Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / January 2005

I've discovered that, during play of movies, Quicktime uses the video
computer's video card to perform color conversion for display.  This
works great on all the Macs I've tried.  Unfortunately, I've found that
on a lot of PC's the color conversion is slightly incorrect (the video

Quicktime Pro, MPEG Info X 0.2, and ffmpegX don't always tell as much
as I want to know. I'd like a drag and drop app that scans a movie file
and displays all that these do (and more) for a wider variety of movie
files.

i've a problem with the client MAIL
i have different accounts configured
1 libero (my provider)
1 university account

Hej,
I get a disc image from a rar file but when I click to mount it I get a
warning from Disk Image mounter  saying failed to mount . Reason not
recognized.

For various reasons, I don't want Speakable Items starting right when I
turn on my computer, but only after some other startup items have been
dealt with.  So I was wondering if anyone knows how to turn on
Speakable Items with AppleScript that could be automatically launched

The iPod Shuffle was confirmed today.  Read the full and current
article: http://comp.modblog.com
The new iPod - iPod Shuffle, is a flashbased player unlike the previous
iPods which were all hard-drive digital music players.

How to transfer your tapes or vinyl albums to CD using GarageBand and
Itunes on a Macintosh by TJ Talluto (with some dumbing down by Rebecca).
This is a simple (low tech) method that assumes you already know how to
burn CDs from Itunes.  Here we'll tell you how to use GarageBand to

After upgrading to OS 10.3.7, Stuffit Expander 8.0.2 took such a long
time to open that I upgraded to Stuffit Expander 9.0.1 but this made no
difference.  The application can take up to 5 minutes to open.  I did a
Google search and read a couple of forums which suggested that the

Small question regarding Apple Mail:
Is it possible to change the subject field of received emails?
It was possible in Outlook Express on OS9, but now I can't find the way in
Mail (the version shipping with OS 10.3 Panther) :-(

I'm in process of transitioning to the Mac and am most of the way
there.  One of the last things I need is to use ICQ.  I've downloaded
the client, but I'm not sure how to transfer my contacts to the Mac
without having to get re-authorized for those who require

I just tried out BareBones's free TextWrangler 2.0 editor and am very
impressed. It has an amazing fraction of the full BBEdit's features for
-- syntax coloring, ftp, unix scripts.... The main things missing that I
could see are the html tools and the glossary.

Since I downloaded 10.3.7, I've noticed that I can no longer play .rm
files as speedily as before.  There is always a 10 to 15 second delay
after each video plays while I get the spinning colour wheel.
Real player does not seem to have an update for this - does any

Can anyone offer some guidance on why in Safari v1.2.4 that damn "Ball"
spins and spins so often? It seems that all I do on my blue & white G3 (OS
10.3.7) is wait for the damn thing to stop and after a click or two it
starts again. I've tried Apple Utility Permissions repair and ...

Trying to understand the basics of Keychain and how it works with Safari.
When I look under Safari preferences it lists a number of sites and
login ID. I also find much the same info in a different format in
Keychain.

Selecting for example Finder->Help->MacHelp:
    a) launches Help Viewer in about 1sec
    b) opens the Help Viewer window in about another 1sec.
After that the 'technicolor pizza' spins for some 30-40 seconds, stops