Fellow iBAM’er Jeff sent me an email recently and I thought it fitting to throw it on the table here to see if you guys can help find his solution. Here’s his email:

I bought the new Imac 20inch desktop, the 1st Apple I ever owned… Problem I have is a bit unknown possibly to most because I’m a disabled person that uses [Universal Access] “Sticky Keys” & “mousekeys” for my mouse over on the Numeric keypad to navigate and Click — and always before on [Windows] the [double click key] was the key — right of the [ 6 ] key which is [ + ] on Windows & Mac, left click key is Always the [ 5 ] key on the Numeric Keypad, Right click is [control] + [ 5 ] keys …when I click the [ + ] (double click) it opens up the Spotlight Search? …using Fire Fox browser clicking it brings up status bar [Find]?

I’ve searched and read anything and everything I could find, My problem remains unsolved,
I hope you can help me and other disabled persons that may have the same problem as I,

Respectively

–Jeff–

As always, thanks to all in advance

-Brent

Today, I received an email from “Laura” and it got me thinking. I have heard a lot of people talk about the “Spinning pinwheel of death” as Mac’s version of Windows’ “Blue screen of death”. Here’s her question:

Yesterday while using my mac, I got a busy wheel. my computer wont let me do anything else. fortunately, it ran out of battery so it just shut off. however today when i plugged it in to recharge and turn on, the busy wheel is still there, it wont let me do anything on the computer at all. any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Have you been in this situation and how did you fix it? Help Laura out and I know I would love to know, just in case…

For some of you, this article might be old hat, so I invite you to scroll to the bottom and become a “co-author” with me. Add your tips and tricks via the comments for all of those who visit this post and might not know some (or all) of the tips we all collectively possess and take for granted in our quivers of knowledge.

Here we go…

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to one of the most important, yet often overlooked functions powering this beast we call the Internet. It’s called the news feed or the RSS feed. If you are not familiar with RSS then this article is a great place to start. I’ll do my best to explain it in a way that makes sense and is easy to understand. However, if I get confusing, scroll down to the bottom and read some of the comments by fellow iBAMers. We’re all working on this article together in hopes we can help make your life a lot simpler. [Continued]

UPDATE: Post pictures were lost in a crash, but the large flickr pics are still available. Just click on the broken pic link to see the large version. Sorry for the inconvenience. - Brent

I don’t know about you, but I have had my Airport Extreme and Express for a while now and never really took the time to get both of them working correctly. They worked for what I needed them to do, but it was never 100% successful. With my crazy schedule, I had just let myself be okay with the flashing yellow lights on the front of both units. Well, last night I decided to “conquer the beasts” and get all set up as well as I could. I didn’t realize how difficult it would be. What I found out was that I couldn’t just let it set things up automatically. Here’s what I ended up doing. Hopefully this will help those of you out there that were in my same boat. [Continued]

This morning I was sitting, enjoying my feeds with some music when I decided do something as simple switching to a different playlist in iTunes. Down goes the mouse to the bottom of my screen (where my dock is hidden) … Up a bit … Down again … Uhh … Dock? To my dismay, the minimized iTunes window was locked up in a completely non-functional dock. Not only was my iTunes locked down there, but so were several other programs I was working in. I began my quest and tried several things to get to my apps (and the dock): [Continued]