Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / February 2005

A friend of mine with an older iMac, running OS 9.2, recently purchased
an inexpensive Fuji Finepix camera.
The bundled FinePix Viewer software (v.3.2) is able to transfer pictures
from the camera, but it is unable to print them: the iMac freezes,

I'm a new Mac user.  I am interested in Spymac.  I used the trial of
.mac and it was o.k., but I maintain three email addresses and I don't
want to fork out 300 bones every year.  I also intend to use Eudora,
will Spymac work with Eudora?

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I've been told that Apple has renewed their program of offering ilife
to teachers at a discount
(http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-665.html)  However, when I
visit the linked site for applying, Apple know nothing about the

Does anybody use the OS X Disk Utility "Restore" function to do a whole
disk backup?
When I try using it to backup my main hard disk to a LaCie Firewire hard
drive, I get the error: "Restore Failure, An error(-34) occurred while

I've been trying Camino for two days and like it, but I can't change the
font preferences. They're stuck at the default Arial Regular, 16pt for
proportional (sans serif) and Courier Regular, 13pt for monospace.
Anyone here know anything about this?

I have an iMovie that clocks in at 75 minutes.  I know I can use iDVD
to burn it to disk, using its lesser quality setting, and just not use
about 1.5 gigs of the disk...  but I'm wondering if there is a program
that allows me to compress it just enough to fill a dvdr more

I'd like to be able to forward Yahoo mail to my Mail.app pop account.  I
Googled this but the several leads I found all fizzled.  It would be
hard to believe there is currently no good way to do this.
Madeline

Hi. I just bought Retrospect Backup for my Mac. I am running system
10.3.8. I have been amazed by the sheer number of files that Retrospect
finds on my computer.  For instance, I backed up my Applications folder
and that required, according to Retrospect, backing up over 20,000

I'm thinking of getting iWork, for the Pages component. The Vancouver
(B.C.) Public Library has made it possible to do word processing at the
library and save it as Open Office docs. I'm not familiar with OO, so my
question is, will Pages open these docs or will I have to ...

Does anyone know when Tiger will be released? Apple just indicates that
it will be released during the "first half of 2005." Aside from all the
gossip and some new toys, does anyone know what else is new in Tiger
and what makes it a must-have?

A couple of months ago, the Rules tab disappeared from Mail - that is, when
I go to Mail..Preferences I get a popup window which allows account admin
(with Account information, Special Mailboxes and Advanced tabs), but the
other commands that I'm sure were there before have gone - ...

My Powerbook G4 has Microsoft Wordx for Mac
Drawing on pictures in Word x for Mac
How do you draw lines on large pictures transferred into Word.
How do you stop Word from switching to "page layout view," when

Dear experts,
A complete newbie here needs inexpensive or even free. solution(s) to
(1) screening stocks, etfs, and funds, and (2) tracking portfolios.
If I can do it all at one place, great, otherwise different solutions

All of a sudden the mail that I send includes the icon from my account.
How do you go about removing it? I am using Mail on an iMac G5 with OS
10.3.8
Thanks in advance,