Thanks for the link, JKT. Lately I've been using the desktop more for saving text clippings, so those could be the culprit. Clearly, it's still a serious OS X issue though, and I'v…

Recently I am having specifically a problem with internet downloading I can navigate through the internet but I cannot download programs. I started having the problems after the un…

You will have to provide a lot more information. What Mac are you using, and what OS version? What sorts of files are you trying to download, and from where? And more informatio…

I have a Powerbook G4 Processor 1.33Ghz Memory 768MB DDR SDRAM MacOS X ver. 10.4.5 Before the blockage I could do any type of download but now I just can download the files com…

Did you by any chance download and install a demo of a program called "SpeedDownload"? When the demo expires it prevents downloading altogether until you properly uninstall the pro…

I think I downloaded it but I uninstalled properly is there any missing file that I should look for it

Recently I manage to find some missing files of speed and I erased it and everything is normal now thanks you...

The creators of Speed Download should be shot.

When I launch help viewer I just get a blank window. I followed the following suggestions, but nothing worked, including reinstalling the help folder: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/…

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Dig out your OS X install DVD and do an Archive and Install. Might be a bit of overkill, but it'll work, and will be minimally disruptive to your installed documents/applications.

My Help Viewer does that intermittently. I just checked it by launching Mac Help in the Finder's Help menu and, sure enough, blank window. I clicked over to Safari and launched its…

Apple's Knowledge Base has an article on this. You need to trash the cache, basically. Do a search over there and you'll find it. Tom

By help viewer, do you mean the application-specific help files? (Say, for example, if I go under "help" in the menu bar, I'd get "safari help" right now, b/c I'm in safari.) I ha…

The link the OP posted lists that fix as one of the suggestions so evidently it hasn't worked in this instance (and fwiw, yes, it is far too common an issue, grrr).

I've tried all the methods describe in the link above but nothing seems to work. The main OS help viewer doesn't show anything, nor do any of the applications. I don't use it that …

If you need something prior to the archive and install, don't forget that Help Viewer is essentially a browser. All help files are html and if you look in your /Library/Documentati…

I just tried opening the individual help files in the /library/documentation folder and can't do it with Safari. Nothing comes up and the Safari window is empty too, just like the …

Oops, my bad - those .help files are actually packages - you have to Show Package Contents and locate the index pages in the Resources folder.

So I did that and found that I when I tried to open macHelp.html I got a blank page, while opening the individual html documents in the other folders work. I'd assume the machelp.h…

I extracted the help files from the install DVD and just replaced them on my powerbook and it worked! So strange given that I used Pacifist's option to install before and it didn't…

Hi....I have some questions in which format would best suit me in both video quality, sound quality and battery life. I use a program called Handbrake, is it good or are better one…

Better quality? H.264 I'm not sure about battery life. Encode at 320x240 and save your source material.

Mark is right. H.264 provides far better quality and at lower file sizes. I use Handbrake as well, but have really fallen in love with an application called Podner. http://www.spla…

The iPod can display H.264 only up to 320x240 anyways. If you use Handbrake, make sure you keep your bitrates below 768 Kbps, and use the Baseline (not Main) profile. If you use a …