Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / February 2005

I'd like to do a incremental backup of my desktop computer's HD to an
external HD as often as every evening, either as a scheduled backup or
initiated when I quit for the day -- but does that mean I either have to
attach and detach the external HD each time, or else leave it ...

I just upgraded from MT-NW 3.1 to 3.4, to get better yEnc decoding. In
the process I went from "external" decoders to MT-NW's internal ones.
In the process, I lost the file associations that I had previously.
The decoded MP3 now files bear QuickTime Player icons even though my

Double click the icon (which BTW is a generic application icon) and it does
the "zoom" thing (looks like it is launching). Then... nothing.
Crash reporter log for iPhoto lists nothing for this non-event.
Ideas?

I have a Palm M100 running 3.0 I believe. I've been syncing it on
an old Rev A iMac running OS 8.6 for the last few years. I now
have a G5 iMac with OS 10.3.6 and would like to know the following:
Is it possible to be able to sync my Palm to my new iMac without

Is there an application that will convert .rm files so that they can be
used by the iMovie application?

Well, I recently got a new iMac and did the transfer thingee of all my
stuff and now Photoshop Elements 1.0 doesn't work right anymore.  Not
surprising, I guess--that was the oldest piece of software I still used
on a regular basis.  So I guess I'm going to be upgrading to 3.0,

HI . I'd like to know if someone can reccomend a newsreader that will
open yenc files on sistem 9.01 or on the latest sistem X. Thanks in
advance. Fred

Can anybody suggest a REALLY easy place (book or web site) to use the
scripting features of OS X? I want to see if I can clean up a mess in
my Address book where I inadvertantly created three of everything. How?
I have no idea but i want to get rid of the dupes and maybe connect or

I have gone thru the prefs but can't figure out how to set a default
window width and height.
Any help would be appreciated.
Fred

At work, I have an iMac running OS 9.
On the abisource.com site, it appears I can only download AbiWord for OS
X.
Does anyone know where I can find an older version?

The message list for one -- just one -- of my subscribed newsgroups
shows up in a distinctly different font than all the others. What causes
this?
(Seems to me this came up once before, some time ago, but I can't track

I need a reccomendation on which DVD burner will work for a G4/450
PowerMac (AGP Graphics,"Sawtooth", OS X 10.3). The desired outcome is
to use iDVD on this computer. If I can just get a DVD burner (external
or internal) that works witht his machine I can use the new "save as

Running Virtual PC/Windows XP Professional on a Powerbook (1.5 GHz):
What is the reasonable amount of memory? ie which amount of memory to
give to Virtual PC with still significant speed speed-up?
(Currently on 512 MB total for the Powerbook)

Does anyone know of a free noise reducer for photos?
Thank you,
Fred

I've been using iChat to do voice chats with some other Mac users,
haven't had much luck with cross-platform compatibility. Trillian for
Windows is suppossed to work with iChat, but it seems to be very
inconsistant. Even for Mac to Mac with iChat AV one usually has to do