Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / March 2005

iTunes is misbehaving. It quits with a kernel exception at startup. OS
10.3.8, iTunes 4.7.1 and the latest iPod update. It did this for a while,
and then I realised that despite the age of my iPod, there WAS a reason to
update the software, and everything was fine again... for a ...

I do not use the online features of Quicken and for years I've
always turned off all of the "Improved interface" features
choosing to use just the basic window functions (Intuit has a
long history with this product of spending all kinds of time

On my still jpg's - they're just not coming out well at all.
Many of the 300 or so photo's I want in a slideshow - interspersed with
a couple of 40-sec movies - are at about 250KB.  But when I look at the
info on them when they're dragged into the project, they're half that -

I re-installed MacOS X 10.3 "Panther" from the original CDs on my iBook G4.
To my amazement, after succesful installation, Safari did not work anymore.
The application launches, but I cannot type into the address box.
Bookmarks do not work either.

If I create an image with Carbon Copy Cloner, and it's, say, 7 gigs,
can I burn this to one of those dual layer DVDs? Is the space
"contiguous" or do you have a 4.x gig boundary?
Thanks.

Recent installation of iLife 05 has created a challenge with "My Magic
Movie"  Will not permit me to select , gray out, Titles, Transitions...
Only Video, and the Music selection???
(I have a PowerBook G4,TiBook with 400 mhz, system 10.3.8 384 megs of

I'm trying to install Windows 98 SE on Virtual PC 7, but the CD is not
bootable and I have no floppy drove -- this is on an ibook.
Suggestions?  Can someone direct me to a disk image that will work or
options for doing this?

Some combination of downloading a PDF file from the web and Adobe
Acrobat Professional just put a mini-ad for Acrobat **in the menu bar**
of my Panther OS X iBook (at the left end, where the system clock
usually sits).  Don't recall ever seeing that before -- has anyone else?

I burned a CD for my dad using Toast 6.0.1 and the Data/Mac & PC option
on my iBook G4 running OS X 10.3.8. When my dad tries to use the CD in
his Windows XP box, he sees only truncated names of files that had long
names (very long...more than 32 characters for sure, but less than ...

OS X 10.3.8 (up to date) on a 17" Powerbook 1.33GHz with 1 GB RAM,
Thoth 1.7.2
Double-click a newsgroup in a group window and before it opens hit
CMD-period on your keyboard.

All,
I recently bought a new Mac and was exposed to advertising for Apple's
.Mac service.  It sounds good.  However, I would really be interested
in comments from you around the value/usefulness of .Mac.  In short,

I bought Virtual PC 1.01 and installed it on my old Mac OS 9.1 machine.  
Aparantly Windows 3.11 comes with it (boy I miss this os).  But
everytime I open Virtual PC I get a blank screen, and I cannot do
anything. except force quit.  I have tried updating the ram and all and

I have a PC at work and a PowerBook at home.
I have been using Thunderbird on my PC and Mail on my mac, but have had
some serious problems with the combination.
It seems that messages deleted (read: sent to trash) with Mail are

I'm looking for an OS X newsreader that has some of the functionality
of Outlook Express or Agent on the PC.  I want to be able to mark
message threads that I want to follow and I want to be able to select
a view that shows just the threads that I have marked.

Jeff,
Try launching the process from the "burn disc" pulldown menu instead of launching via the "burn" button. This sometimes bypasses quirky program blocks.
Works for me. Good luck.
-Smokin' T