Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / February 2005

Can anyone confirm this bug (if so, I'll send a report)?  This is using,
per the about box, Calculator "3.1 (v3.2)" (whatever that means).  If I
try to enter, say, 1.03, the zero doesn't show up until I type the 3.  
This hold true for any zero coming after the decimal point.  I ...

We are working with an Appleworks 5 word processing docement and are in
the process of adding some images. The images will be about 3X4" or so
and we are learning about how to size them. One example is a 2.5 MB
jpeg; when first inserted, it overwhelms the page as might be expected.

I have recently installed a logitech "cordless click" mouse on my Mac G4 PB.
Everything is fine, except that OS-X does not save the mouse tracking
settings. When I go into system prefs the mouse tracking indicator still
indicates my preferred setting, but does not affect the mouse ...

I was wondering if anyone knows whether it is possible to run the new
iWork software on a iMac G3 400mHz 384mB RAM computer.  I would really
like to get the software, but am afraid it wouldn't work.  Any imput
would be much appreciated.

Just tried to download the savings bonds info zip files from the Gov't.
To make it easy, they're self extracting -- assuming you're running on
windows -- or at least on intel.
So, given that I'm running a G4, how do I get to the "real" zip file

I just updated my os to 10.3.8 last night. Now when I open a terminal
window, it is super tiny and I cannot enlarge it with the mouse, nor does
it respond to my terminal inspector changes. The terminal inspector
reports that the default font is (null) 0.0 pt and when I try to change

I've CCC'ed my iBook G4 HD to a LaCie 40 GB PocketDrive and now I want
to test the result.  The documentation tells me that I do this by
selecting the LaCie target drive in the StartUp Disk pane and booting
from it.

As I noted in an earlier post, when I've tried to download several new
pieces of software I get the error message: The application Stuffit
Expander has unexpectedly quit.
No obvious fixes, but I don't particularly need to use this program if

Hi!  I am very new to Mac so sorry if this problem is obvious.  Here it
goes:
every time I start iTunes now, it just sits there with the mouse cursor as a
spinning color wheel and will not let me use it.  It just appears frozen.  I

Hi all. Any Pages users out there?
I'm starting to mess with Perl, and I got the idea of creating or
editing Pages documents via XML. From what I've read, the native format
is XML. I am an XML newbie as well as a Perl newbie, so any opinions

I converted a Quark 4.1 document to InDesign (OSX). It worked fine,
except paragraph rules that I had in Quark are not changeable from
InDesign. I Googled for an answer and the only solution I found is to
retype everything and apply new rules from InDesign. Has anyone found a

Is there an easy way to convert QT generated files such as avi, mov, mp4
to Window Media player -wmv?
Is there a better NG on which to ask this question?
PeteFinn

I have .js files set to open with dreamweaver, however, 4 times out of 10 I
also open .js files to edit with TextEdit. When right clicking a .js file
and choosing 'open with' I can choose to open with Safari or choose another
application. Is it possible that I could get TextEdit ...

I just went into my 'startup items' preference to remove an item I no
longer use.  I noticed there is a "Microsoft AU demon" in there as
auto-start.  I am guessing it got installed as part of Microsoft Office
X.

I get quite a few e-mails from Mac users who have found my personal web
site while looking for information on Macs in amateur astronomy -- and
quite a few from amateur astronomers who are Windows users interested
in switching to the Mac, but who don't want to start a flame war by