Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / March 2005

Someone sent me a DVD which has four titles. The VIDEO_TS folder
contains the following files.  
VIDEO_TS.VOB
VIDEO_TS.IFO

I have a bunch of 3rd party utes that put icons in the menu bar. Is
there a way to force these things into a certain order? i.e, I want
the Clock/Date utility (TimeStat) to come up first, at the far right,
then the Classic icon, Now Contact, etc.

I am experiencing two problems, seemingly related.
1) I am no longer able to play or import CDs in iTunes.  I just get a
loud pattern of clicks when I do.  I have two CD Drives, and have tried
both.  I have also tried multiple disks, uninstalling and reinstalling

I would much appreciate some help.
I have a powerbook titanium 450mhz I believe. When I try to start up the
powerbook a gray apple appears with the gray spinning dial which looks a bit
like a clock face and it never stops. I push the power button to restart and

Is there a version of Visio available for the Mac?

I am new to DVD's and would like to burn some of
my iPhoto pictures to a DVD in a format that can
be played on a standard TV set top box DVD player.
What application is needed for this sex change?

Final Cut Express HD 3.0
Export to QuickTime file as DV stream.
The exported QT file show a window with correct horizontal size
but the vertical size is about 10% too smaller.

If anyone is using Silverkeeper 1.12, what are your opinions of it?

I've been creating lots of slideshows in iDVD 4 using JPEGs from iPhoto
4, to share with relatives.
While I always have iDVD's Preferences set to "always include original
photos on DVD-ROM", iDVD has *never* actually put them anywhere on the

I am vaguely familiar with the shareware URL Manager. What I want is a
central file, like a database, to hold all my URLs. It needs to be
accessible, without too many key strokes or mouse moves, from any web
browser or email client in a manner similar to a Photoshop plug-in.

Well this is Microsoft's idea of customer support (really). Instead
of giving all of that money away to stockholders, maybe they could have
done a little for their CUSTOMERS. Now that I have that off my chest,
here's the problem. When upgrading from Virtual PC 6 to 7 I got this

The tech support guy at Micromat had never heard of a G4 that cannot
boot from an external firewire drive, and yet mine never has since I
have owned it. Do you know how Apple implemented it, and whether it can
be reversed?

Using AOL 10.2.1 for Mac OS X and under AOL, Preferences, Downloads,
the default folder to save your downloads in is the desktop.  If we
change the folder to something different then click OK to close out of
Preferences, when we go back in, it reverts back to the default

There seem to be a lot of Airport experts here so I'll ask the question to
all of you:
I have a G5 and my wife is about to get a Powerbook.  We're interested in
going wireless at home where we already have a cable modem (road runner.)

I'm new to Macs, and loved Soulseek P2P for PCs. Is there something
similar (that is tailored more to indie nerds like myself?) Or,
what's the best P2P overall?
Thanks...