macbook

This seems to have started by the nubbins on the upper left and upper right of the screen hammering down on the edge of the keyboard. It's all crackly and little pieces of the top plastic are coming off.

I have a MacBook Pro just a little over a year old now. The Magsafe adapter charges my MBP fine but the usual set of lights are "green" when full and "orange" when charging. However, since about 5 weeks ago my power adapter turns from orange to black(off) or from green to black. Almost as if the Magsafe was never plugged in. I cleaned out the Magsafe connector and tried it again and it still does the same thing.
The main reason why I am asking if anybody has the same problem is because the Magsafe is not covered under the APP plan. If there are a few people with the same problem then this could be a faulty Magsafe issue and could be covered under the APPs extended warranty.

We use Google Calendar for all our calendaring. Is there a cheap (free) and easy way to sync to the iPhone? Someone suggested Plaxo, but....

I was getting rid of pictures i do not need. i was deleting and deleting, and i accidently deleted my iphoto application. once opened it back up, all my pictures were gone.
can i get them back? and if so how? please help!

I don't know what happened. I was working in iPhoto when I ran out of power. Put the power cable on, restarted and all my photos were gone, as well as albums etc.
In Finder I can still see them, but I can not reimport them to the library- I get the message "Unreadable files: The following file could not be imported. (The file is in the iPhoto Library folder). Does anyone know what happened and how I can get them back? They're not in the trash, either.

I set up parental controls for my children to access my macbook, but it doesn't seem to work correctly. I wanted to limit the time they can spend on the computer to one hour a day. Either my children have figured a way around it, or it isn't working right.

Would someone tell me how they might have over ridden the controls so I can over ride the over ride, or tell me a way to fix it?

By the way, the parental controls for Safari work wonderfully!!

My iPhone is synchronized with my PC desktop computer at office (calendar, contacts, notes and music are synchronized). At home I use Macbook. I'd like to have them all synchronized e.g. entourage calender, contacts and notes with ones on my iPhone en Outlook items at office. Unfortunately iPhone is synchronizing only with iCal en Address book on Mac and not with Entourage, which I use on Mac instead of Mail.

Between iPhone en Outlook it works fine. But unfortunately entourage doesn't synchronize. Neither can I copy/synchronize my iTunes library with macbook at home. It seems to be working only opposite way from macbook to iphone. Why can't I copy music from iPhone to my macbook?

I just bought a Time Capsule, and I want to back up my hard drive, but I'm having problems with my wireless network (or modem, I'm not sure which).

Can I just plug my computer into my Time Capsule with an ethernet cable and bypass the whole airport/wireless stuff?

I have been using Dragon Naturally Speaking voice recognition software on a PC for years. My work is dependent on this. My PC recently died and I decided to replace it with a Mac, running Dragon in Windows (using Parallels). I bought a MacBook (running OS 10.5.3) and loaded Parallels, Windows, and Dragon only to find that my USB microphone sound quality is for the birds. There is a lot of static and the volume and sound quality are completely inconsistent moment to moment. I have seen posts in other venues about microphone problems with Leopard 10.5.2 but 10.5.3 was supposed to fix these problems. I'm in trouble! What gives?

The latch that holds my MacBook Pro appears to be broken. it no longer stays shut. This is a bigger pain than it might seem because after I shut it, the lid pops back up a centimeter and the mac wakes up. So I come back to a dead machine. Thank heavens for my timbuktu bag which holds it snug.....