Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / October 2004

Can anyone recommend easy to use software to defragment in Mac X? I'm new to
Mac so I need to keep it simple.
Barbara

I just came across a PDF file that displayed two blank pages in
Preview, while Adobe Acrobat shows the relevant text. I didn't see a
way to report the bug to Apple, so am posting here in the hope that it
will get to them. Also any comments from others are welcome. To see

For those who - in the recent thread "Phantom Mail Activity" - were
dismissive of the strange case of my Mail app attempting to contact
some unknown address, it might be smart to read the following article
in MacObserver.

I'm affiliated with a small nonprofit organization that publishes a
small circulation quarterly magazine.  Up until now, the mailing list
has been kept in old Now Contact software -- but I think it is time to
modernize and use something more efficient and easily scalable as we

I have recently purchased a pc running wiindows XP. To save time
transferring files between this and my mac i would like to know how to set
up file sharing between them both. My mac is a silver G4 and is running
Panther. I plan to connect them via Ethernet. I have looked at lots of

Is anyone used to the office package ragtime private?
How can I change the number of decimal places in a cell?
There is one posibility to do that in the information menu of a cell,
but the only options are 2 or no decimalplaces.

I was over at alt.binaries.rock.lossless.rock and downloaded Pink
Floyd's The Wall.
When I decoded the rars I got:
Pkfd_tw1 (ape).sfv

iTunes 2.0.4
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I have several fantastic music stream items inside my iTunes library.
Now I want to place the music from those streams onto a CD.  Or, just

I would like to announce DooBar 0.2.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/doobar/
DooBar is a disk usage browser that displays the contents of a
directory just like the Finder, but also computes size information for

Okay, I'm probably even more clueless than usual.  I've read on Apple's site
that the new, improved iTunes has this feature, "Artist Alerts."  It's
new!  So must be good, or documented somewhere.  One is sent an email
when a new track is added to iTMS by the artists you've signed ...

How can I sync iTunes between two macs.
That is, I want to synchronize between two macs
- music library
- playlists

Is there a definitive list anywhere of what webcams will work under Mac
OS AND what applications support them? I know Apple have a list, but
does this guarantee compatibility with the likes of Yahoo Messenger?
Also, Logitech only guarantee that their webcams will work up to 10.2 ...

G5, 10.3.5 and an elderly copy of Photoshop 5.02, which has done all that I
needed for years. Unfortunately, I now need to edit an Illustrator file,
and my Photoshop tells me it can't parse the file...
Is there any way at all of accessing a .ai file without buying either

I have installed a new harddisk in my PM G3.
It's a 160GB harddisk but the computer thinks it is a 128GB.
Does anyone know, what to do?
Thanks!

Is there a way to create perfect (not only screen resolution) on the
mac without Acrobat? If so, what is the cheapest way?