I've been using Aperture 3 on my iMac for quite a while and it's been going great, I love this program! Problem is, I just got an iPad and want to drop some photo projects onto it from Aperture on my iMac and when I click on "Sync Photos from Aperture" I get an error about the library not being visible and previews needing to be shared? But I can't figure...

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I'm finally selling my old PowerBook in favor of a new MacBook and while I'm excited, I am also worried that I get rid of every trace of myself on the system. Most importantly, I've heard that I need to unauthorize [ed: deauthorize, actually] iTunes on my system. How do I do that?...

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I have a folder full of important files that I want to share with my Dad, but it's too much to email and I don't want him to have to figure out something like dropbox. Instead, I want to use the old fashioned approach of creating a CDROM on my new MacBook. But there's no "burning" app so how do I proceed?...

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I've been experimenting with different photo management applications on my new iMac system and am impressed with Aperture. Except for one little glitch: sometimes when I plug in my camera it automatically shows up in Apple's Aperture, and other times it doesn't. When it isn't showing up, how can I find my DSLR digital camera in Aperture?...

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I did an iCal export on my iMac in "Export" format, moved it to an older computer and am trying to import the iCal data, but it's taking forever. I mean, like it's run overnight and it still hasn't finished the calendar event import. That can't be right, it shouldn't be this slow! Is iCal broken? How the heck do I fix things?...

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I have a new Mac Mini and really want to set up the cool Apple Wireless (bluetooth) keyboard with it. Is there some simple way to do that or do I need to call a tech friend of mine for assistance?...

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I've been experimenting with the Mac Snow Leopard Screen Sharing capability and it's really terrific for managing our workgroup server, but every time I want to run it I have to launch Server Tools, then select the server, then choose "Screen Sharing". Isn't there a better way?...

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Hi Dave. I have a question that I don't think you've ever written about: I have a folder with confidential information and want to encrypt or password protect it. I can see how to create a ZIP file from it with the Archive feature, but that's not password protected either. Is there any way to accomplish this in Mac OS X Snow Leopard?...

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Dave, can you tell me, how come I enjoy shell programming more than other types of programming (Javascript, Java or C)?...

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This is weird. I have Mac OS X Snow Leopard (specifically 10.6.2) running on my MacBook and want to install Quicktime Pro for some video work. I bought a license key off the Apple site but it says to go to the System Preferences and enter the data into the Quicktime preference pane. But, um, there isn't one. What the heck??...

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I've been a big fan of Time Machine, the backup system on my Mac OS X computer, but sometimes the backup is slow. I use VMware Fusion for some testing and have been recently wondering if that's affecting things adversely?...

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